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VIPER is back: Blue Origin set for 2027 south pole delivery

VIPER is back: Blue Origin set for 2027 south pole delivery

NASA restored the VIPER rover in September 2025 with a conditional ride on Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1. If the demo lander touches down by late 2025, VIPER heads for a late 2027 south pole delivery to drill for accessible lunar water ice.

Alexa+ Turns Your Home Into a Consumer Agent Platform

Alexa+ Turns Your Home Into a Consumer Agent Platform

Amazon’s late September 2025 devices event and the Alexa+ rollout marked a turn from chat to action. With AI-native Echo hardware, Prime-bundled pricing, and new agent SDKs, Alexa+ aims to make the smart home programmable and outcome-driven.

Japan’s Megabanks Unite on a Shared Yen Stablecoin Rail

Japan’s Megabanks Unite on a Shared Yen Stablecoin Rail

MUFG, SMFG, and Mizuho agreed on a unified, bank-grade yen stablecoin standard that could become Asia’s corporate settlement backbone, speed cross-border B2B and FX with embedded compliance, and force U.S. and EU answers.

New Glenn’s next act: ESCAPADE could switch on Mars space weather

New Glenn’s next act: ESCAPADE could switch on Mars space weather

Blue Origin is preparing New Glenn for a late‑2025 science run with NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes. If the schedule holds, the mission could turn Mars space weather from research into operations, feeding forecasts for entry, comms, and radiation risk.

LEU+ and HALEU mark 2025's pivot in U.S. nuclear fuel

LEU+ and HALEU mark 2025's pivot in U.S. nuclear fuel

With NRC approval for Urenco USA to produce LEU+ and DOE-backed HALEU output continuing at Piketon, the U.S. fuel cycle hits an inflection point. Here is how LEU+ bridges the gap to HALEU, what changes by 2028, and a practical playbook to lock supply.

Japan’s Ship Railgun Signals a New Cost-Per-Shot Era

Japan’s Ship Railgun Signals a New Cost-Per-Shot Era

Japan quietly took a railgun to sea and hit a real target ship. The milestone points to a future where magazine depth is measured in megawatts and machined slugs, not missile cells, reshaping the economics of naval defense.

Anti-CH Arrives: Slowing TET2 Clones to Extend Healthspan

Anti-CH Arrives: Slowing TET2 Clones to Extend Healthspan

Late-2025 data move clonal hematopoiesis from biomarker to modifiable risk. Here is how screening at 55 and up, near-term anti-inflammatory drugs, and future gene edits could reshape prevention of heart disease and cancer.

OCC greenlights Erebor, reopening U.S. crypto banking rails

OCC greenlights Erebor, reopening U.S. crypto banking rails

The OCC’s conditional charter for Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank reopens a supervised path for onshore settlement, compliant custody, and narrow‑bank reserves. The decisive next steps rest with FDIC insurance and a Federal Reserve master account.

IMAP at L1 is turning the heliosphere into a weather map

IMAP at L1 is turning the heliosphere into a weather map

Fresh off a shared ride to L1 with NOAA’s SWFO‑L1 and NASA’s Carruthers observatory, IMAP kicks off continuous mapping of the heliosphere. The payoff is practical: earlier radiation alerts for Artemis crews and smarter routes for deep‑space missions.

From First Look to Firehose: Rubin’s 2026 Discovery Wave

From First Look to Firehose: Rubin’s 2026 Discovery Wave

Rubin’s first images and Data Preview 1 turned the sky into a stream. Here is what changes in fall 2025, how one‑minute alerts will work, and the concrete steps teams can take now to be ready for the 2026 discovery wave.

Samsung makes Galaxy Wallet crypto-native with Coinbase

Samsung makes Galaxy Wallet crypto-native with Coinbase

On October 3, 2025, Samsung gave U.S. Galaxy owners special access to Coinbase One inside Samsung Wallet, turning the default phone wallet into a crypto on-ramp and previewing how OEM-native wallets could reshape stablecoin spend and DeFi access.

Claude Skills Turn Agents Into Governed Building Blocks

Claude Skills Turn Agents Into Governed Building Blocks

Anthropic’s Claude Skills package instructions, scripts, and resources into reusable, policy-gated modules. They move agents from ad hoc prompts to shareable capabilities that teams can govern, version, and audit.

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One-and-done LDL: PCSK9 base editing’s Big Pharma leap

One-and-done LDL: PCSK9 base editing’s Big Pharma leap

Spring to summer 2025 turned a bold idea into a credible path: a single infusion that switches off PCSK9 to cut LDL cholesterol. With Phase 1b data, FDA Fast Track, and Eli Lilly’s purchase of Verve Therapeutics, prevention of heart disease just moved from what if to what next.

Onshore Prediction Markets: Kraken and Polymarket Deals

Onshore Prediction Markets: Kraken and Polymarket Deals

Two U.S. deals just reset the map for event trading. On October 16, 2025, Kraken agreed to acquire The Small Exchange, a CFTC Designated Contract Market, and on July 21, 2025, Polymarket bought QCEX. Together they signal crypto-native prediction markets moving into the regulated U.S. perimeter.

AI’s Power Crunch Is Forcing A New U.S. Grid Playbook

AI’s Power Crunch Is Forcing A New U.S. Grid Playbook

Federal loan guarantees and sharper load forecasts show the U.S. grid shifting from planning to execution. Hyperscalers and utilities are racing to secure 24 hour supply with dispatchable capacity, big battery hybrids, selective on site generation, and next generation contracts.

Starship Flight 11 Signals the Start of Orbital Refueling

Starship Flight 11 Signals the Start of Orbital Refueling

Flight 11 hit its marks and brought both stages down under control, clearing the runway for the first in‑orbit propellant transfers. Here is what refueling really takes, what to watch next, and how it could pull NASA’s Artemis timeline left.

PYUSD’s Mega Mint Shock: The Control Layer Stablecoins Need

PYUSD’s Mega Mint Shock: The Control Layer Stablecoins Need

A brief PYUSD minting error flashed trillions on chain before being burned. Paired with new U.S. rules, a global warning, and U.K. caps, the takeaway is clear: programmable dollars need an onchain control layer to scale safely.