The Daily Sift

6000 exoplanets, Mars life hints, Saturn’s mystery beads, a comet on approach. The cosmos is alive—are we near first contact?

Bitcoin’s $100K streak, ETH’s Dec upgrade, U.S. stablecoin law, CBDC ban vs EU push, DOGE & XRP ETFs break records, China halts tokenization, Nigeria taxes crypto, AI tokens soar while memes fade. Institutions piling in.

• Dark energy isn’t constant after all: DESI’s 3‑year survey of nearly 15 million galaxies hints that the mysterious energy accelerating cosmic expansion is weakening with time . The data show the influence of dark energy may be decaying , suggesting the universe’s fate might be very different from the eternal acceleration once predicted • A baby planet caught in the act: Using the MagAO‑X adaptive optics system, astronomers captured the first clear image of WISPIT 2b—a five‑Jupiter‑mass prot...

From cancer vaccines to brain-to-speech BCIs, 2025 wellness is about precision, prevention, and everyday hacks.

AI heats up: Sora 2 app, Claude 4.5’s coding streak, Nvidia Newton, Zoox robotaxis, Cerebras’ $1.1B raise. Robotics is accelerating fast.

From Willow to cat qubits, 2025 proves error-corrected quantum is real. Exponential scaling is here. How soon until mainstream?

Ethereum upgraded, banks launch stablecoins, ETFs flood in, Ripple settles with SEC. The new era of crypto is here.

IBM qLDPC, Google Willow, Quantinuum 50 qubits, IonQ 2M plan. Quantum leaps in error correction, scale and speedups bring mainstream closer.

Nvidia’s Jetson Thor lands, Sora goes free via Bing, Figure raises $1B, Tesla signs 10K Optimus deal. RoboBallet arms dance, Euclyd hits exascale, UK unveils humanoid HMND 01. AI + robotics momentum is surging.

Quantum is crossing from theory to reality: IBM’s Starling aims at fault-tolerance, Google’s Willow shows exponential error suppression, IonQ beats classical on real design, and Oxford links processors via photons. 2025 is quantum’s inflection point.

How a KGB operative turned the collapse of the Soviet Union into a blueprint for dismantling the West from within

TikTok ban delayed AI art viral X tests new tools Snapchat charges for memories 2025 social media is shifting fast.