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Part 2 of Tesla AI Day. DOJO Training Computer – Exaflop Pod in 11 Cabinets

The Tesla AI Day presentation is starting. Elon has started out by asking for people who want to solve real world AI at the hardware or software level to apply to Tesla. Andrej Karpathy, the director...

Baidu plans to expand its robotaxi ride-hailing services across 30 cities in China in two to three years to serve a wider range of users. Robin Li, founder of Baidu, said at the 2021 ABC Summit....

Israel is being closely watched now because it was one of the first countries out of the gate with vaccinations in December 2020 and got more people vaccinated more quickly. Israel is seeing weaker...

Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software with US$145 million of funding. In May, 2021, they raised US$100M in Series B financing. Bessemer Venture Partners...

SpaceX needs to complete the following to launch the Super Heavy Starship Orbital Flight * complete the launch tower * the Starship SN20 heatshield must be complete and each tile verified * Both the...

The Delta covid variant is the dominant variant in most places around the world and there is information on the level of reduced effectiveness of the vaccines from the CDC. Israel has more people...

Weekly deaths from COVID are highest in Indonesia, Brazil, Russia and then the USA. Weekly COVID deaths are also high in Mexico, India and many other countries. The USA has the highest weekly...

China has travel and other restrictions to fight its latest delta COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak is in its fifth week and involving more than a dozen cities. China closed the world’s third-busiest...

Momentus has built two Vigoride vehicles, which have completed flight qualification where the satellite is tested under the conditions it will experience during launch and while in space. The first...

The Climate problem we have is about 750 billion tons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere. We have 417 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 versus 285 ppm in 1850 before the industrial revolution. 135 times...

Tesla Model Y had over 38% of US EV registrations and the Tesla Model 3 was second. Tesla had about 67% of US EV registrations. When the Model S and X are back in full production, they should be in...

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and General Fusion will build and operate its Fusion Demonstration Plant (FDP) at UKAEA’s Culham Campus. The FDP will demonstrate General Fusion’s proprietary...

If Tesla FSD proceeds roughly on the two week schedule for updates, then a widely available Full Self Driving should be ready by the end of 2021. This could be the timeline for Tesla FSD. FSD 9.2...

Tesla GigaBerlin will have 8 gigapresses which will enable the factory to produce up to 1.5 million Model Ys. Tesla Austin has similar initial capacity as Berlin. This third quarter of 2021, Tesla...

There is a report that the Tesla FSD Beta v9.2 email is out. This likely means Tesla beta testers will be able to update this weekend. BREAKING: FSD Beta v9.2 email has been sent! — Sawyer...

Elon Musk has said each SpaceX Starship should last for 25-30 years which mean they would be able to make about 12 missions between Earth and Mars. When will Starship production become cost...

In 2020, the global fleet of Tesla vehicles and solar panels let Tesla customers avoid emitting 5.0 million metric tons of CO2e. The cumulative fleet of Tesla cars was about 1 million in 2020. Tesla...

A Tesla short-seller had an epiphany, but the ridiculous epiphany is that he realized that central banks are going to mostly engineer low-interest rates for decades. This is what should be...

The world has been a hothouse most of the last 540 million years. Humanity can mimic what naturally occurred to turn a hothouse Earth 15C warmer than today into a -9C ice age. We can just do a little...

Form Energy has an iron-air battery technology that is optimized to store electricity for 100 hours at system costs competitive with legacy power plants. It is a cost-effective, multi-day energy...

Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, had the third part of his interview with Elon Musk. What comes through is the intense focus Elon Musk and his teams have. They are focused and operating with extreme...

Consumer Reports compared regular cars versus EVs and different car models. EVs have far lower maintenance and operating costs than other cars. Tesla’s have longer range and less maintenance...

The senate passed a $3.5 trillion blueprint which is the first step in the reconciliation process to pass a larger bill. House leaders will return from summer recess Aug 23 to vote on the fiscal...

Sending a rocket into space typically requires about 90% of the rocket’s initial weight to be fuel. This limitation could be overcome by wirelessly transmitting the needed power to the rocket...

The latest UN IPCC, climate change report is out. the IPCC report says that global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios...

Intel was the dominant semiconductor chip maker for decades. They were a generation or two ahead of all competitors. However, six years ago Intel started badly missing deadlines for new chips. Intel...

Rapidly iterating on versions rockets and rocket engines is a huge advantage for SpaceX. Elon said he expects that the fifth version of the Raptor engine should be an A+ version of that engine. The...

This is the first time we are seeing the orbital Starship with heatshield on the launch pad. This is the first time we are seeing the Starship stacked onto the Super Heavy booster. In 2022, this...

In 2014, Blue Origin said the BE-4 engine would be ready by 2017 but it is likely slipping to 2022. ULA need BE-4 for its new Vulcan rocket and Blue Origin needs it for the New Glenn rocket. Blue...

Last Thursday, the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) called Nauka had unplanned firing of MLM thrusters that caused the station to move out of orientation. NASA ground teams regained...

Elon Musk gave a tour of the Starbase Factory to the Everyday Astronaut. He says that manufacturing systems are much harder than designing rockets. He says the launch tower and launch facilities are...

The Dixie Fire is now over 434,000 acres and destroyed the town of Greenville last night. Greensville, California has a population of 817. Taylorsville was just evacuated with a population of 198....

Chris Duffin is an inventor, thought leader, and serial entrepreneur in Health and Fitness. He has Co-Founded multiple prominent brands. He is the Chief Visionary Officer of Kabuki Strength. He has...

Ahead of Tesla AI day on August 19, 2021 is what looks like a 25 AI chip module for the Dojo Training supercomputer. The Tesla Dojo supercomputer is a key part of speeding up the improvement of the...

SpaceX is lifting Super Heavy Booster 4 onto the launch table which is beside the new giant launch tower. There were previous pictures of the launch table under construction and workers in the...

SpaceX now has connected over 90,000 Starlink customers and is adding 20,000 users per month. The growth rate is about 30% per month. SpaceX has over half a million orders/deposits globally. Elon...

The Super Heavy Booster is heading to the launch pad. There will be hold down test and other tests. The SN20 Starship will be stacked on top and then it will launch. Super Heavy B4 has left the...

Colin Rusch of Oppenheimer is ranked 17th out of 7616 analysts and he indicates that Oppenheimer research predicts that Tesla Berlin and Tesla Austin will be able to generate 5-8% cost improvement in...

SpaceX is pushing for an orbital launch this month. They had a successful Starship flight to 10 km and a successful landing. The BN4 has 29 new raptor engines. Three raptor engines were used for high...

CATL is the world China’s top car battery maker with a market value of almost $200 billion, unveiled a battery pack that integrates sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries and targets sodium ion...

Over the last decade, technology has changed many aspects of our lives. Our social lives, education, business, government – they all rely on technology to access more information and be more...

Tesla has released version 9.1 beta of the FSD software and Elon indicates that beta updates should come every two weeks. There is always a lot of cleanup after a major code release. Beta 9.2 will be...

The SpaceX Super Heavy booster has been loaded with Raptor engines. The Starship SN20 has most of its heat shield. Raptors on Super Heavy pic.twitter.com/jJy1vftHNB — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)...

The rumors are that Tesla will have a non-street legal but operational Model Y built in Texas next week. It is expected that Texas will start Model Y production in about two months. Giga Texas News:...

Electric Vehicle makers Xpeng, Li Auto and Nio sold record cars in July. Li Auto’s sales jumped 251 percent year on year in July to 8,589 units, while Xpeng’s sales surged 228 percent to 8,040 cars....

Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada has had functionally zero homeless for about six years. Japan, Singapore and Denmark also have been very successful in dealing with homelessness. Singapore is a...

Tesla’s Q2 2021 earnings call indicated there is a 3-6 month delay in the 4680 production ramp compared to their prior statements. Previously Tesla had indicated that they would have 100 GW of...

There is a new meme called “Cozy Futurism” which is pretending that there a choice between colonizing Mars and fixing Earth-based poverty, inequality and homelessness. I think they are...