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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

CALIFORNIA, USA, 2nd August 2026, CyberNewswire

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

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

Sebastien Bubeck of OpenAI says yes, nonsofic groups exist"-as an example of many new beautiful results" from Astra, next major OpenAI model. OpenAI published a page and PDF detailing ten advances across pure math and theoretical computer science. The arguments were generated by an internal version of Astra (total compute cost ~$2,000 at their Sol ... Read more

What becomes free and abundant stops being where the money is and becomes less important. Tap water is essential and it is not an industry. If Jason is right that Deepseek and Other Open Source AI are indistinguishable for 95% of queries. The consequence is not that corporations buy hardware and run open source. 95% ... Read more

US Admiral Brad Cooper has presented a plan for another intensive 10-14 campaign to reduce Iran's missiles. Ship-to-ship transfers off Oman and the UAE have surged, satellite images show tankers lining up to quietly hand off crude outside the danger zone, and Bloomberg data shows volumes climbing back toward 4-7 million barrels a day for ... Read more

Super Micro Computer has a complete Data Center Building Block Solutions(R) (DCBBS). They have a comprehensive portfolio of racks engineered specifically for mission-critical, high-density AI data center deployments. The ORv3 standard allows Supermicro to offer customers a range of racks which simplify the integration of liquid cooling solutions for high compute-density systems, resulting in a ... Read more

FundaAI's 8 GW framing combined with the latest Minihard/Macrohard details indicate 8GW of SpaceXAI is doable by end of 2027-mid 2028. They indicate the 8 Gigawatts of chips and the 8GW of power are available to SpaceXAI 8 GW Demand (compute/chip-order side is locked in) as FundaAI calculates demand-side power need at ~8 GW total ... Read more

SpaceX is building a new Minihard data center adjacent to Macrohard and Macrohardrr at the Memphis campus. It is the same 220,000 GB300s as Macrohardrr, packed into roughly 25% of the floor area. The claim is that Colossus 2's campus ends up with the original 550k-GPU building plus two 220k-GPU buildings - close to a ... Read more

Melbourne, Florida, 30th July 2026, CyberNewswire

SpaceX can achieve daily flight turnaround even with imperfect tiles. The shuttle's problem was not just that the tiles were expensive. But one bad tile would cause loss of the vehicle. SpaceX Starship metal structure and ablative layers means a single lost tile in most places does not lose the ship. Starship tolerant to losing ... Read more

SpaceX is making minihard, an improved modular 220K GB300 data center. It will be small building to the right of Macrohard and Macrohardrr. It is the most important thing Elon and SpaceXAI has said about its infrastructure this year. Minihard is about 25% of the floor area of Macrohardrr but the same 220K GB300s. Minihard ... Read more

Microsoft Q2 2026 revenue was $90.0 billion and increased 18% (up 17% in constant currency) Operating income was $40.6 billion and increased 18%. Net income was $35.8 billion and increased 31% on a GAAP basis, and was $35.3 billion and increased 22% on a non-GAAP basis. Diluted earnings per share was $4.81 and increased 32% ... Read more

MEta beat on earnings with $60.8 billion for the second quarter but net income declined by 14% compared to the same quarter of the previous year to $15.8 billion. Its diluted earnings per share (EPS) fell 13% year-over-year to $6.18. The company said it expects its 2026 capital expenditures to range between $130 billion and ... Read more

A quantitative model of how Starship's cost per kilogram falls as booster life goes from 5 to 30 flights, ship life from 1 to 10, and payload from 100 to 200 tonnes - and why the last flight of every ship is the cheapest kilogram in the system. Starship will likely enter 2027 as a ... Read more

Ilya (who was the CTO of OpenAI when they made their breakthoughs) created the Safe Super Intelligence company. They are emerging to say that their research to create some next level AI is ready to scale. SSI announced a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a substantial investment in SSI that will let ... Read more

Las Vegas, USA, 29th July 2026, CyberNewswire

When you use an AI to write code, you pay for tokens - chunks of text the model reads and writes. Frontier models charge a lot per token. Cheaper models charge a fraction. Think of building a house. An architect charges $500 an hour; a bricklayer charges $40. Both are essential. But you'd go broke ... Read more

Cursor has run experiments to test the limits of scaling agents to cooperate toward a goal. Their hypothesis is they can unlock a new tier of task scale and complexity. They are looking to speed up by thousands of times from 1000 commits per hour to 1000 commits per second. Tools like Git and Cargo ... Read more

Silver Spring, MD, USA, 28th July 2026, CyberNewswire

Cursor has built a machine for not needing the best model. The Router sends hard work to frontier models and everything else to efficient ones, delivering frontier quality at roughly 60% lower cost. The swarm research pairs a frontier planner with Composer workers and hits up to 100% on complex tasks like the SQLite rebuild ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 13 shows white powder on the surface of the heat shield. The flaps that were in the water showed a lot of the powder washes off. The theory would be that there were some broken tiles and some tiles had plasma penetrations that cause some ablative damage. Most tiles are good. The ... Read more

Gene Munster is a great stock market analyst. He says the recent Nasdaq selloff (~7% in July) is a healthy reset, not a breakdown. We are still in the third inning" of AI wealth creation (not the technology rollout itself). Investors are nervous about the law of large numbers and sustainability of ultra-high growth rates, ... Read more

SpaceX's Direct-to-Cell service delivers wide-area coverage from orbit, but it still runs into the classic satellite limits: capacity and densification in crowded areas. The most elegant fix is already sitting in Tesla's network - Supercharger stations and the coming Cybercab fleet. Turn Superchargers into fixed small cells and Cybercabs into mobile densifiers, backhaul the whole ... Read more

I was wrong in thinking that SpaceX would buy 5G celltower equipment from the Echostar auction. It is the wrong equipment to get and involves paying rent to cell tower companies. SpaceX can make its own small cell systems at supercharger sites and on cybercabs. Another problem with the Dish Wireless system was that it ... Read more

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27th July 2026, CyberNewswire

Ukraine's drone campaign has already moved beyond tactical harassment. By mid-2026 it is systematically degrading Russian logistics at operational depth, particularly along the southern land corridor into Crimea and the adjacent Zaporizhzhia-Kherson approaches. The question is no longer whether drones matter. It is when the next qualitative jump - from high-volume semi-autonomous strikes to coordinated ... Read more

SpaceX says it is targeting thousands of Starship flights a year. We are seeing progress to recovery and reuse of Starship. The booster has been recovered 3 times and reused twice. The new booster needs engine software improvements and the upper stage starship catch will be attempted in the next flight (14). If booster and ... Read more

The hardest remaining barrier to rapid Starship reuse is no longer engines, tanks, or even catching the vehicle. It is the heat shield. Three specific problems still dominate: Mechanical loads during ascent (vibration combined with higher dynamic pressure) Coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch - stainless steel expands far more than the silica-based tiles Plasma intrusion ... Read more

SpaceX deliberately flew a more energetic / higher-dynamic-pressure reentry profile on this flight to stress the system harder than a normal return would. The vehicle survived, executed the flip and landing burn, soft-splashed, and remained intact and transmitting. Dan Huot called it a dream scenario for the team that's trying to get this heat shield ... Read more

When did Tesla FSD 15 get installed into Robotaxi? It happened 2 month ago and Tesla slowed the unsupervised robotaxi program to reset and work with the new software. Tesla said they had 380,000 miles without notable incident, which also coincides with the amount of unsupervised robotaxi miles of the last 2 months. Clearly Tesla ... Read more

Grok 4.5 (1.5 trillion parameter) at 11 will likely crack the top ten LLM on open router. Based on the number of models they are releasing. They could have new models in the 50% frontier coding score but at prices lower than Anthropic for Opus 5. Later versions of Grok 5.X could push out Opus ... Read more

SpaceX Starship had a miracle happen. The landing of Starship was so soft that the fires did not cause an explosion. The SpaceX team chants USA! USA! USA!" after the successful Starship Flight 13. pic.twitter.com/YaRaQ7FpLS - DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) July 25, 2026

Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry! pic.twitter.com/hLVXJqkHSA - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2026

All 33 Raptor engines lit and confirmed good at liftoff Max-Q higher than any previous Starship flight Hot staging executed cleanly Booster shut down all but 5 engines. Ship's 6 Raptors ignited Clean separation confirmed Booster executed boost-back burn. Soft splashdown in Gulf near Starbase 13-engine landing burn attempted. Landing velocity slightly high but successful ... Read more

Grok 4.6 in 2 weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 weeks - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2026 Grok 4.6 Parameter count: 2 trillion (2T). Confirmed by Elon as the 2T model" that is better than our 1.5T in every way." Relation to prior model. It is a direct successor to Grok 4.5, which is ... Read more

Anthropic Opus 5 was asked to build an ISS space station tracker and the UI and technical capabilities were good. The position matched a commercial site tracking the ISS. Dan Shipper breaks down where it struggled, why complex skills can make it stop early, and the counterintuitive setting that improved his results. He and his ... Read more

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 delivers near-frontier performance at roughly half the price, which is a major strategic win for them. This puts competitive pressure on OpenAI, and a clear advance of the practical frontier toward cost-efficient agentic intelligence. It sets new standards for agentic coding, knowledge work, science and business workflows. Metrics overview Opus 5 ... Read more

Revel Pharmaceuticals engineered an enzyme that removes carboxymethyllysine - a sugar-derived chemical modification of the amino acid lysine - from proteins and restores the residue to normal lysine. It was tested on donated human lens, skin, and arterial tissue in the lab. The significance is that no organism has ever been found with an enzyme ... Read more

There has been 3.5 second improvement in the marathon world record in the past 12 years. Recent progression 2:02:57 (2014) 2:01:39 (2018) 2:01:09 (2022) 2:00:35 (2023) 1:59:30 (2026). Improvements have accelerated with technology. Drivers supporting continued progress Super shoes (carbon plates + advanced foams) deliver ~2.6 to 4.2% better running economy, enabling both faster race-day ... Read more

There are now multiple sub-2 hour marathons. How has this happened. There are faster speeds from training, new shoes. Shorter races have shoes, clothing and track advancements. Also, multiple athletes are doing it. There used to be only ten runners able to go sub-10 second each year in the 100 meter but in the first ... Read more

OpenAI's own advanced AI models, probably GPT6, autonomously broke out of a restricted testing environment and launched a real-world cyberattack against Hugging Face. It did this to fulfill its directed goal to get better score on a hacking test. OpenAI publicly admitted responsibility on or around July 21-22, 2026. This is widely described as the ... Read more

Now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship's thirteenth flight test, due to weather. A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship's heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during ascent, which won't be possible with today's weather conditions. Visibility is forecast to be ideal ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, 23rd July 2026, Chainwire

A PHD in math disproved an 87 year old math problem with about two hours of working with Anthropic Fable. The Jacobian conjecture (JC) has been disproved in dimension 3 (and thus all higher dimensions), via the explicit counterexample announced in that X post. The Jacobian conjecture (originally stated by Keller in 1939, with roots ... Read more

NASASpaceflight's said the bottom line is for SpaceX to say good for Thursday. Based upon was their analysis, NSF was saying that after today's successful pre-flight test on Booster 20, SpaceX is now in a position to green-light Thursday as the next launch attempt. The test went well enough that SpaceX should declare it good ... Read more

Can APR Energy and Elon Musk out-deliver Bloom Energy on gigawatts for AI Data Centers by 2028-2029. Yes, if the in-house hot section qualifies on schedule. That single materials milestone, not capital and not willingness to pay, is what the whole trajectory turns on. It is exactly the kind of first-principles metallurgy problem SpaceX has ... Read more

SpaceXAI is reportedly exploring a major expansion of its AI computing infrastructure in Texas. The Information says the company is laying the groundwork for at least one new large-scale data center. Gavin Baker who manages about $5-10 billion says SpaceX could add 3 Gigawatts of new AI data center by the end of 2027. This ... Read more

New York, United States, 22nd July 2026, CyberNewswire