NextBigFuture.com

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross explains why the rapid collapse in the cost of AI is doing more than improving software. It is triggering a chain reaction that could collapse the cost structure of the entire economy. This conversation explores the idea of an Economic Singularity, where intelligence becomes radically cheaper, robotics turns that intelligence into near-zero ... Read more

SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and testing) which is over 300 times more expensive than the more powerful SpaceX Raptor 3 engine. It is a flying museum piece that is using difficult liquid hydrogen which was the reason for ... Read more

Detailed Summary of Lex Fridman Podcast: AI State-of-the-Art 2026 with Nathan Lambert and Sebastian RaschkaThis episode (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7WhVT270Q, released around early 2026) features Lex Fridman interviewing Nathan Lambert (post-training lead at Allen Institute for AI, author of The RLHF Book) and Sebastian Raschka (author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a ... Read more

It is rare for the richest person or richest family to triple wealth of the next richest. Bill Gates did it briefly in 1999 and Rockefeller did it. Now Elon Musk has a net worth of $852 billion and Larry Page has almsot $280 billion. Elon has 3.04 times as much wealth. Elon has about ... Read more

NASA Artemis 2 mission after encountering hydrogen leaks during a fueling test of the Space Launch System. The Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft have been central to NASA's Artemis program, aimed at returning humans to the Moon. Development began in earnest around 2011, following the cancellation of the Constellation program in 2010. SLS ... Read more

When I ask AI If having negative cashflow of $10 billion is a good thing, the AI says it can be strategically OK. IF the company was rapidly expanding with new factories or investing for major growth. Is Burning >$10.3 Billion in Cash Good" or OK"? It depends entirely on context, stage, and strategy-it's rarely ... Read more

Rapid acceleration of AI toward the technological singularity, driven by open-source projects like Clawdbot (also referred to as Maltbot or OpenClaw). Roth and others say we have crossed and intelligence event horizon," where AI self-improvement makes the future unpredictable. Breakthroughs in AI capabilities, autonomous agent societies, and the implications for society, blending excitement with warnings ... Read more

SpaceX has acquired XAI. the combined ocmpany will have a valuation of $1.25 trillion. The SpaceX acquisition of xAI was announced and closed on February 2, 2026. Multiple reports, including from Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, and direct statements on SpaceX's website confirm the deal as completed on that date. The deal happened today. Not a merger ... Read more

Wingsuit Foil Enhancements have increased the range of and during of flights with wingsuits. Austrian wingsuit pilot Peter Salzmann achieving a world-first by gaining 67 meters of altitude mid-flight using a specially designed foil wing attached to his wingsuit. The video depicts Salzmann jumping from a ridge on El Hierro in the Canary Islands. He ... Read more

Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving subsidiary, is close to finalizing or has finalized a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $110 billion, more than doubling its valuation from the previous round. Alphabet (Google's parent company) is providing about $13 billion of the $16 billion. New investors: Sequoia Capital, DST Global (led by Yuri ... Read more

SpaceX has applied to build orbital data centers in space using up to 1 million AI inference satellites. The application references that this will be a first step to creating a Kardashev 2 civilization. A Kardashev civilization uses all of the energy of the sun. This is about 5 trillion times more than civilization is ... Read more

BYD (BYDDY ADR on OTC, or 1211.HK on HKEX) has seen poor share price performance over an extended period. There are EV market headwinds like softening global demand, intense domestic price wars in China. Average EV prices fell ~20% in 2022-2023), and macroeconomic factors such as interest rate hikes and policy shifts. In October 2025, ... Read more

Lemonade charges half of the per mile insurance for Tesla cars when Tesla FSD is active. Lemonade collaborates directly with Tesla to access real-time vehicle telemetry data, which allows them to precisely differentiate between FSD-engaged miles and human-driven miles (down to the second, in some descriptions). This means no separate physical device (like a plug-in ... Read more

Elon Musk had talked about getting XAI Grok 4.20 out by the end of 2025. It has now been pushed back to mid-February. It will be two months late (or more). It has more training so it will likely be a better model than what would have been released two months ago. There is also ... Read more