by cybernewswire on (#70XAB)
Wilmington, Delaware, 21st October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70WXF)
The US and its hyperscalers are spending more money on AI and AI data centers. The US hyperscalers have huge capacity for $400 billion on capital expenditure and hundreds of billion on research. The US hyperscalers have more free cashflow to expand AI investments towards $1 trillion per year and beyond. China is getting Nvidia ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WXG)
Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are very clear for population impacts on workforce and retirement. People who will be 20 years older are alive today. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WWD)
In August 2016, my son and I met Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky. Daniel has sadly died at the young age of 29. I only got to see him for a couple of hours but he was already a great chess communicator and educator. He reached as high as 18th in the world rankings. Naroditsky was ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WPE)
As of September 2025, the total amount of gold ever mined and remaining above ground (the investable stock used for market valuation) is approximately 218,000 metric tonnes. This figure accounts for all gold in forms like jewelry, bars, coins, central bank holdings and industrial uses. At the current gold price of $4,307 per troy ounce ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WPF)
TSMC's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix celebrates the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil. The US Nvidia Blackwell has reached volume production. The chip packaging is still done in Taiwan. TSMC Arizona will produce advanced technologies including two-, three- and four-nanometer chips, as well as A16 chips, all essential for applications like AI, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70WPG)
Mathematician Thomas Bloom, runs erdosproblems.com, explains that OpenAI surfaced erdos problem solutions that were not unsolved. OpenAI GPT-5 simply surfaced existing papers solving them that he had personally overlooked, mislabeling them as open" on his site. No new mathematics was generated-GPT-5 acted as an advanced search tool. OpenAI's Mark Sellke and Sebastien Bubeck previously announced ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70W0H)
Elena Vera, a growth leader at Lovable with 10+ years running growth teams, argues that distribution-not just product quality-determines company success. Great products fail without it, while mediocre ones thrive with strong distribution. She defines growth as answering four questions predictably: Acquire, Activate, Monetize, and Retain customers. Fast-growing companies succeed via growth loops (compounding flywheels, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70W0J)
Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk defines AGI as capable of doing anything a human with a computer can do, but not smarter than all humans and computers ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70VKB)
Taiwan, South Korea and China have critically low fertility rates below 1.0. Japan is also very low (1.15) and has had low fertility for longer. By 2070, the countries could halve their current populations. A fertility rebound could avert 30-70% of projected population losses by 2100. This might stabilizing societies at near-current sizes-but only if ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70VJ1)
Major breakthroughs in AI across science, productivity, and social platforms: 1. AI Turns Research Papers into Interactive Agents A new system called Paper-to-Agent" converts academic papers into live, interactive AI agents. These AIs can: Answer complex questions about the research. Visualize data and models dynamically. Update themselves with new findings. Interact with other research AIs ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V97)
Poland is getting serious about declining fertility rates which hit a record low of 1.16 births per woman in 2024. On October 16, 2025, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed the PIT Zero for Large Families initiative into law. It exempts parents raising at least two children from personal income tax (PIT). This builds on earlier ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V74)
Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, which is approximately 6,900 mph. While its cruise speed is planned to be around Mach 4-5, the engine combination ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V75)
EagleEye is a family of Warfighter Augments, powered by Lattice, that equip warfighters with enhanced perception, lethal connectivity, heightened survivability, and mission planning to see the fight earlier, decide faster, and act with better information. EagleEye consists of heads-up displays, integrated helmets, and compute armor - all architected from the ground up to meet fit ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V76)
Tesla's imminent wide release of FSD (Full Self-Driving) update to version 14.1.2. Some testers believe FSD 14.X will enable unsupervised driving by December. Chuck Cook is confident about FSD progress. Backseat driving demos could supercharge word-of-mouth sales, making FSD irresistible and potentially overwhelming Tesla's production capacity. Today's stock rally (from ~$423 to $440), attributing it ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V31)
AI productivity has been heavily dependent on prompt abilities and how people gave instructions to AI. Claude has introduced skill files (portable to other LLM- large language models): Automatically invoke predefined capabilities when a relevant task is mentioned Handle multi-step projects like job candidate research, spreadsheet automation, or report generation using stored logic Provide consistent ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70V0P)
SpaceX released photos and videos of the Flight 11 ocean landing. Super Heavy hover pic.twitter.com/VLczlgdeH8 - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 15, 2025 Starship successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown pic.twitter.com/ftAWwk3B33 - SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 16, 2025 SpaceX is making sci-fi real. pic.twitter.com/uneAQCldK5 - DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 16, 2025
by Brian Wang on (#70V0Q)
SpaceX had three Falcon 9 launches in the last three days. They have had 130 launches in 2025 and are on track for about 170 launches in 2025. October 14, Project Kuiper KF-03 Mission. A Falcon 9 launched Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites from Florida's SLC-40, with successful deployment confirmed and the first stage landing on ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TEY)
Tesla is test driving the cybercab in Fremont. Various drone footage from youtube. Stopped by Giga Texas this afternoon and there was a Cybercab test vehicle driving on the S River Road and to the W side. This is the 1st one I've seen driving here in a while. Much more I'll share soon! pic.twitter.com/tP1kjBQziB ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TEZ)
The S-70UAS U-HawkTM is a complete conversion of a UH-60L Black Hawk(R) helicopter into a pilotless, battle-ready utility platform. Announced on October 13, 2025, at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) exposition, the U-Hawk removes the cockpit, crew stations, and seats to prioritize payload capacity and autonomy. It has 95% common parts with ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TF0)
Publicly traded quantum companies, particularly the pure-play innovators, have delivered insane stock price runs over the past 1-2 years despite revenues that barely register. IonQ (IONQ), Quantum Computing (QUBT), Rigetti Computing (RGTI), and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) dominate as publicly traded companies. The market caps collectively exceed $50 billion but with revenues totaling under $100 million. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70TA4)
The Dark Eagle, Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), is a road-mobile system capable of striking targets up to 1,700 miles away. Each battery has eight missiles on mobile trucks. This setup allows for quick deployment and fast strikes. The US Military is deploying the first missile battery. The LRHW is a road-mobile and air-transportable weapon system, ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#70T54)
Brad and Bill on the BG2 Podcast describe the AI CapEx bubble. The explosive growth in AI investment-especially in data centers, chips, and model training-shows potential signs of historical overreach. They increase the odds of overbuilding and reduce the quality of revenues. Gurley identifies round-tripping deals like the original deal between Microsoft and OpenAI, where ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70SPW)
Ford year-to-date has around 115-117 recalls as of October 15, 2025. The total vehicles affected year-to-date now exceeds 10 million, with Q3 2025 alone accounting for over 5 million vehicles impacted across Ford's campaigns-the highest quarterly figure for any manufacturer and representing nearly 60% of all U.S. vehicle recalls in that period. This surge continues ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70SJF)
Oklo's market capitalization has ballooned to $25 billion. The NRC denied Oklo's custom combined license application in Jan 2022, citing insufficient information on maximum-credible-accident (MCA) analyses, safety classification of SSCs (systems/structures/components), QA implementation, and other key technical topics. The denial and associated letters are public. Oklo has since restructured its licensing approach and reengaged the ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#70SBQ)
New York, United States, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70S65)
New York, USA, New York, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70RJ6)
SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over lower heating areas. SpaceX will choose to remain extra cautious but they can eventually reduce heat shield tiles. SpaceX is scaling ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70RJ7)
AMD Helios rack-scale solution. These are liquid-cooled, 72-GPU racks powering AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs (Venice) and do feature integrated UALoE scale-up connectivity. Oracle buying 50K MI450 for 2026. Is that about $2 billion. The AMD Helios is a next-generation, open-standard, rack-scale AI infrastructure platform designed for large-scale AI training, inference, and ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#70RCS)
Torrance, United States, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70RCT)
Tel Aviv, Israel, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70R1N)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70QYX)
Broadcom and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to co-develop and deploy 10 gigawatts (GW) of custom AI accelerators and integrated networking systems. This is OpenAI's start at designing its own AI processors. This builds on the Nvidia and AMD GPU supply deals. Broadcom's stock is up about 10% (adding ~$150 billion to market cap) ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QWQ)
In 2026, SpaceX will be launching many of the larger V3 Starlink satellites from the reusable Starship. Dummy version of the V3 Starlink were launched on SpaceX Starship flight 10 and flight 11. Starlink V3's 60 meter span is like a blue whale. AST Space Mobile Block 2's array rivals a tennis court.
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by Brian Wang on (#70QRQ)
The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:23 p.m. CT. It launched. Goals of Starship Flight 11: ** Good** Test new Super Heavy landing burn configuration ** Good** - Gather data for next-gen booster dynamics ** Good** - Stress-test Starship ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QVM)
Despite the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot pledge, public accounting shows less than $10 million spending. Philip Lubin (UC Santa Barbara, laser propulsion) received ~$200,000 over eight years. This was less than his NASA grants for similar work. There is an estimate of 30 contracts totaling $4.5 million. Scientists viewed this as a kickstart. Breakthrough's name ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QT3)
New light-vehicle sales in September 2025 reached a SAAR of 16.4 million units, up 3.5% year over year. EV tax credits expired on September 30. Battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales hit an all-time high in market share and accounted for 11.8% of all new vehicles sold. US light vehicles sales were about 1.25 million in ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QT4)
Join Tony Bela Patreon for high resolution versions of his infographics. He details out many interesting aspects of Space and SpaceX. SpaceX Starship flying in about 3 hours. Goals of Starship Flight 11: - Test new Super Heavy landing burn configuration - Gather data for next-gen booster dynamics - Stress-test Starship heatshield with missing tiles ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QRP)
SpaceX has announced regular commercial cargo missions to the Moon starting in 2028 and to Mars in 2030. They will charge $100 million per ton. SpaceX is going to try to get refueling and launches of the SpaceX Starship developed so that they can send an unmanned test mission in 2026. This test mission will ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QRR)
Paper2Agent transforms research output from passive artifacts into active systems that can accelerate downstream use, adoption, and discovery. Conventional research papers require readers to invest substantial effort to understand and adapt a paper's code, data, and methods to their own work, creating barriers to dissemination and reuse. Paper2Agent addresses this challenge by automatically converting a ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70QPE)
AI first companies are generating real revenue. The leading company is OpenAI and Anthropic also has significant revenue. There is also very fast growth in hundreds of small companies and that revenue growth is faster than SAAS (software as a service). XAI did not have much revenue in 2024 but it has made substantial gains ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70P4A)
Amazon shows how capex-heavy bets can terrify investors yet compound into fortunes. From 1997-2003, Amazon had over $5 billion in cumulative losses amid relentless infrastructure spends-warehouses, servers, logistics-totaling ~$10B adjusted, or 5-6x annual revenues at peaks. In 1999, Amazon's market cap was approximately $25.7 billion, fell as low as $3.6 billion in 2001 and got ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70P1X)
Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70NZH)
Kevin Pathrath an other warn of an AI Bubble and AI Ponzi with a potential 80% collapse. The core of the argument is the circular financing structure of the recent OpenAI-Oracle-Nvidia deal and the OpenAI-AMD deal. Nvidia commits up to $100B in investments ($10B per gigawatt deployed, up to 10GW), starting with the first GW ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70NX2)
OpenAI is winning AI in 2025. They are valued at $500 billion and have nearly 1 billion users. With the huge pace of deals and construction, who wins AI in 2026? Does AMD come from behind to seriously challenge AMD? Who can seriously challenge OpenAI?
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by cybernewswire on (#70NQH)
Menlo Park, USA, 10th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#70N9B)
NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study will raise from a valid concept to a proof of concept experiment. Nuclear-micropowered probes could be used for autonomous exploration of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) and other space missions. Tritium betavoltaics are a class of nuclear batteries ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#70N0N)
Figure AI has revealed a new humanoid bot, the figure-03. They are targeting a total of 100,000 built within 4 years (by the end of 2029). They anticipate making $1000 per month or $12,000 per year. This would mean $1.2 billion per year from 100,000 bots. The humanoid bots now wear clothes to make them ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#70MSP)
Palo Alto, California, 9th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#70MSQ)
Newark, United States, 9th October 2025, CyberNewsWire
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