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Boeing's Next Starliner Flight Will Only Be Allowed to Carry Cargo

WIRED

Boeing's Next Starliner Flight Will Only Be Allowed to Carry Cargo After a high-profile malfunction left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, NASA is requiring rigorous testing before humans get back on board. The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, confirming that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 mission, the space agency said. Launching by next April will require completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities, NASA added in a statement . "NASA and Boeing are continuing to rigorously test the Starliner propulsion system in preparation for two potential flights next year," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, in a statement.

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The future of air combat: How long will the US military still need pilots?

FOX News

Fox News contributor Brett Velicovich demands U.S. defenses'adapt' to modern warfare after Ukraine's drone strikes on'The Story.' As sixth-generation fighter programs ramp up, military insiders are divided over whether future warplanes need pilots at all. The Pentagon is pouring billions into next-generation aircraft, pushing the boundaries of stealth and speed. But as America eyes a future of air dominance, one question looms large: Should Americans still be risking their lives in the cockpit? Autonomous drones backed by AI are progressing faster than many expected, and that has some defense leaders rethinking the role of the pilot.


Why US must assert industrial dominance in light of China-Europe ties

FOX News

As President Donald Trump has argued, America's economic security is our national security, whether it's reshoring jobs in critical industries or promoting robust commerce to create the jobs and technologies that will drive the world economy during this new Golden Age and into the future. America is already the leader in AI, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, energy and more – but that position can still be threatened not just by China, our greatest economic adversary, but also by some of our oldest allies in the European Union. As China seeks to weaken the U.S. and expand its global influence, it's eyeing the 27-nation EU as a partner against American industry. In critical sectors – auto manufacturing, clean energy, technology, aerospace and defense – China is tightening its grip on European markets. In critical sectors – auto manufacturing, clean energy, technology, aerospace and defense – China is tightening its grip on European markets.


SpaceX to send Starship to Mars next year, Elon Musk confirms

FOX News

DOGE leader Elon Musk opens up about his work in space on'Kudlow.' Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX's Starship will head to Mars at the end of 2026. The ship will be carrying Optimus, Tesla's humanoid robot. The tech billionaire said that if all goes well, humans could be on the red planet by 2029, although he admitted that 2031 is more likely. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of "Santa Cruz," a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The X account for Optimus replied to Musk's announcement with just two words: "Hold on."


Joe Rogan left stunned as US security advisor reveals how AI will take over in future wars

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Joe Rogan was left stunned after hearing how AI will be the main fighters in future wars. The celebrity podcaster was taken back when his podcast guest, Homeland Security Advisor and billionaire Marc Andreessen, suggested AI-powered jets that travel five times the speed of sound, Mach 5, are going to be more common'within a few years.' 'Image a thousand of these things coming over the horizon right at you,' Andreessen said. 'It really changes the fundamental equation of war.' He explain that instead of needing the most soldiers and material to win, people with the most technology and money will take over. Andreessen also noted that there are'a bunch of reasons' why he believes a future of AI-piloted fighter jets is all but inevitable.


Top secret X-37B space plane will execute a 'never-before-seen-manoeuvre' - in novel exercise that could let it evade detection by hostile nations

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The Pentagon is usually scant on any details about the X-37B, its top secret space plane that flies up to 500 miles above Earth. But the Department of Defense has now revealed that the unmanned craft is about to execute a'first-of-a-kind' manoeuvre to alter its orbit. It's thought the novel exercise will let it evade detection by hostile nations and perform secretive'low-passes' over Earth. The Boeing-built vehicle, roughly the size of a small bus and resembling a miniature space shuttle, has been launched seven times since 2010. Although the exact purpose of the ship is a guarded secret by the US Space Force, it's thought to carry spy equipment, satellites or even weaponry. X-37 is a reusable robotic spacecraft manufactured by Boeing for the US government.


Fears over Boeing's plan to create AI-controlled killer jets for US military - despite slew of scandals

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Their proposed fleet of'un-crewed' killer aircraft, piloted by'artificial intelligence' and dubbed MQ-28 Ghost Bats, would number in the thousands for the US alone. 'Boeing's track record doesn't seem to indicate that it's necessarily the best one to implement this kind of thing,' as one former State Department official, Steven Feldstein, told DailyMail.com. Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat is an unmanned drone piloted by'artificial intelligence' (AI). It is one of the several robotic fighter jets competing to become the Pentagon's killer AI drone fleet With roughly 53 cubic-feet of storage capacity within its nose for interchangeable payloads, Boeing's Ghost Bats could one day carry a variety of bombs and munitions including multiple tactical nuclear weapons. Currently, three prototypes of the Ghost Bat have been built and flight-tested in Australia for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) with at least one of those delivered to United States for its own tests and integration trials.


Behavioral Testing: Can Large Language Models Implicitly Resolve Ambiguous Entities?

Sedova, Anastasiia, Litschko, Robert, Frassinelli, Diego, Roth, Benjamin, Plank, Barbara

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

One of the major aspects contributing to the striking performance of large language models (LLMs) is the vast amount of factual knowledge accumulated during pre-training. Yet, many LLMs suffer from self-inconsistency, which raises doubts about their trustworthiness and reliability. In this paper, we focus on entity type ambiguity and analyze current state-of-the-art LLMs for their proficiency and consistency in applying their factual knowledge when prompted for entities under ambiguity. To do so, we propose an evaluation protocol that disentangles knowing from applying knowledge, and test state-of-the-art LLMs on 49 entities. Our experiments reveal that LLMs perform poorly with ambiguous prompts, achieving only 80% accuracy. Our results further demonstrate systematic discrepancies in LLM behavior and their failure to consistently apply information, indicating that the models can exhibit knowledge without being able to utilize it, significant biases for preferred readings, as well as self inconsistencies. Our study highlights the importance of handling entity ambiguity in future for more trustworthy LLMs


The Download: gaming climate change, and Boeing's space mission leaks

MIT Technology Review

AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But how can we know if a machine is truly "intelligent"? For decades this has been defined by the Turing test, which argues that an AI that's able to replicate language convincingly enough to trick a human into thinking it was also human should be considered intelligent. But there's now a problem: the Turing test has almost been passed--it arguably already has been. The latest generation of large language models are on the cusp of acing it.


Pentagon seeks low-cost AI drones to bolster Air Force: Here are the companies competing for the opportunity

FOX News

The Pentagon will look to develop new artificial intelligence-guided planes, offering two contracts that several private companies have been competing to obtain. The Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) project is part of a 6 billion program that will add at least 1,000 new drones to the U.S. Air Force. These drones would deploy alongside human-piloted jets and provide cover for them, acting as escorts with full weapons capabilities that could also act as scouts or communications hubs, The Wall Street Journal reported. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Anduril Industries have all taken up the challenge. General Atomics supplied the Reaper and Predator drones the U.S. has deployed in numerous campaigns in the Middle East, and Anduril is a newcomer to the field, founded in 2017 by inventor Palmer Luckey, an entrepreneur who founded Oculus VR.