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-Tesla (TSLA.O) is in talks with the Indian government to set up a factory with an annual capacity to produce about half a million electric vehicles according to a Times of India report on Thursday, citing a government source. The starting price for the vehicles will be 2 million rupees ($24,400.66) which is more than ... Read more

The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, July 14th. The X.AI team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. They have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 14th, 2023, Chainwire Shiba Memu, a new dog-themed memecoin, has reported strong demand for its presale, raising almost $800,000 in just nine days. A total of $798,000 worth of SHMU tokens have been purchased so far ahead of the memecoin's official exchange launch. The project is centred around combining AI with ... Read more

The limitations for Tesla AI development are programming resources, AI architecture, compute resources, training data and financial resources. Tesla has started operating its Dojo AI training supercomputer and this will scale to over 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Tesla will likely continue to expands its AI supercomputing datacenters and cloud. Tesla continuing its ... Read more

Elon Musk explained his plan for building a safer AI and the creation of his new XAI comppnay. xAI will seek to create a maximally curious" AI. If it tried to understand the true nature of the universe, that's actually the best thing that I can come up with from an AI safety standpoint," Musk ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, July 13th, 2023, Chainwire Recently, ungrounded allegations are spreading on social media regarding a supposed decline in assets" at global major exchange Huobi. To prevent panic among users, Huobi has released a necessary response based on data and facts. On July 1, the crypto giant published its Merkle Tree-based proof of reserves for ... Read more

Canada has added 700,000 people to its population over the last 5 months (from Feb, 2023). This is a rate of population increase of 140,000 per month or about 1.7 million per year. If this population increase was sustained then Canada would have 40.9 million people at the end of 2023 and 42.6 million people ... Read more

Dr Know it All points out that Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's Director of Autopilot software, said Tesla is building Foundational World Models for its AI. John Gibbs (Dr Know It All) believes this is Tesla converting the Full Self Driving software to have a large language model style view of the physical world. Instead of training ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 13th, 2023, Chainwire XBorg, the Web3 company developing a collaborative credential infrastructure that allows players to create their digital identity and enjoy tailored user experiences within enhanced gaming applications, sold out their $2 million seed round community allocation in record time. The funds will facilitate the scaling and adoption efforts ... Read more

The decentralized wireless network infrastructure provider World Mobile is looking to beef up its presence in the U.S. after securing the rights to licensed spectrum in a handful of western states. World Mobile is a wireless network operator that is aiming to build an entirely new, and ultimately global mobile network based on blockchain. Uniquely, ... Read more

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, has reported the successful implementation of a 400,000 pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) that they say will pave the way for the development of extremely light-sensitive large-format superconducting cameras. The camera will also prove invaluable for those doing medical research, where ... Read more

The Metaverse continues to be a hot topic amongst major stakeholders in the global financial market scene and the tech industry. But despite the hype and interest by major players in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the Fashion industry, the metaverse has its fair share of critics, including Elon Musk who has previously poked fun ... Read more

Rolls-Royce is working on a Micro-Reactor program to develop nuclear energy technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. The UK Space Agency provided 2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor. This follows a ... Read more

Angry Astronaut provided more technical information about the development and plans of the Pulsar Fusion Rocket. Pulsar has their own operational chemical rockets and plasma drives. The 11 year old, UK company, Pulsar has been mainly focused on fusion research. Pulsar started developing products that could bring in revenue while that research continues: a Hall-effect ... Read more

Calgary, Canada, July 12th, 2023, Chainwire Portals, the leading yield and protocol aggregator for DeFi, is proud to announce the launch of Milky Way, a major architecture upgrade that enables one-click gasless access to any-to-any swaps across a wide range of ERC20 tokens. With Milky Way, users and developers can enjoy a seamless, cost-effective, and ... Read more

Singapore, Singapore, July 12th, 2023, Chainwire ATPBot has launched one of the easiest auto-trading bots on the market. With its user-friendly interface and simplified features, the bot offers a hassle-free experience for novice and experienced traders. ATPBot focuses on quantitative trading strategy development and services. It uses artificial intelligence to develop and implement quantitative trading ... Read more

The Suzuki Base Spacia 2023 has a fold-down rear seat and a hard table luggage compartment cover that asks as an in-car desk. The car sells for less than US$10,000 in Japan. It is a very clever way of getting a very good office setup in an affordable car. This is showing that with a ... Read more

Tesla FSD and Autopilot used to require complete retraining when the cameras were moved on Tesla vehicles. Tesla AI lead, Ashok Elluswamy, has now said that Tesla can now even use video of driving from Youtube. This means the cameras can be moved and Tesla can still use the driving video for its General AI. ... Read more

Tesla will make about 2 million model 3, model Y and 80k Model S and X in 2023 and will have mostly ramped the Lathrop Megapack factory. This will mean about 170 GWh of batteries used by Tesla for its commercial products. Cybertruck and Semi are in production but will not be in ramped mass ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 11th, 2023, Chainwire Pikamoon, an emerging Ethereum blockchain game, has raised $3.6 million in its ongoing ICO to bring more value to the Ethereum ecosystem and revolutionise the blockchain gaming space. Pikamoon would launch the world's most immersive metaverse game and a first-of-its-kind earning model that allows players to withdraw ... Read more

Elon Musk described continued improvement of the Raptor 3 engine beyond levels reported in May. The Saturn V rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust. A 20 million pound thrust Starship booster with the improved Raptor 3 engines will have 263% of the power of the Saturn V. Looks like we can ... Read more

New York, United State, July 10th, 2023, Chainwire WOW EARN, a new mining DeFi platform, has released a multi-chain crypto wallet on smartphones. Launched on May 29th, WOW EARN Wallet is now available for download on Google Play Store and App Store. The platform facilitates the purchase, exchange, and trading of cryptocurrencies. Since its release, ... Read more

Paris, France, July 10th, 2023, Chainwire Leveraging its successful $4.5m fundraising, Swaap launches its v2 protocol, bringing easy-to-use and powerful market-making strategies to the global DeFi community. Swaap v2 is unique in addressing key challenges such as impermanent loss which have plagued Liquidity Providers. Swaap, the cutting-edge market-making protocol for blue-chip crypto assets, is thrilled ... Read more

This week Chins rocket startup, Landscape, will have its second attempted launch of the Zhuque-2 medium rocket. Landspace has raised over $340 million. Zhuque-2 is a medium-sized rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane capable of lifting 4,000 kg of payload into a 200 km low Earth orbit, or 2,000 kg of payload into a ... Read more

Members of the Safe Street Rebels is placing traffic cones on Cruise and Waymo vehicles to disable the self-driving robotaxis. The cones on the hoods of the cars confuse the driving software. On Thurs 7/13, the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) will vote to expand AVs in San Francisco. Cruise and Waymo promise they'll reduce ... Read more

China rocket startup Space Pioneer, aka Beijing Tianbing Technology, has raised a total of three billion Chinese yuan ($414 million) across 11 rounds since its establishment in 2018. The funding will be used to complete the Tianlong-3 kerosene-liquid oxygen launch vehicle and its engine and the construction of a dedicated launch complex at the Jiuquan ... Read more

We have made our own gravity wave detectors on Earth that are about 40 kilometers long and detect variation with lasers and now we have used decades of Pulsar observations to detect long wave gravity waves. We needed to create single wavelength lasers and use one-megawatt of power to detect differences of one trillionth of ... Read more

We cannot travel to other star systems and may not be able to travel there for a hundred years. However, we can find and test interstellar material. We can determine that meteors that were traveling faster than solar system escape velocity came from outside the solar system. NASA has a record of about 300 such ... Read more

Japan has had regular high speed rail for commuting betweens its cities for decades. N700A trains can reach 285 km/h (177 mph) on 3,000 m (9,843 ft) curves, allowing the maximum operating speed to be raised to 285 km/h (177 mph). All N700 series were upgraded to N700A but there have been new N700S being ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 8th, 2023, Chainwire Aptius Ltd, a British financial enterprise, has developed a new cryptocurrency called BritanniaCoin which will be available for pre-sale from June 18th onwards, ahead of its launch later this year. BritanniaCoin is a British-built blockchain that introduces real-world applications while honouring British cultural heritage. The pre-release contains 316,000 ... Read more

Randy Kirk and Larry Goldberg reviewed my analysis of Tesla margin impacts from almost double Model S and Model X deliveries in Q2 2023 versus Q1 2023. Larry and Randy agree that Tesla will be in the range of 20% margin for Q2 2023. They also estimate the earnings per share will be about 96 ... Read more

World BEV market share was 11% in May and is average 10% in 2023. Global light vehicle sales are forecast to increase by 6.2% y/y to 86.0 million units in 2023. World BEV sales should be about 11 million in 2023. This would be up from 7.2 million in 2022. The world should have 1 ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion (UK) is working on a Direct Fusion Drive (DFD). It is a compact nuclear fusion engine which could provide both thrust and electrical power for spaceships. This technology opens unprecedented possibilities to explore the solar system in a limited amount of time and with a very high payload to propellant masses ratio. This ... Read more

Felix at What About it and other SpaceX followers are covering the installation of the deluge plate and other work to prepare the launch facility for Starship launches. SpaceX is installing the Deluge plate! That's certainly the biggest shower head I've ever seen! Looking at SpaceX's current impressive progress speed, 4-6 weeks for launch ... Read more

Elon Musk spoke today in a video at the World AI Conference 2023. He said FSD will be officially released at the end of this year, and he said Tesla would be happy to license self-driving technology to other car companies. He also ended by praising China's AI capabilities. Elon Musk spoke today in a ... Read more

Dubai, UAE, July 6th, 2023, Chainwire OKX's Signal Trading is a trading bot and marketplace that bridges the gap between signal providers and traders Signal Trading will be integrated with TradingView, enabling signal providers and traders to create signals directly on the leading charting platform A pre-launch waitlist is available now for signal providers and ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, July 6th, 2023, Chainwire Veloce Media Group announces major investment commitment of $50 million from GEM Digital LimitedSignificant investment to fuel Veloce Media Group's growth Gem Digital Ltd a global leading digital asset investment firm Following the announcement of Veloce Media Group's evolution to Web3, with the launch of its new blockchain ... Read more

Tesla should have over 20% auto gross margin in Q2 2023. This is a big factor for whether the share price of Tesla goes up for the next few months. Tesla Model S and X have an average selling price about twice the Model Y. The Model S and X sales and deliveries in Q1 ... Read more

Santa Clara, California-based Alef Aeronautics has been certified for test flights be able to take off into the air vertically and fly like a helicopter up to 110 miles on a single charge. The whole car becomes a wing, a circular wing. Alef is taking pre-orders for a $150 deposit. The company is backed by ... Read more

The Ariane 5 rocket will have its last launch this week. The rocket had its first launch in 1996 and should end with 112 successful launches out of 117 attempts. It could launch 35000 to 44000 lbs to low earth orbit and 15000 lbs to GTO (geosynchronous transfer orbit). It cost 150 million to 200 ... Read more

Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, signed a launch agreement with Lockheed Martin to support a technology demonstration mission that will launch aboard Firefly's Alpha vehicle. Firefly's Alpha rocket provides affordable and responsive launch services with the capability to lift more than 1,000 kg to low Earth orbit. The vehicle utilizes Firefly's patented ... Read more

In June 2023, Firefly Aerospace acquired Spaceflight Inc. to strengthen Firefly's on-orbit solutions and service the entire lifecycle of customers' satellites and spacecraft. The acquisition further supports Firefly's robust portfolio of low-cost space transportation services, including responsive launch and in-space mobility, on-orbit hosting and servicing, and lunar delivery operations. Spaceflight's flight-proven orbital vehicles provide payload ... Read more

Telstra has signed an agreement to become the first telco in the world to use Starlink low-earth-orbit Satellites for voice-only services while at the same time offering Starlink Broadband to regional and remote Australia. In areas where copper lines for phones are degraded, out of reach or impossible to install, Telstra will now put a ... Read more

BYD sold 128,196 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in June 2023, up 84.34 percent from 69,544 units in the same month last year and up 7.18 percent from 119,603 units in May. This is updating a comparison of BYD and Tesla from May 2023. BYD sold 616,000 BEVs in the first half of 2023. Tesla sold ... Read more

Tesla had a big beat on Q2, 2023 deliveries with 466,140 cars delivered and 479,700 car produced. I think Tesla will trend around 90% of actual production capacity (production being demonstrated sustained over weeks). In Q1 2023, Tesla delivered 423k cars and produced 440k cars. This was about 89% of real peak production capacity. Tesla ... Read more

In the second quarter 2023, Tesla produced nearly 480,000 vehicles and delivered over 466,000 vehicles. This was a 20,000 car beat on deliveries (including about 5,000 more S/X than expected), which was about $1.2 to 1.5 billion more in revenue. This would be $400M to 600M more on profit. This Q2 was 40,000 that was ... Read more

Here is a video of a flight of a Soviet N1 rocket hot staging. [likely animated] Flight History of N1 Rocket N1 1L - full scale dynamic test model, each stage was individually dynamically tested; the full N1 stack was only tested at 1/4 scale. N1 2L (1M1) - Facilities Systems Logistic Test and Training ... Read more

ArianeGroup has successfully carried out the first ignition campaign of the reusable Prometheus(R) engine on the reusable Themis rocket core stage demonstrator - a key step in providing Europe with the essential technological building blocks for future reusable launchers. This test of a complete rocket stage running on liquid oxygen and bio-methane is a first ... Read more

Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt have funded inflection.ai, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman, with $1.3 billion and a valuation of $4 billion. They claim to have the world's best AI hardware setup. They will build AI hardware with 22,000 of the latest Nvidia H100 chips. Inflection.AI ... Read more

SpaceX Starship had a static fire test of its six engines. Ship 25 completes a six-engine static fire test at Starbase in Texas pic.twitter.com/wCCrh0RRNA - SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 27, 2023 Starship Grazer provides actual pictures (not renderings) of the central water cooled plate that will be installed under the orbital launch mount. Awesome! First look ... Read more