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There is a Republican split in congress. Republicans can only pass bills when they are unified. A split Republican Party means gridlock with no bills passing. There were some senators and some in the house who were wanting to go hardcore on the deficit. This also would mean no bills passed to harm Elon. It ... Read more

Cursor AI raised $900 million in Series C funding from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST. Cursor has grown to over $500 million in ARR and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500, including NVIDIA, Uber, and Adobe. This scale will help us push the frontier of AI coding research.

People who use IVF (in vitro fertilization) will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company. Nucleus plans to charge $5,999 for an analysis of up to 900 ... Read more

A combination treatment of semaglutide, trevogrumad and garetosmab causes fat loss and muscle growth in primate trials. Full trial results for humans are expected later in 2025. Results from the Phase II COURAGE trial show that Regeneron's combination of semaglutide plus trevogrumab significantly enhanced fat loss while preserving lean muscle mass in patients with obesity. ... Read more

Silver Spring, United States, 4th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Beijing, China, 4th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Laser pushed sails-ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the payload each weigh a gram, such a spacecraft could accelerate to one fifth of the speed of light. This would be 200 times faster than the Voyager probe. Richard Norte of Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, 3rd June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Highlights of NVIDIA Computex 2025 Announcements 1. DGX Spark: Personal AI Supercomputer Description: The DGX Spark is a compact, personal AI supercomputer designed for developers, researchers, and data scientists. It brings high-performance AI capabilities to a desktop-friendly form factor. NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip will deliver 1 Petaflop for and DGX spark personal AI server. ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 2nd June 2025, CyberNewsWire

In 18 months, Israel deplayed an anti-drone system which intercepted dozens of targets throughout the war. There is a laser division in the Israeli Air Force which is operating new laser system built by Rafael. Israel is working on Iron Beam which is Israel's next-generation interception system that was scheduled to become operational by year's ... Read more

Ukraine launches the largest attack against the Russian Air Force of this war. Drones smuggled into Russia have struck Russia's strategic bombers at airfields deep in Russia. Up to 40 planes destroyed, including several A-50 (AEW&C) & Tu-95 & Tu-22 long-range bombers.

Meta is ranked 23rd on the LLM leaderboards and is also behind several Chinese open source LLM models. Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explains why bigger models and more data alone can't cross the gap to true intelligence-and what will move the field forward. Meta's Yann LeCun says AGI cannot be reached by scaling ... Read more

Elon Musk has updated the Mars and Starship plans. Starship and the Booster will eventually each be made about 20% more powerful. There will be versions by the end of the year that will be improved by about 5-10%. The new Starship will not have heat shields around the engines. The new engines can withstand ... Read more

Beijing, China, 30th May 2025, CyberNewsWire

From screen capture and analysis of video evidence, I have determined what the Tesla Model Q is. The Tesla Model Q has been highly anticipated. I now know what it is. It is a compact model Y. Review the evidence and analysis. I determined the specifications of the lower priced Tesla Model Q. I have ... Read more

Youtube Channel Met God in Wilderness flew a drone over Tesla Fremont and spotted a disguised new Tesla Model. It had its front and rear covered. I used AI analysis to determine the new car is a compact Tesla Model Y. It is 8 inches shorter. (180 inches versus 188.6 inches). Tesla is expected to ... Read more

A new version of DeepSeek is DeepSeek-R1-0528. DeepSeek R1 has significantly improved its depth of reasoning and inference capabilities by leveraging increased computational resources and introducing algorithmic optimization mechanisms during post-training. The model has demonstrated outstanding performance across various benchmark evaluations, including mathematics, programming, and general logic. Its overall performance is now approaching that of ... Read more

RLVR amplifies reasoning patterns that already exist. Qwen2.5-Math can uniquely do code reasoning"-solving math by writing Python (without execution). Code reasoning correlates with correctness (64% w/ vs 29% w/o). Spurious training amplifies code usage to 90%+. Just having reasoning models do more work in general, makes them improve performance. Our hypothesis: RLVR amplifies reasoning patterns ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 29th May 2025, CyberNewsWire

There was a good launch, good separation, and a good insertion. All 6 engines were reignited on Starship. They got through the second stage burn. They could not deploy the Dummy starlink satellites. They could not open the doors of the bay. They reflew a super heavy booster for the first time. They canceled the ... Read more

The most important things for this SpaceX Starship flight is have the Starship successfully fly without exploding. The next most important thing is deploying the dummy Starlink version 3 satellites. This will test out the pez dispenser deployment. If SpaceX can reliably move forward with operational Starlink version 3 satellites with Flight 10 or Flight ... Read more

The ninth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Tuesday, May 27. The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch at SpaceX.com and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast ... Read more

On March 6, 2025, Starship's eighth flight test successfully lifted off at 5:30 p.m. CT from Starbase in Texas. All 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster started up successfully and completed a full duration burn during ascent. After powering down all but the three center engines on Super Heavy, Starship ignited all six ... Read more

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets scientists see - in unprecedented detail - how interfaces move in promising materials for computing and other applications. The method, now available to users at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL, could help design dramatically more ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 23rd May 2025, CyberNewsWire

Steve Jobs famously said that Apple would not ship junk. Over time Apple has been able to increase market share by selling quality PCs and Laptops at lower price points relative to the overall market. Tesla also has premium products that will be made more affordable without excessively compromising features. Tesla should launch a $30,000 ... Read more

Anthropic Claude 3.5 and 3.7 have been the leading models for coding. They were being threatened by Google Gemini 2.5 but now Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus are out. Cloude 4 Sonnet and Opus are next level for coding. Claude 4 will ask more questions to be certain you and it know what you want ... Read more

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is pursuing funding to increase the laser fusion power at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) from 2.2 megajoules (MJ) to 2.6 MJ as part of the Enhanced Yield Capability (EYC) project. The eighth ignition experiment on April 7, 2025, set new records for both energy yield and target gain. NIF ... Read more

FAA has approved Starship for a launch as early as May 27. FAA has approved Starship's return to flight. pic.twitter.com/NtxV5TY9jz - Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) May 22, 2025

Lawrence Livermore proved over 4X power gain from laser fusion in April 2025. Upgrading to 3.0MJ laser power would take more upgrades but could deliver 20-40X gain. This would be well on the way to proving the 100-200X science gain that is believed to be needed for viable commercial fusion reactor designs. There would also ... Read more

In April 2025, Lawrence Livermore National lab (LLNL) had its eighth successful ignition experiment and set another record for energy yield, delivering 8.6 MJ from 2.08 MJ of energy to the target and further demonstrating that NIF can repeatedly conduct fusion experiments at multi-megajoule levels of energy output. They got over four times the energy ... Read more

Qwen 2.5 Coder/Max is currently the top open-source model for coding, with the highest HumanEval (~70-72%), LiveCodeBench (70.7), and Elo (2056) scores among open models. DeepSeek V3/Coder V2 remains strong, especially in reasoning/math, but is slightly behind Qwen in code generation and competitive programming Elo. Meta Llama 4 Maverick offers unmatched context length (up to ... Read more

Google showcased the Gemini 2.5 PRO model at Google IO 2025. They previously released beta versions of GEmini2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash. They released new versions today and will be releasing final versions next month. Gemini 2.5 Pro is able to correct mistaken human analysis of videos. The models are the top two models ... Read more

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna has 100 million active customers and $92 million in pretax losses for Q1 2025. The Swedish FinTech revealed that milestone Monday (May 19) as it released its quarterly earnings, which showed revenues up 15%, reaching $701 million. Klarna $92 million pretax loss for the first quarter, up from ... Read more

Researchers demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons in graphene using pulses of light that last less than one thousands trillionth (one quadrillionth) of a second. By leveraging a quantum effect known as tunneling, they recorded electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously, a feat that redefines the potential limits of computer processing power. A study ... Read more

Elon says there will be no safety drivers in the cars for the Austin launch of Tesla Robotaxi launch next month. There will be ten initially and if there are no incidents rapidly get to 30-40 in a week and few thousand within a few months. They will expand to other cities like San Francisco ... Read more

Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)-a next-gen propulsion technology that's been theorized for decades, but never flown... until now. The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) changes everything, and Venus is the first venture-backed aerospace company to bring the RDRE from concept to commercialization. RDREs are a ... Read more

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX said SpaceX Starlink satellites can be a next-generation Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solution. Next-generation satellite services can dramatically improve American PNT resilience. Satellite-based PNT systems have long been unrivaled in their relatively low-cost ability to deliver ubiquitous PNT data to end users globally, as ... Read more

Azure provides access to a broad ecosystem of LLMs from multiple providers. Microsoft Azure is adding XAI Grok 3.5. The new XAI Grok 3.5 is available on X, Telegram and Microsoft. Here is the full conversation today between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and @elonmusk. Elon: "With Grok 3.5, which is about to be released, it's ... Read more

Founder Austin Russell has resigned as CEO and Chairman of the Board following a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Inquiry by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors". Youtuber Mark Rober used Luminar LIDAR in a hit piece on Tesla FSD. The video only used Tesla driver assist Autopilot and not the newest ... Read more

Robotaxi softer launch than I would have hoped but hitting the June and ideally June 1 will still be good. Invite instead of going supervised and unsupervised. Dojo 2 getting to volume slipped from late 2025 (what Elon had said at All in Summit), but if they can hit 10X compute and cheaper even with ... Read more

Tesla Master plan 3 targeted a global installation of 30 terawatts (TW) of renewable energy capacity, primarily from solar and wind. This is a monumental scale-up aimed at meeting all energy needs across electricity, transportation, and heating. It involved extensive Battery Storage: It proposes 240 terawatt-hours (TWh) of battery storage worldwide to ensure consistent energy ... Read more