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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch the NASA Europa Clipper mission in a few days. It was going to be October 10, 2024 but that has been delayed due to the risk of a hurricane. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is 13000 pounds and is the largest planetary exploration vehicle ever made by NASA. Europa is ... Read more

Tesla is building the high-volume Semi truck factory with new, efficient techniques in partnership with BZI. This is from the great video and X coverage from Hinrichs Zanegler. The footings are about 95-97% complete. The overall factory is about 30% complete.

Venus Aerospace advanced propulsion system is engineered to power high-speed vehicles, including drones and aircraft, enabling them to travel vast distances at high altitudes and achieve high-Mach speeds with unmatched efficiency. The VDR2 combines the high thrust and efficiency of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) with the high efficiency cruise of a Ramjet. This ... Read more

Ion Trap Quantum computer company, IonQ, demonstrated remote ion-ion entanglement. They built off the ion-photon entanglement achievement announced in February, this demonstration announced in September showcases the second out of four significant milestones required to develop photonic interconnects - a foundational step towards quantum networking and a core component of IonQ's scaling strategy. IonQ is ... Read more

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket launched for the second certification (Cert-2) mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Cert-2 mission includes an inert payload and demonstrations associated with future Centaur V technologies. This is the second of two test flights required for ULA's certification process with ... Read more

Russia appears to have suffered a catastrophic failure in a test of its Sarmat missile. The images from Sept. 21 show a crater about 60 meters (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. They reveal extensive damage that was not visible in pictures taken earlier in the month. ... Read more

Elon posts that Tesla FSD will soon exceed 10,000 miles between critical interventions, which is a year of driving for most people. One week until the shock and awe of Tesla Robotaxi day. FSD will soon exceed 10,000 miles between critical interventions, which is a year of driving for most people - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) ... Read more

Big news this week in AI, AI startups, AI research and AI funding. This is the first sections. See the rest at Nextbigfuture substack. 1. AI Data center plans and nuclear power. 2. OpenAI DevDay. 3. AI Research 4. Blackrock and Microsoft have a new $30 Billion AI Infrastructure fund 5. Aptos partners with Ignition ... Read more

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Former NASCAR star Greg Biffle says Elon Musk's @SpaceX has donated 500 @Starlink kits which he will receive tomorrow at 5 AM - He will then immediately fly them out using his helicopters to Western North Carolina to be deployed to restore communication in the region. NEWS: Former NASCAR star Greg Biffle says Elon Musk's ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, had a livestream video with Herbert Ong on Brighter With Herbert. I talked about my discovery that Tesla Shanghai Megapack factory is over twice the size of the Lathrop Megapack factory in California. This is just for the main building and there will be three buildings.

The IDF (Israeli Defense forces) have reportedly crossed into Lebanon in limited operations. They are taking out tunnels, minefields and some border villages and towns. Official IDF statement. In accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, noticed that an aerial view of the Tesla China Megapack factory was revealing a building that is over the twice the size of the Lathrop California Tesla Megapack factory. I had a discussion with Bradford Ferguson of Rebellionaire who has visited the Lathrop Factory to count Megapack production. Brian White was on ... Read more

Tesla Cybertrucks now have FSD. Full Self Driving 12.5.5 provides Cybertrucks and other Tesla cars with new and improved FSD. This is also the first version that merges highway and city street driving. Previously, highway driving was handled by autopilot. Autopilot highway had less than one accident every 7 million miles. FSD 12.5.5 is superior ... Read more

Tesla has had two bad years where growth in revenue was stalled and profits were squeezed. There was bad economies in China, Europe and the USA. Interest rates have been high. Now China is stimulating its economy with hundreds of billions and the US is cutting interest rates. Tesla has made about 20,000 Cybertrucks this ... Read more

Tesla has achieved all of the September, 2024 goals of the Tesla AI roadmap from one month ago. FSD 12.5.5 works for Cybertruck and gives all FSD end to end roads and highway. This looks great for Tesla Version 13 in October that should be the 6 times better on intervention miles. Three times improvement ... Read more

Jim Rickards warns of the collapse in China's population and collapse in global population. Nextbigfuture described these issues in mid-2023 over 15 months ago. I described the collapse as worse than the black death and Jim use the same description. Jim Rickards is an economist, lawyer, and investment banker with 40 years of experience in ... Read more

Vik Mayala of Supermicro taked about maxing out the AI infrastructure at the Ignite AI Infra event. 5th gen CPUs are going to 500 watts per chip and next gen GPUs are going to 1000 watts and beyond. The AI training centers are going to 100k, 200k and 400k GPUs. Supermicro was a primary vendor ... Read more

Kumeran Siva of AMD talked at the Ignite AI Infra event spoke on Enterprise AI Use Cases. AMD has done the long research to create the chiplet architecture. In October, 2024 they will release their 5th generation EPYC CPU with 192 cores. They have the AMD Instinct with MI300X for generative AI. They have an ... Read more

Sylvia Acevedo, Board member of Qualcomm, gave a talk on Sovereign AI at the Ignite AI Infra conference. Sylvia gave an overview of the landscape of governance around AI. She discussed what Sovereign AI is and why it matters. Data Centers are all over the world. AI is will be shaped by the governance. The ... Read more

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In May, Nextbigfuture projected that Starlink could reach 3.5 to 5 million customers at the end of 2024 and SpaceX has revealed they are passing 4 million customers this week. 5 million customers is possible for Starlink. 1 million were added from late May to the end of September. Starlink has increased its rate of ... Read more

OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board. CEO Sam Altman and likely many employees will get equity. The reports are Sam will get 7% of the company which is valued at $150 billion. 7% would be ... Read more

SpaceX colonization of Mars will involve trillions in costs. How can Mars become a money maker? Europe colonized the United States but the United States economy grew to be significant. From 1700 to 1774, the output of the thirteen colonies increased 12-fold, giving the colonies an economy about 30% the size of Britain's at the ... Read more

There is a re-examination of space tethers and skyhooks to find near terms use cases. Harsimony at Greaterwrong.com provides the analysis of value for tethers when we have a lot of space launches and space activity. A tether that spins at 1.74 km/s is ideal for some boosting to the moon. The fuel cost per ... Read more

Craig Nordeen (Air Force Research Lab, Pratt & Whitney) gives a lesson from three years ago on detonation engines. He describes the history and how they work and why they are more efficient. The work at Hermeus and Venus Aerospace could leverage detonation engines to achieve efficient flight in the Mach 5-10 range. Venus Aerospace ... Read more

The Tesla October 10 Robotaxi day banner says WE, ROBOT. This seems to imply no driver robotaxi demos and Teslabot demos. Elon says this will be one for the history books. This will be one for the history books pic.twitter.com/qQ0HZyGMZE - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2024 Tesla has hypermapped the Warner Brother's studio lot. ... Read more

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company Bob McGrew, OpenAI's chief research officer and Barret Zoph, VP of post training have also left. Murati's departure comes almost a year after a boardroom coup shook the AI startup and temporarily ousted CEO Sam Altman, leaving Murati as its temporary leader. In her six-year tenure, she ... Read more

Bill Gates is worth 8 times less today than if he had kept his 45% stake in Microsoft from after the IPO in 1986. Bill Gates has $163 billion in net worth. If Bill Gates did not sell shares during the IPO he would have had 49% of Microsoft. Bill Gates has been selling his ... Read more

Microsoft and the companies making AI data centers will be great customers for nuclear energy. Barrons reports that Microsoft is paying double the price for the Three Mile island nuclear electricity as the going commercial rates. This is about $130 per megawatt hour. An 835 megawatt reactor at 92% capacity factor would generate about 6.6 ... Read more

A deep discussion of the developments with AI and the upcoming 2025 Tesla Dojo 2 and 2026 Dojo 3 chips. But AI needs compute and data. Won't AI reach a limit as we use up human created data? What if you can use mass production of space telescopes to monitor the whole galaxy down to ... Read more

Tesla has release FSD 12.5.4 which is able to track driver attention even with sun glasses. Tesla FSD is able drive through complex parking lots. Your Tesla can now drive itself through complex parking lots to find you https://t.co/ATqMCnntcQ - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 23, 2024 First run with FSD V12.5.2.1 on a Hybrid setting ... Read more

Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. Major delays mean crewed missions will be postponed another two years to the next launch window. It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars ... Read more

After months with FSD 12, I've gone past the wow, this is magic" phase. The analyst in me scrutinizes every disengagement and edge case. But today, I just had one of those tears in my eyes" moments. On a mini road trip, FSD 12.5.2.1 flawlessly handled the winding roads that have always been my worst ... Read more

There is a AI Infrastructure Summit in San Francisco, Union Square on Friday, September 27, 2024. It will bring together AI Developers, Tech Luminaries, AI Enterprises, AI Builders and Industry giants. This is convergence of the ecosystem at the AI INFRA SUMMIT. It is headlined by industry giants AMD and Supermicro, this groundbreaking summit unites ... Read more

Trump talks about working with SpaceX and Elon Musk to reach Mars before Jan 2029. There are two launch windows in late 2026 and in late 2028. It is possible to launch outside of launch windows by going with far less payload and far more fuel. SpaceX Starship with refueling in orbit would be able ... Read more

Boeing has been constantly losing money for the last five years with a combined $25 billion in losses. Everything about Boeing has been shockingly bad for over five years. All of their commercial and military plane models have big problems. All of their space vehicles and rockets have big problems. Will Boeing turnaround over the ... Read more

Boom Supersonic has completed its supersonic passenger plane factory, is flying a supersonic demonstrator plane and will have a new upgraded engine core by late 2025. They have over a total of over $700 million in funding. They are targeting 2030 for operation of a Mach 1.7 supersonic passenger jet. Current plan is only fly ... Read more

Venus Aerospace is developing a 12 passenger Mach 9 hypersonic aircraft (Stargazer) that will connect any destination in the world in under an hour. The aircraft will use a rotating detonation rocket engine when flying at 170,000 but will use conventional engines for take-off and landing. The company has raised $39 millopn in funding from ... Read more

The Boom XB-1 Baby Boom is a one-third-scale trijet supersonic demonstrator designed by Boom Technology as part of development of the Boom Overture supersonic transport airliner. It is powered by three General Electric J85s, it is planned to maintain Mach 2.2, with over 1,000 nautical miles. The XB-1 took its first flight on March 22, ... Read more

Taalas and Etched are two AI chip startups aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware market. Etched is using ASIC chips. Taalas is using eASIC chips. They are both putting the logic into the hardware instead of using software on top of GPUs. There is the potential to get 100 to 1000 times ... Read more

In the first Mission Impossible movie there was the NOC List. The Non-Official Cover List was a list of covert operatives of the Impossible Missions Force, showing their codenames and their real names. The reason it was so important? The only reason spies and their network are safe is because the enemy does not know ... Read more

The Hacksmith created a system for tracking eye motion to target shoulder mounted lasers. This is the equivalent functionality as superman's heat vision. AdHawk and Wicked Lasers made the lasers. AdHawk Microsystems: https://www.adhawkmicrosystems.com/ Wicked Lasers: https://www.laseros.com/ Eye-tracking technology enables laser control @thehacksmith#Science #Technology pic.twitter.com/4tm5kYCNdq - TechnoSci Hub (@TechnoSciHub) September 20, 2024 This hacking to ... Read more

I asked various AIs to answer how was Skynet built. There is the clip of the scene in the Terminator 2 movie and some of the quotes. You can see how well today's AI did. The better real world processors are coming every few months. The Nvidia B200 will ship in volume in the next ... Read more

Information from the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear energy relays the Constellation Energy announcement of plans to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1. This shows the massive demand for electricity for AI data centers is reviving the nuclear energy industry. Constellation signs its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft, a deal that will ... Read more

The Mars Society explored the idea of using advanced robotics for Mars exploration, as evidenced by competitions like the Telerobotic Mars Expedition Design Competition. Elon Musk and Tesla and SpaceX teams have talked about adapting the Cybertruck for Mars. Elon has joked that the Cybertruck is the official truck of Mars. Robotically controlled Cybertrucks could ... Read more