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The countdown clock started at 4:44 PM Monday for a 6:24 PM Wednesday launch — four astronauts, ten days, one trip around the Moon, and the first human departure from Earth orbit since 1972.
Artemis II launches Wednesday — the first crewed Moon mission in 53 years — but X asks why $4B goes to space while gas hits $4.
Anthropic won a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon's supply chain risk label, but the administration has seven days to appeal and the company remains frozen out.
Nearly 60,000 tech workers have been cut in Q1 2026 as companies cite AI automation, while AI-specific hiring has surged 92 percent.
The White House's National AI Legislative Framework, released March 20, is already being overtaken by events including the OpenAI Pentagon deal and state-level AI bills.
Morgan Stanley warned that a major AI breakthrough is expected in H1 2026, with GPT-5.4 already outperforming humans on economic tasks and $3T in infrastructure spending ahead.
OpenAI secured a $950M Pentagon contract hours after Anthropic was blacklisted as a 'supply chain risk,' reshaping the AI defense industrial base.
NASA began its nearly 50-hour countdown Monday for the April 1 Artemis II launch, the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.
Japanese researchers developed 'viciazite,' a carbon material that releases captured CO2 below 60 degrees Celsius, potentially transforming capture economics.
The WMO's State of the Global Climate 2025 report confirms Earth's energy imbalance hit its highest level in the 65-year record.
Earth.Org's March 2026 climate coverage highlights the WMO report, warming acceleration of 0.35C per decade, and the return of El Nino.