The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded more than $5.3 million to 15 university-led projects at 14 institutions across the country to upgrade nuclear energy infrastructure, including research reactors and other advanced technologies. The funding—part of a broader push under the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP)—is designed to strengthen the nation’s nuclear workforce, expand research…

A new analysis from BloombergNEF forecasts that power demand from U.S. data centers will soar to 106 gigawatts by 2035 — nearly three times the current 40 gigawatts. That growth is fueled in part by the rapid expansion of AI-driven infrastructure, which relies on increasingly large and power-hungry facilities. Much of the buildout is expected…

Zillow has removed climate-risk scores from over one million home listings after real estate agents and the California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS) complained the information was driving down sales. What began in September 2024 as a feature meant to help buyers assess flood, wildfire, heat, wind, and air-quality risks — using data from climate-analytics…

Amazon’s cloud arm has officially launched its new AI training chip, Trainium 3, unveiling “UltraServer” hardware that delivers roughly quadruple the training and inference throughput of its predecessor, while using 40% less power. The systems can scale to massive size — thousands of UltraServers linked together for up to a million Trainium 3 chips —…

Researchers at Google have introduced a new paradigm called Nested Learning, which recasts a machine-learning model not as a single monolithic system but as a collection of interlocking optimization problems operating at different timescales. The innovation enables models to retain long-term knowledge, continuously learn, and reason over extended contexts without “catastrophic forgetting.” A prototype architecture…

In a major push for enterprise AI transparency, Salesforce has launched Agentforce Observability, a suite of tools in its Agentforce 360 platform designed to expose every step of what its AI agents are doing — from user input to reasoning paths to final output — in near-real time. The system offers deep session-level tracing via…

Microsoft’s new tool — Fabric IQ — adds a semantic intelligence layer on top of existing enterprise data platforms, aiming to let AI agents understand the meaning behind business data instead of just spotting patterns. By building shared ontologies that map real-world entities, relationships, hierarchies, and operational context, Fabric IQ allows agents to reason about…

President Trump signed an executive order on November 24, 2025, initiating the Genesis Mission — a sweeping, federally coordinated effort described as a “Manhattan Project for AI,” designed to harness artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is directed to build a closed-loop AI experimentation platform linking 17 national laboratories,…

NASA and Boeing have officially confirmed that the upcoming flight of the Starliner capsule — dubbed Starliner-1 — will carry only cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), with no astronauts aboard. The mission is now targeted for no earlier than April 2026, pending extensive testing and certification. In parallel, NASA has renegotiated its Commercial…

Japanese automaker Honda has stunned the tech world by successfully launching and landing a 20-foot reusable rocket in June 2025, signaling that the company is serious about expanding beyond cars, motorcycles, and lawn mowers into space exploration. The company’s research arm, Honda R&D, carried out the test at its Taiki facility in Hokkaido — sending…

Microsoft has quietly rolled out Fara-7B, its first “agentic” small language model (SLM) that acts as a full computer-use agent (CUA), meaning it can visually interpret a screen and control your mouse, keyboard, and browser to perform multi-step tasks like form-filling, booking travel, or managing online accounts—all locally on your device. Built with only 7…

A recent article titled “Practical AI: The Age of Agentic AI” argues that we’re shifting from simple AI copilots toward more powerful — and autonomous — “agentic” systems capable of planning, reasoning, and executing complex business workflows end-to-end. These systems can coordinate across data sources, self-learn, and dynamically manage tasks like supply-chain disruptions or process…

The hottest job at AI companies right now isn’t prompt-engineering or multimodal design — it’s neuroscience. Firms like Meta and others are actively recruiting scientists with brain-research backgrounds, motivated by a push to make AI more energy-efficient and interpretable. Neuroscience offers tools to study how our brain accomplishes massive computational feats using just ~20 watts,…

A recently released paper concluded that no existing artificial-intelligence systems meet the criteria for consciousness — though future, more sophisticated versions might. Researchers focused on whether AI can reflect on its own “thoughts” as a proxy for consciousness, determining that current systems fall short. Still, they did not rule out the possibility that upcoming models…

The U.S. Department of the Air Force has released a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for SpaceX’s plan to launch and land the Starship and its Super Heavy booster at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s SLC-37 in Florida. The EIS outlines a future in which Starship could launch up to 76 times annually, with Super…