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SpaceX Starlink now has over 100 Starlink satellites with direct to cellphone capability in orbit. Each satellite can provide about 17 mbps direct to cellphone communication. This would enable about 10,000 simultaneous voice or low bandwidth data connections. It can also support millions of text messages and other short communications every few seconds. >

David Shapiro is an AI youtuber who was predicting AGI would arrive in September 2024. His expectations have massively dropped for the speed of AI progress. He has made a few videos talking about AI progress slowing down. Shapiro is over correcting because he hyped it up with an AGI by Sept 2024 prediction. He ... Read more

Tesla SVP Tom Zhu briefed Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tesla FSD, the latest tech developments, and Tesla China at the World AI Conference. This is positive for Tesla FSD getting rolled out broadly in China and getting licensing with China robotaxi companies and China carmakers. Tesla SVP Tom Zhu briefed Chinese Premier Li Qiang ... Read more

Here is my analysis of human versus automated driving today and the level to be much safer than human in the future and why failed disengagements would have a low percentage being fatal. A truly much safer autonomous driving system would eventually cross over where interventions would be more dangerous than non-intervention. Think of the ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 8th July 2024, CyberNewsWire

Elon has said that : All that matters is improving Tesla self-driving AI such that miles between interventions is >> human All that matters is improving Tesla self-driving AI such that miles between interventions is >> human - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2024 Elon and Nextbigfuture agree that all that matters is more self ... Read more

Elon Musk said the rumors he hired Uber founder Travis Kalanick to lead Tesla's Robotaxi division is false. Elon on rumors he hired Uber founder Travis Kalanick to lead Tesla's Robotaxi division: https://t.co/SA10AhIemd - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) July 7, 2024

Michael Dunne, Dunne Insights, delivers world class intelligence and advisory services to investors, automakers, suppliers and technology companies on the global electric car and battery businesses. Michael Dunne gives insights on China, electric cars, autonomous driving and the world. He says that China's EV supply chain gives China companies about a 30% cost advantage versus ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will have its fifth orbital launch mission in 4 weeks and it will have the first actual booster catch attempt. If the booster catch is successful, then SpaceX Starship becomes about 80% reusable. Starship will become as reusable as the Falcon 9 when the booster is reliably recovered and reused. The Falcon 9 ... Read more

Nextbigfuture has calculated and projected the contribution of Tesla Energy to Tesla financials and approximated share price contribution. I have a video that explains the impact and why it will happen. There is also an overview of how this and the FSD and AI is taking Tesla into more than a car company.

Various first impressions of Tesla FSD v12.4.3 are positive. Tesla FSD 12.4.3 drives like a professional chauffeur. It executes many maneuvers more smoothly than a human could, and can often react to road hazards before the human driver even notices them - Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) July 6, 2024 esla FSD 12.4.3 drives like a ... Read more

Nextbigfuture has calculated and projected the contribution of Tesla Energy to Tesla financials and approximated share price contribution. Until earlier this week there was no contribution to the share price. Energy has been profitable but the $300-400 million of gross profit was less than 10% of the $3-4 billion of gross profits. However, Tesla Energy ... Read more

Shield AI, building the world's best AI pilot, was awarded $198 million by the U.S. Coast Guard to implement the V-BAT unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The V-BAT series aircraft is the only operationally deployed single-engine ducted fan vertical takeoff and land (VTOL) UAS that can launch and recover from a hover and fly on wing ... Read more

Shield AI, building the world's best AI pilot, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), making a high-performance, jet-powered unmanned aerial systems (UAS aka drone), completion of the first phase of Shield's AI-piloted flight-testing on-board Kratos platforms as the two companies move toward productizing Shield AI's pilot for the XQ-58 Valkyrie. Having successfully ... Read more

The China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute (CREEI) reports that by the end of 2024, China is set to add 190GW of solar capacity and 70GW of wind. The NEA reports China added added 217GW of solar power and 76GW of wind power in 2023 - to reach a total capacity of 1,050GW. China needs 15 ... Read more

Chinese solar module manufacturers are ramping to more than 750 GW of modules in 2024. This will be over 50% annual growth over the 499 GW they delivered in 2023, according to the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA). China solar manufacturing industry should produce 820 GW of solar cells, up from the 545 GW in ... Read more

The ITER (International Tokomak) fusion reactor currently being built in France will not achieve first operation until 2034 - almost a decade later than previously planned and some 50 years after the project was first conceived in 1985. The decision by ITER management to take another 10 years constructing the machine means that the first ... Read more

Finally, Tesla Energy has arrived. Tesla installed 9.4 GWh of energy this is over double the 4.0 GWH last quarter. This should be about $3.8 billion in quarterly energy revenue alone and nearly $1.0 billion in gross profits. Tesla is officially more than a car company with Tesla energy a major thing. Tesla car deliveries ... Read more

The Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center announced that Chinese scientists have successfully developed a high-performance anti-interference ruthenium oxide thermometer. The thermometer developed by QuantumCTek boasts a starting temperature close to 6 millikelvin (mK). Ruthenium oxide thermometers for accurate monitoring of a quantum chip's operating temperature is essential for guaranteeing the stable operation of quantum ... Read more

China has created the HH70 device, the world's first fully high-temperature superconducting tokamak device, named HH70, in its eastern Municipality of Shanghai. By 2027, Energy Singularity aims to build a next-generation tokamak, a steady-state, high-magnetic-field, high-temperature superconducting model. This project will lay the groundwork for commercially viable fusion energy acquisition, with an ultimate goal of ... Read more

Miami, United States, 1st July 2024, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk indicates that the new Tesla FSD model has 5 times the number of parameters. This was done while still being able to run the hardware 3 version of the FSD chip. Hardware 3 has been in the fleet of Tesla cars since March 2019. The simple takeaway is that the AI model being ... Read more

Bill Gates talks about the inevitability that AI will become more intelligent than humans. Bill Gates has insider access and insight into what OpenAI and Microsoft are doing in AI. He believes the next level is to get to human-like metacognition. We need to go beyond the more trivial reasoning of LLM today. Metacognition is ... Read more

Tesla's FSD (Supervised) v12.4.2 is started to roll out to some normal Tesla owners (non-employees) in North America. Tesla FSD having possible rapid improvement is critical for increased attachment rate (the percentages of old and new Tesla owners that adopt FSD worldwide.) Tesla FSD rapid improvement is critical for licensing deals with robotaxi companies and ... Read more

Discovery of natural few-layer graphene on the Moon They report the discovery and direct microscopy visualization of natural few-layer graphene in the CE-5 lunar soil samples, by utilizing a variety of characterization techniques. Graphene is embedded as individual flakes or formed as part of a carbon shell enclosing the mineral particles. The result reveals one ... Read more

The Chinese Tianlong-3 rocket ripped off parts of the rocket when it broke free of the test stand. It was supposed to be held in place in the test. The rocket was not complete without grid fins. There were pieces falling off when it broke free and the engines did not sound correct and there ... Read more

Amateur footage captured by Gongyi citizens and posted on Chinese social media shows Tianong-3, nine-engine test stage igniting and taking off. Hold-down clamps and other structures usually prevent takeoff during a firing test. The stage is seen climbing into the sky before halting, apparently with its engines shutting off, and falling to Earth. The stage ... Read more

Applied Physics unveils a new type of warp drive-a theoretical method of space travel that complies with general relativity and operates at a constant subluminal speed without requiring unphysical forms of matter. They have created the Warp Factory which is open source software for testing out Warp drive designs. Warp Factory is one of the ... Read more

DARPA and Northrop Grumman have made a new drone with X-plane designation XRQ-73. The Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program is known as SHEPARD. SHEPARD is an X-prime program, leveraging the series hybrid electric architecture and some of the component technologies from the earlier AFRL/IARPA Great Horned Owl (GHO) project. The idea behind a ... Read more

The Supreme Court SEC decision took away the major method of penalizing those found to have committed fraud in the securities industry. Congress strengthened law in 2010 by authorizing the SEC to use independent administrative law judges to conduct hearings, to make factual findings, and to impose fines on those accused of securities fraud. Congress ... Read more

The Supreme Court overruled the Chevron Deference. This ruling has existed for 40 years. It was the courts letting regulatory agencies of the US government decide about ambiguous situations. The courts would decide about facts but let the agencies interpret many things. The Agencies are not allowed to make things up as they go along. ... Read more

Using the AIs will be way more valuable than AI training. AI training - feed large amounts of data into a learning algorithm to produce a model that can make predictions. AI Training is how we make the AI that is useful. AI inference is where we do useful and valuable things with the trained ... Read more

The biggest concern for the US Air Force is if takes over 15 years to build its full order of even just 100 B-21 Raiders then the new stealth bomber could be outdated before the last get made. Technology is increasing at a rapid rate. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, quantum computers, autonomous systems, etc. ... Read more

China had 65% of global wind production in 2023. China wind power domination goes along with domination of solar power production. China has about 80-85% of solar power manufacturing capacity. Four Chinese wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are in the top five global companies in wind. 16.3 gigawatts (GW) wind was installed. Goldwind maintained ... Read more

In the first seven months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, spending on net interest has reached $514 billion, surpassing spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). Overall spending has totaled $3.9 trillion thus far. Spending on interest is also more than all the money spent this year on veterans, education, and ... Read more

SpaceX has launched over 1,000th Starlink satellites in 2024 alone. SpaceX now has over 6,600, providing high-speed internet to 79 countries worldwide. Most of the satellites are Version 2 Mini Starlinks with increased bandwidth. SpaceX has been deploying Direct-to-Cellphone Starlinks since January 2024. This will enable enabling global texting, calling, and browsing with existing unmodified ... Read more

Ilya Sutskever, X-Chief Scientist at OpenAI has created a new startup Safe Superintelligence. Ilya was the Chief Scientist at OpenAI and enabled OpenAI to become the leader in Artificial Intelligence. Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is notably the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, ... Read more

Waltham, Massachusetts, 27th June 2024, CyberNewsWire

Last weekend Tesla FSD 12.4.1 was expected to go to wide release but it did not. This weekend if there is no safety regression there should be a push of FSD 12.4.2. It is reported that 12.4.2 is much smoother. The challenge is keeping safety high, while increasing ride comfort. The 12.4.2 build moved into ... Read more

NASA has selected SpaceX to develop and deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle that will provide the capability to deorbit the International space station and ensure avoidance of risk to populated areas. The single-award contract has a total potential value of $843 million. The launch service for the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle will be a future procurement. ... Read more

Sour Grapes is when you disparage something that has proven unattainable. Coping is a slang that refers to a mechanism or a self-delusion that an individual clings to in order deal with a situation. European Space Agency Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen says he does not think Starship will be a game-changer or a ... Read more

SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy again and again we had the beautiful double rocket booster landing. SpaceX Falcon Heavy is the rocket that is lifting the biggest and most important missions for NASA. There have been 10 out of 10 Successful Falcon Heavy double booster recoveries. Three of the next 6 Falcon Heavy launches over two ... Read more

Electric hypercar maker Rimac today unveiled their robotaxi prototype, called Verne. Begin operation in 2026 Two seater Uses Mobileye technology Vehicle is Level 4 fully autonomous 43'' display, 17 speakers Rimac has already signed agreements to launch it in 11 cities in the EU, UK, and the Middle East ... Read more

McLean, United States of America, 26th June 2024, CyberNewsWire

Volkswagen plans to invest up to $5 billion in electric vehicle startup Rivian, starting with an initial investment of $1 billion. The additional $4 billion is expected to be invested following the establishment of a joint venture. Rivian is up about 50% afterhours. The Rivian and Volkswagen Group joint venture will create vehicle software. Volkswagen ... Read more

Several hundred pounds of weight savings from less EMI (electromagnetic interference shielding) materials would reduce EV (electric vehicle) weight which will reduce batteries needed for EVs. This will reduce EV cost by $2200. This will be the impact of 99.7% efficient inverters.

Pasqal, French Quantum Computer Company, has successfully loaded over 1,000 atoms in a single shot within their quantum computing setup, a significant leap towards scalable quantum processors. This milestone demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale neutral atom quantum computing and enhances the potential to solve complex optimization problems and quantum simulations. Key highlights include: Successful trapping ... Read more

CATL is using condensed battery (500 Watt hours per kg) is developing electric aircraft started with smaller planes, ranging from 1-ton to 8.8-ton, Zeng said at the BEYOND International Science and Technology Innovation Expo on May 22 in Macau. CATL was already test-flying 4-ton aircraft, but reaching a commercial level will require success with aircraft ... Read more

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is the largest and heaviest object ever flown it will be caught with the launch tower. Elon Musk talked about the flaps and heat shield. SpaceX will over-compensate for the flap and heat shield issues for the next flight. SpaceX will redesign the forward flaps. The front section flaps will ... Read more