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Rocket Lab announced its medium-lift Neutron rocket's first flight is delayed again, now slipping to 2027, after engineers found voids in the carbon composite propellant tank domes. CEO Peter Beck cited challenges in scaling up out-of-autoclave curing processes for the rocket's large first-stage structures.

Oura, a smart-ring maker, has delayed its planned IPO due to market uncertainty.

OpenAI's new model Astra is rumored to have made a breakthrough in coding ability, but because its capabilities are too strong and may pose cyberattack risks, its release has been postponed.

Deepmind has internally delayed the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro again, according to a prominent leaker.

NASA's inspector general reports that Boeing's Starliner crew capsule certification may be delayed to 2027, a decade behind schedule, due to unresolved technical issues including helium leaks and thruster overheating.

This paper models the impact of delayed verification in multi-agent LLM systems, revealing that delayed correction can destabilize consensus and cause oscillations. It derives closed-form stability thresholds and provides a greedy approximation for optimal corrector placement, validated with experiments on five open models.

OpenAI will delay the release of GPT-5.6 in compliance with a Trump administration request due to security concerns, releasing it first in limited preview to enterprise customers with case-by-case government approval.

The White House has delayed the release of a report on vulnerabilities in US voting machines, raising concerns about election security.

SemiAnalysis refutes the widely circulated claim that half of 2026 US datacenter capacity is delayed or canceled, attributing it to inaccurate models and showing their own data indicates only minor changes in forecasts.

Salvatore Sanfilippo speculates that OpenAI might delay GPT-6 (or 5.6) to avoid being blocked like the Fable incident, suggesting they could selectively publish benchmarks and release a censored model for cybersecurity.

Framework has delayed shipments of its Laptop 13 Pro by about a month due to electrical grounding issues with the haptic trackpad and a firmware bug in the custom display. The company has found solutions but needs additional time to implement them in mass production.

Fable will launch on February 23rd, 2027, after multiple delays, with early access starting February 18th for Premium Edition buyers.