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AI experts have disagreement over when we will achieve superintelligence. Elon Musk thinks it will happen in 2026 or 2027 but others think it will be 2032 or 2045. Those who think it will take longer point out the lack of continual learning. Dwarkesh Patel makes the case for the importance of continual learning. Dwarkesh ... Read more

Super VC Marc Andressen talks about the Future of Venture Capital and investing. Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 ... Read more

Meta is offering top OpenAI AI Developer talent $100 million signing bonuses and $100 million compensation per year. Many of OpenAI top developers are rejecting those offers.

Korea ML.co site reports that Tesla AI5 chip will have 2000~2500TOPS performance as early as 2026. (Tesla calls it HW4 and AI4 interchangeably from HW4). To this end, Tesla is working with Samsung Electronics and TSMC as contract manufacturers for AI5. Mass production is likely to begin next year. Tesla vehicles are expected to start ... Read more

Mach33, ARK's open-source SpaceX model projects SpaceX to be worth ~$2.5 trillion in 2030 and about $12 trillion around 2035. I discuss SpaceX future value and the Mars plans in a new video. This will be driven by the success of the reusable Starship and massive deployment of more Starlink satellites. Elon Musk has updated ... Read more

Miami, Florida, 18th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

According to Nielsens measurement of televisions in the U.S. (mobile devices and other countries excluded), streaming was 44.8% while broadcast and cable viewing combined was 44.2% of all TV watched. This is the first time streaming has passed the total of broadcast and cable categories. Over the last four years streaming usage has increased 71% ... Read more

Terraforming Mars with rapid warming particles or gases could enable plants to start growing within 40 years. We could raise Mars's average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars's temperature by 30 C to permit liquid water for the first ... Read more

Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former Head of Research, led OpenAI from the GPT-3 breakthrough to today's reasoning models. Three main pillars of AGI-Transformers are scaled pre-training, post-training and reasoning-and that the fundamentals that will shape the next decade-plus are already in place. He thinks 2025 will be defined by reasoning while pre-training hits diminishing returns. AI ... Read more

Obi ridesharing report shows that people are paying more and waiting a longer time for rides from Waymo versus Uber. Obi is a global real-time aggregator that compares millions of pricing and pick-up (ETA) data points providing consumers and businesses with actionable data. The free consumer app allows riders to compare taxis, black cars and ... Read more

Pulsar UK has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) for the Pulsar's 5kW MOONRANGER Hall-effect thrusters, which are being live test-fired. Pulsar Fusion, the UK-based fusion propulsion company behind the breakthrough Sunbird platform, is opening a new U.S. office in Austin, Texas. This strategic move supports Pulsar's increasing engagement with U.S.-based clients and ... Read more

Alice & Bob, a global leader in the race for fault-tolerant quantum computing, announced today at GTC Paris the ongoing integration of the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform with Dynamiqs. This combination outperforms the most widely used libraries today, accelerating the simulation of complex quantum dynamics by up to 75x, on early benchmarks. Alice & Bob has ... Read more

Delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today's quantum computers. Starling will be able to access the computational power required for these problems by running 100 million quantum operations using 200 logical ... Read more

IDF and Mossad created a drone base inside Iran and put commando forces inside Iran. This was used to destroy Iran's air and missile defenses. Missiles were placed near the air defenses and struck at the start of the military campaign. Mossad agents successfully constructed a drone launch site near Tehran. These drones were activated ... Read more

There are reports that Iran's nuclear facility Natanz has had extensive damage. IAF fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence, struck the Iranian regime's uranium enrichment site in the Natanz area overnight. This is the largest uranium enrichment site in Iran, which has operated for years to achieve nuclear weapons capability and houses the infrastructure required ... Read more

Tesla has just been officially added to Texas Department of Transportation's Automated Vehicle Deployment website. Tesla Ride-share service has been authorized without a Safety Driver. Company: Tesla Description: Ride-share service Status in Texas: Testing Active/Non-Active: Active Safety Driver: No Service Area: Austin Metro

China is allowing companies to export self driving car data. This will allow Tesla to more rapidly improve its full self driving and robotaxi software. In the USA, NHTSA is streamlining the process for robotaxi applications. The new USA framework will not have delays for qualified applications. It should take months instead of years for ... Read more

Paris, France, 13th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Apple's research paper, The Illusion of Thinking," examines the reasoning abilities of artificial intelligence models. It claims that LLM AI problem-solving skills are misleading. The study argues that these models do not truly reason but instead rely heavily on pattern matching, creating an illusion of thinking." To support this claim, the paper uses the Tower ... Read more

Sam Altman declares that AI is past the event horizon and the takeoff has started. We have recently built AI systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the output (productivity) of people using them. The least-likely part of the work is behind us; the scientific insights that ... Read more

Developed in collaboration with Mach33, ARK's open-source SpaceX model yields an expected enterprise value in 2030 of ~$2.5 trillion, generating a ~38% compound annual rate of return from its last funding round at $350 billion in December 2024.1 Tuned to the 75th and 25th percentile Monte Carlo outcomes, our bull and bear cases are ~$3.1 ... Read more

Ookla(R) Speedtest data on Starlink indicates that the satellite company's network performance has been on the uptick over the past couple of years and as of Q1 2025 17.42% of U.S. Starlink Speedtest users were able to get speeds consistent with the FCC's minimum requirement for fixed broadband of 100 Mbps download speeds and 20 ... Read more

Tentatively, June 22. [is Tesla Austin Robotaxi day] We [Tesla] are being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift. First, Tesla that drives itself from factory end of line all the way to a customer house is June 28. #ModelY #RoboTaxi spotted with branding on the side driving around Austin with no one ... Read more

Reinforcement Pre-Training (RPT) is a new method for training large language models (LLMs) by reframing the standard task of predicting the next token in a sequence as a reasoning problem solved using reinforcement learning (RL). Unlike traditional RL methods for LLMs that need expensive human data or limited annotated data, RPT uses verifiable rewards based ... Read more

IONQ plans to have a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029 and they are acquiring Oxford Ionic for a about $1 billion. Some other important points: - Achieved 99.99% physical fidelity TODAY - Still on track for machine benchmarked at AQ64 this year - 50x density on single chip by going from 1D to 2D ion ... Read more

Trump said he'd talk to Elon Musk again. Elon sent a heart emoji. The feud seems to be over and they are making up. BREAKING: ELON MUSK SENDS " EMOJI TO TRUMP $TSLA WE ARE SO BACK ! pic.twitter.com/UQxDrxwcf9 - TheSonOfWalkley (@TheSonOfWalkley) June 9, 2025

Automated or autonomous vehicles (AVs) are defined in the Texas Transportation Code as a motor vehicle that includes an automated driving system, which is hardware and software that, when installed on a motor vehicle and engaged, are collectively capable of performing, without any intervention or supervision by a human operator.

New Glenn's second mission will take place NET (No earlier than) August 15th. They have chosen the name Never Tell Me The Odds" for Tail 2. One of our key mission objectives will be to land and recover the booster. This will take a little bit of luck and a lot of excellent execution. Blue ... Read more

How Elon Musk and SpaceX Could Avoid Nationalization Amid Starlink and Starship Dominance ? As Starlink and fully reusable Starship become increasingly dominant-potentially increasing bandwidth by over 100 times, deploying satellites by 20 times, and dropping the cost to space by 50 times in the next 2-4 years-the risk of nationalization grows sharply. SpaceX's emerging ... Read more

Quantum computing breakthroughs from IonQ, D-Wave, QuEra, Alice & Bob, and others in the last six months, with dates, achievements, and their impact on error-corrected, scalable quantum systems. IonQ May 7, 2025, IonQ Demonstrated a 12% speed improvement over classical computing in a real-world simulation (heart pump modeling with Ansys). This shows practical quantum advantage ... Read more

There is a Republican split in congress. Republicans can only pass bills when they are unified. A split Republican Party means gridlock with no bills passing. There were some senators and some in the house who were wanting to go hardcore on the deficit. This also would mean no bills passed to harm Elon. It ... Read more

Cursor AI raised $900 million in Series C funding from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST. Cursor has grown to over $500 million in ARR and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500, including NVIDIA, Uber, and Adobe. This scale will help us push the frontier of AI coding research.

People who use IVF (in vitro fertilization) will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company. Nucleus plans to charge $5,999 for an analysis of up to 900 ... Read more

A combination treatment of semaglutide, trevogrumad and garetosmab causes fat loss and muscle growth in primate trials. Full trial results for humans are expected later in 2025. Results from the Phase II COURAGE trial show that Regeneron's combination of semaglutide plus trevogrumab significantly enhanced fat loss while preserving lean muscle mass in patients with obesity. ... Read more

Silver Spring, United States, 4th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Beijing, China, 4th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Laser pushed sails-ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the payload each weigh a gram, such a spacecraft could accelerate to one fifth of the speed of light. This would be 200 times faster than the Voyager probe. Richard Norte of Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, 3rd June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Highlights of NVIDIA Computex 2025 Announcements 1. DGX Spark: Personal AI Supercomputer Description: The DGX Spark is a compact, personal AI supercomputer designed for developers, researchers, and data scientists. It brings high-performance AI capabilities to a desktop-friendly form factor. NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip will deliver 1 Petaflop for and DGX spark personal AI server. ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 2nd June 2025, CyberNewsWire

In 18 months, Israel deplayed an anti-drone system which intercepted dozens of targets throughout the war. There is a laser division in the Israeli Air Force which is operating new laser system built by Rafael. Israel is working on Iron Beam which is Israel's next-generation interception system that was scheduled to become operational by year's ... Read more

Ukraine launches the largest attack against the Russian Air Force of this war. Drones smuggled into Russia have struck Russia's strategic bombers at airfields deep in Russia. Up to 40 planes destroyed, including several A-50 (AEW&C) & Tu-95 & Tu-22 long-range bombers.

Meta is ranked 23rd on the LLM leaderboards and is also behind several Chinese open source LLM models. Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explains why bigger models and more data alone can't cross the gap to true intelligence-and what will move the field forward. Meta's Yann LeCun says AGI cannot be reached by scaling ... Read more

Elon Musk has updated the Mars and Starship plans. Starship and the Booster will eventually each be made about 20% more powerful. There will be versions by the end of the year that will be improved by about 5-10%. The new Starship will not have heat shields around the engines. The new engines can withstand ... Read more

Beijing, China, 30th May 2025, CyberNewsWire

From screen capture and analysis of video evidence, I have determined what the Tesla Model Q is. The Tesla Model Q has been highly anticipated. I now know what it is. It is a compact model Y. Review the evidence and analysis. I determined the specifications of the lower priced Tesla Model Q. I have ... Read more

Youtube Channel Met God in Wilderness flew a drone over Tesla Fremont and spotted a disguised new Tesla Model. It had its front and rear covered. I used AI analysis to determine the new car is a compact Tesla Model Y. It is 8 inches shorter. (180 inches versus 188.6 inches). Tesla is expected to ... Read more

A new version of DeepSeek is DeepSeek-R1-0528. DeepSeek R1 has significantly improved its depth of reasoning and inference capabilities by leveraging increased computational resources and introducing algorithmic optimization mechanisms during post-training. The model has demonstrated outstanding performance across various benchmark evaluations, including mathematics, programming, and general logic. Its overall performance is now approaching that of ... Read more

RLVR amplifies reasoning patterns that already exist. Qwen2.5-Math can uniquely do code reasoning"-solving math by writing Python (without execution). Code reasoning correlates with correctness (64% w/ vs 29% w/o). Spurious training amplifies code usage to 90%+. Just having reasoning models do more work in general, makes them improve performance. Our hypothesis: RLVR amplifies reasoning patterns ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 29th May 2025, CyberNewsWire