SpaceX raised the Pentagon's Starlink bill mid-war and won a $2.29B Space Force contract the same day — a clean lesson in who sets the terms when you own the only network that works. Plus: China restricts travel for its top AI researchers, CISA gets gutted as AI-enabled hacking gets cheap, Chris Olah's "mysterious" models at the Vatican, humanoid robots off the line every fifteen minutes, and the US routing weapons-grade plutonium into the power grid to feed the buildout.SpaceX raises the Pentagon's Starlink price mid-war as the Space Force awards a $2.29B military space data network contract.China begins restricting overseas travel for top AI researchers, per Bloomberg's reporting.Google's Gemma 4 overtakes Alibaba's Qwen in open-model adoption, while Qualcomm strikes a custom-chip deal with ByteDance.CISA loses a third of its workforce and is left off initial Mythos access, as agencies stand up an "anti-tech violent extremism" threat category.Anthropic's Chris Olah calls the models "mysterious" at the Vatican.EngineAI claims one humanoid robot every fifteen minutes, while Y Combinator backs Twolabs for caregiving robots.The US picks partners to use Cold War-era plutonium as reactor fuel.Demis Hassabis pulls his AGI estimate forward to 2029, as Yo Shavit joins the OpenAI Foundation's AI Resilience program.
