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NASA's Artemis 3 mission will not conduct a lunar landing in 2027 as planned. Instead, it will focus on testing the Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit and conducting rendezvous operations with lunar lander providers.

If successful, the first lunar landing is expected with Artemis 4 in early 2028. Concurrently, Elon Musk publicly criticized Anthropic for refusing Pentagon access to its AI model, Claude, raising tensions in the military AI sector.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly issued an ultimatum to Anthropic regarding compliance. These developments reflect a strategic shift in U.S. capabilities in space exploration and artificial intelligence.