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On July 17, 2024, two research teams reported that have re-detected the phosphine, and have tentatively found ammonia as well. Phospine and ammonia are produced by living microorganisms. It's not proof that living microbes are floating around in Venus' atmosphere. The findings presented at the national astronomy meeting in Hull on Wednesday bolster evidence for ... Read more

Hundreds of billions will be spent to scale AI data centers to Millions of Exaflops by 2029. The systems will be 3000 times more powerful than the largest AI training centers today. There will be huge challenges making massive data centers that will use many gigawatts of power. Here we review which Nvidia chips will ... Read more

NASA scientists have now discovered a single place on Mars with signs it once hosted all three of life's main ingredients: liquid water, energy, and organic molecules. On July 21, NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a strange rock partially buried in a dry riverbed. White streaks hinted water once flowed through the stone, and Perseverance detected ... Read more

NASA is worried that multiple small reaction control system thrusters could fail while the Starliner is near the space station and cause a disaster. There are combinations of Starliner thrusters failures would make it become uncontrollable and cause a collision with the space station. The thrusters are needed later in the flight back to Earth ... Read more

Nanonuclear is vertically integrated microreactor and advanced nuclear technology company that raised $20 million on July 18, 2024 in a stock offering and had raised $8 million in earlier funding. Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture interviewed the CEO James Walker. Mr. Walker is a Nuclear Physicist and was the project lead and manager for constructing the ... Read more

Ars Technica reports that there has been a lot of recent activity at NASA, Boeing, and SpaceX. This activity suggests that two ISS astronauts (Wilmore and Williams) could come home aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft rather than Starliner. Nextbigfuture believes that it is a needless risk to have the astronauts return on Boeing Starliner. Multiple ... Read more

NASA awarded SpaceX a contract for $843 million to make a giant version of the Dragon Spacecraft to de-orbit the Space Station. It will use 47 Draco engines instead of the 16 on the Crew dragon. It will four times the thrust and six times the propellant. If there was ever a mission to move ... Read more

SpaceX has unveiled the Raptor 3 engine, marking significant advancements in thrust, specific impulse, and mass efficiency compared to previous versions. The Raptor 3 boasts a thrust of 280 tf, a specific impulse of 350s, and an engine mass of 1525 kg. The SpaceX Raptor 3 engine has potential to exceed 300 tons of thrust ... Read more

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says that the AI large language models are still exponentially scaling. It takes 6-24 months to reach each successive scaling node but the scaling is still working. AI Inference is becoming larger than AI training. The data for AI training is different than the reference data used by AI to generate ... Read more

What kind of future energy does humanity really need to develop? We need a lot more energy than you think. We need to build faster and it needs to be cheap. There is vastly more electrical energy that is needed. The world has added about 700 TWh per year in electricity in 2022 and in ... Read more

Lex Fridman interviews Elon Musk and the Neuralink team on the Future of Humanity for over 8 hours. Lex interviews them in sequence. Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain ... Read more

Elon Musk and Tesla will have the capability to go all-in on robotaxi in 2025. Will they choose to use it? The Full self driving software is improving by two to five times every three months in terms of miles between interventions. They will get to feature complete by the end of this year. Tesla ... Read more

NASA and Boeing continue to analyze the Boeing Starliner at the International Space Station. The Boeing Starliner has been delayed about six weeks before a planned return flight of two astronauts. Michael Tzukran is a satellite photographer who captured a picture of the Boeing Starliner being inspected by the Canadarm. NASA said SpaceX's Crew Dragon ... Read more

Philadelphia, United States, 1st August 2024, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk will meet Samsung CEO Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai CEO Chung Eui-sun in Paris in early August. It is reported they will dine in Paris this weekend. They will also discuss the development of next-generation technologies and explore ways to cooperate. The meeting was reportedly made at the suggestion of Chairman Lee Jae-yong. Elon ... Read more

A startup, Cutting Edge Superconductors, claims to have a variant of the South Korean LK99 room temperature superconductor that shows low resistance and some weak evidence of meissner effect and quantum locking. The sample is tiny. They are trying to get a few hundred thousand in SBIR and NASA grants and $600,000 in crowdfunding. The ... Read more

OpenAI has starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions. Advanced voice mode can translate between languages in realtime. It can also sing and do other voice generation ... Read more

Miami, United States, 1st August 2024, CyberNewsWire

Uber will help finance drivers to get 100,000 EVs from BYD. They will target Europe and Latin America and will also expand to markets including the Middle East, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They will also work together to develop future BYD autonomous vehicles. Uber will provide drivers with pricing and financing for BYD cars ... Read more

Nvidia is writing new domain specific libraries to enable the rewriting of applications to use accelerated GPUs instead of CPUs. This can reduce the energy used by 20 times and speeding up the applications. Nvidia is enabling humanoid robotics with compute for the training, compute for the simulation and then compute for the robot.

Nvidia is enabling all knowing AI powered video analysis. This will enable the comprehension of everything happening in all video cameras. They describe how this will be good to enforce what should happen. It is also clear that this will enable Orwellian levels of control and monitoring. Powerful AI tools can be used for good ... Read more

GenAI is being used to improve the recommendation engines across all of the Facebook content. It will upgrade all of the processes and systems that we use. We will give it our intent and then it will return the results. AI will be improving to perform superior planning for better results. Meta is making an ... Read more

The SpaceX Super Heavy booster in the FAA report was analyzed with up to 35 engines and 103 million newtons of thrust. This would be just short of triple the thrust of the Saturn V. The SpaceX Starship was analyzed with up to 9 engines and 28.7 million newtons of thrust. The Saturn V had ... Read more

Crowdsourced data shows that Tesla FSD 12.5 is three to five times better than FSD (Full self driving supervised) 12.3.6. The FSD 12.5 is showing 744 miles between critical disengagement and 111 miles between any disengagement. The FSD critical disengagements improved 3.8 times from 194 miles with 12.3.6. There was also a 3.8 times improvement ... Read more

Las Vegas, Nevada, 30th July 2024, CyberNewsWire

In China, 13.5k Tesla insurance registrations were reported for the week of July 22 to 28. The quarter is +49.6% QoQ and +18.9% vs. 24Q1 the best quarter after 4 weeks. YTD is at -1.8% YoY. Highest week of the quarter. $TSLA BREAKING: Tesla China insured units <July 2024> 1-7 : 6,500 8-14 : 11,400 ... Read more

XAI is using about 150 Megawatts to power its 100,000 H100 liquid cooled AI training center in a few months. Nvidia H100s have about 4 petaflops of compute power. This would be 400 exaflops of peak computing. The next step after that will be about 300,000 Nvidia B200s with a CX8 network in the summer ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will be ready for its fifth orbital flight in about 2-3 weeks but the FAA giving approval and having the actual flight will likely slip to September. There is 60-80% chance that the new improved heat shield will fully work. There is a 50% chance of a successful catch of the booster on ... Read more

Runway has released Gen-3 Alpha Image to Video, a significant update that allows users to create videos from still images using text prompts for additional guidance. They raised a June 2023 funding round that valued Runway at $1.5 billion. This was an increase from its $500 million valuation in December 2022. They have about $237 ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5.1 (full self driving supervised) starts wide release today. The hardware 3 version will be rolled out in about 10 days. FSD 12.5.1 starts wide release today. Please connect your Tesla to WiFi to receive the update. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2024 It takes considerable software effort to optimize the code ... Read more

Tesla AI5 chips will be volume production in 2026. Production version 1 of Teslabot will be produced in 2025. Currently Teslabot actuators are in the hand but the new version has actuators in the forearm. The cost of a super useful humanoid robot will be about $20,000. Tesla FSD for Cybertruck will be in mid-August. ... Read more

Chamath has the vision of rebuilding the $1.5 trillion global software stack with many lean 10-20 person companies powered with AI. His vision is to have the team create the product requirements document in extreme detail and feeding it into an AI to build it. This will start working over the next year or so. ... Read more

I had a discussion on Randy Kirk's youtube channel about the stunning implications of Tesla Real World AI, integration with XAI Grok superintelligence and Tesla energy. The world will be massively changing over the next few years and the foundation for the changes are already moving into place. The changes with AI and humanoid bot ... Read more

The SpaceX team submitted our report to the FAA regarding Falcon 9's launch anomaly, including likely cause and associated corrective actions. The FAA grounded the SpaceX Falcon 9 after an in space failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage. There was a liquid oxygen leak. The SpaceX team submitted our report to the FAA regarding ... Read more

Assuming the board of $TSLA approves @elonmusk proposal to buy $5 billion worth of XAI, then Tesla shareholder should vote to approve it. Here is why. @elonmusk told us that the top AI people wanted to work in a focused startup like XAI. They did not want to be in a larger corporation. This can ... Read more

Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics. This is a huge advance for AI to make big progress with better reasoning and better math. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) with advanced mathematical reasoning has the potential to unlock new frontiers in science and technology. We've made great progress building AI systems ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5.X will add Actually Smart Summon in about a month. It could be in the 2-4 week timeframe to get 12.5.3 released and then widely released. Tesla FSD 12.5 is showing some reverse driving for an automatic park. $TSLASuper AutoPark! https://t.co/2FZ5W4GQBi - Tsla Chan (@Tslachan) July 25, 2024 Tesla FSD Tracker only has ... Read more

SpaceX is building a second Mechazilla launch tower and has stacked two of the nine modules. The launch tower is about 469 feet tall or about 45 stories. Each of the modules is about 30 feet tall. Felix Schlang and the What About It? Youtube channels have excellent coverage of the second SpaceX tower. The ... Read more

A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top global public health and development threats. It is estimated that bacterial AMR was ... Read more

Google is increasing investments in AI. CEO says the risk is underinvesting versus over investing. Capex for Q2 for Alphabet as a whole was $13 billion, though Porat notes the majority of this was driven by investment in technical infrastructure - largely servers, followed by data centers. Google mixes in AI results with search results. ... Read more

While the Tesla Q2 Earnings had earning per share weakness, the truly important news is that Tesla's AI and Energy future was confirmed. The Megapack factory in China will expand to over 80 GWh per year of capacity and not just 40 GWh. Tesla Megapack have software that differentiate them versus their Chinese competitors. There ... Read more

Tesla FSD 12.5 (Full self driving) is proving to be another major leap in capability. Elon has said that 12.6 should be able to get to one intervention per year of driving. This would mean 15,000 to 20,000 miles per intervention if this is correct. Elon talked about the possibility of having drives without the ... Read more

Elon Musk indicates taht FSD (Full Self Driving) version 12.5.3 will be the version of FSD 12.5 that will go to wide release. FSD 12.5 is getting reviews as a major step change in smoothness, reduced interventions, speed and confidence in supervised autonomous driving. Still some issues with this release, but you can see the ... Read more

Elon Musk emphasized the opportunity for distributed AI inference using the fleet of Tesla cars and the future fleet of Teslabots. I tried to characterize the details of distributed AI Inference with the future fleet of Tesla cars and Teslabots. I have a forecast of the numbers of car and bots in each year and ... Read more

For 70 years, humanity has tried listening for radio emissions coming from other star systems. This is like sitting at home and waiting for a phone call that may never come or trying to hear noises from around our own singular farm house. Avi Loeb thinks a next step is to look around our yard. ... Read more

NASA has given answers to those who have asked to preserve all or parts of the International Space Station into a museum. NASA said disassembling and returning to Earth the complete modules and large components that comprise the International Space Station was not feasible. The space station has not been certified to operate with the ... Read more

Llama 3.1 405B is the first openly available model that rivals the top AI models when it comes to state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use, and multilingual translation. With the release of the 405B model, Meta supercharges innovation-with unprecedented opportunities for growth and exploration. They believe the latest generation of Llama will ... Read more

Tesla missed slightly on earnings per share. Financials improved but not as much as hoped. EPS was (non-GAAP) was 52 cents per share. There was not positive new guidance on car volumes. This is causing the shares to trade down. The restructuring charges for the layoffs were about $280 million more than expected at $622 ... Read more

There is a new proposed definition of planet that works far better for objects in other solar systems. In our solar system, objects are close enough that we can check the orbit and see if has been cleared of other objects. This is problematic if we can only infer rough properties of what could be ... Read more

Tesla Q2 earnings call is today after trading. What will happen with the most important financial qiesitons? Will they beat market expectations on earnings per share? Will they beat on margin? Will good guidance be given by Elon Musk? Tesla investors must watch this before earnings. Here are the other Tesla community forecasts. I will ... Read more