TLDRocket
25 October 2026
The biggest AI-adjacent story today isn’t a model release—it’s power. The U.S. military and NASA are pushing microreactors to keep critical systems alive when the grid fails, after Antares’ Mark-0 microreactor cleared a successful criticality test. The Department of Defense followed up with a $161 million award for the R1-S reactor to earn spacecraft flight certification, while Project Janus plans to fund 20 microreactors across Lower 48 bases through the early 2030s. The logic is simple: if your communications, sensors, or autonomy stack goes dark, the smartest software in the world can’t compensate.
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