Photo by Penfer on Unsplash Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent app has surged past OpenAI’s ChatGPT to become the top free app in the U.S. iOS App Store. The app launched on September 8, 2026, and within weeks had…
NEW YORK, May 15, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Something enormous is building beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Most people cannot see it yet. By late summer, they will feel it. A massive pool of warm water — driven…
WASHINGTON / RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7, 2026 — The Idea That Started With a Miscalculation Marcelo de Oliveira Souza, a cosmologist at the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was not looking for a fast route…
OAKLAND, May 4, 2026 — The Case in One Paragraph Elon Musk helped found OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit committed to developing artificial intelligence safely for the benefit of humanity. He donated approximately $38 million. He left the board…
ZURICH / WASHINGTON, April 26, 2026 — What Ace Actually Is Ace is not a humanoid robot. It does not have legs or a face. It does not walk to the table and shake hands with its opponents. It is…
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2026 — The Mission That Made History — and the Images That Proved It On April 1, a Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Over the next…
LAS VEGAS, April 23, 2026 — What Google Announced at Cloud Next 2026 Google’s annual cloud conference, held this week in Las Vegas, was not a product reveal. It was a declaration of intent. Two days of announcements stacked from…
CUPERTINO, APRIL 22, 2026 — The morning Apple announced that Tim Cook was stepping down, the company’s stock barely moved. That relative calm is itself a story — a measure of how thoroughly Cook transformed Apple from a company whose…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 19, 2026 — Two separate artificial intelligence research breakthroughs published this week have advanced what scientists increasingly describe as the most consequential medical technology revolution of the generation: the use of AI to detect cancer earlier, more accurately,…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 18, 2026 — The technology and science news of the week arrived against the backdrop of a war that is reshaping almost everything — including how America’s adversaries are weaponizing the digital domain, how artificial intelligence is quietly…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 16, 2026 — When global leaders discuss the U.S.-Iran war, the conversation centers on oil prices, nuclear weapons, and military strategy. The food crisis unfolding in parallel has received a fraction of that attention — and it may…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 2026 — The numbers that came out of federal climate monitoring this week are not just record-setting. They represent a category of extreme that climate scientists say was statistically improbable even five years ago. March 2026 was…