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Microsoft released the source code for an early build of 86-DOS/MS-DOS, the oldest version recovered so far, under an open-source license. The assembly listings show how the operating system that built the company looked before it was MS-DOS.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman recounts the November 2023 board firing of Sam Altman from the inside — the scramble, the near-collapse, and how the company held together over three days.
Tyler Cowen previews Robert Wright's forthcoming book on artificial intelligence and what Wright calls our "coming cosmic reckoning" — arguing we should sit somewhere on the awe spectrum about AI and work to make its upside real.
China announced its first year-long crewed mission, a step toward sustained human spaceflight as it targets a crewed moon landing by 2030. The plan extends Beijing's space ambitions well beyond its existing station rotations.