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Grok 4 had lower lmarena scores than I had projected based upon the amount AI training compute used. I had projections for Grok 3.5 which was renamed Grok 4. We do not have elo lmarena score for Grok 4 heavy. My old projection had assumed what will now be called Grok 5 was called Grok ... Read more

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light speed or more. Scientists at DESY now report some of the first signs that PWA (Plasma Wakefield Accelerators) is ready to compete with traditional ... Read more

Jim Bickford is leading the Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) project to develop a system for propelling a craft through space faster and farther than ever before. TFINER is applicable to a wide range of other profound missions that are not possible with existing technology. For example, a mission to the solar gravitational ... Read more

NASA NIAC funded the Thin-Film Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER). By May 2025, it advanced to Phase II, focusing on maturing the technology, mission designs, small-scale thruster experiments, and isotope production pathways in collaboration with Northwestern University, Yale University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for hybrid architectures. A single stage ... Read more

John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE's (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would enable any telescope to observe exoplanets, a top priority for astronomy worldwide. Compared with other starshade concepts, they aim for a lower mass, cost ... Read more

The resurgence of nuclear energy is driven by the massive power demands of AI data centers. Needing 150 GW annually by 2030 with a 100 GW gap by 2028. This means adding all of the current power of the USA and Europe in the 2030s. Covering the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) initiative to fast-track ... Read more

As of August 16, 2025, there are 16 companies in the top 50 most valuable (by market capitalization) that are not headquartered or predominantly in the United States. This includes Saudi Aramco, TSMC, Tencent, Alibaba and Mitsubishi. China has 5 in the top 50. Europe has 7. SpaceX has a valuation of $400 billion. OpenAI ... Read more

As of mid-2025, the US economy remains the world's largest by nominal GDP, valued at approximately $30.5 trillion, compared to China's $19.2 trillion-making the US economy about 1.59 times larger. China's economy leads in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. China continues to have more GDP growth than the USA. China has stimulus measures, export strength, ... Read more

CATL has three groundbreaking EV batteries but the most important is Sodium ion batteries that could lower the cost of batteries. Chinese engineers at CATL have begun mass-producing sodium-ion cells at their new 30GWh facility in Fujian province. Chery and BYD will start using them in a few months. CATL's first-gen sodium batteries already power ... Read more

The SpaceX Falcon 9 could be used to launch Crew Dragon to LEO, followed by a crew transfer to HLS/Starship for the lunar leg instead of using SLS and Orion. However, for long-term sustainability and cost-efficiency, transitioning to a full-Starship system makes more sense, as it eliminates dependencies and maximizes reuse. Zubrin's Gray Dragon Plan ... Read more

There is robotics revolution in manufacturing, with a focus on Tesla, Foxconn and Nvidia as major players driving the shift toward AI-driven and robotic factories. Key points: The U.S. is entering a new era of manufacturing powered by automation, AI, and robotics, aiming to reshore production and increase efficiency. Foxconn and Amazon have experimented with ... Read more

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell assured NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship (Lunar Starship) remains on track for NASA's Artemis 3 mission, currently targeted for 2027, despite potential distractions or delays. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell gave a guarantee that Starship HLS will be ready on the current schedule for ... Read more

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the O(m + n log n) time bound of Dijkstra's algorithm on sparse graphs, showing that Dijkstra's algorithm is ... Read more

OpenAI GPT5 had better performance for some users like Theo at launch and before. However, it has gotten substantially worse as OpenAI has tried to address issues. Also, OpenAI was too aggressive with the removal of old models which they had to reverse. The coding and other actual experiences have shown far less improvement and ... Read more

SpaceX has the first grid fin for the next generation Super Heavy booster. The redesigned grid fins are 50% larger and higher strength, moving from four fins to three for vehicle control while enabling the booster to descend at higher angles of attack. They'll also be used for vehicle lift and catch, made possible by ... Read more

United Launch Alliance launch of a Vulcan rocket with a military payload has successfully taken off. We will see if the actual satellite deployment is successful.

ROBOTERA Unveils L7: Next-Generation Full-Size Bipedal Humanoid Robot has powerful mobility and dexterous manipulation. They are a Chinese humanoid robotics startup founded in August 2023 and spun out of Tsinghua University, China's top university. They raised around CNY 500 million (approximately USD 70 million) in a Series A funding round led by CDH Investments and ... Read more

Tesla is passing Waymo in the next two or four months. The expansion of Tesla robotaxi services in the SF Bay Area and Austin to allow open usage to whoever wants to book will require 2 to 5 cars per square mile. This means 2000-5000 ridesharing vehicles for the 1000+ square miles of the SF ... Read more

DARPA and the Navy had envisioned hyper-efficient cargo planes able to move thousands of tons by leveraging extra lift by flying close to the ground. Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do ... Read more

Figure AI videos of the Helix Humanoid Robot loading washing machines in a residential setting and sorting objects from a conveyor belt for industrial settings.

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Aviation Week Joe Anselmo (Aviation Week's editorial director), Garrett Reim (lead reporter), Irene Klotz (senior space editor), and Matthew Fulco (business editor) explores SpaceX's Starlink broadband service as a juggernaut that has disrupted the space industry and geopolitics. Starlink has deployed over 9,000 satellites, serves 6 million users in 140 countries. It generates $15.5 billion ... Read more

All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an all-electric hydrofoiling wing-in-ground (WIG) craft, which means it always operates in ground effect, an operation that occurs within one wingspan of the surface of the water and ... Read more

REGENT Craft, the developer and manufacturer of Seaglider vessels and a trusted partner of the U.S. Marine Corps, will be making seagliders for the US marines. REGENT has a $10 billion commercial backlog. They will make REGENT Defense Seaglider vessels at its headquarters in Rhode Island. REGENT's proprietary hydrofoiling wing-in-ground-effect(WIG) Seaglider design offers an unmatched ... Read more

Thorcon International, an innovative nuclear technology developer based in Singapore, has received official approval for the Kelasa site evaluation plan (PET) and the site evaluation management system plan (SMET) from nuclear regulator, BAPETEN. It is the first-ever nuclear power plant-related licensing approval from the Indonesian government, and it marks the completion of the first step ... Read more

Northrop Grumman has a new rendering of the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter. The F/A-XX was struggling for funding and development has been delayed. The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a draft defense spending bill that would reverse the Pentagon's plan to freeze the F/A-XX program. The large bubble canopy show it is single pilot ... Read more

Richard Mansell, CEO of IVO Ltd, has announced that the Quantum Drive testing has started its initial calibration and assessment phase. All is good so far and they are excited to see the results of the upcoming tests. He said - No timeline will be made public and they will not be issuing intermediate findings. ... Read more

The highlights of the Anthropic Claude Coding Best practices: 1. Tailor Your Environment Use CLAUDE.md files: Placed in your repo (root, parent, child, or home directory), this auto-included file allows you to document project-specific instructions-bash commands, style guidelines, setup tips, common caveats, etc. Keep it concise and iterate it over time. Tune permissions: Claude Code ... Read more

Tesla obtained a rideshare license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on August 7, 2025, is a significant step toward operating its Robotaxi service statewide. This Transportation Network Company (TNC) license aligns with Senate Bill 2807 (SB 2807). This new law signed by Governor Greg Abbott in June 2025 that takes effect on ... Read more

Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot with computer aided stabilization. The future is arriving. Thanks to advanced computer aided stabilization the Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot. For more details visit https://t.co/XbqDfW9AUz pic.twitter.com/4Aqs3HNDxX - Volonaut (@Volonaut) August 8, 2025

There are various Youtubers on AI who are giving their opinions of OpenAI GPT5. Theo is crowning GPT5 as the best model but others feel it is a good and fast model but are not blown away by it. GPT5 is the number one model per the LMArena leaderboard with a 1481 score and 1460 ... Read more

SpaceX had its first Starship to be static fired on the orbital launch mount. This was modified by engineers and technicians at Starbase after a Starship exploded and destroyed a test stand. SpaceX is about a week from the next Starship orbital test. This was the first Starship to be static fired on the orbital ... Read more

Bloomberg is reporting that the Tesla Dojo chip project is being disbanded. The lead Peter Bannon and 20 others are going into another company Density AI. The team recently lost about 20 workers to newly formed DensityAI, and the remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla according ... Read more

There are no observed changes indicating thrust. There is a propellentless drive in a satellite. The lack of observable propulsion effects could mean. The test is in the baseline data collection phase (no thrust) or the system is failing so far. Orbital data from Celestrak (as provided in the query) shows no significant change in ... Read more

Grok 4 has 15.9% on the Arc-AGI2 versus 9.9% for OpenAI GPT5. XAI will have Grok 5 out be the end of 2025 and Elon says it will be crushingly good. Grok5 will use the equivalent of about 3 million Nvidia H100s (550k B200 chips) for training compute. Grok 5 will be out before the ... Read more

OpenAI GPT5 gives Verbosity Control. It has superior instruction following and superior tool usage.

Mr WhosetheBoss tested ChatGPT-5 and compared it to ChatGPT 4o and other older models. GPT5 is much better and it will become your default model for all free and paid OpenAI services. GPT5 will have better writing flair. GPT5 is not a step up in image generation. It is not better at every single thing ... Read more

Here are some first looks at OpenAI GPT5 coding capabilities. This is the best coding model that OpenAI has released so far. GPT-5 is a next level model. It can solve virtual rubik cubes and create professional images, simulations and websites.

There was a vibe coding demo for using OpenAI GPT5. It uses flashcards and verbal pronounciation and has an interactive game in the educational product.

OpenAI GPT5 completed an physic correct airflow simulation program in 2 minutes using 300-400 lines of code.

Tesla plans to split Dojo 3 chip production, with Samsung handling front-end manufacturing and Intel taking on specialized packaging. This is a move away from TSMC's full-process control. Samsung's foundry to produce D3 chips will use the 2nm process for Tesla's AI6 and Dojo 3. Intel will use leverage EMIB 2.5D packaging for Dojo's large-scale ... Read more

We are minutes from the OpenAI live presentation of GPT5. The various leaked benchmarks look very good and very impressive. We will see how the official reveal shows. Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Sebastien Bubeck, Mark Chen, Yann Dubois, Brian Fioca, Adi Ganesh, Oliver Godement, Saachi Jain, Christina Kaplan, Tina Kim, Elaine Ya Le, Felipe Millon, ... Read more

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Elon Musk and the X team outlined a transformative approach to advertising on X emphasizing the integration of Grok AI (resulting from the merger of xAI and X) to make ads more relevant, effective, and user-friendly. The core goal is to evolve X from a platform with historically poor ad targeting-described as random" or even ... Read more

Hikaru Nakamura says XAI Grok 4 is by far and away the best chess playing general LLM. Grok is playing the best overall chess Gemini is second best OpenAI made a lot of mistakes Claude has been disappointing DeepSeek is the worst Recent testing if finding Grok about 1600-1800 and Gemini at 1500-1700. An 1800 ... Read more

Tesla is training a new FSD model with ~10X the parameters and a big improvement to video compression loss. Probably ready for public release end of next month if testing goes well. Video compression improvements (reducing data loss during training) have contributed ~20-30% additional uplift in past updates by enabling higher-fidelity inputs. From Phil Beisel ... Read more

There is widespread speculation in the AI community that they represent a stealth preview, variant, or test version of OpenAI's upcoming GPT-5 model. They have exceptional performance, timing, and shared characteristics with OpenAI's tech stack. The Horizon models (primarily Horizon Alpha and Horizon Beta) surfaced anonymously around July 30-31, 2025, on platforms like LM Arena ... Read more

Patrick, CTO and co-founder of an AI-native startup (launched ~2 years ago, working with brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Nike), shares his orchestration playbook from a talk at Microsoft. The core problem: Many engineers struggle to achieve 10X productivity gains from AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code (formerly Codex), and others due to endless ... Read more

In a paper published recently in the journal GeroScience, the UC Irvine team reports that a combination of naturally occurring compounds - nicotinamide (a form of vitamin B3) and epigallocatechin gallate (a green tea antioxidant) - can reinstate levels of guanosine triphosphate, an essential energy molecule in brain cells. In tests on neurons in a ... Read more