Kimi K3 is a frontier-scale, multimodal artificial-intelligence model developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI (Beijing Moonshot AI Technology Co., Ltd.). Moonshot AI was founded in 2023 by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, and Wu Yuxin, with Yang serving as chief executive. Yang’s background includes research at Tsinghua University and Carnegie Mellon University, where he contributed to long-context model architectures such as Transformer-XL and XLNet. Moonshot introduced Kimi K3 on July 14, 2026, and provides access through its official developer platform and documentation.

The Federal Communications Commission has announced a potentially important expansion of direct-to-device satellite communications: a proposal to examine whether wireless products operating in certain unlicensed frequency bands—including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Internet of Things sensors, medical equipment, wireless microphones, automobile controls, and other devices governed by the FCC’s Part 15 rules—could communicate directly with satellites. The proposal would also clarify when Part 15 equipment may be operated aboard FCC-authorized spacecraft and potentially between spacecraft.

This article is based on the Rohde & Schwarz application brief 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks: Key Challenges—Technology and Test Considerations for NR-NTN and NTN-Advanced. The paper provides the technical framework for understanding how satellites and high-altitude platforms can be incorporated into standardized 5G networks, why these systems behave differently from conventional cellular networks, and how engineers must test them.

On July 15, 2026, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first general-purpose foundation model and one of the largest open-weights artificial-intelligence models yet made publicly available. Inkling is designed not merely as another chatbot, but as a broad, multimodal reasoning engine that companies, universities, research laboratories and software developers can download, operate, fine-tune and adapt to their own work.

Artificial intelligence is currently dominated by systems built through large-scale pretraining. Frontier models absorb enormous collections of text, images, software code, audio, and video before they are deployed. Once trained, they can generate remarkably sophisticated responses, but their central learned parameters ordinarily remain largely fixed during everyday use. They can process new information placed in a prompt, retrieve current material from databases, and use external tools, yet they do not normally reconstruct their internal knowledge continuously from every experience.

In the rolling industrial landscape of Upstate South Carolina, a new facility in Fountain Inn is quietly reshaping the backbone of America’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. EPC Power has opened a 167,000-square-foot manufacturing plant at 111 Southchase Boulevard, bringing advanced power-conversion technology production to Greenville County and strengthening a rapidly expanding regional ecosystem of electrical manufacturing.

Every generation has its “technology of fear.” In the early days of electricity, people feared power lines. Later it was radio towers, microwave ovens, bar codes, RFID tags, and cellular networks. Today the subjects have expanded to include nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, Wi-Fi sensing, smart streetlights, automatic license plate readers, and smart city infrastructure. Tomorrow it will almost certainly be another emerging technology that most people have never heard of until it suddenly appears in a viral social media post.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most strategically important technologies of the twenty-first century. It is transforming medicine, engineering, manufacturing, scientific research, education, national defense, cybersecurity, transportation, robotics, and nearly every sector of the economy. Decisions made during the next few years will influence American competitiveness for decades.

Deep Fission, Inc., headquartered in Berkeley, California, is an advanced nuclear energy company developing a fundamentally different approach to deploying small modular nuclear reactors by installing them approximately one mile underground inside deep engineered boreholes. The company’s website is ⁠Deep Fission.

The Strait of Hormuz became the center of the U.S.–Israel war with Iran during the week ending Sunday, July 12, 2026. What began as a dispute over navigation routes and Iranian control of shipping escalated into three major rounds of American strikes, renewed Iranian attacks on neighboring countries, severe disruption to commercial traffic and an increasingly dangerous test of whether Iran can use the world’s energy supply as leverage against the United States.