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Iranian retaliation has caused an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz since ~March 2-4. Traffic has dropped from 150+ vessels/day to near-zero on many days, with 21+ confirmed attacks on merchant ships. This matches the scenario's description of disruption, price spikes, and US-led response pressure. Reopening Hormuz is economically non-optional. It carries 20% of ... Read more

U.S. Navy's 2005 SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) on the decommissioned supercarrier USS America (CV-66). This remains one of the most significant and still largely classified live-fire tests ever conducted on a modern aircraft carrier. The 2005 live fire tests show that US aircraft carriers can take dozens of 250-500 kg bombs to top decks without sinking ... Read more

Andrej Karpathy is pioneering autonomous loop" AI systems-especially coding agents and self-improving research agents-while advancing AI-native education through Eureka Labs and ultra-minimal open-source LLM implementations. Coding agents can now reliably edit code, run experiments, and iterate for days. He created AutoResearch, AI agents that fully close the research loop-design experiments, edit training code, collect data, ... Read more

Elon Musk dropped huge news that changes everything. 7GWs of data center that would be 5 times bigger than XAI colossus and would keep growing faster. Accredited Investors can sign up for educational discussion and Q&A with Brian Wang. Tesla and XAI digital optimus will start in about 6 months.

x-Admiral Montgomery's sees a 2-3 week timeline to US control of Hormuz. Conditions must be set for control, if they are not set then it will very difficult to end the war. The degradation strikes continue (including on all the island sites) could reach the knock-down point by ~March 21-28. After the missiles, drones are ... Read more

Super Heavy booster has been ready to continue preflight testing for 5 days and has been testing. SpaceX is conducting a series of tests to activate Pad 2 at Starbase, exercise new propellant loading operations, and operate a vehicle with new Raptor 3 engines installed for the first time. Super Heavy booster ready to continue ... Read more

The has struck all military targets on Kharg Island in the last 2 hours or so. Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran's crown jewel, Kharg Island. Our Weapons ... Read more

Menlo Park, California, USA, 13th March 2026, CyberNewswire

SpaceX + xAI integration/merger will power humanity's first Dyson swarm orbital solar-powered AI data centers. Orbital/space-based compute is a no-brainer because of constant sunlight and vacuum cooling-no terrestrial energy or land constraints. Elon Musk could not discuss the timeline because SpaceX is under a quiet period. Plans are advancing fast. Lunar mass drivers for launching/ ... Read more

Elon Musk says Optimus 3 (teslabot) is essentially complete and will be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing's even close. The production start is the Summer 2026. It will be a very slow/low-volume ramp initially. There will be high-volume production in the ~Summer 2027. Tesla will try to release a new ... Read more

Elon explicitly pushed back on today's Business Insider Macrohard stalled pivot to Tesla" FUD. XAI minor staff churn, departures did not delay the project. Macrohard project is not dead or abandoned. It's been integrated as the planned joint architecture all along. These things exist to control a desktop. It is not magic to take ... Read more

SpaceX Starbase is where SpaceX builds and launches its most powerful rocket, Starship. It is where rockets are designed, assembled, tested, and launched all in one place. They will build hundreds and maybe thoudsands of Superheavy Starships. They will build thousands of Raptor engines. They are already expanding it to double its size.

Kharg island is where Iran can load up to 7 million barrels per day for epxort. US will take and keep Kharg island, permanent navy, marine, special ops base. It will be a base with big moat. The base will be where the US will keep overwatch on Iran. Iran will not a navy back ... Read more

Tesla was moving 30+ Cybercabs via transport trucks and at the crash testing facility today. The Cybercabs being loaded onto the trucks have Steering for testing. Tesla loading 30 cybercabs pic.twitter.com/ErGZwH7He4 pic.twitter.com/3sTxvI1llB - nextbigfuture (@nextbigfuture) March 10, 2026

Menlo Park, USA, 10th March 2026, CyberNewswire

TankerTrackers.com is one of the highest-quality public sources available right now. Kpler & Vortexa now note the trickle of dark or escorted transits. 14-16 Tankers passed through Hormuz Today. Traffic is way down with normal ~150+ vessels per day has collapsed to low single digits or low teens (80-90% drop). Tactics being used are turning ... Read more

Philadelphia, PA, United States, 9th March 2026, CyberNewswire

X money is live in a limited public beta. It will allow far more than Paypal and provide 6% on cash deposits and an X debit card. They will get into loans and stock and crypto trading. In-app Money tab with real-time USD balance. Instant send/receive/request money (like a DM). Direct deposit setup. 6% APY ... Read more

CONFIRMED - U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on national TV today, March 8, 2026. on Fox News Sunday and CBS Face the Nation" and other appearances). The plan is to get oil and natural gas and fertilizer and all the products from the Gulf flowing through the Straits before too long... one large tanker ... Read more

The 2026 Iran war is quantitatively ~2-4* bigger in key metrics already and in half the time. Trump has said it will last weeks and the use of B52s is increasing the attack rate by 4 times. The duration could be 3 times longer or more. It could end up at 20 or more times ... Read more

X (x.com) has traffic surges during major global events like wars, as users turn to it for real-time updates, videos, and discussions. The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran starting February 28, 2026 drove a significant spike with a daily Surge +13.3% from Friday (Feb 27) to Saturday (Feb 28). This made it X's biggest day ... Read more

Sandy Munro did a 2020 Tesla Model Y Teardown 42-video youtube series. They covered fit and finish, battery pack, wiring harness. Ford CEO in 2026 had his team do a Tesla teardown and was shocked to find 70 lbs lighter wiring harness and 1600 meters of less wiring versus a Ford Mach E. Sandy Munro's ... Read more

Ukraine sank a Russian liquid natural gas carrier in the Mediterranean. Iran is not the only country that can disrupt oil and gas shipping. Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 export network is showing early signs of disruption after an explosion sank one of its shadow fleet carriers in the Mediterranean this week, forcing other tankers ... Read more

No specific ships have been reported using this new US insurance to transit safely in the last 24 hours, as the program is brand new and traffic remains halted. Some vessels are reflagging or signaling Chinese ownership to gain passage under Iran's exemptions, rather than relying on insurance. Single-digit transits (1-3 confirmed crossings), far below ... Read more

Elon says Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form. He ties this to Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots and advanced manufacturing systems, which enable real-world interaction and precision manipulation at scales that pure digital AI can't match. Grok 5 should be out in ... Read more