Artificial intelligence coding agents are entering a new phase in which raw model intelligence is no longer the only metric that matters. For developers and businesses, the more important question is increasingly whether an AI system can solve difficult engineering problems accurately while minimizing unnecessary computation, latency, tool usage and cost. Cognition’s SWE-2 illustrates this shift. Built by the company behind Devin, SWE-2 is a reinforcement-learning post-trained coding model...

Weather forecasting is becoming an increasingly important proving ground for artificial intelligence. Unlike many AI applications, atmospheric prediction must operate within a system that is chaotic, highly interconnected, data-intensive, and constantly changing. A small error in the initial state of the atmosphere can grow rapidly, making accurate prediction especially difficult as the forecast horizon increases. Google’s WeatherNext 3 represents a significant step in the evolution of...

NASA is moving beyond simply reaching the Moon and toward building the technological infrastructure required to operate around it safely, autonomously, and repeatedly. At the center of that transition is CAPSTONE 02, a follow-on mission designed to demonstrate advanced spacecraft coordination, autonomous navigation, cislunar communications, and radiation monitoring in the complex environment surrounding the Moon. Targeted for launch in 2027, CAPSTONE 02 will use two identical small spacecraft...