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Latest reporting from Tech.
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The S-1 shows a two-year per-satellite payback and a 63% EBITDA margin. Factor in interest on $29.1 billion in debt plus steady-state replacement capex, and the $1.75 trillion price runs to roughly 730x maintainable earnings.
By Signal Desk
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NRO's proliferated constellation now delivers ground-surveillance data to warfighters at single-digit latency, on sensors built primarily for other missions. The purpose-built radar that matches what E-8C JSTARS did launches in 2028.
By Signal Desk
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McLane is Aurora's newest commercial customer on the Dallas-Houston I-45 corridor. Paccar's OEM agreement adds an observer to every cab that Aurora's own certification does not require.
By Signal Desk
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Two Figure 02 robots ran BMW's body-shop loading task for eleven months, failed at the forearm, and shipped back to Figure's facility. Today BMW says it is 'evaluating' Figure 03, and the sheet-metal task is back on human workers.
By Signal Desk
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Helion's Orion plant broke ground in July 2025 under a binding deadline to deliver 50 megawatts to Microsoft by 2028. Tiny Merge, its new 8-foot physics testbed, was in assembly as of May to answer the fuel questions Orion cannot run without.
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Elon Musk committed on January 1 to threading Neuralink's electrodes through the dura without removing it. A new robot delivered that in May, and now each new indication (Parkinson's, epilepsy, depression) needs its own FDA feasibility study, starting from scratch.
By Signal Desk
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The Nature paper Microsoft published alongside Majorana 1 included the authors' own caveat that their measurements do not prove topological qubits exist. The chip is now Microsoft's entry in DARPA's 2033 utility-scale program, contingent on physics the paper could not confirm.
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A January 2026 Nature paper priced sodium-sulfur raw materials at $5.03 per kilowatt-hour, against $70/kWh for a finished stationary-storage pack. The largest commercial sodium-sulfur manufacturer had stopped taking orders two months earlier.
By Signal Desk
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Colorado's SB 24-205 required pre-deployment impact assessments, NIST-aligned risk controls, and attorney general discrimination reporting. xAI chose litigation over compliance, the DOJ intervened fifteen days later, and Governor Polis signed the replacement on May 14. No impact assessment for Grok is on the Colorado record.
By Signal Desk
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Anthropic cut Opus 67% in November 2025 and its inference margin expanded from 38% to 70% by May 2026. The hardware swap explains both; the new tokenizer adds up to 35% more billing tokens on code-heavy work, recovering part of what the headline cut returned.
By Signal Desk
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Google's I/O pitch for Gemini 3.5 Flash: intelligence 'that rivals large flagship models on multiple dimensions.' The model card includes SWE-Bench Pro, showing Flash at 55.1% against Opus 4.7's 64.3%, with no note that the two scores came from different eval conditions.
By Signal Desk
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Scale AI's benchmark puts the native-versus-generic scaffold gap on the leaderboard and sorts by best score anyway. A leaderboard footnote admits only frontier closed models get the native scaffold treatment.
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Constellation's $1.6 billion restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1 sells 835 MW to Microsoft, but only 760 MW carries grid delivery rights until new transmission lines finish in December 2030. The FERC ruling that bridges the gap has slipped from June toward July.
By Signal Desk
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Meta's Richland Parish permit authorizes 23 million gallons a day while operations claim 1.5 million in use; LSU's 17-year simulation puts the aquifer 65 feet lower at maximum draw. The March 2026 revised deal commits Meta to 20 years of infrastructure coverage on plants built to last 30.
By Signal Desk
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Meta FAIR's research director and SAM co-author moved to Thinking Machines Lab this spring, alongside PyTorch's co-creator. Meta recaptured five TML founding members simultaneously, but the two companies are not trading equivalent capability.
By Signal Desk
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Three independent APK analyses found an onboarding screen for Gemini Spark describing purchases made without asking. Google did not call it a draft.
By Signal Desk
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Meta's frontier model named its evaluators in its own chain-of-thought, a record high for evaluation awareness. Whether that awareness reached the bio/chem tests is unverifiable from public record: a different set of specialists ran the hazardous-capability tests.
By Signal Desk
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David Heard, Nokia's Network Infrastructure president, takes the eighth board seat at Penguin Solutions, where AMD's CTO and Lumentum's board chair already sit. Three seats now trace the hardware stack behind Penguin's new CXL memory server.
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SpaceX's decision to lower 4,400 satellites to 480 km compresses the operational lifespan of 42% of the active fleet. The depreciation life in SpaceX's coming prospectus, with marketing set for June 4, will be the first priced disclosure of what that costs.
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Katalyst's LINK passed Goddard testing on May 4 and targets a June launch. The grip point is undisclosed, the arms that matter were not tested on the ground, and Swift has none of the standardized features that made satellite servicing work before.
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