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Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
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What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

"Ihr denkt, bei den Gebildeten seid ihr sicher, in den Theatern, an den Universitäten, in den Bibliotheken, wo man längst alles weiß? Bei denen, die alles gelesen haben, die alles studiert haben, die alles gesehen und gehört haben? [...] Bei denen, die für die Entrechteten eintreten oder gegen die Rechten?
Ihr wart gestern nicht sicher, ihr werdet es morgen nicht sein."
Starker Text von Alexander

The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

👋 Gestern konnten sich unsere Botschafter:innen der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) beim 18. Netzwerktreffen Berlin-Brandenburgischen Forschungsdaten austauschen!
🤝Am Vormittag haben sich regionale #RDM-Akteur:innen aus Datenkompetenzzentren, Akademien, Stiftungen und Universitäten getroffen und konnten auch aktiv an gemeinsamen Workshops teilnehmen.
💯Ein großes Dankeschön a…

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
GAN: Better still if there are three of us.
AVON: Better still if you... [He stops abruptly. They look at each other and then all settle down to continue waiting.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/227 B7B3

The case for an Astrometric Mission Extension of Euclid - Extending Gaia by 6 magnitudes with Euclid covering one-third of the sky: #Euclid Has 8 Extra Years of Fuel - A Scientist Has A Brilliant Plan To Use It: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/euclid-has-8-extra-years-of-fuel-a-scientist-has-a-brilliant-plan-to-use-it