The challenge: Governments face mounting pressure to do more with less — from optimizing emergency response to managing supply chain and logistics management — all while facing resource constraints. Classical computing can have difficulty keeping up with the scale or complexity of today's public-sector demands.
Artificial intelligence is going to "change the status quo," including by democratizing, scaling and accelerating one's ability to "extract information out of satellite data," Planet CEO Will Marshall told Axios in an interview.
Why he matters: His company's raison d'être, he told Axios, "is helping us to take care of this spacecraft — one spacecraft — called the Earth."
Marshall was previously a systems engineer on the lunar orbiter mission LADEE and a member of the science team for the lunar impactor mission LCROSS.
A new digital awakening is unfolding in churches, where pastors and prayer apps are turning to artificial intelligence to reach worshippers, personalize sermons, and power chatbots that resemble God.
Why it matters: AI is helping some churches stay relevant in the face of shrinking staff, empty pews and growing online audiences. But the practice raises new questions about who, or what, is guiding the flock.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) criticized President Trump at COP30 on Tuesday for being absent from the UN summit in Belém, Brazil, and called his rejection of climate policy an "abomination."
The big picture: Newsom, who's expected to run for president in 2028, said during a ministerial meeting that he's "very mindful that the Trump administration has abandoned any sense of duty, responsibility or leadership as it relates to the issues that bring us all here together" at COP30.
