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The Relay is a new media project dedicated to covering slightly futuristic domains such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, longevity science, crypto and blockchain, advanced biology, and defense technologies. Our mission is to capture the signals of tomorrow and relay them forward with clarity, depth, and context.

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Mistral AI Studio brings a sovereign Agent Runtime to Europe

Mistral AI Studio brings a sovereign Agent Runtime to Europe

Mistral unveiled AI Studio with a Temporal-backed Agent Runtime, deep observability, and hybrid or on-prem deployment. It gives regulated European teams a credible, sovereign path to production agents today.

3I/ATLAS Turns the Solar System into a Shared Observatory

3I/ATLAS Turns the Solar System into a Shared Observatory

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sweeps through the inner Solar System, Mars orbiters, JUICE, Hera, Europa Clipper, and Earth telescopes are coordinating to read its ion tail like a lab experiment. Here is how a distributed observatory can decode an alien birthplace and why a rapid response interceptor should be next.

Methane’s New Price Tag After Congress Killed the Fee in 2025

Methane’s New Price Tag After Congress Killed the Fee in 2025

Congress voided EPA’s methane fee rule in March 2025 and EPA removed it in May. The statute still points to a charge, but the real price on leaks now comes from federal standards, state rules, EU buyer requirements, and satellites. Here’s the 2025 to 2027 playbook to turn compliance into premium access and cheaper capital.

Monad’s Nov 24 mainnet: can a Solana-speed EVM upend L2s?

Monad’s Nov 24 mainnet: can a Solana-speed EVM upend L2s?

Monad is set to launch mainnet on November 24 with a MON airdrop and a promise of Solana-like throughput inside an EVM. Here is the week-one scoreboard and how it could reshape Ethereum rollups and Solana.

Apophis 2029: OSIRIS‑APEX endures as Europe’s Ramses rises

Apophis 2029: OSIRIS‑APEX endures as Europe’s Ramses rises

With NASA's OSIRIS-APEX funded and ESA's Ramses accelerating, Apophis's April 13, 2029 Earth flyby becomes a live planetary defense drill. Here is what will change, what to measure, and what must be funded on the ground and in space.

AI That Remembers You: Memory Becomes the New UX Edge

AI That Remembers You: Memory Becomes the New UX Edge

In 2025, cross-session memory moved from demo to default. Here is how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude rolled it out, what the controls mean for privacy, and how to build it right.

Teeth That Grow Back: TRG-035 Starts First Human Trials

Teeth That Grow Back: TRG-035 Starts First Human Trials

Japan has moved tooth regeneration from lab promise to the clinic. Toregem BioPharma’s anti-USAG-1 antibody, TRG-035, has orphan status and is now in first-in-human testing, opening a new path beyond dentures and implants.

New Glenn targets Mars: ESCAPADE and the flexible window

New Glenn targets Mars: ESCAPADE and the flexible window

On its second flight, New Glenn aims to send NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes toward Sun-Earth L2 to wait for the right Mars alignment. If it works, launch day becomes a flexible starting point for cheaper, more resilient interplanetary missions.

Europe’s tokenised funds take off as FCA backs direct to fund

Europe’s tokenised funds take off as FCA backs direct to fund

Two moves just flipped tokenised funds in Europe from pilots to plans: the FCA’s direct to fund consultation and a regulated euro stablecoin for atomic settlement. Here is what changes, why it matters, and how managers can act before 2026.

The New Agent App Stores: Databricks and Microsoft 365

The New Agent App Stores: Databricks and Microsoft 365

Late 2025 turned data clouds and office suites into the shelves for AI agents. Databricks embeds frontier models in Agent Bricks, while Microsoft 365 lights up an Agent Store with governance and audit controls.

Sodium Ion’s U.S. Grid Debut: The 2025 Storage Shake Up Begins

Sodium Ion’s U.S. Grid Debut: The 2025 Storage Shake Up Begins

The first grid-scale sodium-ion system shipped to the United States in July 2025, with global mass production signaled for December. Here is a practical playbook to procure, permit, and finance safer, lower-auxiliary battery storage in the 1 to 4 hour class.

IMAP lifts off to turn solar maximum into a live heliosphere map

IMAP lifts off to turn solar maximum into a live heliosphere map

Launched September 24, 2025, NASA’s IMAP is cruising to L1 to turn solar maximum into a live map of the heliosphere and deliver earlier, sharper space‑weather alerts for Artemis crews and satellites.

Bitcoin Starts Securing Chains as Babylon Staking Goes Live

Bitcoin Starts Securing Chains as Babylon Staking Goes Live

Babylon’s April 2025 Genesis mainnet turned native Bitcoin into a live security budget for other chains. Q4 brings EVM support and multi staking, positioning BTC to secure L1s and L2s, unlock native yield without bridges, and challenge Ethereum’s restaking market.

Space Force Activates CASR, A Wartime Lever for Commercial Space

Space Force Activates CASR, A Wartime Lever for Commercial Space

The U.S. Space Force has moved the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve from slides to practice, running a first wargame and pilot contracts that put commercial SATCOM, imaging, and space‑domain data on wartime footing. Here is how CASR will work and scale by 2026.

Pig Kidneys Go Clinical: The 2025 Xenotransplant Pivot

Pig Kidneys Go Clinical: The 2025 Xenotransplant Pivot

2025 marked the year xenotransplantation left the lab. The FDA cleared the first human trials of gene-edited pig kidneys, and one recipient lived nearly nine months with a single graft. Here is how trials, safety guardrails, and manufacturing are turning a moonshot into medicine.

Rubin’s First Images Ignite a Real Time Sky This Decade

Rubin’s First Images Ignite a Real Time Sky This Decade

In June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first LSST images, opening a survey that will issue millions of nightly alerts. Here is how that firehose will accelerate discoveries of near‑Earth asteroids, kilonovae, and supernovae.

Inside 45Z’s First Year: Winners, Bottlenecks, Next Moves

Inside 45Z’s First Year: Winners, Bottlenecks, Next Moves

Treasury and IRS finalized 45Z guidance on January 10, 2025, and DOE followed with the 45ZCF GREET model. This guide translates emissions tables into dollars per gallon, explains who is cashing in now, what is constrained, and how to position for 2026–2027.

Post Pectra, passkeys make smart wallets the default

Post Pectra, passkeys make smart wallets the default

Ethereum’s May 7 Pectra upgrade quietly flipped a switch. With EIP-7702 live, any wallet can act like a smart account for gasless, batched, recoverable actions. Over the next year, fintechs and L2s will race to own onboarding and bring 100 million users into crypto.