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2025 Skies & Skids: Jet Crashes, Drone Deliveries, Airline Regulations, and Modernizing Stealth

2025 Skies & Skids: Jet Crashes, Drone Deliveries, Airline Regulations, and Modernizing Stealth

TL;DR * Indian Tejas jet and U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone both crash in 2025, spurring investigations. * Prime Air drones crash in Arizona and Detroit, while expanding delivery network amid safety concerns. * U.S. airlines face scrutiny over new delay compensation rules as holiday travel season surges. * China’s J-36

Student Loan Reforms Cut Graduate Borrowing, Impacting Tech Talent Pipeline

Student Loan Reforms Cut Graduate Borrowing, Impacting Tech Talent Pipeline

The Department of Education’s rule taking effect on 1 July 2026 limits graduate borrowing to $50,000 for “professional” degrees and $20,500 for all other graduate programs. The change eliminates Grad PLUS loans and tightens Parent PLUS caps. Although the regulation cites health‑related fields, the caps apply

Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS Release AI Tools That Slash Costs, Boost Productivity

Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS Release AI Tools That Slash Costs, Boost Productivity

TL;DR * Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5, a transformer model cutting tokens by 4.5× and boosting coding accuracy, lowering API costs and speeding developer workflows. * MBZUAI releases world model PAN, using 200‑billion‑parameter transformer trained on 1 T video clips, enabling per‑frame scene prediction and future

AI‑Driven GPUs Poised to 100× Data Center Compute Power by 2025

AI‑Driven GPUs Poised to 100× Data Center Compute Power by 2025

Industry‑wide GPU spending is projected at $500 B for 2025‑26, feeding a $3‑4 T AI‑infrastructure budget through 2030. Major hyperscalers have lengthened depreciation from three to five years, with some vendors extending to six years. Extending asset life by 2‑3× translates into an estimated $7

U.S. Rolls Back Nuclear Moratorium, Initiates New Peace Plan with Ukraine

U.S. Rolls Back Nuclear Moratorium, Initiates New Peace Plan with Ukraine

TL;DR * CISA expands election security guidance amid workforce cuts and budget reductions. * U.S. announces renewed nuclear testing after 25-year moratorium, citing deterrence. * US and Ukraine negotiate new peace plan with U.S.-draft provisions, including troop limits and amnesty. U.S. Nuclear Testing Resumption: A Dangerous Reset of

Gemini 3 Pro Hits 45.1% ARC‑AGI‑2, GPT‑5.1 Debuts Fewer Hallucinations

Gemini 3 Pro Hits 45.1% ARC‑AGI‑2, GPT‑5.1 Debuts Fewer Hallucinations

TL;DR * Gemini 3 Pro achieves record‑breaking 45.1% ARC‑AGI‑2 benchmark score * OpenAI releases GPT‑5.1 with improved reasoning and fewer hallucinations with superior coding, math, and vision performance over GPT‑4.5 * Fello AI integrates GPT‑5.1 for instant summarization of Office documents Gemini

Cyber Threats Surge: Data Breaches, Election Vigilance, Quantum Hysteria

Cyber Threats Surge: Data Breaches, Election Vigilance, Quantum Hysteria

TL;DR * Cyberattack on vendor SitusAMC exposes Social Security numbers of mortgage clients of major U.S. banks. * Hostile nations plan to use quantum computers to breach encryption, forcing U.S. firewall upgrades by 2029. * CISA warns state and local election officials to tighten cyber defenses amid rising disinformation threats.