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NASA has selected Blue Origin to build its Mars Telecommunications Network, awarding Jeff Bezos's space company a contract worth up to seven hundred million dollars. The system is designed to deliver high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for both current and future Mars missions, marking a significant expansion of Blue Origin's role beyond Earth orbit.
Turning to the job market, a report from New Zealand captures something many workers are already feeling: a single job posting now routinely draws a thousand applicants, many of them AI-assisted. The question of how a human candidate stands out when the application pile is flooded with machine-polished cover letters is becoming one of the defining career anxieties of this moment.
And OpenAI is preparing to release a new model called Astra, which the company acknowledges is unusually capable at breaking into computer systems. OpenAI says it is taking precautions before the release, but the preview itself raises a tension the industry keeps circling back to — how do you responsibly publish a tool that is, by design, very good at causing harm.
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