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"I do not want to sound like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, but your country, your neighbourhood, your job…your entire life is already controlled by artificial intelligence. If you do not like the bit in Star Trek: Discovery where we find that Control has taken over Starfleet, then I have bad news: an AI is running the military, too."

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, And Opportunity
I do not want to sound like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, but your country, your neighbourhood, your job…your entire life is already controlled by artificial intelligence. If you do not like the bit in Star Trek: Discovery where we find that Control has taken over Starfleet, then I have bad news: an AI is running the military, too.

How The Minnesota Star Tribune bolstered its shoe-leather reporting by using ChatGPT to analyze handwritten Faux Cyrillic journal entries of a mass shooter (Tom Scheck/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/minnesota-star-tribun…

How the Minnesota Star Tribune used AI to bolster its shoe-leather reporting to background a mass shooter - Poynter
A team of journalists relentlessly tracked the shooter’s digital and paper trail. But AI provided deeper insight into her thoughts before the shooting.

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

The STAR-XAI Protocol: An Interactive Framework for Inducing Second-Order Agency in AI Agents
Antoni Guasch, Maria Isabel Valdez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17978 https://…

The STAR-XAI Protocol: An Interactive Framework for Inducing Second-Order Agency in AI Agents
Current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit significant limitations in reliability and transparency, often showing a collapse in reasoning capabilities when faced with high-complexity, long-horizon tasks. This "illusion of thinking" is frequently an artifact of non-agentic, black-box evaluation paradigms that fail to cultivate robust problem-solving processes. In response, we introduce The STAR-XAI Protocol (Socratic, Transparent, Agentic, Reasoning - for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence),…

Starshades as technosignatures in direct imaging phase curves: Application to the Habitable Worlds Observatory targets
Claudia I. Skoglund, Alexander J. Mustill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22301

Starshades as technosignatures in direct imaging phase curves: Application to the Habitable Worlds Observatory targets
A star's luminosity increases as it evolves along the Main Sequence (MS), which inevitably results in a higher surface temperature for planets in orbit around the star. Technologically advanced civilizations may tackle this issue by installing artificial structures -- starshades -- which can reduce the radiation received by the planet. Starshades, if they exist, are potentially detectable with current or near-future technology. We have simulated phase curve signatures in direct imaging of hypot…

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

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The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources
Hamid Hassani, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, M\'ed\'eric Boquien, David A. Thilker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Yixian Cao, Ryan Chown, Enrico Congiu, Daniel A. Dale, Oleg V. Egorov, Ivan Gerasimov, Kathryn Grasha, Remy Indebetouw, Janice C. Lee, Fu-Heng Liang, Daniel Maschmann, Sharon E. Meidt, Elias K. Oakes, Is…

The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources
We present a multiwavelength catalog of mid-infrared-selected compact sources in 19 nearby galaxies, combining JWST NIRCam/MIRI, HST UV-optical broadband, H$α$ narrow-band, and ALMA CO observations. We detect 24,945 compact sources at 21 $μ$m and 55,581 at 10 $μ$m. Artificial star tests show 50% completeness limits of $\sim$5 $μ$Jy for the 10 $μ$m catalog, and $\sim$24 $μ$Jy for the 21 $μ$m catalog. We find that 21 $μ$m compact sources contribute $\sim$20% of the total galaxy emission i…

Robust Measurement of Stellar Streams Around the Milky Way: Correcting Spatially Variable Observational Selection Effects in Optical Imaging Surveys
K. Boone, P. S. Ferguson, M. Tabbutt, K. Bechtol, T. -Y. Cheng, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. E. Mart\'inez-V\'azquez, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, T. M. C. Abbott, O. Alves, F. Andrade-Oliveira, D. Bacon, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, R. Camilleri, A. Carnero Rosell, L. N. da Costa, M. E. da Silva Pereira, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, P. Doel, S. Ev…

Robust Measurement of Stellar Streams Around the Milky Way: Correcting Spatially Variable Observational Selection Effects in Optical Imaging Surveys
Observations of density variations in stellar streams are a promising probe of low-mass dark matter substructure in the Milky Way. However, survey systematics such as variations in seeing and sky brightness can also induce artificial fluctuations in the observed densities of known stellar streams. These variations arise because survey conditions affect both object detection and star-galaxy misclassification rates. To mitigate these effects, we use Balrog synthetic source injections in the Dark …

Globular Clusters in the Galaxy Cluster MACS0416 at z = 0.397
Jessica M. Berkheimer, Rogier A. Windhorst, William E. Harris, Anton M. Koekemoer, Timothy Carleton, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen, Dan Coe, Jose Diego, Christopher J. Conselice, Simon P. Driver, Brenda L. Frye, Norman A. Grogin, Kate Hartman, Tyler R. Hinrichs, Benne W. Holwerda, Patrick S. Kamieneski, Kaitlyn E. Keatley, William C. Keel, Ray A. Lucas, Madeline A. Marshall, Mario Nonino, Nor Pirzkal, Massimo Ricotti, Clayto…

Globular Clusters in the Galaxy Cluster MACS0416 at z = 0.397
We present a photometric analysis of globular clusters (GCs) in the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (z = 0.397) using deep JWST/NIRCam imaging from the PEARLS program. PSF photometry in the F090W, F115W, F150W, and F200W filters was performed with DAOPHOT, yielding a catalog of 2,971 unresolved, point-like sources consistent with a GC population. Artificial star tests indicate 50% completeness at F200W = 30.63 AB mag and 80% completeness at F200W = 30.36 AB mag. Color-magnitude diagram…