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🧠 SAM ALTMAN VS. THE NEW YORK TIMES — FUTURE OF AI ON TRIAL. "ARE YOU GONNA TALK ABOUT SUING US BECAUSE YOU HATE USER PRIVACY?" That’s how Sam Altman opened — onstage, mic in hand, staring down a New York Times reporter.
—> THE CALL-OUT: At a packed Hard Fork taping in San Francisco, the OpenAI CEO didn’t wait. He hijacked the intro to blast the Times for suing OpenAI over how ChatGPT was trained — and for demanding OpenAI log every user interaction, even in private mode.
—> OLD MEDIA VS. NEW CODE: The Times says OpenAI scraped its articles illegally. Altman says it’s fair use — public data used to teach the model how to read. It’s how search engines have always worked. Now the Times wants to rewrite the rules.
—> BIGGER THAN A BEEF: This isn’t just copyright drama. It’s about the blueprint for how all future AIs learn. If the Times wins, it could break the model — forcing tech firms to license everything. If OpenAI wins? AI keeps learning from the raw internet — journalism, books, Wikipedia rants and all.
—> POWER PLAY: Altman says the lawsuit is less about justice and more about control — legacy media trying to slow down tech it doesn’t understand. And he’s not backing down. Judges are starting to side with the AI crowd. If Altman wins, it’s not just a win for OpenAI — it’s a win for the future.
Source: TechCrunch
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SPACE
🪐 MARS COLONY ERA BEGINS. It’s official: the Red Planet is no longer just a science fiction setting. In labs here on Earth, we’re now developing the materials, blueprints, and biology to build the first real human habitats on Mars — no astronauts required.
—> 🧱 BIO-CONCRETE IS GO: Researchers at Texas A&M and University of Nebraska have created a living construction system using Martian soil, sunlight, and synthetic lichens — a mix of bacteria and fungi that grow solid structures autonomously. No payloads. No astronauts. Just self-sustaining habitats that build themselves.
—> 🧱 STRUCTURES THAT GROW THEMSELVES: These living materials can be 3D-printed into walls, houses, even furniture — all using Martian regolith ink. Over time, the structures harden on their own. And when it’s time to stop construction? Just apply heat or radiation to deactivate the microbes. No need for Earth-supplied concrete or human labor. These structures are born ready.
—> 🚀 FROM DIRT TO DOMES: ESA's Technology 2040 Vision outlines “space oases” — autonomous habitats made possible by in-situ manufacturing and high-velocity logistics. These habitats will recycle everything, use AI, quantum computing, smart materials, and exist far beyond Earth. One quote from the ESA document says it best: “Space-based construction will evolve from manually assembled structures to modular, scalable ecosystems.”
—> 🔴 WE ARE ALREADY ARE USING THE TECH ON EARTH: The synthetic lichen tech has already survived Martian soil simulants, extreme pH, and Earth’s harshest environments — like New Jersey’s Pine Barrens and the Canadian Rockies. Next up: building a full 3D-printed test dome using this “living” ink. With ESA projecting humans living in orbit and on Mars by 2040, the timeline has begun.
Source: Daily Galaxy · Phys.org · StudyFinds
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🌊 THE AI GOLDEN WAVE: NVIDIA SURGES TO #1. Nvidia just reclaimed the crown as the most valuable company on Earth — thanks to a forecast that it’s leading the next “Golden Wave” of AI.
—> 📈 $3.76 TRILLION MARKET CAP. Shares jumped 4% Wednesday to $154.10, pushing Nvidia past Microsoft and Apple with a staggering $3.76 trillion valuation. The chipmaker now leads the pack in the global AI arms race.
—> 🔮 WHY THE HYPE? Loop Capital hiked its price target to $250, calling this the “next Golden Wave” of generative AI — and Nvidia the company at its center. The boom is fueled by relentless demand for Nvidia’s high-end processors powering AI training and inference worldwide.
—> 🧠 THE AI ENGINE: From ChatGPT to autonomous robotics and medical breakthroughs, Nvidia’s GPUs are the brains behind nearly every major AI leap. Analysts say the company’s growth is still underpriced even after a 60% rebound since April.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🧠 AI’S NEW JOB MARKET: THE GOLDEN WAVE OF WORK. AI isn't just taking jobs — it's creating weird, wild, very real new ones.
—> COMING TO A CAREER FAIR NEAR YOU: Ever heard of a Synthetic Reality Producer? What about an AI Behavior Architect? Experts say these could be real job titles by 2030. As AI grows, humans will be needed to teach it, guide it, and keep it from going off the rails.
—> JOBS YOU NEVER KNEW EXISTED: Some of the new gigs include:
Prompt Scene Editor (you fix AI-generated content so it makes sense)
AI Enablement Partner (you help coworkers actually use AI tools)
AR Creator (you design digital worlds you can wear on your phone)
From helping machines sound less robotic, to making sure AI stays ethical and useful — these new roles are part creative, part technical, and totally human.
📡 Source: ZDNet | City Magazine
ELON MUSK
🟥 PETER THIEL SAYS MUSK HAS GIVEN UP ON MARS: According to Thiel, 2024 is the year Elon Musk stopped believing humanity could start over on the Red Planet.
—> 🚀 THE DREAM IS DEAD: Thiel told the New York Times that Musk no longer sees Mars as a libertarian escape hatch. What began as a sci-fi style political experiment — a new society in space — has collapsed into disillusionment. “There’s nowhere to go,” Musk reportedly said.
—> 🤖 AI BROKE HIM: The breaking point? A conversation with DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, who warned: “My AI will be able to follow you to Mars.” Musk “went quiet,” then watched one of his Starships explode. Thiel says that moment shattered Musk’s belief that Mars could be a clean slate.
—> 🗳️ FROM SPACE TO CULTURE WAR: Thiel suggests that, stripped of interplanetary hope, Musk turned inward — toward backing Trump, battling “wokeness,” and fighting AI on Earth instead of fleeing it. The Mars chapter may be over, but the Earth story just got more interesting.
Source: UnHerd
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