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NASA is calling for proposals to push lunar surface technology forward, with a focus on building real infrastructure at the Moon's South Pole. That means power systems, oxygen production, and advanced manufacturing — the kind of unglamorous groundwork that turns a mission into a permanent presence.
Shifting from the Moon to your living room, OpenAI has rolled out a feature called Sketch inside ChatGPT, letting users draw a rough doodle and have the system turn it into a fully rendered image. It's a small but telling move — lowering the barrier between a half-formed idea and something you can actually see, no artistic skill required.
And in energy news, South Korea and the United States are reportedly aligned on a twenty-two-point-three billion dollar investment in a massive gas power plant in southern Texas, capable of generating six-point-three gigawatts of electricity. The facility is aimed squarely at feeding the surging power demands of AI data centers, though Seoul says negotiations are not yet final.
Three very different stories, one common thread — humanity keeps building bigger, faster, and further. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
