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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: The Moon Astronauts Just Broke the Record for the Farthe

Roughly five days after taking off from the historic Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the four crew members of the space agency’s Artemis 2 mission have officially entered unprecedented territory.

The daring team officially broke the record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth this evening — previously set in 1970 by NASA’s Apollo 13 mission — when they reached a distance of 252,752 miles from home just after 2 pm Eastern time on Monday.

That’s a hair further than the 248,655 miles from Earth that NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert reached during their ill-fated foray around the Moon 56 years ago, on Apollo 13. It was supposed to culminate in humanity’s third crewed lunar landing, following Apollo 11 and 12, but an oxygen tank explosion disabled the life-support systems, forcing the team to loop around the Moon in an unusually wide trajectory to eventually return to Earth.

“From the cabin of Integrity here, as we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever travelled from planet Earth, we do so in honouring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration,” Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said during a livestream.

“We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything we hold dear,” he added. “But we, most importantly, choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next, to make sure this record is not long lived.”

While passing behind the Moon, the Artemis crew has been plunged into a radio blackout as the lunar surface blocks any signals from reaching them for around 40 minutes.

Despite the comms interruption, the views are more than likely spectacular. The crew came within just 4,070 miles of the lunar surface before swinging around the Moon, giving them unparalleled views of its more mountainous and less-explored far side.

The crews were guided by experts on which features to photograph during their historic flyby.

“They’ve practiced for many, many, many months on visualizations of the Moon,” NASA geologist Kelsey Young told reporters over the weekend, “and getting their eyes on the real thing, I’m really, really looking forward to them bringing the moon a little closer to home on Monday.”

Besides the spectacular sightseeing, the astronauts are also facing an unprecedented level of space radiation, given their distance from Earth’s protective atmosphere. NASA collaborated with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for an onboard experiment that measures how much radiation they are exposed to.

It’s an especially relevant subject given the renewed interest in not only visiting the Moon but establishing a permanent presence on its surface as well. Scientists have already been poring over radiation data collected during NASA’s uncrewed Artemis 1.

“Too high a total lifetime exposure can contribute to increased risks of developing cancer or health disorders that could impair cognition and performance,” the agency wrote in a recent blog post, vowing to “minimize that risk” during Artemis 2.

It’s unclear how long their record for the farthest away from Earth will last. The next time the space agency will attempt to reach the Moon — and the lunar surface for the first time since 1972 — will be during its Artemis 4 mission, which is tentatively scheduled for 2028.

The mission will involve its Orion spacecraft entering a much tighter orbit around the Moon to rendezvous with either SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, likely just hundreds of miles above the surface — not even close to how far Artemis 2 has ventured from home.

Meanwhile, China is also ramping up to launch its own crewed missions to the Moon, leaving the possibility that a Chinese taikonaut could soon hold the coveted title for having ventured the farthest into deep space.

Updated to properly reflect the astronauts’ farthest distance from Earth and the time since Apollo 13.

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📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Inside Sources Say Sam Altman Is a Sociopath Terbaru 2025

You don’t build a trillion dollar AI empire by being a saint.

In a seeping new investigative piece from The New Yorker, numerous tech insiders paint a picture of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as a relentless liar who wants everyone to like him while manipulating even the people closest to him to get what he wants. AI safety, in this slippery portrait of Altman, is merely a bargaining chip he dangles like a carrot to get concerned engineers — and anyone else worried about the tech’s far-reaching consequences — on board, before going back on his word.

Some of these insiders were strikingly blunt in their diagnoses: Altman was a literal “sociopath,” one OpenAI board member alleged.

“He’s unconstrained by truth,” they told The New Yorker. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

Aaron Swartz, the famed coder and hacktivist who died by suicide in 2013, used similar language to describe Altman. Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.” 

Altman, it’s worth noting, has been accused by his sister in a civil suit of repeatedly sexually abusing her beginning when she was three-year-old and when he was 12. Altman, his mother, and his brothers all deny the claims.

The New Yorker piece characterizes Altman as more of a businessman than an engineer, leveraging an almost singular ability to get skeptics, be they engineers or the public, to believe that he holds the same priorities as them.

“He’s unbelievably persuasive. Like, Jedi mind tricks,” a tech executive who has worked with Altman told The New Yorker. “He’s just next level.”

One alleged victim of Altman’s double dealing is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who used to work at OpenAI but left to found his own safety-focused AI company over differences with Altman.

In notes viewed by The New Yorker, Amodei wrote about negotiating a billion-dollar investment from Microsoft in 2019. Many at the company were reportedly anxious that Microsoft would override OpenAI’s safety commitments, and Amodei made sure to address this by showing Altman a ranked list of safety demands, which Altman agreed to. But when the deal was closing in June, Amodei discovered a provision had been added that obviated the top demand on the list. Amodei confronted Altman about this, but Altman denied the provision existed, even after Amodei read the provision aloud to him.

Another is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Multiple executives at the Redmond giant described Altman as repeatedly going back on his word, straining his long-standing relationship with Nadella. “He has misrepresented, distorted, renegotiated, reneged on agreements,” one executive told The New Yorker. An example from earlier this year: on the same day OpenAI reaffirmed Microsoft as the exclusive provider for its memoryless AI models, it announced a $50 billion deal with Amazon as its exclusive reseller of its “Frontier” platform for AI agents. (Microsoft signalled it was willing to sue over this alleged breach of contract.)

Sue Yoon, a former OpenAI board member dished a slightly different, but no less unflattering, view of Altman than the “sociopath” picture. Altman was “not this Machiavellian villain,” she said, but was able to delude himself to in believing his ever-shifting sales pitches. “He’s too caught up in his own self-belief,” she told The New Yorker. “So he does things that, if you live in the real world, make no sense. But he doesn’t live in the real world.”

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