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Austin, United States, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire

Austin, TX, USA, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire

Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: ... Read more

Tesla FSD 14.3 is in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks. It's in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2026 AI5 will punch far above its weight, because the entire Tesla AI software stack is designed to make maximally effective use of every ... Read more

Nvidia has new level 4 chips for autonomous driving. Will this kill Tesla? They have 19 car partners who collectively can make 18 million cars per year. How many Nvidia Thor chips are installed in those cars ? How many cars have those partners created that are gathering data right now for self driving? Have ... Read more

Microsoft is threatening to sue OpenAI over the February 2026 Amazon $50B investment and $100B cloud-expansion deal. Microsoft says the Frontier agent platform on AWS (stateful runtime) violates the Azure exclusivity for stateless OpenAI APIs that was in the original ~$13B Microsoft investment agreements (updated Sept 2025). Microsoft publicly restated Azure remains the exclusive cloud ... Read more

Organic molecules delivered from extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for life on Earth. Scientists have found all five canonical nucleobases-purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil)-in samples returned from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu by JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission. This likely means that organic molecule building ... Read more

Web3 infrastructure and professional athletics never appeared to be a match in the early days of crypto, but they've proven to be a match made in heaven. It began as a niche interest in digital collectibles, hosted on the sports blockchain, but has since turned into a robust infrastructure that is changing how sports franchises ... Read more

Nvidia has a structured data enablement strategy. Nvidia provides libaries, software and hardware to index and search data faster. The Indexing and retrievals are way faster 10-40X faster in most cases. How cuDF + cuVS Work Together (The GTC 2026 Ground Truth" Pipeline) Unstructured data (PDFs, videos, logs, emails, sensor streams) embedding model (NeMo, ... Read more

Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Keynote Highlights (March 16, 2026) NemoClaw Launch NVIDIA unveiled NemoClaw, an enterprise-ready, secure version of OpenClaw (open-source AI agents platform). This is the enterprise ready OpenSource form of Openclaw. Openclaw is by some measures the most successful open source project ever. Surpassing Linux in some ways. Nemoclaw adds privacy guardrails, sandboxing ... Read more

New York, United States, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire

New York, NY, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire

Nvidia will structure hundreds of zettabytes per year of unstructured data to make it the ground truth for AI. AI will created value from that data. Nvidia will have confidential computing. Even the operator will not see the data

The pre show is done. Which had Gavin Baker and Alfred Lin. And many CEO of Robotaxi and AI companies The AI YouTuber and venture capitalist who headed up (or co-hosted/led) the NVIDIA GTC preshow is Sara Guo the GTC Pregame Live with Alfred Lin (Sequoia partner) ahead of a recent GTC event. Sarah Guo, ... Read more

Ford has three separate issues requiring recalls. They affect more than 2.3 million of its SUVs in all, including models from Lincoln, the Blue Oval's luxury brand. Ford has issued 18 recalls so far in 2026 affecting 7.4 million vehicles and one tiny engine-block-heater campaign. This new 2.3 million SUV batch is just the latest ... Read more

Bill Gates is down to 19th richest person in the world. He has a little more than three times as much as his x-wife. Bill has one eighths of the wealth of Elon Musk. Bill got out of Microsoft shares and into railroads and conservative mostly non-tech investments. Bill has also been shorting Tesla. SpaceX-XAI ... Read more

Protecting drones from high-power lasers with reflective or thermic coatings is fails to protect. It is a known countermeasure that's been researched since the Cold War, but modern 100 kW and 300 kW lasers defeat it quickly and reliably for typical small/medium drones (Group 1-3 UAVs like FPVs or commercial quadcopters). Dusty days can reduce ... Read more

Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell statement that CHANGE AT VERY LARGE SCALE is coming on self-driving. As a top futurist predictor I think Elon is saying TESLA FSD 14.3 (10x model with reasoning) will come in March/April and this will unleash robotaxi and Cybercab at scale.

For too long the US was using $2 million missiles to fight $300-$30000 threats. No longer. There is shift and and armraces of the cheap, good enough drones. The US now has cheap $35000 drones too and combat lasers are getting deployed for $5 per shot defense. It is $35000 drone for $35000 drone and ... Read more

Israel's Iron Beam (aka Or Eitan) laser air-defense system is fully operational. On December 28-30, 2025, the first operational 100 kW system formally delivered by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to the IDF. This was the transition from testing to serial production. They are integrated as the innermost (fifth) layer of Israel's multi-tier air defense alongside ... Read more

The U.S. Navy has deployed the HELIOS (High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance) during Operation Epic Fury and there are reports of shooting down Iranian drones. US CENTCOM released footage in 2026 showing an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer equipped with the steerable high-energy laser operating off Iran's coast while launching strikes. The New York ... Read more

Iran does not conduct official ethnic censuses, so all figures come from CIA World Factbook, Britannica and demographic compilations. The breakdown has remained stable: Persians (Fars): 61% (~56-57 million) - majority in central, northern, and eastern provinces; dominant in Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, etc. Azerbaijanis (Azeri Turks): 16% (~15 million) - mainly northwest (East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, ... Read more

William Shatner, Captain Kirk, gave screenshots of the live X Money UI. X Money (also called X Payments or the payments/wallet feature inside the X app) is Elon Musk's long-planned move to turn X into a super app like WeChat. Handling P2P transfers, wallets, debit cards, bills, shopping, creator payouts, and eventually banking/investing/crypto all in ... Read more

China and Russia clearly are seeing the next level nature of US and Israel tech enhanced intelligence and drones integrated with everything else. Combined operations (aka joint operations or combined arms) means coordinated military action across multiple services (army, navy, air force, space, cyber) or allied nations to achieve effects greater than any single branch ... Read more

New York, USA, 4th March 2026, CyberNewswire

President Trump announced today (March 3) that the Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait if needed, and the U.S. government will provide political-risk insurance so commercial ships can operate. This is modeled directly on the 1987-88 Operation Earnest Will tanker convoy system during the Iran-Iraq Tanker War. Oil tankers are waiting by Oman ... Read more

Navy Decoded, youtube channel, explains how the US Navy prevents Iran's Hypersonic missiles from hitting US ships or the aircraft carrier. The US mainly relies on electronic countermeasures. The iranian missile has to be able overcome jamming to try to maintain a lock on a moving target. The US creates spoofing for false targets. The ... Read more

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled as a gas or liquid during processing) to build a gun-type nuclear bomb. It must first be converted to metallic uranium, which is required for any fission weapon core. However, once converted they ... Read more