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by Brian Wang on (#74Q67)
Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla Lead Director of Optimus, at the ETH Robotics Club INSPIRE Talk in Switzerland. Konstantinos presented Optimus 2.5 and the work behind it and its predecessors. Here are some highlights from the talk. The sim-to-real gap is propaganda. It's not a gap if you haven't tried to model your robot properly." Hardware matters ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74Q68)
Konstantinos Laskaris (Tesla Optimus Program Lead/Director) gave an INSPIRE keynote talk at the ETH Robotics Club in Zurich on April 2, 2026 (attended by 400+ students and robotics enthusiasts). He presented Optimus 2.5 (and predecessors), showcased the robot live, discussed hardware progress, and revealed slides on Optimus Gen 3 as the first mass manufacturable" model.
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by Brian Wang on (#74Q69)
Blue Origin has several NASA missions, AST Space Mobile and Amazon LEO satellite launches planned. The plan is for four launches of New Glenn in 2026. There is an upcoming NG-3 for AST Space Mobile and then three launches. An Amazon LEO mission, a NASA moon mission and then another AST Space Mobile mission.
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by Brian Wang on (#74Q6A)
The next-generation AST Space Mobile Block 2 BlueBirds are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the first generation BlueBird satellites. They are needed for the goal of 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage. The service will target approximately 100% U.S. nationwide coverage from space with over 5,600 coverage cells, with ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74PPN)
Elon Musk says the next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away. This means it is delayed from Aoril into May. Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away pic.twitter.com/tg4OQQ7pyI - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#74PPP)
Moscow, Russia, 3rd April 2026, CyberNewswire
by Brian Wang on (#74PDX)
Tesla has regained the global lead in BEV deliveries, as BYD's BEV sales dropped significantly in the first quarter. Tesla had 358023 BEV sales globally in Q1 2026 while BYD had 310,389. Tesla China Mar wholesale deliveries jump as market recovers. Tesla China's wholesale volume reached 85,670 vehicles in March, representing a 46.20% increase from ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74PDY)
Bloomberg reports SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 trillion. According to people familiar with the matter, SpaceX and its advisers are already floating this figure to prospective investors. Testing-the-waters briefings (where they share more supporting details) are scheduled to begin in the coming week. Breaking: SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74PDZ)
Thursday, NASA's Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds beginning at 7:49 p.m. EDT, to successfully complete the translunar injection (TLI) burn, sending the crew in Orion out of Earth orbit and on a trajectory toward the Moon. Congratulations to NASA for what has been a broadly successful mission so ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74NK2)
Nicole Kagan, Head of Research at Kalshi, with hosts Nick and Sam) sees Kalshi's CFTC-regulated prediction markets as emerging financial instruments that can revolutionize risk hedging across finance, insurance, and beyond. Event contracts (binary Yes/No payouts on real-world outcomes) are tools to financialize uncertainty and turn discrete risks like macroeconomic data releases, policy changes, cultural ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#74MZD)
New York, New York, 1st April 2026, CyberNewswire
by Brian Wang on (#74MZE)
There were many complaints that radiating heat from AI Data Centers in space would be a huge problem but in fact they will be a huge advantage. On Earth, cooling an AI data center is an active, energy-hungry process. Chillers, fans, pumps, water loops, and heat exchangers devour power simply to stop silicon from melting ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74KST)
NASA's Lead Electrostatics Scientist, Dr Charles Buhler, claims he's discovered a new force" that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74KBH)
Tesla is deploying more supervised robotaxi, hiring more drivers and testers and will start production of Cybercab in weeks. This should lead to a scaled robotaxi future.
by Brian Wang on (#74KBJ)
The NASA Lunar Gateway program was cancelled but pieces of it will be used for the early parts of the moonbase and as part of the nuclear mission to Mars. NASA wants to fly two crewed missions to the moon every year. Japan is helping to build a large 15 ton lunar rover that will ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74K11)
UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world's first for a rocket of this type, was showcased live during a technical session at Jeff Bezos's exclusive MARS Conference in California, offering a tantalizing glimpse into a future of dramatically faster interplanetary ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74K12)
ARC-AGI-3 is an interactive benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments in which agents must explore, infer goals, build internal models of environment dynamics, and plan effective action sequences without explicit instructions. Like its predecessors ARC-AGI-1 and 2, ARC-AGI-3 focuses entirely on evaluating fluid adaptive efficiency on novel tasks, while avoiding language ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74H4M)
There are reports Tesla Giga Shanghai already has dedicated production lines running for the standard Model 3. This variant is the simplified, lower-cost version (smaller battery, ~480 km CLTC range) that Tesla will sell in China and export to Asia. Expected pricing for the new Standard version per Multiple sources (Global China EV, CarNewsChina, 36Kr, ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74H1P)
Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Humans on lunar surface before 2030. HLS (Human Landing System) planned ready by 2028, though much must go right. Starlink Constellation Size has ~10,000 Starlink satellites launched and [high speed internet] likely cap 15,000-20,000. There has been a separate FCC filing for 15000 ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74G3G)
Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries (21.8% Energy Density Gain) is described by Jordan at the Limiting Factor. A new University of Chicago paper (published March 2026) demonstrates a simple but powerful tweak to dry-electrode cathode design that delivers a 21.8% increase in usable energy density while maintaining excellent cycle life. The breakthrough relies entirely on ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#74FXH)
San Francisco, USA, 25th March 2026, CyberNewswire
by Brian Wang on (#74FHQ)
Eric Schmidt and other AI leaders (Karpathy, Musk, Anthropic executives) have described recursive self-improvement (RSI)-AI autonomously designing, testing, and deploying better versions of itself-as the pivotal transition from narrow, human-guided progress to potentially explosive, closed-loop intelligence growth. RSI is not yet fully autonomous across the entire AI stack with no human oversight but narrow versions ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74FFF)
NASA will advance lunar science by affordably building out of the Moon Base and underpin future Moon and Mars exploration. An accelerated CLPS cadence, targeting up to 30 robotic landings starting in 2027. NASA is expediting delivery of science and technology to the lunar surface. There will be many opportunities for payload delivery including rovers, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74FFG)
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a $20 billion plan to build a permanent U.S. base on the Moon over the next 7 years. NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit. NASA is committed to achieving the nearimpossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump's ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74FFH)
NASA will launch the Space Reactor1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028, demonstrating advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Nuclear electric propulsion provides an extraordinary capability for efficient mass transport in deep space and enables high power missions beyond Jupiter where solar arrays are not effective. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74FCW)
The Tesla Terafab will likely take a 2-4 years to build and those first phases will not be all of the 100+ million square foot building or complex. The start of the project with the pilot lab facilities can start paying immediate dividends. Speeding up the design of the chips and allowing for more experimentation ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#74EW8)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 24th March 2026, CyberNewswire
by Brian Wang on (#74ETQ)
Nvidia has 19 car company partners for robotaxi. Those car companies have deployed cars with driver assist but they do not have unsupervised robotaxi. The LIDAR needed for driver assist is produced in substantial volume but only a few thousand are produced for robotaxi grade LIDAR sensors. The car partners have not bought and installed ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74DSR)
Tesla has the world's most advanced AI (not OpenAI). Autopilot runs superhuman edge AI on HW4 (only 20-50W - same as human brain) while Nvidia B300/Rubin use 1,500-2,000W+. AI5 will jump to 800W for more tasks (distributed inference), but efficiency still unmatched. FSD 14.3 (10x parameters, reasoning model) incoming - the last big piece" for ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74DSS)
Tesla Model Y is the number 2 top selling vehicle in China and Tesla Model 3 is the 5th most sold EV in China. Only the $10,000 Geely Xingyuan sold more units in February 2026. BYD only had one EV model that sold over half as many units as the Tesla Model 3. The BYD ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74DPR)
TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by @SpaceX and @Tesla. The goal is to produce over a TERAWATT of compute per year (logic, memory & packaging) with ~80% for space and ~20% for the ground. The goal is extreme vertical integration to produce custom AI chips (logic, memory, and advanced packaging) at massive scale: ... Read more
by TechnologyWire on (#74DPS)
Lugano, Switzerland, March 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire On St. Patrick's Day, as 2 million spectators flood the streets of New York City, USA, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, is taking over Times Square. The brand activation combines synchronized digital billboards with a street-level campaign designed to introduce digital dollar payments to a mainstream ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74DPT)
Elon making the Terafab with a tight loop for making new chip masks. There will be tight recursively improving loop for chip design. Earth is limited on chip production and AI data center production. About 20 GW per year of chips now and tough to get beyond 100-200 GW per year on earth and most ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74DPV)
SpaceX, Elon and Tesla and XAI are showing the AI space plans out in the open because there is no competition for decades. Tesla will need to make billions of optimus for the Petawatts per year of moon production. I just want to live long enough to see the mass driver on the moon. Because ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74DPW)
Iran fired two missiles at Diego Garcia which is over 4100 Kilometers away. There were previous assurances from Iran that they would not develop missiles firing over 2000 kilometers. 4100 kilometer missiles can strike London, and all cities in Europe and all US military bases in Europe. The US fired an SM3 missile that was ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74DCZ)
Iranian retaliation has caused an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz since ~March 2-4. Traffic has dropped from 150+ vessels/day to near-zero on many days, with 21+ confirmed attacks on merchant ships. This matches the scenario's description of disruption, price spikes, and US-led response pressure. Reopening Hormuz is economically non-optional. It carries 20% of ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74DC5)
U.S. Navy's 2005 SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) on the decommissioned supercarrier USS America (CV-66). This remains one of the most significant and still largely classified live-fire tests ever conducted on a modern aircraft carrier. The 2005 live fire tests show that US aircraft carriers can take dozens of 250-500 kg bombs to top decks without sinking ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74CVE)
Andrej Karpathy is pioneering autonomous loop" AI systems-especially coding agents and self-improving research agents-while advancing AI-native education through Eureka Labs and ultra-minimal open-source LLM implementations. Coding agents can now reliably edit code, run experiments, and iterate for days. He created AutoResearch, AI agents that fully close the research loop-design experiments, edit training code, collect data, ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74C3S)
NASA is proposing SpaceX Starship now handles translunar injection (TLI) propulsion and the full landing role, while SLS/Orion is limited to LEO only. This shrinks Boeing's role and gives more to SpaceX Starship. Artemis III (2027) - LEO Docking Test (Almost Unchanged, Now a Perfect Dress Rehearsal) Before today's proposal (Feb 27 baseline): Orion (with ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#74BS0)
Austin, United States, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire
by cybernewswire on (#74BS1)
Austin, TX, USA, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire
by Brian Wang on (#74BFF)
Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74BFG)
Tesla FSD 14.3 is in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks. It's in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2026 AI5 will punch far above its weight, because the entire Tesla AI software stack is designed to make maximally effective use of every ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74BFH)
Nvidia has new level 4 chips for autonomous driving. Will this kill Tesla? They have 19 car partners who collectively can make 18 million cars per year. How many Nvidia Thor chips are installed in those cars ? How many cars have those partners created that are gathering data right now for self driving? Have ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74B5C)
Microsoft is threatening to sue OpenAI over the February 2026 Amazon $50B investment and $100B cloud-expansion deal. Microsoft says the Frontier agent platform on AWS (stateful runtime) violates the Azure exclusivity for stateless OpenAI APIs that was in the original ~$13B Microsoft investment agreements (updated Sept 2025). Microsoft publicly restated Azure remains the exclusive cloud ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74B5D)
Organic molecules delivered from extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for life on Earth. Scientists have found all five canonical nucleobases-purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil)-in samples returned from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu by JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission. This likely means that organic molecule building ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74B5E)
Web3 infrastructure and professional athletics never appeared to be a match in the early days of crypto, but they've proven to be a match made in heaven. It began as a niche interest in digital collectibles, hosted on the sports blockchain, but has since turned into a robust infrastructure that is changing how sports franchises ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74AB9)
Nvidia has a structured data enablement strategy. Nvidia provides libaries, software and hardware to index and search data faster. The Indexing and retrievals are way faster 10-40X faster in most cases. How cuDF + cuVS Work Together (The GTC 2026 Ground Truth" Pipeline) Unstructured data (PDFs, videos, logs, emails, sensor streams) embedding model (NeMo, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74ABA)
Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Keynote Highlights (March 16, 2026) NemoClaw Launch NVIDIA unveiled NemoClaw, an enterprise-ready, secure version of OpenClaw (open-source AI agents platform). This is the enterprise ready OpenSource form of Openclaw. Openclaw is by some measures the most successful open source project ever. Surpassing Linux in some ways. Nemoclaw adds privacy guardrails, sandboxing ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#749XV)
New York, United States, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire