NASA has confirmed Artemis III as a two-week test mission in Earth orbit in 2027. For safety reasons, various maneuvers will be tested closer to Earth than on the more distant moon. The first moon landing is postponed to Artemis IV in 2028. Meanwhile, the EU Commission has ordered Meta Platforms that WhatsApp should allow rival AI chatbots free of charge within five days. Otherwise there is a risk of severe fines. It is an EU coercive measure that has rarely been used so far. Meta protests and accuses the EU of exceeding its own powers. Another AI provider released new AI models at the same time. Anthropics Claude Mythos 5 is available for the NSA and selected partners. The published, limited version is called Claude Fable 5. There is no subscription; after an initial test phase, Fable 5 is billed exclusively based on the respective token amount – the most important messages at a glance.
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Die NASA has the four-person crew for the Artemis III named: Instead of the originally planned first manned Moon landing Since Apollo 17, this space mission has become a round one two-week test mission in low Earth orbit. The Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch for the first time at the end of 2027 Rendezvous and docking maneuvers with test versions of the lunar landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX try out. Artemis III was originally intended to drop two astronauts near the lunar south pole. After the successful Mondum Round by Artemis II NASA describes the new approach as Step to reduce risk. The first actual one Landing at the lunar south pole moves to Artemis IV, expected in 2028: Artemis III will test fly in Earth orbit after NASA postpones moon landing.
Die EU Commission hat Meta Platforms instructed, WhatsApp for competing AI chatbots free of charge to open. That’s what the Facebook group should do within five working days implement, otherwise threaten Penalty payments to a considerable extent. This is an interim measure. This is intended to ensure that the Competition will not be permanently impaired until the antitrust proceedings are concluded becomes. Because according to the EU Commission, the data collected so far could Fee for other chatbots cause “serious and irreparable damage to competition”. Meta Platforms refers to it as Exceeding competence and quits Legal remedies to: According to EU regulations, WhatsApp must allow other AI chatbots free of charge, otherwise there is a risk of fines.
Other AI providers care less about WhatsApp. So strives Anthropic to the stock market, and stock market fantasy requires fabulous opportunities. The corresponding name is Anthropics latest Large Language Model (LLM) Claude Fable 5. The company published this on Tuesday. It is intended to “exceed anything we have ever made generally available.” The whole point is “generally available,” because Fable 5 is Limited version of the also new myth 5. As ordered by Donald Trump as a voluntary measure, this LLM will initially only be made available to the NSA and, probably with the approval of the White House, to selected US companies: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 appears as Fable 5 with restrictions and will be expensive.
The first stable version of the quelloffen Web-Office-Suite Euro-Office is published. This was announced by the leading project partners Nextcloud and Ionos. Companies, authorities and other organizations should use Euro-Office documents, tables and presentations together create, edit and move away from proprietary Offered like Microsoft Office or Google Docs independently can do. Euro-Office should first and foremost in partner collaboration tools as an office module find entry. Technically it is one Fork of theQuelloffen Suite OnlyOffice. This is due to the more modern architecture and code base compared to LibreOffice and its browser variant Collabora: Euro-Office is the first version of the open-source web office.
Setback for the restrictive visapolitik the US government: A federal judge has put in place the one introduced by US President Donald Trump Fee for certain work visas for void explained. The fee of 100,000 US dollars for a visa is de facto a taxwhich the US government not without the consent of Congress federal judge Leo Sorokin at the US Federal Court for Massachusetts ruled. In September 2025, Trump voted for the reissue of H-1B visas one Fee of $100,000 introduced. Such visas allow trained workers to enter and work at the request of U.S. companies. H-1B visas are particularly popular in Silicon Valley foreign skilled workers to be able to recruit: US court overturns Trump’s fee for skilled worker visas.
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