THE TICKER[ORBIT] NASA asked companies how they could boost, service or safely deorbit the Hubble Space Telescope, with answers due Nov. 30.[ORBIT] The James Webb Space Telescope released an infrared picture of the "Cat's Head" Nebula, a cloud of gas in the Carina Nebula shaped by nearby giant stars.[LAUNCH] India's GSLV-F18 rocket launched the NVS-03 navigation satellite from Sriharikota at 2:21 PM ET Friday, and ISRO says it reached its intended orbit.[LAUNCH] Turkey aims to launch its first Moon orbiter, TLM-1, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 between April and June 2027.[LAUNCH] Europe's Callisto, a test rocket built to land and fly again, began ground tests in French Guiana ahead of a first flight in 2027.[LAUNCH] The U.S. government spent $42.6 billion on non-military space in fiscal 2026, down $1.6 billion, with NASA getting 55%, the Aerospace Corporation found.[AIR] Joby flew its electric air taxi from St. Petersburg's Albert Whitted Airport to Tampa International, the route of the first scheduled airline flight in 1914.[AIR] Beta Technologies' electric Alia airplane also flew the 1914 St. Petersburg to Tampa route this week, making 26 flights in 3 days on about $300 of electricity, WUSF reports.[AI] Workers who lost jobs exposed to AI since 2025 took about a month longer to find new work than other laid-off workers, a Goldman Sachs economist found.[AI] Cursor says tampered copies of Anthropic's Claude Code add-on were in its app store for about 11 hours on Oct. 29 and could let an attacker into a computer; Anthropic says its own systems were not breached.[WILD] Humanoid robot maker Agility Robotics expects about $465 million and plans to start trading on Nasdaq as AGLT on Nov. 5. Not investment advice.[WILD] China's biggest computer memory maker, CXMT, reported 54.4 billion yuan in quarterly profit, with revenue up 613% from a year ago. Not investment advice.[WILD] Intel shares fell 28.6% Friday after it forecast $15 billion to $16 billion in sales for next quarter, below what analysts expected. Not investment advice.[MED] The FDA approved new labels for three more estradiol hormone patches without the old boxed warnings about heart disease, breast cancer and dementia.[MED] The FDA approved Sun Pharma's Ilumya for adults with active psoriatic arthritis, a painful joint disease linked to the skin condition psoriasis.[MED] HHS posted a draft policy that would let pharmacies mix six peptides that are not FDA approved, including BPC-157, under strict conditions; comments run for two weeks.[MED] The FDA approved NRx Pharmaceuticals' preservative-free generic ketamine injection, a drug on the shortage list since 2018.[MED] The FDA approved Inovio's Voceryq, the first DNA-based immunotherapy for adults with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, airway growths that often need surgery again and again.[DEF] The Navy's ship buyer TOTE Services picked Hanwha Philly Shipyard to build the first Landing Ship Medium for $269 million, with options for 3 more.[DEF] The Pentagon said its military intelligence budget for fiscal 2026 was $30.9 billion.[DEF] A Pentagon official said private partners could help pay to make U.S. bases able to run 30 to 90 days without outside power.[DEF] Allen Control Systems and CX2 will combine a robotic gun turret with radio jamming to stop small drones.[POLICY] Britain's competition regulator opened an investigation into Meta's terms that would let it use publishers' website content for its own products, including AI.[POLICY] New York Sen. Andrew Gounardes proposed bill S10731, which would let a new state office limit the computing power used to train the biggest AI models, with fines up to $1 million a day.[POLICY] Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Nvidia's board for answers after a New York Times report that a suspected Chinese intelligence asset grew close to CEO Jensen Huang; Nvidia says related claims were debunked.[TOKEN] Uber parked cash over a weekend in Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund using HSBC tokenized deposits, earning about 1.5 extra days of interest. Not investment advice.[TOKEN] Crypto exchange Binance lost about $6.3 billion in a hack; partners have frozen about $3 billion of it, and Binance aims to restart withdrawals Sunday. Not investment advice.[TOKEN] Coinbase is converting 14 stablecoins that do not meet the EU's MiCA rules, including USDT, to USDC in European customers' accounts starting today. Not investment advice.[TOKEN] Tether reported $1.5 billion in profit for the quarter, with about $183 billion of its USDT stablecoin in circulation and $132 billion in U.S. Treasury bills behind it. Not investment advice.
LONGEVITYLife expectancy gained +0.6 yearsEscape velocity, our estimate 2036SN DATAOrbital launches YTD 253Top AI score 59 (Gemini 4 Carbon)Tokenized assets $39.6B
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The Week No. 1

The Week: AI Goes Public and Goes Free, a Moon Rocket Stands Up, and Cancer Drugs Buy Real Time

Covers Saturday, October 24, 2026, 12:00 PM ET to Friday, October 30, 2026, 6:00 PM ET

Our first weekly look back: the AI company behind Claude filed to sell shares, the smartest AI changed hands twice, the next Moon rocket stood up, new cancer drugs gave patients months and years, and air taxis and drones moved closer to everyday life.

Edited by Dennis W. Davis. AI-assisted; see How We Make This.

In 60 Seconds

  • AI had a huge week: Anthropic, the maker of Claude, filed to sell shares to the public, Google said its new Gemini 4 Carbon is now the top scoring AI, and France's Mistral gave away one of the biggest AI models ever made for anyone to download.
  • NASA stood up the giant core of the rocket for the next crewed Moon mission, asked companies how to keep the Hubble telescope flying, and astronauts unrolled a new solar wing on the space station.
  • Medicine kept delivering: an FDA approval for advanced prostate cancer, a head and neck cancer drug that cut the risk of death in half in a big trial, and a faster proposed path for gene-editing cures made for one patient.
  • The future of getting around came closer: an electric air taxi flew the route of the world's first airline, and drones won the right to use cellphone airwaves.

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Lead Signal

AI's big week: one maker goes public, the top score changes hands, and a giant model goes free

A scene from a world generated by Google DeepMind's Genie 4
Genie 4 turns a written description into an explorable world. Google DeepMind

On Monday, Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI, made public its filing to sell shares on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. It showed $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026, up from $1.16 billion a year earlier (our Monday edition). On Tuesday, OpenAI and Anthropic each said their AI found a disproof of a famous 1999 assumption in computer science; experts are still checking the work (Tuesday). On Wednesday, Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which independent tester Artificial Analysis then confirmed as the top scoring AI at 59, one point above Claude Opus 5.5; Google gave it first to cyber defenders (Wednesday). On Thursday, Mistral released Mistral Large 4, about 1 trillion The settings an AI model learns during training. More parameters usually means a bigger, more capable model. In the Glossary, as An AI model whose trained settings, called weights, are published so anyone can download it and run it on their own computers. It is like publishing the recipe, not just selling the dish. In the Glossary anyone can download (Thursday).

Disclosure: Singularity Nightly is drafted with help from Anthropic's Claude. We cover Anthropic like any other company.

The Desks

[AI] AI Models

Two AI labs say they knocked down a famous rule of computing

Illustration: a glowing green grid of on and off switches with one bright path cutting through it
A giant puzzle of on and off switches, and a shortcut through it. Illustration: Singularity Nightly (AI-generated)

OpenAI and Anthropic each said their AI found a method that disproves the An assumption, proposed in 1999, that certain logic puzzles take so long to solve that adding a few more pieces doubles the work. Two AI labs now claim it is false. In the Glossary, a 1999 assumption about how hard certain logic puzzles are, TechCrunch reports. The hypothesis's own authors and MIT's Ryan Williams are leading an open review, and neither result is confirmed yet. More in Tuesday's edition.

Disclosure: Singularity Nightly is drafted with help from Anthropic's Claude. We cover Anthropic like any other company.

[LAUNCH] Launch and Orbit

NASA stands up the rocket for the next crewed Moon mission

The Artemis III SLS core stage being joined to its solid rocket boosters inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building
Teams join the Artemis III core stage to its boosters inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, Oct. 26. NASA/Frank Michaux

Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, teams placed the 212-foot core stage of the NASA's program to send astronauts back to the Moon, using the Orion capsule and landers built by SpaceX and Blue Origin. In the Glossary III rocket between its twin The first and largest stage of a rocket, which gives the push for liftoff. SpaceX and others now land their boosters and fly them again. In the Glossary. The same week, ULA set Nov. 13 for its Vulcan rocket's A rocket's first launch after it was grounded for a problem or an investigation. In the Glossary, SpaceX test-fired all 33 engines of its Starship booster, and India launched NVS-03 for its own GPS-style navigation system. See Wednesday and Friday.

[ORBIT] Satellites and Orbit

NASA asks companies how to keep Hubble flying

The Hubble Space Telescope floating above Earth after astronauts released it from the space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009
Hubble above Earth in May 2009, just after the fifth and last shuttle servicing mission. NASA

NASA asked industry for ideas to boost the 36 year old Hubble Space Telescope higher, service it, or bring it down safely. It is slowly sinking and could fall back around 2033 to 2034, so a rescue would need to fly by about 2032; answers are due Nov. 30. On Thursday, two astronauts also unrolled a new solar wing on the space station on a 7 hour When astronauts in spacesuits leave their spacecraft to work outside it. In the Glossary. See Thursday and Friday.

[AIR] Air Mobility

An air taxi flies the route of the world's first airline, 112 years later

Joby's electric air taxi flying over Tampa
Joby's electric air taxi flying over Tampa on Oct. 29. Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation flew its electric air taxi from St. Petersburg to Tampa International Airport in about 10 minutes, the route of the first scheduled airline flight in 1914. Earlier in the week the FCC voted to let drones use cellphone airwaves, and a small Electra airplane landed on a Manhattan helipad. See Thursday and Friday.

[MED] Medicine

Cancer drugs that buy real time

Illustration: a Y-shaped antibody grips two points on a glowing cell
An antibody built to grab two targets on a cancer cell at once. Illustration: Singularity Nightly (AI-generated)

Genmab said its drug petosemtamab, given with Keytruda, cut the risk of death by 50% for people with advanced head and neck cancer in a large trial. The FDA approved talazoparib with enzalutamide for a gene-matched form of advanced prostate cancer, and proposed a faster path for gene-editing treatments built for one patient. See Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

[DEF] Defense

A hypersonic missile goes into production, and the Navy orders a new landing ship

An artist's rendering of the Navy's Landing Ship Medium
An artist's view of the Landing Ship Medium, from TOTE Services and Hanwha Defense USA. TOTE Services / Hanwha Defense USA

The Air Force gave Lockheed Martin a $694 million production contract for its ARRW Faster than five times the speed of sound, roughly 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) an hour, the speed of a new class of missiles and test aircraft. In the Glossary missile, and the Navy's builder picked Hanwha Philly Shipyard for the first Landing Ship Medium at $269 million. See Tuesday and Friday.

[POLICY] Law and Policy

New York sets rules for AI chatbots that talk with kids

Illustration: a glowing shield stands between a green chat bubble and a tablet on a child's desk
New rules for AI chatbots that talk with children. Illustration: Singularity Nightly (AI-generated)

New York signed a law that stops AI chatbots from pretending to be a person or claiming a romantic relationship with users under 18, with fines up to $25,000 for each violation. Thursday, the FCC also voted to stop labs in China from testing electronics sold in the U.S. See Wednesday and Thursday.

[TOKEN] Tokenized Assets

The company behind nearly every U.S. trade turns stocks and bonds into tokens

Illustration: a stone vault door dissolves into streams of glowing green cubes
Traditional securities stepping onto a blockchain. Illustration: Singularity Nightly (AI-generated)

The company that settles and keeps the official records for most U.S. stock and bond trades. Its subsidiary DTC holds the securities. In the Glossary, which holds more than $114 trillion in securities for the U.S. market, launched its Tokenization Service with 20 big firms signed on, including Bank of America, JPMorgan and In quantum computing, a score from 0 to 1 for how close a result is to the perfect one. In the Glossary. Tokenized In blockchain finance, a traditional asset that exists outside the blockchain, such as a Treasury bill, a loan or a building, represented by a token on one. Often shortened to RWA. In the Glossary reached $39.56 billion by Friday, per RWA.xyz. See Wednesday. Not investment advice.

[WILD] Wildcard

Robots head for jobs and for the stock market

Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robot holding a grey crate
Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robot, from the company's press materials. Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit warehouse robot, expects to raise about $465 million and start trading on Nasdaq as AGLT on Nov. 5. Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million for self-driving excavators. See Monday and Friday. Not investment advice.

By the Numbers

  • $16.3 billion: Anthropic's revenue in the first half of 2026. SEC filing
  • 59: the top score on the A combined score from Artificial Analysis, an independent testing company, that ranks AI models across many reasoning, knowledge, math and coding tests. Higher is better. In the Glossary, Gemini 4 Carbon. Artificial Analysis
  • About 1 trillion: parameters in Mistral Large 4, free to download. Mistral
  • 253: orbital launch attempts worldwide in 2026 through Oct. 30. Launch Library 2
  • 50%: lower risk of death with petosemtamab plus Keytruda in head and neck cancer. Genmab
  • 47: novel drugs approved by the FDA in 2026. FDA
  • $39.56 billion: tokenized real-world assets, excluding A digital token designed to stay worth a fixed amount, usually one U.S. dollar, backed by cash and safe assets such as Treasury bills. In the Glossary. RWA.xyz Not investment advice.

Next Week's Watchlist

  • Sun Nov. 1: clocks fell back one hour; times below are Eastern Standard Time.
  • Mon Nov. 2: Apple reports quarterly results; Agility Robotics shareholder vote.
  • Mon Nov. 2, 8:42 PM ET: Falcon 9 launches the USSF-432 Space Force mission from Vandenberg.
  • Wed Nov. 4, 5:00 PM ET: Joby Aviation reports results.
  • Thu Nov. 5: Agility Robotics expected to begin trading as AGLT; the final A thin, flexible solar panel that unrolls like a carpet to add power to the space station. In the Glossary spacewalk at the space station.
  • Fri Nov. 6 to Sun Nov. 8: NASA's MAX POWER air show at Kennedy Space Center.
  • Coming up: Vulcan returns to flight Nov. 13; Hubble ideas due Nov. 30.