The Helium Shortage Is a War Story Nobody Filed Under War
The Times says helium threatens chips, X says it threatens hospitals — both are right, and the cause is a war neither beat desk will name.
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The Times says helium threatens chips, X says it threatens hospitals — both are right, and the cause is a war neither beat desk will name.
A federal judge stayed the Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' designation of Anthropic — an early legal win that reopens the question of whether the government can conscript AI companies.
Three Mississippi and Alabama hospitals shut down MRI services entirely — the helium shortage hit patients before it hit chip factories.
Stryker's cybersecurity team published an analysis of the Iran-linked wiper malware that destroyed 200,000 medical devices — the tools were designed to survive system reimaging.
The Artemis II crew entered pre-launch quarantine but NASA has not confirmed whether the April 2 or April 8 launch window will be used.
Joby Aviation completed a full-profile flight test of its eVTOL air taxi — takeoff, cruise, and landing — the closest any company has come to commercial urban air mobility.
The 2026 tech layoff counter reached 60,247 — one in five explicitly attributed to AI automation — and the number keeps climbing.