Opinion: Elon Musk’s Starship booster catch will change spaceflight forever

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Last Sunday, on Oct 13, 2024, SpaceX launched Super Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket, at least through the first stage.

Elon Musk might be a controversial figure. Starship Super Heavy, however, is inarguably a historic feat in engineering as it is the size of a 20-story building.

President Biden has yet to congratulate Musk, but some of his most notable critics have — acknowledged the launch as a giant leap for mankind. Must-Reads.

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Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, John Sculman, Wojciech Zaremba, and Brockman founded OpenAI in 2015 because they believed AGI would benefit the human race, which primarily meant AI safety.

OpenAI is most famous for its astronomical success known as ChatGPT.

As fears grow rapidly about the future of AI technology, OpenAI’s recently announced plans to become for-profit have made Altman a questionable figure. He holds AI in his hands.

Should he? Tensions with Microsoft are also surfacing. (Read More)

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