Latest Disruptive Technology News & Analysis

Starlink is one of those products you only notice when it saves you. A wildfire knocks out fiber, a storm takes down towers, a ship is days from port, a drone team needs bandwidth where there isn’t any.

Masimo (MASI) stock jumped 34% after Danaher (DHR) agreed to buy the company for $9.9B in cash, offering $180 per share.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 marks Anthropic’s second major AI model release after Claude Cowork in under two weeks, and it is now the default brain inside its chatbot for free and Pro users.

Energy company Valar Atomics just flew a high temperature gas cooled reactor from California to Utah on a C 17 military transport. No fuel in the core, no radioactive material on board.

Meta (META) just doubled down on Nvidia (NVDA). The company will deploy millions of Nvidia AI chips across its U.S. data centers under a sweeping new agreement announced Tuesday.

Not in the “AI writes nicer emails” way. In the “AI can now actually do real pieces of someone’s job on its own” way. That’s the kind of progress that doesn’t go viral on social media.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its AI arm xAI are in a secret Pentagon contest to advance AI military technology by building autonomous drone swarms that respond to voice commands.

Alibaba (BABA) just dropped Qwen3.5. A new family of AI models built for smarter, more autonomous agents. 

Photonic and TELUS just teleported quantum information across 19 miles of a live commercial fibre network. Not in a lab. Not on special test cable. 

China just turned its biggest television event into a humanoid robot demo. At this year’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala, humanoid robots headlined comedy sketches and took the center stage. 

AI’s power problem is getting less abstract by the week. Training runs and inference fleets are scaling faster than transmission lines, gas turbines, and permitting calendars.

Bitcoin’s core developers just took a formal step toward making the network quantum resistant. Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360, or BIP 360, has been merged into the official BIP repository. 

SpaceX just launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on an eight month mission. Its 12th long duration crew flight for NASA since 2020. 

Helion Energy says it just hit 150 million degrees Celsius inside its Polaris fusion prototype, marking a major fusion energy milestone.

ByteDance is scrambling to bolt safeguards onto its AI video generator as the AI movie boom collides with Hollywood’s copyright machine.

You can feel the mood shift in how people talk about work right now. It’s less “AI will help” and more “ Will AI take our jobs?”

Infleqtion is teaming up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to launch the first standalone quantum gravity sensor into low Earth orbit around 2030.

Waymo has begun deploying its sixth-generation driverless system in a new robotaxi called Ojai, now carrying employees and their guests in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Trucking and logistics stocks sold off hard after Algorhythm Holdings (RIME) unveiled its AI freight platform SemiCab.

Elon Musk says X Money will launch in a limited external beta within one to two months. The payments system is already running in a closed beta inside the company.

You’re going to hear a lot this year about “the phone killer.” It won’t look like a slab. It’ll look like something you already wear, and it’ll talk back.

Upside Robotics just raised $7.5 million to accelerate agricultural robotics and attack one of agriculture’s dumbest inefficiencies.

EssilorLuxottica just reported that sales of its Meta (META) AI glasses more than tripled in 2025, hitting 7 million units. That is up from a combined 2 million units across 2023 and 2024.

Real estate services stocks just got hammered on fresh AI anxiety. CBRE Group Inc. (CBRE) and Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL) dropped about 12% in a single session. 

China just pulled ahead of the United States in humanoid robotics startups. Barely. 23 companies to America’s 22. And in 2025 alone, investors poured 2.65 billion dollars into humanoid robotics.

China’s AI chip story just got a new character. ByteDance is reportedly developing an in-house AI chip and is talking with Samsung about manufacturing and even memory supply.

Amazon (AMZN) just got the green light to expand its LEO satellites fleet, flooding low Earth orbit with 4,500 more spacecraft.

Vitalik Buterin wants to stop the AGI arms race and reroute AI through Ethereum. In a post on X, the Vitalik Buterin rejected the framing of “working on AGI” as if it were a finish line.

Alibaba (BABA) just open sourced a robotics AI model called RynnBrain, built to power machines that can see, understand, and act in the physical world.

ByteDance is building its own AI chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture it. The TikTok parent wants sample chips by the end of March.