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Tesla AI has updated its FSD (full self driving) achievements. There will be huge progress towards nearing human level driving. Tesla expects to surpass human level driving in mid-2025 (6-9 months). Solving robotaxi and full self driving is key to Tesla’s future. Version 13.X should get them from 12% FSD adoption (% of people who ... Read more

2024 has been a groundbreaking year for the cryptocurrency industry and the stage is set for significant advancements in 2025. Key developments like the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, the resurgence of decentralized finance (DeFi), the rise of asset tokenization, and the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) have drastically reshaped the competitive landscape. In ... Read more

Tesla has been operating supervised ridehailing of robotaxi for Tesla employees in California for the past year. Tesla also has large numbers of employees in Texas. It would be trivial for Tesla to start a supervised ridehailing for robotaxi for Tesla employees in Texas. Tesla has 20,000 employees in Fremont, California. Tesla has over 20,000 ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, will give a talk about Space Friday, Nov 8. Whoever is interested can sign up at EventBrite. It is a free talk that will be via online video presentation. In the world of space exploration, what once seemed impossible is now becoming reality. A giant rocket has been caught in mid-air, and ... Read more

Elon gave a bunch of predictions at a conference about the future. Tesla will start unsupervised robotaxi in Texas and California in Mid-2025. All Tesla vehicles will be autonomous. Autonomy is here. There will be hundreds of millions of Tesla and they will all be autonomous. Elon agrees with Ark Invest that robotaxi will make ... Read more

Australian battery tech company Li-S Energy has a major improvement in the performance of its lithium-sulfur battery technology, with its latest battery achieving an energy density close to 500 Wh/kg. It is semi solid state battery. They are manufactured full-size 10 Ah semi-solid-state cells that deliver an energy density of 498 Wh/kg on first discharge ... Read more

Elon Musk gave a 30-minute lecture on @Neuralink last month at the 2024 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). The roadmap is achieve millions of electrodes connecting to billions of neurons for a whole brain interface that costs about $1000-2000 each with implant surgery only taking 10 minutes. The first generation Neuralink device has 1000 electrodes ... Read more

New evidence changes best estimate of the start of life on Earth and time when the earth will become uninhabitable due to changes in the Sun. Previously, scientists believed that life (simple single cell) started 700 million years after the earth cooled and oceans formed. New evidence has pushed this start date to 200 million ... Read more

Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI, has left OpenAI. Miles was at OpenAI for 6 years and 3 months advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness. Nextbigfuture covers what Miles thinks is needed for AGI readiness. I agree the world needs to be able to capture more value from rapidly ... Read more

Israel is hitting various military targets and an Iranian oil field. This appears to be a proportional response to the prior Iran missile attack. ⚡🚨Breaking: Violent explosions in Iran First pictures of Israel's attack has begun and at this stage it is attacking several locations in Tehran with missiles, the second largest oil field in ... Read more

Boeing is trying to sell the Starliner spacecraft and the ISS support operations that the company performs. Boeing will keep overseeing the Space Launch System. NASA still gives about $3-4 billion per year for Space Launch System. Boeing as part of ULA launched 7 spacecraft while SpaceX launched 525 in the first quarter of 2024. ... Read more

Tesla beat analysts estimates by 18% on earnings for Q3. However, it was achieved with repeatable cost improvement in the cars and in the batteries. Tesla announced that everything that optimists and shareholders have been waiting for is happening. Profits and growth is back and the future of cars, energy, robotaxi and Teslabot look great ... Read more

The future of Space with a fully reusable SpaceX Starship means everything about space will become huge. Our dreams for space were unfulfilled for decades. We could only put tiny satellites into space and costs were at the weight in gold or silver. The shocking SpaceX Starship tower catch means the a rocket with double ... Read more

There were claims of a Rossi e-cat device providing extra range for an electric car. Here is how the test could have been faked. The creator and claimant for the e-cat devices has a history of likely fraud. Two electric vehicles, Renault Twizy 80, were driven and one had an 80 kilogram box that supposedly ... Read more

Nww Linear-complexity Multiplication (L-Mul) algorithm claims it can reduce energy costs by 95% for element-wise tensor multiplications and 80% for dot products in large language models. It maintains or even improving precision compared to 8-bit floating point operations. By replacing complex floating-point multiplication with integer addition Solution in this Paper – Approximates floating-point multiplication using ... Read more

Developers can now direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking, and typing text. Claude can use other tools as well. Introducing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. We’re also introducing a new capability in beta: computer use. Developers can ... Read more

From 2011-2016, Andrea claimed to generate up to a megawatt of power from an cold fusion based energy catalyzer. This ended with a lawsuit from a partner and no commercialized devices. Rossi is now back. Rossi is now promoting an energy device which he claims powers an electric car. On July 30, 2011, Editor Steven ... Read more

CHINA approved 11 nuclear reactors across five sites in August for a cost of $40 billion. They will take about 5 years to build. China has approved 10 new reactors in each of the last two years. China has 56 reactors currently in operation, with a combined capacity that equates to around 5 per cent ... Read more

Nuclear fusion startup, Fuse, is trying to make a mass production version nuclear fusion system based upon the Sandia Z Machine. This is magnetized target fusion using Marx generators. They leverage the Z pinch for their pulsed power approach. They are making a 1-Terawatt TITAN machine and plan to build Z STAR which aims to ... Read more

Construction activity will start this month on a 7 Petwatt laser research facility located on Colorado State University’s Foothills Campus. It shluld be operational mid-2026. CSU, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences program and a strategic $150 million public-private partnership with industry leader Marvel Fusion that launched in 2023.  The ATLAS Facility will be a unique cluster ... Read more

Donations from Didier Coeurnelle enable next phase of LEVF (Longevity escape velocity foundation) Robust Mouse Rejuvenation research program. The initial donation of €200,000 (approximately $220,000) will be increased by a further €200,000 donations to LEVF during the month of October 2024 will be doubled. Donate to LEVF in the next 10 days to boost antiaging ... Read more