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by Brian Wang on (#73HP2)
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company's Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, tasking them with building a C compiler from scratch. Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73GW9)
DeepMind's Aletheia is a huge advance in AI-driven mathematical reasoning. It is a research agent built on top of Gemini Deep Think and uses an iterative process of generating candidate solutions, verifying them with a natural language-based checker to spot flaws, and revising as needed. It handles complex, open-ended problems more effectively than pure model ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73FT8)
Blue Origins New Glenn's New Glenn-3 (NG-3) will carry AST SpaceMobile's next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellite to low Earth orbit. The launch is scheduled for no earlier than late February from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. AST SpaceMobile cannot provide full continuous service until ~45-60 satellites are in orbit (targeting end-2026), ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73FT9)
Early data centers on the ground can target sites with existing infrastructure and power plants with available power. The most cooperative local governments, and minimal opposition. As scale increases, operators must pursue less tougher locations and face tougher environmental reviews. Later sites will need to build new grid with miles of heavy duty power lines ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73F1C)
SpaceX Starship V4 tanker should be ready in 2027 which should reduce the number of tanker refills for lunar missions down to 5 or 6. IF 1200 to 1400 flights out of 10,000 per year were used for lunar missions or refuelings, then this would enable 200 full lunar missions delivering over 40,000 tons to ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73E6N)
SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. Elon Musk is talking about building a city on the Moon at a faster pace. The real reason is to make hundreds of trillions from ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73DYS)
There are many sources like Our World in Data describe the cost to launch with SpaceX Falcon 9 as $2600 per kilogram or $1200 per pound but the cost to SpaceX is $629 per kilogram or $285 per pound. The ~$67-70 million external selling price is for about 30 out of the 170 missions in ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73DK1)
There is accelerated funding for the F-47 (aka Next Generation Air Dominance or the NGAD). The F-47 is the first sixth-generation air superiority fighter, developed by Boeing under the NGAD program to replace the aging F-22 Raptor fleet. It has superior stealth to the F22 and F35. It have speeds exceeding Mach 2 and a ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73DJA)
BYD NEVs include both passenger and commercial vehicles recorded January sales of 205,518 units, down 30.67% year-on-year and down 50.45% month-on-month. BYD's January sales of passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) totaled 83,249 units, down 33.60% year-on-year and down 56.35% from December. BYD's power battery and energy storage battery installations in January totaled about 20.187 GWh, ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73C7Y)
The path of first the SpaceX IPO and then the attempt to merge SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX and xAI merged pre-IPO to optimize AI operations in space, avoiding double taxation and enhancing margins by 5-10%. SpaceX builds satellites and xAI runs AI like Grok. XAI Grok AI would eventually be like Amazon AWS (web services) ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73C6A)
The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter will be grappled by a ClearSpace-made spacecraft equipped with an ESA-developed robotic arm. A Kessler Syndrome cascade is something that would play out over the course of decades if not centuries, rather than ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73C6B)
SpaceX Starlink Direct-to-Cell aims to connect billions of existing smartphones to LEO satellites. No hardware modification required. No special SIM card. T-Mobile's beta already delivers SMS to unmodified phones via Starlink. But scaling to full voice and data service demands solving a hidden bottleneck. Every time a LEO satellite passes overhead and hands off to ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73C42)
The SpaceX + xAI + Tesla Merger Path that Larry Goldberg outlines. Product integration can't work across separate companies SpaceX IPO absorb xAI merge with Tesla Endgame: Engineered abundance, not financial engineering Larry is invested into SpaceX and there have been discussions with other large investors. Goldberg outlines a phased ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73C43)
Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross explains why the rapid collapse in the cost of AI is doing more than improving software. It is triggering a chain reaction that could collapse the cost structure of the entire economy. This conversation explores the idea of an Economic Singularity, where intelligence becomes radically cheaper, robotics turns that intelligence into near-zero ... Read more
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20 Years of SLS and Constellation – 50 Years of the Same RS25 Engine and Each One Costs $145 Million
by Brian Wang on (#73AD4)
SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and testing) which is over 300 times more expensive than the more powerful SpaceX Raptor 3 engine. It is a flying museum piece that is using difficult liquid hydrogen which was the reason for ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73AD5)
Detailed Summary of Lex Fridman Podcast: AI State-of-the-Art 2026 with Nathan Lambert and Sebastian RaschkaThis episode (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7WhVT270Q, released around early 2026) features Lex Fridman interviewing Nathan Lambert (post-training lead at Allen Institute for AI, author of The RLHF Book) and Sebastian Raschka (author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73AAS)
It is rare for the richest person or richest family to triple wealth of the next richest. Bill Gates did it briefly in 1999 and Rockefeller did it. Now Elon Musk has a net worth of $852 billion and Larry Page has almsot $280 billion. Elon has 3.04 times as much wealth. Elon has about ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#73A54)
NASA Artemis 2 mission after encountering hydrogen leaks during a fueling test of the Space Launch System. The Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft have been central to NASA's Artemis program, aimed at returning humans to the Moon. Development began in earnest around 2011, following the cancellation of the Constellation program in 2010. SLS ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#739TJ)
When I ask AI If having negative cashflow of $10 billion is a good thing, the AI says it can be strategically OK. IF the company was rapidly expanding with new factories or investing for major growth. Is Burning >$10.3 Billion in Cash Good" or OK"? It depends entirely on context, stage, and strategy-it's rarely ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#739QX)
Rapid acceleration of AI toward the technological singularity, driven by open-source projects like Clawdbot (also referred to as Maltbot or OpenClaw). Roth and others say we have crossed and intelligence event horizon," where AI self-improvement makes the future unpredictable. Breakthroughs in AI capabilities, autonomous agent societies, and the implications for society, blending excitement with warnings ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#739NB)
SpaceX has acquired XAI. the combined ocmpany will have a valuation of $1.25 trillion. The SpaceX acquisition of xAI was announced and closed on February 2, 2026. Multiple reports, including from Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, and direct statements on SpaceX's website confirm the deal as completed on that date. The deal happened today. Not a merger ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#739NC)
Wingsuit Foil Enhancements have increased the range of and during of flights with wingsuits. Austrian wingsuit pilot Peter Salzmann achieving a world-first by gaining 67 meters of altitude mid-flight using a specially designed foil wing attached to his wingsuit. The video depicts Salzmann jumping from a ridge on El Hierro in the Canary Islands. He ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#7389E)
Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving subsidiary, is close to finalizing or has finalized a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $110 billion, more than doubling its valuation from the previous round. Alphabet (Google's parent company) is providing about $13 billion of the $16 billion. New investors: Sequoia Capital, DST Global (led by Yuri ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#737YE)
SpaceX has applied to build orbital data centers in space using up to 1 million AI inference satellites. The application references that this will be a first step to creating a Kardashev 2 civilization. A Kardashev civilization uses all of the energy of the sun. This is about 5 trillion times more than civilization is ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#737YF)
BYD (BYDDY ADR on OTC, or 1211.HK on HKEX) has seen poor share price performance over an extended period. There are EV market headwinds like softening global demand, intense domestic price wars in China. Average EV prices fell ~20% in 2022-2023), and macroeconomic factors such as interest rate hikes and policy shifts. In October 2025, ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#737YG)
Lemonade charges half of the per mile insurance for Tesla cars when Tesla FSD is active. Lemonade collaborates directly with Tesla to access real-time vehicle telemetry data, which allows them to precisely differentiate between FSD-engaged miles and human-driven miles (down to the second, in some descriptions). This means no separate physical device (like a plug-in ... Read more
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