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Madison, United States, 20th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Alisa Viejo, United States, 20th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

A general desktop emulator (like xAI's Macrohard, which emulates keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen interactions) could vastly expand beyond VBScript/Unix scripting, which are limited to command-line or basic API tasks. Such a system automates any UI-based workflow without code changes or integrations, mimicking human behavior across apps (browsers, legacy software, ERPs). What It Could Do ... Read more

Interview with Sulaiman Ghori, Member of Technical Staff at xAI. XAI will emulate millions of humans via the distributed Tesla chips. HW4 good enough AI and XAI are hardware constrained and the biggest edge for XAI is speed of hardware deployment. Predicting future bottlenecks Elon excels at forecasting bottlenecks months and years ahead and working ... Read more

Musk Lawsuit seeks to block full for-profit conversion and potentially disrupt Microsoft ties. Evidence shows intent to breach early agreements. Even if OpenAI wins the 2026 trial, discovery exposes emails/intents/depositions creates investor uncertainty and could delay fundraising and slow them in the AI race. AI Model Breakthroughs (Grok-4.2, GPT-5.2, etc.)Models like xAI's Grok-4.2 and ... Read more

US secretary of state Marco Rubio is expected to prepare a proposal to buy Greenland for $700 billion, NBC reports. January 14, 2026 Meeting, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt at the White House. No deal was ... Read more

GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than the most advanced scramjets in testing today. It is a rotating detonating engine. They did ground tests of a liquid-fueled rotating detonation ... Read more

Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server) and it is down this morning. This is causing many other sites to be down like X. Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. UPDATE: Some systems are recovering. You can ... Read more

XAI has created Grokipedia and Grokipedia has a Nextbigfuture article. Nextbigfuture provided early coverage of Companies that Become deep tech Unicorns. Dozens of top Nucleqr fission and Fusion, quantum computer and Space Companies before They Became Billion $ Unicorns. There has been a surge in Grokipedia traffic to approximately 3.5 million daily visits, representing a ... Read more

Exlumina's EVERLIGHT delivers wireless laser power to satellites and spacecraft, enabling longer missions, lower costs, and sustainable exploration in LEO, lunar, and deep-space environments. They will try to make the planned AI data centers in Space more efficient.

a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz join a16z general partner Erik Torenberg and Not Boring founder Packy McCormick for a discussion on the evolution of the media and information ecosystem over the past decade. The conversation explores shifts toward open, decentralized speech, the rise of creator-led platforms like Substack, and the decline of centralized ... Read more

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erds problem, but original research. Demonstrates AI generating novel math objects (Bellman functions for optimal control) quickly, linking to isoperimetric profiles and Takagi function ... Read more

New York, United States, 15th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

McLean, Virginia, United States, 15th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Silver Spring, Maryland, 15th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Startup Substrate is building next-generation semiconductor fabs using advanced X-ray lithography. This goes beyond extreme ultraviolet 13.5 nanometer wavelengths down to 0.01 nanometers. At the core of Substrate's technology is a custom particle accelerator which propels electrons (produced by an unknown emitter) to near the speed of light using radio-frequency cavities. As these electrons pass ... Read more

Austin, TX / USA, 14th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

New York, NY, 14th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Iran's Jamming of Starlink uses military-grade electronic warfare (EW) tools, likely imported from China and Russia deployed via mobile platforms like trucks or drones. This creates localized patchwork disruptions rather than a nationwide blanket. Interference is escalating from ~30% to over 80% packet loss in affected areas. The jamming is asymmetric, often prioritizing uplink (data ... Read more

Artificial intelligence is no longer the preserve of science fiction films and novels. The disruptive technology provides efficiency and innovation, but it also raises questions about the law. Consider these five important legal issues rearing their ugly heads as AI continues to develop. 1. Ownership and Authorship of Intellectual Property One of the most urgent ... Read more

Elon says SpaceX's core purpose is to make Star Trek real. US government and SpaceX will turn science fiction into science fact. - xAI's Grok will join GenAI.mil and go live later this month. -The world's leading AI models (including Grok and Gemini) available on every unclassified and classified network across the department - long ... Read more

Menlo Park, USA, 13th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Operation Absolute Resolve was like the US Dream Team of Basketball Domination. It was like Shaq and Jordan in their prime versus a High School Squad. It was a wake-up call for China and Russia. It was a stunning display of military prowess and intelligence and drone infiltration and sabotage. Recent events in the Russia-Ukraine ... Read more

How U.S. Military Captured Nicolas Maduro. The CIA infiltration with stealth drones seems to be the main element of several important elements. Inside Operation Absolute Resolve (January 3, 2026) On January 3, 2026, U.S. special operations forces executed Operation Absolute Resolve, a daring nighttime raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ... Read more

The total wealth that has left California is now $1 trillion. California had $2 trillion of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago. Now, 50% of that wealth has left - taking their income tax revenue, sales tax revenue, real estate tax revenue and all their staffs (and their salaries and income taxes) with them. ... Read more

Lutnick predicts that after a low GDP read in the 4th quarter because of the furloughs of federal workers. He disagrees with how this is measuered. Q1 and Q2 should have 5.X% GDP growth with 30 major new construction projects, new factories from the start of the $18 trillion in investment commitments. If the rate ... Read more

Main predictions are that US GDP will be 4-6.2% in 2026. Chamath had a wildcard (longshot) that SpaceX would not IPO but have a reverse merger with Tesla. Biggest Political Winner (12:27) David Friedberg - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) solidifies takeover of Democratic Party (like MAGA did for GOP) rise of collectivism. Jason Calacanis ... Read more

Millionaires have become far more common over time, driven by global economic growth, inflation, and wealth creation. In the early 20th century, being a millionaire was extremely rare. Historical Number of Millionaires There were estimated to be only about 20 millionaires in 1840 in the USA and around 4,000-5,000 by 1900. Globally, the figure was ... Read more

Elon Musk's Boring Company will soon open new tunnels that will link new stations and will add Robovan around 2027-2028. Current Expansion Plans TBC's core strategy is building small-diameter tunnels (12-14 feet) for Tesla vehicles, enabling point-to-point transport at speeds up to 150 mph. This contrasts with traditional subways by being cheaper (target: $10M/mile vs. ... Read more

The FCC authorized SpaceX to deploy & operate up to 15,000 next-gen satellites - enabling even better, faster, and more advanced Internet services in the country. President Trump is restoring America's technology leadership. NEW today, the FCC authorized SpaceX to deploy & operate up to 15,000 next-gen satellites - enabling even better, faster, and more ... Read more

The 2026 Timeline: AGI Arrival, Safety Concerns, Robotaxi Fleets This podcast episode, hosted by Peter H. Diamandis on the Moonshots Podcast has Salim Ismail (founder of OpenExO), Dave Blundin (founder & GP of Link Ventures), and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross (computer scientist and founder of Reified). The discussion explores the rapid acceleration toward Artificial General Intelligence ... Read more

True AGI expected in 2026 (possibly 2027), with superintelligence by ~2030 surpassing all human intelligence combined. 100X Intelligence density increase will reduce the HBM memory bottleneck. 10X AI gains every year going forward. Reusable rockets will be 30 times faster than planes, move more cargo and there will ten times more giant rockets than large ... Read more

xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round, exceeding the $15 billion targeted round size, and raised $20 billion. Investors participating in the round include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX and Baron Capital Group, amongst other key partners. Strategic investors in the round include NVIDIA and ... Read more

Elon Musk is very optimismic about AI + robotics leading to an age of extreme abundance. He sees a Star Trek future and not Terminator. The next 3-7 year transition will be very bumpy, potentially causing massive social unrest despite rising prosperity. AI and robotics is a supersonic tsunami that is already accelerating, no off-switch, ... Read more

Menlo Park, India, 6th January 2026, CyberNewsWire

Jensen Huang revealed that latest Nvidia technology and applications including the new Ruben GPU chips. Vera Rubin addresses skyrocketing AI computation demand (models 10x larger yearly, reasoning adds compute). Post-training uses reinforcement learning and inference is multi-token. Tokens use increase 5x yearly. Costs decline 10x yearly due to race. NEWS: Nvidia has released a new ... Read more

The US is getting faster at war. There was previously the 12 day war with Iran and now a 2 hour war with Venezuela. USA getting faster at war. 12 day war with Iran and now a 2 hour war with Venezuela @elonmusk @stevenmarkryan @benshapiro @RandyWKirk1 @WR4NYGov @ScottAdamsSays pic.twitter.com/8jk88GO08C - nextbigfuture (@nextbigfuture) January 3, 2026 ... Read more

2026 is the year Tesla AI starts to get to significant scale for robotaxi, optimus teslabot and using XAI Grok 5+ for voice and other early AGI capabilities. World's first fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive, done with Tesla self-driving v14. Congrats and thank you @DavidMoss! https://t.co/NFxzA7suRk - Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy) December 31, 2025 xAI NEWS: Reports ... Read more

Elon recently confirmed long-term plans for Mars at an xAI all-hands meeting. I, Brian Wang, predicted the plan over a year ago.

China has built a prototype EUV (extreme ultraviolent) lithography machine in a high-security laboratory in Shenzhen. They had a semiconductor Manhattan Project". The prototype was completed in early 2025 and is now undergoing testing. It occupies nearly an entire factory floor and was assembled using reverse-engineered components. Ramp-up timeline Functional for chip production around 2028. ... Read more

The NVIDIA-Groq $20 billion deal announced on December 24, 2025 is a major strategic move in the AI hardware space. NVIDIA and Groq clarified that it is not a full company acquisition. The deal is structured as a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq's inference technology, combined with NVIDIA hiring key Groq personnel. Groq's founder and ... Read more

BREAKING: SpaceX has announced that Starlink now has over 9 million customers, up from 8M in November and 7M in August 2025. I predicted that SpaceX would get to 9-10 million by the end of 2025. 9 days at 22-23K per day is another 220k-230k. Starlink added a record 21,275 new customers on average per ... Read more

One year ago, I predicted in Videos and articles that Elon Musk would build AI data centers on Mars. A few days ago, Elon Musk confirmed the general plan for AI data centers on Mars to an All hands meeting of XAI. I also wrote one third of the book AI Rising. The book is ... Read more

Shane Legg talks about the 1997 and later creation and popular definition of general intelligence. Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, defines levels of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a spectrum rather than a single binary threshold. NOTE: He mentions a 1997 paper on nanotechnology security that defined AGI. I, Brian ... Read more

Massachusetts authorities confirmed Brown University shooter killed MIT nuclear scientist. Redditor (Lamin_Kaare) is a Homeless Man named John and he is a former Brown University student. He is credited for cracking the case wide open by police. He called the tip line and flagged his OWN Reddit post, and was seen on video walking very ... Read more

OpenAI is holding preliminary talks with Amazon for an investment over $10 billion, including use of Amazon Web Services' Trainium chips for AI training. This is separate from raising up to $100 billion at a $830 billion valuation, up 66% from October's $500 billion mark. The $100B raise tells you what Sam Altman and OpenAI ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 19th December 2025, CyberNewsWire

The 2026 ramp of Tesla Cybercab will be transformational for the world and for TESLA. I have the projected ramp and predictions on the share price.

As of December 18, 2025, law enforcement authorities are actively investigating a potential connection between the mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (on December 13), and the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts (on December 15). There are reports that some 40 year old ... Read more

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social and ticker DJT, has announced a definitive agreement to merge with TAE Technologies, a leading private nuclear fusion energy company, in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion.Key details of the merger:This creates one of the world's first publicly traded nuclear ... Read more