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On January 23 around 7:40 a.m. near Grant Elementary School, Santa Monica Waymo's driverless Jaguar I-Pace hit a child who ran from behind a double-parked SUV amid crossing guards and stopped cars. The vehicle braked from 17 mph to under 6 mph before minor-impact contact, then called 911 and stayed until police cleared it; the ... Read more

Tesla is now reporting the paid robotaxi miles in the quarterly. It was about 200,000 miles in December. Tesla now has 500+ cars in Austin and SF Bay Area and is doubling each month (verbally reported as the number of robotaxi and the goal to increase on earnings call). A fleet of 2,000 cars in ... Read more

Tesla Q4 2025 Earnings Analysis - Most important earnings call in Tesla history - not just for Tesla, but any company - Stock hit $450 briefly, pulled back to $440 post-call - Strong profitability despite 16% fewer deliveries Q3Q4 - Higher profit margin: 18% 21% gross margin - Beat expectations: 50 vs 44 expected ... Read more

Active FSD subscriptions is a line item in the financials for Tesla. 1.1 million active subscriptions. 3 pages out of 11 pages of the meat of the Tesla deck are now AI, robotaxi FSD pages. 1 page of summary, 4 pages of financials and operational numbers. Really 3 out of 4 pages highlighting what the ... Read more

Tesla has an earnings call today. Gross profit was over $5.0 billion versus consensus at $4.15 billion. Tesla is trading up 2-3% in after hours on the earnings deck. 3 pages out of 11 pages of the meat of the Tesla deck are now AI, robotaxi, FSD pages. 1 page of summary, 4 pages of ... Read more

, the Maia 200 packs 140+ billion transistors, 216 GB of HBM3E, and a massive 272 MB of on-chip SRAM to tackle the efficiency crisis in real-time inference. Hyperscalers prioritize inference efficiency and cost (40-50% reductions). By 2028, custom ASICs could capture 20-30% market from Nvidia's ~90%, with total AI chip sales ~$975B in 2026. ... Read more

World GDP has been doubling every 25 years for last 100 years even after adjusting for inflation. This means we would be expecting 3 doublings from 2025-2100. However, the world appear to be seeing changing and accelerating technology. Doubling every 25 years is 3% real GDP growth each year. There is already Atlanta Fed reserve ... Read more

If you are interested in talking about SpaceX and AI data centers in space as deep tech trends you can sign up or book a calendly. Full disclosure: I'm working with a wealth management firm and will soon be a certified advisor (Series 65 pending). This is not investment advice, solicitation, or an offer to ... Read more

vision for healthcare in America Healthcare broken: Americans pay double what other nations for inferior outcomes. Drugs cost 10* more in US. Trump's demanded most-favored-nation pricing (negotiate lower prices like other countries pay). Pressure pharma without killing innovation (make offers that they cannot refuse). Goal is affordability + access. Think healthcare as investment (extra work ... Read more

The cost of infrastructure build-out, energy challenges Massive data center/GPU buildout driven by real demand (no dark GPUs"-all utilized for tokens/AI apps like chatbots/coding). Unlike dot-com fiber overbuild (unused dark fiber"), current demand sustains growth; added ~2% to 2025 GDP, expected similar in 2026. Trump's AI plan has 3 pillars-out-innovate, build infrastructure, export U.S. tech ... Read more

Future of AI copilots and agents, impact on white collar work Nadella discusses Microsoft's Copilot evolution: started with GitHub Copilot (code suggestions), expanded to desktop/Windows, and now includes chat, actions, and autonomous agents (foreground/background, local/cloud). He uses coding as the prime knowledge-work example: from next-edit suggestions chat actions full agents. Vision: AI ... Read more

We need to reinvent and rebuild the world's factories, warehouses, supply chain and systems where AI and automation can integrate, move and track everything. We need to do this from first principles. We will have more than just a future of robotaxi. We will have roboeverything. In a future dominated by drones, Optimus-like humanoid robots, ... Read more

SpaceX's Starship Block 3 (aka Version 3 or V3) is a huge shift from prototyping to scalable mass production. SpaceX is focusing on enhancing reliability, reducing costs, and enabling high-volume manufacturing to support ambitious goals like frequent Mars missions and expanding the Starlink constellation. Key advancements include automated assembly processes, particularly for the heat shield ... Read more

Tesla is adding about ten robotaxi per day to its Austin fleet. This will pass the 137 known Waymo robotaxi in about one week. Waymo claim to have 200 robotaxi in Austin but only 137 different license plates have been seen. In 30-50 days Tesla could reach the 500+ Austin robotaxi that Elon Musk suggested ... Read more

Atlanta Fed GDPNow shows real GDP growth at 5.4% (Q4 2025/early 2026 tracking), far above recent norms, driven by AI data center buildouts (0.5-1% contribution), productivity gains from LLMs, factory investments, and Trump-era policies/deals. Sustained high growth (5-8%+ real GDP) if AI investment continues without a bubble pop, comparing it to 1990s internet boom or ... Read more

Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car. Congrats to the @Tesla_AI team! If you're interested in solving real-world AI, which is likely to lead to AGI imo, join Tesla AI. Solving real-world AI for Optimus will be 100X harder than cars. Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin ... Read more

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Federal Reserve GDPNow tracking at 5.4% real GDP growth - Up from first week of January, holding between 5.1-5.4% - Historically within 0.5% accuracy of official BEA numbers - Late 90s had similar growth from telecom/fiber capex spending - Current AI data center buildout creating parallel infrastructure investment Sustained growth potential - AI spending: $400B ... Read more

Greenland framework, announced by President Trump on January 21, 2026, following a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is described as a preliminary outline or concept of a deal for future negotiations concerning Greenland and broader Arctic security. It is not a finalized agreement but sets ... Read more

XAI's Digital Agent Strategy - Target markets: $100B opportunities (Microsoft Office suite, operating systems) - Implementation phases: 1. Internal XAI automation first 2. Expand to other Musk companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink) 3. External customer rollout - Technical approach: Small, efficient agents (100-200 watts) vs large models - Reinforcement learning agents with full computer use capability ... Read more

Boston, MA, USA, 21st January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT's path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and XAI and Anthropic are all using the LLM (Large Language Model Approach). Google Genie 3 system, released last August, generates interactive 3D environments from text. Here is my review of the state of the ... Read more

January 20, 2026, SpaceX Ship 39 is in the final stages of outfitting in Mega Bay 2 at Starbase. Recent progress includes the installation of aft flaps. This is one of the last major steps before testing. Starship 39 and Booster 19 are needed to be completed and stacked to launch Starship Flight 12. What ... Read more

The latest GDPNow USA GPD estimate is 5.3 percent - January 14, 2026. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday he expected first quarter GDP growth in the United States would exceed 5% in the first quarter of 2026, adding that its interest rates were too high and were holding back stronger growth. The ... Read more

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A general desktop emulator (like xAI's Macrohard, which emulates keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen interactions) could vastly expand beyond VBScript/Unix scripting, which are limited to command-line or basic API tasks. Such a system automates any UI-based workflow without code changes or integrations, mimicking human behavior across apps (browsers, legacy software, ERPs). What It Could Do ... Read more

Interview with Sulaiman Ghori, Member of Technical Staff at xAI. XAI will emulate millions of humans via the distributed Tesla chips. HW4 good enough AI and XAI are hardware constrained and the biggest edge for XAI is speed of hardware deployment. Predicting future bottlenecks Elon excels at forecasting bottlenecks months and years ahead and working ... Read more

Musk Lawsuit seeks to block full for-profit conversion and potentially disrupt Microsoft ties. Evidence shows intent to breach early agreements. Even if OpenAI wins the 2026 trial, discovery exposes emails/intents/depositions creates investor uncertainty and could delay fundraising and slow them in the AI race. AI Model Breakthroughs (Grok-4.2, GPT-5.2, etc.)Models like xAI's Grok-4.2 and ... Read more

US secretary of state Marco Rubio is expected to prepare a proposal to buy Greenland for $700 billion, NBC reports. January 14, 2026 Meeting, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt at the White House. No deal was ... Read more

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than the most advanced scramjets in testing today. It is a rotating detonating engine. They did ground tests of a liquid-fueled rotating detonation ... Read more

Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server) and it is down this morning. This is causing many other sites to be down like X. Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. UPDATE: Some systems are recovering. You can ... Read more

XAI has created Grokipedia and Grokipedia has a Nextbigfuture article. Nextbigfuture provided early coverage of Companies that Become deep tech Unicorns. Dozens of top Nucleqr fission and Fusion, quantum computer and Space Companies before They Became Billion $ Unicorns. There has been a surge in Grokipedia traffic to approximately 3.5 million daily visits, representing a ... Read more

Exlumina's EVERLIGHT delivers wireless laser power to satellites and spacecraft, enabling longer missions, lower costs, and sustainable exploration in LEO, lunar, and deep-space environments. They will try to make the planned AI data centers in Space more efficient.

a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz join a16z general partner Erik Torenberg and Not Boring founder Packy McCormick for a discussion on the evolution of the media and information ecosystem over the past decade. The conversation explores shifts toward open, decentralized speech, the rise of creator-led platforms like Substack, and the decline of centralized ... Read more

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erds problem, but original research. Demonstrates AI generating novel math objects (Bellman functions for optimal control) quickly, linking to isoperimetric profiles and Takagi function ... Read more

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Startup Substrate is building next-generation semiconductor fabs using advanced X-ray lithography. This goes beyond extreme ultraviolet 13.5 nanometer wavelengths down to 0.01 nanometers. At the core of Substrate's technology is a custom particle accelerator which propels electrons (produced by an unknown emitter) to near the speed of light using radio-frequency cavities. As these electrons pass ... Read more

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Iran's Jamming of Starlink uses military-grade electronic warfare (EW) tools, likely imported from China and Russia deployed via mobile platforms like trucks or drones. This creates localized patchwork disruptions rather than a nationwide blanket. Interference is escalating from ~30% to over 80% packet loss in affected areas. The jamming is asymmetric, often prioritizing uplink (data ... Read more