President Donald Trump said the suspects had been looking to do “big damage.” bit.ly/4rCk8cT

These five companies are pursuing everything from mineral extraction and oxide production to metals and permanent magnets. bit.ly/4rAY0zL

Dario Amodei is set to dine with President Trump at the White House tonight, their first one-on-one meeting. The timing is notable: Amodei recently published a plan calling for slowing AI development, while Trump has dismissed AI safety concerns as a Democratic hoax and wants to rebrand the technology as "super intelligence." The two have history — the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk earlier this year over the company's guardrails on its own technology, though Anthropic recently won its first court victory against that label. The dinner was first reported by Axios. 📷 Getty Images

A new material could push microchip encryption speeds from under 100 flips a second to over 400,000, scientists found.

The discovery could reshape how engineers route light on computer chips, and direct wireless signals. bit.ly/3VjC0NF

The agents scanned a public data hub operated by UN Trade and Development. bit.ly/4rz6B5X

Nine years after it was unveiled, a single new order for 2,500 Tesla Semis would nearly double US electric heavy trucks.

China and the US are moving toward a new military crisis-communication pact aimed at strengthening dialogue and reducing the risk of miscalculation. bit.ly/4xRYiDR

A tech YouTuber let Meta's new Muse AI agent run his Facebook Marketplace listings for a day. By his account, it agreed a price he never approved, gave the buyer his home address and set up a pickup. He didn't know. The buyer waited outside his building for about 20 minutes, then left a bad review. Only then did Muse apologise. Meta says Muse asks permission before sensitive actions. The question is who decides what counts as sensitive.

A US appeals court just ruled the Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable certain Claude features.

Rolls-Royce SMR partners with ŠKODA JS for critical safety components. bit.ly/4xPTZJf

A scramjet burns fuel using incoming atmospheric oxygen, while a hypersonic glide vehicle relies on energy from its rocket booster. bit.ly/4js60Rr

A rare quantum state offers a new way to probe exotic matter that could someday help make quantum computers more resilient. bit.ly/4xNpT9a

DiDi Autonomous Driving has begun fully driverless service trials of its next-generation R2 robotaxi, co-developed with GAC Aion, in parts of Beijing and Guangzhou, bookable on the DiDi app. The factory-built car carries 33 sensors and a central computer with over 2,000 TOPS that DiDi says costs 74 percent less than its previous generation.

After 36 years and 1.7 million observations, Hubble just clocked its 200,000th orbit around Earth.

When the invisible gluon string between quarks snaps, new matter is born. bit.ly/4rTejIt

In 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman in history to win the Fields Medal, awarded every four years to the most exceptional mathematicians under 40. Her work focused on the geometry and dynamics of Riemann surfaces — complex mathematical spaces that describe how curved surfaces can be measured, stretched, and deformed. Mirzakhani's research connected previously separate areas of mathematics including hyperbolic geometry, symplectic geometry, and ergodic theory, solving problems that had stumped mathematicians for decades. Born in Tehran in 1977, she originally dreamed of becoming a writer before discovering her talent for mathematics. She won two gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1994 and 1995, achieving a perfect score in 1995. She became a professor at Stanford University at 31. Mirzakhani died of breast cancer in 2017 at the age of 40. "The more I spent time on maths, the more excited I got," she once said. Iran's government, which typically requires women to wear hijabs in official images, broke with precedent and published photos of her without one after her death, a rare tribute to her legacy.

The Air Force begins answering key logistics and operational questions for unmanned wingmen. bit.ly/4d9MKnY

In early 2025, Huang Ping refused a government offer of approximately $200,000 plus two additional properties to vacate his home in Jinxi, southwest of Shanghai, for a new highway. Negotiations failed, and construction proceeded around his house. The result: a solitary two-storey home encircled by multiple lanes of traffic, with Ping needing to pass through a large pipe just to reach his front door. He and his 11-year-old grandson still live there, spending most of their time in the town center to escape the constant noise and fumes. "If I could turn back time, I would agree to the demolition conditions. Now it feels like I lost a big bet," Ping said. The property has since become an unlikely tourist attraction.