NASA will outfit Orion with two Starlink mini laser terminals to downlink 4K imagery to Mission Control in Houston as part of the Artemis III relay demo.

A rare inside look shows a Chicago forensic lab using AI to spot deepfakes and new chemical methods to recover fingerprints. The work is being used to help investigators link organized‑crime cases.

Salk Institute professor Satchin Panda will step down on Aug. 13 after an internal review into a workplace misconduct complaint, the institute says.

Leaked Suno source code appears to document millions of scraped tracks and a customer list; affected users say they were not told after a November 2025 breach.

Corewell Health surgeons in Royal Oak say they completed the world’s first single‑port robotic mitral valve repair — a less invasive option that could shorten recovery.

A University of Miami study shows mtDNA deletions can keep expanding in dopamine neurons, offering a new clue about selective neuron loss in Parkinson’s.

Methodist’s Sarah Cannon program is expanding CAR‑T trials into autoimmune diseases while UTSA and SwRI prototype sensors to speed and cut the therapy’s costs.

Databricks signed a term sheet valuing the company at about $188 billion and is choosing another private raise over an immediate IPO. The capital will fuel enterprise AI products and give management more runway to time a public listing.

An LCME action means Belmont’s Frist College won’t advance for at least two years; the university says classes continue and refunds are available for withdrawals.

ARPA‑H has awarded St. Jude up to $28.5M to build an in‑vivo gene‑editing platform targeting inherited bone‑marrow failure disorders, with human trials aimed within three years.

Beijing startup Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3 — a 2.8T open‑weight AI model — at WAIC, rattling markets and forcing Silicon Valley to reassess the frontier.

Two federal suits accuse Denver‑based Frontier of leaving passenger and employee PII exposed after May‑June hacks; a security researcher had warned months earlier.

A Bay Area resident sued Apple in federal court, saying the company misled users about Hide My Email after researchers found a flaw that can expose real addresses.