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SpaceX Falcon 9 is roughly 15-18 t to LEO in reusable mode and ~23 t expendable, with boosters routinely flying 20+ times and the fleet doing dozens of launches per year. Falcon 9 has had 160-170 launches per year in 2025 and likely in 2026. This is about 2500-3000 tons per year. No other rocket ... Read more

There are not many rockets or similar rockets in a family of rockets that get to over 20 launches in a year. It is over more rare to get to over 50 launches in a year from any number of launch pads. The SpaceX Falcon 9 is the only rocket to get to over 50 ... Read more

October 1st, 2026 Google in partnership with planet labs launched a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. This launch is the first step of Project Suncatcher. Google is working long-term to one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure in space. Over the coming weeks, in-orbit data will be gathered ... Read more

Alberta is the main focus for near-term natural-gas power dedicated to AI and high-performance computing data centers, under a bring-your-own-generation model. Most large projects are still proposed or in permitting; only a few have final investment decisions, construction contracts, or offtake agreements. Alberta's marketable gas supply is about 11.5 Bcf/d (2025) and still in surplus ... Read more

Elon's 250 kW Starlink satellites will bring multi-gigabit satellite internet and 5G satellite cellphone everywhere even high density cities. 250 kilowatts per satellite, 10 terabits per second in both directions, and a path to more than 100 terabits per second. I detailed the 250 kilowatt per Starlink satellite as beating the Space Station in my ... Read more

Most youtube testers are finding Claude Sonnet 5.5 is beating OpenAI GPT 6.1 Sol. Claude Opus 5.5 is generally considered the best model right now.

Google is releasing Gemini 4 Argon and it is competitive. There is Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is far cheaper to use. Use it on high. New models are being released almost every day. Claude Opus 5.5 - quality leader Claude Sonnet 5.5 - best quality-per-dollar among top models GPT-6 Astra - agents / computer use ... Read more

Washignton, DC, USA, 30th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Twenty SpaceX MiniHard AI data centers versus eight million fully monetized Tesla robotaxis-which could generate more profit? Brian Wang breaks down the shocking impact of monthly MiniHard production. AI leasing economics, and the assumptions behind this extraordinary comparison. The key: how quickly SpaceX can turn power, chips, and buildings into paying compute.

Tickerplus data indicates Anthropic's ARR seems to have flatlined around the time when the token index peaked. Anthropic is at about $76 billion ARR. Interesting data from @tickerplus. Acc to this data, Anthropic's ARR seems to have flatlined around the time when the token index peaked. Many people questioned (rightly) at the time the ... Read more

Anthropic's confidential prospectus now lists agreements that could reach up to $84.5 billion for NVIDIA-double the earlier $45 billion figure. Most of these provisions remain cancelable with 90 days' notice. This is likely up from $15 billion per year to $25-30 billion per year. Probably about $2.3 to $2.5 billion per month. The SpaceX slice ... Read more

In 2026, Starlink on cruise ships is no longer a novelty. It is the default on almost every major line, and passenger reviews have settled into a consistent pattern: usable like a decent hotel connection, not like fiber at home. The old don't even try email at sea era is gone. Congestion, price, and package ... Read more

AMD is making an $8 billion bet (0.8% of AMD valuation) to see if World Model where if we model all physics and chemistry and everything else we can accelerate the pace of major scientific discovery. Fei Fei and World Models are a leader in this area and need the trillion dollar financial power of ... Read more

One new AI data center every month. If SpaceX achieves that MiniHard production pace, the consequences for AI capacity, revenue, and competitors are enormous. MiniHard will become SpaceX's most important near-term product. Repeating a proven data-center design could turn individual construction projects into a steady stream of usable AI capacity. I compare it to mass ... Read more

List of those who were WRONG when they predicted SpaceX Starship would not work or there were fatal design flaws. List in the comments, who should be on the -They Were WRONG and now we Remember and Mock them for Being WRONG. Also, we were RIGHT. Will Lockett (Planet Earth and Beyond) Explicit titles: Starship ... Read more

For those, who were saying that I was wrong and Bank of America was right about the costs of a gigawatt of AI in space, Elon Musk has replied to my X posts with a 100% and laughing emoji. Also, SpaceX has this morning launched SpaceX Starship to orbit and deployed Commercial V3 satellites. If ... Read more

SpaceX Starship has gone orbital. Flight 14 worked, but there was one engine out. IF SpaceX Starship has 120 launches with new AI1 satellites that would be a gigawatt of AI in space. There will be no SpaceX AI satellite made for Falcon 9. It would take 700 to 3000 launches of a Falcon 9 ... Read more

The minimum level of truly meaningful AI Data Center in space is about 10 Gigawatts before the end of 2030. The reason is that the world is adding 20 to 40 gigawatts per year of data center on earth. Creating a new category of AI data center to move the global needle needs to have ... Read more

Here is a dumb and expensive plan you want 3000 cans of soda. Your plan to buy 3000 cans of soda retail from an airport store at $5 per can. The airport store only has 20 cans. They do not sell in bulk. It would take doing to 150 stores to get all of the ... Read more

AI goes next level with Mass-Production of the Infrastructure of AI. SpaceX's most consequential new product is giant AI data center completed every month. A single enormous computing facility is impressive. A mass production system will change EVERYTHING. One completed every month changes the equation. Others spend years building one exceptional facility. Reliably completing one ... Read more

SpaceX will have FIVE Giant AI data centers completed by the end of 2026. The LEAD. SHOCKING NEWS. They are serial producing 450 MW AI data centers taking 4 months to build from start to finish with chips installed. They will work at four at time to complete one a month. This is the pace ... Read more

San Francisco, USA, 25th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Tesla semi rollout event. Very soon the self driving features will be added. It will be a game changer truck. They have fully automated unloading and placement of battery cells into the semi truck. Semi Rollout https://t.co/eTDVRTFjOf - Tesla Semi (@tesla_semi) September 25, 2026 30+ Megacharger stations coming online. 200+ megawatt-capable posts Up to 60% ... Read more

Important things to know about Tesla Semi, robotrucking and robotaxi before the Tesla Semi Rollout. 30,000 Semi sales in 2027 would generate roughly $8-9 BILLION in vehicle revenue at $260,000-$290,000 per truck. 50,000 sales at $260,000 would generate $13 BILLION annually. $1 BILLION in quarterly profit on that revenue would require approximately ... Read more

SpaceX's biggest AI advantage are the months and years competitors lose waiting. Colossus was built in 122 days. Now the strategy is power waiting for chips-and that changes when tens and hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue can begin. SpaceX owns xAI. Colossus, Grok and AI infrastructure are most of the revenue for the ... Read more

Phoenix, Arizona, 24th September 2026, CyberNewswire

We can have AI designed to be hundreds, thousands of times more cheap and efficient. Getting done what we want without over engineering it. Holy crap. Rick and Morty just explained Jev AI to me better than any tech demo could. pic.twitter.com/dT09WjfBy9 - Prince does AI (@princedoesai) September 23, 2026 TyperSafe Founder, Diogo Almeida just ... Read more

Those waiting for robotaxi or cybercab up north will likely need to wait for wide release of FSD 15.X to all AI4 aka HW4 tesla cars. There is also the need wait until AFTER 2000+ robotaxi in each of the current cities and then Las Vegas, Phoenix etc... It make take until FSD 16.X later ... Read more

Halo studios will no longer make Halo games. The company that used employees who hate Halo and hate guns has fired 268 employees and moved Halo game production to Activision. This does not mean that Activision will make great or amazing Halo games but the results being 100% terrible will no longer be the only ... Read more

Tesla has over 502 unsupervised robotaxi. 479 Texas registered unsupervised robotaxi plus 23 crowdsourced identified florida robotaxi. It is likely 520 to 530 unsupervised robotaxi. The 23 count in Florida is low. I estimate about 40 to 50 unsupervised robotaxi in Florida. I think about 30 to 40 in Tampa. Finding one or two per ... Read more

Elon's 250 kW Starlink satellites will bring multi-gigabit satellite internet and 5G satellite cellphone everywhere even high density cities. 250 kilowatts per satellite, 10 terabits per second in both directions, and a path to more than 100 terabits per second. WHY build satellites this powerful? Serving everyone and leveraging the huge solar and thermal radiators ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 22nd September 2026, CyberNewswire

SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 is here. It is way better than Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed. It is on the pareto frontier. The new model builds on a larger base with extended training on complex tasks, boosting scores like 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0 for software engineering and 71.0% on DeepSWE v1.1. It keeps ... Read more

The SpaceX AI1 design work. This should not be a surprise. The leading satellite and space and AI engineers it the world at SpaceX and XAI designed satellites and AI systems that will work. They have made 80% of all satellites in space. The other XAI engineers have been involved in making about 10% and ... Read more

I identified and detailed the Tesla robotrucking opportunity 13 months ago. Morgan Stanley has now found it as well and has an $840 price target because of it. Other are still missing the potential profitability and stock impact of Tesla's Semi truck equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD), transforming it into a robotruck. FSD is making ... Read more

Typesafe AI - Superfast, super cheap classifications, sorting, decisions. Also rapid response updating to databases. Sort through thousands of emails in fraction of a second for 9 cents.

Space-based AI costs $160 billion per gigawatt? That is an absurd and sloppy calculation. This has nothing to do with SpaceX's plans. It is the wrong rocket and not the planned satellite. It freeze today's technology, ignores Starship's development, and pretend you've priced the future? That is sloppy analysis from Bank of America and others. ... Read more

$50B Per Year SpaceX Deal is $75B More than Waiting for Data Centers in 1 Year. There is an AI gold rush which is why SpaceX and its customers will win. OpenAI signed the Oracle $300 billion five year deal because that is the plan B they can afford. Waiting for Compute Because They Have ... Read more

USA has infinite military basing in Greenland, permanent overflight, bases can be expanded at will without further discussion. US has right of first refusal of any mineral deal. No other country can have military personnel or bases in Greenland. No cost from the US for this. Any actual development of mineral will be negotiated. There ... Read more

Everyone compares Tesla Optimus with Figure and other humanoid robots: better hands, better walking, better demonstrations. But what happens when the factory or the world is changed so the robot can succeed ? Tesla's advantages go far beyond Optimus itself. It can develop the robot, redesign its workplaces, and improve both together. This changes how ... Read more

AI compute leasing, Grok, Cursor, Starlink and Starship are combining into a much larger business - and why SpaceX could win across more scenarios than companies dependent on having the leading AI model. Why looking backward at 2025 revenue can miss the scale of SpaceX's AI transformation The September AI deal snapshot: $41 billion in ... Read more

Stamford, CT, 16th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Sakana AI has progressed beyond its early demonstrations. But I did not find evidence that it has established a widening research lead through sustained, accelerating RSI. Its published results support bounded self-improvement and increasingly capable orchestration. Your test asks for something stronger: does the improved researcher make the next improvement faster, cheaper, and more consequential? ... Read more

AI leaders are talking about RSI ( recursive self improving AI) but not describing the levels of capability. People know something about self driving. Are we warning helping, autopilot, what level of automation. The AI researcher progression: Autocomplete helps me type. An intern executes my plan. A postdoc advances my project. A research leader finds ... Read more

A NASA NIAC project will try to Mapping Alien Continents using formation-flying optical interferometer. Two hierarchical nullers ~100 km apart that first suppress the host star by ~10^1 in visible light, then combine the leftover planet light as a Michelson interferometer. That baseline gives an angular resolution of order 1 as at 500 nm. An ... Read more

NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration-potentially up to 2 mm/s^2-and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m^2, to support future ultra-high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond the ... Read more

This is the nextbigfuture GDP PPP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI ... Read more

What has already been proven wrong about doubters think about SpaceX ? What will get proven wrong in the next 150 days. Count down of 14 SpaceX bear claims. Following the engineering into the revenue and profits. Starship's commercial payload, booster recovery, engine reuse, AI compute hosting, and the buildout behind my forecast of $120B+ ... Read more

Most families say the same thing too late. They wanted to know their grandparents better. They wanted the stories while the person was still in the room. Then the person is gone, and what is left is three anecdotes and a box of unlabeled photos. The point is not a prettier keepsake. It is to ... Read more

I have been able to do 4 pull-ups with a neutral grip. This is the first time in my life that I have been able to do any pull-ups. I had more strength and lower weight in my 20s but I had bad technique. I now realize I was just going arms and not getting ... Read more