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OpenAI SearchGPT is Live. Will Google Search Die?
OpenAI ChatGPT Search, aka SearchGPT, is live. AI for Search is already a big thing and could become dominant. The big loser if it succeeds is Google search. This is a threat to Google Search and Perplexity. ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely ... Read more
Tesla Cybertruck Killing Ford F150 Lightning Demand
Back in January, 2024 Ford cut production of the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning in half. A few months later, Ford also trimmed its workforce at the Rouge plant, shifting some to other facilities and offering others retirement packages. Production of the 2025 Ford F-150 was slated to begin in November, but now, Ford will instead ... Read more
Tesla AI FSD Will Vastly Improve in November
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
Amid Increasing Competition – Here’s How These Crypto Exchanges Stand Out
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
ATPC Cyber Forum to Focus on Next Generation Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Issues
Atlanta, Georgia, 30th October 2024, CyberNewsWire
Tesla Supervised Robotaxi Ridehailing for the Past Year at Waymo Scale Already?
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
Space Talk by Brian Wang Friday, November 8, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (PST)
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
Tesla Will Start Unsupervised Robotaxi in Texas and California in Mid 2025
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
500 Wh/kg High Density Batteries
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
Future Neuralink Whole Brain Interfaces for $1000 Each
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
INE Launches Initiative to Optimize Year-End Training Budgets with Enhanced Cybersecurity and Networking Programs
Cary, NC, 28th October 2024, CyberNewsWire
Strong Evidence that Simple Life is Easy Likely Common in the Universe
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
OpenAI Head of AGI Policy Research Leaves OpenAI
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 bombing Iran – Missile Locations and an Oilfield
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 Space Business is For Sale
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’s Perfect Quarter is the Start of a 10X Over Three Years
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
SpaceX Starship Catch Means Our Big Dreams for Space Will Happen
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
How to Fake the E-Cat EV Test with an 80 Kilogram Box
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
New AI Algorithm Can Reduce LLM Energy Usage by 80-95%
New 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
Upgrade Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.5 Can Use Tools Like Your Computer
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
INE Security Launches New Training Solutions to Enhance Cyber Hygiene for SMBs
Cary, NC, 22nd October 2024, CyberNewsWire
Rossi Now Claim Zero Point Energy Can Power an Electric Car
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 – 11 Nukes Per Year and Six in Some Locations
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
Startup Fuse Progresses to Terawatt Z-Pinch Fusion
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
7 Petawatt Laser for Fusion Energy in Colorado in 2026
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 to Important Antiaging Research Doubled in October
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
xAI 19 Day AI Builds Means 10-20X AI Training Lead Versus OpenAI in Late 2025
Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia described how xAI built a 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU AI cluster in 19 days. Other customers need a year (365 days or about 20 times as long) to install the same size AI cluster. Jensen called the xAI achievement superhuman. The customers of Nvidia GPUs have to work with ... Read more
SpaceX Starship Ocean Landing is Promising for a Tower Catch Attempt
Elon Musk said the SpaceX starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster. Full and rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit and beyond by over 10,000%. The cost per kilogram to space will ... Read more
Tesla Robotaxi and Robovan Insights
Sandy Munro is a car expert whose company has taken apart thousands of cars to analyze how to improve the manufacturing and design. Sandy was super-impressed by the Tesla robotaxi, robovan and teslabots. He thinks the robovan will dominate and grow the limousine market. The All-in-podcast guys think the robovan will open up new markets ... Read more
Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI Were Getting Nvidia Chips Sooner But xAI Completed Faster
xAI completed its 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI data center before Meta and OpenAI despite the Meta and OpenAI getting chips delivered first. xAi completed the main chip installation and build in 19 days and the overall project in 122 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this scale of build can take a year for many ... Read more
SpaceX Starlink Upgrading to Gigabit Per Second Speeds
SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more. SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini. SpaceX wants to lower the ... Read more
Will the XAI 19 Day Data Center Miracle Win the Future of AI?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows exactly how long it takes most companies to build an AI data center using Nvidia GPUs. He describes how his Nvidia team worked with xAI and Elon Musk to build a complete AI Data Center with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in 19 days. Elon Musk has said it took 122 ... Read more
New Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate Batteries Scaling to Over 300 Gigawatt Hours Per Year in 2025
Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries are ramping up to serious scale and could offer a 20% boost in energy density over LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries. LMFP operates at a higher voltage than LFP, its theoretical energy density can reach up to 230 Wh/kg, which is 15% to 20% greater than that of LFP ... Read more
22 Bit Military Grade Decryption Using DWave Systems Quantum Computers
A paper by Chinese researchers, Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage", described how D-Wave's machines can optimize problem-solving in ways that made it possible to decode tiny version of a military grade public key cryptography. Wang Chao from Shanghai University, used a D-Wave machine to attack Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) structured ... Read more
Google Signs Agreement for 500 MW of Nuclear Power From Kairos Power by 2035
Google has a corporate agreement to buy energy (starting with 7 small nuclear reactors) from Kairos Power. Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form combined with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. The technology uses an efficient and flexible steam cycle to convert heat from fission ... Read more
Uber CEO Wants to Partner with Tesla Robotaxi
Many people believe that Tesla robotaxi will not happen for years. However, the CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber would love to partner with Tesla on the Robotaxi platform. NEWS: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says competing with Elon Musk is 'no easy matter' - and would love to partner with @Tesla to get Robotaxis ... Read more
Jensen Predicts AI Inference Will Be 1 Billion Times Larger
Nvidia says that machine learning and agents will take over computer programming. Jensen says distributed AI inference will have to work in order to meet the demand for inference. AI inference will reflect upon getting the answer 10,000 times. Chain of reasoning and reflection and other intensification of compute for the answers. This will make ... Read more
The Role of VPNs in Safeguarding Data in the Era of Big Data and Cloud Computing
Much like artificial intelligence, Big Data is becoming an increasing threat as much as it is an opportunity. The more data we gather, the more analysis that can be performed. And the more accurate and sensitive that data, the more validity those findings will have. Unfortunately, this also directly increases what's at stake in the ... Read more
Vast Proposes New Space Station for 2028 That Will 2 Modules Per Year Through 2032
Vast Space, the aerospace startup founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, plans to replace the International Space Station. Haven-2 would serve as a specialized lab in low-Earth orbit, where visitors can conduct microgravity research. The Vast Haven-1 space station is targeting August 2025. They will start with four cylindrical modules that can dock to ... Read more
SpaceX Will Repeat Booster Starship Catches With Centimeter Accuracy
The most important things about the booster catch and the simulated Starship catches is that the accuracy of positioning is in the centimeters or less. They will be able to repeat. The burnthroughs on the heat shield around one of the fins was minor. This is a new age. Now saving boosters and 33 Raptor ... Read more
SpaceX Starship is Going Through Re-entry With Some Slight Burnthroughs at the End
SpaceX has ablative heat shield underneath the 18,000+ heat shield tiles. SpaceX Starship is going through peak heating and looks good and undamaged for the orbital re-entry and return. Now about ten minutes from the landing burn and the simulated tower catch and then a soft landing into the Indian Ocean. Starship has slowed to ... Read more
SpaceX Starship Launch and Historic Catch Was Good
The SpaceX Starship launched and was caught. This is a new age for space with the booster catch. Fully resuable starship booser. If there is no incident with the orbital starship which should have no reentry damage with a massively improved heat shield then flight 6 should be in weeks and flight 7 could reuse ... Read more
Ryan Hansen Details the SpaceX Starship Catch Which Could Happen Tomorrow
SpaceX is preparing for what could be a launch and catch of the booster tomorrow. Ryan Hansen has an excellent video with renderings of all mechanisms and processes that will be used on the Mechazilla launch tower. A successful catch will mean recovery of the 33 engines in the booster and the entire super heavy ... Read more
FAA Gives SpaceX Starship License for Flight 5 and 6 Mission Profile Approved
The FAA has given SpaceX Starship the license to fly flight 5 and flight 6. The FAA has granted SpaceX the license to launch Starship 5 as early as tomorrow from Boca Chica, Texas. This approval, ahead of schedule, confirms all safety, environmental, and licensing requirements have been met. SpaceX's Mechazilla" launch tower will attempt ... Read more
Robovan and Teslabots
Tesla robovan fits 20 people in it. It will get the cost down to 5 to 10 cents per mile. The Teslabots will mingle with the crowd and serve drinks.
Twenty Tesla Cybercabs at the Robotaxi Event
Tesla has started the Robotaxi we robot event. There are twenty Tesla cybercabs at the Robotaxi Event. There are thirty other autonomous Model 3 and Y at the event. The cybercabs have no steering wheel.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Solving Protein Folding in Minutes With AI
Demis Hassabis (CEO of Deep Mind) and John M. Jumper have useed artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. David Baker has learned how to master life's building blocks and create entirely new proteins. The potential of their discoveries is enormous. They have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... Read more
2000 Gas Stations Failed Before Hurricane but Tesla EV Charging Was Reliable
There have been reports of more problems getting gas at gas stations in hurricane impacted areas. While Tesla superchargers continued to function. Gas price tracking service GasBuddy reported that as of 2:43 pm ET Wednesday afternoon, 24.3% of gas stations statewide - or nearly one in four - were without fuel, a dramatic spike from ... Read more
Abusix and Red Sift Form New Partnership, Leveraging Automation to Mitigate Cyber Attacks
Boston and London, U.S. and U.K., 10th October 2024, CyberNewsWire
SpyCloud Embeds Identity Analytics in Cybercrime Investigations Solution to Accelerate Insider and Supply Chain Risk Analysis & Threat Actor Attribution
Austin, TX, USA, 10th October 2024, CyberNewsWire
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