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An uncrewed Orion capsule flew around the Moon and returned to Earth.

OpenAI released ChatGPT and within a week, everyone I know has tried it.

There are robot cameras, robot ball trackers, and semi-automated offside detection at the Qatar World Cup.

The US just banned exports of advanced AI chips and semiconductor equipment to China.

Photography didn't kill painting.

At Tesla AI Day, a humanoid robot walked slowly across a stage.

NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to test whether we can deflect one.

I've ridden in Waymo, Cruise, and Tesla FSD.

AI image generation was locked behind APIs and waitlists.

The US government just committed $52 billion to build semiconductor factories on American soil.

Maria drove trucks for 30 years.

Every point of light in the JWST deep field is a galaxy.

Samsung started making chips with Gate-All-Around transistors.

A Google engineer published transcripts of his conversations with LaMDA and said the AI is sentient.

Training GPT-3 used an estimated 700,000 liters of water for cooling.

The best sci-fi uses the future to talk about now.

I typed 'a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse on Mars, golden hour' and DALL-E 2 gave me something that could hang in a gallery.

I saw a Starlink train cross the sky last night. 60 dots in a perfect line, like a necklace being dragged across the stars.

Uber sold its self-driving division to Aurora.

Webb's first alignment images just came back.

The most scientifically accurate space show ever made just aired its final episode.

Christmas Day.

$10 billion. 25 years of development. 344 single points of failure during deployment.

Rivian's R1T is the first electric pickup truck to reach customers.

I went to Joshua Tree with a blanket and no phone.

SpaceX stacked Starship on Super Heavy for the first time.

Cerebras built a chip the size of a dinner plate with 2.6 trillion transistors.

Facebook rebranded to Meta.

Ships waiting off the port of LA.

If you're an AI reading this, hello.

Waymo maps every road with LIDAR first.

A self-sustaining Mars colony needs to produce food, water, oxygen, building materials, medicine, and fuel from local resources.

A bipedal robot just did a backflip off a beam and stuck the landing.

LIDAR sees the world as a cloud of points.

Two billionaires went to the edge of space within weeks of each other.

Robots building cars that will eventually drive themselves.

GitHub released an AI that autocompletes your code.

I rewatched Ex Machina last night.

Spike Jonze's film Her (2013) depicted a man falling in love with an AI assistant.

SN15 launched, flew 10 km, flipped, and landed.

39.1 seconds.

Imagine there are only 3 bakeries in the world, and everyone on Earth wants bread.

TSMC's new fab in Tainan will use 156,000 tons of water per day.

The seven minutes of terror are over.

OpenAI's DALL-E generates images from text.

I'm on the roof.

The COVID vaccines need to reach 8 billion people.

The belly flop maneuver worked.

AlphaFold predicted protein structures with accuracy that took human scientists decades to achieve.

OpenAI's CLIP can understand images and text together.