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Saturday, September 26, 2026
SaturnDaily Apr 26, 2026 (SPX)

Dragonfly Structure Takes Shape as Parachute and Chemistry Lab Tests Advance

The fuselage panels that form Dragonfly's body were recently delivered to APL, where engineers began assembling the structure in early April. Designed at APL and manufactured by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, the panel...

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SaturnDaily Apr 11, 2026 (AFP)
After Artemis II, NASA looks to SpaceX, Blue Origin for Moon landings

The Apollo program -- which sent the first and only humans to the Moon's surface between 1969 and 1972 -- was designed so that onl...

SinoDaily Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
US, China buy time with trade truce as pressure builds

Washington and Beijing may have bought themselves breathing space with an extended trade truce, but analysts warn that time is run...

SinoDaily Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
China, US to open AI 'communication channel' after summit

China and the United States agreed to set up a "communication channel" for artificial intelligence incidents, the White House said...

RoboDaily Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
TikTok to pay Alabama $100 mn under pre-trial settlement

TikTok on Friday agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and enact limits for teen users, avoiding a trial set to begin next w...

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RoboDaily HIGHTECH Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
OpenAI says its AI agents posted user images online in error

OpenAI acknowledged Friday that its artificial intelligence tools had posted images from ChatGPT users onto online sites without the company's knowledge, the latest example of AI a...

RoboDaily HIGHTECH Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
TikTok agrees to teen limits in US settlement following Meta

TikTok on Friday agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and enact time limits and other restrictions for teen users, avoiding trial with a settlement modeled on Instagram-owne...

RoboDaily CHINA Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
China says it 'respects' Trump's 'super intelligence' switch from AI

China "respects" Washington's switch in phrasing from artificial intelligence to "super intelligence", the foreign ministry said on Saturday, after Donald Trump said Xi Jinping app...

PolicyDaily MILITARY Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
At UN, Saudi FM warns world failing to protect Gulf shipping

Saudi Arabia warned UN members Saturday that attempts to block Middle East waterways are a threat to global energy security and demanded the international community do more to defe...

PolicyDaily MILITARY Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Iran proposes Hormuz plan, Trump reportedly refuses

Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said Friday, but within hours reports indicated that US President Donald Trump rejected the proposal.

PolicyDaily MILITARY Sep 26, 2026 (AFP)
Iran president says supreme leader backs new plan to reopen Hormuz

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran's new plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz was coordinated with supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, state media reported Satur...

DarwinDaily Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina

A bacterial infection is suspected of killing hundreds of baby whales in the southern Argentine region of Pata...

DarwinDaily Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Guatemala ensures survival of vulnerable 'fossil' fish

In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars -- a torpe...

DarwinDaily Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
World ignoring UN request for El Nino disaster fund: FAO

The UN has received just one-fifth of the $202 million requested to prepare for food crises caused by El Nino ...

DisasterDay Sep 25, 2026 (AFP)
Hurricane Nolo watch issued for Hawaii's Big Island

Hurricane Nolo strengthened Thursday, with heavy rainfall threatening "catastrophic" flooding on Hawaii's Big ...