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by Brian Wang on (#74XRC)
EchoVision is AI-powered smart glasses from AGIGA, a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2024. The help blind and low-vision users. The glasses look like stylish sunglasses, with a wide field-of-view camera, open-ear audio, and a simple button interface for hands-free use. You press a button for real-time AI audio descriptions of your surroundings, switch to ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74XKW)
Retail investors (non-institutional individual/public shareholders) own roughly 35-44% of Tesla (TSLA) stock, depending on the exact source and reporting date. This is one of the higher retail ownership levels among trillion-dollar market-cap companies. This is $380-440 billion of the $1.1 trillion valuation of Tesla. Half of the retail investors in Tesla could be long time ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74XKX)
The Third launch of the Blue Origin New Glenn has been pushed back 3 more days from the target of last week. This was also a delay from March. They will try to refly a booster and they will try to launch the second commercial version of an AST Mobile satellite. Happening Now Blue Origin ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74XKY)
There are many ways to manage a marketing team, and companies are always looking for ways to improve upon what they already built. These days, marketing leaders are increasingly leaning into decentralization. But how exactly does decentralization work within the context of a marketing team? And how can you see the full benefits in your ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74WHQ)
30 Jan 2026 blog post from Dr Mike McCulloch, he compared the IVO Quantum drive based on Quantized inertia theory, satellite's orbit to a nearly identical twin control satellite. From late September to late December 2025 (90 days), the IVO sat fell ~600 meters less than the control (IVO: 4,880 m decay; control: 5,480 m ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74WGP)
Starlink V3 launches with Starship will carry 25 to 50 times more bandwidth than a Falcon flight with V2, depending on how you count it. Starship will also launch 100+ times more per year than Falcon (mostly AI sats). Probably ~20k comms satellites per year at ~2 tons/sat. High mass flux to orbiy. Elon Musk ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74W0E)
There are huge breakthroughs coming in 2026 for space, Tesla technology and AI. SPACE BREAKTHROUGHS Early May SpaceX Starship V3 Flight 12 June SpaceX Flight 13 Orbital Second Half V3 Satellites 10-20 Flights, 400-1000 Satellites $100-200 Per Kg with 10+ booster reuses April 30 FCC Internet Broadband Power will be approved that will enable 1 ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74VXN)
Dutch regulators (RDW), which just approved Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands. They have just issued an official statement. Due to the continuous strict monitoring of the driver in the vehicle, the system is safer than other driver assistance systems. We have thoroughly researched and checked this system, more than a year and a half. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74VT0)
\Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) and other AI leaders sees the next big AI gains-and the path to AGI-will come from targeted algorithmic breakthroughs in areas like continual learning, memory architectures, world models, reasoning/planning, and hybrid systems. Demis talked in a 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings. Here's a structured summary drawn from that interview, his other ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74VA2)
SpaceX Starlink alone will generate $20 billion in revenue this year, almost doubling the estimated $11.8 billion it made in 2025. SpaceX will also have more launch revenue. Starlink has subscriber growth going from adding 750,000 per month to 1.5 million per month. A fundamental shift in revenue mix, pricing dynamics, and the growing role ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74V4A)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy released the annual shareholder letter. AWS AI revenue is running above $15 Billion annually Amazon expects around $200 Billion of 2026 capex mostly tied to AI infra Project Leo already has 200+ satellites in orbit ahead of launch. $4 Billion+ is going toward rural delivery expansion while ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74V4B)
The next launch of the Blue Origin has been delayed from April 14 to April 16. The rocket sections are still in the Bay and have not been moved out to the launch pad. This is another important Blue Origin launch. It will be the third New Glenn launch. AST Space Mobile is launching BlueBird ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74V4C)
Elon Musk says that Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model has 1 trillion parameters and Claude Opus has 5 trillion parameters. XAI's Grok 4.20, which has 0.5 trillion parameters and there are seven larger models being trained at XAI. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74TXF)
Starship FCC licenses for Flight 12 and 13 have been modified. Starship Flight 12's license includes a suborbital first and second stage. Currently, SpaceX is looking at a late April or early May launch for Starship 12. Starship Flight 13's now says suborbital first stage and ORBITAL second stage. Starship 13 is looking at an ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74TXG)
Anthropic Mythos is Anthropic's newest frontier AI model tier, announced in early April 2026. It will be a step-change in capabilities over their previous top model (Claude Opus 4.6). Mythos is entire higher tier of models that Anthropic says is larger and more intelligent than our Opus models. Why Mythos Is a Big Deal Anthropic ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74TTT)
xAI's Colossus 2 (MACROHARD) now has 7 models in training at once. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter model 1 variant of a 10-trillion-parameter model SpaceXAI Colossus 2 now has 7 models in training: - Imagine V2- 2 variants of 1T- 2 variants ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74TTV)
Tesla is supposed to be starting some mass production of Cybercabs in April. There were 60 Tesla Cybercabs in outbound lots in Texas. If Tesla makes an average 40 per day in April then there would be 1000+ Cybercabs in April. I think this is more likely for May.
by Brian Wang on (#74TTW)
Meta Muse Spark (originally codenamed Avocado) is Meta's first model from its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). It launched on April 8, 2026 and will be the first of a new Muse family of models. Meta describes it as a natively multimodal reasoning model designed from the ground up for vision + language integration (not ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74TTX)
Tech startup Minimus, which specializes in secure and hardened container images made to eliminate CVE risk, is proud to announce the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly established role, Nardi will lead the company's next phase of scale, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, operations, and corporate development. As the market ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#74TN1)
Austin, Texas, United States, 9th April 2026, CyberNewswire
by Brian Wang on (#74SJR)
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA's Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal some regions no human has seen, including a rare in-space solar eclipse. During the lunar flyby, the crew documented impact craters, ancient lava flows, and surface fractures that will help scientists study the Moon's geologic evolution. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74SJS)
Tesla FSD V14.3 first drive impressions Highway follow distance is more comfortable Quicker take off from stop signs after coming to a complete stop Highway lane change hesitation from previous versions seems gone for me The navigation routes it takes are still sometimes confusing It understood detour signs correctly on ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74SJT)
U.S. officials says the ceasefire begins tonight but will take time for orders to reach individual IRGC units. US halts all offensive military operations against Iran, per US official. Defensive actions remain in place as ceasefire takes hold. Officials expect delays before Iran's IRGC fully receives and implements the order.
by Brian Wang on (#74S41)
Intel is now officially partnering with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on the Terafab project. Terafab is their joint venture for a massive, vertically integrated semiconductor facility (primarily in Austin, Texas) that combines logic chips, memory (HBM), advanced packaging, testing, and even photomask production all under one roof. The goal is to produce ~1 TW/year of ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74RQN)
Boom Supersonic has secured one major public sales order for its Superpower 42 MW natural gas turbines aimed at AI data centers. They will sell 29 units totaling 1.21 GW from launch customer Crusoe (announced December 9, 2025), creating a $1.25 billion backlog. Boom closed a $300 million funding round led by Darsana Capital Partners ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74RPS)
Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027. This significant expansion of their compute infrastructure will power our frontier Claude models and help us serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide. The run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion-up ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74RPT)
A SpaceX Raptor has what looks like an explosion at McGregor.
by Brian Wang on (#74R41)
Orion is more than two-thirds of the way to the Moon, traveling at high speed and breaking the Apollo 13 distance record (about 248,655 miles from Earth). It will enter the Moon's sphere of influence early on April 6. A lunar flyby will happen Monday, April 6, 2026 at about 2:45-9:40 p.m. EDT . Orion ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74R2D)
China's economy for the past 50 years has been investment/export/industrialization-driven with permissive building. There are fast approvals, state capacity). India's became more consumption-led with decentralized hurdles and lower infrastructure spending. China's GDP multiplied ~30* (1980-2010) vs. India's ~5*. Productivity growth (output per worker) was nearly double India's for decades. India and China starting point was ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74R2E)
Europe's restrictive energy policies-characterized by lengthy, fragmented permitting (often 7-10+ years for renewables and industrial projects), heavy environmental/regulatory burdens, NIMBY/local opposition, carbon pricing (ETS), and phased-outs of reliable baseload (nuclear/coal) without rapid replacement-have led to persistently high energy costs, volatility, and slow infrastructure rollout. China has a permissive pro-growth energy approach. State-directed fast approvals, massive ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74R2F)
Metro areas/states allowing sprawl (Texas metros like Dallas/Houston permitted ~72k homes in 2024 alone) + densification (Minneapolis, Auckland NZ upzoning 21-24% rent drops in targeted studies) show housing stock growth 2-3x higher and price appreciation 50-80% lower than restrictive peers (California, New York). Supply elasticity over 0.5 typically caps real price growth near inflation. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#74R2G)
Videos describe the forward air base built inside of Iran and pictures of the forward airbase after it was used for 2 days and then abandoned. Rescued Airman taken back by little bird choppers back the base. 100+ US military personal were inside iran. FARP stands for Forward Arming and Refueling Point (also sometimes called ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74QSK)
Dr. Mike makes the good case that five things can be done to boost standard of living everywhere. The standard of living is how much real goods, services, housing, energy, healthcare, and comfort the average person can actually afford. It is the #1 thing societies care about (even if they vote on it indirectly through ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#74QPE)
Pulsar fusion is working to make a fusion propulsion system with about 10000-15000 ISP. This is about 25 to 40 times the ISP (exhaust speed and fuel efficiency) compared to chemical systems. There was a live demonstration during a technical session at Amazon's MARS Conference in Ojai, California, presented by Pulsar Fusion CEO Richard Dinan. ... Read more
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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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