A physicist reflects on visiting Delphi and draws parallels between ancient Greek mythology and modern Earth observation technology. The essay explores how Apollo's all-seeing perspective mirrors satellite imagery from Planet, while cautioning that data alone cannot solve environmental crises without understanding humanity's relationship to nature like Artemis, the goddess of wilderness, represents.
Google announced Project Suncatcher, a research initiative to deploy AI chips in space using solar-powered satellites equipped with Tensor Processing Units. The company plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 in partnership with Planet to test the hardware in orbit and explore scaling machine learning compute beyond Earth.