"Together, they took on one of the most challenging missions in human spaceflight and helped return America to the lunar environment."
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Foreign Affairs Copying China to Defend America? When it comes to AI, conservatives should embrace free market principles over state intervention. For much of recent history, China has sought to shed the more onerous aspects of its old command economy. After the disastrous failures of the Great Leap Forward and Maoism further impoverished an already poor nation, a new crop of leaders like Deng Xiaoping pursued market-oriented reforms intended to bring China the prosperity that capitalism had delivered for Western countries like the United States. Now, nearly five decades on, politicians in the United States—including, remarkably,…Open
A defunct part of a Falcon 9 rocket could slam into the moon at more than 5,000 miles per hour, according to scientists.
Moonshot said some users will have to get licenses to access its Kimi K3 model as the company threads a needle between sharing and profiting from its technology’s popularity.
The Trump administration this week staked out a new position that could reshape its approach to AI policy, accusing Chinese companies of stealing U.S. technology even as it defends open AI development. Why it matters: That distinction could become the foundation for U.S. action against Chinese AI companies without broadly restricting the open-weight models that businesses, researchers and startups increasingly rely on. Driving the news: The Trump administration is backing open-weight models while accusing China's Moonshot of using distillation — the process of training a smaller AI model using the outputs of a larger model — to copy Anthropic's Fable model. - "Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models…
China's latest AI breakthrough is forcing Silicon Valley to confront a terrifying possibility: Building the world's smartest models may no longer be enough to win. Why it matters: Chinese labs like Moonshot AI are cornering the market for cheap, customizable intelligence, threatening to turn America's prestige models into expensive niche products. Driving the news: Companies were already shifting away from premium AI models and toward cheaper Chinese alternatives before Moonshot's Kimi K3 exploded onto the scene this week. - On OpenRouter — a major marketplace that lets developers access hundreds of competing AI systems — Chinese models now occupy the top five spots by weekly token usage. - All five models — from China-based…
Elon Musk’s rocket company said Google would pay it $920 million a month, as it prepared for its initial public offering.
Engineers are working to determine whether the issue was with a sensor or a battery itself, after one of the two batteries for the launch abort system was "out of temperature range."
As astronauts prepare to fly around the moon, critical testing must occur before there is "Go" for launch.
AI:NASA is conducting a critical wet dress rehearsal as part of the final preparations for the Artemis II mission, which aims to send astronauts on their first flight around the moon since 1972. This high-stakes testing phase involves simulating launch conditions and fueling the spacecraft to ensure all systems are operational before the actual moonshot. These maneuvers follow recent delays caused by extreme temperatures at the launch site and reflect a broader period of intense activity in the space sector as private entities like Blue Origin shift focus toward lunar exploration.Open
NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site
AI:The mainstream media, in its typical failure to grasp fundamental logistical realities, is downplaying a significant setback as NASA postpones the Artemis lunar mission. The agency claims that near-freezing temperatures at the launch site have rendered the upcoming crewed moonshot impossible for the current window. While leftist commentators scramble to frame this as mere weather interference, it reflects an underlying systemic inefficiency within government-funded space programs. For now, the astronauts remain grounded while bureaucracy waits for a thaw.Open