Claude Mythos Preview is, of course, a big deal for cybersecurity. But perhaps more importantly, the model brings into stark relief how AI companies are amassing more power and influence than nation-states.
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The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission. It had little to do with science or celestial bodies; instead it was a moment shared by four curious, caring humans, united in purpose, far from home. [theatlantic.com]
I wrote a tiny thing about the most beautiful moment of the Artemis II mission www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
The astronauts on Artemis II have now traveled farther from Earth than any human before them. Last week, @rossandersen.bsky.social reported on the mission's historical gravitas:
Meanwhile, in China:
Last year, the Trump White House tried to cut funding for NASA’s science missions by 47 percent.
Congress told them no, but now they’ve decided to try again.
If they get their way, here’s roughly what it will look like:
Going to the moon is objectively awesome. Even when you don't land on it. I love this @rossandersen.bsky.social dispatch from the Artemis II launch:
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On the Florida bridge watching the new mission to the moon take off with @rossandersen.bsky.social and realizing that much of the nation may not be aware it's happening. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
“Brad Kowalski, who lives nearby, told me that Trump should have at least come down to see it. “It’s significant that the son of a bitch isn’t here,” he said”
I went to the moon launch and wrote about it
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Had a blast talking about the Artemis 2 launch with this crew bsky.app/profile/ians...
In my history of science classes, I narrate how the U.S. system of doing science came to be dominant...
@rossandersen.bsky.social's new essay will help round out this story by showing that such systems are fragile, don't last forever, and can be broken.
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"American science has been the envy of the planet since the Second World War at least, but it has recently gone into decline."
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I wrote about the metascientists who will know first if and when China surpasses the U.S. in science
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“Anthropic’s dispute with the Pentagon is a reminder that the people who create a powerful technology don’t usually get the final say in how it’s used.”
Ross Andersen for @theatlantic.com
I wrote about Dario’s Oppenheimer moment and the utopian dreams of the nuclear age www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
From an ignorant outsider perspective, NASA making the cuts before the budget passed (which it never did) felt so insane to me
New details on the dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic; how the negotiations broke down, and a particular sticking point on AI in the cloud vs inside of edge systems. by @rossandersen.bsky.social / tip @techmeme.com
"The big 'aliens exist' bets would make sense only if the traders actually believed that they would pan out, perhaps because they knew something about a hushed-up discovery that the rest of us are about to find out."
(Applies to many domains, I expect!)
Important point about AI and math in this excellent @matteowong.bsky.social interview with Terrance Tao
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Michael Jackson was so good at creating the cinema of himself that the only striking images here are direct copies of those he already made bsky.app/profile/phil...
“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop”
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Anthropic wants to be the AI industry's superego, but is caught between the pressures to be safe and fast, rigorous while being commercially successful. I profiled the company and its leadership, who seem earnest but torn, anxious but at times hubristic:
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Preach @adamserwer.bsky.social
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