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 2026
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.
- April 2026
We launched claims identification and sourcing on Arbiter (beta), were selected for Fast Forward 2026, presented at NYU CSMaP, and published three investigations — H-1B visa discourse, gambling and crypto narratives, and manosphere radicalization.
- March 2026
Three Arbiter Social Intelligence Reports go to newsroom partners (Bondi Beach, West Philippine Sea, Climate Change / Clean Energy). Sakhi recap from the Psychology of Technology Conference, with four lessons we keep coming back to.
- February 2026
Two Arbiter investigations — the wildebeest conservation debate in Kenya and the ICC vs. Duterte digital legal discourse — plus our paired SSRN/IC2S2 papers on market-design interventions for safer agentic AI.
- January 2026
2025 Wrapped: ~3.9k site visitors, 20M+ posts/week traced by Arbiter, 100+ families reached by Sakhi, awards from Google, Omidyar, Ford Foundation, and more. Plus: Arbiter surfaced a likely-AI-generated YouTube cluster two months before YouTube took it down.
- December 2025
Benchmarking AI models for maternal health across English, Hindi, and Marathi. The story behind Sakhi — WhatsApp-based maternal health literacy. Splice Beta 2025 in Chiang Mai and GTSInnovationalogue with Carnegie India.
- November 2025
This Thanksgiving, we're announcing the public beta launch of Arbiter, a social sensemaking platform that helps users trace and understand discourse across the social web.
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Co-founder Swapneel Mehta featured on MAD Warfare podcast and DW Global Media Forum in Bonn. Plus: introducing Fairify, a custom bias detection tool for NLP models, and our June reading list.
- May 2025
Six SimPPL alumni placements this month: CERN, Columbia MSDS, NYU MSCE, Google TPM internship, Cummins Data Science, and University of Maryland. Plus: Engraph.dev ships a developer tool for codebase understanding.
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Dr. Swapneel Mehta presented Sakhi at MIT's Decentralized AI event. Dhara Mungra spoke at CEMCA's Teacher in the Loop Bootcamp. Speak Boost went from an idea to commercial partnerships. Arbiter continues monitoring across platforms.
- February 2025
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.
- December 2024
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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