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A Bankrupt Airline's Emails Went for $10 Million. Then micro1 Said It Would Spend $1 Billion on Yours.
micro1 says it will pay companies $100,000 to $3 million and up for their SOPs, tickets and CRM data, then turn it into AI training. The Spirit Airlines auction is the origin story. The rest is where AI training is heading.
8 min read BlockchainOpen USD Launched With a $1 Billion Commitment. How Much Is Actually in Circulation?
The Stripe-backed stablecoin went live on four chains on Sept. 30 with Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa as founding partners. The headline $1 billion is launch liquidity, not circulating supply, and the supply figures that exist are third-party estimates.
3 min read Energy3D-Printed Tungsten Tiles Took 74 Plasma Shots Inside a U.S. Fusion Reactor. The Real Story Is the Factory, Not the Physics.
Full-size tiles printed in Japan and finished in North Carolina sat in the hottest corner of DIII-D for three days. A neighboring tile melted onto them, and they came out fine. Fusion's next bottleneck may be manufacturing.
4 min read BiotechOpenAI's New Test Asks AI Agents to Read a Gel, Pick Colonies and Spot a Bad Control. The Best Score Was 66.7%.
BioBasicsBench has 100 routine wet-lab tasks built from raw lab evidence. OpenAI's strongest model scored about two-thirds of the possible credit. The gap between that and a real lab is the story.
4 min read SpaceUtah's First Hard Tech Week and the 47G Zero Gravity Summit: What Happened, What Was Announced, What Is Still Unverified
Five days of events in Salt Lake City, a two-day aerospace and defense summit, a $15,000 hackathon, and three local announcements. A recap built from published coverage, with the attendance numbers sorted into reported and projected.
6 min read ClimateSolar Geoengineering: The Climate Fix Nobody Wants to Talk About
Spraying particles into the stratosphere to cool the planet sounds like science fiction. Private companies are already doing small-scale versions of it, largely outside any government oversight.
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