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100 person China startup DeepSeek just released the first Open Source Reasoning Model that matched the OpenAI o1 reasoning model. OpenAI was charging $200 per month to use the OpenAI o1 pro model. How did an unknown, 100 person startup with $0 VC funding produce a frontier open source model that rivaled OpenAI and Anthropic ... Read more

DeepSeek R1 is an open sourced model. DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research company backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a quant hedge fund focused on AI applications for trading decisions. They have released models under open-source licenses like MIT. How did they match or even surpassing OpenAI's O1: Reinforcement Learning Focus: DeepSeek-R1 and its variant, ... Read more

Lithium-sulfur battery and supermaterials firm Lyten is seeking a US$650 million loan from the US import-export bank EXIM to scale up manufacturing and meet BESS orders from the Caribbean region. Lyten has received letters of interest (LI) from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) in support of the financing package, it said this ... Read more

Safely and prudently sending a manned mission that arrives and lands before Trump leaves office is possible. Every 26 months there are launch windows to send missions from Earth to Mars. SpaceX is working toward sending five SpaceX Starships to Mars in 2026. The unmanned missions in 2026 could expand with government support. President Trump ... Read more

The US in creating an external revenue service to collect tariffs. This is re-opening negotiations for all trade and other relationships with all other countries. It is the threat of actions and actual actions where the economic strength of the United States will be used to pressure other countries.

Over the last few years, artificial intelligence has become the biggest talking point in tech. But conversations centered around what AI can achieve - now and in the future - overlook an important point. Namely, that the entry-point to AI must be simple and seamless in order for widespread adoption to occur. Above - Source: ... Read more

Trump said We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars by launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars". Elon Musk's reaction to Trump saying today: We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars by launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." ... Read more

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have uncovered how a molecule found on certain bacteria may drive blood clotting in sepsis, a life-threatening condition that causes about 8 million deaths per year. The team in the cardiovascular engineering lab at OHSU has focused on the role of specific blood clotting mechanisms in sepsis, with ... Read more

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, now says he is more confident of a fast AI takeoff. A fast AI takeoff is more possible than he thought a couple of years ago. He suggested this could happen within a small number of years rather than a decade. This indicates a shift in his perspective towards ... Read more

Falcon Heavy by SpaceX has a cost per kilogram to LEO of approximately $1,400 per kg. This figure reflects the cost-effectiveness achieved through partial reusability and high payload capacity. A single use Super Heavy Starship and booster will be able to bring full payloads to orbit for about $250-600 per kilogram. This is with costs ... Read more

OpenaI internal news is that they have progress to AI that can innovate. UPDATE: Sam Altman says there no AGI in the next month and no AGI has been built. twitter hype is out of control again. we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it. we have some very cool ... Read more

The catch of SpaceX Starship flight 7 had vastly improved efficiency. Look at how much cleaner and perfect the Flight 7 catch was than the Flight 5 one! Congrats @spacex! pic.twitter.com/YlEVyHp4Ue - Starship Alves (@StarshipAlves) January 18, 2025 Catches: Starship 5 vs Starship 7 What an amazing time to be alive. Such an exciting ... Read more

Neuralink has been implanted in three patients, communication speed is nearing 10 bits per second and there is new study to integrate Neuralink to control robotic arms. @ModdedQuad holds the BPS world record of 9.5 bits per second (bps). The challenge now: can this approach scale to 10 bps and beyond for our participants? - ... Read more

The Boring Company @boringcompany has opened the Westgate Station yesterday. It extends the Las Vegas Convention center system and connects the Riviera with the Westgate.

The Future of AI is not certain but the huge spending is for the belief that we will transform the information industries with AGI-like or even super intelligent capabilities. There is evidence that AI capabilities are providing PHD level answers and reasoning from the OpenAI O3 model and from Google's Deep Research system. Elon Musk ... Read more

Youtuber Marcus House and Chamelon Circuit provided a graphic of where the fuel leak was in the SpaceX Starship yesterday. It was just above the engines in the new block 2 Starship. SpaceX has reduced the time needed reconnect after a quick disconnect from over 6 hours to just over 2 hours.

Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity. Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume. This caused the loss of SpaceX Starship 33 in flight 7. ... Read more

Blockchain is all about decentralization, or so we're told. But despite this core principle, much of the blockchain ecosystem still relies on centralized entities for exchanges, custody and governance. This centralization is a contradiction to the whole idea of decentralization. Above - Image source: Pixabay. As blockchain evolves, trustless infrastructure is becoming the key to ... Read more

The seventh fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster launched. the Starship booster is a block 2 version with a lot of improvements. Go for booster return AND IT WAS CAUGHT. Telemetry has been lost to the Starship after the ascent burn. Upper stage was lost. If all goes well, Starship ... Read more

Vaire Computing has raised a total of $4.5 million in funding. They aim to produce useful reversible computing chips in 2027. They ihad a seed round of $4 million, which was announced on July 1, 2024, bringing the total funding to $4.5 million when combined with previous pre-seed funding of $500,000. IBM, Intel, MIT, Sandia ... Read more

A new video discusses what is happening with Tesla shares. There was a breakout yesterday over $415. There is discussion of the need to hold breakouts through the end of a day and end of week. The video also discusses detailed plans for preventing and protecting against citywide fires.

Symmetrical wave ripples identified with NASA's Curiosity rover in ancient lake deposits at Gale crater provide a key paleoclimate constraint for early Mars: At the time of ripple formation, climate conditions must have supported ice-free liquid water on the surface of Mars. These features are the most definitive examples of wave ripples on another planet. ... Read more

Accuweather estimates the damage and economic loss estimates in the Los Angeles wildfires at $250-$275 billion and still increasing. Losses are set to exceed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, even after adjusting for inflation. The LA fires will be costliest natural disaster in US history. In terms of number of burned buildings the Los Angeles fire ... Read more

The seventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Thursday, January 16. The 60-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 35 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new ... Read more

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket achieved orbit on its first launch Jan. 16, but they lost the booster. New Glenn lifted off at 2:03 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The booster uses seven BE-4 engines. The upper stage used two BE-3U engines and continued its ascent to orbit. ... Read more

A Google Deep Mind researcher and physics expert, Adam Brown, discusses what an AI Einstein would be like. Einstein coming up with General Relativity required coming up with new notation. Einstein's discovery of general relativity was a complex and multi-faceted process that unfolded over several years, involving new mathematical notations, a revolutionary perspective on gravity, ... Read more

The seventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Wednesday, January 15. The 60-minute launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. CT. The upcoming flight test will launch a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempt Starship's first payload deployment test, fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and reuse, and launch and ... Read more

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In some legal matters, it makes sense to hire an expert witness. The expert witness can help you with a variety of tasks pertaining to your case, from evaluating the strength of your claim to gathering evidence and even representing you in court. But when exactly should you hire an expert witness? And how do ... Read more

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SpaceX launched Firefly's lunar lander. The lander will take 45 days to reach the moon. It will land near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, on the northeast quadrant of the Moon's near side.

Nvidia's improved GB300 GPU is powered by the B300 chip and will be available March 2025. It will give a 1.5x increase in FP4 performance. Its ultra-architecture also facilitates a substantial memory capacity upgrade from 192GB HBM2e (8 layers) to 288GB HBM3e (12 layers), enabling faster processing of massive datasets and improving overall performance. It ... Read more

The story of the battle for semiconductors was the battle between Liang Mong Song of SMIC /Samsung vs Morris Chang of TSMC and the future of AI. Dwarkesh Patel talked with Dylan Patel and Jon Y of Asianometry. Dylan Patel runs Semianalysis, the leading publication and research firm on AI hardware: https://www.semianalysis.com/ Jon Y runs ... Read more

2024 was another monster year for AI progress and spending on AI. In 2024, organizations worldwide spent an estimated $235 billion on AI, encompassing applications, infrastructure, and related services. The Future of AI is not certain but the huge spending is for the belief that we will transform the information industries with AGI-like or even ... Read more

A moon lander mission is launching tomorrow and will take about 45 days to get the moon and then spend 14 days or more operating on the surface. It will take improved radiation tolerant PCs and an electromagnetic dust shield. The Radiation Tolerant Computer (RadPC) is a technology demonstration of a radiation tolerant computer system. ... Read more

Firefly Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander launches tomorrow to go to the moon with a lot of new science gear including the PlanetVac. PlanetVac will collect samples of lunar regolith (soil) from the surface using a pneumatic technique (powered by compressed gas) and its delivery system will transfer the samples to other instruments that will ... Read more

Improved technology will be taken to the moon by SpaceX, Firefly Aerospace and NASA with a launch tomorrow of the Firefly Blue Ghost 1 mission. The Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector (NGLR) serves as a target for lasers on Earth to precisely measure the distance between Earth and the Moon. The NGLR will reflect very short ... Read more

Firefly's first lunar delivery is scheduled to launch tomorrow and will land near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, on the northeast quadrant of the Moon's near side. Firefly is sending its Blue Ghost 1 lander to Mare Crisium. It will deliver 10 NASA science payloads to the lunar surface that will ... Read more

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander is flying annual missions to the Moon with payload services customized to the technology and exploration goals of each customer. Offering rideshare opportunities and dedicated missions, Blue Ghost can deliver and host payloads anywhere on the lunar surface. When paired with Firefly's medium launch and orbital vehicles, Blue Ghost supports ... Read more

There was a report from Bloomberg that China was considering selling Tik Tok USA to Elon Musk X. This was later denied by Tik Tok. Kevin O'leary is part of group that has put up $20 billion to buy TikTok USA without the algorithm. There are about 110-130 million US users of Tik Tok USA. ... Read more

The exceptional drone or UFO sightings over New Jersey have had a high volume and there are officials who confirm various sightings. Law Enforcement and Local Officials: Various law enforcement agencies, including the Morris County Sheriff's Office, have reported sightings. Sheriff James Gannon noted that there was no immediate danger to the public but confirmed ... Read more

Xpeng has a hybrid six wheel van. It has a gasoline and electric engine. It has automated deployment of a two passenger eVTOL. A vertical takeoff and landing two person vehicle. The van can hold five people and is about the size of a Cybertruck. The vehicles cost about $280,000. Starting price: $280,000 ... Read more

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket had a scrubbed first launch. Blue Origin will not try again for at least two days and weather will likely cause further days of delays. The rocket seems ready. The problem was icing on a vent. When New Glenn starts flying it will operate much like a larger SpaceX Falcon ... Read more

Copenhagen Atomics is a Danish molten salt technology company developing mass manufacturable molten-salt reactors. The reactor type invented by Copenhagen Atomics is a thorium molten salt breeder reactor, which fits inside a custom built 40 foot shipping container and can be mass manufactured on assembly lines with an expected output of minimum 1 reactor per ... Read more

Blue Origin New Glenn launch flight was scrubbed. [Blue Origin[ We're standing down on today's launch attempt to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We're reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt. It will carry the prototype DarkSky-1 Blue Ring Pathfinder, consisting of communications array, power systems, and ... Read more

Los Angeles could have to rebuild over 30% of the city. California has fires, earthquakes, high winds and other risks. Replacing hundreds of billions in residential and commercial buildings and roads is an opportunity to enable a shift to Ultra-high performance concrete and making key structures like hospitals, fire departments into UHPC concrete domes. The ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, talked with Randy Kirk about his idea for using tens of thousands of drones or other technology to fight large city and forest fires. Here is a solution that wasn't possible even a few years ago. 10,000 Drones specially built for dumping water or chemicals could provide overwhelming fire suppression fast and ... Read more

In Mid-2024, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit yesterday to Abilene Christian University, giving ACU and its partners the go-ahead to build the Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on its Abilene, Texas, campus. The 1-MWt research reactor is the first molten salt-fueled reactor to get a construction permit from the NRC. After ... Read more