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X-energy has hit a significant milestone in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, completing the main structure of its TX-one nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. The two hundred fourteen thousand square foot plant is designed to eventually produce seven hundred thousand TRISO fuel pebbles annually, and represents America's first new commercial-scale advanced nuclear fuel facility in decades. It signals a genuine shift in how the country is thinking about energy infrastructure.
On a quieter but practical note, if you use Google Maps inside CarPlay, you've probably noticed the friction — Apple doesn't allow third-party apps to serve as the default navigation option in most regions. There are workarounds, though, and knowing them can meaningfully reduce the distraction of switching apps while you're behind the wheel. Small quality-of-life improvements that actually matter in the moment.
And from the developer community, a new browser extension called Agenttab is making the rounds on Hacker News. It adds status icons to tabs running AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, giving developers a quick visual read on what each agent is doing without clicking through every open tab. It's modest in scope, but speaks to how seriously people are now managing multiple AI workflows simultaneously.
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