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SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way.

Plus: NASA has launched a historic moon mission.

The war's economic effects are hitting all sorts of fossil-derived products.

Plus: OpenAI has closed Silicon Valley's largest-ever funding round.

People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.

As LLM scaling hits diminishing returns, the next frontier of advantage is the institutionalization of proprietary logic.

Plus: California has defied Trump's demands to stop AI regulation.

One-off tests don't measure AI's true impact. We're better off shifting to more human-centered, context-specific methods.

Specialized chatbots might make a difference for people with limited health-care access. Without more testing, we don't know if they'll help or harm.

Decisions to tweet first and lawyer later didn't sit well with a federal judge, who last week halted the government's punishment of the AI company.