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Austin / TX, United States, 25th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have become the clear leader in consumer AI and XR wearables, with over 3.5 million units shipped since launch and tripled sales in the first half of 2025 compared to the previous year. Meta now holds over 60% of the global AR/VR and smart glasses market, with its glasses accounting for ... Read more

The total mass loss rate and outflow speed from its 3I/Atlas surface was used to infer its mass. The mass of 3I/ATLAS must be bigger than 33 billion tons. The diameter of its solid-density nucleus must be larger than 5 kilometers. This suggests that 3I/ATLAS is more massive than the other two interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua ... Read more

Elon said that Tesla FSD Version 14.0 goes into early wide release next week, then 14.1 about 2 weeks later and finally 14.2. The car will feel almost like it is sentient being by 14.2. This will have ten times the parameters of FSD 13. It is supposed to be 2-3 times safer than human ... Read more

Tesla's stock closing above $440 for the first time would be a key technical breakthrough when it converts resistance to support and will then pave the way for all-time highs (around $488). There can be false breakouts. The near-term targets are $450-$500, with potential surges to $600-$700 (equating to a $2T market cap) or even ... Read more

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 25th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

On September 22, 2025, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said Boeing has started making the first F-47 airframes under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. This is the start of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD). Boeing has a $20 billion contract. The Boeing's St. Louis factory been idle since F-15 ... Read more

Tesla's stock has been stuck in narrow range. What could break it out? Full Self-Driving (FSD) software challenges, AI data center energy needs, nuclear power developments, H-1B visa reforms, and broader commentary. Tesla traders are seeing shares stuck at $440 (unlikely to break without major news), with support levels at $423-$424 and $410. Are dips ... Read more

NASA's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency's Moon SLS rocket inside and out after the Artemis 1 launch. SLS flew a good first mission on the Artemis I test flight. NASA commits ... Read more

Lockheed Martin's newly unveiled Vectis drone will be a groundbreaking advancement in unmanned aerial systems. Lockheed Martin has introduced Vectis and describes it as the most advanced fighter drone ever built. It has not been built yet. It is in simulation and design. It is classified as a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) by the U.S. ... Read more

A new order for a GE Vernova 7HA gas turbine placed today would likely see delivery in late 2028 at the earliest, with potential delays extending to 2029-2030 depending on production ramp-up and order prioritization. This equates to a lead time of approximately 3-4 years from order date, though some reports indicate quotes up to ... Read more

China and the USA are racing to develop unmanned wingman drone fighter jets. Those will form mixed manned and unmanned fighter jets with fighter superdrones. China's new Fujian aircraft carrier with magnetic launcher like carrier-scale drone operations. As of September 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy has two aircraft carriers equipped with the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch ... Read more

Xinhua News Agency reports that the Chinese navy has had take off arrested landing tests of the J-15T, J-35 fighter jets and the KJ-600 early warning and command aircraft with a electromagnetic catapult on the new Fujian aircraft carrier. The CNS Fujian is a Type 003 and is the China's most advanced aircraft carrier. Video ... Read more

Pittsburg, United States, 23rd September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Austin, Texas, USA, 23rd September 2025, CyberNewsWire

XAI Colossus 2's is targeting ~1 Gigwatt as soon as possible. They have natural gas turbines for primary generation, batteries for stability, and grid for long-term scalability. XAI Colossus 2 has power from seven installed SMT-360/Titan-350 Natural Gas Turbines. The seven turbines in question are deployed at the Southaven, Mississippi site 6 miles from Colossus ... Read more

I live in silicon valley which means I am well aware of the hype around the term Unicorn startups. The unicorn term was coined by Aileen Lee in 2013 for $1B+ private startups. It was not just to quickly get early investors eager to invest in startups. It was in a pre-AI world where billion-dollar ... Read more

Larry Ellison is the second richest person in the world. The Oracle co-founder net worth is about $380 billion following a 36% surge in Oracle shares. He has made big moves into big media. Big Media is relevant for political influence but also for data and reach that is useful for winning in AI. Paramount ... Read more

SpaceX submitted FCC filing SAT-LOA-20250916-00282 on September 16, 2025, requesting authorization for up to 15,000 additional low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites dedicated to enhancing its Direct-to-Cell (DTC) Starlink service. This filing builds on prior approvals for ~29,988 broadband-focused satellites and leverages spectrum acquired from EchoStar in a $17 billion deal, enabling hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks for ubiquitous ... Read more

xAI will raise $10 billion in a $200 billion valuation funding round according CNBC co-anchor David Faber. The fundraise follows a $5 billion debt raise. A $200 billion valuation would bring xAI above Anthropic's $183 billion valuation secured this month. OpenAI raised at $300 billion and is looking at a new $500 billion valuation round. ... Read more

Here is a comparison of Ariane's Themis prototype in 2025 and SpaceX's Grasshopper tests (2012-2013) and the early Falcon 9 reusability program (2013-2016). Ariane is 13 years behind SpaceX. SpaceX had low-risk suborbital hops on Grasshopper. Had more advanced F9R Dev vehicle in 2014 and then landed boosters after commercial payloads were sent to orbit. ... Read more

The Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship was a day late because of a software issues that caused thruster problems. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship caught up and docked with th International Space Station early Thursday. Northrop Grumman engineers adjusted the sensitivity of main engine fault detection software that prematurely triggered shut downs during ... Read more

SpaceX has an environmental Assessment (EA) filing with the FAA, dated September 2025, does not specify an exact or even approximate launch date for Starship Flight 11 (also referred to as Integrated Flight Test 11 or IFT-11). It focuses primarily on environmental reviews for airspace closure updates to support additional orbital launch trajectories and Starship ... Read more

New York, New York, 19th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk has just confirmed that Money is working internally and will start extending to outside beta users soon. Money is a digital payment service providing peer-to-peer transfers, a wallet for storing funds, and Visa integration for bank/debit card connections. It may add crypto and investment features later. Currently in internal beta, expanding ... Read more

Tesla has a new 2025 annual report. Tesla delivered their 8 millionth vehicle, deployed more than 37 GWh of energy storage from Q3 2024 through the end of Q2 2025 and launched the new Model Y in four factories across three continents. They launched their first Robotaxis in the streets of Austin, Texas, and, in ... Read more

Fertility rates have plummeted even in historically high-fertility, lower-income contexts like India and Bangladesh. The fertility replacement level is roughly 2.1 children per woman. This means each women becomes a mother and has at least one daughter who can also have children. The birth rate in South Korea and some countries is at 0.8-1.2. This ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 18th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

A great day for Tesla shares that could continue tomorrow in a short march to all time highs over $488. Tesla shares surge to $428 in after-hours, and could trigger a green light for swing traders targeting $440, then all-time highs. A series of Fed Rate Cuts will be a wind behind Tesla and the ... Read more

IVO Quantum drive has no measured thrust yet, but the Quantum Drive is fully operational in spac.! It has passed its testing phase with flying colors. Congratulations to the @ivo_ltd team for successfully producing space hardware that survived launch & 6 months in space! Now the fun can begin. Remember that the goal of this ... Read more

XAI Colossus II is the world's first Gigawatt AI training cluster. The picture is an aerial view of the gigawatt data center. xAI's Colossus 2 represents a monumental leap in AI infrastructure, designed as the world's first gigawatt-scale AI training supercluster. Built as an expansion of the original Colossus 1 (which currently operates 230,000 GPUs, ... Read more

Waltham, United States, 17th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Figure AI makes humanoid robots and they have raised $1 billion where the company is valued at $39 billion. Figure's CEO, Brad Adcock, dropped the news at a TED Talk. This $1 billion funding (Series C round) comes from heavy hitters like Nvidia, Salesforce, T-Mobile and Intel. Even Brookfield, a giant in global infrastructure, invested. ... Read more

Newark, New Jersey, United States, 16th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Las Vegas, United States, 16th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk's surprise $1 billion open-market purchase of Tesla stock on Friday - his first in over five years - is more than a bullish flex. This is a neon sign flashing the future is here, and it's accelerating. If hisgory repeats his February 2020 buy preceded an 8x stock surge. Is the nextTesla's next ... Read more

SpaceX Raptor 3 rocket engine had it first hot-fire in August 2024 and entered scaled production by early 2025. It has 280 tonnes-force (tf) sea-level thrust, 350-second specific impulse (Isp), and a dry mass under 1,525 kg. It has nearly double the thrust-to-weight of Raptor 2 at a fraction of the complexity (no external heat ... Read more

SpaceX has a new heatshield solution that is called the crunchwrap. ChromeKiwi has some graphics that explain it. SpaceX has decided they need to seal the tiles. Metal heat shield tiles had heavy oxidation seen after re entry with most of the ship turning external tank orange. Flight 11 will see a complete thermal protection ... Read more

SpaceX booster 15 will be the last Block 2 Super Heavy booster to fly. It rolled out 10 days after Flight 10. It had a static fire and future tests shift to Pad 2 for Block 3 boosters. SpaceX plans to upgrade Pad 1's flame trench to match Pad 2's design. This will end use ... Read more

There is some profit taking in Tesla shares after surging to $420-428. It has pulled back to $404, but things are still very positive with Elon Musk buying $1 billion in Tesla. I have a video that explains what this means and why Elon Musk bought those shares now. I feel very good about my ... Read more

Elon Musk bought 2 million shares of Tesla in a bold show of confidence in Tesla. This supports my thesis and video from the other day.

The US has about 500 million guns. Trying to get them back on mass in forceful way will fail like prohibition against alcohol failed. Attempted mass disarmings that were resisted have shown to result in many deaths. Attempting to disarm tens of millions who resist would result in millions of deaths and still it would ... Read more

Next level drones fleets will be a significant part of securing cities and events against assassination and enhancing regular policing. There needs to be balance of effective nuanced safety while embedding technical, societal and institutional controls to avoid dystopia. This will need to calibrated via annual referendums and citizen involvement in oversight, transparency and communication. ... Read more

The killing of the United Healthcare CEO, assassination of Charlie Kirk and attempted assassination of Trump and many other incidents indicate that companies must step up security expenditures for CEOs and top executives and celebrities must be increased. Tesla only spends about $3.3 million on security for Elon Musk who has received thousands of death ... Read more

Tesla AI5 will be produced by TSMC starting in 2026. There will be Estimated volumes of 10-20% of relevant TSMC wafers, yielding 50-100 chips per wafer. AI6, will use Samsung's facilities in Texas, potentially allowing 50-80% (or near 100%) dedication, enabling 5x or more chips than TSMC. Redlich's analysis involves estimating tokens (AI processing units) ... Read more

Cern Basher is wealth manager of billions and he explains capitalization. At its core, capitalization is the process of transforming everyday human activities-often free, informal, or unmonetized-into structured, scalable businesses that generate recurring revenue, attract investment, and build massive shareholder value. It is not just about creating a product. It is about value capture of ... Read more

We predicted the X Phone months ago-and now Elon's confirmed it. With AI inference on every device and 3B customers by 2030. This won't just be a phone. It is the end of telecom as we know it. Totally worldchanging within 5 years. The $17B EchoStar deal involves AWS-4 spectrum (H-block/S-band), enabling high-bandwidth satellite-to-phone globally. ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 11th September 2025, CyberNewsWire

Tesla News Wednesday Show opens with somber reflections on the tragic assassination of conservative media figure Charlie Kirk at age 31, described as a bridge-builder in politics who influenced young audiences and aligned with Trump. Hosts express condolences from figures like Elon Musk, Trump, and Vance, note flags at half-staff. Tesla/TSLA: Stock flirted with $355 ... Read more

NASA says that the evidence found by Mars Perserverence is confirmed as signs of ancient life on Mars. They found the evidence a year ago and they had teams investigate. The report is that this is the clearest sign of ancient life and ancient life fossils is the most likely explanation. G-band confirms the poppy ... Read more