Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that activates only 17B parameters per pass, beats rivals on instruction-following benchmarks, and ships at 1/18th the cost of Gemini 3 Pro.
Artemis III becomes an orbital test flight in 2027 as NASA restructures its lunar program to reduce risk and increase launch cadence.
Xiaomi's humanoid robots completed three hours of autonomous assembly work at its EV plant, hitting a 90.2 percent success rate and meeting the 76-second production cycle, as CEO Lei Jun pledges large-scale factory deployment within five years.
HashiCorp's March 31 deadline to kill its legacy free plan is pushing developers toward OpenTofu, Pulumi, and self-hosted alternatives as IBM's ownership tightens access to once-free tools.
GEL's United Downs facility drills 5km into granite to generate 3MW of constant power and extract battery-grade lithium — a UK first after two decades of development.
The Linux Foundation established AAIF on December 9, 2025, placing MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md under neutral open-source governance with eight platinum members including AWS, Google, and Microsoft.
Bungie's extraction shooter drew strong initial interest during its open beta but shed half its peak players in 48 hours as complaints about UI, ammo scarcity, and sparse PvP mounted ahead of the March 5 release.
A 300 MW Form Energy iron-air battery paired with 1.6 GW of wind and solar will power Google's new Pine Island data center, marking the largest energy storage project ever announced by capacity.
Operation Windlord flew Valar Atomics' Ward250 reactor from California to Utah on three C-17s, kicking off an executive-order sprint to power military bases and data centers with factory-built nuclear plants.
Google and Mandiant exposed UNC2814, a China-nexus threat actor that used a novel backdoor called GRIDTIDE to abuse Google Sheets as command-and-control infrastructure, breaching telecoms and government agencies across three continents since at least 2017.
CATL and BYD are mass-producing sodium-ion batteries for EVs and grid storage in 2026, driven by soaring lithium prices and abundant raw materials, while the West struggles to keep pace.
OpenAI's Pentagon deal sparked a consumer backlash that drove Anthropic's Claude to the top of Apple's App Store, before a surge in demand caused a worldwide outage.