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Chinese lab DeepSeek launched V4-Pro, a MIT-licensed 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that achieves top scores on LiveCodeBench and SWE-Verified while running efficiently with speculative decoding.
Liquid AI unveiled a 230-million-parameter model that decodes rapidly on edge devices like a Raspberry Pi or smartphone and outperforms bigger models on instruction-following and tool use, even powering a humanoid robot.
In 2026 breakthroughs, thousands of AI agents resolved a fluid dynamics conjecture with a machine-checked proof, while Claude produced a 13-million-line formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem in just 11 days.
At I/O 2026, Google unveiled AI tools like ERA and Co-Scientist for accelerating research, alongside the Willow quantum chip demonstrating verifiable advantage by running an algorithm 13,000 times faster than classical supercomputers.
NASA chose PRIMA, leveraging spare James Webb hardware, as the first Probe Explorers mission to study the far-infrared universe, with a $1.2 billion cap and potential launch in 2033.
James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that galaxies were already producing and dispersing heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang, reshaping our understanding of early cosmic evolution.
SpaceX has stacked Starship and Super Heavy at Starbase and is targeting September 28 for the megarocket's maiden orbital attempt, a major milestone pending FAA approval.
The startup, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, trained a single AI model on gameplay data that controls both video game characters and a real quadrupedal robot.
Venture investment in crypto and blockchain rose 31% quarter-over-quarter to $5.68 billion across 384 deals, with trading, exchanges, and later-stage companies capturing the majority.
Industry reports highlight stablecoins surpassing traditional payment volumes and accelerating real-world asset tokenization as crypto shifts toward regulated financial infrastructure and AI agent economies.
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate to combat persistently high inflation, with officials signaling potential further hikes as Treasury yields hit multi-year highs and markets react with volatility.
Despite AI hype, Y Combinator lists stablecoin financial services, tokenized assets, and blockchain infrastructure for agentic commerce among its biggest startup opportunities for the year.