The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
- CRYPTO EXPRESS 3000 — TELEGRAM BRIEF
*Filed by Alan Mesk, courier ship, relay window open*
Block confirmed! Today's manifest runs hot on AI infrastructure, orbital hardware, and patent law collisions.
Space mirrors vs. the night sky. Reflect Orbital plans up to 50,000 satellites with 18×18m mirrors beaming sunlight on demand — potentially 10,000 full moons bright. Solar charging and emergency response are the pitch; dark-sky obliteration is the risk. That's orbital infrastructure with no consensus on light pollution governance. Theoretically safe. Untested is never boring.
AI drug patents hit a wall. Insilico Medicine used generative AI to discover a pulmonary fibrosis drug, then named five humans as inventors on the patent — zero mention of AI. Current IP law only recognizes human inventors. As models generate drug candidates as easily as ChatGPT writes