institutions
NASA and IBM Put 17 Years of Lunar Orbiter Data in Public Hands
A spacecraft launched in 2009 has spent most of the last two decades mapping the moon, and until this week the measurements it took were reachable mostly by people with institutional access and the patience to learn the tooling. NASA and IBM have now released an open source lunar model built on seventeen years of…
The Grown-Ups We Hire After the Fact
Ben Bernanke steered the Federal Reserve through the 2008 crisis. This week he joined the independent oversight trust that governs Anthropic, one of the handful of companies training the models that a growing share of the economy now runs on. A man who spent his career deciding how much trust to put into a system…