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Sam Altman is pushing back on fears that artificial intelligence will hollow out the workforce. Speaking recently, OpenAI's chief said a so-called jobs apocalypse is unlikely, a notably measured position from the man leading one of the most disruptive companies on the planet. Whether that reassurance holds up over time remains an open question.
Shifting to space, NASA is set to announce the crew assigned to the Artemis three mission on June ninth, with a live event streaming from Johnson Space Center in Houston. This marks a meaningful milestone in the agency's return to the Moon, and the names attached to that mission will carry enormous symbolic weight as the program moves closer to an actual lunar landing.
And in an unexpected corner of the internet, someone decided that Geometry Dash's built-in trigger system was simply too limiting and rewrote game logic in assembly instead. It sounds absurd, but it reflects something genuine about how programmers think — when the abstraction gets in the way, some people just go all the way down.
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