AI just left the planet. JPL revealed this week that NASA’s Perseverance rover completed the first AI-planned drives on another world—over 450 meters through Jezero Crater across two December drives, with every waypoint generated by Anthropic’s Claude Code. We wrote the full breakdown: how JPL fed years of mission data into a coding agent, how Claude stitched together ten-meter route segments in Rover Markup Language, and how a digital twin verified 500,000+ telemetry variables before commands crossed roughly 140 million miles of space. Planning time: cut in half. The kicker? Less than a year ago, Claude couldn’t beat Pokémon Red.
Back on Earth, the frontier kept expanding. Google’s Project Genie went live, generating playable 3D worlds from text prompts. And on its earnings call Thursday, Apple confirmed that Google’s Gemini will power the next Siri—Tim Cook called it “a collaboration,” but the subtext is clear: Apple’s own AI models couldn’t keep up. Record $143.8 billion in quarterly revenue. Still outsourcing the brain.
The checks backing all of this are enormous—and the patience is running thin. Microsoft spent $37.5 billion on AI infrastructure last quarter—up 66% year-over-year—and got punished with a $357 billion single-day wipeout, the second-largest in market history. Meanwhile, Asia-Pacific’s first comprehensive AI law is cracking under pressure. We broke down how South Korea’s AI Basic Act is already facing enforcement gaps and compliance confusion just over a week after taking effect. AI is reaching Mars. Regulation can barely reach the server room.
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From Pokémon Red to Mars: How Claude Code Planned the First AI-Driven Rover Route
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Project Genie Unleashed: Google’s AI Worlds Go Live
Type a prompt, get a playable 3D world. How Google’s generative model is rewriting the rules of interactive content. |
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South Korea’s AI Basic Act: One Week In, Already Struggling
Asia-Pacific’s first AI law hit registration backlogs, enforcement gaps, and a chaebol exemption problem before the ink dried. |
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