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The AI debate right now centres almost entirely on models - which LLM is smarter, whether they'll be commoditised, whether OpenAI or Anthropic or Google wins the arms race. These are real questions.

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NASA's moonbound astronauts aboard Artemis II have their toilet functioning again, but now they're stuck with an equally annoying but perhaps less urgent issue: They can't open their email. Astronauts ...