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US-China are in a race to 1000 wingman drones by 2030-the tech that could rewrite World War III and shape the balance of geopolitical power. Think if five R2D2s were each flying X-wings fighter in Stars Wars to help Luke Sky Walker. In the real world these unmanned fighter drones will be loyal wingmen'- sidekicks ... Read more

The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:15 p.m. CT. The upcoming flight will build on the successful demonstrations from Starship's tenth flight test with flight experiments gathering data for the next generation Super Heavy booster, stress-testing Starship's heatshield, and ... Read more

Why does humanity live on a planet orbiting a rare G-type dwarf star (like our Sun) when M-type red dwarfs comprise 82% of stars and are 33 times more abundant? Why do we live so early (1% into) the Stelliferous era, when long-lived M-dwarfs will dominate for trillions of years, far outlasting G-dwarfs' 10-billion-year lifespans? ... Read more

The first stage of Firefly's Alpha Flight 7 rocket exploded during testing. Proper safety protocols were followed, and all personnel are safe. The company is assessing the impact to its stage test stand, and no other facilities were impacted. Firefly Aerospace's first stage booster for its seventh Alpha rocket flight exploded on September 29, 2025, ... Read more

SpaceX's Starship Spaceport Plan 2.0 outlines a vision for high-cadence, airport-like spaceports enabling Starships to fly everywhere routinely. This shifts from low-volume launches to daily operations, supporting Mars colonization and beyond. SpaceX has a blueeprint for airport-like spaceports, where Falcon 9's 2025 tempo (~every 2 days) scales to Starship's 400+ flights/year and accommodates rivals like ... Read more

The First Tesla V4 cabinet Supercharger are now live. They have 0.5 MW, 3X power density and 2X stalls per cabinet. It takes AC power in and uses 16 trays of power electronics and gives DC power out. This is the tech that will make 1.2MW charging for Semi, and 0.5 MW charging for cars, ... Read more

Tesla starts releasing FSD v14 Breakthroughs this week. Versions 14.0, 14.1, and 14.2 already exist and are undergoing internal testing by Tesla employees. Elon Musk describes v14 as a game-changer that is 2-3x safer than human drivers with a FSD 14.2 with a sentient feel-smooth, controlled, and consistent, unlike inconsistent prior versions. Rollout of FSD ... Read more

A Nature paper describes an innovative analog in-memory computing (IMC) architecture tailored for the attention mechanism in large language models (LLMs). They want to drastically reduce latency and energy consumption during inference. The design leverages gain-cell crossbar arrays-capacitor-based memory devices made from oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (IGZO or ITO)-to store key (K) and value (V) ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, 29th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

South Korea study published in Biomarker Research of 8.4 million adults finds higher risks of overall, lung, prostate, thyroid, gastric, colorectal, and breast cancers - across both mRNA and viral-vector platforms Increased risk for major cancers-such as lung, liver, colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, and breast-typically worsens national life expectancy by elevating age-specific and overall mortality rates. ... Read more

Sutton believes Reinforcement Learning is the Path to to Intelligence via Experience. Sutton defines intelligence as the computational part of the ability to achieve goals. It is rooted in a stream of experience: actions taken, sensations observed, and rewards received. This era of experience forms the foundation of RL (Reinforcement Learning). AI Agents learn by ... Read more

The first B21 Stealth bombers shoudl be combat ready for initial operations in 2026. Air Force Chief of Staff David Allvin said there are efforts to accelerate the fielding of the B21. The rumors suggest combat readiness by 2026 (initial ops) or 2027. This would be much earlier than the initial 2029 target. The B21 ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gives a comprehensive Year in AI Recap and forward-looking discussion on the explosive growth of AI infrastructure, scaling laws, partnerships, competitive dynamics, and geopolitical implications. Nvidia's recently announced an OpenAI Stargate partnership and an investment in OpenAI. AI computing is an industrial revolution on par with electricity or jet engines. Huang ... Read more

Tesla and Elon Musk's announced Full Self-Driving (FSD) version 14 starts rolling out next week - sept 29-Ocit 2), followed by 14.1 in mid-October (a debugging/polishing update after internal employee testing revealed fixes needed for its big changes"), and 14.2 in 4-10 weeks (late November to early December). FSD 14.2 is described as the sublime ... Read more

Austin / TX, United States, 25th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have become the clear leader in consumer AI and XR wearables, with over 3.5 million units shipped since launch and tripled sales in the first half of 2025 compared to the previous year. Meta now holds over 60% of the global AR/VR and smart glasses market, with its glasses accounting for ... Read more

The total mass loss rate and outflow speed from its 3I/Atlas surface was used to infer its mass. The mass of 3I/ATLAS must be bigger than 33 billion tons. The diameter of its solid-density nucleus must be larger than 5 kilometers. This suggests that 3I/ATLAS is more massive than the other two interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua ... Read more

Elon said that Tesla FSD Version 14.0 goes into early wide release next week, then 14.1 about 2 weeks later and finally 14.2. The car will feel almost like it is sentient being by 14.2. This will have ten times the parameters of FSD 13. It is supposed to be 2-3 times safer than human ... Read more

Tesla's stock closing above $440 for the first time would be a key technical breakthrough when it converts resistance to support and will then pave the way for all-time highs (around $488). There can be false breakouts. The near-term targets are $450-$500, with potential surges to $600-$700 (equating to a $2T market cap) or even ... Read more

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 25th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

On September 22, 2025, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said Boeing has started making the first F-47 airframes under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. This is the start of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD). Boeing has a $20 billion contract. The Boeing's St. Louis factory been idle since F-15 ... Read more

Tesla's stock has been stuck in narrow range. What could break it out? Full Self-Driving (FSD) software challenges, AI data center energy needs, nuclear power developments, H-1B visa reforms, and broader commentary. Tesla traders are seeing shares stuck at $440 (unlikely to break without major news), with support levels at $423-$424 and $410. Are dips ... Read more

NASA's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency's Moon SLS rocket inside and out after the Artemis 1 launch. SLS flew a good first mission on the Artemis I test flight. NASA commits ... Read more

Lockheed Martin's newly unveiled Vectis drone will be a groundbreaking advancement in unmanned aerial systems. Lockheed Martin has introduced Vectis and describes it as the most advanced fighter drone ever built. It has not been built yet. It is in simulation and design. It is classified as a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) by the U.S. ... Read more

A new order for a GE Vernova 7HA gas turbine placed today would likely see delivery in late 2028 at the earliest, with potential delays extending to 2029-2030 depending on production ramp-up and order prioritization. This equates to a lead time of approximately 3-4 years from order date, though some reports indicate quotes up to ... Read more

China and the USA are racing to develop unmanned wingman drone fighter jets. Those will form mixed manned and unmanned fighter jets with fighter superdrones. China's new Fujian aircraft carrier with magnetic launcher like carrier-scale drone operations. As of September 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy has two aircraft carriers equipped with the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch ... Read more

Xinhua News Agency reports that the Chinese navy has had take off arrested landing tests of the J-15T, J-35 fighter jets and the KJ-600 early warning and command aircraft with a electromagnetic catapult on the new Fujian aircraft carrier. The CNS Fujian is a Type 003 and is the China's most advanced aircraft carrier. Video ... Read more

Pittsburg, United States, 23rd September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Austin, Texas, USA, 23rd September 2025, CyberNewsWire

XAI Colossus 2's is targeting ~1 Gigwatt as soon as possible. They have natural gas turbines for primary generation, batteries for stability, and grid for long-term scalability. XAI Colossus 2 has power from seven installed SMT-360/Titan-350 Natural Gas Turbines. The seven turbines in question are deployed at the Southaven, Mississippi site 6 miles from Colossus ... Read more

I live in silicon valley which means I am well aware of the hype around the term Unicorn startups. The unicorn term was coined by Aileen Lee in 2013 for $1B+ private startups. It was not just to quickly get early investors eager to invest in startups. It was in a pre-AI world where billion-dollar ... Read more

Larry Ellison is the second richest person in the world. The Oracle co-founder net worth is about $380 billion following a 36% surge in Oracle shares. He has made big moves into big media. Big Media is relevant for political influence but also for data and reach that is useful for winning in AI. Paramount ... Read more

SpaceX submitted FCC filing SAT-LOA-20250916-00282 on September 16, 2025, requesting authorization for up to 15,000 additional low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites dedicated to enhancing its Direct-to-Cell (DTC) Starlink service. This filing builds on prior approvals for ~29,988 broadband-focused satellites and leverages spectrum acquired from EchoStar in a $17 billion deal, enabling hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks for ubiquitous ... Read more

xAI will raise $10 billion in a $200 billion valuation funding round according CNBC co-anchor David Faber. The fundraise follows a $5 billion debt raise. A $200 billion valuation would bring xAI above Anthropic's $183 billion valuation secured this month. OpenAI raised at $300 billion and is looking at a new $500 billion valuation round. ... Read more

Here is a comparison of Ariane's Themis prototype in 2025 and SpaceX's Grasshopper tests (2012-2013) and the early Falcon 9 reusability program (2013-2016). Ariane is 13 years behind SpaceX. SpaceX had low-risk suborbital hops on Grasshopper. Had more advanced F9R Dev vehicle in 2014 and then landed boosters after commercial payloads were sent to orbit. ... Read more

The Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship was a day late because of a software issues that caused thruster problems. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship caught up and docked with th International Space Station early Thursday. Northrop Grumman engineers adjusted the sensitivity of main engine fault detection software that prematurely triggered shut downs during ... Read more

SpaceX has an environmental Assessment (EA) filing with the FAA, dated September 2025, does not specify an exact or even approximate launch date for Starship Flight 11 (also referred to as Integrated Flight Test 11 or IFT-11). It focuses primarily on environmental reviews for airspace closure updates to support additional orbital launch trajectories and Starship ... Read more

New York, New York, 19th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk has just confirmed that Money is working internally and will start extending to outside beta users soon. Money is a digital payment service providing peer-to-peer transfers, a wallet for storing funds, and Visa integration for bank/debit card connections. It may add crypto and investment features later. Currently in internal beta, expanding ... Read more

Tesla has a new 2025 annual report. Tesla delivered their 8 millionth vehicle, deployed more than 37 GWh of energy storage from Q3 2024 through the end of Q2 2025 and launched the new Model Y in four factories across three continents. They launched their first Robotaxis in the streets of Austin, Texas, and, in ... Read more

Fertility rates have plummeted even in historically high-fertility, lower-income contexts like India and Bangladesh. The fertility replacement level is roughly 2.1 children per woman. This means each women becomes a mother and has at least one daughter who can also have children. The birth rate in South Korea and some countries is at 0.8-1.2. This ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 18th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

A great day for Tesla shares that could continue tomorrow in a short march to all time highs over $488. Tesla shares surge to $428 in after-hours, and could trigger a green light for swing traders targeting $440, then all-time highs. A series of Fed Rate Cuts will be a wind behind Tesla and the ... Read more

IVO Quantum drive has no measured thrust yet, but the Quantum Drive is fully operational in spac.! It has passed its testing phase with flying colors. Congratulations to the @ivo_ltd team for successfully producing space hardware that survived launch & 6 months in space! Now the fun can begin. Remember that the goal of this ... Read more

XAI Colossus II is the world's first Gigawatt AI training cluster. The picture is an aerial view of the gigawatt data center. xAI's Colossus 2 represents a monumental leap in AI infrastructure, designed as the world's first gigawatt-scale AI training supercluster. Built as an expansion of the original Colossus 1 (which currently operates 230,000 GPUs, ... Read more

Waltham, United States, 17th September 2025, CyberNewsWire