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The AI race between the United States and China is drawing renewed attention, and by most credible measures, America still holds the lead. But the domestic conversation has drifted — focused on data centers, job displacement fears, and safety debates — while the geopolitical dimension quietly shapes the stakes underneath all of it.
Shifting from geopolitics to deep space, the BepiColombo mission — a joint effort between the European and Japanese space agencies — has reached a critical milestone after nearly eight years of travel. Engineers have jettisoned the Mercury Transfer Module that powered the journey, and the spacecraft is now beginning its final glide toward Mercury. Controllers confirmed a preliminary signal shortly after separation, a small but tense moment of relief for a mission years in the making.
And for developers, Bun has released version one point four point two, the latest update to the JavaScript runtime that's been positioning itself as a faster alternative to Node. Each incremental release matters in this space — developer tooling is a slow trust game, and Bun continues building its case one performance improvement at a time.
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