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Tesla is already dominating electric car charging. All of the car companies selling in North America have agreed to use Tesla superchargers. The Tesla superchargers are the only reliable chargers out there. The Tesla version 4 superchargers can charge at 350 kilowatts. This can add about 200 miles of range to a Semi truck in ... Read more

There are comments from some OpenAI insiders that the OpenAI executive and board battle will be resolved by the end of today. However, it looks like many key OpenAI will leave for new or other companies. There will be the winning group that stays at OpenAI and then the losing side will go to its ... Read more

Sam Altman could return as the CEO of OpenAI. The Board that fired Sam could all step down. The Board does not have the support of the investors or the employees. This just keeps getting wilder and wilder? OpenAI's board is in talks with Sam Altman to bring him BACK as CEO?!?https://t.co/zNG4AuWiMs - Matt Wolfe ... Read more

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has taken control of significantly more area in northern and southern Gaza. Senior Hamas member Ahmed Bahr has been killed by an Israeli airstrike, according to a statement made by Hamas. There is continued Understanding War report: 1. Israeli forces continued advancing eastwards from the al Shifa Hospital, which is ... Read more

Tesla has FSD (full self driving) mainly in North America. About 10-20% of Tesla buyers in the US and Canada buy FSD. If Tesla can successfully grow FSD in China and Europe to match the levels of adoption in the USA then this would triple FSD sales. Tesla has begun including Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta ... Read more

I met the manager and promoter for a successful new music artist. The successful artist is Keshi and the manager/promoter is JamesDai. James is with Soka Talent Group. Keshi is a musician with millions of views for each of his songs on Youtube and who plays at large stadiums in China. This is becoming very ... Read more

China's Mars sample return mission, Tianwen-3, is scheduled to launch in late 2028. The mission will consist of two launches, with a lander and ascent vehicle on a Long March 5 and an orbiter and return module on a Long March 3B. The samples are expected to return to Earth in July 2031. New details ... Read more

Spacex flight termination (destruction of the booster) was at 3:20. This was after the stage separation. The second stage (Starship) reached roughly 148km altitude before it was also destroyed. Upper stage now at 148km altitude pic.twitter.com/3LdPSkLJrL - JgaltTweets (@JgaltTweets) November 18, 2023 Based on the last altitude/velocity numbers on SpaceX's webcast, I estimate a Starship ... Read more

SpaceX had a mostly successful launch and the launchpad is undamaged so a third launch can go within about 28 days. 1. Launch pad appears to be fully intact, indicating low likelihood of delay for next IFT due to pad damage, ground safety or environmental concerns at Boca 2. All 33 R2 engines were fully ... Read more

The SpaceX Super Heavy had a mostly successful launch. This will increase mass to orbit by ten times over falcon 9 and enable a completely reorbital rocket. The booster and stage were lost later in the flight and it lost telemetry. The loss of telemetry triggered self-destruct. Starship successfully lifted off under the power of ... Read more

Bradford Ferguson reports that the Tesla Megapack factory will expand to 80 GWH per year of capacity. The original megapack factory capacity was 40 GWH. Bradford also reports that the limitations on Tesla megapack production will be lifting. The Tesla factory only had one of two lines running and has been producing 4 GWH per ... Read more

The Board of directors of OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities, today announced that Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately. The reporting is that Sam Altman ... Read more

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is the preferred propulsion technology for manned missions throughout the solar system. The state-of-the-art NTP cycle is based on solid core Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) class technology that is envisioned to provide a specific impulse (Isp) of 900 seconds doubling chemical rocket performance (450 seconds). Even with this ... Read more

Meta Emu Video is a simple factorized method for high-quality video generation. Emu Video leverages Meta's Emu model. It is a simple method for text-to-video generation based on diffusion models. This is a unified architecture for video generation tasks that can respond to a variety of inputs: text only, image only, and both text and ... Read more

Dr. Alan Thompson has an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) percentage tracker. Thompson's tracker indicates that we have 56% of the capabilities for AGI now. He has fit his percentage tracker to an exponential curve and this indicates we will reach AGI July 2025. Alan Thompson Definitions for AGI and ASI AGI = artificial general intelligence ... Read more

USNC-Tech envisions adapting EmberCore for an electric propulsion system that could propel a spacecraft to extremely high speeds. The spacecraft architecture is capable of incredible delta-V on the order of 50-100 km/s," USNC-Tech's Christopher Morrison says in the company's proposal. That would translate to 110,000 to 220,000 mph. Cobalt-60 gives 17 watts per gram. A ... Read more

3 hours and 5 minutes into the second day of the NASA NIAC 2023 symposium there is a presentation on a lunar oxygen pipeline from the moon's South Pole. Don at Boston Metals has made a smaller reactor to make aluminum in a far smaller molten regolith electrolysis chamber than standard aluminum production. This would ... Read more

Early 2011, NASA NIAC study of fission fragment propulsion.

The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project team, jointly led by NASA and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, envisions a way to make huge circular self-healing mirrors in-orbit to further the field of astronomy. Larger telescopes collect more light, and they allow astronomers to peer farther into space and see distant objects in greater detail. The ... Read more

SpaceX had to destack and replace a grid fin actuator. The FAA license has been granted but SpaceX is now targeting a 20 minute window start at 7 AM Central time on Saturday. Starship stacked for flight. This is another chance to put Starship in a true flight environment, maximizing how much we learn. Rapid ... Read more

Chinese stocks were slumping early Thursday after a high-profile summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, and a warning from Alibaba. Alibab will not spin off its cloud division as planned because of expanded U.S. export controls on chips have created uncertainty for the business. Shares of e-commerce giant Alibaba (ticker: BABA) down 8.2%. ... Read more

There was a secret billion dollar US Air Force, DARPA and Navy X-plane program to explore future fighters that paved the way for the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall revealed at the POLITICO Defense Summit on Nov. 14. Kendall and other Air Force officials have previously said there were flying prototypes ... Read more

There are reports that Tesla is filing to become an Australian Energy Retailer (an Australian electrical utility). The Brattle group has a Virtual Power Plant study. Buying peaking capacity from a VPP is 40% cheaper than a utility-scale battery and 60% lower than from a gas peaker plant. A 60 GW VPP deployment could beat ... Read more

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are not providing videos and pictures of the army entering and defeating the infamous Hamas tunnels. There have been reports of the use of drones (flying and ground), sponge bombs, explosives, dogs and bulldozers being used to counter the lengthy Hamas tunnels. There have been videos of Israeli bulldozers digging ... Read more

A nuclear fission fragment rocket engine (FFRE) that is exponentially more propellent efficient than rocket engines currently used to power today's space vehicles and could eventually achieve very high specific impulse (>100,000 sec) at high power density (>kW/kg). A new NASA NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) project is creating a buildable near term design for ... Read more

Cern Basher lists all of Tesla's current and future revenue streams. Nextbigfuture has been describing the distributed computing revenue stream and how the FSD revenue stream will grow with increased adoption. Nextbigfuture was early on describing how the Tesla megapack and megacharging for Semi trucks will grow more quickly than most expect. A Closer ... Read more

Elon Musk said that the entire fleet of Tesla's that are on the road can be combined into the largest AI inference supercomputer. Most Tesla EVs have hardware 3 with 144 Trillion operations per second of compute. Tesla will end 2023 with 5.5 million Tesla's on the road. There will be about 8 million Tesla's ... Read more

A near term laser ablation of micropellets can be made to rapidly accelerate one ton space probes to reach Pluto in one year. The NASA New Horizons launched in 2006 took 9.5 years to reach Pluto and weighed a little less half of a ton. A ten megawatt laser system in geosynchronous could accelerate a ... Read more

Israel continues to secure the Hamas underground headquarters under the Al-Shifa hospital. Hospitals in the Strip risk losing their protected status under international law due to Hamas's use of the sites for military activities. November 14, Israeli Troops captured key Hamas facilities, including the Hamas parliament, government complex, police headquarters, and the so-called governor's house. ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion will make a linear nuclear fusion rocket propulsion system. They will heat hydrogen plasma with microwaves to create fusion propulsion. They will perform laboratory tests next year and in 2025 and then have an orbital test within three years. Pulsar recently partnered with aerospace R&D company Princeton Satellite Systems (PSS) for a study ... Read more

A nextbigfuture reader had a comment about which US cities had the most homelessness and whether the mayor is democrat or republican. I have used US Housing and Urban Development statistics and the wikipedia entries for each city for their mayor and party affiliation. Texas' homeless population shrunk by nearly a third over the past ... Read more

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been testing the chemical bombs which create rapid expansion of foam. The foam expands and hardens to block tunnels. Hamas has hundreds of miles of tunnels that are hundreds of feet deep. Israel has also been using bulldozers, explosives and air strikes to destroy and collapse tunnels.

The NT Times had a recent article discussing laser nuclear fusion. Nextbigfuture has spoken with all of the nuclear fusion companies listed in the NY Times article as they all attended the 2023 International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications conference. Nextbigftuure covered detailed National Ignition Facility presentations six weeks ago at the 2023 ... Read more

Elon Musk was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch. Was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch https://t.co/NshoTHdqew - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2023 Starship preparing to launch as early as November 17, pending final regulatory approval https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK ... Read more

There is a $1.2 billion budget for a three year effort to clean up California. The first hundred million or so was spent and 8700 people employed to clean up San Francisco in advance of the APEC summit/ California has had several budget surpluses in recent years: 2021-2022: $47 billion in budget surplus 2022-2023: $55 ... Read more

Last Friday, November 10th the B-21 Raider took flight for the first time from its Palmdale California facility. Youtuber, Pilot Photog, provides analysis and new renderings based upon the video and photos from the first flight of the B-21. The backend of the B-21 Stealth bomber shows that it was not adjusted for low-altitude bombing ... Read more

80% of thing stolen from stores are 10% of the items in the store. New bullet-proof vending machines will be coming to secure those items. Retailers say they're struggling with a dramatic increase in theft in many parts of the USA. Not all shoplifting is reported. Statistics indicate a near doubling of theft from 2017 ... Read more

Dave Lee talks about the future of OpenAI, their new GPT-5 plans, Tesla's FSD v12 and more in this livestream. Financial Times - OpenAI chief, Sam Altman, is seeks=ing new Microsoft funds to build superintelligence. Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans. OpenAI was working ... Read more

After I, Brian Wang, took Rejuvant, time released AKG a second aging biomarker test and a spit test analysis showed my biological age decreased by about 4 years. I feel good and healthy now and during my time taking the supplement. However, I cannot directly correlate good energy levels and any feelings of well being ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion, a propulsion startup based in England, announced last week it is partnering with the University of Michigan to research electric Hall-effect thruster tech. The UK Space Agency is funding the collaboration. Pulsar recently began developing in-space electric propulsion systems to capitalize on the growing demand for the tech. The U of M partnership ... Read more

China has built the most powerful thermoacoustic Stirling generator. The prototype delivered a groundbreaking 102 kilowatts of power from a heat source of 530 degrees Celsius (986 Fahrenheit). This is the first time this type of breakthrough generator has gone over 100 kilowatts. Thermoacoustic engine achieves high thermal-to-electrical efficiencies with no moving parts. The new ... Read more

Since the morning of November 11th, seismic activity related to the magma intrusion remains fairly constant. Since midnight November 12th, around 1000 earthquakes have been recorded within the dyke, and all of them have been below M3.0 in magnitude. The most seismic activity has been located in the region north of Grindavik. Most of the ... Read more

Chamath foresees an AI World end-state with 1 to 500 million companies that are one to two person teams that can build stuff. He sees this as a logical end-state. This will be a hyperproductive world. This would be a large language model and humanoid robot abundant world. A lot of financial engineering goes away ... Read more

Shopify has coPilot massively boosting their coding productivity. ChatGPT-powered chatbot converts traffic & sells more stuff-the sales channel of the future is here Your sales chatbot recommends products, answers questions, and guides shoppers all the way from browser to buyer. Rep's chatbot uses Behavioral AI to convert more traffic into buyers & Generative AI (powered ... Read more

Nov 10, 2023 All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg talk about the history of the middle and how to fix the middle east. A view of the middle east is that there has been a conflict between bad leadership who want to use conflicts as an excuse for their bad leadership and those who ... Read more

Levent Kemal reports on X/Twitter : Clashes in Gaza's western flank intensify around hospitals, approximate latest situation: - According to the hospital director who spoke to Al Jazeera a few hours ago, Rantisi Hospital has been under siege for nearly three days. Clashes are still ongoing around the hospital. - According to reports, Al-Shifa Hospital ... Read more

Experts have warned Iceland that its volcano could erupt within hours or days. Around 3,000 residents have evacuated the southwestern town of Grindavik close to the Fagradalsfjall volcanic system in the Reykjanes region. Over the past 48 hours, Iceland has faced a seismic swarm as 1,485 earthquakes have hit the country. In addition, a magma ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, was interviewed by Herbert Ong (Brighter with Herbert) about how Tesla is creating revenue generation from all of its computer and energy products. I had an article about Tesla creating Virtual AI Cloud Computers (VCC) that operate like the Virtual Power Plant for Power walls. Elon Musk indicates that the FSD computers ... Read more

Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock says If we can just get humanoids to do work that humans are not wanting to do because there's a shortfall of humans, we can sell millions of humanoids, billions maybe." At the moment, however, Adcock's firm doesn't have a prototype that's ready for market. Figure AI raised a $70 ... Read more

Israeli tanks are just 20 metres (65 feet) away from al-Quds Hospital. [Al Jazeera] BREAKING: GAZA'S AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL HAS FALLEN! Israeli Military Presence Reported Within Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Gaza's largest hospital, located in Gaza City. Will we finally see the alleged tunnels and Hamas headquarters? Source: Al Jazeera https://t.co/ENEjftLc0V - Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November ... Read more