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A NASA NIAC project will try to Mapping Alien Continents using formation-flying optical interferometer. Two hierarchical nullers ~100 km apart that first suppress the host star by ~10^1 in visible light, then combine the leftover planet light as a Michelson interferometer. That baseline gives an angular resolution of order 1 as at 500 nm. An ... Read more

NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration-potentially up to 2 mm/s^2-and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m^2, to support future ultra-high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond the ... Read more

This is the nextbigfuture GDP PPP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI ... Read more

What has already been proven wrong about doubters think about SpaceX ? What will get proven wrong in the next 150 days. Count down of 14 SpaceX bear claims. Following the engineering into the revenue and profits. Starship's commercial payload, booster recovery, engine reuse, AI compute hosting, and the buildout behind my forecast of $120B+ ... Read more

Most families say the same thing too late. They wanted to know their grandparents better. They wanted the stories while the person was still in the room. Then the person is gone, and what is left is three anecdotes and a box of unlabeled photos. The point is not a prettier keepsake. It is to ... Read more

I have been able to do 4 pull-ups with a neutral grip. This is the first time in my life that I have been able to do any pull-ups. I had more strength and lower weight in my 20s but I had bad technique. I now realize I was just going arms and not getting ... Read more

Tesla already sold the car. Could it keep earning from that same vehicle for years-and eventually earn while the car is parked? There are or will be three current and future revenue streams for Tesla cars. FSD subscriptions, autonomous rides, and Digital Optimus-the vision of AI performing computer-based work using Tesla hardware. Cybercab gets the ... Read more

This is the nextbigfuture GDP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI productivity ... Read more

Melbourne, Florida, 10th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Tesla, SpaceX and AI could be approaching huge unlocks at the same time. Could Cybercab and worldchanging FSD 15 change Tesla's demand? Could Starship unlock more satellite capacity-and eventually computing in orbit? And when does AI become a worker you can actually delegate to? Tesla's robotaxi rollout, FSD demand, and the opportunity in Europe. ... Read more

Austin, Texas / USA, 9th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. What can you actually do with it? I explain why I moved from $20 to $200 a month on AI-and how I'm using it to finish work I used to put off. We look at GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable and Grok, the next compute expansion, and what increasingly capable ... Read more

Boston, MA, USA, 8th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Tesla is reportedly ordering enough parts from suppliers to build 15,000 Optimus units by the end of 2026 - about 1,000/week by end of September, ramping to 2,500/week by year-end. That's a run rate of 100,000-125,000 units/year heading into 2027, and it confirms what many doubted: humanoid robots at scale is happening now, not years ... Read more

Jason Calcanis of the All in Pod predicted Tesla will land 40% of the future robotaxi market, Uber 40%, Waymo 15%, and everyone else splits the remaining 5%. I go through the actual supply chain, unit economics, and hardware numbers and show why we think that split is way off - and why Tesla likely ... Read more

OpenAI GPT 6 is a next generation model. It is built different. Theo says it is the best model ever.

Chris Camillo - the investor who's turned a small stake into as much as $100M - says Tesla's robotaxi and Cybercab story is already priced into the stock. We go through the actual numbers on a whiteboard and show why we think he's missing several layers. FSD subscription revenue today, the Hardware 4 legacy fleet ... Read more

What is going on with Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi? No clearly presented answers from Tesla. Answers are scattered. But looking at what is happening. We can put all the reports into context. QUESTIONS State of Rollout How Much Ramp by Dec 2026? What Cities? How Many Cybercab? FSD ? Tesla Cars? When Will Robotaxi Revenue ... Read more

SHOCKING Today Taiwan 11% GDP Growth, 2030 10% US GDP from AI Agents Literally Worldchanging

Tesla is letting people sign up to buy robotaxi fleets. The presentation at the event described dynamic pricing. Tesla has officially started offering Cybercab rides to the public. Info after the event. Per teslayoda - Cybercab can be purchased by fleet managers first - at $25-30K per unit. Fleet managers will be sold Cybercabs. The ... Read more

GPT-6 Astra leads every comparable benchmark against Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Opus 5. Clear wins (large gaps) ARC-AGI-3: Astra 98.6% vs Opus 5 30.2% (high). No scores for the Fable models. FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2): Astra 97.6% vs Fable 5.1 / Fable 5 87.8% and Opus 5 73.2%. AutomationBench: Astra 41.4% ... Read more

AI agents going crazy has already boosted the GDP of Taiwan to 11%. This is the level of GDP growth for China during the decades long rise of China. The Rise of AI is boosting the GDP of the USA, Taiwan and Korea. We describe the world of agent AI and what it means. At ... Read more

Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, 3rd September 2026, CyberNewswire

106 Model Ys were registered in Texas for Tesla robotaxi in about 24 hours, bringing the total to 375 Model Ys and 45 Cybercabs as of September 2, more than doubling the count from the prior week. Trackers like Texas Autonomous Vehicle Tracker confirmed the number after the final Model Y registration, with Tesla now ... Read more

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its fourth Flash model in under four months - it scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and reaches the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto frontier

1% of companies generate 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic's enterprise revenue. The top 1% of firms spend about 600x per employee what the median firm spends. Among individual developers, the top 1% write 46x more AI-generated code per day than the median user and merge 15x more pull requests. A small group of agentic power ... Read more

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's newest Flash-tier model released September 2, 2026. It is the most capable Flash model yet for mid-difficulty long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and enterprise workflows, while keeping Flash-level speed and the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash. It is a value model. Pricing is the same as 3.7 Flash Introductory ... Read more

Melbourne, Florida, 2nd September 2026, CyberNewswire

Elon Musk posted on September 2, 2026 that Grok 4.7 comes out in 10 days so September 12. 2.1 trillion parameters - a new, larger pretrain, up from Grok 4.6's 1.5T base. Elon has said it will be better than 4.6 in every way except that it will be slightly slower to serve, with better ... Read more

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, which astronomers will use to explore everything from dark energy and dark matter to distant planets and black holes. The first observations will start in early 2027. It is launched and is moving to position. Roman will collect light from far across the universe ... Read more

OpenAI Astra is getting cybersecurity safeguards but will be released soon. It will like release before the end of the week. OpenAI said it might reach a critical level of cybersecurity capability. Astra meets the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the OpenAI Preparedness Framework. It is the first model OpenAI have designating at this level, ... Read more

Anthropic released FAble 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 and they continue to get better at agentic coding and scientific research. Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token. This is because we're reducing our pricing on cache reads (where the model reads inputs that ... Read more

Taiwan's gross domestic product government forecast is now over 11.0 growth for 2026. The fastest growth in 39 years. The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics also predicted 6.04% growth for 2027. The export of goods is expected to grow almost 40% this year to NT$28.64 trillion (US$894.5 billion). The economy grew 8.76% last ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 1st September 2026, CyberNewswire

San Rafael, United States, 1st September 2026, CyberNewswire

There is another huge increase in AI usage from productive agents like Grok bot. This is continuing the need for more energy and more construction of AI data centers. AI Revenues continue to grow. Breaking this down this dynamic situation is needed to know investment and business decisions. SemiAnalysis says Anthropic and OpenAI each ended ... Read more

Is the Tesla Robotaxi Era finally here. Many Tesla believers had lost faith. But look out Tesla is ramping unsupervised robotaxi. There are about 1000 Cybercabs parked in and around Austin and other Tesla robotaxi cities. Elon and Tesla AI lead Ashok are talking about flooding Austin with Cybercabs. Unsupervised Cybercabs are already being added ... Read more

The Tesla Robotaxi tracker does not capture all Tesla Robotaxi but still identified 195 unsupervised robotaxi. Tesla doubled the vehicles in the last month and quadrupled in the last four months. It is a crowdsourced identification of unique robotaxi where people must submit vehicles and license plates to the system. The system has identified about ... Read more

Bnei Brak, Israel, 31st August 2026, CyberNewswire

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 31st August 2026, CyberNewswire

SpaceX already lifts about 85% of everything humanity puts in orbit - roughly 2,400 tons a year versus a few hundred for the rest of Earth combined, including China. The next Starship flights start stacking V3 satellites that add on the order of 20 Falcon 9 Starlink missions of capacity per launch. Starbase Louisiana is ... Read more

Here is a quick comparison of AI agents. Grok Bot versus open claw vs poke.

David Friedberg on @theallinpod says the neoantigen approach is sequence the tumor, make the protein, put it back in the body, let the immune system destroy the cancer. Sequencing and protein production are cheap now, and the technique came out of decades of NIH-funded research. You can pay someone $50,000 to do this for you ... Read more

In 2022 the US was adding roughly 45-50% of the world's new compute and China 30-35%. Export controls plus a huge US buildout flipped that: today about 70% of new AI data-center watts are going into America and China is under 10%. US AI chips are 2.3 to 2.7 times better at compute per watt ... Read more

One person with a chatbot burns tokens only while typing. One person with 3-20 background bots burns tokens all night. This month sees the start of grokbot boom that adds hours and ultra low cost models. Cheap models make it affordable. GLM-5.3-Flash at $0.15/$0.50 per million is ~10x cheaper than a frontier model. $20 per ... Read more

X identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, they found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that ... Read more

Elon Musk says his best guess for SpaceX ~$3.5T revenue is roughly around 2033. This could after adding 10-20 Gigawatts per year of earth based data centers from 2027 to 2033 and adding 100 Gigawatts per year of space based data centers from 2030-2033. This would be about 500 gigawatts of cumulative ai data center. ... Read more

Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold says Nvidia could make $1 trillion in revenue for the fiscal year that ends in January 2029. At yesterdays earnings call, Nvidia guided to 70% revenue growth for 2027. Nvidia is likely to make 403 billion in revenue in 2027. 70% growth would hit almost $700 billion in 2028. They ... Read more

Menlo Park, California, USA, 27th August 2026, CyberNewswire

Today, NVIDIA reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 26, 2026, of $96.2 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a year ago. For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were both 75.0%. GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $2.46 and $2.22, respectively. Revenue $96.2B (Est. ... Read more