AnalysisScienceNovember 12, 2026

The Verge: AI agents did not discover an unknown Maya site

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Google researcher Pietro Miotti said 48 AI agents combing ~1,200 km² of NASA lidar flagged a "major village" in Mexico, but the site was already published in an academic journal last year. Miotti said the work was a personal side project done without Google compute or resources.

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