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Information from someone who lives and works in the area, online transcripts from the public meetings and public reports, Grok 3 analysis (based upon my giving it my view of the context to get to first megapack production at the new megapack factory in Texas gives this 9 month timeline. - 8-10 month timeline likely ... Read more

Cern Basher and Ark Invest provides some analysis and tracking of the rapidly improving quality of Tesla FSD and robotaxi. Tesla is will soon pass the 6 billion miles of driving data which Elon said in 2016 would be needed for robotaxi that is both safe enough and provably safe for regulators. Tesla is on ... Read more

Starship's V2 redesign suffered almost exactly the same failure on flight 8 as it did on flight 7, fire in the engine bay leading to engine failure and RUD. There is alot more video of the inside and outside of the spacecraft. SpaceX has more video and sensors to analyze what happened. Starship tumbled out ... Read more

NVIDIA's chip roadmap progresses from the B200, part of the Blackwell architecture, to the Rubin architecture, with hints of potential ultra" chips or new architectures in the future. The next generation Nvidia Rubin chip is expected late in 2025 and their should be an Ultra variant of the Blackwell chip. At the late 2024 All ... Read more

A step-by-step analysis and projection of the xAI's Colossus supercomputer project. Memphis development and xAI have talked about a 1+ million chip supercluster at the site. Considering AI rack density power, internal power allocation for 1 million chips, potential for expansion beyond to 2-3 million GPUS and a likely project timeline for 2025-2027. Industry norms ... Read more

In 2025, xAI has bought a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI Data Centers which already has 200,000 Nvidia H100/H200 chips. The new facility will complement xAI's existing operations and support the company's growing presence in Memphis, with the Colossus supercomputer well on the path to the supercluster size. Greater Memphis Chamber ... Read more

Information from someone who lives and works in the area, online transcripts from the public meetings and public reports, Grok 3 analysis (based upon my giving it my view of the context to get to first megapack production at the new megapack factory in Texas gives this 6 month timeline. - 6 month timeline likely ... Read more

Looking at the top 5 humanoid bot companies scaling to thousands and even millions of humanoid robots in the next 4 years. Tesla Optimius Figure AI with Figure 2 and Figure 3 Apptronik 1X Technologies Agility Robotics The tech and AI gianta behind them from the startups or from XAI, OpenAI, Google, Amazon. Tesla Optimus ... Read more

Join Curt Jaimungal talks to Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes and Scott Aaronson. Jacob Barandes claims quantum mechanics can be reformulated without wave functions. Barandes has a new formulation of quantum mechanics which is considered a serious proposal by Scott Aaronson. Quantum computer theoretician Scott Aaronson gives his perspective. Barandes' indivisible" approach challenges the standard Schrodinger ... Read more

The Startup Alice and Bob have been working on the cat qubit. Alice & Bob is a Paris-based quantum computing startup founded in 2020 by Theau Peronnin and Raphael Lescanne, with a mission to build the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Their main technological advantage is the proprietary cat qubit" technology. With over 110 employees ... Read more

Previously, SpaceX has talked saving about 500 kilograms from Raptor 1 to Raptor 3 and 100-200 kilograms from going from Raptor 2 to Raptor 3. But on the Flight 8 launch preparation, they talked about saving 1 metric ton of mass per Raptor 3 engine. This must be mass beyond the engine to related components ... Read more

I am expecting a clean SpaceX Starship test flight 8. UPDATE: I was wrong. Starship had self destruct activated as SpaceX lost center engine and Starship started tumbling. There was a scrub a few days ago and there were some minor issues yesterday and there was the explosion of the upper stage on Starship Test ... Read more

Tesla Fremont factory has 15 spherical community gateway receivers. The Starlink Community Gateways program is designed to deliver high-speed internet for businesses, remote and underserved areas. This program can provide symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) per gateway. We don't know if each spherical unit is a gateway ... Read more

Palo Alto, Singapore, 6th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX Starship had two weird problems today. There was a part that fell off the Starship. Later, there was some ball bearing problem on the Mechazilla launch tower. Despite the issues. Starship is stacked on the booster and hopefully ready for Flight 8 tomorrow. Live now on @NASASpaceflight - Starship being destacked again after a ... Read more

There are report that there will be a third Tesla megapack factory and it will be in Texas. The will be located in Waller County, within the Empire West Industrial Park, near Houston and part of the Houston metropolitan area (close to Katy, Texas). It is expected to span approximately 1.6 million square feet, though ... Read more

Brian Wang talks to Herbert Ong, Brian White and Nick Gibb about his pick for the first China carmaker to license Tesla FSD. The financial impact of the tax deductible interest on car loans for US made cars and how many more cars Tesla will sell. What will happen with the Tesla share prices ? ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 5th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Robert Zubrin talks about reducing the mass of SpaceX Starship by a factor of 5 for a Starboat mini-Starship. The linear dimensions would scale by the cube root of 1/5 0.58. This gives a diameter of 9 * 0.58 5.2 meters. The mass would then be 1320 / 5 = 264 tons (assuming ... Read more

Robert Zubrin, Presiden of the Mars Society, has developed an updated Mars plan that builds on his original Mars Direct proposal. This new plan integrates modern spaceflight technologies, such as SpaceX's Starship, with his core principles of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and the use of local Martian resources. Central to this vision is a conceptual spacecraft referred ... Read more

As flight testing and development of Starship continues at Starbase in Texas, SpaceX is building a new integration facility, called Gigabay, next to its HangarX location at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Additionally, SpaceX plans to complete the Starship launch pad at Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center this year while the Environmental Impact ... Read more

Colossus Bioscience creation of the woolly mice Tuesday in a news release and posted a scientific paper online detailing the achievement. Scientists implanted genetically modified embryos in female lab mice that gave birth to the first of the woolly pups in October. Reviving extinct species like the mammoth, the dodo and others could help repair ... Read more

Many space people are worried about a space junk catastrophe called the Kessler Syndrome. Lower orbits reduce the risk of the Kessler syndrome. Here are considerations of fuel needs and aerodynamic factors, especially in the context of SpaceX's low-cost launches with reusable Starships. De-Orbit Times and Fuel Requirements Above is a table summarizing the estimated ... Read more

Tesla China weekly registrations are at about the level in the same week last year. YTD only 8K behind last year despite the Model Y refresh ramp. The Tesla Model 3 has started a 0% interest rate incentive in the US. I think this is to clear model 3 inventory ahead of the new model ... Read more

Boston and Tel Aviv, United States, 4th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

They are now scrubbed. They cleared a booster issue and are now examining a Starship issue. They had a solution submitted and are waiting for a decision. Pressure was too low. They will destack and figure it out. This is the eighth fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster, the largest ... Read more

SpaceX is making over 15,000 Starlink dishes per day. However, it is only 70,000 per week so this means only 5 days per week. This is a 3.5 Million dish per year runrate. This was revealed in the pre-launch info for Flight 8 (launch scrubbed). SpaceX expanded and is expanding the Bastrop Texas dish factory ... Read more

Venus Aerospace and Hermeus are the modern day companies that are truly using the small and effective engineering team approaches and methods of the Clarence Kelly" Johnson led (1943-1975) Lockheed Skunkworks. Here is analysis of their technology and how they will crack the three speed zone problem that has stopped researchers for decades. Going from ... Read more

The eighth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Monday, March 3. We are counting down to a 5:45 p.m. CT launch. This is 2 minutes away. SpaceX now can use Starlink to stream the video from 30 cameras on the rocket and transmit 120 mbps of data. A live webcast of the flight ... Read more

San Francisco, California, 3rd March 2025, CyberNewsWire

AI spending is huge and it is sustainable and has indications that it is profitable spending. Returns are from AI are being seen. The smaller spending from 2 years ago sees a lag in returns but adjusting for lag shows profits. Pascal's Wager Applied (CEOs Believe in Godlike AI) Invest and AI Succeeds: Huge payoff-competitive ... Read more

Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry about a dozen passengers, traveling at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer, which measures 150 feet long by 100 feet wide, will travel between two cities in the world by flying 6,905 mph at an altitude of 170,000 feet. Hypersonic is ... Read more

The UK is talking about sending ground troops to the Ukraine. March 2, 2025, Starmer has discussed the possibility of the UK participating in a coalition of the willing alongside France and other nations to deploy troops to Ukraine. However, this is framed as a peacekeeping effort to enforce a potential peace deal, rather than ... Read more

The smallest widely available Starlink antenna is the Starlink Mini, which is significantly larger than a typical cellphone (about the size of a laptop or small tablet). There is a range of Starlink antenna offerings. What are there specifications? What are there use cases? How Larger Version 3 Satellites Boost Signal Strength The larger size ... Read more

SpaceX launches the 8th Starship flight tomorrow March 3, 2025. There will be four dummy version 3 Starlink satellites deployed. If this test is successful it will set the stage for version 3 Starlink satellites on all future Starship test and real flights. SpaceX Starship will go Orbital after the launch tomorrow. There will be ... Read more

DeepSeek has revealed they makes $200M/yr at 85%+ profit margins. This means their profits margins are larger than the 72-77% profit margins of Nvidia. Revenue (/day): $562k Cost (/day): $87k Revenue (/yr): ~$205M This is all while charging $2.19/M tokens on R1, ~25x less than OpenAI o1. If Deepseek was in the US, they would ... Read more

A drone operator flying over the Tesla Fremont factory is spotting thousands of front vehicle casting being stored at the factory. He also found one of the castings by itself so its shape can be seen. Castings for in production vehicles would normally not be stored in such high numbers. There was an accumulation of ... Read more