Fireworks Tech in 2026 Is Chemistry, Drones, Lasers, and Mildly Patriotic Combustion Management

Fireworks tech in 2026 blends chemistry, drones, lasers, timecode, safety standards, and pollution science as America turns 250.

Vertex Expanded Casgevy to Age 2, and Boston's CRISPR Future Now Comes in Toddler Sizes

Vertex's July 1 FDA expansion makes Casgevy available to children ages 2 and up, a major Boston biotech milestone with real access hurdles.

Microsoft Frontier Company Turns AI Consulting Into a $2.5 Billion Contact Sport

Microsoft Frontier Company is a $2.5 billion bet on embedded AI engineering, customer-owned intelligence, and enterprise transformation with elbows.

TwelveLabs Raised $100 Million to Turn Every Video Archive Into a Nervous System

TwelveLabs raised $100 million to make video archives useful to AI. Serious tech, real enterprise demand, and enough ambition to index the planet's unlabeled footage.

American Technology at 250: The Best Invention From Every Decade Since 1776

A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.

Meta PCs Put SteamOS in a Wood-Trimmed Box and Called It Freedom

The $1,299 Steamroller turns SteamOS into a prebuilt desktop with upgradeable parts and living-room identity issues. More sensible than it sounds.

OpenClaw Put AI Agents on Your Phone. The Lobster Still Needs Adult Supervision.

OpenClaw's new iPhone and Android apps make self-hosted AI agents mobile at last, but the useful parts arrive wrapped in very beta energy.

Cloudflare Turned AI Search Into a Metered Utility for Publishers

Cloudflare wants AI search to stop freeloading on the open web. The idea is smart, the incentives are ugly, and the meter has finally appeared.

Flare Therapeutics Raised $85 Million to Drug Transcription Factors, Which Is Extremely Cambridge

Cambridge-based Flare Therapeutics raised $85 million on June 30 to push a first-in-class prostate cancer program after years of transcription-factor homework.

Claude Fable 5 Is Back, So Please Ask It Something Deeply Useless

Claude Fable 5 has finally returned. Here are 10 magnificently boring questions to ask Anthropic's most dramatic public AI model first.

Open USD Turns Stablecoin Reserve Revenue Into a Group Project

Open USD is a new stablecoin backed by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, and 140-plus partners that shares reserve revenue.

Google Turned Gemini Into a Video Studio With a Meter Running

Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite make Google’s multimodal stack cheaper, faster, and much closer to an industrialized content machine.