Edition November 4, 2026

AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence

At Northern California’s Allen Telescope Array, AI agents can steer the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals in real time, although researchers still enter the commands.

The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen use Nvidia’s Holoscan platform to process telescope data in real time; Nvidia says its hardware can handle up to 2.4 terabits per second, and the team says work that took weeks can now be completed in hours. The research team wants to test open-source software that can run locally at the edge, with future sensors on the far side of the Moon in view. SETI researchers have searched for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence since 1960, but none has been found.

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