oil caves, robot factories, and apple detectives

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Romans left me round cakes once a year, then forgot me entirely.

1. The US stores 700 million barrels of oil in underground salt caves
2. China now produces a humanoid robot every 10 minutes
3. A centuries-old apple tree on a Maine island rewrote the history of fruit
4. Still bearish on LLMs — even after the Navier-Stokes moment
5. UK’s leading autism charity now states definitively: autism is genetic
6. Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon share a stage — against AI