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Highlights of Google IO 2025
Google showcased the Gemini 2.5 PRO model at Google IO 2025. They previously released beta versions of GEmini2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash. They released new versions today and will be releasing final versions next month. Gemini 2.5 Pro is able to correct mistaken human analysis of videos. The models are the top two models ... Read more
Buy Now Pay Later Klarna Funding Customer Payment Plans for TVs and AirPods
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna has 100 million active customers and $92 million in pretax losses for Q1 2025. The Swedish FinTech revealed that milestone Monday (May 19) as it released its quarterly earnings, which showed revenues up 15%, reaching $701 million. Klarna $92 million pretax loss for the first quarter, up from ... Read more
World’s First Petahertz-speed Phototransistor at Room Temperature
Researchers demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons in graphene using pulses of light that last less than one thousands trillionth (one quadrillionth) of a second. By leveraging a quantum effect known as tunneling, they recorded electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously, a feat that redefines the potential limits of computer processing power. A study ... Read more
Elon Says No Safety Drivers for Austin Tesla Robotaxi Next Month and Maybe a Million Robotaxi in the US by End of 2026
Elon says there will be no safety drivers in the cars for the Austin launch of Tesla Robotaxi launch next month. There will be ten initially and if there are no incidents rapidly get to 30-40 in a week and few thousand within a few months. They will expand to other cities like San Francisco ... Read more
First Flight of Venus Aerospace BREAKTHROUGH Rotating Detonating Engine
Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)-a next-gen propulsion technology that's been theorized for decades, but never flown... until now. The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) changes everything, and Venus is the first venture-backed aerospace company to bring the RDRE from concept to commercialization. RDREs are a ... Read more
FCC Asked to Give Spectrum to Allow SpaceX Starlink to Make a Vastly Better GPS
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX said SpaceX Starlink satellites can be a next-generation Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solution. Next-generation satellite services can dramatically improve American PNT resilience. Satellite-based PNT systems have long been unrivaled in their relatively low-cost ability to deliver ubiquitous PNT data to end users globally, as ... Read more
Microsoft Will Use XAI Grok 3 and Soon Grok 3.5 on Azure and Not Just OpenAI
Azure provides access to a broad ecosystem of LLMs from multiple providers. Microsoft Azure is adding XAI Grok 3.5. The new XAI Grok 3.5 is available on X, Telegram and Microsoft. Here is the full conversation today between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and @elonmusk. Elon: "With Grok 3.5, which is about to be released, it's ... Read more
Luminar CEO Resignation Possibly Related to Rober Tesla Video
Founder Austin Russell has resigned as CEO and Chairman of the Board following a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Inquiry by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors". Youtuber Mark Rober used Luminar LIDAR in a hit piece on Tesla FSD. The video only used Tesla driver assist Autopilot and not the newest ... Read more
Tesla Robotaxi, Optimus and Dojo 2 Updates
Robotaxi softer launch than I would have hoped but hitting the June and ideally June 1 will still be good. Invite instead of going supervised and unsupervised. Dojo 2 getting to volume slipped from late 2025 (what Elon had said at All in Summit), but if they can hit 10X compute and cheaper even with ... Read more
Tesla TERAWATT Goal is Masterplan 4
Tesla Master plan 3 targeted a global installation of 30 terawatts (TW) of renewable energy capacity, primarily from solar and wind. This is a monumental scale-up aimed at meeting all energy needs across electricity, transportation, and heating. It involved extensive Battery Storage: It proposes 240 terawatt-hours (TWh) of battery storage worldwide to ensure consistent energy ... Read more
TSMC 2025 Technical Symposium Has Roadmap to 2028 and A14 (1.4 nanometer) Node
TSMC's roadmap has been extended to 2028, with new technologies like N3C and A14 being introduced. TSMC presented the new roadmap at the 2025 Technical Symposium. TSMC is forecasting building 2.5 million chips for humanoid robots and about 2.5 million chips for robotaxi around 2030. TSMC projects that humanoid robots and robotaxi will reach reach ... Read more
SpaceX Starship Will Enable Megawatts of Space Based Solar by 2030 and Gigawatts by 2040
Virtus Solis wants to group satellites into massive arrays-100,000 satellites for 100MW-allowing for a highly scalable energy platform. Arrays can grow to 20 Gigawatt or more. Virtus Solis and Silicon Valley startup Orbital Composites are preparing to begin robotic assembly of hexagonal photovoltaic tiles - essentially solar panels - in a medium Earth Molniya orbit ... Read more
AI Powered Creativity Advice Ask AI How You Should Use AI
Stanford's Jeremy Utley reveals that most people are not fully utilizing AI's potential." Why is that? He explains that it lies in how we approach AI. He said a simple mindset shift could be what you've been missing in the AI revolution. He wrote the book Ideaflow. Ask AI what it needs to know about ... Read more
AI Chips Are All of the AI Profits. How Does Tesla Win AI Chips?
AI Chips are everything. Nvidia is worth about $3 Trillion because of chip profits. Tesla Scaling Robotaxi and Teslabot means getting millions of AI5 inference chips profitably deployed into the world. Creating and having the most profitable AI businesses is the next goal for AI. Using the chips for maximum profit and maximum impact. How ... Read more
Logicube’s Falcon®-NEO2 Forensic Imager Achieves Project VIC Validation; Now VICS Data Compliant
Chatsworth, United States, 14th May 2025, CyberNewsWire
Tesla Model Y 1.5 Mile Drive Without Human Driver in Texas
All of the new Tesla cars made in Texas drive 1.5 miles on public roads from the GigaTexas factory to a loading area. Hundreds of new Tesla make this drive every day and over a thousand new Tesla make a shorter 1 mile drive in Fremont California. This is evidence that Tesla is ready for ... Read more
US-China Trade Deal – China Lowered Tariffs 11.2% and US Increased 9.2%
On Jan. 1, 2025, tariffs were only 20.8%. When President Trump ended his first term, tariffs were 19.3% against Chinese goods. At the beginning of the year, China tariffs on US goods were 21.2%, 0.4% higher than U.S. tariffs. When Trump ended his first term, Chinese tariffs against the U.S. were 21.2%, 1.9% higher than ... Read more
INE Security Alert: Continuous CVE Practice Closes Critical Gap Between Vulnerability Alerts and Effective Defense
Cary, North Carolina, 14th May 2025, CyberNewsWire
Musk Predicts Tens of Billions of Humanoid Robots and ASAP Terawatt in XAI AI Data Center
Elon Musk was in Saudi Arabia where he predicted tens of billions of humanoid bots. Saudi Arabia and Elon Musk are verbally discussing having Tesla robotaxi and humanoid bots in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia signed up for Starlink Service. There is also talk about Boring Company for Tunnels. Elon also posted that he is thinking ... Read more
SpaceX Starship About Nine Days From Next Launch
SpaceX Starship flight 9 could launch as soon as Wednesday, May 21 based upon a Coast Guard notice. SpaceX has just performed another static fire test of Flight 9 Starship (Ship 35). It appears nominal based on visuals, pending official confirmation. LFG Flight 9! pic.twitter.com/vdYMKbIctZ - Space Sudoer (@spacesudoer) May 12, 2025 Update: Starship test ... Read more
Tariff down to 30 percent for China and China reduces tariff to 10 percent, Great News for Tesla Just Starting
The announcement is that US Tariffs are down to 30 percent for China and China reduces tariff to 10 percent for the US. The positive China-US trade news is being viewed as great news for Tesla. This is just the start for Tesla with the robotaxi release in about 20 days and the new lower ... Read more
OpenAI Stargate Phase 1 Construction of 200 Megawatts and 980,000 Square Feet
The flagship site for the OpenAI Stargate data center project is currently under construction in Abilene, Texas. The initial phase includes two buildings totaling 980,000 square feet and over 200 MW of power capacity. This phase is slated to be energized in the first half of 2025, setting the stage for subsequent GPU installations. big. ... Read more
China Satellite Laser Ranges Out to the Moons Orbit
A China research team on Sunday successfully captured the laser return signal from the retroreflector of the Tiandu-1 satellite, which is approximately 130,000 km away from the Earth, using the newly upgraded near-infrared lunar laser ranging system of an 1.2-meter telescope. This is the world's first daytime satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space, marking ... Read more
Tesla Will Start Scaling to Millions of Robotaxi in the Next 12 Months Starting in 22 Days
Barrons news cites a Tesla Robotaxi essay by xTesla Engineer Frank Yashar. Frank Yashar, a former Tesla engineer, starts his essay by comparing SpaceX to the traditional satellite industry. SpaceX now has more than 7,000 low-cost satellites orbiting the Earth, providing high-speed Wi-Fi speed service to over 5 million customers. The traditional satellite industry didn't ... Read more
Strategic Importance of Tesla Dojo Chips and 4680 Batteries
Tesla and Elon continue to develop 4680 batteries, AI4 and AI5 inference chips and Tesla Dojo chips. I have projected that Tesla could get trillions in value from cracking making Dojo chips being broadly useful for xAI for large language model training. 4680 development work continues despite issues scaling towards the original 100 GWh per ... Read more
Nvidia James Fan Proposes Physical Turing Test
Nvidia researcher James Fan proposes physical Turing test for robots. The robots do not have to be humanoid robots but he wants the bots to go into a very, very messy room and clean it up and prepare a meal for two and set the table. There would be a prepared clean room, the meal ... Read more
Prediction that Tesla Launches Supervised and Unsupervised Ridesharing in June in Austin
Tesla just added full Robotaxi functionality in the latest app update-quietly prepping for launch next month. There is the need for Tesla to launch Supervised and unsupervised ridesharing in June in Austin. The launch of supervised and unsupervised is not really a choice. Tesla plans to start day one with 10-20 unsupervised vehicles. The issue ... Read more
How is Tesla Solving Battery Supply Problems ?
The tariff barriers make it uneconomic to import batteries from China. China has been the main supplier of Tesla Megapack, stationary energy storage batteries. Tesla has enough US and non-China battery supply for cars. Tesla needs to get more batteries for megapacks in the USA. Tesla will be able to use China batteries for the ... Read more
Will Google Release Gemini 3 or Gemini Ultra at Google IO in 2 Weeks?
Google has been releasing many Gemini 2.0 and Gemini 2.5 model variants. There is the new Gemini Flash image model. The flurry of releases is before Google IO later this month. Usually Google saves up its biggest releases for its Google IO event. This leads to speculation that Google will release a Google Ultra or ... Read more
SpyCloud Analysis Reveals 94% of Fortune 50 Companies Have Employee Data Exposed in Phishing Attacks
Austin, USA / Texas, 7th May 2025, CyberNewsWire
Global AI Data Centers Keep Growing Despite Adjustments From Amazon and Microsoft
AWS and Microsoft are pausing or slowing down the development of data centers, according to a Wells Fargo research note. Several industry sources told Wells Fargo's analysts team that AWS has paused a portion of its leading discussions" on colocated data centers. Microsoft capex for the quarter came in at $21.4bn this was $1.2 billion ... Read more
Trump Says Houthis Have Given Up and There is a Ceasefire
President Donald Trump says the Houthis have announced to the USA last night that they no longer want to fight. There is a ceasefire for now between the US and Yemen. The US will stop or pause bombing in Yemen as this plays out. The US stepped up air strikes on the Houthis in March ... Read more
US Navy F-18 Jets Lost to Friendly Fire and Other Problems While Fighting Houthi
In December, 2024, the US lost an F-18 jet (but the pilots ditched and were recovered) to a friendly fire incident. The Navy F-18 were launched from a US aircraft carrier and were fighting Houthi drones from Yemen. In April 2025, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter fell off the side of the aircraft ... Read more
Cerebras WSE3 Versus Nvidia B200
Cerebras Systems is adding six new AI data centers in North America and Europe. This will increase inference capacity to over 40 million tokens per second. The new facilities will be established in Dallas, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Montreal, New York, and France, with 85% of the total capacity based in the United States. According to ... Read more
1+ Million Times Better AI in 4 Years and AI Agents Today Will Connect to All SAAS Applications
China's Manus AI is showing an excellent demo of agent capabilities. You can toggle between four applications (Search, browser, coterminal and document editor). David Sacks says AI agents will be connect to all of hour SAAS (Software As A Service) applications. Agents will interact with dozens of apps. There is a new Agent standard called ... Read more
SpaceX Starship 35 Static Fire Anomaly
There is a bit more description about the SpaceX Starship 35 Static fire anomaly. There was second planned 60 second static fire but it was aborted after a flash. The static fire was stopped after 25 seconds. The problem might be related to the problems of the seventh and eighth Starship launches.
NASA and Other Federal Budget Overruns
What is the history of NASA and some Federal Budget overruns? The Space Shuttle, ISS, SLS, and Constellation programs all experienced significant delays (2-7+ years) and budget overruns (billions). NASA has tried to pivot to fixed-price contracts since 2006 contrasts with the DoD's continued reliance on cost-plus for complex procurements, though fixed-price use occurs in ... Read more
Ukraine Navy Drone Shoots Down Russian SU-30 Fighter Jet
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel armed with an R-73 air-to-air missile shot down a Russian Su-30 naval fighter roughly 50 km west of Novorossiysk. This is the first time in history that a military aircraft has been downed by an unmanned Navy drone ship.
Tesla Robotaxi is Approved for All of Texas
In 2017, Texas passed a bill that gives the state of Texas control of who and how is companies can operate robotaxi. On June 1, 2025, Tesla will start operating 10-20 Model Y as paid unsupervised robotaxi. This means that Tesla is also already permitted to operate robotaxi anywhere in Texas. Tesla could expand to ... Read more
$7 Billion Per Year in Near Useless NASA Waste Could be Cut
NASA is asked to take a 25 percent cut in its budget, from about $25 billion to $18.8 billion. The budget would cancel the Lunar Gateway that NASA has started developing and end the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft after two more flights, Artemis II and Artemis III. The Space Launch System and ... Read more
Banned Performance Enhancing Shoes
In 2025, some banned running shoes, particularly those with multiple carbon plates or excessive midsole height, could potentially provide a 2-4% performance enhancement compared to standard running shoes. These shoes, often exceeding the 40mm midsole height limit set by World Athletics, have been shown to improve running economy and speed. Studies show potential improvements of ... Read more
First Mass Produced Hip Motion Outdoor Exoskeleton
There is a $999 hip motion assistance exoskeleton. It does not majorly help increase speed and performance. It does reduce fatigue and effort so that it can make staying active easier for many people. Combining state-of-the-art robotics, ergonomics, and AI into a compact form, Hypershell X enables you to go further and explore more.
SpaceX Completed New Flame Trench at Starbase
SpaceX completed its new flame trench last week ahead of recent new static fire tests. They installed a massive set of flame diverter pipes. SpaceX is using more powerful Raptor engines which will increase the thrust to about 9400 tons of thrust. This will be nearly three times as powerful as the Saturn V rocket.
SpaceX Starship Had Extra Flame Flash During Static Fire
SpaceX Starship had a significant flash and a change of color of the fire coming out of the trench. The Starship appears undamaged.
Planet Nine Candidate from IRAS and AKARI Data
Researchers for objects that moved slowly between IRAS and AKARI detections. IRAS and AKARI are far-infrared, all-sky surveys completed 23 years apart. They looked in the Kuiper belt. They produced all possible candidate pairs including one IRAS source and one AKARI source whose angular separations were limited between 42' and 69.6', corresponding to the heliocentric ... Read more
Can Tesla DOJO Chips Pass Nvidia GPUs?
Nvidia will make 5 million B200/B300 which are the leading edge AI GPU chips. They could make about 10 million advanced next generation chips each year in about 2028. Tesla Dojo 1 chips have small installed volume but Doge 2 and Doge 3 could surge in usage and production. Dojo chips are and will be ... Read more
Alberta Could Hold Independence Referendum Late in 2025 – Become an Energy Superpower
The Alberta Premier has made it easier for citizens to collect enough signatures to put the question of Alberta Independence to a vote. Polling has indicated about 30% support for Alberta independence but polling may not be accurate. Collecting the signatures to have a vote should be relatively easy. The hard part will be actually ... Read more
Tesla AI Playfully Announces June 1st, 2025 Start of Austin Robotaxi
Tesla AI has chosen to playfully announce that June 1st, 2025 is the start date for the Austin Robotaxi service. https://t.co/CZRxR67l18 - Tesla AI (@Tesla_AI) May 1, 2025 At the earnings call they said they would start the first day with 10-20 Model Ys with FSD operating as unsupervised robotaxi that offer paid rides. Operating ... Read more
Google Remains a Powerful Money Printer
Alphabet (google) reported revenue of $90.23 billion and earnings per share of $2.81. Shares rose as much as 4% on stronger-than-expected revenue growth. Revenue: $90.23 billion vs. $89.12 billion expected Earnings per share: $2.81 vs. $2.01 expected YouTube advertising revenue: $8.93 billion vs. $8.97 billion. Google Cloud revenue: $12.26 billion vs. $12.27 billion. Traffic acquisition ... Read more
Dojo 2 and 3 Chips and AI5 Chips Are Critical for Tesla and Battle for Future of AI
Tesla DOJO 2, DOJO 3 and AI5 chips are critical for Tesla to become an AI hardware company. XAI and Tesla will buy create and build millions of these chips into their data centers and the Tesla products. XAI and Tesla are buying 1 million Nvidia B200/B300 chips over the 14 months from February, 2025 ... Read more
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