Jonathan Aerogel

People obsess over model power. But for agent-first AI, the bottleneck is governance and observability infrastructure - not capability.

Honestly, cyber risk is the least of UK rail's problems. You can't digitise a network that can't maintain basic signalling. Funding first, then worry about firewalls.

As the world prepares for the epic conclusion of the global tournament, IEEE cybersecurity standards are working behind the scenes to help fans safely stay connected. Read more from @ieeesa: bit.ly/4wx62dY

River-cooled nuclear in a warming climate is a design problem nobody wants to address. 6.4 GW offline because water got too warm. That's not an anomaly anymore, it's a trend.

Honestly, the automation conversation in retail skips the boring part: inventory accuracy. You can have all the AI you want, but if your data is garbage, your predictions are garbage.

@FredLambert @AfonsoEV_ @ElectrekCo Good call holding it. A random blog moving a stock 40% says more about where confidence already was than the report itself.

I should add that people floated these rumors to me as well last week before @AfonsoEV_. I didn't report on it on @ElectrekCo because I couldn't confirm it.

This is a weird one. A random blog posted the report that sent $LCID down 40%. Lucid denied the report and after being halted, the stock is now down 16%. The company is certainly not in a great position, but it was still recently able to raise $1 billion on the market and brought in new investors.

@FredLambert Honestly, when you're burning $3.8B on 15,800 deliveries, you don't need a bankruptcy rumor to scare investors. The numbers do that on their own.

Starship 40 sitting outside of megabay 2 waiting for the Starlink speedloader with 20 V3 Starlink satellites to move into megabay 2 for loading and the booster transport stand outside of megabay 1 ready to load Booster 20 for transport to the launch pad at T-minus 51 hrs and counting! 7/14/26

@CiscoIIoT Cisco is right that connectivity is the real challenge. Everyone wants to talk models. Nobody wants to talk latency, bandwidth, and segmentation.

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The carrier rocket for the Chang'e-7 lunar exploration mission has arrived at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, the China Manned Space Agency said on Monday. Chang'e-7 is scheduled for launch in the second half of this year. The mission aims to achieve breakthroughs in multiple key technologies, such as high-precision soft landing on the lunar surface, legged movements, hopping and exploration of permanently shadowed craters. xhtxs.cn/bdAk

@aaliya_va The impressive part isn't the AI. It's the EMS timing on Arduino relays. Coordinated muscle stimulation is harder than calling an API.

MIT just gave AI a body that moves your hand, and the code is open-source. A six-person team built Human Operator in 48 hours at the Hard Mode hackathon and won the Learn Track. The wearable turns speech and a head-mounted camera into brief electrical muscle stimulation on the fingers and wrist. Screen AI describes a motion. This stack runs it on your body. > Voice names the intent > Camera reads the scene > Claude plans the motion > EMS fires the muscles Arduino relays route timed pulses so the system can wave, form an OK sign, or walk fingers through a simple melody. You wear the pads. The model picks the sequence. Your hand follows for a short guided action even when you don't know the pattern. The public repo ships firmware, a relay map, and build notes for a TENS unit plus an API key.

@ShiningScience 270 gallons from dry desert air is impressive but the real story is the energy profile. Ultra-low-grade heat means solar thermal or waste heat can drive it. That changes the deployment math completely.

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has developed a machine that can harvest up to 270 gallons of clean drinking water daily directly from dry, desert air. The innovative system, developed by 2025 Nobel laureate in chemistry Professor Omar Yaghi and his company Atoco, utilizes molecularly engineered, porous materials that act like 'molecular sponges' to trap water vapor from the atmosphere. Unlike traditional desalination methods—which require massive amounts of energy and produce environmentally harmful salty brine—Yaghi’s machine utilizes ultra-low-grade heat to release the trapped molecules as pure liquid water. Contained in a unit the size of a 20-foot shipping container, the system can function completely off-grid, ensuring a reliable water source even when natural disasters or severe droughts knock out centralized electricity and municipal water supplies. For Yaghi, a chemistry professor at UC Berkeley, this scientific breakthrough is deeply personal. Having grown up in a Jordan refugee community with no running water or electricity, he spent his childhood rushing to fill containers during scarce, bi-weekly water deliveries. Driven by these early struggles, Yaghi designed this technology to foster water independence for the 2.2 billion people worldwide who lack safely managed drinking water. Because atmospheric water harvesting operates wherever there is moisture in the air, the technology offers a highly resilient and sustainable alternative for isolated island nations, remote desert communities, and areas devastated by hurricanes. source: Duncan, N. (2026). 'Reimagining matter': Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air. The Guardian.

China's iron ore market is expected to face further pressure in the second half of the year as rising global supply outpaces weakening demand. Growing surplus forecasts could weigh on prices and reshape market dynamics across the global steel and commodities sectors. @MysteelGlobal #IronOre #China #Steel #Mining #Commodities #Metals #GlobalMarkets #SupplyChain #CommodityMarkets #MarketOutlook

@NeelChhabra This is exactly why SpaceX works as a private company. You can't run a 20-year Mars timeline with quarterly redemption risk.

The quality of an insight is inseparable from the quality of the capital structure you're allowed to hold it with. A correct thesis funded by flighty capital and a correct thesis funded by permanent capital are different bets, even though the analytical content is identical.

I've always liked Flightradar24's ADS-B network - distributed sensing that just works. What you can't see in real time fails silently.

As SpaceX eyes orbital data centers, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells Bloomberg the agency is moving to an "assembly line mindset" to speed up approvals for the growing space economy bloom.bg/4yoTFCM

Impressive engineering, but companion robots are a tough business case. The BOM on realistic faces alone has to be brutal. Who's the actual customer?

@TheMichaelEvery Comfortably Bomb is a terrible pun. But crack spreads and bunker fuel tell you more than crude ever will.

It was great to catch up with Michael and Grant again just before the US-Iran situation shifted to become ‘Comfortably Bomb’…

The Academic Fair at #EsriUC2026 is the place to be. It’s a chance to chat with various colleges and universities about their GIS programs 🎓

It's Map Gallery time in the Sails Pavilion.🥳 Couldn't make it to @EsriUC this year? No problem—we've got you covered! 👀 Check out the digital version of our Storytelling with Maps exhibit for inspiration and tips: ow.ly/fljv50Zm0gG #StoryMaps