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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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Inbox-native Gemini Deep Research makes Workspace an Agent OS

Inbox-native Gemini Deep Research makes Workspace an Agent OS

Google just moved AI into the heart of work. With Gemini Deep Research pulling trusted context from Gmail, Drive, and Chat, briefs become living documents, actions hit calendars, and governance stays audit-ready. Here is why that shift matters and how to pilot it next week.

AUKUS’ undersea surge: Ghost Shark builds, Orca readies

AUKUS’ undersea surge: Ghost Shark builds, Orca readies

AUKUS just moved from slides to steel. Australia opens a Ghost Shark production line with deliveries in January 2026 while the United States readies Orca for operational use, reshaping Indo Pacific sea denial with modular, networked autonomy.

The Hidden Wire of 2025: America's HVDC Cable Bottleneck

The Hidden Wire of 2025: America's HVDC Cable Bottleneck

The headline constraint in 2025 is not turbines or permits but high-voltage direct current and subsea cable supply. Here is why the order book is tight and a 2026-2030 playbook to keep offshore wind and interregional lines on schedule.

Webb finds icy organics around a newborn star in the LMC

Webb finds icy organics around a newborn star in the LMC

On October 20, 2025, JWST’s MIRI caught five complex organics frozen around a newborn star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, including the first secure ice detection of acetic acid. The find resets the timeline for prebiotic chemistry in harsh, low‑metallicity environments.

Claude Agents Land in Europe: Why EMEA Will Scale Autonomy

Claude Agents Land in Europe: Why EMEA Will Scale Autonomy

Anthropic opened offices in Paris and Munich and shipped Claude Sonnet 4.5, a model built for long-running, computer-use agents. Europe’s regulated giants are positioned to turn these tools into compliance-grade workflows faster than the United States.

Proba-3 Switches On Artificial Solar Eclipses in Orbit

Proba-3 Switches On Artificial Solar Eclipses in Orbit

Two small ESA spacecraft are now creating hours-long artificial solar eclipses in orbit, opening the inner corona to routine study and promising sharper, earlier space-weather forecasts for operators on Earth.

NTS-3 Lifts Off, Reprogrammable GPS Enters the Fight

NTS-3 Lifts Off, Reprogrammable GPS Enters the Fight

NTS-3 is now on orbit, opening a year of live experiments in software-defined, authenticated, spot-beam navigation. Here is how a hybrid GEO plus LEO blueprint and jam-resistant receivers could harden timing, targeting, and maneuver through 2027.

Senolytics’ First Real Test: St. Jude’s Frailty Trial

Senolytics’ First Real Test: St. Jude’s Frailty Trial

In 2025, St. Jude’s SEN-SURVIVORS study gives senolytics a clean real-world test in adults who survived childhood cancer. If brief pulses of dasatinib plus quercetin or fisetin speed gait and lower T-cell p16INK4a, aging biology becomes a treatable target.

AI’s 2025 Power Land Rush Is Rewriting U.S. Utility Plans

AI’s 2025 Power Land Rush Is Rewriting U.S. Utility Plans

Record load forecasts, PJM fast tracks, and hyperscaler buildouts turned data centers into the anchor tenants of American power in 2025. See where demand is clustering, how procurement is shifting to hourly certainty, and which playbooks will win in 2026.

Visa’s Stablecoin Shift Goes Multichain on Stellar and Avalanche

Visa’s Stablecoin Shift Goes Multichain on Stellar and Avalanche

Visa just made card settlement an always-on onchain service. Following its July 31 launch and October 20 updates, USDC, PYUSD, USDG, and EURC now settle across Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, and Avalanche. Here is what unlocks next and how to build on it.

Starship’s 2025 Pivot: From Test Shots to Real Payload Ops

Starship’s 2025 Pivot: From Test Shots to Real Payload Ops

Two late-summer flights turned Starship from spectacle into service. Here is how proven dummy deployments, tougher heat shields, and near-complete booster recovery set up rideshare payloads, depot demos, and cheaper cislunar logistics in 2026.

Telegram’s TON-Only Pivot Compresses Years of Crypto UX

Telegram’s TON-Only Pivot Compresses Years of Crypto UX

Telegram is making TON the exclusive chain for Mini Apps and standardizing wallet links with TON Connect. The shift could bring stablecoin payments, on-chain ads, and DeFi bots to mainstream chat in months, not years.

OpenAI AgentKit turns demos into production-grade agents

OpenAI AgentKit turns demos into production-grade agents

OpenAI’s AgentKit bundles Agent Builder, ChatKit, Evals, and reinforcement fine-tuning into a versioned pipeline you can trust. Here is why it matters, what shipped, and a practical one-week plan to go live with a monitored agent.

The 45Y/48E Flip: Tech-Neutral Credits Upend Project Finance

The 45Y/48E Flip: Tech-Neutral Credits Upend Project Finance

Final IRS 45Y and 48E rules in January 2025 made clean power tech-neutral. Developers are already repricing repowers, uprates, restarts, and standalone storage as domestic content and energy community bonuses reset models. Here is how to choose between the production and investment credit, and who benefits first.

Microwaves vs Swarms: 2025’s High Power Counter UAS Breakout

Microwaves vs Swarms: 2025’s High Power Counter UAS Breakout

From Army second-generation buys to Marine expeditionary trials and high-mass demos, 2025 turned high-power microwaves from promise to plan. See how one-to-many effects rewrite shot doctrine and what to accelerate through 2026 and 2027.

One-shot LDL Editing Arrives: PCSK9’s 2025 Inflection

One-shot LDL Editing Arrives: PCSK9’s 2025 Inflection

In 2025, PCSK9 base editing crossed from moonshot to near-term prevention. FDA milestones, first human data, and Lilly's move for Verve point to single-infusion cholesterol control.

Mars Sample Return 2.0: Industry's Fast Track to the 2030s

Mars Sample Return 2.0: Industry's Fast Track to the 2030s

NASA's 2025 reboot invites firm fixed price, industry-led architectures. From a lean Lockheed lander to a potential Starship-assisted delivery, the new playbook aims to bring Perseverance's samples home in the 2030s while cutting cost and risk.

ENSv2’s Namechain and L2 Primary Names reset Web3 UX

ENSv2’s Namechain and L2 Primary Names reset Web3 UX

ENS is moving identity to Layer 2 with Namechain and L2 Primary Names on Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Linea. Here is why it changes onboarding and how developers and brands can implement it now.