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Palo Alto, California, 23rd October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70YNK)
Elon Musk said the Tesla Robotaxi in Austin will have no safety monitor by end of 2025. No other human in the car which means Tesla robotaxi can scale to about 10 cities with thousands of cars each by mid 2026. Elon Musk greenlighting car production with autonomy solved means tens of thousands of Cybercabs ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70YNM)
The most important highlights of the Tesla Q3 earnings call. Tesla robotaxi miles were 250,000 in Austin and over 1 million in the SF Bay area. This is a significant ramp from about 7000 miles in Austin. This means about half of the miles were likely in the October. The SF bay area started at ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70YGK)
Meta has a joint venture agreement with Blue Owl Capital in a deal worth $27 billion to fund and develop the social media company's massive Hyperion data center in rural Louisiana. The deal will see Blue Owl own 80% of the Hyperion data center, with Meta taking the remaining 20% stake. Blue Owl contributed about ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70YGM)
I, Brian Wang, am one of the main co-authors for AI RISING: How To Thrive In The Age Of Abundance Please support with an order and share with others who might buy the book. All of the authors are Randy Kirk, Brian Wang, Cern Basher, Phil Beisel, Bradford Ferguson, John Gibbs, Nicholas Gibbs, Larry Goldberg, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70YGN)
Reflect Orbital plans a constellation to enable solar power generation at night, make crops grow better and stronger, possibly replace urban lighting, provide emergency illumination in disaster zones and enable people to work into the night. UPDATE: The concept of mirrors in space was previously discussed in 2018, when China was looking to get 8 ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70YAY)
SpaceX and Elon Musk can replace SLS, Space Launch System, with the fixed priced $100 million per ton moon missions from 2028 and beyond. This would still be $10 billion for a full 100 ton payload to the moon and $7 billion if the same costs were used but scaled based on fewer refueling launches. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70YAZ)
Dynetics Alpaca and Blue Origin both look like possible 2029-2030 lunar landers if they get funded. The developments are not certain. Reviving the competition will be a $2-5 billion cost. However, this funding will not deliver the completed Artemis 3 mission. It would just give an option in 2028 or later for another lander if ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70XTD)
SpaceX's $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum enables broadband DTC (direct to cellphone) with 20x throughput over prior low-band spectrum from T-mobile. This mid-band S-spectrum offers excellent propagation characteristics but phones will need new chips to work with the spectrum band. DTC is an emerging service and we are going from it ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70XS5)
In 2022, the National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended exploration of Uranus as its highest priority Flagship mission for the 2030s. The Decadal recommendation relied on the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) concept as its baseline for the mission. UOP assumed a launch in 2031 on a Falcon Heavy Expendable rocket and ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70XS6)
There is an intensifying race to return humans to the Moon, pitting the US against China and now NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy will have SpaceX race Blue Origin and other bidders. China is aiming for a crewed lunar landing in 2029-2030. There are developing a Long March 10A super heavy lift rocket (70 tons), ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70XQM)
Everything has to go right for China to launch a human moon mission in 2029 or even 2030. China is also building a new rocket and they have not assembled it yet or flown it. China is still testing a lunar lander. Long March 10 Rocket Certification (2026-2027) Verification: On Track, with Accelerated 2025 Testing. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70XP4)
As of October 21, 2025, Blue Origin has conducted only one New Glenn launch to date. The maiden flight occurred on January 16, 2025, from Cape Canaveral's SLC-36, successfully reaching orbit with a prototype Blue Ring payload, though the first stage was lost during reentry. The second Blue Origin launch of New Glenn is taking ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70XP5)
NASA's acting administrator Sean Duffy says he plans to open up the contract" SpaceX holds to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis 3 mission because the company has fallen behind schedule. Duffy previously maintained that Artemis 3 would launch in 2027, the agency's official target, even as multiple Starship test flight failures earlier ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#70XAB)
Wilmington, Delaware, 21st October 2025, CyberNewsWire
by Brian Wang on (#70WXF)
The US and its hyperscalers are spending more money on AI and AI data centers. The US hyperscalers have huge capacity for $400 billion on capital expenditure and hundreds of billion on research. The US hyperscalers have more free cashflow to expand AI investments towards $1 trillion per year and beyond. China is getting Nvidia ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WXG)
Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are very clear for population impacts on workforce and retirement. People who will be 20 years older are alive today. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WWD)
In August 2016, my son and I met Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky. Daniel has sadly died at the young age of 29. I only got to see him for a couple of hours but he was already a great chess communicator and educator. He reached as high as 18th in the world rankings. Naroditsky was ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WPE)
As of September 2025, the total amount of gold ever mined and remaining above ground (the investable stock used for market valuation) is approximately 218,000 metric tonnes. This figure accounts for all gold in forms like jewelry, bars, coins, central bank holdings and industrial uses. At the current gold price of $4,307 per troy ounce ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WPF)
TSMC's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix celebrates the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil. The US Nvidia Blackwell has reached volume production. The chip packaging is still done in Taiwan. TSMC Arizona will produce advanced technologies including two-, three- and four-nanometer chips, as well as A16 chips, all essential for applications like AI, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WPG)
Mathematician Thomas Bloom, runs erdosproblems.com, explains that OpenAI surfaced erdos problem solutions that were not unsolved. OpenAI GPT-5 simply surfaced existing papers solving them that he had personally overlooked, mislabeling them as open" on his site. No new mathematics was generated-GPT-5 acted as an advanced search tool. OpenAI's Mark Sellke and Sebastien Bubeck previously announced ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70W0H)
Elena Vera, a growth leader at Lovable with 10+ years running growth teams, argues that distribution-not just product quality-determines company success. Great products fail without it, while mediocre ones thrive with strong distribution. She defines growth as answering four questions predictably: Acquire, Activate, Monetize, and Retain customers. Fast-growing companies succeed via growth loops (compounding flywheels, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70W0J)
Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk defines AGI as capable of doing anything a human with a computer can do, but not smarter than all humans and computers ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70VKB)
Taiwan, South Korea and China have critically low fertility rates below 1.0. Japan is also very low (1.15) and has had low fertility for longer. By 2070, the countries could halve their current populations. A fertility rebound could avert 30-70% of projected population losses by 2100. This might stabilizing societies at near-current sizes-but only if ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70VJ1)
Major breakthroughs in AI across science, productivity, and social platforms: 1. AI Turns Research Papers into Interactive Agents A new system called Paper-to-Agent" converts academic papers into live, interactive AI agents. These AIs can: Answer complex questions about the research. Visualize data and models dynamically. Update themselves with new findings. Interact with other research AIs ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V97)
Poland is getting serious about declining fertility rates which hit a record low of 1.16 births per woman in 2024. On October 16, 2025, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed the PIT Zero for Large Families initiative into law. It exempts parents raising at least two children from personal income tax (PIT). This builds on earlier ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V74)
Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, which is approximately 6,900 mph. While its cruise speed is planned to be around Mach 4-5, the engine combination ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V75)
EagleEye is a family of Warfighter Augments, powered by Lattice, that equip warfighters with enhanced perception, lethal connectivity, heightened survivability, and mission planning to see the fight earlier, decide faster, and act with better information. EagleEye consists of heads-up displays, integrated helmets, and compute armor - all architected from the ground up to meet fit ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V76)
Tesla's imminent wide release of FSD (Full Self-Driving) update to version 14.1.2. Some testers believe FSD 14.X will enable unsupervised driving by December. Chuck Cook is confident about FSD progress. Backseat driving demos could supercharge word-of-mouth sales, making FSD irresistible and potentially overwhelming Tesla's production capacity. Today's stock rally (from ~$423 to $440), attributing it ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V31)
AI productivity has been heavily dependent on prompt abilities and how people gave instructions to AI. Claude has introduced skill files (portable to other LLM- large language models): Automatically invoke predefined capabilities when a relevant task is mentioned Handle multi-step projects like job candidate research, spreadsheet automation, or report generation using stored logic Provide consistent ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V0P)
SpaceX released photos and videos of the Flight 11 ocean landing. Super Heavy hover pic.twitter.com/VLczlgdeH8 - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 15, 2025 Starship successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown pic.twitter.com/ftAWwk3B33 - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 16, 2025 SpaceX is making sci-fi real. pic.twitter.com/uneAQCldK5 - DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 16, 2025
by Brian Wang on (#70V0Q)
SpaceX had three Falcon 9 launches in the last three days. They have had 130 launches in 2025 and are on track for about 170 launches in 2025. October 14, Project Kuiper KF-03 Mission. A Falcon 9 launched Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites from Florida's SLC-40, with successful deployment confirmed and the first stage landing on ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TEY)
Tesla is test driving the cybercab in Fremont. Various drone footage from youtube. Stopped by Giga Texas this afternoon and there was a Cybercab test vehicle driving on the S River Road and to the W side. This is the 1st one I've seen driving here in a while. Much more I'll share soon! pic.twitter.com/tP1kjBQziB ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TEZ)
The S-70UAS U-HawkTM is a complete conversion of a UH-60L Black Hawk(R) helicopter into a pilotless, battle-ready utility platform. Announced on October 13, 2025, at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) exposition, the U-Hawk removes the cockpit, crew stations, and seats to prioritize payload capacity and autonomy. It has 95% common parts with ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TF0)
Publicly traded quantum companies, particularly the pure-play innovators, have delivered insane stock price runs over the past 1-2 years despite revenues that barely register. IonQ (IONQ), Quantum Computing (QUBT), Rigetti Computing (RGTI), and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) dominate as publicly traded companies. The market caps collectively exceed $50 billion but with revenues totaling under $100 million. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TA4)
The Dark Eagle, Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), is a road-mobile system capable of striking targets up to 1,700 miles away. Each battery has eight missiles on mobile trucks. This setup allows for quick deployment and fast strikes. The US Military is deploying the first missile battery. The LRHW is a road-mobile and air-transportable weapon system, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70T54)
Brad and Bill on the BG2 Podcast describe the AI CapEx bubble. The explosive growth in AI investment-especially in data centers, chips, and model training-shows potential signs of historical overreach. They increase the odds of overbuilding and reduce the quality of revenues. Gurley identifies round-tripping deals like the original deal between Microsoft and OpenAI, where ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70SPW)
Ford year-to-date has around 115-117 recalls as of October 15, 2025. The total vehicles affected year-to-date now exceeds 10 million, with Q3 2025 alone accounting for over 5 million vehicles impacted across Ford's campaigns-the highest quarterly figure for any manufacturer and representing nearly 60% of all U.S. vehicle recalls in that period. This surge continues ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70SJF)
Oklo's market capitalization has ballooned to $25 billion. The NRC denied Oklo's custom combined license application in Jan 2022, citing insufficient information on maximum-credible-accident (MCA) analyses, safety classification of SSCs (systems/structures/components), QA implementation, and other key technical topics. The denial and associated letters are public. Oklo has since restructured its licensing approach and reengaged the ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#70SBQ)
New York, United States, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70S65)
New York, USA, New York, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70RJ6)
SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over lower heating areas. SpaceX will choose to remain extra cautious but they can eventually reduce heat shield tiles. SpaceX is scaling ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70RJ7)
AMD Helios rack-scale solution. These are liquid-cooled, 72-GPU racks powering AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs (Venice) and do feature integrated UALoE scale-up connectivity. Oracle buying 50K MI450 for 2026. Is that about $2 billion. The AMD Helios is a next-generation, open-standard, rack-scale AI infrastructure platform designed for large-scale AI training, inference, and ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#70RCS)
Torrance, United States, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70RCT)
Tel Aviv, Israel, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70R1N)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70QYX)
Broadcom and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to co-develop and deploy 10 gigawatts (GW) of custom AI accelerators and integrated networking systems. This is OpenAI's start at designing its own AI processors. This builds on the Nvidia and AMD GPU supply deals. Broadcom's stock is up about 10% (adding ~$150 billion to market cap) ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QWQ)
In 2026, SpaceX will be launching many of the larger V3 Starlink satellites from the reusable Starship. Dummy version of the V3 Starlink were launched on SpaceX Starship flight 10 and flight 11. Starlink V3's 60 meter span is like a blue whale. AST Space Mobile Block 2's array rivals a tennis court.
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by Brian Wang on (#70QRQ)
The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:23 p.m. CT. It launched. Goals of Starship Flight 11: ** Good** Test new Super Heavy landing burn configuration ** Good** - Gather data for next-gen booster dynamics ** Good** - Stress-test Starship ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QVM)
Despite the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot pledge, public accounting shows less than $10 million spending. Philip Lubin (UC Santa Barbara, laser propulsion) received ~$200,000 over eight years. This was less than his NASA grants for similar work. There is an estimate of 30 contracts totaling $4.5 million. Scientists viewed this as a kickstart. Breakthrough's name ... Read more
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