It literally encodes the “Hugging Face” emoji (🤗) and a nod to NVIDIA’s brand color directly into the financial figure, serving as a geeky tribute to the community that made Hugging Face strategically valuable.
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Once on the surface, a robotic arm will drill cylindrical tubes into the surface to collect samples. The probe is also equipped with a device first developed by NASA that uses a stream of nitrogen gas to collect fine particles from the very top layer of dust. Whether or not Phobos originated from an impact with the planet, experts believe Martian sand can be obtained from the lunar surface. Over time, meteorite impacts have blasted materials off Mars, coating its moons. Scientists expect about 0.1 percent of the samples collected will be debris from Mars itself.
Costing about $345 million US, this mission marks Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years. Beyond the scientific insights it’s expected to provide, from an engineering perspective, the mission aims to test new technologies that could aid future sampling and round-trip travel to Mars.
MMX is scheduled to launch from the Tanegashima Space Center on October 20, 2026.
1863, a sheep farmer in New Zealand wrote that machines were evolving, that the process would not stop, and that we were busy building our own successors.
No computers. No electricity grid. No code. Steam engines and mechanical looms.
His name was Samuel Butler, and if you read his sentences cold today you would swear they were written the week after ChatGPT shipped.
Then he did the thing almost nobody remembers him for. He proposed a remedy. It was not regulation. It was not alignment. It was not a six-month pause.
Nine years later he built a whole fictional civilization around that remedy, complete with a rule about which machines were allowed to survive and which had to go. The cutoff he chose is oddly specific, and once you see the logic behind it you cannot unsee it.
A century later, another man arrived at a similar diagnosis and reached for a very different set of tools. One of them only ever wrote. The other did not stop at writing.
Butler was not a crank. He saw the arc, he ran it forward, and he was willing to say the part that most people in #AI today still swallow. The questions he left behind are the ones sitting on our desks right now: can machines become conscious, is this the next step in evolution, and what does that make us?