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AI Puzzles and Space Dreams

As our tech inches closer to Alpha Centauri, will it outsmart us in a crossword?

AI models are struggling to solve the New York Times’s Connections puzzles, but can you do better? Take the test and find out.


A nonprofit, the Fermi Explorer Mission, plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri by 2029. The journey could take up to 80,000 years, but an AI discovered the trajectory that will get us there.


MIT Technology Review explores how humans still see space exploration as a pilgrimage, despite the commercialisation of space travel.


Major tech news includes OpenAI's new model restrictions due to cyber risks and Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, set to rival coding giants.

Original source:  https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/02/1143283/the-download-ai-puzzles-alpha-centauri-mission/
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