CoreWeave’s Debt Scare Turns AI Financing Into a Market-Wide Test
In the news: CoreWeave, a heavily indebted AI cloud company, became the focus of a global tech selloff as the cost of insuring its debt…
Peter Kalafatis
Phage Therapy: Why It Hasn’t Gone Mainstream Yet
Compassionate-use series look promising, the one well-known randomised trial underdosed by four orders of magnitude, and no natural phage product is licensed. A look at…
Gemini 4 Argon Reaches the Gemini App and API: Access Tiers, Introductory Pricing, and What Google Has Not Shown
In the news: Google widened access to Gemini 4 Argon on October 13. Who can use it, the $2/$10 introductory API pricing that runs through…
Origin of Eukaryotes: Did Energy Make Complex Cells Possible?
Did mitochondria give complex cells the energy to carry big genomes, or is that arithmetic too fragile to bear the weight? A look at the…
Right to Try vs Expanded Access: What Each Law Lets Patients Do
Right to Try lets some terminally ill patients ask a drug maker directly, with no FDA review of the request. Expanded access runs through FDA….
Is Training AI on Copyrighted Work Legal? Where the Courts Stand in October 2026
Two trial judges found AI training fair use, an appeals court rejected it for a competing tool, and the NYT case awaits a ruling. A…
Is Consciousness an Illusion? What Evidence Could Settle It
Illusionists say the felt qualities of experience are a misrepresentation by the brain’s own self-model. This article weighs the view against its critics and sorts…
Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety: What the Lawsuits Claim and Ask For
In the news: eight attorneys general filed separate suits against OpenAI on Oct. 14 under consumer protection and public nuisance law. Here is what is…
Are Click-Through Terms of Service Enforceable? What Courts Look For
Click-through terms are usually enforceable when notice was clear and you took an affirmative step. Browsewrap is shakier, and some clauses fail anyway. The rules…
Why Do AI Scaling Laws Follow Power Laws? Four Explanations Tested
Language-model loss falls along a power law in parameters, data and compute, but the cause is still debated. Here are the leading explanations, a small…