Reader, I’m fired up — we’ve got a White Pill with some very powerful energy for you this week. Dare I say that it’s the best one ever, by a long shot? I dare.

First, as always, we lead with a section of Excellent News, which is — perhaps counterintuitively — about the whitest paint ever invented. Then, in our Space section, we write about the James Webb Space Telescope’s first birthday and a few Mars rover items, and give you a look at the Artemis crew modules currently in development at KSC, plus more.

The Energy, Engineering, Computing section is the centerpiece of this week’s White Pill, with what feels like a few months’ worth of news packed into a single week. We cover: the Twitter Spaces where xAI — Elon’s new AI venture — discussed its intent to create a “maximally curious and truth-seeking” AGI, details on a handheld device that can harvest over a cup of water a day from thin air, a cuneiform tablet AI translator, pics of Tesla’s lil “Cybertruck-inspired electric quad bike,” and more.