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On the Feb 12, 2026 USSF-87 launch, one of Vulcan's four Northrop Grumman GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs) suffered a nozzle burn-through (visible fiery plume ~20-30 seconds after liftoff). This is the second identical anomaly (first occurred on Vulcan's second flight in Oct 2024). The mission still succeeded (core stage compensated), but ULA and ... Read more

The Supreme Court (6-3) held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined the 3 liberal judges. Trump just issued the same tariffs under different laws and increased them by 10%. Trump effectively turned a legal loss ... Read more

Star Wars Clone Wars has become surprisingly real in Korea. The most popular plastic surgeries (V-line jaw contouring, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, facial fillers/Botox) are now nearly identical faces for men and women. Clinics market the same idol package across genders. Plastic surgery feels like everyone getting the same face. Same lips. Same jaw. Same nose. Even ... Read more

As of February 2026, NextBigFuture.com is one of the most heavily cited external sources on Grokipedia, with approximately 1,050-1,450 distinct Grokipedia pages containing direct links to NextBigFuture articles. This is roughly 10-13 times more than on English Wikipedia, which has ~110 citations. This high citation volume is concentrated in topics where NextBigFuture has provided long-term, ... Read more

NASA escalated the botched Starliner to a Type A mishap - and publicly blamed both Boeing and itself. The Boeing Starliner had over $200 million of property damage. Type A is NASA's highest-severity label - it signals not just a technical problem but something that demands systemic change. A NASA Type A" mishap is the ... Read more

OpenAI may be a household name, but Anthropic could soon be earning more revenue. Anthropic has recently grown substantially faster (10* vs 3.4* per year) and could overtake OpenAI by mid-2026 if recent trends continue. Extrapolating recent trends is an aggressive way to forecast revenues. Growth rates this high often slow as companies scale, and ... Read more

Progressing well - no major hydrogen leaks reported this time. Rocket is now in its final fueling configuration (replenish mode") on all stages (core stage + Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage). Brief ground communications glitch earlier this morning (around 11 a.m.) was quickly resolved by switching to backup systems. Teams have completed ... Read more

SpaceX will make a large moonbase by 2036 as part of the industrialization needed for scaling AI data centers in space. SpaceX will need to make mining and factories on the moon in order to increase space based AI satellites from 100-1000 Gigawatts per year to 10 to 1000 terawatts per year. 10 Terawatts would ... Read more

The 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured numerous fictional future technologies and many of them are or will still happen. Over fifty organizations contributed technical advice to the production, and a number of them submitted their ideas to Kubrick of what kind of products might be seen in a movie set in ... Read more

Marques Brownlee will likely be sold the first commercial Tesla Cybercab that will be used outside of Tesla. Most Tesla Cybercabs will be built and used internally for the Tesla robotaxi fleet. Marques made a bet that a Cybercab would not be made and sold for less than $30,000 before 2027 and delivered to a ... Read more

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19th February 2026, CyberNewswire

I reveal How Grok 4.20's 4-agent system (Captain Grok + Harper + Benjamin + Lucas) works with shared weights for massive efficiency The bombshell MacroHard" project: digital humans that watch your screen, move your mouse, and automate repetitive white-collar work using Tesla Hardware 4 chips in parked cars Why this could create ... Read more

Elon Musk confirmed to me, Brian Wang, that the current beta model is the ~500B parameter base model. Overall early consensus from testers, it beats or matches frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 4/Opus 4.5, Gemini 3) in practical coding, simulations, iterative work, and real-world agentic tasks. XAI Grok 4.20 will scale to 16 agents in Heavy ... Read more

How Many Scheduled Reminders & Queries Can xAI Grok 4.20 Handle Per User? Current practical limit is 150-200 active trackers comfortably, with no degradation in quality. It can simultaneously track dozens of companies, technologies, events, launches, earnings, regulatory filings, production numbers, funding rounds, etc. Real-world usage, it routinely manages 80-120 active items for power users ... Read more

First Cybercab off the production line at Giga Texas. Scaling Projections: The Slow S-Curve" Reality Elon has been very clear and consistent for weeks of a slow S curve ramp. Mass / continuous production officially starts in April 2026. Initial ramp will be agonizingly slow because almost everything is new (new vehicle architecture with no ... Read more

Here is Grok 4.20 analyzing the Macrohard emulated digital human business. xAI's internal project - codenamed MacroHard (a deliberate jab at Microsoft) - is explicitly building digital human emulators or self-driving computers. These are AI agents that mimic exactly what a human white-collar worker does on a desktop/laptop. They watch the screen, move the mouse, ... Read more

xAI Grok 4.20 has native 4-agent council (Grok = Coordinator/Synthesizer, Harper = Research/Facts/X-grounding, Benjamin = Logic/Math/Code, Lucas = Creative/Balance). They run in parallel on shared weights + KV cache. Internal structured debate rounds + RL-optimized orchestration. It has large gains in reasoning depth, fact-checking, blind-spot detection, and open-ended engineering without exploding costs (effective ~1.5-2.5* single-pass ... Read more

The four agents in Grok 4.20 (Grok/Captain, Harper, Benjamin, Lucas) form a native, production multi-agent collaboration system that runs on every sufficiently complex query. This is not a user-facing framework you have to orchestrate (like AutoGen or Swarm) but a baked-in inference-time architecture where four specialized replicas of the underlying ~3T-parameter model (MoE) collaborate in ... Read more

xAI has launched Grok 4.20 live in Beta. Estimated Arena (LMArena) Elo for Grok 4.20: ~1505-1535 provisional (Grok 4.20 analysis). Reasoning: Grok 4.1 Thinking is already at 1483. The multi-agent council + extra inference-time compute + engineering/coding gains + hallucination reduction typically add 20-60 Elo points in crowd-sourced arenas (see historical jumps from single ... Read more

SINGAPORE, Singapore, 17th February 2026, CyberNewswire

Washington DC, USA, 17th February 2026, CyberNewswire

Jonathan Wellum, CEO of Rocklinc Investment Partners, discussing capital flows into the US under Trump-era policies (tax cuts, deregulation, tariffs, reindustrialization). He emphasizes how investment in manufacturing, resources, AI, and data centers drives GDP growth via a 3X multiplier. $1 invested generates up to $3 in GDP over 1-2 years. With $2-3T in annual investment ... Read more

For full-year 2025, GOOGLE Other Bets posted an operating loss of $7.52 billion. This was up ~$3.1B (or ~$3B) from $4.4B in 2024. Waymp had higher employee compensation (especially a $2.1B one-time stock-based comp charge for Waymo in Q4, tied to its $16B funding round and $126B valuation) plus rising ops/R&D costs from scaling. Waymo ... Read more

The basics of Real GDP growth from first principles Real GDP measures the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced in an economy. Its growth comes from three sources (the Solow growth accounting identity): More labor (hours worked or workers). More capital (machines, buildings, infrastructure). Higher productivity (total factor productivity, or TFP-output per unit ... Read more

XAI Grok 4.20 will include enhancements like improved multimodal capabilities (text, images, video), reduced hallucinations via fact-checking tools, advanced reasoning modes, superior AI trading performance, and boosts in coding, math, and real-world tasks. It aims for better overall intelligence over 4.1. Heavy use of real-time X (Twitter) data is a key differentiator. In the Alpha ... Read more

Most careers end up getting derailed because of a slow drift away from what the evolving marketplace demands. Because while experience is helpful, it's not the only thing that sustains a career. In order to continue gaining opportunities, you have to stack new skills and make yourself future proof." The question is, where do you ... Read more

NASA had trouble with a confidence test for Artemis 2. The ground systems need to be repaied. NASA repaired and replaced seals after WDR-1 provided a great deal of data. They observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1. They observed enough and reached a point where waiting out additional troubleshooting was ... Read more

Helion's Polaris prototype has become the first privately funded machine to demonstrate clearly measurable deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion and to reach 150 million C plasma temperatures, marking a major but still early milestone on their path toward a commercial generator for the Microsoft PPA around 2028. Helion reports that its 7th prototype, Polaris, has achieved measurable ... Read more

Insatiable demand for AI is driving trillions in spending and those trillions will power the development of the moon and the entire solar system. Until now, Helion has primarily operated with deuteriumdeuterium (DD) fuel, and our commercial systems plan to ultimately use deuteriumhelium3 (DHe3). D-T is part of our path to fusion power because it ... Read more

President Trump mentioned a 15% annual real GDP growth target. Progrowth Policy Lower interest rates and accommodative monetary policy to boost borrowing, investment, and consumption. Warsh's perceived willingness to tolerate stronger growth without quick tightening. Complementary policies like tax cuts, deregulation, and energy production (drill baby drill) that Trump has long advocated. Achieving sustained 15% ... Read more

Elon Musk has been talking about a city on the moon and mass drivers to launch billions of AI satellites. How is this possible? What would the business model be? Accredited investors can sign up for private Q & A This is a rendering of the SpaceX XAI moon mass driver plans from a distance. ... Read more

xAI has an initiative (using Tesla AI4 hardware) to create AI that fully emulates human computer work. It will work like Tesla FSD in cars but for desktops and laptops. It uses cameras or screen capture (watching user/screen), keystrokes, mouse actions, screen recording, and terminal access. It learns tasks by watching and recording actions (generalized ... Read more

XMoney should have a limited public release in 1-2 months and then have a global release. At the XAI all hands Elon showed the rendering of lunar mass driver. here's the full video of the recent xAI all hands meeting pic.twitter.com/VDKJp8KMRv - Whole Mars Catalog (@wholemars) February 11, 2026 xAI's new massive supercomputer, the largest ... Read more

Forbes Senior Editor Alan Ohnsman repeats his mistake that electricity prices have tripled. He compared Tesla electricity price guarantee around wholesale and industrial electricity and then switched to residential electricity prices. He also claimed that Tesla would sell the Semi for $400,000 when the announced prices were $260,000 for the 325 mile range and $290,000 ... Read more

The electric vehicles, Optimus humanoid bot, battery storage and other equipment and vehicles made by Tesla and Boring Company will all work in the airless environment of the moon. Boring Company, Prufrock-5, is the planned next-generation TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine). It described as the company's smartest, fastest, and safest yet, is already in production and ... Read more

New York, NY, 11th February 2026, CyberNewswire

Forbes compared a Tesla guaranteed 7 cents for kwh charging price and compared it to 18 cents for residential home charging. Pepsi is not going to charge Semi trucks at people's homes. Tesla will still be able to guarantee low wholesale or industrial electricity charging prices today. It might be 8 cents per kwh but ... Read more

The Rule of 40 is a widely used financial benchmark in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) and broader technology sector, particularly among venture capitalists and investors evaluating high-growth companies. It measures a company's ability to balance revenue expansion with profitability. Rule of 40 is calculated as the sum of the year-over-year revenue growth rate (as a percentage) ... Read more

Various analysis of the cost of AI Data Centers in space describe crossover points for AI data centers in space as $500/kg in launch or $250/kg in launch. The difference in costs for launch that SpaceX charges itself versus clients and SpaceX being the clear leader in mass production of cost efficient satellites gives SpaceX ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 9th February 2026, CyberNewswire

The FCC has given SpaceX a time-limited waiver for 18-24 months, effective January 9, 2026 to increase KU band transmission. This immediately authorizes SpaceX to exceed equivalent power flux density (EPFD) limits for KU-band operations in the US, enabling higher transmission power from Gen2 Starlink satellites. This will be made permanent during the next 6-12 ... Read more