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Updated 2026-08-24 02:04
This Week in AI Progress – On the Way to Another 100X in 22 Months
Key points in rapid AI progress, A secretive ox alpha" model (widely suspected to be the latest Chinese GLM open-source model) shows strong coding gains (~80% on a tough benchmark vs. the 60s for Claude/GPT-style models). Nvidia + a new harness" hit a perfect 100% on ARC-AGI-3. Intelligence-density progress Chinese Qwen-style 27B models already match ... Read more
New Age of AI and Medicine Starts With WORLDCHANGING Progress Against Cancer
The Moderna breakthrough to reduce the re-occurrence of cancer is just the beginning. It is evidence that claims from the leaders of AI like Dario of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis that AI could all disease within ten years or that almost all cancer will be eliminated will become true. Those who are wondering what benefits ... Read more
Tesla Cybercab Launch in 12 Days
Tesla Cybercab will launch in 12 days. They will start putting the Cybercabs into the robotaxi fleets in Austin and elsewhere. We will see what other announcements will be made on the rollout schedules and plans. pic.twitter.com/yChZnEzwZf - Tesla (@Tesla) August 22, 2026
SpaceX Starship Months for Tower Catch Schedule But 10X Launch Approvals
Elon indicates the will catch of the SpaceX Starship with the tower will be in a few months. First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars. Looks like we will probably catch the ... Read more
ShieldAI XBAT Drone Fighters Can Give A Fighter Drone Wing to Every US Destroyer
Shield AI states that three X-BATs (with their Launch and Recovery Vehicles / LRVs) fit in the deck space of one legacy fighter or helicopter. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers have a flight deck + dual hangars designed for up to two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. They could each hold six X-BATS in the space used for two ... Read more
Airlock Digital Completes Independent IRAP Assessment at the PROTECTED Level
Adelaide, Australia, 19th August 2026, CyberNewswire
Midjourney Plan to Make MRI Level Ultrasound Using AI Enhancement
Midjourney, best known for its AI-powered image generation platform, has announced Midjourney Medical to make full-body imaging system to scan a person in just 60 seconds while delivering image quality comparable to MRI. The scanner is based on Butterfly Network ultrasound chips rather than Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), potentially making it significantly faster and less ... Read more
Not Yet AI Curing Cancer But Validating Gains Can Be Made
The Moderna Neoantigen selection. A tumor carries thousands of mutations. Only a handful produce peptides that get presented on MHC and recognized by T cells. Moderna's pipeline takes next-generation sequencing data from tumor and blood samples, reviews the genetic mutations, and predicts up to 34 neoantigens most likely to elicit an immune response. That's the ... Read more
Major Progress to Curing Cancer From Moderna Melanoma Vaccine
Moderna is up 130% today with success of a phase 3 trial on AI Assisted personalized MRNA cancer treatment. Major Progress to Curing Cancer From Moderna Melanoma Vaccine. Phase 2 showed 50-60% reduction in cancer deaths, but pathway to personalized AI cancer treatments. This is freaking huge: For the first time, a AI-assisted personalized mRNA ... Read more
Former Ping Identity and CyberArk Executives Join AppViewX to Scale Machine and Agent Identity Security
New York, New York, 19th August 2026, CyberNewswire
Some Switching to Grok Bot and SuperGrok Tier
There are reports that some power users are switching from Claude to SpaceXAI's $300 SuperGrok Heavy tier. They cite slowdowns in models like Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 amid Anthropic's usage boost ending August 19. They praise Grok 4.6 for its balance of intelligence and lower per-task costs on agentic tasks. Grok Bot adds always-on ... Read more
Scaling AI and Getting More Efficient
Kaplan/Chinchilla scaling laws provide a broad description of the resources needed to improve AI. The measured relationship is that loss falls as a power law in compute: L L + AC^(-), with somewhere around 0.05-0.07 for language models. Each halving of excess loss costs roughly 10-1000x more compute depending on the exponent. Converting ... Read more
Your Car Could Start Paying You. SpaceX, Tesla, Grok Bot, Macrohard, Digital Optimus, Cursor HUGE
Everything about SpaceX are the AI releases coming out every week. Grok Bot released and it is huge. Easier and more useful than OpenClaw. Productivity will mean super users at companies will use it. You can also get Grok Bot for less than $100 per month. Cursor teams. Grok Bot will become part of Macrohard ... Read more
Tesla Cybercab Launch Day in September
Tesla will be inviting people to a September Cybercab launch day. Ride in Robotaxi through 8/23 for a shot to attend our Cybercab launch event. More rides = better odds. This will be no steering wheel Cybercab for robotaxi and they will sell Cybercabs as well. Ride in Robotaxi through 8/23 for a shot to ... Read more
OpenMatter Network to Take Verification Message to Belgrade Blockchain Week 2026
Melbourne, Florida, 17th August 2026, CyberNewswire
Grok Bot Is the Easiest No-Code AI Agent With One Authorization for All Bots
Grokbot is the easiest no-code agent platform. It is an app that gives non-technical users real agent capabilities right away. It is an entire small company inside one application. Every item in the sidebar is a named, persistent teammate (bot) with an ongoing role. All of the bots share one dedicated cloud computer that belongs ... Read more
VINclarity Publishes Investigation Into Alleged Scam and Fraud Reputation Attack Across Search and AI
Selidan, USA, 14th August 2026, CyberNewswire
XAI Grok 4.6 is Third Place But Close to OpenAI and Anthropic
Theo is a developer and founder heavily involved with agentic coding tools, T3 Code, Cursor integrations, and AI model testing. He reviews xAI's newly released Grok 4.6. He notes xAI has accelerated dramatically since acquiring Cursor, moving from long dry spells to rapid back-to-back releases. Grok 4.6 It is not a new pre-train but a ... Read more
Forecasting AI, Harnesses, Applications, and Tools in 3–6 Months
November 2026 and Feb 2027 projections by extrapolating the recent doubling rates. Doubling times are taking ~4 months for the amount of human work time AI can perform. Another ~1.5-2* (3 months) to ~2-4* (6 months) increase in effective time horizon is a reasonable baseline expectation if trends hold. This points toward reliable multi-day (or ... Read more
Updated SpaceX Catalysts
SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is a major release that is by the frontier and competitive with OpenaI GPT 5.6. This is one of the major points on my list of SpaceX Stock Catalysts. Some of the items like Grok 4.7 are adjusted to the new later schedule. SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is on the terminal bench leaderboard ... Read more
Elon Claims SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 Will Surpass All Current Models
Cognition Labs reports Grok 4.6 (available in Devin) is a significant improvement over 4.5, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol while trailing only Opus 5 and Fable 5. Grok 4.6 (the 1.5T-parameter model with improved supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning) launched and is competitive at the frontier. Grok 4.7 is the larger ~2.1T-parameter model. Initial training is complete. ... Read more
Grok Bot for the Easiest Teams of 24X7 AI Agents
Grok Bot are AI teammates you can give real work to. Bots have their own computer. They sign into the tools you already use and work across apps, inboxes, and more. They finish jobs end to end, and only come back when something needs your approval. You can message them like a colleague and hand ... Read more
XAI Grok 4.6 Is Near Frontier Capable But 85% Lower Cost
SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. It is pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining. Grok 4.6 is ... Read more
Microsoft Will Lease 3+ Gigawatts of AI Data Center from SpaceX in 2027
Microsoft has already signed 10GW of AI data center contracts year-to-date for over $300B of total contract value, but those contribute to late-2027 and 2028 capacity, leaving a near-term gap to fill. Semianalysis has calculated the tokenomics of OpenAI and Anthropic at $100 billion per year per gigawatt. Microsoft can also monetize at $100 Billion ... Read more
Coreweave Leasing AI Data Center Facilities
CoreWeave ahas heavy reliance on leasing (rather than owning) data-center facilities. It uses a standard real-estate technique-capitalizing an ongoing rent stream-to put leased capacity on the same footing as owned capacity for honest cost comparisons. Breaking down the numbers $165/kW/month** is a representative (or modeled) base rent rate for CoreWeave's colocation/powered-shell leases. 1 MW = ... Read more
What Contracted Power Actually Means and What is Available for New Contracts
It is a procurement metric, not a sales metric. There are three separate stacks and the industry deliberately blurs them. CoreWeave's 3.5 GW contracted power and its $99.4B backlog are two different books. How tightly is the second mapped onto the first. They are very tightly, by design, because layer 3 is the collateral for ... Read more
Semianalysis Agrees With NextBigfuture $300B Per Year for SpaceX by End of 2027
Semianalysis agrees with my analysis of SpaceX getting up to $300 Billion per year by end of 2027. Spot prices are higher. The AI lease rates make sense. Coreweave and Nebius are spreading out fixed premium GPUs annual prices but requiring 5 year lockin. 5 years for $100 billion but not available during the next ... Read more
Bugtraq Is Back: The Original Full Disclosure Mailing List Is Live Again
Sophia Antipolis, France, 7th August 2026, CyberNewswire
Elon Said “FEL FTW.” Here’s the Laser That Will Boost Chip Volumes 50X
SpaceX Will push to new technology to improve the most important part of TERAFAB. These are the secrets that will enable 50 times more chips by 2030-2035 and the thousands more by 2040-2045. ASML technology will be taken to the next level. They only replace and improve the light source, which is about half of ... Read more
Terafab Rendered in a Video
Terafab will close the gap between today's chip production and the future's demand - a future among the stars. Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful. pic.twitter.com/4NweOqTL7y - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2026 Sequoia's @shaunmmaguire explains why @elonmusk's Terafab is massively ... Read more
Prime Intellect Recursive Language Model
Recursive Language Models (RLMs) are a general inference paradigm that treats long prompts as part of an external environment and allows the LLM to programmatically examine, decompose, and recursively call itself over snippets of the prompt. RLMs can successfully process inputs more than an order of magnitude beyond model context window limits and, even for ... Read more
Hitting and Breaking Limits to Reach Unlimited Recursively Self Improving AI
What a 23% kernel speedup tells us about whether AI can improve itself and how to quantify the gains. In 2025, Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, an AI system that discovers algorithms, found a way to make a FlashAttention kernel run 23% faster. This was a great result but it was not the beginning of a runaway ... Read more
SpaceX Pays Off a Data Center in 9 Months
When does revenue growth and profits overtake AI capex spending ? I have run numbers on the fastest AI data center builder. The faster you can build, then the faster you can monetize and get to profits.
Understanding Different AI Data Center Leasing Prices and Categories
The high $50 Billion per GW lease rates for xAI/SpaceX Colossus and similar premium, immediately available AI clusters are for scarce of ready-to-use, large-scale coherent GPU capacity. Kevin Pathrath's is wrong about a conspiracy. He is comparing against different types of data center. The $2.7M/MW ($2.7 billion per gigwatt build figure is shell-only and brownfield. ... Read more
Self Improving Harness – Self-improving coding and research agent
Prime Agent is an open-source self-improving coding and research agent (harness) released by Prime Intellect on August 5, 2026. It is built for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. It combines a Recursive Language Model (RLM) runtime with a Continual Harness, emphasizing token efficiency and expressiveness through programmatic tool calling, treating context as a variable, ... Read more
Are Top AI Talent Leaving Google to Apply AGI and ASI for Giant Leaps in Science
Demis Hassabis is changing to a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet. This will allow him to focus on long-term strategy, and accelerating scientific breakthroughs, including leaning into my work at Isomorphic to help cure disease. koraykv will be stepping up to lead Google DeepMind as SVP, alongside @joshwoodward ... Read more
LIVESTREAM – After Predicting the SpaceX Q2 Earnings- What Happens in the Next 18 Critical Months
I Predicted SpaceX Q2 Earning $100B ARR, 2+ GW 2026- NEXT 18 Critical Months. A 40% spot uplift + cheaper power/shell + wrappers can pull the crossover forward by a quarter or more versus a pure long-term $35-50B locked-rate case. Risks remain execution on power reliability/permitting, utilization, and any broader rate compression, but the combination ... Read more
New Research: The Confidence Gap Between CISOs and Their Boards Is Real, and It’s Measurable
Las Vegas, United States, 5th August 2026, CyberNewswire
Uppsala Security Becomes First Blockchain Intelligence Company to Join Cyber Threat Alliance
SIngapore, Singapore, 5th August 2026, CyberNewswire
SpaceX $100B ARR Yearend 2026 Guidance Over My $96 Billion ARR Bull Case
SpaceX had their Q2 earnings call and guided to $100 B+ ARR. This was just over my bull case of adding three more Google Sized $11 billion per year ($1 billion per month) deals. Two weeks ago I made a video that indicated that SpaceX would add up to $36 billion per year of new ... Read more
SpaceX Q2 Results
SapceX Q2 financials had $7.8 Billion of revenue and positive EBITDA. I had projected that they could have gotten as high as $8.6 billion but it was $7.8 billion. It was $1 billion over most analysts. The shares were positive but have dropped as the financial results are digested. This is likely a reaction to ... Read more
SpaceX Partners with Starmind AI1 Satellites for Rubin GPUs
SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for datacenter class space compute SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and ... Read more
Airlock Digital Unveils Agentic AI Control & Governance to Extend Preventative Endpoint Security
Atlanta, GA, 4th August 2026, CyberNewswire
Mallory Unifies Threat Intelligence, Exposure Context, and Response Into One Architecture for Security Teams
Las Vegas, United States, 4th August 2026, CyberNewswire
2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Community Choice Winners Selected Through 80,000 Votes
Las Vegas, Nevada, 4th August 2026, CyberNewswire
SpaceX AI Catalysts
Here are my SpaceX AI related events / Milestones and Catalysts. I think the key milestones for major revenue impact other than Starship proving full reusability and deploying V3 satellites are the AI achievements. I think the AI monetization is more impactful in 2026 and 2027. If Cursor Composer and Grok 5.X are the top ... Read more
The AI 2027 Super AI Takeoff Scenario is Tracking to 2028-2032
The AI2027 superAI scenarios are tracking a bit slower but we are still heading quickly to SuperAI. Risk milestones are arriving ahead of the capability milestones that were supposed to produce them. There is a AI2027 tracking website and they observed capability predictions were running a bit behind but the SWE Verified benchmark caught up. ... Read more
SabPaisa Partners with AccuKnox for Zero Trust AI-Powered Cloud Security to Secure Its Payments Platform
CALIFORNIA, USA, 2nd August 2026, CyberNewswire
If AI Gives Everyone the Same Financial Insights
When AI compresses the information edge and hands everyone roughly the same high-quality financial insights, pure knowing more" stops being a reliable source of alpha. The remaining edge shifts to the parts that are still scarce. Judgment under uncertainty, creative synthesis, structural positioning, behavioral discipline, and the ability to act when others cannot. The Ken ... Read more
Twelve Hours of AI Work, Seventy Minutes You Can Trust
Claude Opus 4.6 can work for twelve hours. It can work reliably for seventy minutes. Mythos and likely Fable 5 can work for 16 hours at 50% correctness and 2-3 hours at 80%. Both numbers describe the same model doing the same kind of work, measured by the same organization. The gap between them is ... Read more
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