Artemis II Is Coming Home Friday and the Crew Has Seen Things We Haven't
Four astronauts are two days from a Pacific splashdown after the most extraordinary week in space since 1972 — they filmed a solar eclipse from the far side of the Moon.
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The Artemis II Crew Watched a Solar Eclipse From a Place No Human Has Been in 50 Years
Christina Koch described the far-side solar eclipse as 'the most beautiful thing I have ever seen' — the crew's daily press conferences are releasing footage of Earth, the Moon, and a ring of fire.
DeepSeek V4 Will Run on Huawei Chips — What That Means for the US Export Control Strategy
DeepSeek's V4 model is confirmed to run entirely on Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips — the first frontier Chinese AI model to sideline Nvidia entirely, and the clearest evidence yet that export controls.
OpenAI's CEO Layer Is Thinner Than It Was — Fidji Simo on Medical Leave, Lightcap Running Operations
OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo announced she is taking medical leave for several weeks, with COO Brad Lightcap assuming operational oversight — the company's third significant leadership.
The Artemis II Crew Sent an Earthset Image — They Are Heading Home
NASA's Artemis II crew photographed an Earthset from lunar orbit on April 6 and is on the return trajectory — splashdown is scheduled for Friday, capping humanity's first lunar orbit mission since.