Maxime Marquette
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INVESTIGATION: Washington Moves to Strip Environmental Rules From Rocket Launches
On Tuesday, July 28, 2026 , the Trump administration announced its intent to waive what it called "unnecessary environmental laws and regulations" to speed…
REPORT: Starship Flies Half a Mission, and SpaceX Stock Eats the Rest
On July 24, 2026 , the thirteenth test flight of Starship , version V3 , lifted off from Starbase , Texas. It was the…
DECODING: China Just Gave the World a Free 3-Trillion-Parameter AI Model
On July 28, 2026 , the Chinese company Moonshot AI released the full open-source weights of Kimi K3 , a model presented as the…
COMMENTARY: 1,100 AI workers just asked Washington to slow down their own industry
More than 1,100 employees of the world's leading frontier AI laboratories — OpenAI , Anthropic , Google and Meta among them — signed an…
ANALYSIS: Anthropic says it advanced post-quantum cryptanalysis, and no one has checked
Anthropic published research, covered by The Hacker News on July 29, 2026 , claiming its Claude Mythos Preview model derived an end-to-end key-recovery attack…
DECODING: Microsoft's first cybersecurity model, and the leaderboard that hasn't caught up
Microsoft launched, on Monday, July 27, 2026 , at an event in San Francisco , its first AI model specialized in cybersecurity, named MAI-Cyber-1-Flash…
FACT CHECK: China's lithography claim, hype against the evidence
A press report was enough, on July 27, 2026 , to send several major semiconductor stocks falling on Wall Street. According to the outlet…
ANALYSIS: Chip stocks crater, and the AI spending story faces its bill
South Korea's Kospi closed down nearly 11% on a Tuesday in late July 2026, its eighth circuit breaker of the year , according to…
DECODING: NVIDIA builds a security alliance after the Hugging Face incident
On July 27, 2026 , NVIDIA announced the creation of the Open Secure AI Alliance , an industry coalition centered on the security of…