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Thirteen passengers onboard a Korea Airlines flight to Taiwan have been taken to hospital, after their Boeing aircraft dropped more than 25,000 feet following a fault in the cabin pressurization system. The plane subsequently dropped from an altitude of 35,000 feet to under 10,000 feet within the span of ten minutes, according to airplane tracking ... Read more

Boeing Starliner has experienced problems with five of its 28 reaction control system (RCS) thrusters and there have been five helium leaks in Starliner's propulsion system. Starliner was initially scheduled to spend about a week at the ISS on this shakeout cruise. But on June 9, NASA and Boeing announced that its departure had been ... Read more

Elon Musk showed Everyday Astronaut the SpaceX Starbase and rocket factories. SpaceX has a new Raptor engine that will be a couple hundred pounds lighter without a heat shield. It will have built in cooling channels. This is the version of the Raptor engine which wil be produced by the thousands. The Texas Starbase will ... Read more

Tesla FSD is changing radically with version 12.3 having three times the miles between interventions vs version 11. FSD 12.4.X could have 5-10 times the miles between interventions. New teen human drivers are three times more likely to have accidents than average human drivers. Removing the human driver completely to achieve robotaxi will involve government ... Read more

TSMC (Taiwan semiconductor) has a major multi-year plan to create rectangular substrate (510 millimeters by 515 millimeters) with over triple the usable area of current round wafers. The rectangular shape means there would also be less unused area left over at the edges. this means less waste because of the rectangular shape and lower costs ... Read more

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kW wireless power transfer to a light-duty electric vehicle. The demonstration used a Porsche Taycan and was conducted in collaboration with Volkswagen Group of America using the ORNL-developed polyphase wireless charging system. As a light-duty passenger vehicle, the Porsche Taycan ... Read more

Tesla 4680s have had slower ramping because of problems with the Cathode needing a wet process and cathodes made by other companies. Auto experts Munro Associates have taken apart a cybertruck and they think a dry process was used for both the cathode and the anode. This may not be for all 4680 batteries and ... Read more

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the best performing AI model according to the advanced Google Proof Q&A test. The concept of a Google-proof" Q&A AI test and other benchmarks for evaluating higher-performing AI models are critical in measuring the capabilities and progress of artificial intelligence. These tests aim to assess AI's ability to understand, reason, and ... Read more

The Chinchilla compute optimal point for an 8B (8 billion parameter) model would be train it for ~200B (billion) tokens. (if you were only interested to get the most bang-for-the-buck" w.r.t. model performance at that size). So this is training ~75X beyond that point, which is unusual but personally, [Karpathy] thinks this is extremely welcome. ... Read more

Dr Alan Thompson reports that OpenAI says 92% of Fortune 500 companies are subscribed to GPT, and the average spend by each organization has now hit US$18,000,000 per year. In 2023, the average spend across foundation model APIs, self-hosting, and fine-tuning models was $7M across the dozens of companies that megaVC Andressen Horowitz spoke to. ... Read more

Elon Musk announced Tesla's plans to expand its AI hardware capabilities, aiming to increase power and cooling capacity from 130MW to over 500MW within the next 18 months. The expansion will support a mix of Tesla's own AI hardware and Nvidia/other chips, with a goal to have half of the AI compute building dedicated to ... Read more

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Ilya Sutskever is recognized as a leader and genius who has delivered breakthrough Artificial Intelligence. Ilya was the Chief Scientist at OpenAI and enabled OpenAI to become the leader in Artificial Intelligence. Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, ... Read more

Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, says humanoid robots will become as common as cars and there will be significant breakthroughs in robotics in the next 2-3 years. This would be about 2 billion humanoid robots. Elon Musk said he thinks there will be ten times as many humanoid robots in the future. This would be 20 ... Read more

The Milestone June 8, 1974 agreement between the USA and Saudi Arabia was not about exclusively pricing oil in US dollars. It was about enabling Saudi Arabia to use its windfall of oil money into the US economy. The petrodollar system does and did become dominant but it was for mutual economic benefit. The non-renewal ... Read more

Preparations are underway for a late July launch of the fifth SpaceX orbital starship but the eighth heavy booster is already partially built. The eighth heavy booster has redesigned block 2 features. The block 2 Starship and booster will be 10-20% longer and will be lighter for more payload. Felix Schlang at the What About ... Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX is targeting a Starship launch with a Mechazilla tower booster catch in about 4-6 weeks. The fourth (previous) launch had a simulated booster tower catch where the booster hovered over water. The Mechazilla tower arms are about the size of the drone ship used to land and recover Falcon 9 boosters. ... Read more

Whole Mars had his third zero intervention drive in a row with Tesla FSD 12.4.1. The destination is given with verbal instruction. FSD 12.4.2 should get fairly widely distributed this weekend. Tesla FSD drivers will not need to touch the steering wheel and could have about 1-3 weeks of zero intervention drives in a cleaned ... Read more

Nvidia has surpassed the valuation of Microsoft and Apple to become the most valuable company in the world. Nvidia is worth 3.34 trillion. Microsoft is worth 3.32 trillion. Apple is worth 3.29 trillion. Nvidia has a PEG ratio of 1.66 Microsoft has a PEG (Price earnings growth) ratio of 2.23. Apple has a PEG ratio ... Read more

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Some recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets have components made from titanium that was sold using fake documentation. The falsified documents are being investigated by Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies fuselages for Boeing and wings for Airbus, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration. The investigation comes after a parts supplier found small holes in the ... Read more

AI large language models have been especially weak on math. There are now several papers from Google Deep Mind, Alibaba and other universities where AI large language models are at Math Olympiad levels and multiple step reasoning even with small models. It's finally here. Q* rings true. Tiny LLMs are as good at math as ... Read more

The Boeing Starliner, is set to undock from the ISS on June 22. This is a several day delay. During its current mission, the spacecraft has encountered a fifth helium leak and a stuck oxidizer valve. Teams currently are assessing what impacts, if any, five small leaks in the service module helium manifolds would have ... Read more

Elon Musk confirms that the new Tesla Roadster can fly. Spaceviews made an analysis of cold gas thrusters. Elon has previously said the roadster will use a SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra-high-pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats. The SpaceX option package for new Tesla ... Read more

SpaceX is upgrading Starship's heat shield with new tiles that are twice as strong as the previous version used during the flight 4 test. SpaceX is adingd an ablative secondary structure behind the tiles to provide an extra layer of protection in case a tile becomes damaged or detached. The work on removing the old ... Read more

The Tesla votes were successful. Elon's 2018 CEO compensation package was re-affirmed. Tesla has voted to move from Delaware to Texas. Tesla's Optimus robots are currently in action at their Fremont Factory. These robots handle cells and place them in shipping containers. Elon Musk anticipates having over a thousand Optimus robots operational at Tesla ... Read more

China is working on a sixth-generation manned fighter, or next-generation manned fighter. It is considered to be an established program of record that is under active development and expected to emerge in some form during this decade. The Diplomat calls it the J-XD. Various demonstrator test beds (potentially subscale) have been flown, and a more ... Read more

Steve Jobs (Apple) and Commodore computers started the Personal computer revolution in 1976. The world changed from multi-million dollar mainframe computers to a world of sub-thousand dollar personal computers. By 1980, there were over a million personal computers. The world could change radically in the next few years. We currently live in a world where ... Read more

Fundamentals of Photo Enhancement In photo enhancement, we focus on three critical aspects: composition, lighting, and color theory. Each plays a pivotal role in transforming an ordinary image into an extraordinary masterpiece. Understanding Composition We consider composition the framework of our photographic story. It dictates how elements are arranged within the frame. To master this, ... Read more

2024 Tesla accomplishments highlights two Optimus bots have started working in the factory. The list of 2024 Tesla achievements: - FSD Supervised using end-to-end neural networks rolls out to customers who have purchased or are subscribed to FSD in the US & Canada - Upgraded Model 3 deliveries start in North America - Hit 600k ... Read more

Tesla head of AI describes the past decade of AI at Tesla. Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy clarified that this was his personal note that I decided to write to explain Elon's importance to Tesla. While the timing is partly in light of the shareholder vote, I truly believe everything I wrote. @elonmusk has been the key ... Read more

Fraser Cain, Marcus House and Scott Manley reviewed the fourth orbital flight of SpaceX Starship and discussed the future of Starship. The Starship launch was a huge success but there is still much more to be done. SpaceX is adding another ablative heat shield layer underneath the tiles and the heat shield tiles will be ... Read more

Warren Redlich is a long time Tesla uber bull but he has fears that Elon Musk will leave Tesla if the 2018 CEO compensation package is not re-approved. The 2018 pay package was approved by over 70% of shareholders in 2018 and then all terms were met where the $2B+ volue of the award increased ... Read more

There is massive growth in the utility-scale US solar market . It is driving record solar deployment figures as the segment added nearly 10 GW of new capacity in Q1. Florida and Texas saw strong utility-scale growth and led all states for new solar capacity in Q1. Total U.S. solar capacity is expected to double ... Read more

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We have Ships and Super Heavy boosters built and either ready to launch or in testing for the next several flights with more coming off of the production line as SpaceX's Starfactory continues to grow," Jessie Anderson, SpaceX's Falcon Structures Manufacturing Engineering Manager, said during SpaceX's livestream of the Starship flight test Thursday. The latest ... Read more

According to Zhu Xichan's, a professor at the School of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University, observation, the current capabilities of domestic [chinese] assisted intelligent driving systems are basically equivalent to FSD V11. However, the outside world has also questioned before that China's road conditions are more complicated than those in the United States. Will Tesla ... Read more

Tesla FSD entry into China seems assured according to China Newsweek. Tesla has the data center servers installed for domestic data collection and usage. Tesla is operating and testing FSD v12 in China. The entry of Tesla FSD into China will enable massive deals with China's robotaxi companies and Tesla. China robotaxi will be authorized ... Read more

Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. This will look even more amazing with the tower catch next time. I have been predicting with 99.9% confidence for over 3 months that SpaceX would catch the booster with the tower this year. The launch tower arms are only a bit smaller ... Read more

Elon says the next SpaceX Starship flight will likely attempt a Mechazilla launch tower catch of the booster. If successful this would mean saving 33 of the 39 engines for a Starship Superheavy. This would mean getting to the reusability level of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. There will be no FAA delay to ... Read more

The fourth orbital SpaceX Starship has launched. We will now see if it safely re-enter. The booster had a good return and a soft landing burn. It is looking far better getting through re-entry. It nearly burned through a flap. It still is making it through despite the flap problem. They are still getting telemetry ... Read more

Tesla's 4680 cell ramp speed continues to improve, which will be faster, as they continue to work on more improvements. If Tesla 4680 battery production triples again over the next 6 months that would be enough batteries for 70,000 Cybertrucks in the second half of 2024. If Tesla 4680 battery production quadruples over the next ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.4.1 releases today to Tesla employees. Elon Musk says if that goes well, then it will be released to a limited number of external customers this weekend. There are a massive number of changes to this build. It should arguably be called v13, but we're sticking to 12 Two other versions are ... Read more

There was a good manned launch of two astronauts on the Boeing Starliner. The Starliner had a lot of delays and problems and was over budget. However, it is great that they have had a successful manned launch of two astronauts.

Linus Tech tips looks at the size, weight and power of the LARGEST GPUs we have ever seen. Then B200 e size of a Server Rack. They also look at Network switches. The server rack has 18 blades of 72 B200 chips.