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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

SpaceX's operations at Starbase have faced significant challenges, primarily due to persistent rain and the explosion at Massie's test site for the Ship 36 static fire. SpaceX has redesigned and installed a new fuel transfer tube. This should help prevent the explosion that happened with Ship 36. The redesigned fuel transfer tube for the Superheavy ... Read more

Nvidia became the world's first $4 trillion company with a surge in share price in the morning. The shares have since eased off for a $3.97 trillion valuation. NVIDIA's most recent quarterly stock guidance for the remainder of fiscal 2026 is as follows: For the second quarter of fiscal 2026 (ending July 2025), NVIDIA management ... Read more

Finally, we will get to see a test of the IVO quantum drive which is a propellentless drive. If it is successful in raising the orbit of the OTP-2 Rogue Space satellite (Norad tracking Satellite 63235), then it could open up access to interstellar travel and fast travel around the solar system. This is controversial ... Read more

Perplexity AI Comet is an advanced, AI-powered web browser built on the Chromium framework, engineered to integrate artificial intelligence at the core of the browsing experience. Comet natively embeds large language models LLMs and agentic automation into its runtime, enabling a fundamentally new way to interact with the web. Comet is designed to function not ... Read more

XAI Grok 4 release livestream on Wednesday at 8pm PT. This is 49 hours from now. Grok 4 release livestream on Wednesday at 8pm PT @xAI - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2025 XAI Grok 4 will reportedly have top benchmark scores for Humanity Last Exam and other tests.

Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, has backed some of the most iconic consumer brands of the past two decades - from Warby Parker to Chime to Dollar Shave Club. In this conversation, she shares how great products (not marketing tricks) still win. Forerunner Ventures has a 2025 Consumer Trend Report. The annual Consumer Trend ... Read more

Waymo has had its third collision in Austin Texas. Waymo robotaxi had two last year during initial testing and now they have had a third collision. This is about of 68 incidents. They have had 3 collisions, 25 safety incidents and 19 traffic blocking incidents. During the 2024 testing phase, Waymo began operating in Austin ... Read more

Gigawatts of energy are needed to power millions of GPUs to train larger AI. XAI is getting 2 gigawatts of power years faster than any other AI company. Elon has confirmed that xAI has bought a power plant and is shipping it from overseas because they can't get a new one in time here in ... Read more

Inserting a nanometer-thin spacer in ExUC-OLEDs improves energy transfer, enhances blue light emission 77-fold, paving way for lightweight, low-voltage, and more flexible OLEDs . The effect of spacer insertion depends on the dipole moment. Therefore, it is possible to extend the material selection tolerance for ExUC-OLEDs using appropriate spacer materials. ExUC-OLEDs can be driven at ... Read more

A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that could conduct electricity. Previously only thought to be insulating, a shift in the angle between silicon and oxygen atoms creates a highway for an electrical charge. On a molecular level, silicones are made up of a backbone of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms (Si-O-Si) with organic (carbon-based) groups attached to ... Read more

Tesla and Waymo are battling head to head for the future of Robotaxi in Austin Texas. Tesla has been operating for two weeks. How do they compare on safety? What will happen over the next few months in terms of expansion in service area and vehicles?

XAI Grok 4 Benchmarks are showing it is the leading model. Humanity Last Exam at 35 and 45 for reasoning is a big improvement from about 21 for other top models. If these leaked Grok 4 benchmarks are correct, 95 AIME, 88 GPQA, 75 SWE-bench, then XAI has the most powerful model on the market. ... Read more

Tesla has started executing on Robotaxi but a lot more must happen to enable a big share price run. There are two key things that must happen. There needs to be the massive expansion to at least 20,000 vehicles offering robotaxi in multiple cities. There needs to be a surge in car sales either from ... Read more

The City of Austin is reporting robotaxi traffic incidents with daily updates. Waymo has about ten times the number of vehicles and double the driving area as Tesla in Austin. Waymo has been operating since March and Tesla since June 22. Waymo has 12 incidents in June and July and Tesla has had 1 incident. ... Read more

Looks like there are new Grok 4 model versions (0702) - grok-4-0702 and grok-4-code-0702. Rumor that xAI will release two versions. GROK 4 & GROK 4 code Various reports and rumors of Grok 4 capabilities: Massive 131,000-token context window Built-in function calling for real-world tasks Advanced reasoning with structured, reliable outputs ... Read more

Tesla had 384,122 deliveries which was above the 365,000 whisper number for deliveries. 2025 2Q Tesla Production & Deliveries ==================== Production Deliveries Q1. 362,615 336,681 Q2. 410,244 384,122 The range of estimates had significant worries that deliveries would be at the Q1 level or worse. Global car sales are soft. Tesla sold a combined 10,394 ... Read more

AI did better than human doctors on known case diagnosis. However, doctors were handicapped by not being able to use Google and other references and all of the cases did have diseases. Most actual cases have healthy patients. The results? Accuracy: Doctors: 20% (ouch) Standard AI: 30-79% MAI-DxO: 80-85.5% Cost per case: Doctors: ... Read more

XAI Grok is being integrated with Tesla cars. Premium connectivity is needed. This will launch in a week or so. Green is working with a testbench. The integration happened with a Tesla software update. This will run on all 2025.20 firmware software systems. I decided may be I need to be a bit less lazy ... Read more

SpaceX lost the Massey static fire stand due to a large explosion. SpaceX appears to be converting the first launch tower for static fire tests. They will perform one or two static fires for the Starship rockets that they plan to launch. They will then remove the static fire related equipment and perform the last ... Read more

Elon Musk says the goal of XAI is to create maximally truthful AI. How do you know you have bias? How do you know you are not aligned to the truth? How would AI know it is unbiased? If you were firing bullets at a bullseye target and were constantly missing to low and to ... Read more

Meta has hired about 15-20 AI researchers from OpenAI and Google Gemini. Many are getting $100 million signing bonuses and $10+ million per year in salary. There are terms to those agreements in terms of what has to be done by the new hires to keep the bonuses. Meta paid $15 billion for 49% of ... Read more

Tesla 2024 Impact report indicates they believe autonomy will save lives, time and money while improving quality of life for everyone. Tesla Optimus, autonomous humanoid robot, will give people back more time to do impactful work and enjoy their lives by automating time-consuming, unsafe and repetitive tasks at work and in the home. Tesla presented ... Read more

Tesla has completed an Iron LFP battery factory in Nevada. This is probably going to take 1-2 years to hit volume production and the rumor is that the initial production capacity is 10 GWh per year. This is still pretty small by Tesla standards but a VERY meaningful first investment. Tesla will massively grow their ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 30th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

There are a new category of autonomous AI systems, referred to as Deep Research (DR) agents. These agents are designed to tackle complex, multi-turn informational research tasks by leveraging a combination of dynamic reasoning, adaptive long-horizon planning, multi-hop information retrieval, iterative tool use, and the generation of structured analytical reports. In a paper, researchers conducted ... Read more

Ford CEO Jim Farley says Waymo's approach to self driving makes more sense than Tesla's. Ford has said it plans to partner with a self-driving software company once the technology is farther along. Ark Invest Brett Winton believes in the negotiations between Ford and Waymo and Ford and Tesla, that Tesla wants Ford to pay ... Read more

Imec is a world-leading research and innovation center in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Imec has more than 6.000 employees and top researchers, for R&D in advanced semiconductor and system scaling, silicon photonics, artificial intelligence and more. They have been publishing semiconductor roadmaps. They are working with Tokyo Electron. IMEC Releases Semiconductor Process Roadmap to 2039 ... Read more