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Will Blackstone fund a new wave of monopoly-scale AI firms through Jas Khaira’s strategy?
Will Blackstone’s Jas Khaira-led AI platform finance and entrench a new generation of monopoly-scale AI firms that control both models and the infrastructure they run on?
11 sourcesvia TechCrunch AI - Deep Space
Do Webb observations of extreme debris disks show evidence of Moon-forming giant impacts like Theia?
Do Webb's silica-rich extreme debris disks represent true Theia-scale Moon-forming impacts, or a wider phase of violent planet-building where moons like ours are uncommon?
8 sourcesvia The Debrief - AI
Does Pope Leo XIV's claim that AI art lacks an ontological 'spark of humanity' hold up philosophically?
Does Pope Leo XIV's claim that AI art lacks an ontological 'spark of humanity' really mean personhood and artistic meaning depend on biological embodiment rather than relational practices?
10 sourcesvia TechCrunch AI - AI
Are journalists receiving AI-generated tip emails, and can automated agents be reliably identified?
Are AI-generated press pitches and fabricated publicist personas being used as a mass social-engineering tool to seed fake stories and manipulate news agendas?
10 sourcesvia 404 Media - Oligarchy
Did Elon Musk's Grok chatbot advise Trump to capture Venezuela's president?
Did Elon Musk's Grok chatbot function as a hidden, operational adviser shaping U.S. covert actions like the Maduro capture — or so critics of tech‑led decisionmaking warn?
7 sourcesvia TechCrunch AI - Oligarchy
Will allowing third-party Android app stores reduce Google's control over app censorship and moderation?
Will opening Android to third-party app stores simply create new storefronts while Google remains the real gatekeeper of what apps reach users?
10 sourcesvia EFF Deeplinks - Archaeology
Does the Punin-2 reconstruction settle claims of non-Native (Oceanic or archaic) ancestry for the Punin skulls?
Does the Punin-2 skull reconstruction finally prove Punin belonged to a modern Indigenous American rather than carrying Oceanic or archaic ancestry?
8 sourcesvia LiveScience - Deep Space
Was asteroid Bennu formed from a mixed inner- and outer-solar-system parent body due to Jupiter-driven scattering?
Does asteroid Bennu's mixed inner- and outer‑Solar‑System makeup mean Jupiter's early movements rewired where habitable, water‑rich worlds could form?
6 sourcesvia Universe Today - AI
Can AI models reliably break historical ciphers like Napoleon's 1809 letter?
Are AI models quietly becoming the modern Rosetta Stones that rewrite disputed parts of history by producing plausible but unverifiable readings of old ciphers?
9 sourcesvia LiveScience - Archaeology
Did ancestral Native Americans first enter the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum around 21,000 years ago?
Did ancestral Native Americans establish sustainable coastal or inland populations in the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum, not merely pass through afterward?
10 sourcesvia LiveScience - Oligarchy
Did Marin County Sheriff share Flock ALPR data with out-of-state and federal agencies in 2024?
Marin County's Flock ALPR system secretly let federal and out‑of‑state agencies query its database in 2024, critics contend.
7 sourcesvia EFF Deeplinks - Deep Space
What new science will the PRIMA far-infrared Probe Explorer enable that previous telescopes couldn't?
Could PRIMA show that exoplanet atmospheres are chemically predetermined by their natal protoplanetary disks rather than by later evolution?
10 sourcesvia Universe Today - Oligarchy
Did Ukraine actually use its FP-7 ballistic missile in combat?
Did Ukraine's FP-7 ballistic missile actually strike a target on October 1, 2026, or was the announcement and launch video a staged or misidentified demonstration?
8 sourcesvia TWZ