Japan's Hayabusa2 completed a successful July 5 flyby of asteroid Torifune, passing about 10 km away and returning first optical and thermal images that show a two-lobed contact binary.
UMA, the Paris startup led by former Tesla Optimus and Hugging Face engineer Rémi Cadène, has emerged from stealth to unveil Northstar, a lightweight humanoid robot aimed at European factories and warehouses.
Absentia Labs says its AI-driven Digital Liver Model is the first AI drug-development tool accepted into the FDA's ISTAND qualification pathway, at the Letter of Intent stage, to predict drug-induced liver injury.
The FTC voted 2-0 to open comment through July 31 on a proposed statement treating undisclosed ideological AI output-steering as deception and calling Colorado's AI Act impliedly preempted.
Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists with more than 60 curated skills, in beta to paid Claude subscribers, and said it has started an internal program to develop treatments for neglected diseases.
Infineon opened its €5 billion Smart Power Fab in Dresden on July 2, three months early, doubling its Dresden capacity and adding 1,000 jobs at what it calls the world's largest power-chip factory.
A vulnerability in third-party email software let attackers reach up to 14.2 million KDDI ISP logins; a later update put confirmed exposure at 12.23 million addresses and 7.61 million passwords.
AWS added an Express mode to CloudFormation that ends deployments once configuration is applied instead of waiting for resources to stabilize, available in all commercial Regions at no extra cost.
Nintendo will roll out revised hardware with swappable batteries in Europe and stop selling the original Switch family from mid-February 2027.
United Launch Alliance flew the last Atlas V 551 on July 2, ending the rocket's satellite-launching career; its six remaining vehicles are held for Boeing's Starliner as Amazon Leo pivots to Vulcan.
DriveNets unveiled two Broadcom Tomahawk 6-based AI fabric platforms, the liquid-cooled 2600SL and air-cooled 2601S, each carrying 64 ports of 1.6 Tb/s for 102.4 Tb/s of capacity.
The GPU cloud platform Runpod raised $100 million in a Summit Partners-led Series A that values it at $1 billion, saying it now serves more than one million AI developers.