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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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Agent Interop Is Here: A2A and MCP Ignite Cross-Stack Teams

Agent Interop Is Here: A2A and MCP Ignite Cross-Stack Teams

October 2025 turned agent interoperability from promise to plan. Google’s Agent2Agent and Microsoft’s MCP support finally let cross-vendor agents talk, act, and audit across stacks. Here is what changes next.

Deep-Space Laser Links Arrive: DSOC’s 2025 Finale

Deep-Space Laser Links Arrive: DSOC’s 2025 Finale

NASA’s Psyche-borne DSOC wrapped in 2025 and showed that laser light can carry science across hundreds of millions of miles. Here is how optical links become the backbone of space data this decade and who turns them on first.

CHIP Is the New LDL: 2025 Turns Clones Into Treatable Targets

CHIP Is the New LDL: 2025 Turns Clones Into Treatable Targets

Fresh 2025 evidence moves CHIP from risk marker to modifiable target. ESC data link low-dose colchicine to slower TET2 clone growth, an NIH-backed canakinumab trial is enrolling, CKD ties sharpen risk, and JAMA Cardiology cautions against aspirin for primary prevention.

TLS-BCT Manpack brings spectrum power to the platoon

TLS-BCT Manpack brings spectrum power to the platoon

With 2025 deliveries accelerating and new funding in place, the Army’s TLS BCT Manpack moves jamming and signals intelligence into line units, speeds sensor-to-shooter targeting, and plugs the tactical edge into CJADC2.

Frankendancer Crosses the Chasm as Solana Enters Multi-Client Era

Frankendancer Crosses the Chasm as Solana Enters Multi-Client Era

Frankendancer has become the default choice for a growing share of Solana validators, pairing MEV-ready economics with real client diversity while Firedancer marches toward full voting. Here is what changes for throughput, risk, and builders.

GitHub Agent HQ turns your repo into mission control

GitHub Agent HQ turns your repo into mission control

Unveiled at GitHub Universe on October 28, 2025, Agent HQ brings third party coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Cognition, and more into a neutral control plane inside the repository. Here is how it turns fragmented agent work into a single cockpit with clear plans, policy, and proof.

Chang’e‑6 Rocks Rewrite the Moon: Drier Depths, Magnetic Revival

Chang’e‑6 Rocks Rewrite the Moon: Drier Depths, Magnetic Revival

Chang'e 6 returned the first farside samples from South Pole-Aitken and they upend expectations: the mantle source looks far drier than near-side equivalents, and tiny clasts record a magnetic field that pulsed back around 2.8 billion years ago. Here is what that means for water prospecting, Artemis site choices, and a buildable farside lab.

Megawatt Truck Charging Goes Live: 2025 to 2027 Playbook

Megawatt Truck Charging Goes Live: 2025 to 2027 Playbook

Megawatt charging is leaving pilot mode. 2025 brings the first public MCS sites and a near-finished standard, while early hubs at ports and along I-5 and I-15 set the pattern for a national freight network by 2027.

Uniswap’s DUNA shift primes the era of protocol fees

Uniswap’s DUNA shift primes the era of protocol fees

Uniswap Governance adopted a DUNA legal wrapper called DUNI, giving the DAO real legal personhood. Here is how that shift unlocks protocol fees, reduces liability for contributors, and sets a template other DAOs will copy in 2026.

HTV-X1 Rewires ISS Supply Lines and Sets Sights on Gateway

HTV-X1 Rewires ISS Supply Lines and Sets Sights on Gateway

Japan’s next‑gen cargo ship launched on H3, delivered on schedule, and keeps flying for months as a testbed—tightening the ISS supply chain today and training for Gateway tomorrow.

Google puts AgentOps on stage with self-healing and observability

Google puts AgentOps on stage with self-healing and observability

Google just shifted Vertex AI Agent Builder from ‘build a demo’ to ‘run a service.’ Self-healing, trace-first observability, and policy controls move AgentOps to the center of enterprise roadmaps.

Project Pele’s Truckable Microreactor Reaches Reality

Project Pele’s Truckable Microreactor Reaches Reality

2025 marks the turn from drawings to metal for Project Pele. A truck-movable, containerized microreactor delivering 1 to 5 megawatts could free Indo-Pacific outposts from risky fuel convoys and power radar, laser defense, and autonomous systems. Here is the roadmap, rules, and risks.

Moderna's CMV Failure Sparks A Geroscience Pivot

Moderna's CMV Failure Sparks A Geroscience Pivot

On October 22, 2025, Moderna ended its congenital CMV vaccine program after a failed primary endpoint. The loss points to a bigger win: treating CMV as a modifiable driver of immunosenescence with vaccines, T cells, and antivirals built for older adults.

Tianwen-2 to Kamoʻoalewa, a Hinge Moment for Exploration

Tianwen-2 to Kamoʻoalewa, a Hinge Moment for Exploration

China's Tianwen-2 is en route to Earth's quasi-moon Kamoʻoalewa to bring home samples in 2027, then chase active comet 311P. Here is how this mission could confirm a lunar-fragment origin and reset small-body science, cislunar traffic norms, and prospecting.

Hydrogen’s 2025 Reality Check: 45V Rules, Hubs Cut

Hydrogen’s 2025 Reality Check: 45V Rules, Hubs Cut

January’s final 45V guidance opened a path for cleaner hydrogen just as midyear politics tried to narrow it and fall cancellations shook the DOE hub map. Here is how developers can still reach final investment decisions between 2026 and 2029.

GENIUS Act Turns Stablecoins Into U.S. Payment Rails

GENIUS Act Turns Stablecoins Into U.S. Payment Rails

A builder’s field guide to year one under the GENIUS Act: issuer licensing, reserve and disclosure rules, why no-yield reshapes product design, and how wallets, L2s, and merchants plug in.

Zapier’s Multi‑Agent Pivot: No‑Code Becomes the New Runtime

Zapier’s Multi‑Agent Pivot: No‑Code Becomes the New Runtime

Zapier reframed AI agents from chat helpers into an automation runtime. With pods, agent handoffs, and live knowledge, the center of gravity shifts to no-code orchestration for small and medium sized businesses.

UBS Just Took Tokenized Fund Orders Live In Production

UBS Just Took Tokenized Fund Orders Live In Production

UBS just ran live onchain subscriptions and redemptions for its tokenized U.S. dollar money market fund using a Digital Transfer Agent standard. Here is how these rails compress reconciliation from days to minutes and make automation the default.