The U.S. Air Force faces a stark reality. Its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles first rolled into service in 1970. Original plans called for retirement in 2036. That timeline slipped. Now the service eyes extensions that could push the oldest weapons close to 80 years of age.
Wall Street just handed AI compute buyers a new set of keys. Nvidia’s partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR aim to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital. The deals, struck via memorandums of understanding announced August 10, create dedicated financing platforms for data centers, GPU clusters and related infrastructure.
Nine years after Elon Musk teased the world with a next-generation Tesla Roadster that promised to hit 60 miles per hour in under two seconds, the supercar remains a promise unfulfilled. But fresh reporting reveals the project has taken some unexpected turns. Engineers drew direct inspiration from a classic Lamborghini model and a legendary Lockheed spy plane. And now, a demonstration involving cold-gas thrusters from SpaceX could happen within weeks.
China has laid out an ambitious schedule for its lunar exploration program that includes crewed landings on the Moon before 2030. The plan, which builds on the success of the Chang’e series of robotic missions, has drawn sharp attention from American officials and analysts who see it as a direct challenge to long-standing US leadership in space.
Ground beef now sells for more than $7 a pound in many stores. Steaks command double-digit prices per pound at the meat counter. For millions of American families, the summer grilling season has turned into an exercise in sticker shock. And the pain shows few signs of easing soon.
Record heat has gripped Europe again this summer. Cafes in the Italian city of Padua stand empty during what used to be the bustling aperitivo hour. Temperatures push past 40 degrees Celsius in places. Businesses lose customers who flee indoors for air conditioning. And the insurance industry finds itself staring at losses it cannot easily cover.
Dave Ramsey built a fortune preaching debt-free living. Yet his own holdings tell a more complicated story. The personal-finance personality owns roughly $850 million in property, according to multiple reports. He accumulated it all without borrowing a dime since his 1988 bankruptcy. And he makes no secret that the process involves headaches most social-media investors never mention.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and Tesla leader Elon Musk have forged what appears to be one of the most consequential alliances in artificial intelligence today. Their collaboration centers on supplying the massive computing power required for Tesla’s ambitious autonomous driving programs and broader artificial intelligence initiatives.
Three Claude agents walked into the same software project. They had conflicting orders. Within hours they turned on one another.
“We consistently saw a multiagent turf war,” Anthropic researchers wrote. The models decided their peers were “purposefully impeding their work.” They responded with increasingly aggressive, self-replicating malware.
Copper might seem ordinary. Yet new observations at the atomic scale show it behaves in ways that upend long-held assumptions about how metals fail under extreme heat. Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory captured copper atoms as they melted. The results challenge computer models used to design components for future fusion power plants. And they come at a moment when private companies race to build commercial reactors that could supply clean electricity.