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SpaceX and the Air Force Research Lab will start testing and developing the capability to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour. SpaceX’s Starship is poised to revolutionize global logistics and travel with breakthrough ultra-fast point-to-point flights on Earth. The US Air Force Research Lab and Space Force have awarded SpaceX contracts totaling ... Read more

The fully reusable SpaceX Starship includes huge combinations of new technologies. The innovations combine into a massive increase in capability. We will be able to launch 1000 times as much payload to orbit. A similar multi-year effort is being achieved with the Tesla Cybercab and its breakthrough manufacturing processes. A Starship uses the Mechazilla launch ... Read more

Super-Turing AI operates more like the human brain and with much less energy. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do. AI data centers are consuming power in gigawatts, whereas our brain consumes 20 watts. That’s 1 billion watts compared to just ... Read more

Bodidata has next level size-matching technology for clothing and this will eliminate costs, reduce environmental waste, and make things easier and faster for customers. The 3D body scanner has over 15 x Faster than traditional fitting + 90% Accuracy on recommendations If this is used this would stop nearly a trillions of garments that don’t ... Read more

There is a global total of $60 trillion of final consumer consumption for 2025. The US with about 4% of total world population has 33% of total consumption.

Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. They build short range surface to ship missiles. They tried for a low earth orbit test and it failed after 30 seconds. They went for an orientation change it failed. The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms ... Read more

Chinese electronics giant Huawei is testing elements for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine at its Dongguan facility, according to two sources posting photographs on X social media. The sources say the equipment is scheduled for trial production of circuits in 2Q25 with full-scale manufacturing in 2026, without attributing the information to any sources of ... Read more

SpaceX is going to make huge advances with fully reusable Super Heavy Starships. A fleet of 100 fully reusable Starships with boosters could transport about 2 million tons per year to orbit. This would be about one thousand times more than last year. SpaceX is making huge progress in these few months. They are on ... Read more

When might AI truly transform our world, and what will that transformation look like? The Epoch AI research team focuses on the future of AI. They have a mission of understanding the future of AI. They have disagreement about timelines for AGI. Two Epoch AI researchers with relatively long and short AGI timelines candidly examine ... Read more

Millions of hectares of old-growth forest disappearing every year, along with tens of thousands of forest species, scientists are calling for a greater emphasis on forest regeneration, in which natural forests are allowed or encouraged to recover under their own steam, for the benefit of ecosystems, communities and the climate. Environmentl Research Journal – Mapping ... Read more

@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). I think this means xAI is valued at $113 billion after the acquisition. Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the ... Read more

I finally got XAI Grok 3 to admit that tree planting, if scaled correctly, can be a complete and permanent solution to the CO₂ problem, offsetting all annual emissions and removing historical excess to restore a pre-industrial atmosphere. I drew a parallel to farming—where we don’t expect every sector to grow its own food but ... Read more

The Mark Rober created fake wall test was used to trick Tesla Autopilot, a driver assist system. This fake wall test was also recreated for new tests with different versions of Tesla FSD and Tesla with Hardware 3 and Hardware 4. Tesla FSD 12.X with Hardware 3 fails the test. Tesla FSD 13.2.X with Hardware ... Read more

There is a BEAD Dashboard that shows how the Rural Broadband funding bill created an obstacle course for providing rural broadband. The bill created a pointless process of creating plans and maps and approving nothing. Each applicant got $5 millions near the start to fund them going through years of submissions, plan creation, map creation ... Read more

A primary focus of LEV Foundation’s work is to empirically demonstrate the feasibility and value of the divide-and-conquer approach to treating age-related disease – that is, the simultaneous deployment of therapies that independently address the distinct classes of damage that accumulate in aging bodies. With a steadily increasing number of such therapies now showing benefits ... Read more

There are various approvals that will start in Netherlands in April 2025, there will be a EU vote in May 2025 and then the various countries in the EU will approve Tesla FSD from Jun-October 2025.

ChatGPT 4o image recreation ca take a photo and apply all kinds of styles. Styles: Studio Ghibli Wallace and Gromit Rick and Morty Attack on Titan Improved capabilities OpenAI trained the 4o native image models on the joint distribution of online images and text, learning not just how images relate to language, but how they ... Read more

Commerce Secretary Lutnick describes how the US Debt, Deficit, Economy and Taxes will be fixed. The US has been spending $6.5 trillion but taking in $4.5 trillion with a $2 trillion deficit and $37 trillion in debt. However, the US has $500 trillion to $1000 trillion in assets. DOGE will cut $1 trillion of waste, ... Read more

xAI Grok is available at no extra cost to about ten million Telegram Premium users. Tracking the website and download activity, xAI Grok 3 appears to moving into second place behind OpenAI and ChatGPT. Telegram just hit 1 billion monthly active users—and now, it’s getting Grok AI. 𝕏 to Telegram – Grok’s first major expansion ... Read more

RogueSpaceCorp launched the OTP-2 satellite with the @ivo_ltd Quantum Drive as a payload. Another IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within a few to ten weeks and then operated for many weeks or months. The previous satellite had communications failure and the IVO drive was not activated. The ... Read more

Yann LeCun is an AI expert that claims that generative AI and the current approaches to AI need to be abandoned. He says that the failure to achieve level 5 self driving cars and very capable humanoid bots shows that LLM are a failure. Tesla has again stated that they will have unsupervised robotaxi starting ... Read more

I will review the AI chips made by AMD, Google and Tesla. It is possible that Tesla with a strong Dojo 3 chip could pass AMD as second best AI chip performance and volume of chips. The top line of Tesla Abundance slide has AI compute along with Optimus, Robotaxi and FSD. This could indicate ... Read more

Two weeks ago, D-Wave System announced a scientific breakthrough using their quantum annealing computers systems. They published in the esteemed journal @ScienceMagazine. Their newest annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving a complex magnetic materials simulation problem with relevance to materials discovery. The new landmark peer-reviewed paper, Beyond-Classical ... Read more

The new SpaceX Gigabay at Boca Chica is designed to be a massive vertical integration and assembly facility to support the production and refurbishment of the Starship launch system. The Gigabay will stand 380 feet tall and provide approximately 46.5 million cubic feet of interior processing space, with 815,000 square feet of workspace. It is ... Read more

Gemini 2.5 and Deepseek 3.1 both do very well on coding challenges and tests. Those who have tested them and Claude 3.7 Sonnet still prefer Claude for coding. 🚀 DeepSeek V3-0324 is now available in Cline. This model offers significant improvements for coding tasks while being up to 53x cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet with ... Read more

Google Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. The first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities. Gemini 2.5 achieved a new level of performance by combining a significantly enhanced base model with improved post-training. Going forward, google ... Read more

Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses his Robust Mouse Rejuvenation (RMR) studies at the LEV Foundation. He believes that three more RMR (Robust Mouse Rejuvenation) studies of combination therapy will get us to the goal of adding an average 12 months of lifespan to a 2 year old mouse that would normally be expected to live ... Read more

Tesla China weekly insurance registrations were 17,400 which were 4,200 more than the same week in 2024. This increase has enabled the YTD domestic China car sales to pass the YTD in 2024. This shows that the production ramp of the new Model Y is basically fully ramped. $TSLA 🇨🇳BREAKING: Tesla China insured units <Mar ... Read more

The Tesla Supercharging Network in the USA, at 80% utilization with ~28,000 stalls, can support 16.4 billion miles/year, sufficient for a 100k–200k Cybercab fleet but not 500k. High robotaxi utilization strains this capacity. Conversely, 3 million Tesla owners could provide 30–150 billion miles/year via home charging, leveraging solar and grid power, with a grid load ... Read more

Rapid improvement in Tesla FSD driving between critical interventions should see another 10X improvement between now and the planned June 2025 launch of unsupervised driving in Austin, Texas. There should be 10-50X reduction in critical interventions with driving in Texas, California and Florida where the system is better adapted. There would also be reduction in ... Read more

Tesla China has officially announced that the FSD update for HW3 and HW4 vehicles will be available via OTA. Also, the paused FSD 1 month trial will be re-distributed. Everything is currently pending regulatory approval. China appears close to giving full approval for Tesla FSD. A Chinese driver owns both a Tesla vehicle with FSD ... Read more

SpaceX’s Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed for interplanetary travel, with test flights conducted to refine its capabilities. As of early 2025, eight test flights have occurred, with Flights 7 and 8 both ending in the upper stage (Ship) exploding. There are significant technical challenges, possibly related to amplified vibration problems. ... Read more

Here is an LLM Hardware Calculator. If you enter the size of the LLM model you want to run locally, then the calculator will provide the GPUs, memory and other primary specifications needed to run the model.

NVIDIA released a new petaflop AI computer DGX Spark (aka DIGITS). There is an ASUS version using the same Nvidia chip and board. These compete with Apple and other third parties for personal AI developer systems. The Apple M3 Ultra can scale to 512 GB per unit, offering vastly more total memory (up to 2.56 ... Read more

Boeing has won a $20 billion contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter—the revolutionary F-47. Pilot Photog describes the breakthrough stealth and new engines for the sixth-generation stealth jet. There was also a lot more prototypes flown for the 6th generation fighter. The systems to be used have been built ... Read more

AI coding assistance in Replit, Cursor, and Windsurf are all good tools. Here is a comparison of features, ease of use, integration, pricing, community support, AI models, automation, and best use cases. This 6-way comparison found Replit worked better followed by Cursor and Windsurf. Replit Replit is a cloud-based IDE known for its accessibility and ... Read more

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil predicts AI will outperform human coders in competitive coding benchmarks by 2025. OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer (CPO) Kevin Weil claimed that AI could surpass human coders in competitive coding benchmarks by the end of 2025. He said this in a podcast with Avalon CEO Varun Mayya and YouTuber Tanmay Bhat on ... Read more

Manus, developed by the Chinese startup Monica, is the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent. It launched on March 6, 2025. It can independently execute complex, real-world tasks. Manis AI can: Analyze stocks by conducting deep research, creating checklists, and generating reports with investment recommendations. Research AI tools by ranking the top 50 business AI ... Read more

Elon Musk has posted that SpaceX Starship is on track to weekly launches of the version 3 Starship in 2026. This will mean 20-30 times the bandwidth per Starship launch with Starlink V3 satellites versus Falcon 9 with V2 mini satellites. Forty Starship launches with each launching 60 TBPS of capacity. This would mean 2400 ... Read more

The US Air Force has selected companies and funded the purchase of new combat superdrones and the Boeing F47 next generation stealth fighter. X-prototype versions of the Boeing F47 stealth fighter have been flying for several years and the new drones are also flying. General Atomics and Anduril phase 1 high performance drones in the ... Read more

Boeing won a contract March 21 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft (6th generation fighter) for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing and Lockheed Martin were competing for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems. The US Air Force says the F-47 will be the world’s first crewed sixth-generation fighter. It is ... Read more

Elon Musk spoke about many breakthroughs at a Tesla All Hands meeting yesterday. Elon said that the Tesla Dojo 2 chip will be in volume production in a few months. The Tesla Dojo 2 chip has ten times the performance of the Dojo 1. If Tesla Dojo 2 is ten times better than the Dojo ... Read more

A 2025 Tesla Cybertruck with FSD HW4 V13.2.8 Passed the fake wall test. A 2022 Tesla Model Y with HW3 V12.5 failed the fake wall test.