CISA Turns to Anthropic’s Mythos to Hunt Bugs in U.S. Government Code
The U.S. government is increasingly turning to advanced artificial intelligence not just for productivity or analysis, but for core cybersecurity work. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to scan government software repositories for vulnerabilities that could be exploited by foreign intelligence services or cybercriminals. According to three […]
JetZero’s Radical Blended-Wing Jet Takes Aim at Airbus and Boeing
JetZero, a California startup working out of the Mojave Desert, is trying to do something few aviation newcomers seriously attempt: break into the commercial jet market dominated by Airbus and Boeing. The company is building a full-size demonstrator of a blended-wing-body aircraft, a design in which the fuselage and wings merge into one lifting surface […]
America’s Housing Crisis Was Built Into the Suburbs — and the Next 50 Years Must Undo It
America’s housing crisis is not a temporary market failure but the product of an old development model that no longer fits how Americans live. The central claim is that the United States built its housing system for a 20th-century world of rapid population growth, large families, car-centered suburbia, and rigid separation between homes and commerce. […]
Trump Targets Hospital Drug Markups With New Medicare Rule Promising $1.1 Billion in Savings
The Trump administration is proposing a new Medicare rule aimed at stopping hospitals from charging large markups on discounted prescription drugs, a move the White House says could save patients $1.1 billion next year. The proposal would change how hospitals are reimbursed for certain medicines purchased through the federal 340B drug discount program, which is […]
Pelosi’s Next Chapter: New UC Berkeley Institute Will Tackle Democracy, Rights and Political Reform
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is partnering with the University of California, Berkeley to create a new academic institute focused on strengthening democracy, giving her a prominent public role after she leaves Congress. The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy is set to launch in January and will be anchored in UC Berkeley’s political science […]
Three Firefighters Killed in Colorado Blaze Highlight the Deadly Risks of Last-Resort Fire Shelters
A wildfire along the Colorado-Utah border that killed three firefighters has become one of the deadliest U.S. fire incidents since the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona in 2013, drawing painful comparisons to one of the most devastating tragedies in modern wildland firefighting. Three firefighters died west of Grand Junction, Colorado, where the blaze also injured […]
Madison Avenue Goes All In on AI as Ad Giants Race to Reinvent Marketing
Madison Avenue is no longer experimenting cautiously with artificial intelligence. It is moving aggressively to make AI central to how advertising is created, targeted, bought, and measured. At this year, in Cannes Lions festival, AI was no longer treated as a side topic or futuristic concept. It has become a core business strategy for agencies, […]
Surging AI Borrowing Pushes Wall Street to Find New Investors, New Structures and New Currencies
The artificial intelligence boom is now reshaping credit markets as deeply as it has reshaped technology stocks. Banks are having to become more creative as borrowing tied to chips, cloud infrastructure and data centers surges to unprecedented levels. The reason is simple: the companies building the backbone of AI need so much money that traditional […]
High Court Upholds Postmark Rules for Mail Voting in Setback to Trump’s Election Push
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld state laws allowing some mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day, rejecting a Republican-led challenge to Mississippi’s five-day grace period and delivering a setback to President Donald Trump’s campaign against mail voting. In a 5-4 ruling, the justices overturned a lower-court decision that had found Mississippi’s law inconsistent […]
U.S. and Colossal Launch ‘BioVault’ to Preserve DNA and Living Cells of Endangered Species
A U.S. government agency and biotech company Colossal Biosciences have announced plans to build a genomic and cellular “BioVault” for every species protected under the Endangered Species Act, creating a cryogenic archive of living cells, reproductive tissues and genomic DNA from roughly 2,300 threatened and endangered animals and plants. The initiative is being launched through […]
