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China Lands Reusable Rocket On Barge, But SpaceX Remains Years Ahead China successfully landed the first-stage booster of a Long March 10B rocket on a floating barge during an orbital launch test earlier Friday, marking the first major step in reusable launch technology, albeit roughly a decade behind Elon Musk's SpaceX. "This mission … signifies a historic breakthrough in China's reusable rocket technology and a solid foundation for accelerating the improvement of China's space access capabilities," the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation wrote in a social media post. China has...

Musk's xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Law, Saying It Forces Developers To Back State's Views Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, filed a lawsuit on April 9 over a Colorado law it claims makes AI developers endorse “Colorado’s views on diversity, equity, and inclusion or face significant compliance costs and civil fines.” The chatbot Grok is the flagship product of xAI. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times The company, whose flagship product is the chatbot Grok, named Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser as the defendant. The...

Intel Jumps On Report Google Placed 3 Million TPU Foundry Order After last week's sharp sell-off in chip stocks, the latest attempt to keep the AI bubble inflated comes from a report by The Information, which says Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million Tensor Processing Units in 2028. Google's TPU order with Intel is a big win for the struggling chip foundry as it tries to rebuild its empire in advanced chip production and compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The Information's Qianer Liu...