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Uganda Closes Congo Border Amid Ebola Surge, Boston Mayor Backs Harvard Strike · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Thursday, May 28th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 67 years ago, today in 1959, two small
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  primates completed a successful suborbital flight
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  and returned alive after riding a rocket into
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  the upper atmosphere. demonstrating that complex
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  organisms could survive short space travel. This
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  milestone showed the feasibility of biological
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  survivability for human spaceflight and helped
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  shape safe protocols and scientific confidence
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  for future manned missions. So now you know.
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  And now, it's time for the weather report. This
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  morning, it's sunny and it feels like 63 degrees
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  with 6 mph wind. The sunset will take place at
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  Ego 3 and it will rise again tomorrow at 5 .15.
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  It looks like we're in for a partly sunny day
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  with a high near 68 and a moderate north wind
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  around 8 mph along with a chance of rain showers
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  and thunderstorms this afternoon. If you're inland,
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  it will hit a high of 69. Tonight, expect partly
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  cloudy skies with a low around 54 and a calm
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  north breeze around 6 miles per hour. The nearshore
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  buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 57 degrees for the
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  water temperature. Looking ahead in the weather.
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  Friday will be mostly sunny with a high near
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  69 and light northwest winds. Rain arrives Friday
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  night and continues into Saturday with highs
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  dropping to near 62. And northwest winds around
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  10 to 16 miles per hour, vesting as high as 28
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  on Saturday. Sunday and Monday, mellow back to
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  highs near 66, with only occasional chances of
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  Morning sent you. In local news, Boston Mayor
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  Michelle Wu has canceled her speech at Harvard
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  Law School's Class Day ceremony in solidarity
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  with graduate student workers who are currently
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  on strike during commencement week. The decision,
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  announced a day ago, was shared via email to
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  graduates. Wu's office stated that despite repeated
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  efforts to reach a compromise with the union,
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  no agreement was reached. The Harvard Graduate
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  Student Union has been striking since April 21st,
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  advocating for higher wages and protections for
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  non -citizen workers. Mayor Wu, a Harvard alumna,
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  has expressed her commitment to the labor movement
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  and respect for picket lines. Now on to sports.
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  Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner. announced
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  the league will adopt an artificial intelligence
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  automated system to review out -of -bounds calls.
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  This decision comes after a controversial moment
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  in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals between
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  the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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  Despite the ball hitting Thunder forward Chet
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  Holmgren, Spurs center Victor Wembenyama was
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  wrongly assessed a turnover. Silver mentioned
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  that the new system will utilize technology similar
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  to Hawkeye, ensuring calls are made automatically.
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  He emphasized that this would allow referees
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  to concentrate on more subjective calls, improving
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  overall officiating. In local sports, the Red
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  Sox are right back at it this afternoon at 4
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  -10, hosting the Braves in the rubber match at
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  Fenway after a dominant 8 -0 shutout yesterday.
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  Connolly Early was magnificent on the mound,
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  scattering four hits over seven innings with
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  seven strikeouts. Jaron Duran went four for four
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  with a home run, and Sadon Raffaella added three
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  hits with two RBIs as Boston put the series on
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  even footing. Now Peyton Tall takes the ball
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  against Atlanta's Chris Sale with a chance to
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  grab the series win. The offense has to stay
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  sharp. Yesterday they generated eight runs, but
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  consistency has been a problem in this series.
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  First pitch at 4 -10. Meanwhile, the Patriots
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  wrapped up signings of a couple draft picks.
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  Tight end Eli Raridon from Notre Dame and linebacker
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  Quintavious Hutchins out of Boston College both
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  inked deals today. Raridon is a big target at
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  6 -6. who had a solid junior campaign with 32
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  receptions for 482 yards. They'll compete for
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  snaps in what could be an evolving tight end
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  room. Hutchins adds depth to the linebacker core
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  as the Pats continue ramping up their OTA sessions,
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  heading into mandatory minicamp in mid -June.
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  In top news, Uganda has ordered the closure of
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  its border with Congo. where suspected cases
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  of a rare type of Ebola are surging. The Ugandan
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  health workers were exposed to the disease from
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  Congolese patients. This measure, which contradicts
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  World Health Organization guidance, raises fears
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  of contagion in East Africa. The border closure
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  will allow crossings only for emergency cases,
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  including outbreak response and humanitarian
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  needs. Anyone entering from Congo will undergo
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  mandatory isolation for 21 days. Congo has confirmed
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  101 cases, with suspected cases nearing 1 ,000.
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  Health officials urge vigilance as Uganda reports
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  seven cases and increasing exposure among health
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  workers. In business news… Snowflake stock surges
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  nearly 40 % as artificial intelligence acceleration
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  drives record product revenue growth. The cloud
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  software company makes a $6 billion commitment
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  to expand collaboration with Amazon Web Services
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  to help customers deploy artificial intelligence
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  faster. Shares of Snowflake were flying toward
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  their highest level ever in after -hours trading
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  on Wednesday. after the cloud software company
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  beat fiscal first -quarter earnings expectations
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  by a wide margin and raised its full -year outlook.
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  As use of artificial intelligence by companies
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  accelerates, demand for the company's core data
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  platform business continues to grow, Snowflake
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  chief financial officer Brian Robbins said. During
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  the latest quarter, 46 customers crossed the
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  threshold of spending more than $1 million on
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  a trailing 12 -month basis, Robbins said, which
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  compares with 26 customers a year ago. In crypto
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  movement, Bitcoin is down 3 % to about $74 ,000.
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  Ethereum is down 4 % to just under $2 ,000. And
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  XRP is down 3%. to $1 .29. Moving on to a more
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  local vibe. In our community spotlight on health
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  and wellness, we are working with a national
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  Pilates studio to bring you some free classes,
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  for a free class. With locations in Canton, Wellesley,
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  Hingham, Brookline, and Framingham, just be sure
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  to tell them sunny morning sent you by. And now,
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  back to the show. Let's talk science. Four drones
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  will go where no astronauts have landed yet.
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  As NASA looks ahead to Artemis III in mid -2027,
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  the agency is sharing new details on several
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  projects, including a future permanent moon base
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  and a drone mission called MoonFall. The mission
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  will send four drones to survey the surface of
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  the moon's south pole to identify potential landing
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  sites for future Artemis astronauts. According
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  to the update, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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  in Southern California has been developing the
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  drone design and testing prototype hardware ahead
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  of the scheduled 2028 launch. Each drone will
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  land on the moon's surface and gather high -resolution
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  imagery of the terrain over a single lunar day,
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  which is up to 14 Earth days. After each drone's
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  last flight, its survive -the -night payload
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  will continue to work for several months. Payloads
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  designed to survive the night can endure sub
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  -zero temperatures of the lunar night, which
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  can reach as low as minus 208 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  Each of the four drones should weigh about 550
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  pounds and stand 4 feet tall and 7 feet in diameter.
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  They will use a lunar dashcam imaging system
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  to create maps of the terrain. The drones will
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  also be equipped with a laser retroreflector
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  array for precise location tracking, a neutron
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  spectrometer system to determine subsurface water
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  presence, and a spectrometer to measure radiation.
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  Texas -based Firefly Aerospace was selected to
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  build the spacecraft that will transport the
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  drones. Firefly's Elytra spacecraft will carry
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  the drones for a 45 -day transit from Earth to
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  the Moon. After entering lunar orbit, It will
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  perform a braking maneuver to send out the drones
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  roughly 31 miles above the lunar south pole.
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  No stranger to lunar exploration, Firefly Aerospace's
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  Blue Ghost lander became the first commercially
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  built lander to reach the lunar surface in March
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  2025. While on the Moon, Blue Ghost delivered
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  10 NASA instruments designed to gather lunar
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  subsurface data and snap some beautiful images
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  of a solar eclipse. Some scientists worry that
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  extracting resources from the Moon could jeopardize
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  research, while many indigenous nations see the
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  Moon as sacred and oppose any desecration. As
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  of now, NASA and 66 other nations have signed
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  the Artemis Accords. While not an international
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  treaty, the Artemis Accords is an agreement for
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  high -level principles of space exploration,
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  providing a basic legal framework for exploring
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  and developing the lunar surface during this
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  century. However, the NASA -led Artemis Group
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  is in direct competition with an initiative led
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  by China to explore the lunar South Pole and
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  potentially extract its resources. And in entertainment
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  news… Steven Spielberg spoke out against artificial
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  intelligence in filmmaking during a recent appearance
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  on Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson's IMO podcast.
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  While the legendary director believes AI can
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  assist in finding solutions to medical issues,
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  he opposes its role in the creative process in
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  Hollywood. Where I don't love AI is where it
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  takes a position or there's an empty chair at
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  a writer's table, Spielberg stated. Use AI as
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  a tool, but do not use AI as the final word on
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  anything creative, he emphasized. Leonardo DiCaprio
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  also expressed concerns, stating that anything
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  authentically considered art must come from a
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  human being. Well, alrighty folks, it's time
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  for the quote of the day. And today, our quote
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  comes from the American science fiction writer
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  Isaac Asimov. And he said, The saddest aspect
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  of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
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  faster than society gathers wisdom. And that's
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  a wrap for this morning. You can check out our
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  aerial videos with local news and the weather
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  reports. Have an amazing day, my good friends.
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  We'll see you tomorrow with another episode of
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston.