BY KEVIN N. CIRILLI
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THE FUTURE STARTS NOW: BOEING’S STARLINER DOCKS AT SPACE STATION… AND MUSK NAILS THE LANDING! BIG DAY FOR SPACE NEWS.
Boeing’s Starliner might be over-budget and behind schedule… but it’s given Boeing a boost up on Wall Street. Starliner docked at the International Space Station – a groundbreaking moment for the iconic American business. And Boeing’s shares are up 10.63 percent the last five days.
QUOTABLE, Starliner pilot astronaut Butch Wilmore upon docking: “Nice to be attached to the big city in the sky.”
FULL RECAP, via Associated Press: Boeing’s astronaut capsule arrives at the space station after thruster trouble.
ELON MUSK COMES BACK DOWN TO EARTH… sorta. More via BBC: Musk's Starship rocket makes breakthrough ocean landing.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE. The day is number 158 of the year 2024. The planet is Earth. And this is a dispatch from the digital frontier. My name is Kevin Cirilli. Subscribe to our Substack.
mtf.tv housekeeping: We were thrilled to join the U.S. Export-Import Bank as an official stakeholder of its annual summit in Washington D.C. We’ll have a full recap of our conversation next week. But we moderate a discussion with three former presidents of the bank. On D-Day — it’s important to remember that America’s EXIM Bank that was the driving force in 1940s that helped rebuild Europe.
TGIF - - > We’re appreciated of your patience as we gear up to blast off into the next phase of our soft-launch… so we will not be having an edition on Friday. Starting next week, we will pivot to a MORNING newsletter soft-launch… more soon…
DECISION DESK HQ ALERT - - U.S. ELECTION OFFICIALS SPLIT ON A.I. DISCLOSURE RULES FOR POLITICAL ADS, via Reuters: “The two top officials of the Federal Election Commission are split over whether broadcast radio and television political advertisements should be required to disclose whether content is generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
“...There is growing concern in Washington that AI-generated content could mislead voters in the November presidential and congressional elections. The FCC said AI will probably play a substantial role in 2024 political ads.” https://tinyurl.com/pp8nbfru
Meanwhile…
FORTUNE: AI’s regulatory troubles pile up as U.S. prepares antitrust probes and activists target Meta over privacy. The Justice Department will reportedly tackle Nvidia, with the Federal Trade Commission taking on OpenAI and Microsoft. https://tinyurl.com/pp8nbfru
– NYT: U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence.
NOTABLE - - > BLOOMBERG: Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass. Full story here.
TIME NOW FOR A LOOK AT THE WEATHER… Here’s what’s happening in our neck of the galaxy…
SPACE.COM: More people Googled 'northern lights' in May 2024 than in any other month in history. More here.
AIR REPORT:
ILLINOIS TELLS RESIDENTS TO MONITORY AIR - - > “Following the historic impacts of the 2023 wildfire season, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are encouraging residents to routinely monitor air quality to protect their health and reduce contributions to air pollution.
“Like the weather, air quality can change from day to day. The Illinois EPA issues daily air quality forecasts, based on the federal Air Quality Index (AQI), for 14 sectors in Illinois and posts the information at www.airnow.gov. The AQI is a color-coded system that classifies air quality from Good (Green) to Hazardous (Maroon).” Full report here.
See you Monday…
Have a good tomorrow, today :)
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