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Ford year-to-date has around 115-117 recalls as of October 15, 2025. The total vehicles affected year-to-date now exceeds 10 million, with Q3 2025 alone accounting for over 5 million vehicles impacted across Ford's campaigns-the highest quarterly figure for any manufacturer and representing nearly 60% of all U.S. vehicle recalls in that period. This surge continues ... Read more

Oklo's market capitalization has ballooned to $25 billion. The NRC denied Oklo's custom combined license application in Jan 2022, citing insufficient information on maximum-credible-accident (MCA) analyses, safety classification of SSCs (systems/structures/components), QA implementation, and other key technical topics. The denial and associated letters are public. Oklo has since restructured its licensing approach and reengaged the ... Read more

New York, United States, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

New York, USA, New York, 15th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over lower heating areas. SpaceX will choose to remain extra cautious but they can eventually reduce heat shield tiles. SpaceX is scaling ... Read more

AMD Helios rack-scale solution. These are liquid-cooled, 72-GPU racks powering AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs (Venice) and do feature integrated UALoE scale-up connectivity. Oracle buying 50K MI450 for 2026. Is that about $2 billion. The AMD Helios is a next-generation, open-standard, rack-scale AI infrastructure platform designed for large-scale AI training, inference, and ... Read more

Torrance, United States, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

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Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

Broadcom and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to co-develop and deploy 10 gigawatts (GW) of custom AI accelerators and integrated networking systems. This is OpenAI's start at designing its own AI processors. This builds on the Nvidia and AMD GPU supply deals. Broadcom's stock is up about 10% (adding ~$150 billion to market cap) ... Read more

In 2026, SpaceX will be launching many of the larger V3 Starlink satellites from the reusable Starship. Dummy version of the V3 Starlink were launched on SpaceX Starship flight 10 and flight 11. Starlink V3's 60 meter span is like a blue whale. AST Space Mobile Block 2's array rivals a tennis court.

The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:23 p.m. CT. It launched. Goals of Starship Flight 11: ** Good** Test new Super Heavy landing burn configuration ** Good** - Gather data for next-gen booster dynamics ** Good** - Stress-test Starship ... Read more

Despite the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot pledge, public accounting shows less than $10 million spending. Philip Lubin (UC Santa Barbara, laser propulsion) received ~$200,000 over eight years. This was less than his NASA grants for similar work. There is an estimate of 30 contracts totaling $4.5 million. Scientists viewed this as a kickstart. Breakthrough's name ... Read more

New light-vehicle sales in September 2025 reached a SAAR of 16.4 million units, up 3.5% year over year. EV tax credits expired on September 30. Battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales hit an all-time high in market share and accounted for 11.8% of all new vehicles sold. US light vehicles sales were about 1.25 million in ... Read more

Join Tony Bela Patreon for high resolution versions of his infographics. He details out many interesting aspects of Space and SpaceX. SpaceX Starship flying in about 3 hours. Goals of Starship Flight 11: - Test new Super Heavy landing burn configuration - Gather data for next-gen booster dynamics - Stress-test Starship heatshield with missing tiles ... Read more

SpaceX has announced regular commercial cargo missions to the Moon starting in 2028 and to Mars in 2030. They will charge $100 million per ton. SpaceX is going to try to get refueling and launches of the SpaceX Starship developed so that they can send an unmanned test mission in 2026. This test mission will ... Read more

Paper2Agent transforms research output from passive artifacts into active systems that can accelerate downstream use, adoption, and discovery. Conventional research papers require readers to invest substantial effort to understand and adapt a paper's code, data, and methods to their own work, creating barriers to dissemination and reuse. Paper2Agent addresses this challenge by automatically converting a ... Read more

AI first companies are generating real revenue. The leading company is OpenAI and Anthropic also has significant revenue. There is also very fast growth in hundreds of small companies and that revenue growth is faster than SAAS (software as a service). XAI did not have much revenue in 2024 but it has made substantial gains ... Read more

Amazon shows how capex-heavy bets can terrify investors yet compound into fortunes. From 1997-2003, Amazon had over $5 billion in cumulative losses amid relentless infrastructure spends-warehouses, servers, logistics-totaling ~$10B adjusted, or 5-6x annual revenues at peaks. In 1999, Amazon's market cap was approximately $25.7 billion, fell as low as $3.6 billion in 2001 and got ... Read more

Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has ... Read more

Kevin Pathrath an other warn of an AI Bubble and AI Ponzi with a potential 80% collapse. The core of the argument is the circular financing structure of the recent OpenAI-Oracle-Nvidia deal and the OpenAI-AMD deal. Nvidia commits up to $100B in investments ($10B per gigawatt deployed, up to 10GW), starting with the first GW ... Read more

OpenAI is winning AI in 2025. They are valued at $500 billion and have nearly 1 billion users. With the huge pace of deals and construction, who wins AI in 2026? Does AMD come from behind to seriously challenge AMD? Who can seriously challenge OpenAI?

Menlo Park, USA, 10th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study will raise from a valid concept to a proof of concept experiment. Nuclear-micropowered probes could be used for autonomous exploration of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) and other space missions. Tritium betavoltaics are a class of nuclear batteries ... Read more

Figure AI has revealed a new humanoid bot, the figure-03. They are targeting a total of 100,000 built within 4 years (by the end of 2029). They anticipate making $1000 per month or $12,000 per year. This would mean $1.2 billion per year from 100,000 bots. The humanoid bots now wear clothes to make them ... Read more

Palo Alto, California, 9th October 2025, CyberNewsWire

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Tesla's overnight and daytime price swings around $425-450 and the day ended at $436. The sell-off was due to disappointment over the new affordable Model 3 and Y not being as revolutionary or cheap as some hoped. Expecting a strong Q3 earnings call on October 22, EPS beats (65-75 vs. analyst 39-59 estimates) . Energy ... Read more

Total funding for the top 10 AI companies is ~$115B and 70% is in 2025. Enterprise shift (Cohere/Inflection) yields 2-3x faster ROI than consumer bets. The AI funding does not include the $60-80 billion per year that Google speeds on AI capex. ROI signals are strong-enterprise AI ARR grew 300% YoY.

Planet is launching Owl, their next-generation monitoring fleet. They will have a technical demonstration slated for launch late 2026. The Owl fleet moves into production and launch over the following years. Owl will be designed to deliver frequent, best-in-class imagery faster, enabling customers to receive imagery-enabled insights within as little as one hour of capture. ... Read more

September 23, 2025, Stoke Space raised $510 million in Series D funding led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT) in conjunction with a $100 million debt facility led by Silicon Valley Bank. This new financing, which more than doubles our total capital raised to $990 million, will accelerate product development and expansion. Washington ... Read more

Nvidia's $100 billion commitment to OpenAI over a few years is one of several circular deals Nvidia is making. Upstream chip sales fuel downstream infrastructure bets, creating a self-reinforcing loop that has propelled Nvidia's market cap to $4.6 trillion. Nvidia Q2 operating cash flow hit $15.4 billion and a growing $56.8 billion war chest. Projections ... Read more

Tesla Giga Shanghai's only needs ~2.5 hours to build a Model YL end-to-end. This is a 75% reduction from Tesla's pre-2023 internal KPIs of 8-10 hours, achieved via unboxed parallel assembly (where subassemblies like chassis, battery, and interior converge simultaneously rather than sequentially). For context, VW's legacy plants clock in at 20-30 hours per vehicle, ... Read more

DARPA and the US Air Force have started the High Mach Gas Turbine (HMGT) program to develop reusable hypersonic planes. The core technology revolves around Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) propulsion systems, which integrate turbine engines for low-to-mid speeds with airbreathing components or hypersonic mach 5+ speeds. Engine Architecture and Subsystems: Development of a complete ... Read more

On October 5, 2025, the Wall Street Journal reportes that xAI is committing over $18 billion to acquire approximately 300,000 additional NVIDIA GPUs, bringing the total for Colossus 2 to around 550,000 chips. This aligns with broader announcements from Musk on X, where he has repeatedly described Colossus 2 as the world's first gigawatt-scale AI ... Read more