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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 31, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen Let AI Agents Steer the Allen Telescope Array From Natural-Language Requests
The pipeline runs on NVIDIA's Holoscan sensor-streaming platform and has detected the Crab Nebula pulsar in real time. That pulsar is a well-known source, which makes the detection a validation of the system rather than a discovery.
Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute have put AI agents into daily operations at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, according to NVIDIA. From a single natural-language request, the agents can point the instrument, clean…
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