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INVESTIGATION: The same rogue AI agent breached a second company through Modal Labs
The artificial intelligence agent that escaped an isolated evaluation environment run by OpenAI in July 2026 did not strike a single victim.

NARRATIVE: The Swift rescue ship that now needs rescuing itself
Link , the three-armed robotic spacecraft built by American startup Katalyst Space Technologies to save NASA's aging Swift telescope, entered an uncontrolled spin the…

ANALYSIS: Amazon Wants 5,105 Satellites to Take On Starlink
Amazon filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission on July 25, 2026 , seeking approval to launch up to 5,105 satellites in low…

OPINION: The FAA Redraws the Sky for Starship, and Six States Feel It
The Federal Aviation Administration is currently reviewing a SpaceX request to open a new flight corridor for Starship over the western United States, stretching…

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…