Tehran's Toll Booth For Hormuz Strait Divides Countries Into 3 Categories

Iran's Longest-Range Missile Strike Fails On Diego Garcia, As Natanz Nuclear Facility Bombed Summary Natanz nuclear site attacked: Iran says "no nuclear radiation" detected, even as attacks on core sites like Isfahan nuclear facilities signal clear escalation despite earlier Trump signals of maybe "winding down." War expands with furthest ever Iranian missile launch: Iran fires missiles at Diego Garcia in a failed but unprecedented long-range strike. US claims momentum, hits hardened targets, Hormuz softening ops: CENTCOM says Iran has lost “significant combat capability” after 8,000+ strikes, and bunker-busting attacks on coastal facilities tied...

AI Designer Babies? Thiel-Backed Startup Claims 14-Point IQ Boost A startup backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund says its latest model can sort IVF embryos by intelligence, with 14 IQ points between the top and bottom of a batch of ten."AI is rapidly getting smarter. Now, humanity can too," Nucleus Genomics founder Kian Sadeghi wrote on Sept. 18, announcing Vitruvian, the company's newest set of "genetic optimization models." "Vitruvian's intelligence model can optimize embryo DNA for 14 IQ points - nearly a standard deviation," he said, adding that the models were...

Five States Make The Cut For $50 Billion Nuclear Campuses  The Department of Energy has selected Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho as the first five potential hosts for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses (NLICs), advancing an effort that forced states to decide whether they support the entire nuclear industry or merely the convenient parts. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed Memorandums of Understanding with the five states after the DOE reviewed 28 applications from 26 states. The agreements allow the federal government and the states to continue exploring potential campuses.  The potential prize...