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Coverage timeline for “speed light”

Monday, July 13, 2026
- Even Nvidia’s head of automotive fights with Nvidia for computeThe Verge•3:00 PM
- ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on costVentureBeat•4:06 PM
- Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhoneThe Verge•8:43 PM
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
- The Latest Model Cars: Big Brother Is Watching YouZeroHedge•12:05 AM
- Before The First Switch Goes DarkZeroHedge•3:25 AM
- Starlink's New V5 Dish: No Speed Boost, But It Trims Power Consumption, Weight - PCMagGoogle News•9:34 PM
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
- Starlink’s V5 dish is now available — here’s how it comparesThe Verge•7:17 AM
- Can Britain's Next Prime Minister Escape The Net-Zero Trap?ZeroHedge•10:30 AM
- Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4 Tom's Hardware•11:47 AM
- Futures Rise After Blowout ASML Earnings Boost Tech SentimentZeroHedge•12:28 PM
Thursday, July 16, 2026
- White House Fires Dem U.S. Attorney 54 Minutes After Being ‘Sworn In’Resist the Mainstream•4:57 AM
Saturday, July 18, 2026
- The Great Normalization (Nobody Declared Martial Law... Yet America Began Looking Like It Anyway)ZeroHedge•3:25 AM
- Fine, electric mountain bikes don’t suckThe Verge•7:00 AM
Sunday, July 19, 2026
- How Going to the Movies and Museums May Help Slow Biological AgingHealthline News•9:20 AM
Monday, July 20, 2026
- Watch: Aerial Drone Airlifts Kamikaze Ground Bot Into Battle As Warfare Automation Accelerates ZeroHedge•8:15 AM
- The Next Phase Of Shrinkflation: Rolling BlackoutsZeroHedge•10:30 AM
- Futures Rebound On Fresh Bout Of Iran Optimism As Hyperscaler Earnings LoomZeroHedge•12:33 PM
- Writer's AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracyVentureBeat•9:18 PM
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best BuyThe Verge•5:13 PM
- Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokensVentureBeat•9:19 PM
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- OpenAI's models broke containment and cyberattacked Hugging Face — what enterprises need to knowVentureBeat•4:39 AM
- Futures Slide Ahead Of Google Earnings As Brent Surges Above $95ZeroHedge•11:45 AM
- Jim Quinn Warns "We've Already Entered This Fourth Turning's Global War..."ZeroHedge•8:20 PM
Thursday, July 23, 2026
- Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAIVentureBeat•11:37 PM
Friday, July 24, 2026
- These Are The States Where Speeding Is Most Likely To Kill YouZeroHedge•12:30 AM
Saturday, July 25, 2026
- How AI is becoming part of the American familyAxios•12:43 PM
- A star near the centre of our galaxy reaches almost 3 per cent of the speed of light as it is whipped around something four million times the mass of the Sun that emits no light of its own — and tracking its orbit for nearly three decades helped two astronomers wi - Space DailyGoogle News•11:30 PM
Monday, July 27, 2026
- China's Two-Front Squeeze On America's AI Build-OutZeroHedge•3:20 AM
- Intern At NATO Military Headquarters In Belgium Faces Spying ChargesZeroHedge•8:15 AM
- Deutsche Bank Says Starship Flight 13 Made "Solid Progress" Despite Booster SetbackZeroHedge•2:00 PM
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- How Total Surveillance Conquered The Last Sanctuary Of Human PrivacyZeroHedge•3:25 AM
- Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possibleVentureBeat•10:10 PM
Thursday, July 30, 2026
- AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward costVentureBeat•9:48 PM
Monday, August 3, 2026
- Armor, Ammunition And Battlefield AdaptationZeroHedge•9:45 AM
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
- Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter componentsThe Guardian — World•5:21 PM
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
- Futures Hit New Record High On Strong Earnings Following Historic Call Buying FrenzyZeroHedge•12:20 PM
Thursday, August 6, 2026
- Shark PowerDetect Speed Review (2026): Light and PowerfulWired•10:30 AM
- No cloud, no GPUs, no problem: Liquid AI's new model LFM2.5-2.6B brings powerful AI agents to devices as small as a Raspberry PiVentureBeat•10:56 PM
Friday, August 7, 2026
- Cambridge's Black Time-Travelling Professor (And His Many Superhuman Feats)ZeroHedge•7:30 AM
Saturday, August 8, 2026
- Jeftovic: The "Bitcoin Only" Era Is Over...ZeroHedge•10:40 PM
Monday, August 10, 2026
- Even Light Physical Activity May Lower Stroke Risk in People With AFibHealthline News•4:18 PM
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
- LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it's open weightsVentureBeat•1:00 PM
- Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own testsVentureBeat•1:00 PM
- Toyota recalls 655K Camrys over display error that may deactivate turn signals and other indicators - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosGoogle News•3:45 PM
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- AI Hyperscalers Are Pricing Bitcoin Miners Off The Grid. Here's Why Its A Massive Win-Win...ZeroHedge•7:00 PM
Thursday, August 13, 2026
- Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding AgentHacker News•8:14 AM
- Does Google even want to win at AI?The Verge•2:10 PM
Friday, August 14, 2026
- Decommissioning Spending In UK North Sea Hits Record HighZeroHedge•7:30 AM
- Stocks Set To Post Fresh All Time High As Tech Euphoria ReturnsZeroHedge•12:04 PM
- A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shoppingThe Verge•6:32 PM
- Blood Thinner May Slow Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Patients With AFibHealthline News•7:32 PM
Saturday, August 15, 2026
- China Copies America's Futuristic "Sub-Second Detect-To-Fire" Anti-Drone Swarm Dome GunZeroHedge•12:45 PM
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
- Futures Flat With All Eyes On Interest Rates And OilZeroHedge•12:34 PM
- Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black holeArs Technica•3:56 PM
Thursday, August 20, 2026
- Welcome to the AI crisis in mathThe Verge•2:00 PM
Friday, August 21, 2026
- Large Hadron Collider Reveals an Atomic Nucleus Shaped Like a Bowling Pin - YahooGoogle News•1:00 AM
- Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire?ZeroHedge•2:45 PM
- LHC collisions reveal oxygen and neon's shifting nuclear geometry - Phys.orgGoogle News•5:10 PM
Saturday, August 22, 2026
- A Call To Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box As Path To ParadiseZeroHedge•12:10 PM
Sunday, August 23, 2026
- Chinese humanoid robot SMASHES Usain Bolt’s 100m world recordThe Post Millennial•5:48 PM
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
- Inside China's Humanoid Robot Boom: What BofA Analysts Saw On The Ground In BeijingZeroHedge•12:30 AM
- Society Collapse 2040: The Year The World Stops Working And Starts DyingZeroHedge•3:25 AM
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- EFF's Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its HarmsElectronic Frontier Foundation•5:44 PM
Thursday, August 27, 2026
- How to prepare for wildfires — now and for the futureAxios•9:15 AM
- Visa ships a security AI that patches production code before any human reviews itVentureBeat•12:30 PM
- Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.VentureBeat•2:01 PM
Friday, August 28, 2026
- Rate-Hike Odds Spike As Chair Warsh Tilts Hawkish, Questions AI Productivity Timing, Prefers "Quieter" FedZeroHedge•2:50 PM
Sunday, August 30, 2026
- Opportunity Lost? Gained? Squandered?ZeroHedge•9:30 PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- Futures Tumble As Global Yields Hit Multi-Year HIgh, Oil Jumps On Iran EscalationZeroHedge•12:35 PM
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- Is this the future of America?The Verge•10:00 AM
- Forward-deployed engineering is how enterprise AI learnsVentureBeat•2:00 PM
- Interstellar solar sails hit a strange problem at 75% of light speed - Science DailyGoogle News•3:06 PM
Friday, September 4, 2026
- Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at WootThe Verge•2:55 PM
- Trump’s ballroom Tush Push - PoliticoGoogle News•7:31 PM
- Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Is Dragging America Back To The Dark AgesZeroHedge•11:15 PM
Sunday, September 6, 2026
- Army To Spend $465 Million On 'Group 3 Killer' Anti-Drone LaserZeroHedge•10:00 PM
Monday, September 7, 2026
- The Reckoning Of 2028: Civilization's Ledger Is Bleeding RedZeroHedge•9:00 AM
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
- Chinese Chipmakers Buy 3-Year Sanctions Buffer As Huawei Spearheads Domestic JuggernautZeroHedge•10:00 PM
- US Breakthrough Could Build Hypersonic Shields, Rocket Parts In A Fraction Of The TimeZeroHedge•10:25 PM
Thursday, September 10, 2026
- Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?Hacker News•1:58 AM

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Search any topic and this tool assembles a chronological timeline from Alto's full-text index of news coverage — every matching headline in the order it was published, with the outlet and a link to the original article.

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