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Could Airlines Start Hedging Fuel Much More Aggressively?
The 2026 jet fuel spike caught most U.S. carriers under-hedged after a decade of drawing down hedge books, and the pain is reigniting demand for fuel derivatives. But hedging a backwardated market after the shock starts is expensive, and…
A $1.2 trillion state allowance is stunting America’s growth
The U.S. government has become states’ piggy bank.
For the 250th, quiet contemplation of the document that started it all
These unvarnished but unbiased exhibits on the Declaration of Independence deserve a visit.
NASA + IBM Have Built an AI Foundation Model for the Moon — Could Every Planet Eventually Get Its Own AI Model?
NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI foundation model trained on lunar imagery, built to turn raw orbital photographs into labeled maps of craters, boulders and terrain hazards. It is a working example of a new category —…
How colleges can adapt to a shrinking market
They’ve aimed at the same model so long, they're almost interchangeable.
I’m Nebraska’s attorney general. No state can dictate the law for America.
Colorado’s climate regulations would undermine the sovereignty of other states.
Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's…
The Fuel That Feeds Europe’s Far Right: Nostalgia and Lost Pride
The populist emphasis on national identity and threats to it, real and imagined, finds a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand.
Can Nuclear + Batteries + Renewables Actually Support Gigawatt-Scale AI Campuses?
No single power source can serve a one-gigawatt data center load — the stack is the strategy. Nuclear supplies baseload under PPA-style deals like the Three Mile Island restart, batteries bridge the ramping, renewables add energy volume,…
Who Owns Resources Mined on the Moon?
The Outer Space Treaty bans any nation from claiming the Moon, yet the United States and Luxembourg have passed laws granting their citizens rights to what they extract. With Artemis-era landers heading for the same polar ice deposits, the…
NASA Is Testing Fleets of AI-Controlled Robots — Is Swarm Exploration the Future of Space Science?
NASA has field-tested three small autonomous rovers that coordinated with each other and explored terrain without direct human control. The CADRE experiment is a working demonstration of swarm robotics — and an argument that many cheap…
Why Jet Fuel Could Become Aviation's Next Major Cost Problem.
Jet fuel cracks have blown out to multi-year highs as refinery strikes and the crude surge compound, and fuel is a fifth to a third of every airline's cost base. The industry has absorbed fuel shocks before, but the arithmetic of…
Could Synthetic Diesel Become Economically Competitive During Prolonged Oil Shocks?
Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuels have only penciled without subsidies when crude sits above roughly $100 a barrel — a threshold the SASOL precedent proved survivable for decades. With prolonged $100-plus oil scenarios back on the table and…
US and China discuss AI safety plan ahead of Trump-Xi summit
Top US and Chinese officials held talks in New York on Sunday ahead of a Trump-Xi summit this week.
Albania Becomes the 73rd Artemis Accords Nation ' Is a New International Space Order Forming Around the Moon?
Albania's signature as the 73rd Artemis Accords nation in 2026 pushed the U.S.-led lunar governance framework past another symbolic milestone. The question is no longer how many countries have signed, but whether the accords are quietly…
Could Modular Refineries Become Economically Viable Again?
At $100-plus oil and multi-year-high fuel cracks, small skid-mounted refineries are once again promising local supply at a low entry price. The scale economics that made them marginal the last time have not gone away, but war-driven supply…
Will Autonomous Scientific Robots Eventually Outnumber Human Scientists in the Field?
Cheap autonomous sensors, gliders, drones and rovers are quietly replacing the expensive human expedition as the default way science gets done in the field. A U.S. Air Force research leader argues the shift will democratize and…
One Issue That Could Upend Fragile U.S.-China Ties: Taiwan Arms
As Beijing presses President Trump to freeze a proposed $14 billion weapons sale to the island, Taiwan is trying to show that its security is in U.S. interests.
Should the U.S. Maintain Dedicated Military Fuel Reserves Separate From Civilian Energy Stocks?
The Department of Defense is the single largest institutional fuel consumer in the United States, yet its war reserves sit in a policy shadow next to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. With the SPR drawn down near 1982-era lows and a…
Could $100 Oil Restart America's Shale Boom?
Brent crude is back near $100 after the Saudi pipeline attack briefly pushed it above $109, well above every major shale basin's breakeven. But the industry that would once have drilled headlong into that price no longer exists, and the…
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there…
The 'robot relations' department may become reality in workplace of the future
AI, from chatbots to humanoids and automated management systems, are being widely deployed by corporations with huge repercussions for worker pay and autonomy.
There’s a world war raging. You might be standing on the front lines.
Argentine ants have been fighting a global war for decades — and the logic looks uncannily human.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emerges as Trump's top ally in AI safety debate
Jensen Huang's position as the leader of the world's most valuable company, has earned him Trump's ear on the most important topics in AI.
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