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Aviation Week Joe Anselmo (Aviation Week's editorial director), Garrett Reim (lead reporter), Irene Klotz (senior space editor), and Matthew Fulco (business editor) explores SpaceX's Starlink broadband service as a juggernaut that has disrupted the space industry and geopolitics. Starlink has deployed over 9,000 satellites, serves 6 million users in 140 countries. It generates $15.5 billion ... Read more

All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an all-electric hydrofoiling wing-in-ground (WIG) craft, which means it always operates in ground effect, an operation that occurs within one wingspan of the surface of the water and ... Read more

REGENT Craft, the developer and manufacturer of Seaglider vessels and a trusted partner of the U.S. Marine Corps, will be making seagliders for the US marines. REGENT has a $10 billion commercial backlog. They will make REGENT Defense Seaglider vessels at its headquarters in Rhode Island. REGENT's proprietary hydrofoiling wing-in-ground-effect(WIG) Seaglider design offers an unmatched ... Read more

Thorcon International, an innovative nuclear technology developer based in Singapore, has received official approval for the Kelasa site evaluation plan (PET) and the site evaluation management system plan (SMET) from nuclear regulator, BAPETEN. It is the first-ever nuclear power plant-related licensing approval from the Indonesian government, and it marks the completion of the first step ... Read more

Northrop Grumman has a new rendering of the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter. The F/A-XX was struggling for funding and development has been delayed. The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a draft defense spending bill that would reverse the Pentagon's plan to freeze the F/A-XX program. The large bubble canopy show it is single pilot ... Read more

Richard Mansell, CEO of IVO Ltd, has announced that the Quantum Drive testing has started its initial calibration and assessment phase. All is good so far and they are excited to see the results of the upcoming tests. He said - No timeline will be made public and they will not be issuing intermediate findings. ... Read more

The highlights of the Anthropic Claude Coding Best practices: 1. Tailor Your Environment Use CLAUDE.md files: Placed in your repo (root, parent, child, or home directory), this auto-included file allows you to document project-specific instructions-bash commands, style guidelines, setup tips, common caveats, etc. Keep it concise and iterate it over time. Tune permissions: Claude Code ... Read more

Tesla obtained a rideshare license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on August 7, 2025, is a significant step toward operating its Robotaxi service statewide. This Transportation Network Company (TNC) license aligns with Senate Bill 2807 (SB 2807). This new law signed by Governor Greg Abbott in June 2025 that takes effect on ... Read more

Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot with computer aided stabilization. The future is arriving. Thanks to advanced computer aided stabilization the Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot. For more details visit https://t.co/XbqDfW9AUz pic.twitter.com/4Aqs3HNDxX - Volonaut (@Volonaut) August 8, 2025

There are various Youtubers on AI who are giving their opinions of OpenAI GPT5. Theo is crowning GPT5 as the best model but others feel it is a good and fast model but are not blown away by it. GPT5 is the number one model per the LMArena leaderboard with a 1481 score and 1460 ... Read more

SpaceX had its first Starship to be static fired on the orbital launch mount. This was modified by engineers and technicians at Starbase after a Starship exploded and destroyed a test stand. SpaceX is about a week from the next Starship orbital test. This was the first Starship to be static fired on the orbital ... Read more

Bloomberg is reporting that the Tesla Dojo chip project is being disbanded. The lead Peter Bannon and 20 others are going into another company Density AI. The team recently lost about 20 workers to newly formed DensityAI, and the remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla according ... Read more

There are no observed changes indicating thrust. There is a propellentless drive in a satellite. The lack of observable propulsion effects could mean. The test is in the baseline data collection phase (no thrust) or the system is failing so far. Orbital data from Celestrak (as provided in the query) shows no significant change in ... Read more

Grok 4 has 15.9% on the Arc-AGI2 versus 9.9% for OpenAI GPT5. XAI will have Grok 5 out be the end of 2025 and Elon says it will be crushingly good. Grok5 will use the equivalent of about 3 million Nvidia H100s (550k B200 chips) for training compute. Grok 5 will be out before the ... Read more

OpenAI GPT5 gives Verbosity Control. It has superior instruction following and superior tool usage.

Mr WhosetheBoss tested ChatGPT-5 and compared it to ChatGPT 4o and other older models. GPT5 is much better and it will become your default model for all free and paid OpenAI services. GPT5 will have better writing flair. GPT5 is not a step up in image generation. It is not better at every single thing ... Read more

Here are some first looks at OpenAI GPT5 coding capabilities. This is the best coding model that OpenAI has released so far. GPT-5 is a next level model. It can solve virtual rubik cubes and create professional images, simulations and websites.

There was a vibe coding demo for using OpenAI GPT5. It uses flashcards and verbal pronounciation and has an interactive game in the educational product.

OpenAI GPT5 completed an physic correct airflow simulation program in 2 minutes using 300-400 lines of code.

Tesla plans to split Dojo 3 chip production, with Samsung handling front-end manufacturing and Intel taking on specialized packaging. This is a move away from TSMC's full-process control. Samsung's foundry to produce D3 chips will use the 2nm process for Tesla's AI6 and Dojo 3. Intel will use leverage EMIB 2.5D packaging for Dojo's large-scale ... Read more

We are minutes from the OpenAI live presentation of GPT5. The various leaked benchmarks look very good and very impressive. We will see how the official reveal shows. Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Sebastien Bubeck, Mark Chen, Yann Dubois, Brian Fioca, Adi Ganesh, Oliver Godement, Saachi Jain, Christina Kaplan, Tina Kim, Elaine Ya Le, Felipe Millon, ... Read more

Menlo Park, California, USA, 7th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

The Hague, Netherlands, 7th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk and the X team outlined a transformative approach to advertising on X emphasizing the integration of Grok AI (resulting from the merger of xAI and X) to make ads more relevant, effective, and user-friendly. The core goal is to evolve X from a platform with historically poor ad targeting-described as random" or even ... Read more

Hikaru Nakamura says XAI Grok 4 is by far and away the best chess playing general LLM. Grok is playing the best overall chess Gemini is second best OpenAI made a lot of mistakes Claude has been disappointing DeepSeek is the worst Recent testing if finding Grok about 1600-1800 and Gemini at 1500-1700. An 1800 ... Read more

Tesla is training a new FSD model with ~10X the parameters and a big improvement to video compression loss. Probably ready for public release end of next month if testing goes well. Video compression improvements (reducing data loss during training) have contributed ~20-30% additional uplift in past updates by enabling higher-fidelity inputs. From Phil Beisel ... Read more

There is widespread speculation in the AI community that they represent a stealth preview, variant, or test version of OpenAI's upcoming GPT-5 model. They have exceptional performance, timing, and shared characteristics with OpenAI's tech stack. The Horizon models (primarily Horizon Alpha and Horizon Beta) surfaced anonymously around July 30-31, 2025, on platforms like LM Arena ... Read more

Patrick, CTO and co-founder of an AI-native startup (launched ~2 years ago, working with brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Nike), shares his orchestration playbook from a talk at Microsoft. The core problem: Many engineers struggle to achieve 10X productivity gains from AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code (formerly Codex), and others due to endless ... Read more

In a paper published recently in the journal GeroScience, the UC Irvine team reports that a combination of naturally occurring compounds - nicotinamide (a form of vitamin B3) and epigallocatechin gallate (a green tea antioxidant) - can reinstate levels of guanosine triphosphate, an essential energy molecule in brain cells. In tests on neurons in a ... Read more

Neo Semiconductor X-HBM architecture will deliver 32K-bit wide data bus and potentially 512 Gbit per die density. It offering 16X more bandwidth or 10X higher density than traditional HBM. NEO Semiconductor's CEO, Andy Hsu, gave keynote presentation at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025. I, Brian Wang, attended. Neo Semiconductor is a private, ... Read more

Austin, TX, USA, 6th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Sonny White updates his work on using nanoscale fabrication to harness the Casimir effect. He has a company, Casimir space, working to commercialize it. The Casimir force in quantum mechanics has empty space (the quantum vacuum) is filled with fluctuating fields, virtual particles, and energy wavelengths. When two metal plates are placed very close (e.g., ... Read more

Juno would offer ~20-24x better angular resolution due to proximity (distance ratio ~24:1), enabling finer details of extended features like jets or tail asymmetry, if the coma is active. Juno excels in intensity and resolution for extended structures, offering complementary data if diverted. Juno's closer vantage enables brighter, potentially resolved views of active features-valuable for ... Read more

We do not know what lies in interstellar space. There are an expected to be 300,000 larger than Death Star sized objects beyond Neptune. There are some expected moon and planet sized objects around the edge of our solar system and we cannot see them. We must search through new data from the NSF-DOE Rubin ... Read more

Openai is making O3 level capabilities open source ahead of the release of GPT-5 in about two days. These open source models are trained for agentic workflows-supporting function calling, web search, Python execution, configurable reasoning effort, and full raw chain-of-thought access. The gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b-two are state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance ... Read more

Anthropic Claude 4.1 was released today is an upgrade to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 model with key improvements. This was released ahead of OpenAI releasing GPT-5 in about two days. Anthropic plans to release substantially larger improvements to their models in the coming weeks. Caluse 4.1 Coding Performance Claude 4.1 achieved a 74.5% score on ... Read more

Philadelphia, PA, United States, 5th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

The very low Energy Efficiency seems to make it not worthwhile. It is important to have station keeping like the Quasite system but this can also be dynamically maintained. The low efficiency makes the dynamo storage idea via TARS not worthwhile. The TARS (Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun) launching catapult concept can be ... Read more

The US Navy is spending aggressively on integrating and developing drones, CCAs, and networking upgrades for its F-35C and Super Hornet fleets. The next-generation F/A-XX fighter is largely delayed. The hope is for unmanned and loyal wingman drone deployment and incremental fighter upgrades. MQ-25 Stingray The MQ-25 Stingray (see above) is the U.S. Navy's carrier-based ... Read more

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or modified version of a traditional statite. A statite is an earlier idea for a solar sail-based satellite that remains completely stationary relative to a ... Read more

Google and Microsoft have both gone over $100 billion in annual net income. The big technology companies are growing by as much as 20-25% each year. Their combined annual net income is already over $500 billion. By 2027, they will have combined net income over $700 billion and should reach over $1 trillion combined net ... Read more

If we are sending manned interstellar missions to other star systems, it becomes very hard to keep masses and power levels nearly reasonable. Interstellar travel missions really work out better after humanity has scaled up overall human power levels by a thousand or even a million times by industrializing the solar system. Various anticipated propulsion ... Read more

The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) declared three winners of the Project Hyperion Design Competition. Teams designed a generation ship-a crewed interstellar spacecraft designed for a 250-year journey to a habitable planet. The teams designed habitats of such a spacecraft that would allow a society to sustain itself and flourish in a highly resource-constrained environment. ... Read more

General Atomics smaller unmanned jet, YFQ-42A, could start helping the F-35 and F-22 later in 2025. The YFQ-42A and the Anduril YFQ-44A are designed to augment fighters like the F-22 and F-35 using manned-unmanned teaming, performing air-to-air roles and complementing crewed platforms. There are full sized mockups or prototypes at air shows for both systems. ... Read more

The US Air force is making YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A unmanned jets that will fly with the F-47 sixth generation fighter. There will be about five drones for each F-47 fighter. Over 1,000 of the unmanned aircraft are planned. the unmanned jets will start operating first from 2025-2029 while the F-47 will start prototype flights in ... Read more

China is starting production of a new stealth fighter the J-35. It is less stealthy than the F-35 but is more stealthy than other Generation 4 or 4.5 fighters. The J-35 is a close copy of the F-35 in design (e.g., blended wings, DSI inlets) but is larger, faster (Mach 2.0 vs. 1.6), and twin-engine ... Read more

The HAL Tejas Mark 2 (aka Radiance or Medium Weight Fighter) is an Indian 4.5 generation single-engine, canard delta wing, multirole combat aircraft designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC)of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). India's domestic fighter program has been ... Read more

It took 10 years to build 744 B-52s from 1952-1962 but now it will take 15 years from contract being awarded to give 76 remaining B-52 engine upgrades. The Rolls-Royce F130 engine upgrade for the B-52 Stratofortress is replacing about 600 aging Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines with more efficient, reliable F130 engines. This will ... Read more

The second-generation (Gen 2) Tesla Semi has new batteries and design improvements like new mirrors for better sight lines and aerodynamics, plus a drop glass" for easier cargo access. The initial 32 prototype Semis have been produced at Giga Nevada and delivered to priority customers like PepsiCo. The Gen 2 Semi is set to launch ... Read more

The largest Cogito v2 671B MoE model is amongst the strongest open models in the world. It matches/exceeds the performance of the latest DeepSeek v3 and DeepSeek R1 models both, and approaches closed frontier models like o3 and Claude 4 Opus. Deep Cogito extend their work on building superintelligence using Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA) ... Read more