Science & Technology — August 18, 2026

Anthropic's revenue run rate hits $65 billion. The AI company told investors its annualized revenue reached $65 billion in July—roughly sevenfold growth from a year earlier, adding $18 billion in just two months.

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First French woman performs spacewalk. ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot stepped outside the International Space Station today, becoming the first French woman ever to conduct a spacewalk.

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Each degree of warming adds a month of dangerous heat. A U.S. modeling study published Tuesday finds each degree of warming adds roughly a month of dangerous heat for 1 billion people. The threat to older adults is far worse than previously estimated.

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DNA memory device slashes power use. Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to build a memory device that uses 100 times less power, storing and processing data in the same place.

Science Daily characterizes the design as a potential leap for computing efficiency, with its significance resting on handling storage and computation at a single location rather than in separate components. The report describes the pairing of synthetic genetic material with conventional semiconductor technology as the basis for the claimed hundredfold reduction in energy use, though it does not detail the device's capacity, speed or timeline toward practical application.

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