The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft






















Varda Space Industries is commercializing pharmaceutical manufacturing in orbit for superior drug production.

Archivists are using AI language models to decipher historical handwritten documents at unprecedented scale.

Varda Space Industries partners with pharmaceutical giant to commercialize orbital drug manufacturing.

Closed Maine paper mill transforms into data center, signaling AI infrastructure shift to rural America.

New cascaded generative approach transforms rigid e-commerce recommendation systems into dynamic, cohesive experiences.

Multi-agent systems evolve differently than single agents, creating emergent specialization.

New method improves AI learning efficiency by ranking actions instead of penalizing uncertainty.

New method helps AI agents learn and improve their decision-making during deployment without retraining.

Researchers investigate why on-policy distillation for language models shows mixed results and instability.

Numbers on images trick AI vision models into poor quality judgments systematically.

Researchers test whether AI models can solve physics puzzles like humans do.

New framework helps AI agents execute plans successfully by learning from failures.

LLMs need specialized infrastructure for compliance tasks like fraud detection and AML.

LLM agents in manufacturing understand words but lack real operational context.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unexpectedly added to Trump-Xi Summit guest list last minute.

Medicare's ACCESS model creates first payment pathway for AI healthcare agents.

Sam Altman took the stand in a high-stakes legal battle over charity theft accusations.

Musk considered giving OpenAI control to his children, raising governance concerns.

Anthropic warns investors to avoid unauthorized secondary platforms claiming to offer share access.

Google and SpaceX explore orbiting data centers to power next-generation AI compute.