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SpaceX is moving into turbine blade manufacturing — not for rockets, but for power. The company says bringing that production in-house will cut wait times for natural gas generators by eighteen months, feeding electricity-hungry AI data centers that can't afford to wait on grid connections. It's a striking reminder of how energy infrastructure has quietly become the bottleneck in the AI race.

On the AI front, Coinbase has published a detailed look at how it built an internal support agent it calls Ceecil — designed to carry something resembling human memory across conversations. The goal is continuity: a system that doesn't treat every customer interaction as if it's starting from scratch. Whether that actually improves support or just makes automation feel warmer is the question worth watching.

And out in the Mojave Desert, NASA has brought a new thirty-four-meter antenna online at its Goldstone complex, expanding the Deep Space Network's capacity to communicate with probes scattered across the solar system. As missions to the outer planets and beyond multiply, that ground infrastructure becomes just as critical as the spacecraft themselves. It's a quiet but consequential upgrade.

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