The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs

Reflect Orbital will launch a test satellite carrying an 18-by-18 m mirror and envisions deploying up to 50,000 similar mirrors to beam sunlight to Earth for power, emergency response, and military purposes; researchers warn the beams could match the brightness of 10,000 full moons, illuminating tens of kilometers and threatening dark-sky preservation, aviation safety, and wildlife. Insilico Medicine’s pulmonary-fibrosis drug, promoted as AI-discovered, lists only five human inventors on its patent, exposing a legal gap over whether non-human creators can be recognized as inventors.