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- First commercially-funded successful moon landing by Firefly’s Blue Ghost
- Massive US government cuts lead by Elon Musk
- DeepSeek and Manus AI Agent show China’s rapid progress on AI
- War in Ukraine and Sudan continues other regional tensions increase
- France, UK, others recognize Palestine State; Simi-cease fire in Gaza
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- Germany's fusion plant sets world record for sustain fusion for 43 seconds.
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- China has record $1 trillion trade surpluses despite tariff policies
- Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses for augmented reality (AR) commercialized
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- Job openings for software coders are beginning to fall.
- Quantum Computing is becoming practical: drug discovery and materials science
- Race to build data centers in orbit to save energy, cooling water, environ’al impacts
- Largest number of armed conflicts in history
- First G20 meeting held in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
- The first World Humanoid Robot Games were held in Beijing
- Direct air CO2 capture business star-ups begin.
- Trump starts Traffic Wars, cuts US Science 25-50% cuts USAID and UN dues
- Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica nearly 50% disintegrated in just two months.
- Renewables less costly than fossil fuels
- Agentic AI, local AI control (dual engine AI), S. Korea leading 6G race for 2028
- VR used to train medical surgeons
- Synthetic biology engineered bacteria to diagnose and treat disease.
- Structural battery composites, using structure of cars, planes, robots, for energy use.
- UN Security Council hold third session on AI as a national security issue
- Global warming continues 2015-2025 hottest decade, CO2 emissions record high
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro received 27-year prison sentence for leading coop attempt
- Japan elected Sanae Takaichi as its first female prime minister
- The first paraplegic to go into space on 9-minute trip on Blue Origin
- There were 321 rocket launches in 2025, of which Space X launched 172.
- Cell reprograming advances by tissue nanotransfection moves toward reverse aging
- Lab-grown cells restored brain function in aging mice.