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Colossal Biosciences' Ben Lamm and Andruil's Palmer Luckey are genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and other emergency response teams. They announced its emergence from stealth as Warhound, armed with $200 million in funding from investors including In-Q-Tel, Sequoia, and 8VC. The round values the company at $1.2 billion. Palmer Luckey ... Read more

The most consequential deployment of agentic AI this year isn't happening in a chatbot or a copilot. It's happening on the shop floor, where software is beginning to decide, on its own, when a bulldozer comes offline and which technician meets it there. The dollars are small so far and the implications are large. Heavy-equipment ... Read more

Breaking down Elon's confidence about 13-23 Gigawatts of data center which will result in about a trillion dollars of revenue in 2027. SpaceX and Elon are superconfident about energy, land and shell. They believe that is assured. Nvidia CEO Jensen and others say funding, land, power and shell are the biggest challenges. SpaceX are building ... Read more

FigureAI is spending $8.1 million last week on data. They are training new models and are learning from humans at scale. They will spend billions on data in the next year or two. Brett says they will need larger compute clusters than the LLM have today. FigureAI has an Nscale partnership. NScale has a deal ... Read more

Efficient infrastructure is the foundation for scaling AI. NVIDIA DSX is a full-stack AI factory reference architecture, co-designed across compute, networking, storage, power, and cooling. Validated in a digital twin before construction begins. DSX Max LPS uses 30% less power for the same output. Closed-loop liquid cooling and outdoor dry coolers save up to 54 ... Read more

Contern, Luxembourg, 22nd October 2026, CyberNewswire

Everything that matters for Tesla should scale in Q2 2027. AI5 chips in April 2027 integrating with Optimus. Customer cars start joining the Robotaxi fleet in Q2 2027 Optimus targets to 20,000 a week (a 1 million/year run rate) by Q4 but should be substantial in Q2 2027. Factories scaled for 5 million cars a ... Read more

Every day I review 2-3 Kalshi energy, science and tech markets where I think the outcome is clearer than the odds suggest. I've forecast on Metaculus and Manifold since 2019: 6,596 predictions, a best-ever #8 of 34,617 Baseline Accuracy rank on Metaculus, and a Brier score of 0.071 vs the Metaculus site's 0.080 (Oct 2023). ... Read more

Tesla will have factories scaled to 5 million cars per year by 2030. I, Nextbigfuture, believe this will be 3 million more autonomous vehicles. Cybercabs mostly, maybe 500K semi (semi will be robotrucks). 2 million regular model Y and 3. Q2 2027 turn on the customers for the robotaxi fleet. Unsupervised driving becomes a big ... Read more

Elon said it yesterday, I said it before Elon. And I made over a dozen videos and posts, and detailed models and graphics, before Elon was willing to say it. I have also projected when the undeniable proof lands and when people believe. I found all of the evidence of the minihard builds and put ... Read more

New York, NY, USA, 21st October 2026, CyberNewswire

SpaceX talked about adding 10-20 Gigawatts of AI compute in 2027. I was already looking at the demand for AI that would absorb the 50 Gigawatts in 2027 that is built according to Semi Analysis. Elon osfairly confident" of an incremental 10 GW of compute online in 2027, and aiming for an incremental 20 GW ... Read more

Orlando, Florida, United States, 21st October 2026, CyberNewswire

There will be 20 launch tower in Louisiana starting around 2029. They plan weekly Starship launches in the first half of 2026 and then twice weekly and then perhaps daily in 2027. This would be 100-200 launches in 2027. They will have 10Gw of AI data center added next year and a non-zero chance of ... Read more

Nextbigfuture is starting regular Kalshi market reviews alongside our usual science, technology and business coverage. Each day I will look at two or three Kalshi markets, mostly in the technology, science and energy categories, where a deeper understanding of what it takes for something to happen tells you which way it is likely to resolve. ... Read more

There are roughly 35-40 million U.S. children in the 2016-2024 birth cohorts (births have averaged ~3.6-3.9 million per year in that period). Michael Dell gave $250 targeted about 25 million of them-primarily those in lower- and middle-income ZIP codes-which the Dells described as covering the large majority of children in that age group. If Elon ... Read more

Top technology leader's like Elon Musk, Palantir Alex Karp, Lonsdale, and a handful of others possess a rare ability to (1) recognize extreme talent outliers (blue-note" talent that most institutions systematically undervalue), (2) attract and retain them with high-agency environments and extreme missions, and (3) set company objectives that force full utilization of that talent ... Read more

San Rafael, United States, 19th October 2026, CyberNewswire

The undercounting crowdsourced robotaxitracker using entries from about 40 people has passed 500. 8,238 trips logged last 90 days out of hundreds of thousands of rides. 803 Texas registered + florida 30 counted.

SpaceX went from slab to steel in four days on a 444-acre site in Brownsville, Texas, and about 500 MW of gas turbines are already parked beside the building. I think this site has room for up to 20 minihard AI data centers, with a payback of about six months per building. SuperVC Ben Horowitz ... Read more

Tesla's Roadster flies. Cold-gas thrusters lift it for about 10 seconds with no ramp, but the thrusters and precision control are the bigger story. The same technology could enable SpaceX to bring cargo back with precise landings anywhere on Earth from space for a tiny fraction of what a Dragon capsule costs. Brian Wang of ... Read more

SpaceX can build a minihard AI data center in about 5 months. There's room for six in Texas and six more in Tennessee, so a dozen could be under construction at once. Each one costs about $13B to build and could bring in roughly $27B a year in revenue, at about 40% lower cost than ... Read more

Four 20 kW fans, built on the heat pump's compressor motor, suck the car onto the road with skirts, so it holds over 2 g in corners even below 50 mph. The wing actuators are borrowed Optimus leg actuators. A 200-liter tank at 10,000 psi feeds cold-gas thrusters with more than 80 kN of thrust, ... Read more

Big Tech is spending about a trillion dollars a year on AI data centers, and is now betting on factory modules and tents to go faster. SpaceX is already finishing data centers in about five months. Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all racing to build AI data centers. They are spending about a trillion ... Read more

It will go beyond the Limits of Physics. The multi-modefanand ground sealing system acts as a downforce generator,pullingair out from beneath the vehicle.This provides enough suction to hold the vehicle upside down, even when stationary. Powered fans and active wings maximize traction and cornering speedsin all conditions, achieving massive downforce at zero speed. A next-gen ... Read more

Can SpaceX's Terafab reach the scale of TSMC? The answer starts with understanding the sequence: develop the process, prove the production line, then replicate it. The useful question about Terafab is how it gets from a working production line to an enormous chip-manufacturing operation. That requires a sequence. Acquire the expertise. Develop and qualify the ... Read more

INmune Bio (Nasdaq: INMB) and Quantum Computing Inc. (Nasdaq: QUBT) announced they are working togther to run INmune Bio's clinical and preclinical data on XPro (XPro1595) through QCi's Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine, combined with AI and conventional analytics. XPro is INmune Bio's investigational dominant-negative TNF drug designed to selectively block soluble TNF (a driver of ... Read more

Five thousand launches a year means nearly fourteen launches every day. At an assumed 200 tonnes of payload per V4 Starship flight, that would deliver one million tonnes to orbit annually. Under the satellite power-density assumptions in my latest video, that supports 50-100 gigawatts of new orbital AI capacity per year. Those numbers explain why ... Read more

In Cleanview's report, there was 2 GW of BTM capacity online by mid-2026 and there will likely be 3 GW-equivalent by end of 2026. By the end of 2027, it could be as high as 13 GW-more than the power demand of NYC. Meta's Prometheus data center in New Albany, Ohio. Meta brought five data ... Read more

Top mathematician says the shock is immense. I am paralyzed. Not a single one of the major open problems of my career was left untouched by the announcement. On October 6 OpenAI released hundreds of papers addressing at least 372 other long-standing open problems across mathematics. The scale and nonchalance of the drop produced the ... Read more

SpaceX has filed to increase from its already approved 25 Starship launches per year to 100 annual launches from Texas. This will then increase to 456 launches. There are double the number of landings (one for booster and one for upper stage). In Florida, SpaceX has environmental and operational authorizations for up to 44 Starship-Super ... Read more

Torrance, California, 13th October 2026, CyberNewswire

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 13th October 2026, CyberNewswire

Over 65 additional Cybercabs counts have been added in Austin. The counts are now 484 total unsupervised, 345 active in Austin and 172 Cybercabs total. 12 new log entries added 4 new cars. There likely 800 Tesla unsupervised robotaxi in Texas and Florida. This is confirming that Tesla did add over Cybercabs in Austin. ARK ... Read more

Tesla added 300 Cybercabs into Austin. The robotaxitracker which only has about 1-2% of rides recorded. 400 logged rides over the last week has detected about 50 Cybercabs. The count went from 100 to 150. Tesla said they added and have over 300 Cybercabs in Austin. There are 300 Cybercabs ready to be released in ... Read more

One new AI data center per month represents $25 billion in annual revenue capacity each month and then it will triple to $75 billion per month with Rubin chips in 2027. Completing facilities at a monthly pace would make construction speed a major driver of SpaceX's valuation. That is the core of the $1,000-per-share SpaceX ... Read more

A conversation at X Takeover about AI abundance and existential risk, the next chapter of space exploration, and what it takes to turn extraordinary ideas into reality. Engine computer software for one of the engines was the problem for the Starship Flight 14. Heat shield and engines are all looking robust. They need to get ... Read more

AI could enable businesses-and eventually entire industries-to achieve tenfold or greater productivity with the same workforce. That would change the cost of goods and services, the value of skills, and which companies dominate. The Industrial Revolution shows how transformations of that scale develop. It also explains why impressive inventions can arrive long before their full ... Read more

Tesla likely has over or near 500 vehicles in Austin. Tesla says 300+ cybercab in Austin. robotaxitracker.com crowdsourced says 105 cybercab and 170 Model Y. This would mean 300 cybercab and 170+ Model Y in Austin. The total unsupervised in Texas and Florida should be 610+. The Texas registered amount of 739 and there are ... Read more

Elon Said this will sound super crazy, but I see a path to SpaceX being worth orders of magnitude more than the current Earth economy The Actual SpaceX plans from mass-produced AI data centers on Earth and reusable Starships to lunar factories, magnetic mass drivers and vast networks of orbital AI satellites. The numbers reveal ... Read more

Tesla just registered a record 150 Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered to date to 319 (up from 169), according to the Texas DMV. Tesla just nearly doubled its registered Cybercabs overnight. 739 unsupervised Tesla robotaxi registered in Texas.

Varda hd a $250M Series D raise, bringing the total amount of capital raised to $598 million with a $1.6Billion valuation. Varda is a microgravity-enabled life sciences company that processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth. This funding will help them build more vehicles, grow pharmaceutical partnerships, and advance toward the first medicine ... Read more

Toronto, Canada, 8th October 2026, CyberNewswire

GPT 6 Pro and Fable 5.1 to rank all math discoveries in the last three years and 81% of them were released yesterday in the OpenAI Math solutions release. for Human discovered for AI discovered (before October 6th) for AI discovered from OpenAI/math repo i asked GPT 6 Pro and Fable 5.1 ... Read more

SpaceX is doing the IMPOSSIBLE in the last few months of this year. It will change EVERYTHING. They have a new most important product and it IS not the reusable Starship or AI in Space. Monetizing the data centers at the rate SpaceX is doing is making them the fastest growing company in the world ... Read more

Silver Springs, United States / Maryland, 6th October 2026, CyberNewswire

Torrance, Californina, 6th October 2026, CyberNewswire

New York, New York, 6th October 2026, CyberNewswire

The biggest near-term change in SpaceX's business is happening already and will be obvious over the next few months. They are completing some of the largest AI data centers on Earth every month. In my latest video, I examine the Macrohard, Macroharder and Minihard buildout-and why a construction cycle measured in months could make conventional ... Read more

Canada's largest energy project is now the Churchill Falls-Gull Island package in Labrador. It is nearly $70 billion and the largest clean-energy investment in North American history. This will be about 14,000 MW of clean power across the package. It is the existing Churchill Falls plant plus new hydro and wind, nearly tripling Churchill Falls. ... Read more