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x-Tesla AI lead, Andrej Karpathy gave a one hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models. The core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What they are, where they are headed, comparisons and analogies to present-day operating systems, and some of the security-related challenges of this new computing paradigm. Context: This video is ... Read more

SpaceX had the huge success on March 14, 2024 with the successful launch of Starship to orbit. The Super Heavy booster returned most of the way but lost control before a soft landing attempt. The Starship was lost after about 49 minutes when it tried to re-enter but burned up with some lost heat shield. ... Read more

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla AI lead, said efforts over the past several months went into making this new approach beat the previous v11 stack (developed over many years). We believe v12 has net surpassed it now, and hence the next set of 12.x releases should bring unprecedented progress. This is the first version of FSD that ... Read more

Astronomer used to think that the Kuiper Belt was a few hundred times larger than the Asteroid belt. They thought it was a donut shaped structure that started at Neptune and extended out 2 billion miles. Recent observation suggests it extends out at least 5 billion miles. This is based upon finding about 2000 objects, ... Read more

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation's (CASIC) plans to build a giant magnetic launcher to propel airplanes up to speeds where they can start hypersonic scramjet engines. CASIC has built a 2000 meter long low-vacuum track high-speed maglev test facility in the industrial heartland of Datong, Shanxi province. This is able to accelerate heavy object ... Read more

Elon Musk says Tesla FSD V12.4 is another big jump in capabilities and the training compute limitations are almost gone. AI expert James Douma had said that with additional training and data, he expected FSD V12.X to reach 0.1-1% of the interventions for Tesla FSD v11.X. If the level of improvement expected by James Douma ... Read more

Chuck Cook is a supertester of Tesla FSD software. He has declared Tesla FSD V12.3 a gamechanging build. Chuck Cook on a 40 minute drive had no problems with areas that have always caused issues for other versions. It handled double lights, his unprotected left turns etc... It handled the unprotected left turn but there ... Read more

Cerebras Systems has doubled its existing world record of fastest AI chip with the introduction of the Wafer Scale Engine 3. The WSE-3 delivers twice the performance of the previous record-holder, the Cerebras WSE-2, at the same power draw and for the same price. Purpose built for training the industry's largest AI models, the 5nm-based, ... Read more

Spacex reports that this is the second test of Starship where all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster started up successfully and completed a full-duration burn during ascent. Starship has a second successful hot-stage separation. It powering down all but three of Super Heavy's Raptor engines and successfully igniting the six second ... Read more

John Barnett, 62, from Louisiana was found dead in his vehicle outside a Charleston hotel on Saturday morning. Barnett, who worked for Boeing for 32 years, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging safety concerns. The United States Department of Labor was working through the discovery phase of its investigation and is set to begin hearings on ... Read more

SpaceX has shown us the inside of the Starship while it was in orbit and opening the Pez bay door. Gases in the bay were shown escaping the door. This would be the real life venting into space shown in many science fiction movies. They also provide the first footage of re-entry plasma heating. This ... Read more

Boeing whistleblower was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head and separately video evidence has been destroyed. This comes just a FEW DAYS after ex-Boeing employee John Barnett began handing over key pieces of evidence in a lawsuit alleging the airplane manufacturer covered up safety concerns such as : One-in-four oxygen masks ... Read more

Launch - Successful. Separation - Successful. Boost back - Successful . Booster engine re-light for landing failed Super Heavy hover - Not successful. Achieving orbit" - Huge success. Door open / close - Successful. Prop transfer - Big success. Re-entry upper stage - Partial success. Upper stage hover - Unsuccessful I believe.

Here is a summary of what seems to have happened. Launch - Successful. Separation - Successful. Boost back - Successful I think. Super Heavy hover - Not successful. Achieving orbit" - Huge success. Door open / close - Successful. Prop transfer - Big success. Re-entry upper stage - Partial success. Upper stage hover - Unsuccessful ... Read more

The SpaceX Starship launching tomorrow will enable a new generation of larger Gen 3 Starlink satellites. They will weigh over 2 tons and will unfold to a wingspan of 60 meters for larger antennas and solar panels. The space station is about 75 meters wide while the SpaceX Gen 3 will have a 60 meters ... Read more

The FCC has authorized SpaceX to conduct communications in the 71.0-76.0 GHz (spaceto-Earth) and 81.0-86.0 GHz (Earth-to-space) frequency bands (collectively, E-band), with the 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites. Last year, SpaceX said using E-band radio waves for backhaul would enable Starlink Gen 2 to provide about four times more capacity per satellite than earlier iterations. There ... Read more

Lordstown Motors has completed a bankruptcy deal. GM invested $75 million in the EV startup Lordstown Motors in 2019, and then sold in late 2021. GM invested as part of the sale of an Ohio plant to the electric vehicle startup as well as a $675 million SPAC deal that took Lordstown public. Lordstown Motor ... Read more

Charge Enterprises built electric charging for dealers, hotels and other business customers. They made as much as $750 million per year in revenue but almost always had losses. GM and Stellantis were among the funders and customers of Charge Enterprises. In August 2023, GM, Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Kia, and Stellantis announced a $1 billion ... Read more

Figure AI humanoid bot responds to questions about what it sees and correctly identifies an apple on plate, dishes and the person. The humanoid bot then acts to use those objects to perform a request. This showed basic reasoning capability. Figure AI was recently funded with $675 million by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, ... Read more

Stealth Startup, Cognition, backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and former-Twitter executive Elad Gil and Doordash co-founder Tony Xu, announced a fully autonomous AI software engineer called Devin. Devin can handle entire development projects end-to-end. It can write the code, fix bugs associated with it until final execution. This is the first offering of this ... Read more

Elon Musk says that the FSD beta version is a big release that should be called version 13. Elon: FSD Beta 12.3 is such a big release it should arguably be called V13 https://t.co/0yXbdceefM - Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) March 12, 2024 AI expert James Douma expects the Tesla version 12.X all neural net system ... Read more

SpaceX Starship is stacked and ready for its third orbital test launch. The liquid oxygen release systems are fixed from the last launch. I, Brian Wang, believe that this launch will be successful and there will be launches every month starting from this month. The pace of launches will then increase to every week or ... Read more

PASQAL, a leader in neutral atoms quantum computing, is releasing a significant technology roadmap today. Key highlights will include: Scaling Up: Roadmap targets 10,000 qubits by 2026, progression towards fault-tolerant systems. Customer Focus: Devices already in the hands of end-users (100+ qubits), driving software development. Promising Research: Recent advances demonstrate potential for quantum error correction ... Read more

The US 7th Expeditionary Force of 1000 troops is building the floating logistics facility shown above a few hundred yards from Gaza. This is a special logistics unit that needs a security unit to protect them. There will be no US beach security Pentagon spokesman Major General Ryder. Partners" will on shore. The US will ... Read more

Youtuber JerryRigEverything tested the Tesla Cybertruck against different caliber bullets a.22, a .17, a few 9mm, and of course a 223 and .50 cal round. He also tested the towing range in cold weather pulling the maximum 11000 pound load. Scroll down for the results or watch the videos: The Cybertruck resisted .22 and 9mm ... Read more

Tesla has launched a program that will let people take early delivery of a Foundation Series Cybertruck if they were a $TSLA shareholder on Feb. 28, 2021 and owned at least 500 $TSLA shares on Feb. 29, 2024. Cybertruck reservation must have been made prior to March 1st, 2024. BREAKING: Tesla has launched a program ... Read more

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 2 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, was contacted by the Nano Nuclear team for a correction that their initial nuclear fission reactors will be 1-2 ... Read more

A SpaceX Starlink paper on Latency shows a picture of the Starlink system with an SUV with a flat Starlink dish build into the car. There have been people taking flat satellite dishes and attaching them to their cars. The SpaceX Starlink picture suggests that SpaceX Starlink will make a flat dish that would be ... Read more

SCT Lab published a paper on how they make the Pb-Cu-P-S-O compound that has some pieces with potential room temperature superconductivity. The description of the process to make it is partial. How they get the powders is not described. They did not give mass ratios (cited intellectual property). The testing process for zero resistivity did ... Read more

Japan's overall population fell from 128.1 million in 2010 to 122 million today but Japan's working age population peaked in 1995. If we discount the economic bubble then the real estate collapse from the 1990s to today correlates with the working age population collapse. It is also the aging of the population. The median age ... Read more

The Doroni H1-X is a design for new two-passenger eVTOL that sets new standard for efficiency, sustainability, and versatility in air mobility. A full-scale system will have test flights by the end of this year, 2024. Doroni has $3.8 million in funding. The Doroni H1-X is an electric flying car that has an estimated cost ... Read more

Argonne National labs has a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Johnson's team invented a layered oxide cathode tailored for sodium-ion batteries. This variation on the NMC cathode is a sodium nickel-manganese-iron (NMF) oxide with a layered structure for efficient insertion and extraction of sodium. The absence of cobalt in the cathode formula mitigates cost, ... Read more

There is a strange kind of logical error where people have a fear of climate change choose depopulation as one of the first solutions. Firstly what is the climate change problem? There are climate models on supercomputers that predict temperature increase of 2-8 degrees by 2100. They stop right there and do not question the ... Read more

A youtuber shows a day in life of a Japanese Elementary School with only 8 students and 11 teachers. The school has about 20 rooms and had over 400 students in previous generations but is now virtually empty. There are about 11 million akiya, or abandoned homes, in rural Japan. Here we see a nearly ... Read more

Kairos Power has successfully completed 1,000 hours of pumped salt operations with its non-nuclear Engineering Testing Unit (ETU) at the company's testing and manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, N.M. This achievement arrives on the heels of operators loading 12 metric tons of a molten fluoride salt coolant known as Flibe" into ETU, making it the largest ... Read more

Will AI surpass human intelligence to reach AGI (artificial general intelligence) ? I discuss the rapid advancements in AI, tackle whether you should fear it, and discuss its impact on our jobs and the world.

SpaceX second-generation satellites have performed even better than expected so SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. This would be 68% of the height which would enable 68% latency. This would get latency from 28-35 milliseconds down to 15-20 milliseconds. In 2022, the ... Read more

A Boeing 777 lost a wheel taking off from San Francisco and a 737 had a landing gear failure this morning. This is the fourth incident United Airlines has had this week. A 757 suffering an engine failure on descent into SFO and Boeing 737-900 from United at Houston suffering an engine stall. This is ... Read more

Akira Toriyama, creator of the massively popular Dragonball anime, has died at the age of 68 from a blood clot in the brain. Dragonball had a global cultural impact like Star Trek. There were multiple series and movies that spanned decades.

Space startup Xplore Solar Sail spacecraft design would go seven times faster than the Voyager spacecraft to enable vastly improved exploration of the solar system. The initial design would be to get to 5AU/year speeds but we need to improve it to 40 AU/year speeds. The goal would be to reach 550-650 AU where the ... Read more

James Douma is an AI expert and he believes that Tesla FSD V12.X will achieve better than human driving with more data and compute to refine the system. It will need 1% or less interventions than FSD V11. If interventions have been at 1 every drive then 1% interventions would mean one intervention every 3 ... Read more

There was a APS presentation by Ulsan Korea University researchers. It is being reported that numerous comments on the Chinese website Zhihu imply that the University of Ulsan's data plot is so important that a certain superconductivity expert saw the decisive signal proving LK99's superconductivity in the graph's temperature rise curve near 200K. Nextbigfuture does ... Read more

Rivian CEO and Founder RJ Scaringe debuts the next generation of Rivian's vehicles: R2, R3 and R3X. Rivian is targeting delivery of the R2 in mid-2026. Rivian Automotive unveiled three new vehicles and announced over $2 billion in lower expenses by delaying construction on a plant in Georgia. The R2 is expected to start at ... Read more

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 20 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. They plan to sell 1,000 microreactors on a yearly basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Nuclear currently supplies some 18% of US power needs off ... Read more

Yesterday, AI Expert James Douma predicted that Tesla FSD version 12 would be able to eliminate 99% of the human interventions experienced in FSD version 11. Technology analyst and investors Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner describe what they have learned about how Tesla gathers the data for FSD training. Tesla tracks all of the best ... Read more

This is a review of the arguments and evidence for and against LK99 type materials as room temperature superconductors. Case Against Cuprous Sulfide and Iron Contamination The claims against LK99 and LK99-variants materials as a superconductor is that cuprous sulfide has some transition temperatures that match up with some of the bulk LK99 readings. They ... Read more

San Francisco, United States / California, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Identity Data Management and Analytics Provider Radiant Logic Joins Okta and Ping Identity in Partnership with Badge to Enable Privacy-Preserving Authentication Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without SecretsTM, today launched a new Partner Program and welcomed Identity Data Management and Analytics provider ... Read more

Paris, France, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Company Open Sources FHE Libraries to Build Privacy-Preserving Blockchain and AI Applications for the First Time. Investment secured to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to the fore, giving developers the ability to address data privacy challenges across blockchain and AI use cases. Zama, an open source cryptography company building ... Read more

Google Gemini is inferior to OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. GPT-4 was released over a year ago. Anthropic just released Claude 3. It is competitive with OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. There are some testers who are finding Claude has less hallucination and is better at increasing computer coding productivity. Here is the huggingface area ... Read more