Defense is going modular, and private capital is setting the terms
NATO's transformation chief says adoption, not invention, is the bottleneck. Launch capacity and power contracts show where the money is going.
Updated 2026-11-15 12:00 UTC
10 stories, 38 Manifests cited.
Artificial Intelligence
Research & Science
The climate models agree on the outcome and disagree on how it happens
Stratocumulus growth runs on energy transfer, a major aerosol forcing is underestimated by 58 percent, a Pacific bias inflates a post-El Nino signal, and storm models agree on rainfall while running on different physics.
Finance & Investing
AI winners are now picked by procurement scorecards, not benchmarks
Higgsfield tops Ramp's adoption ranking at 42 percent while Midjourney slides. Acquirers are buying AI capability, and procurement checklists decide the rest.
Three regulators, one week: the rulebook for the next financial system
India tightened microfinance rules, Singapore convened the rewiring of finance, and Ethiopia joined a new climate finance alliance. Three regulators, one direction: the plumbing decides who participates.
The fix for risky agents is identity, not better prompts
Cursor's agent can read files outside your workspace. Reducto stopped holding keys at all. Keyfactor is buying verified identity for agents. The perimeter moved.
Health & Biotech
The cancer cells that survive chemo are a minority. This week, three papers named them
HPV-low cells predict throat cancer recurrence, a single RNA drives lung cancer growth and cisplatin resistance, and a named receptor explains checkpoint inhibitor heart damage — all in preprints posted this week.
Flu in the water, malaria in full, a parasite with a new weak spot
H9N2 flu in Bangladesh splits into three genetic groups while keeping its antigenic face, avian flu RNA can be pulled from small water samples, malaria genomes now assemble in full from the field, and a drug screen hits both stages of Toxoplasma.
Sports
One Saturday, four milestones: Benn hits 1,000 as the NHL record book moves
Benn reached 1,000 points, Reinhart reached 700, Scheifele passed a franchise great, and Holmstrom scored his first hat trick. The night rewarded the players who last.
LSU stuns Gonzaga at the buzzer as November already sorts contenders
LSU beat ranked Gonzaga on a shot with 1.5 seconds left, Cincinnati gave Jerrod Calhoun his 300th win, and Notre Dame's Hidalgo posted a stat line no college player has matched.
Energy & Climate
Kenya is getting wetter. Knowing where the water goes is getting harder
Kenya's rainfall rose while one season in five stayed dry, river dynamics follow climate rather than discharge, and snowpack predicts streamflow only where the ground lets the signal through — three preprints on a harder water picture.