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The US government and the owners of Westinghouse, Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco, have struck an $80 billion deal to build a fleet of nuclear reactors, using funding from a trade agreement with Japan. They had formed a new partnership to provide the reactor technology for the plants, which would help reach the US goal ... Read more

Nvidia today announced it is partnering with Uber to help build the world's largest Level 4 autonomous fleet, targeting 100,000 Robotaxis starting in 2027. Nvidia will work with Uber to scale the world's largest level 4-ready mobility network, using the company's next-generation robotaxi and autonomous delivery fleets, the new Nvidia Drive AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous ... Read more

The idea that real estate builds wealth isn't a surprise to anyone. But what many people don't realize is just how powerful it can be as part of a retirement plan. While traditional investments like stocks, bonds, and 401(k)s play their part, real estate offers something unique - steady income, tangible value, and the ability ... Read more

XAI has released version 0.1 of Grokipedia. It has almost 900,000 articles. Grokipedia is now live on http://Grokipedia.com Grokipedia focuses on truth-revealing via AI bias detection. As of October 2025, the English Wikipedia contains approximately 7,081,086 articles. This figure reflects its ongoing growth, with around 500 new articles added daily.

2025 saw a tripling of continual learning LLM papers according to arXiv trends. This is driven by foundation model scale and multimodal extensions. However, no flagship AI released models (GPT-5, Grok 4 etc...) fully integrate production-grade continual learning yet. There are expected architectures like routers and sparse finetuning signal imminent hybrids. There has been no ... Read more

AI data centers on earth face bottlenecks like intermittent solar power, massive water usage for cooling (up to 1.7 million tons per 40 MW facility over a decade), and grid constraints. Space offers near-constant solar exposure (up to 95% capacity factor in sun-synchronous orbits), zero water needs, and rapid deployment (2-3 months vs. years on ... Read more

Got TESLA FSD 14.1.4 over the weekend. Much Improved, not perfect. Avoid potholes and objects on the road far better. Able to leave my garage and go down a steep driveway. Old 13.X version would treat the road at the end of driveway as a potential barrier. Now it goes smoothly onto the road and ... Read more

We need an enhanced version of SUNSET to establish a space-based, combined discovery and early-warning system for NEOs (Near Earth Objects). If we use multiple satellites traveling ahead of Earth on its orbit we improve detections of sunward objects over satellites in NEO-Surveyor-like orbits by tens of percent and enables seamless, automatic follow-ups. A University ... Read more

London, United Kingdom, 27th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

ASEAN (in particular Malaysia) were key part of US Trade diversification from China Trade. Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Australia had key deals for the US to get 30-50% of the rare earth supply over the next 2-3 years up from 10% non-China now. Myanmar and Vietnam also have large rare earth supplies and they are ... Read more

X-Chess Champion Kramnik may face discipline. He hounded Daniel Naroditsky with accusations of cheating without evidence. Daniel Naroditsky said days before his death that whenever he was doing well the accusations of cheating would arise. Daniel said he felt is one of the worst periods of his life and at time felt his life was ... Read more

An AI expert from Anthropic predicts a mostly smooth transition for AI over the next 2-3 years where business adopts best practice AI that is unleashing 10X productivity. This will be great value creation that would payoff the trillions we are and will invest. Perfecting and scaling what AI is capable of now and what ... Read more

Super VC Marc Andreessen talks with Blake Masters and Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, a cloud-based coding platform. They talk about the transformative role of AI in democratizing programming, technical breakthroughs in agentic AI, historical parallels in computing evolution, debates on AGI timelines, economic implications, and Masad's personal journey from Jordan to Silicon ... Read more

LEO mega-constellations are expected to deploy thousands of satellites to provide broadband services with data rates approaching several Gbps and latencies as low as 30-50 ms, significantly lower than traditional GEO satellites (500+ ms). Achieving 6G's target of peak data rates up to 1 Tbps requires satellites to operate in high-frequency bands like Ka-band (26.5-40 ... Read more

Recent announcements highlight Samsung's development of an AI-powered modem chip designed to enable direct satellite-to-device (D2D) connectivity with SpaceX's Starlink constellation. This chip uses AI to optimize signal processing, beamforming, and interference management, allowing unmodified smartphones and devices to connect to low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites at gigabit speeds-even indoors or through obstacles like buildings and ... Read more

We now know TESLA has world leading robotaxi safety. 250,000 Robotaxi Miles driven with 1 incident. Austin reveals the safety and Tesla revealed the miles. Putting the pieces together. We have the up to date public safety data. Tesla revealed the miles of robotaxi in Austin and in the SF Bay Area. We put this ... Read more

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's VP of Autopilot Software, delivered a keynote titled Building Foundational Models for Robotics at Tesla" at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Tesla FSD camera inputs feed into a large-scale neural network (with expanding parameter counts, soon to scale 10x via new hardware). Future Outlook Scale robotaxi to unsupervised, nationwide service. ... Read more

DeepSeek's announced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) model compresses text-heavy data into images and reduces vision tokens per image by up to 20x while retaining 97% accuracy (10x compression) or ~60% at 20x. This outperforms competitors on efficiency-performance charts. arxiv - DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression We present DeepSeek-OCR as an initial investigation into the feasibility of ... Read more

Blue Origin has a critical next flight in November for New Glenn. It will determine if they have a chance for 4 flights in 2026 or 8. They have to be able to cleanly fly and land the booster stage. This will determine if they can reuse the booster every 6 months. Any flight problems ... Read more

Paris, France, 24th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

Palo Alto, California, 23rd October 2025, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk said the Tesla Robotaxi in Austin will have no safety monitor by end of 2025. No other human in the car which means Tesla robotaxi can scale to about 10 cities with thousands of cars each by mid 2026. Elon Musk greenlighting car production with autonomy solved means tens of thousands of Cybercabs ... Read more

The most important highlights of the Tesla Q3 earnings call. Tesla robotaxi miles were 250,000 in Austin and over 1 million in the SF Bay area. This is a significant ramp from about 7000 miles in Austin. This means about half of the miles were likely in the October. The SF bay area started at ... Read more

Meta has a joint venture agreement with Blue Owl Capital in a deal worth $27 billion to fund and develop the social media company's massive Hyperion data center in rural Louisiana. The deal will see Blue Owl own 80% of the Hyperion data center, with Meta taking the remaining 20% stake. Blue Owl contributed about ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, am one of the main co-authors for AI RISING: How To Thrive In The Age Of Abundance Please support with an order and share with others who might buy the book. All of the authors are Randy Kirk, Brian Wang, Cern Basher, Phil Beisel, Bradford Ferguson, John Gibbs, Nicholas Gibbs, Larry Goldberg, ... Read more

Reflect Orbital plans a constellation to enable solar power generation at night, make crops grow better and stronger, possibly replace urban lighting, provide emergency illumination in disaster zones and enable people to work into the night. UPDATE: The concept of mirrors in space was previously discussed in 2018, when China was looking to get 8 ... Read more

SpaceX and Elon Musk can replace SLS, Space Launch System, with the fixed priced $100 million per ton moon missions from 2028 and beyond. This would still be $10 billion for a full 100 ton payload to the moon and $7 billion if the same costs were used but scaled based on fewer refueling launches. ... Read more

Dynetics Alpaca and Blue Origin both look like possible 2029-2030 lunar landers if they get funded. The developments are not certain. Reviving the competition will be a $2-5 billion cost. However, this funding will not deliver the completed Artemis 3 mission. It would just give an option in 2028 or later for another lander if ... Read more

SpaceX's $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum enables broadband DTC (direct to cellphone) with 20x throughput over prior low-band spectrum from T-mobile. This mid-band S-spectrum offers excellent propagation characteristics but phones will need new chips to work with the spectrum band. DTC is an emerging service and we are going from it ... Read more

In 2022, the National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended exploration of Uranus as its highest priority Flagship mission for the 2030s. The Decadal recommendation relied on the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) concept as its baseline for the mission. UOP assumed a launch in 2031 on a Falcon Heavy Expendable rocket and ... Read more

There is an intensifying race to return humans to the Moon, pitting the US against China and now NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy will have SpaceX race Blue Origin and other bidders. China is aiming for a crewed lunar landing in 2029-2030. There are developing a Long March 10A super heavy lift rocket (70 tons), ... Read more

Everything has to go right for China to launch a human moon mission in 2029 or even 2030. China is also building a new rocket and they have not assembled it yet or flown it. China is still testing a lunar lander. Long March 10 Rocket Certification (2026-2027) Verification: On Track, with Accelerated 2025 Testing. ... Read more

As of October 21, 2025, Blue Origin has conducted only one New Glenn launch to date. The maiden flight occurred on January 16, 2025, from Cape Canaveral's SLC-36, successfully reaching orbit with a prototype Blue Ring payload, though the first stage was lost during reentry. The second Blue Origin launch of New Glenn is taking ... Read more

NASA's acting administrator Sean Duffy says he plans to open up the contract" SpaceX holds to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis 3 mission because the company has fallen behind schedule. Duffy previously maintained that Artemis 3 would launch in 2027, the agency's official target, even as multiple Starship test flight failures earlier ... Read more

Wilmington, Delaware, 21st October 2025, CyberNewsWire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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