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Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) over traditional deflagrative engines. They could potential provide for 25-30% or more efficiency when hybridized with air-breathing systems for hypersonic applications. A past gain of 15-30% gain ... Read more

TSMC 3nm process node is the best FinFET technology and TSMC dominates semiconductor chip fabrication with higher transistor density, better yields on a mature technology and broad adoption by clients like Apple and NVIDIA. TSMC's 2nm Process Scale-Up TSMC's 2nm (N2) process will introduce nanosheet transistors (a form of Gate-All-Around or GAA architecture). It is ... Read more

The Palisades nuclear reactor was permanently shut down on May 20, 2022, which was 11 days earlier than its scheduled closure date due to a performance issue with a control rod drive seal. Entergy was its operator at the time. Palisades entered decommissioning status and ownership transferred to Holtec International. Holtec has gotten NRC approval ... Read more

Stratolaunch built and operates the world's largest airplane by wingspan. It is the twin-fuselage Roc, which serves as an air-launch platform for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Their primary focus is on developing, launching, and repeatedly flying the Talon-A family of autonomous, rocket-powered hypersonic testbeds, as well as advancing larger and more ambitious vehicles for commercial and ... Read more

On May 14, 2025 Venus Aerospace became the first in the world to successfully fly a high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) - achieving what no government or private entity had done before. The RDRE utilizes supersonic detonations in a circular chamber to achieve higher thrust-to-weight ratios and greater fuel efficiency (theoretically up to 15% ... Read more

In May, 2025, hypersonic plane developer Hermeus flew its Quarterhorse Mk 1 prototype. It flew at Edwards Air Force Base. They are showing rapid, iterative development. They got a flying prototype in 20 months. It was 204 days from the completed design to the flying prototype. The Quarterhouse Mk2 that will fly at Mach 3 ... Read more

This is the year that giant flying drones that can fly people are breaking through into flying taxi services. They are having deployment with paid rides and sales in UAE and Dubai. Dozens are being ordered and there could be fleets of 100 or more next year. There are significant sales in Brazil as well. ... Read more

The world has one billion missing lives. The economic impact of those missing lives has a 25 year delayed effect. We can see this effect in Japan which is feeling its missing 25-30 million missing people. Childbearing and childraising has an upfront cost but there is decades of delay to the true gains or true ... Read more

Tesla will make an AI6 chip that will be the chip for vehicles, robots, and data centers and it will unify and build on the Dojo's chip design. Samsung's Texas fab will produce the chips as part of a $16.5 billion deal. This could be at least 16 million chips and maybe over 32 million. ... Read more

SoaceX tarship remains the most ambitious rocket, with thrust three times that of Saturn V and aiming for full rapid reusability. The biggest challenge is creating a fully reusable orbital heat shield, which has never been achieved before. SpaceX plans to recover the upper stage Starship possibly this year or in the first half of ... Read more

Steve Jurvetson is a legendary venture capitalist who invested in Tesla (2007) and SpaceX (2008) despite skepticism. He made those investments driven by belief in inevitable futures. All vehicles will be electric and autonomous, and space access will be for everyone. Steve Jurvetson sees Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot advancing AGI by embodying AI in the ... Read more

It is reported that Tesla Robotaxi app access users received an update that implies service in and around San Francisco was getting close to going live for the public and a map of the likely service area was posted. Tesla VP Lars Moravy discussed the Robotaxi expansion to San Francisco during his keynote at the ... Read more

Tesla doubled the service area in Austin and might have tripled the number of vehicles from 11-15 to 35 in July, 2025. This means that Tesla has one third of the fleet compared to the 100 Waymo in Austin. Tesla will also add 10-15 this weekend in San Francisco. If Gene Munster is incorrect or ... Read more

Tesla will start supervised Robotaxi service in San Francisco this weekend. There will be a safety driver will be in the front seat with full access to the wheel and brake. There will be a steady series of announcements as safety riders and safety drivers are removed, service areas are expanded, ramping of cars and ... Read more

In two weeks, the Tesla Austin robotaxi area will expand again. It will likely cover the 300 square miles of the city of Austin. Tesla also said they will have robotaxi availability for half the population of the US by end of this year. This likely means that they have to have some level of ... Read more

Tesla earnings call is highlighting FSD and robotaxi progress and some regulatory delays in Europe and China. They expect to get past those delays shortly. In two weeks, the Austin robotaxi area will expand again. Tesla will have robotaxi and unsupervised FSD for half the population of the US by end of this year. This ... Read more

The Volonaut Airbike flying motorbike is a breakthrough in personal air mobility and replicates the Star Wars Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike. Volonaut has not publicly released pricing or a launch date for the Airbike as of July 2025. They are located in Poland. Industry commentary and related eVTOL products suggest a potential price ... Read more

Chinese media tested ADAS and FSD in various scenarios, including highways and night driving. Tesla vision-based system significantly outperformed emerging Chinese brands like Huawei & Xiaomi, as well as traditional manufacturers. Even with LiDAR, competitors' ADAS performance lags behind Tesla. Only 6 out of 34 other systems passed half of the tests (3 out of ... Read more

Sam Altman's recent claim (from mid-July 2025) that OpenAI will bring well over 1 million GPUs online by the end of this year" appears to refer to aggregate compute capacity across many partnerships and locations. The main Texas location for Stargate plans to have 400,000 chips installed in the middle of 2026. Oracle partnership announcement ... Read more

XAI is complete installation of 550,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs in weeks. This is far faster than previously expected. It is over 7 times the compute used to train Grok 4 which was released just weeks ago. It is 30 times the compute used to train Grok 3 which was released in February of this year. ... Read more

Austin, United States / TX, 22nd July 2025, CyberNewsWire

Bloomberg reports that xAI is in advanced talks to secure multi-gigawatts of AI Data Center compute capacity in Saudi Arabia. xAI is negotiating with @HUMAINAI It would be a long term lease for MULTI-GIGAWATT scale data centers in the Kingdom. There would be a separate 200 MW data center for immediate deployment. The smaller data ... Read more

Astronomers believe there is a Planet Nine in the outer solar system beyond Neptune. A team led by Amos Chen from the National Tsing Hua University, is searching for Planet Nine's heat signature. When you double the distance from the sun, reflected light becomes 16 times fainter. This is an inverse fourth-power relationship. But thermal ... Read more

Boeing is expected to spend 2.8 billion dollars on NASA's new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS). The EUS will be launched by the Space Launch System Block 1B version of the rocket. Its first flight is planned for Artemis IV in 2028. However, the Trump administration has proposed terminating the SLS program after Artemis III, which ... Read more

Waymo has expanded its Austin Robotaxi service area. Waymo now serves a larger area than Tesla. Tesla is testing in areas 20 minutes outside of its current service area. Both Waymo and Tesla will likely expand to serve the entire City of Austin within 2-6 weeks.

Sam Altman, Casey Chu, Isa Fulford, Yash Kumar, and Zhiqing Sun introduce OpenAI the unified agentic model in ChatGPT. It is a ChatGPT Agent. The agentic capabilities and tool use let the OpenAI models perform better on benchmarks like Humanity's last exam. BREAKING: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Agent It allows ChatGPT to think, plan, and ... Read more

The larger Tesla Model YL seating arrangement versus the old Model Y. Also the effect of the extra 7 inches length and extra width is made clear. The new 3rd row seems about as large as the old 2nd row. For robotaxi versions the three rows of seating are all easily accessible. the vast majority ... Read more

Tesla will launch a new Model 3 version called Model 3+ in China as early as September. This return the sedan's longest-range variant. The new variant is expected to be priced around RMB 270,000 ($37,610), potentially making it Tesla's longest-range model to date. The current long range Model 3 US version has about 363 miles ... Read more

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Its orbit and size officially qualify it as a distant dwarf planet. Estimated diameter: 220-380 km Perihelion (closest approach to the Sun): 50-75 AU (1 AU = Earth-Sun distance) Aphelion: ~252 AU Orbit is highly stable and very distant ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 17th July 2025, CyberNewsWire

Tesla to launch 6-seat Model Y L in China this fall. There are 700,000 6-seat cars sold each year with prices over 300000 RMB. A 20% share of this would be 140,000. Global sales could be double those levels. The Model Y L is larger than the 5-seat Model Y and is equipped with dual ... Read more

A comprehensive comparison of the key AI-driven coding tools for developers and development teams: Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini Code (Gemini CLI), and VSCode Copilot, and Windsurf. Head-to-Head Highlights Code Quality: Claude Code consistently delivers the highest-quality, most production-ready code-especially for complex refactoring, tests, and multi-file edits. Gemini Code is strong for large projects, fast prototyping, ... Read more

Mary Meeker published a 340 page AI Trend report for 2025, May 2025. Rapid Acceleration and Historical Parallels: AI adoption is faster than the internet/mobile eras across metrics (e.g., ChatGPT reached 100M users in ~2 months vs. Instagram's 2.5 years). Meeker frames AI as a meta-technology" enabling broader innovations, akin to the printing press or ... Read more

XAI Grok 4 ranks third on the LMarena leaderboard. Google Gemini and OpenAI O3 rank ahead of Grok 4. Grok-4 was tested with real-world prompts across domains like coding, math, as well as creative writing. It ranks Top-3 across the board: Math: #1 Coding: #2 Creative Writing: #2 Instruction Following: #2 ... Read more

Windsurf is an AI-powered developer tool that enables users to build full-stack applications using natural language prompts. They compete with Cursor and recently had a bunch of buyout offer drama. Windsurf raised a Series C in Sept 2024 at $1.25 billion value and around April 2025 they were in talks for a 2.85 funding round. ... Read more

Paris, France, 15th July 2025, CyberNewsWire

Mark Zuckerberg described Meta will spend hundreds of billions for a superintelligence effort. Zuckerberg is building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. Meta is going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. They have the capital from our business to do this. SemiAnalysis just reported that Meta ... Read more

Tesla Austin Robotaxi service area is now has a larger service area. The area includes the University of Texas at Austin. The University has about 60000 students, teachers and staff.

There is a common problem for all AI companies for overfitting to benchmarks. XAI Grok 4 has some problems with prompt adherence. XAI could have had overfitting resulted from the reinforcement learning used for the reasoning model work. Kimi K2 is doing well on realworld tests. XAI will likely improve Grok 4 with new versions ... Read more

The new open source model from China, Kimi K2, when used with Claude Code can code one level of a Nintendo Mario like video game and create a rich text editor using less than 60 cents worth of compute. Integrating into Claude Code lets you use the Kimi K2 coding capability and its agentic capability. ... Read more

Bangalore, India, 14th July 2025, CyberNewsWire

A discussion focused on the accelerating consolidation in the AI-on-device race, highlighting partnerships, competitions, and emerging ecosystems. Big inflection points will be reinventing the phone. Perhaps an X Phone to integrate Grok AI, Starlink, Tesla, and other xAI elements. AI models like xAI's Grok 4, OpenAI's GPT-5, Google's Gemini 3, and Anthropic's Claude are integrating ... Read more

A Deep Dive into the mind-blowing launch of Grok 4-the world's top AI model by xAI. Breaking down its massive implications for Tesla's FSD, robo-taxis, simulations, and beyond. No mainstream coverage? xAI's latest AI model hailed as the world's best. Despite zero coverage from outlets like CNBC, this mind-boggling breakthrough" is poised to reshape Tesla, ... Read more

Developer and entrepreneur David Ondrej demonstrates Grok 4, xAI's latest AI mode. It outperforms competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google on benchmarks such as GPQA (Google-proof questions), advanced math, and coding. He highlights three variants: Grok 4 Base (no tools), Grok 4 Base with tools, and Grok 4 Heavy ($300/month), a multi-agent system where ... Read more

Theo-gg who has been critical of XAI in the past, confirms that XAi Grok 4 is the top model. However, Grok 4 is slow and is not the best at coding yet. It is also expensive because of the volume of tokens generated. Grok 4 excels in reasoning and knowledge tasks, performance and benchmarks. It ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 10th July 2025, CyberNewsWire

The XAI Grok 4 livestream launch is delayed, but should start soon. Tune in for the live demo of Grok 4, the world's most powerful AI assistant. XAI Grok 4 is better than PHD level for academic questions in everything. It may still lack common sense in very rare cases now. It has not invented ... Read more

Tesla robotaxi is expanding to larger service in Austin this weekend. Tesla robotaxi is waiting for approval to expand to the SF Bay Area. It will likely be in August. Expanding to a larger service area in Austin this weekend - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2025 Waiting on regulatory approvals, but probably in a ... Read more

CoreWeave is buying Core Scientific, Bitcoin miner, for $9 billion. It is an all-stock deal to speed up AI data center construction and deployment. Core Scientific's 1.3 GW power capacity over 11 U.S. sites $10B in lease savings, $500M in annual cost cuts by 2027 HIVE estimates 10 MW of NVIDIA H100 GPUs ... Read more

On July 9, 2025, Nvidia became the first company valued at $4 trillion. When might it or another company become a $10 trillion company? In late 1999, Microsoft became the first to reach a $400 billion valuation. The first company to reach a $1 trillion valuation was PetroChina, which briefly surpassed the $1 trillion mark ... Read more