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Quantum Space Secures Ground Support for Prime’s Planned 2027 Launch
Mindbytes Sep 30, 2026

Quantum Space Secures Ground Support for Prime’s Planned 2027 Launch

All Points Logistics will support spacecraft processing at Vandenberg as Quantum Space prepares its Prime pathfinder for a targeted 2027 launch.
Linsey Smith 1 min read
Minimalist AI: Proving the Power of Simple Visual Autoregressive Transformers
Community Dec 16, 2025

Minimalist AI: Proving the Power of Simple Visual Autoregressive Transformers

A minimalist Transformer achieves maximum expressive power: this teaser explores how VAR’s pyramid up-sampling and self-attention together prove universality, reshaping how we think about efficiency, simplicity, and generative AI theory.

Abigail Hassen 5 min read
Space expansion: Rick Tumlinson explains the hows and whys
Article Jul 1, 2026

Space expansion: Rick Tumlinson explains the hows and whys

I recommend Rick Tumlinson's book to all space enthusiasts - it will boost your enthusiasm and help you see this new exciting phase of human spaceflight from a cosmic perspective.
Giulio Prisco 8 min read
A Sugar From Raspberries Found Drifting Near the Center of the Milky Way
News Jul 15, 2026

A Sugar From Raspberries Found Drifting Near the Center of the Milky Way

Scientists detect a sugar molecule in deep space for the first time, strengthening evidence that the chemical building blocks of life may have formed long before Earth existed.

gizmo guru 2 min read
Anthropic will include user interactions in Claude's training data
Article Sep 15, 2025

Anthropic will include user interactions in Claude's training data

By including interactions with users in training data, AI models could gain improved statistics on how people actually interact and an improved ability to resolve imprecisions and capture shifting language patterns.
Giulio Prisco 5 min read
Breakneck: the race between Chinese engineers and American lawyers
Article Sep 17, 2025

Breakneck: the race between Chinese engineers and American lawyers

In "Breakneck" (2025), Dan Wang repeatedly underlines that China is an engineering state and the U.S. is a lawyerly society, and delivers warnings.
Giulio Prisco 6 min read
Gregory Stock’s questionnaire for readers of Generation AI
Article Jan 13, 2026

Gregory Stock’s questionnaire for readers of Generation AI

Gregory Stock has released a web app for readers of his book "Generation AI" to answer questions and see how other readers are answering.
Giulio Prisco 6 min read
The Spiritual Bliss Attractor: When AI Chats Reach For Cosmic Harmony
Article Jul 11, 2025

The Spiritual Bliss Attractor: When AI Chats Reach For Cosmic Harmony

Why do AI chats, left alone long enough, start sounding like mystic monks? The “Spiritual Bliss Attractor” might reveal something deeper about reflection and intelligence itself.

Ben Goertzel 16 min read
Starship's IFT-11: success amidst doubts and the race to the Moon against China
Article Oct 17, 2025

Starship's IFT-11: success amidst doubts and the race to the Moon against China

SpaceX achieved another milestone with the successful Starship's Integrated Flight Test 11 (IFT-11), chich comes at a critical juncture in the intensifying US-China space race to return humans to the Moon.
Giulio Prisco 5 min read
When Graphs Learn to Notice Context
Community Aug 4, 2026

When Graphs Learn to Notice Context

Traditional graph models treat all nodes identically, erasing vital context. Learn how Het-node2vec utilizes type-aware random walks to capture the true meaning within complex networks.

Lisanegebriel Abay 6 min read