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Denmark Is Paying $135 Per Ton to Bury Cement’s Carbon. The Math Says That’s a Bargain.

A Startup Founded in 2023 Just Achieved the First Advanced Reactor Criticality in 40 Years. The Fuel Supply Math Doesn’t Work Yet.

Tesla Published Its First European FSD Safety Report. The Netherlands Data Is Compelling — and Full of Holes.

We Ran the Numbers on 7 Energy Drinks. The Best One for Deep Work Costs 1.15¢ Per Milligram.

Caffeine improves reaction time at 75 mg and plateaus above 200 mg. Most ‘active ingredients’ in energy drinks have zero evidence for cognitive benefit.

AI Designed a Vaccine to Fight Every Coronavirus. In 39 Humans, the Immune Response Was ‘Modest.’

Every Humanoid Robot in China Now Has a 29-Character Digital Passport. The U.S. Hasn’t Even Started Counting.

Google Owns the World's Third-Largest Cloud. It's Paying a Rocket Company $920 Million a Month for GPUs.

Anthropic Filed for Its IPO. Microsoft Built Seven Models Without OpenAI. Florida Sued Sam Altman Personally.

ERCOT Found Four Data Center Clusters That Can Each Dump 5,000 MW Off the Grid. That's 14 Times Its Largest Power Plant.

Apple Is Paying Google $1 Billion a Year for the AI Brain It Couldn't Build. Three of Four Glasses Platforms Now Share It.

Claude Writes 80% of Anthropic's Code. Here's What That Means for 2.37 Million Software Engineers.

Scientists Found Your Brain's Procrastination Brake. Then They Turned It Off.

Shield AI's Drones Crash at 170× the Pentagon's Own UAS Rate. Its Valuation Just Doubled to $12.7 Billion.

NASA's Moon Base Plan Requires 77 Missions in a Decade. The Lunar Delivery Industry Has Finished Four.

The Same Gene Edit That Cut Cholesterol 62% in Adults Left 80% of Human Embryos Mosaic

Microsoft Told Enterprise Buyers Its New AI Was Trained on ‘Clean Data.’ Its Own Paper Reveals 24.2 Billion Pages From Common Crawl.

Quantinuum Raised $1.68 Billion at a 410× Revenue Multiple. Two Days Later, It Fell Below Its IPO Price.

Anthropic’s Revenue Grew 422% in 5 Months. Three Trillion-Dollar IPOs Are Betting the Curve Doesn’t Break.

58 Scientists Validated the Physics of a Fusion Power Plant. The $22 Billion Question Is Whether Anyone Can Build One.

For 40 Years, Cancer Researchers Called RAS ‘Undruggable.’ 9,000 Oncologists Just Gave a Standing Ovation to the Drug That Proved Them Wrong.

The Great American AI Act: 269 Pages, $300 Million, and Not One Word About the AI Already Denying Your Job Application

Anthropic Proposed a Global AI Pause 101 Days After Removing Its Own. The Verification Problem Is Harder Than Nuclear Weapons.

NVIDIA Sells a $2,999 Robot Brain to Every Major Humanoid Maker Except One. The Module Revenue Is 0.13% of Sales. The Lock-In Is the Point.

Waymo's $50K Robotaxi Saves $6 Billion in Fleet Costs — If It Survives the Tariff Math