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Antares Achieves Initial Criticality of a Privately Developed Advanced Reactor Under DOE Pilot Program

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:16:29 +0000

Antares today announced that its Mark-0 microreactor achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) authorization — making Antares the first private company to bring an advanced reactor to criticality under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program. The demonstration was conducted in partnership with DOE, INL, and BWX Technologies, with […]

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Deadly Indonesia floods wiped out at least 7% of rare orangutan population, report says

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:11:13 +0000

Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new report released on Wednesday showed. The cyclone-induced ‌floods and landslides killed at least 1,200 people and damaged around 300,000 homes, with environmental groups blaming the extent of the […]

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Pakistani air strikes kill at least 13 in Afghanistan

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:09:46 +0000

Pakistani air strikes on three Afghan provinces killed at least 13 people, including 11 children, on Wednesday, the Afghan Taliban government said, in a renewal of a conflict that has claimed hundreds ‌of lives this year. At least 14 others – all of them children and women – were injured in strikes that violated Afghanistan’s […]

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Two babies from Congo orphanage die of Ebola, highlighting risk to children

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:07:50 +0000

After her mother died in late May, baby Buswaza was brought to a church-run orphanage in eastern Congo where the nuns quickly discovered the newborn was running ‌a fever. Within days, she died from what they later found out was Ebola. Carers and medics said that after her death six other babies were identified as […]

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China, Taiwan spar over legality of coast guard patrols east of island

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:05:13 +0000

China and Taiwan sparred on Wednesday over the legality of Chinese coast guard patrols to the east of ‌the island, after the government in Taipei said merchant ships had been “harassed” close to its waters. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, was angered after Japan and the Philippines said last month […]

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Taiwan drills with U.S. rocket system, firing in China’s direction

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:03:48 +0000

Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack. While the U.S.-supplied system known as HIMARS has been tested before, the latest live-fire exercise was the first time its rockets were fired into the waters of the narrow […]

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Fear of Ukrainian drones empties the guesthouses in Latvia’s Land of Blue Lakes

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:49 +0000

At Birdwhistles Guesthouse, in a rustic two-storey wooden barn in the Latvian forest 50 km from the Russian border, all eight rooms are vacant, which absolutely never happens this time of year, says the owner, Martins Kiscenko. Two wedding parties had been booked to ‌stay, but the couples cancelled at the last minute, because they […]

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Why Employees Aren’t Transparent About Their AI Usage

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:58:45 +0000

A 31-year-old physician who uses AI multiple times a day at work told us about a personal prompting template he had built for DoximityGPT, the HIPAA-compliant AI tool his organization had approved. The template, he said, “produces astoundingly good results.” His colleagues, using the same tool, were struggling—they had told him so. He believed his […]

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How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:55:19 +0000

Will artificial intelligence improve workers’ lives, or hand them the equivalent of a pink slip? It’s one of the most pressing questions facing the U.S. economy today. Companies are pouring money into data centers, rolling out AI tools in their offices and, in some cases, rethinking how many workers they need. Polling finds Americans are […]

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I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works

OODA OG Analyst — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:52:18 +0000

Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or “spirit week” theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with iPhones — the new Siri can finally do this. After […]

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