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NVIDIA shares fell ~4-5% in after-hours trading erasing some pre-earnings gains despite the overall beat. This reaction stems from a mix of high market expectations, subtle misses, and broader concerns. Slight Miss on Key Segment: Data Center revenue ($41.1B) came in just below estimates (~$41.2-41.3B), which is the core driver of NVIDIA's growth. At NVIDIA's ... Read more

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet's known satellite family to 29. The detection was made during a Webb observation Feb. 2, 2025. The newly discovered moon is estimated to be just six miles (10 kilometers) in ... Read more

China (via SCMP - South China Morning Post) is developing a carrier plane that will launch shorter range hypersonic drones. The planes would likely be subsonic but would launch the drones that will eventually be able to go over mach 5. China is looking at scissor wing technology (which the US examined in the 1970s) ... Read more

3I/ATLAS is just the third-ever interstellar object confirmed to be from outside the solar system and which we have telescopes to observe in detail 3I/Atlas is by far the largest and it if known to come from the core of Milky Way so it is the oldest comet ever found. The other two interstellar intruders ... Read more

Now that there has been a successful Flight 10 of Starship. There will be the start of using version 3 Starship in flight 12. Fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test as much as they can in the single Starship launches as previously discussed by NASA. ... Read more

SpaceX had a very successful Flight 10 of Starship. They will have one more flight of the Version 2 Starship and booster. They had a successful engine relight and soft landing of Starship in flight 10. They wanted to prove engine relights of Starship before going to real orbit. They went sub-orbital so that STasrhip ... Read more

SpaceX Starship test launch 10 was successful on Tuesday. This launch is transformational for SpaceX. Dummy Version 3 Starlink satellites were successfully deployed. They can start launching real Starlink version 3 satellites with the next launch in September or October. All other rockets just deploy payload and lose the rockets. Starship deploying payload and expending ... Read more

SpaceX scrubbed the Starship 10 launch attempt on Sunday for a liquid oxygen leak and Monday for weather. They will try again today in about 1 minutes. Weather was green as of 1 minutes. Range is green too. There has been a good launch. There was an engine out in the booster in the middle ... Read more

The DARPA Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred. ... Read more

Transitioning to mass production of ^2Si-based spin qubit chips involves leveraging existing semiconductor infrastructure (e.g., CMOS fabs from Intel or TSMC) while addressing isotope-specific challenges. Mass production at consumer electronics levels would require capacities in the hundreds of kg to tons annually of enriched Silicon 28. Production needs to be scaled up by at least ... Read more

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon-based quantum processors to make future quantum computers more affordable, scalable, and sustainable. SemiQon has achieved new milestones in addressing the core challenges with scalability of quantum computers. Using its ultra-low-power cryogenic CMOS, SemiQon has now been able ... Read more

Silver Spring, USA / Maryland, 26th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages diffraction to cancel out normal photonic pressure components, allowing thrust to align along the ribbon's length when oriented at a tilt to incoming sunlight. ... Read more

Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories like the Habitable Worlds Observer or ground-based observatories, have the potential to increase our observational capability without launching ever increasing telescope apertures. Construction of these starshades with the necessary low mass, stability, precision, launch volume, and size (>100m for some missions) remains a challenge, since loading can be significant ... Read more

Official SpaceX Starship ten launch was scrubbed for weather on Monday. UPDATE : 23 Minutes from the Tuesday launch attempt. Elon Musk says anyone can come and visit the rocket. There is a public highway that is very close. You cannot come close during a launch but at other times. SpaceX will be building the ... Read more

SpaceX Starship test launch 10 was delayed from yesterday to today. They had an liquid oxygen leak that could not be repaired in the 60 minute launch window. The new launch attempt is about 4 hours from now. This launch could be transformational for SpaceX. If they can deploy dummy Version 3 Starlink satellites, then ... Read more

NASA proposes to pioneer a radically new approach to mitigating radiation-induced cell damage in astronauts by transplanting new undamaged mitochondria (critical radiation-sensitive cell organelles) isolated from each individual pre-exposure. Replacing mitochondria could fix radiation damage and it can fix aging damage. This would help against cardiovascular disease and Alzheimers. There are early voluntary trials of ... Read more

Newark, United States, 25th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Dover, DE, United States, 25th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Musk announced that xAI's Colossus 2 will be the world's first gigawatt-plus AI training supercomputer and this will be used to start training XAI Grok 5 next month (September 2025). Elon says Colossus 2 has a non-trivial chance of achieving AGI. He says xAI is close to having all the pieces in place for AGI. ... Read more

Nick Bostrom discussing his new book *Deep Utopia* (2024), which builds on his earlier work *Superintelligence* (2014). He explores a post-singularity future where superintelligence solves humanity's major challenges like disease, scarcity, and mortality. Bostrom outlines optimistic scenarios, potential pitfalls, and broader philosophical implications. The discussion covers AI alignment, governance, moral considerations for digital minds, cosmic ... Read more

XAI Grok 1 launched in November 2023 using rented Oracle GPUs, but xAI shifted to in-house builds due to compute shortages. Colossus 1 in Memphis: Built in a former Electrolux factory, it reached 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in 122 days (May 3 to September 2, 2024). It expanded to 230,000 GPUs (including H200s and GB200s) ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 10 was scrubbed on Sunday. UPDATE: The new launch is for Monday and should launch in about 4 hours. SpaceX is standing down from today's tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems. The launch window for Booster 16 and Ship 37 opens at 6:30PM CT local ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 10 should launch today and they will try again to deploy dummy versions of Starlink Version 3 satellites. This could open up 5 times better cost to orbit even if the booster and the upper stage get lost after each payload is deployed. UPDATE: Live launch coverage will start in about two hours ... Read more

NASA NIAC has funded studying the development of a constellation of spacecraft powered by the Helicity Drive, a compact and scalable fusion propulsion system. In April 2, 2024 - Helicity Space had an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin. This was after a $5 million seed round of Helicity ... Read more

NASA NIAC is developing X-ray imaging in crucial wavelengths that will be a million times better for observing key aspects of a super massive black hole. We still know very little about giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). After 30 years of study, we don't know precisely how these objects produce their power. This requires observations ... Read more

The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) projecst that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 20252035 period. This will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 ... Read more

As of August 2025, no truck maker or startup has deployed autonomous platooning of semi trucks where the following trucks operate without any human drivers at any location. Platooning will have no drivers in the trucks following a lead truck. Drivers in a convoy will share the driving of the lead truck. This can increase ... Read more

On August 22, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will remove many of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA, also known as USMCA), effective September 1. This affects over 85% of bilateral trade, exempting it from tariffs, and is intended to de-escalate tensions and intensify negotiations for ... Read more

The tenth test flight of SpaceX Starship is scheduled for Sunday, August 24, with the launch window opening at 6:30 p.m. CT. The booster on this flight test is attempting several flight experiments to gather real-world performance data on future flight profiles and off-nominal scenarios. The Super Heavy booster will attempt these experiments while on ... Read more

There is an intermediate step before fully automated self-driving (FSD) trucking and that is automated truck platooning, where multiple Tesla Semi trucks follow a lead vehicle with only one driver for a whole fleet. This is enabled by advanced FSD software available in 2025. This would be significant scale starting in late 2026, leveraging Tesla's ... Read more

xAI added Grok 4 powered vending machine in its office, in partnership with Andon Labs. XAI Grok 4 beat OpenAI GPT-5 in real world vending machine operation This shows Grok 4's long-term coherence syccess. Managing a long running business scenario in this case would include balance inventories, place orders, set prices, and handle daily fees ... Read more

Brian and Cern Basher had a deep dives into why Tesla robo-trucking (autonomous electric semis) may be an even bigger profit driver than robo-taxis: Cern adapted his robotaxi financial models for trucking. Tesla's robo-trucks are overlooked but could be as big or bigger than robo-taxis in revenue, profit, and market value. Profitability Comparison: $40k Tesla ... Read more

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 20th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

Tesla has applied to get government support for a series of 9 megacharging stations from California to Texas. Tesla-Owned or Operated Megacharging Installations These are primarily at Tesla's Gigafactories for testing and production support: Giga Nevada (Sparks, NV): Early Megachargers installed as far back as 2021 for Semi prototyping and testing. Expanded for ongoing operations. ... Read more

There is a 119 page report of the Run on Less Electric depot 2023 event. Tesla Semi operated by Pepsi had 1600 miles driven over 2 days in 2023 in real world tests with Pepsi and several 1000+ mile days in 24 hours. In the 2 years after, Tesla and Pepsi have improved megacharging and ... Read more

Everyone is 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 solid progress in Austin and FSD 14 will be released in September with 10X the parameters. Test pilot production has started for Tesla Semi as the factory in Nevada ... Read more

Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, talks about the AI hardware landscape, GPT-5, business models, and the future of AI infrastructure with A16z Venture partners. Dylan covers Nvidia's dominance, reactions to OpenAI's GPT-5, monetization strategies, and threats from custom silicon. Nvidia has unassailable advantages in AI hardware: superior networking, high-performance memory (HBM), process nodes, time-to-market, ramp-up ... Read more

Tesla will be achieving huge milestones over the next 60 days with autonomy and getting back on track with car production and deliveries. They will release FSD 14 with ten times the parameters which should increase the miles to intervention by about four times. The Tesla robotaxi service in Austin and ridesharing service in the ... Read more

Andrew Duggleby, co-founder and CTO of Venus Aerospace, discusses their groundbreaking propulsion technology. They have a ramjet integrated with a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) which they call the Venus Detonation Ramjet (VDR2). This will enable hypersonic flight (up to Mach 6-10) from conventional runways, with emphasis on efficiency, challenges, and innovations. It could also ... Read more

Professor Zhang Zhiqian revealed a plan for a Pregnancy Robot in 2026. He has developing pregnancy robots for over 2 years after establishing a corporation in Hong Kong. I don't believe this has been done. He cites work for premature babies and premature animals. The ethical path to an artificial womb and pregnancy robot would ... Read more

Grok 4 had lower lmarena scores than I had projected based upon the amount AI training compute used. I had projections for Grok 3.5 which was renamed Grok 4. We do not have elo lmarena score for Grok 4 heavy. My old projection had assumed what will now be called Grok 5 was called Grok ... Read more

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light speed or more. Scientists at DESY now report some of the first signs that PWA (Plasma Wakefield Accelerators) is ready to compete with traditional ... Read more

Jim Bickford is leading the Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER) project to develop a system for propelling a craft through space faster and farther than ever before. This technology has the potential to enable speeds of 0.5% of light speed and near term capability for 0.1% of light speed. This would be ten ... Read more

NASA NIAC funded the Thin-Film Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER). By May 2025, it advanced to Phase II, focusing on maturing the technology, mission designs, small-scale thruster experiments, and isotope production pathways in collaboration with Northwestern University, Yale University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for hybrid architectures. A single stage ... Read more

John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE's (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would enable any telescope to observe exoplanets, a top priority for astronomy worldwide. Compared with other starshade concepts, they aim for a lower mass, cost ... Read more

The resurgence of nuclear energy is driven by the massive power demands of AI data centers. Needing 150 GW annually by 2030 with a 100 GW gap by 2028. This means adding all of the current power of the USA and Europe in the 2030s. Covering the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) initiative to fast-track ... Read more

As of August 16, 2025, there are 16 companies in the top 50 most valuable (by market capitalization) that are not headquartered or predominantly in the United States. This includes Saudi Aramco, TSMC, Tencent, Alibaba and Mitsubishi. China has 5 in the top 50. Europe has 7. SpaceX has a valuation of $400 billion. OpenAI ... Read more

As of mid-2025, the US economy remains the world's largest by nominal GDP, valued at approximately $30.5 trillion, compared to China's $19.2 trillion-making the US economy about 1.59 times larger. China's economy leads in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. China continues to have more GDP growth than the USA. China has stimulus measures, export strength, ... Read more

CATL has three groundbreaking EV batteries but the most important is Sodium ion batteries that could lower the cost of batteries. Chinese engineers at CATL have begun mass-producing sodium-ion cells at their new 30GWh facility in Fujian province. Chery and BYD will start using them in a few months. CATL's first-gen sodium batteries already power ... Read more