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Starting in Ukraine, Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that Starshield military satellite access is restored for Ukrainian forces. The system, built by Elon Musk's SpaceX, provides critical battlefield communications. Trump's intervention highlights just how deeply private technology infrastructure has become entangled in modern warfare diplomacy.
Shifting to the physics lab, scientists have trapped a single antimatter particle for an entire month, the first time that's ever been done. Antimatter annihilates on contact with ordinary matter, making containment extraordinarily difficult. Holding one stable for thirty days opens new possibilities for studying why matter dominates our universe at all.
And in the artificial intelligence world, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has revised his timeline for artificial general intelligence, now saying we could see it within two to three years, down from his previous estimate of five. Hassabis is not someone who deals in casual predictions, which makes the shortened window worth taking seriously, even as definitions of what AGI actually means remain genuinely contested.
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