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There are reports that Iran's nuclear facility Natanz has had extensive damage. IAF fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence, struck the Iranian regime's uranium enrichment site in the Natanz area overnight. This is the largest uranium enrichment site in Iran, which has operated for years to achieve nuclear weapons capability and houses the infrastructure required ... Read more

Tesla has just been officially added to Texas Department of Transportation's Automated Vehicle Deployment website. Tesla Ride-share service has been authorized without a Safety Driver. Company: Tesla Description: Ride-share service Status in Texas: Testing Active/Non-Active: Active Safety Driver: No Service Area: Austin Metro

China is allowing companies to export self driving car data. This will allow Tesla to more rapidly improve its full self driving and robotaxi software. In the USA, NHTSA is streamlining the process for robotaxi applications. The new USA framework will not have delays for qualified applications. It should take months instead of years for ... Read more

Paris, France, 13th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Apple's research paper, The Illusion of Thinking," examines the reasoning abilities of artificial intelligence models. It claims that LLM AI problem-solving skills are misleading. The study argues that these models do not truly reason but instead rely heavily on pattern matching, creating an illusion of thinking." To support this claim, the paper uses the Tower ... Read more

Sam Altman declares that AI is past the event horizon and the takeoff has started. We have recently built AI systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the output (productivity) of people using them. The least-likely part of the work is behind us; the scientific insights that ... Read more

Developed in collaboration with Mach33, ARK's open-source SpaceX model yields an expected enterprise value in 2030 of ~$2.5 trillion, generating a ~38% compound annual rate of return from its last funding round at $350 billion in December 2024.1 Tuned to the 75th and 25th percentile Monte Carlo outcomes, our bull and bear cases are ~$3.1 ... Read more

Ookla(R) Speedtest data on Starlink indicates that the satellite company's network performance has been on the uptick over the past couple of years and as of Q1 2025 17.42% of U.S. Starlink Speedtest users were able to get speeds consistent with the FCC's minimum requirement for fixed broadband of 100 Mbps download speeds and 20 ... Read more

Tentatively, June 22. [is Tesla Austin Robotaxi day] We [Tesla] are being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift. First, Tesla that drives itself from factory end of line all the way to a customer house is June 28. #ModelY #RoboTaxi spotted with branding on the side driving around Austin with no one ... Read more

Reinforcement Pre-Training (RPT) is a new method for training large language models (LLMs) by reframing the standard task of predicting the next token in a sequence as a reasoning problem solved using reinforcement learning (RL). Unlike traditional RL methods for LLMs that need expensive human data or limited annotated data, RPT uses verifiable rewards based ... Read more

IONQ plans to have a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029 and they are acquiring Oxford Ionic for a about $1 billion. Some other important points: - Achieved 99.99% physical fidelity TODAY - Still on track for machine benchmarked at AQ64 this year - 50x density on single chip by going from 1D to 2D ion ... Read more

Trump said he'd talk to Elon Musk again. Elon sent a heart emoji. The feud seems to be over and they are making up. BREAKING: ELON MUSK SENDS " EMOJI TO TRUMP $TSLA WE ARE SO BACK ! pic.twitter.com/UQxDrxwcf9 - TheSonOfWalkley (@TheSonOfWalkley) June 9, 2025

Automated or autonomous vehicles (AVs) are defined in the Texas Transportation Code as a motor vehicle that includes an automated driving system, which is hardware and software that, when installed on a motor vehicle and engaged, are collectively capable of performing, without any intervention or supervision by a human operator.

New Glenn's second mission will take place NET (No earlier than) August 15th. They have chosen the name Never Tell Me The Odds" for Tail 2. One of our key mission objectives will be to land and recover the booster. This will take a little bit of luck and a lot of excellent execution. Blue ... Read more

How Elon Musk and SpaceX Could Avoid Nationalization Amid Starlink and Starship Dominance ? As Starlink and fully reusable Starship become increasingly dominant-potentially increasing bandwidth by over 100 times, deploying satellites by 20 times, and dropping the cost to space by 50 times in the next 2-4 years-the risk of nationalization grows sharply. SpaceX's emerging ... Read more

Quantum computing breakthroughs from IonQ, D-Wave, QuEra, Alice & Bob, and others in the last six months, with dates, achievements, and their impact on error-corrected, scalable quantum systems. IonQ May 7, 2025, IonQ Demonstrated a 12% speed improvement over classical computing in a real-world simulation (heart pump modeling with Ansys). This shows practical quantum advantage ... Read more

There is a Republican split in congress. Republicans can only pass bills when they are unified. A split Republican Party means gridlock with no bills passing. There were some senators and some in the house who were wanting to go hardcore on the deficit. This also would mean no bills passed to harm Elon. It ... Read more

Cursor AI raised $900 million in Series C funding from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST. Cursor has grown to over $500 million in ARR and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500, including NVIDIA, Uber, and Adobe. This scale will help us push the frontier of AI coding research.

People who use IVF (in vitro fertilization) will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company. Nucleus plans to charge $5,999 for an analysis of up to 900 ... Read more

A combination treatment of semaglutide, trevogrumad and garetosmab causes fat loss and muscle growth in primate trials. Full trial results for humans are expected later in 2025. Results from the Phase II COURAGE trial show that Regeneron's combination of semaglutide plus trevogrumab significantly enhanced fat loss while preserving lean muscle mass in patients with obesity. ... Read more

Silver Spring, United States, 4th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Beijing, China, 4th June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Laser pushed sails-ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the payload each weigh a gram, such a spacecraft could accelerate to one fifth of the speed of light. This would be 200 times faster than the Voyager probe. Richard Norte of Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, ... Read more

Silver Spring, Maryland, 3rd June 2025, CyberNewsWire

Highlights of NVIDIA Computex 2025 Announcements 1. DGX Spark: Personal AI Supercomputer Description: The DGX Spark is a compact, personal AI supercomputer designed for developers, researchers, and data scientists. It brings high-performance AI capabilities to a desktop-friendly form factor. NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip will deliver 1 Petaflop for and DGX spark personal AI server. ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 2nd June 2025, CyberNewsWire

In 18 months, Israel deplayed an anti-drone system which intercepted dozens of targets throughout the war. There is a laser division in the Israeli Air Force which is operating new laser system built by Rafael. Israel is working on Iron Beam which is Israel's next-generation interception system that was scheduled to become operational by year's ... Read more

Ukraine launches the largest attack against the Russian Air Force of this war. Drones smuggled into Russia have struck Russia's strategic bombers at airfields deep in Russia. Up to 40 planes destroyed, including several A-50 (AEW&C) & Tu-95 & Tu-22 long-range bombers.

Meta is ranked 23rd on the LLM leaderboards and is also behind several Chinese open source LLM models. Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explains why bigger models and more data alone can't cross the gap to true intelligence-and what will move the field forward. Meta's Yann LeCun says AGI cannot be reached by scaling ... Read more

Elon Musk has updated the Mars and Starship plans. Starship and the Booster will eventually each be made about 20% more powerful. There will be versions by the end of the year that will be improved by about 5-10%. The new Starship will not have heat shields around the engines. The new engines can withstand ... Read more

Beijing, China, 30th May 2025, CyberNewsWire

From screen capture and analysis of video evidence, I have determined what the Tesla Model Q is. The Tesla Model Q has been highly anticipated. I now know what it is. It is a compact model Y. Review the evidence and analysis. I determined the specifications of the lower priced Tesla Model Q. I have ... Read more

Youtube Channel Met God in Wilderness flew a drone over Tesla Fremont and spotted a disguised new Tesla Model. It had its front and rear covered. I used AI analysis to determine the new car is a compact Tesla Model Y. It is 8 inches shorter. (180 inches versus 188.6 inches). Tesla is expected to ... Read more

A new version of DeepSeek is DeepSeek-R1-0528. DeepSeek R1 has significantly improved its depth of reasoning and inference capabilities by leveraging increased computational resources and introducing algorithmic optimization mechanisms during post-training. The model has demonstrated outstanding performance across various benchmark evaluations, including mathematics, programming, and general logic. Its overall performance is now approaching that of ... Read more

RLVR amplifies reasoning patterns that already exist. Qwen2.5-Math can uniquely do code reasoning"-solving math by writing Python (without execution). Code reasoning correlates with correctness (64% w/ vs 29% w/o). Spurious training amplifies code usage to 90%+. Just having reasoning models do more work in general, makes them improve performance. Our hypothesis: RLVR amplifies reasoning patterns ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 29th May 2025, CyberNewsWire

There was a good launch, good separation, and a good insertion. All 6 engines were reignited on Starship. They got through the second stage burn. They could not deploy the Dummy starlink satellites. They could not open the doors of the bay. They reflew a super heavy booster for the first time. They canceled the ... Read more

The most important things for this SpaceX Starship flight is have the Starship successfully fly without exploding. The next most important thing is deploying the dummy Starlink version 3 satellites. This will test out the pez dispenser deployment. If SpaceX can reliably move forward with operational Starlink version 3 satellites with Flight 10 or Flight ... Read more

The ninth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Tuesday, May 27. The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch at SpaceX.com and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast ... Read more

On March 6, 2025, Starship's eighth flight test successfully lifted off at 5:30 p.m. CT from Starbase in Texas. All 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster started up successfully and completed a full duration burn during ascent. After powering down all but the three center engines on Super Heavy, Starship ignited all six ... Read more

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets scientists see - in unprecedented detail - how interfaces move in promising materials for computing and other applications. The method, now available to users at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL, could help design dramatically more ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 23rd May 2025, CyberNewsWire

Steve Jobs famously said that Apple would not ship junk. Over time Apple has been able to increase market share by selling quality PCs and Laptops at lower price points relative to the overall market. Tesla also has premium products that will be made more affordable without excessively compromising features. Tesla should launch a $30,000 ... Read more

Anthropic Claude 3.5 and 3.7 have been the leading models for coding. They were being threatened by Google Gemini 2.5 but now Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus are out. Cloude 4 Sonnet and Opus are next level for coding. Claude 4 will ask more questions to be certain you and it know what you want ... Read more