What we're building, learning,
and excited about.
A monthly note from the team. Research findings, deployments, alumni placements, and the questions we keep coming back to. Written for partners, funders, and friends; archived in full and searchable.
- May 2026May 2026, Narratives from Germany — whale rescue, Rhineland election, and F1 integrity
Three Arbiter reports trace how attention and emotion moved across platforms: a Baltic whale rescue, Rhineland-Palatinate election discourse on X and Bluesky, and Ferrari–Mercedes competitive-integrity talk ahead of evidence.
ArbiterResearch - April 2026April 2026, Fast Forward, Sakhi endline, and a quarterly retrospective
We were selected to the Fast Forward Tech Nonprofit Accelerator. Sakhi's endline survey wrapped, and Arbiter ships its first social-intelligence reports for partners.
ArbiterNextGenAI - March 2026March 2026, Arbiter Social Intelligence Reports + Sakhi at Psychology of Tech
Three Arbiter Social Intelligence Reports go to newsroom partners (Bondi Beach, West Philippine Sea, Kenya conservation). Sakhi recap from the Psychology of Technology Conference, with four lessons we keep coming back to.
ArbiterSakhiResearch - February 2026February 2026, Truth Warrants paper at IC2S2
Our paired SSRN/IC2S2 papers on market-design interventions for safer agentic AI are now public. Here's the one-paragraph version.
ResearchArbiter - January 2026January 2026, Arbiter detects something before YouTube does
We surfaced a likely-AI-generated content cluster promoting Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré in June 2025. YouTube took down the same cluster, independently, in August.
ArbiterTrust & Safety - August 2025August 2025, NextGenAI launches Speak Boost and Engraph.dev
Speak Boost: from whiteboard to launching with hundreds of users. Engraph.dev: demystifying codebases with AI. Three more SimPPL alumni placements.
NextGenAI - May 2025May 2025, Sakhi at MIT Decentralized AI, alumni headed to Columbia and CERN
Swapneel presented Sakhi at MIT's Decentralized AI event. SimPPL alumni headed to CERN, Columbia University, and NYU for graduate study.
SakhiNextGenAI - February 2025February 2025, Sharda University, Prince Mahidol Award Conference, and a Jalgaon visit
Sharda University AI fact-checking seminar. Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Bangkok on conversational health AI. Field visit to the Sakhi NGO partner in Jalgaon.
SakhiHealth AI - December 2024December 2024, Top 100 at Dubai Future Solutions and a UN cohort
We were chosen among the top 100 of 2,700 submissions globally at Dubai Future Solutions, Prototypes for Humanity. Swapneel addressed UN, World Bank, and IMF leaders on the Atlantic Dialogues panel.
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