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SpaceX Starship 13 Should be the First Orbital Flight
Starship FCC licenses for Flight 12 and 13 have been modified. Starship Flight 12's license includes a suborbital first and second stage. Currently, SpaceX is looking at a late April or early May launch for Starship 12. Starship Flight 13's now says suborbital first stage and ORBITAL second stage. Starship 13 is looking at an ... Read more
Claude Mythos Will Uplevel AI Again and Exposes and Will Try to Fix Cybersecurity Issues
Anthropic Mythos is Anthropic's newest frontier AI model tier, announced in early April 2026. It will be a step-change in capabilities over their previous top model (Claude Opus 4.6). Mythos is entire higher tier of models that Anthropic says is larger and more intelligent than our Opus models. Why Mythos Is a Big Deal Anthropic ... Read more
XAI Training 10 Trillion Parameter Model – Likely Out in Mid 2026
xAI's Colossus 2 (MACROHARD) now has 7 models in training at once. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter model 1 variant of a 10-trillion-parameter model SpaceXAI Colossus 2 now has 7 models in training: - Imagine V2- 2 variants of 1T- 2 variants ... Read more
60 Tesla Cybercabs in Outbound Lot – Will Tesla Make 1000+ Cybercabs in April or May?
Tesla is supposed to be starting some mass production of Cybercabs in April. There were 60 Tesla Cybercabs in outbound lots in Texas. If Tesla makes an average 40 per day in April then there would be 1000+ Cybercabs in April. I think this is more likely for May.
Meta AI is Competitive with Mus Spark AI
Meta Muse Spark (originally codenamed Avocado) is Meta's first model from its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). It launched on April 8, 2026 and will be the first of a new Muse family of models. Meta describes it as a natively multimodal reasoning model designed from the ground up for vision + language integration (not ... Read more
Yael Nardi Joins Minimus to Spearhead Growth Operations as CBO
Tech startup Minimus, which specializes in secure and hardened container images made to eliminate CVE risk, is proud to announce the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly established role, Nardi will lead the company's next phase of scale, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, operations, and corporate development. As the market ... Read more
Mallory Launches AI-Native Threat Intelligence Platform, Turning Global Threat Data Into Prioritized Action
Austin, Texas, United States, 9th April 2026, CyberNewswire
Artemis 2- Orion Lunar Flyby
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA's Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal some regions no human has seen, including a rare in-space solar eclipse. During the lunar flyby, the crew documented impact craters, ancient lava flows, and surface fractures that will help scientists study the Moon's geologic evolution. ... Read more
Tesla FSD 14.3 Makes Improvements But Setting Up for Big Release
Tesla FSD V14.3 first drive impressions Highway follow distance is more comfortable Quicker take off from stop signs after coming to a complete stop Highway lane change hesitation from previous versions seems gone for me The navigation routes it takes are still sometimes confusing It understood detour signs correctly on ... Read more
Two Week USA-Iran Ceasefire
U.S. officials says the ceasefire begins tonight but will take time for orders to reach individual IRGC units. US halts all offensive military operations against Iran, per US official. Defensive actions remain in place as ceasefire takes hold. Officials expect delays before Iran's IRGC fully receives and implements the order.
Intel Partners with Tesla and SpaceX on Terafab
Intel is now officially partnering with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on the Terafab project. Terafab is their joint venture for a massive, vertically integrated semiconductor facility (primarily in Austin, Texas) that combines logic chips, memory (HBM), advanced packaging, testing, and even photomask production all under one roof. The goal is to produce ~1 TW/year of ... Read more
AI Will Give Humanity the Moon, Mars and Supersonic Travel
Boom Supersonic has secured one major public sales order for its Superpower 42 MW natural gas turbines aimed at AI data centers. They will sell 29 units totaling 1.21 GW from launch customer Crusoe (announced December 9, 2025), creating a $1.25 billion backlog. Boom closed a $300 million funding round led by Darsana Capital Partners ... Read more
Anthropic Number One AI in Ranking and Revenue – Making $30 Billion Per Year
Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027. This significant expansion of their compute infrastructure will power our frontier Claude models and help us serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide. The run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion-up ... Read more
SpaceX Raptor Engine Test Seems to Have an Explosion
A SpaceX Raptor has what looks like an explosion at McGregor.
NASA Orion Astronauts Will Go Over 252000 From Earth to Beat Old 248,655 Mile Record
Orion is more than two-thirds of the way to the Moon, traveling at high speed and breaking the Apollo 13 distance record (about 248,655 miles from Earth). It will enter the Moon's sphere of influence early on April 6. A lunar flyby will happen Monday, April 6, 2026 at about 2:45-9:40 p.m. EDT . Orion ... Read more
China Build Focused Economy Versus India
China's economy for the past 50 years has been investment/export/industrialization-driven with permissive building. There are fast approvals, state capacity). India's became more consumption-led with decentralized hurdles and lower infrastructure spending. China's GDP multiplied ~30* (1980-2010) vs. India's ~5*. Productivity growth (output per worker) was nearly double India's for decades. India and China starting point was ... Read more
China’s Energy Build Drives GDP Growth While Europe Has a Drag From Low, Costly Energy
Europe's restrictive energy policies-characterized by lengthy, fragmented permitting (often 7-10+ years for renewables and industrial projects), heavy environmental/regulatory burdens, NIMBY/local opposition, carbon pricing (ETS), and phased-outs of reliable baseload (nuclear/coal) without rapid replacement-have led to persistently high energy costs, volatility, and slow infrastructure rollout. China has a permissive pro-growth energy approach. State-directed fast approvals, massive ... Read more
Housing Supply and Demand
Metro areas/states allowing sprawl (Texas metros like Dallas/Houston permitted ~72k homes in 2024 alone) + densification (Minneapolis, Auckland NZ upzoning 21-24% rent drops in targeted studies) show housing stock growth 2-3x higher and price appreciation 50-80% lower than restrictive peers (California, New York). Supply elasticity over 0.5 typically caps real price growth near inflation. ... Read more
Forward Arming and Refueling Base for 100-250 Chopper and Drone Flights for Rescue Operations
Videos describe the forward air base built inside of Iran and pictures of the forward airbase after it was used for 2 days and then abandoned. Rescued Airman taken back by little bird choppers back the base. 100+ US military personal were inside iran. FARP stands for Forward Arming and Refueling Point (also sometimes called ... Read more
More Wealth, Healthcare and Housing
Dr. Mike makes the good case that five things can be done to boost standard of living everywhere. The standard of living is how much real goods, services, housing, energy, healthcare, and comfort the average person can actually afford. It is the #1 thing societies care about (even if they vote on it indirectly through ... Read more
Pulsar Fusion Achieves Initial Pulse Experiments and Targets Orbital Test in 2027 and Production Fusion Rocket in Early 2030s
Pulsar fusion is working to make a fusion propulsion system with about 10000-15000 ISP. This is about 25 to 40 times the ISP (exhaust speed and fuel efficiency) compared to chemical systems. There was a live demonstration during a technical session at Amazon's MARS Conference in Ojai, California, presented by Pulsar Fusion CEO Richard Dinan. ... Read more
Tesla Optimus Talk
Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla Lead Director of Optimus, at the ETH Robotics Club INSPIRE Talk in Switzerland. Konstantinos presented Optimus 2.5 and the work behind it and its predecessors. Here are some highlights from the talk. The sim-to-real gap is propaganda. It's not a gap if you haven't tried to model your robot properly." Hardware matters ... Read more
Tesla Optimus V3 Ready for Mass Production
Konstantinos Laskaris (Tesla Optimus Program Lead/Director) gave an INSPIRE keynote talk at the ETH Robotics Club in Zurich on April 2, 2026 (attended by 400+ students and robotics enthusiasts). He presented Optimus 2.5 (and predecessors), showcased the robot live, discussed hardware progress, and revealed slides on Optimus Gen 3 as the first mass manufacturable" model.
Blue Origin Launches Planned for 2026
Blue Origin has several NASA missions, AST Space Mobile and Amazon LEO satellite launches planned. The plan is for four launches of New Glenn in 2026. There is an upcoming NG-3 for AST Space Mobile and then three launches. An Amazon LEO mission, a NASA moon mission and then another AST Space Mobile mission.
Blue Origin New Glenn Targets April Launch of AST Space Mobile Satellite
The next-generation AST Space Mobile Block 2 BlueBirds are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the first generation BlueBird satellites. They are needed for the goal of 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage. The service will target approximately 100% U.S. nationwide coverage from space with over 5,600 coverage cells, with ... Read more
SpaceX Starship Launch Delayed Until May 2026
Elon Musk says the next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away. This means it is delayed from Aoril into May. Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away pic.twitter.com/tg4OQQ7pyI - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April ... Read more
AI Future: The Leading International AI and Web3 Forum to Take Place in April
Moscow, Russia, 3rd April 2026, CyberNewswire
Tesla Misses Q1 Analyst Target But Regains Global Battery EV Lead
Tesla has regained the global lead in BEV deliveries, as BYD's BEV sales dropped significantly in the first quarter. Tesla had 358023 BEV sales globally in Q1 2026 while BYD had 310,389. Tesla China Mar wholesale deliveries jump as market recovers. Tesla China's wholesale volume reached 85,670 vehicles in March, representing a 46.20% increase from ... Read more
SpaceX Discusses Over $2 Trillion IPO Valuation
Bloomberg reports SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 trillion. According to people familiar with the matter, SpaceX and its advisers are already floating this figure to prospective investors. Testing-the-waters briefings (where they share more supporting details) are scheduled to begin in the coming week. Breaking: SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 ... Read more
NASA Successfully Launches Artemis 2 and Completes Translunar Injection Burn
Thursday, NASA's Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds beginning at 7:49 p.m. EDT, to successfully complete the translunar injection (TLI) burn, sending the crew in Orion out of Earth orbit and on a trajectory toward the Moon. Congratulations to NASA for what has been a broadly successful mission so ... Read more
Beating the Financial Consensus With Prediction Markets
Nicole Kagan, Head of Research at Kalshi, with hosts Nick and Sam) sees Kalshi's CFTC-regulated prediction markets as emerging financial instruments that can revolutionize risk hedging across finance, insurance, and beyond. Event contracts (binary Yes/No payouts on real-world outcomes) are tools to financialize uncertainty and turn discrete risks like macroeconomic data releases, policy changes, cultural ... Read more
Cybersecurity Firm TAC Security Hits 10,000 Clients, Enters Top 5 in Global VM & AppSec
New York, New York, 1st April 2026, CyberNewswire
Heat Radiators for AI Data Centers in Space Will Be a Huge Advantage and Not a Huge Problem
There were many complaints that radiating heat from AI Data Centers in space would be a huge problem but in fact they will be a huge advantage. On Earth, cooling an AI data center is an active, energy-hungry process. Chillers, fans, pumps, water loops, and heat exchangers devour power simply to stop silicon from melting ... Read more
Exodus Propulsion and the Exodus Force aka Electrostatic Pressure Force
NASA's Lead Electrostatics Scientist, Dr Charles Buhler, claims he's discovered a new force" that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. ... Read more
Tesla Will Soon Unleash Scaled Robotaxi
Tesla is deploying more supervised robotaxi, hiring more drivers and testers and will start production of Cybercab in weeks. This should lead to a scaled robotaxi future.
Details of the NASA Moonbase Plans Include a Fifteen Ton Lunar Rover
The NASA Lunar Gateway program was cancelled but pieces of it will be used for the early parts of the moonbase and as part of the nuclear mission to Mars. NASA wants to fly two crewed missions to the moon every year. Japan is helping to build a large 15 ton lunar rover that will ... Read more
Pulsar Fusion Ignites Plasma in Nuclear Rocket Test
UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world's first for a rocket of this type, was showcased live during a technical session at Jeff Bezos's exclusive MARS Conference in California, offering a tantalizing glimpse into a future of dramatically faster interplanetary ... Read more
Third ARC AGI Test
ARC-AGI-3 is an interactive benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments in which agents must explore, infer goals, build internal models of environment dynamics, and plan effective action sequences without explicit instructions. Like its predecessors ARC-AGI-1 and 2, ARC-AGI-3 focuses entirely on evaluating fluid adaptive efficiency on novel tasks, while avoiding language ... Read more
Tesla China Launching Sub-$30,000 Standard Model 3 in April-June
There are reports Tesla Giga Shanghai already has dedicated production lines running for the standard Model 3. This variant is the simplified, lower-cost version (smaller battery, ~480 km CLTC range) that Tesla will sell in China and export to Asia. Expected pricing for the new Standard version per Multiple sources (Global China EV, CarNewsChina, 36Kr, ... Read more
SpaceX Starlink Satellite and Launch Plans from Shotwell
Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Humans on lunar surface before 2030. HLS (Human Landing System) planned ready by 2028, though much must go right. Starlink Constellation Size has ~10,000 Starlink satellites launched and [high speed internet] likely cap 15,000-20,000. There has been a separate FCC filing for 15000 ... Read more
Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries Will Boost Energy Density by 20% for Tesla
Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries (21.8% Energy Density Gain) is described by Jordan at the Limiting Factor. A new University of Chicago paper (published March 2026) demonstrates a simple but powerful tweak to dry-electrode cathode design that delivers a 21.8% increase in usable energy density while maintaining excellent cycle life. The breakthrough relies entirely on ... Read more
2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Winners Announced during RSA Conference as AI Security Dominates
San Francisco, USA, 25th March 2026, CyberNewswire
Recursively Self Improving AI Will Have Unlimited Space Based Solar Power
Eric Schmidt and other AI leaders (Karpathy, Musk, Anthropic executives) have described recursive self-improvement (RSI)-AI autonomously designing, testing, and deploying better versions of itself-as the pivotal transition from narrow, human-guided progress to potentially explosive, closed-loop intelligence growth. RSI is not yet fully autonomous across the entire AI stack with no human oversight but narrow versions ... Read more
High Gear Moonbase Program Kicks Off With 30 Robotic Moon Missions Starting in 2027 and Nuclear Powered Base by 2030
NASA will advance lunar science by affordably building out of the Moon Base and underpin future Moon and Mars exploration. An accelerated CLPS cadence, targeting up to 30 robotic landings starting in 2027. NASA is expediting delivery of science and technology to the lunar surface. There will be many opportunities for payload delivery including rovers, ... Read more
NASA Plans $20 Billion Permanent Moonbase by 2032
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a $20 billion plan to build a permanent U.S. base on the Moon over the next 7 years. NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit. NASA is committed to achieving the nearimpossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump's ... Read more
NASA Space Reactor 1 Freedom for Nuclear Powered Interplanetary to Mars in 2028
NASA will launch the Space Reactor1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028, demonstrating advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Nuclear electric propulsion provides an extraordinary capability for efficient mass transport in deep space and enables high power missions beyond Jupiter where solar arrays are not effective. ... Read more
TESLA TERAFAB PROJECT VALUABLE IN THE NEXT 18 MONTHS
The Tesla Terafab will likely take a 2-4 years to build and those first phases will not be all of the 100+ million square foot building or complex. The start of the project with the pilot lab facilities can start paying immediate dividends. Speeding up the design of the chips and allowing for more experimentation ... Read more
Gcore Radar report reveals 150% surge in DDoS attacks year-on-year
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 24th March 2026, CyberNewswire
ROBOTAXI WAR – TESLA VS NVIDIA. ELON VS JENSEN
Nvidia has 19 car company partners for robotaxi. Those car companies have deployed cars with driver assist but they do not have unsupervised robotaxi. The LIDAR needed for driver assist is produced in substantial volume but only a few thousand are produced for robotaxi grade LIDAR sensors. The car partners have not bought and installed ... Read more
Does the TESLA FSD CHIP Match the Human Brain ?
Tesla has the world's most advanced AI (not OpenAI). Autopilot runs superhuman edge AI on HW4 (only 20-50W - same as human brain) while Nvidia B300/Rubin use 1,500-2,000W+. AI5 will jump to 800W for more tasks (distributed inference), but efficiency still unmatched. FSD 14.3 (10x parameters, reasoning model) incoming - the last big piece" for ... Read more
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