Ben Lamm says gene drives can curb a $5.4 trillion invasive‑species problem; safety and regulatory questions remain. The pitch puts Dallas biotech at the center of a fraught debate.

A Manhattan federal judge refused to dismiss a class action accusing CNN of sharing visitors’ browsing data with adtech firms, keeping alive a test of California’s pen‑register law.

Three former OpenAI Stargate leaders are joining Meta as the company rolls out Muse Spark and hikes infrastructure spending.

The IAB filed an amicus brief backing Seattle Children’s in a Washington Supreme Court case that asks whether routine website tracking can be treated as illegal wiretapping.

Anthropic will run parts of Claude on CoreWeave’s Nvidia‑powered cloud as it scales. The multiyear tie‑up gives Anthropic capacity while it builds $50B in U.S. data centers.

Synchrotron scans show Pohlsepia mazonensis, long billed as the world’s oldest octopus, is actually a nautiloid — reshaping cephalopod history.

A UC Davis–linked accelerator at Aggie Square will back 30 startups over three years with roughly $250,000 per company. Applications are due Friday.

CIA deputy director says analysts will get AI "co‑workers" to draft judgments, flag trends and speed reporting while humans keep final say.

Photos show damage to Blue Origin’s Merritt Island test building and have raised questions about the NG‑3 New Glenn launch schedule. Officials are still assessing the impact.

A University of Miami randomized trial found liraglutide given before ablation raised one‑year AF‑free rates to 81% vs 54%, suggesting effects beyond weight loss.

Case Western Reserve tapped Susan Hagness, a UW–Madison electrical engineer, as the Case School of Engineering's first woman dean; she starts July 1, 2026.

Thirty venture firms have soft‑committed about $240M to a new CMU program pairing researchers with investors and six months of mentorship. The push aims to move lab projects into investable deep‑tech startups.

Andy Jassy says Amazon’s roughly $200B push into AI is backed by customer commitments, not a gamble. He argues the spending is a long‑term play for AWS and chips.