The Pentagon announced on Thursday a new multimillion-dollar initiative for “maintaining American leadership” in quantum computing capabilities amid accelerating competition between the US and China over the military application of advanced technology. In a press release, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defence for Research and Engineering, which serves as the US Department of Defence’s chief technology adviser, announced that the new initiative, worth around US$350 million, is aimed at...

A Bitcoin stash worth about $29 when mined in 2010 has moved for the first time in roughly 16 years. The 100.02 BTC was transferred on October 7 and was worth around $8.3 million at the time, with the coins sent to two new addresses.

OpenAI’s annualized revenue reached about $50 billion at the end of September, nearly $20 billion below earlier reports. The update sent Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave shares lower, while new figures showed OpenAI’s revenue run rate had still grown more than 70% since the start of the third quarter.

What started as a village sport in rural China has made its way to the U.S., with this team of “aunties” teaching their unique form of basketball to young American athletes in Las Vegas.

The Moon has a new man-made crater. A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage struck the lunar surface on August 5, 2026, near Einstein Crater. NASA, South Korea’s Danuri orbiter and Earth-based telescopes tracked the impact. Scientists are now studying the debris and chemical clues to better understand lunar impacts.