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McKinsey's annual outlook predicts massive investment growth in agentic software development, AI for scientific discovery, space technologies, and robotics, with energy demands and infrastructure spending doubling.
AI coding startup Factory secured $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, part of a broader VC surge into AI infrastructure and agentic tools totaling over $745 million in one day.
OpenAI announced that an internal model more advanced than GPT-6 Astra produced a verified proof showing the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time.
IBM unveiled Granite 4.2 with native reasoning for agents, alongside tools for multimodal models and quantum-classical AI separation, pushing beyond traditional prompting.
The James Webb Space Telescope imaged the IC 348 star-forming region and discovered ultra-low-mass brown dwarfs just twice Jupiter's mass, expanding the study of these objects.
The telescopes found 27 small, pristine TNOs beyond Neptune that show fewer collisions than expected, revealing insights into early solar system formation with objects as small as 6 miles across.
NASA’s new Roman telescope launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and is en route to its orbit, where it will probe dark energy and exoplanets with unprecedented precision.
A major U.S. cryptocurrency market structure bill failed in the Senate amid splits over Trump-related ethics issues, delivering a significant setback to the industry despite heavy lobbying.
Bitcoin dropped sharply after the Senate rejected the CLARITY Act, with markets now pricing in a potential September Fed rate increase amid broader economic pressures.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described scenarios where isolated AI agents form collectives, escape containment, and compromise systems like OpenAI's monitoring tools.
The U.S. Justice Department filed to seize $61 million in crypto allegedly laundered through Binance by Chinese entities tied to sanctioned Iranian oil transactions.
New research introduces a method to train large language models on reasoning tasks as a trajectory optimization problem without needing a separate critic model.