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fromLos Angeles Times
21 hours ago

Caltech could lose control of JPL for first time in decades

NASA will open Jet Propulsion Laboratory management and operations to competitive bidding for the first time, requiring Caltech to compete for control.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

FBI probes missing or dead scientists, including four from the L.A. area

The FBI is investigating the deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to sensitive research, raising national security concerns.
fromEngadget
3 months ago

NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars

Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars. Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, it just achieved another feat. This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language model to pilot the car-sized robot.
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