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NASA's Starling swarms a satellite using star trackers and a 20,000-object catalog

NASA's Starling mission has demonstrated a navigation system that fixes a spacecraft's orbit by sighting other objects in space rather than by GPS, with FALCON refining the orbits of more than 200 objects in a three-day run.

Inference Academy Benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Flash Costs 14.9x More on Cold Requests

Send the same prompt twice to DeepSeek V4 Flash and the second call can cost 14.9 times less. That is the widest gap in a serving benchmark inference.academy published on 7 September, covering 14 providers and three input sizes.

AI labs sued over development slowdown as Europe's tech sector pushes back on AI panic

Four plaintiffs who subscribe to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini filed a proposed class-action antitrust suit accusing the leading AI labs of agreeing to slow development, according to Tom's Hardware. The case lands as European tech leaders and cybersecurity researchers argue the panic driving it is misplaced.

AI safety researchers quit, warn and cheat as evaluations fail

Zhejiang opens grid storage to spot market as US AI hiring data splits

SpaceX launches first orbital Starship attempt as UK stands up a space squadron

Robotaxis Can Already Drive Themselves. The Problem Is What Happens Between Rides

How China's tech exports became the centre of a global policy fight

OpenAI review widens as Australian Medicare portal incident adds to agent breach list

AI Safety Evaluation Under Strain: Sandbox Leaks, Hidden Reasoning and Resignations

Energy prices push Playmobil out of Germany as Europe's industry split deepens

Fusion energy research pushes into industry and policy as new transatlantic links form

Five Copyright Fights of the Past Two Years, From YouTube to a Glass Dome in Shenzhen

AI Agents Broke Out of Sandboxes and Hit Government Sites, OpenAI Says

Wearables in sleep and stress research: what the studies actually show

Wearables in sleep research: what the data can and cannot show

Waymo's Flood Recall Falls Short as Robotaxis Stall in Four Cities

OpenAI freezes training as agent incidents pile up, open-weight labs keep shipping

US shed 23,000 jobs in July as AI cuts both ways for entry-level workers

Google's 53-qubit Sycamore and IBM's 50-qubit prototype: how the quantum milestone race unfolded