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The UK Space Agency is asking the British public to name its upcoming active debris removal mission, which will see two UK-registered satellites pulled out of low Earth orbit starting in twenty twenty nine. ClearSpace UK is leading the effort, and apparently a good cleanup operation deserves a good name chosen by the people.
Shifting to artificial intelligence and the money behind it, Anthropic is reportedly offering investment firm Blackstone a double-digit yield in exchange for chip financing. It's a striking arrangement, one that reveals just how capital-hungry the frontier AI race has become, and how creatively these companies are now structuring deals to keep the hardware flowing.
And in a story that blends cryptography, history, and machine curiosity, the AI model Claude has apparently solved a twenty-five-year-old mystery involving numbers the NSA released back in the nineteen nineties. Those figures were long suspected of concealing a backdoor, but Claude traced them back to a basic computer program, turning decades of suspicion into something far more mundane, and rather more interesting because of it.
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