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Openai is making O3 level capabilities open source ahead of the release of GPT-5 in about two days. These open source models are trained for agentic workflows-supporting function calling, web search, Python execution, configurable reasoning effort, and full raw chain-of-thought access. The gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b-two are state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance ... Read more

Anthropic Claude 4.1 was released today is an upgrade to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 model with key improvements. This was released ahead of OpenAI releasing GPT-5 in about two days. Anthropic plans to release substantially larger improvements to their models in the coming weeks. Caluse 4.1 Coding Performance Claude 4.1 achieved a 74.5% score on ... Read more

Philadelphia, PA, United States, 5th August 2025, CyberNewsWire

The very low Energy Efficiency seems to make it not worthwhile. It is important to have station keeping like the Quasite system but this can also be dynamically maintained. The low efficiency makes the dynamo storage idea via TARS not worthwhile. The TARS (Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun) launching catapult concept can be ... Read more

The US Navy is spending aggressively on integrating and developing drones, CCAs, and networking upgrades for its F-35C and Super Hornet fleets. The next-generation F/A-XX fighter is largely delayed. The hope is for unmanned and loyal wingman drone deployment and incremental fighter upgrades. MQ-25 Stingray The MQ-25 Stingray (see above) is the U.S. Navy's carrier-based ... Read more

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or modified version of a traditional statite. A statite is an earlier idea for a solar sail-based satellite that remains completely stationary relative to a ... Read more

Google and Microsoft have both gone over $100 billion in annual net income. The big technology companies are growing by as much as 20-25% each year. Their combined annual net income is already over $500 billion. By 2027, they will have combined net income over $700 billion and should reach over $1 trillion combined net ... Read more

If we are sending manned interstellar missions to other star systems, it becomes very hard to keep masses and power levels nearly reasonable. Interstellar travel missions really work out better after humanity has scaled up overall human power levels by a thousand or even a million times by industrializing the solar system. Various anticipated propulsion ... Read more

The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) declared three winners of the Project Hyperion Design Competition. Teams designed a generation ship-a crewed interstellar spacecraft designed for a 250-year journey to a habitable planet. The teams designed habitats of such a spacecraft that would allow a society to sustain itself and flourish in a highly resource-constrained environment. ... Read more

General Atomics smaller unmanned jet, YFQ-42A, could start helping the F-35 and F-22 later in 2025. The YFQ-42A and the Anduril YFQ-44A are designed to augment fighters like the F-22 and F-35 using manned-unmanned teaming, performing air-to-air roles and complementing crewed platforms. There are full sized mockups or prototypes at air shows for both systems. ... Read more

The US Air force is making YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A unmanned jets that will fly with the F-47 sixth generation fighter. There will be about five drones for each F-47 fighter. Over 1,000 of the unmanned aircraft are planned. the unmanned jets will start operating first from 2025-2029 while the F-47 will start prototype flights in ... Read more

China is starting production of a new stealth fighter the J-35. It is less stealthy than the F-35 but is more stealthy than other Generation 4 or 4.5 fighters. The J-35 is a close copy of the F-35 in design (e.g., blended wings, DSI inlets) but is larger, faster (Mach 2.0 vs. 1.6), and twin-engine ... Read more

The HAL Tejas Mark 2 (aka Radiance or Medium Weight Fighter) is an Indian 4.5 generation single-engine, canard delta wing, multirole combat aircraft designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC)of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). India's domestic fighter program has been ... Read more

It took 10 years to build 744 B-52s from 1952-1962 but now it will take 15 years from contract being awarded to give 76 remaining B-52 engine upgrades. The Rolls-Royce F130 engine upgrade for the B-52 Stratofortress is replacing about 600 aging Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines with more efficient, reliable F130 engines. This will ... Read more

The second-generation (Gen 2) Tesla Semi has new batteries and design improvements like new mirrors for better sight lines and aerodynamics, plus a drop glass" for easier cargo access. The initial 32 prototype Semis have been produced at Giga Nevada and delivered to priority customers like PepsiCo. The Gen 2 Semi is set to launch ... Read more

The largest Cogito v2 671B MoE model is amongst the strongest open models in the world. It matches/exceeds the performance of the latest DeepSeek v3 and DeepSeek R1 models both, and approaches closed frontier models like o3 and Claude 4 Opus. Deep Cogito extend their work on building superintelligence using Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA) ... Read more

OpenAI CEO Altman prerecorded video claimed AGI was solved on July 31, 2025, at around 6:33 AM GMT. However, the statement was about a European data center which does not have all of its power issues worked out and is far smaller than existing AI data centers by XAI and others. Hyping his data center ... Read more

Venus Aerospace has not publicly released detailed specific impulse (ISP) data for their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) or the VDR2 (a rocket-based combined cycle engine integrating RDRE with ramjet modes) across Mach speeds. However, based on their claims of 10-15% efficiency gains over conventional rocket engines, partnerships with NASA and DARPA, and general RDRE ... Read more

There have been published papers by the Air Force Research Lab and NASA on rotating detonation engines having 10% or more efficiency gains. A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel. Computational simulations and experimental results have shown that the ... Read more

Microsoft and Meta both beat earnings expectations by large amounts and the reason was because of AI helping their basic business. All of the forward guidance was also going to be superior because of AI. If they were not supply constrained growth would be even better. AI played a decisive role in the better-than-expected earnings ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink launched T-mobile satellite across the USA. This will enable millions of people to use Starlink anywhere for $10 per month. Starlink will get about half of the money from Tmobile and many other cellphone partners. Internet and voice everywhere is coming by the end of year. This will matter as it grows to ... Read more

Samsung have started earlier than TSMC going to 2 nanometer GAA process chips. They will start mass production late in 2025. Elon Musk and Tesla was using semiconductor processes one generation or so behind Nvidia for the Tesla Dojo chip. Samsung has challenges with lower yields (around 40%, compared to TSMC's reported 60%). They have ... Read more

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) over traditional deflagrative engines. They could potential provide for 25-30% or more efficiency when hybridized with air-breathing systems for hypersonic applications. A past gain of 15-30% gain ... Read more

TSMC 3nm process node is the best FinFET technology and TSMC dominates semiconductor chip fabrication with higher transistor density, better yields on a mature technology and broad adoption by clients like Apple and NVIDIA. TSMC's 2nm Process Scale-Up TSMC's 2nm (N2) process will introduce nanosheet transistors (a form of Gate-All-Around or GAA architecture). It is ... Read more

The Palisades nuclear reactor was permanently shut down on May 20, 2022, which was 11 days earlier than its scheduled closure date due to a performance issue with a control rod drive seal. Entergy was its operator at the time. Palisades entered decommissioning status and ownership transferred to Holtec International. Holtec has gotten NRC approval ... Read more

Stratolaunch built and operates the world's largest airplane by wingspan. It is the twin-fuselage Roc, which serves as an air-launch platform for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Their primary focus is on developing, launching, and repeatedly flying the Talon-A family of autonomous, rocket-powered hypersonic testbeds, as well as advancing larger and more ambitious vehicles for commercial and ... Read more

On May 14, 2025 Venus Aerospace became the first in the world to successfully fly a high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) - achieving what no government or private entity had done before. The RDRE utilizes supersonic detonations in a circular chamber to achieve higher thrust-to-weight ratios and greater fuel efficiency (theoretically up to 15% ... Read more

In May, 2025, hypersonic plane developer Hermeus flew its Quarterhorse Mk 1 prototype. It flew at Edwards Air Force Base. They are showing rapid, iterative development. They got a flying prototype in 20 months. It was 204 days from the completed design to the flying prototype. The Quarterhouse Mk2 that will fly at Mach 3 ... Read more

This is the year that giant flying drones that can fly people are breaking through into flying taxi services. They are having deployment with paid rides and sales in UAE and Dubai. Dozens are being ordered and there could be fleets of 100 or more next year. There are significant sales in Brazil as well. ... Read more

The world has one billion missing lives. The economic impact of those missing lives has a 25 year delayed effect. We can see this effect in Japan which is feeling its missing 25-30 million missing people. Childbearing and childraising has an upfront cost but there is decades of delay to the true gains or true ... Read more

Tesla will make an AI6 chip that will be the chip for vehicles, robots, and data centers and it will unify and build on the Dojo's chip design. Samsung's Texas fab will produce the chips as part of a $16.5 billion deal. This could be at least 16 million chips and maybe over 32 million. ... Read more

SoaceX tarship remains the most ambitious rocket, with thrust three times that of Saturn V and aiming for full rapid reusability. The biggest challenge is creating a fully reusable orbital heat shield, which has never been achieved before. SpaceX plans to recover the upper stage Starship possibly this year or in the first half of ... Read more

Steve Jurvetson is a legendary venture capitalist who invested in Tesla (2007) and SpaceX (2008) despite skepticism. He made those investments driven by belief in inevitable futures. All vehicles will be electric and autonomous, and space access will be for everyone. Steve Jurvetson sees Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot advancing AGI by embodying AI in the ... Read more

It is reported that Tesla Robotaxi app access users received an update that implies service in and around San Francisco was getting close to going live for the public and a map of the likely service area was posted. Tesla VP Lars Moravy discussed the Robotaxi expansion to San Francisco during his keynote at the ... Read more

Tesla doubled the service area in Austin and might have tripled the number of vehicles from 11-15 to 35 in July, 2025. This means that Tesla has one third of the fleet compared to the 100 Waymo in Austin. Tesla will also add 10-15 this weekend in San Francisco. If Gene Munster is incorrect or ... Read more

Tesla will start supervised Robotaxi service in San Francisco this weekend. There will be a safety driver will be in the front seat with full access to the wheel and brake. There will be a steady series of announcements as safety riders and safety drivers are removed, service areas are expanded, ramping of cars and ... Read more

In two weeks, the Tesla Austin robotaxi area will expand again. It will likely cover the 300 square miles of the city of Austin. Tesla also said they will have robotaxi availability for half the population of the US by end of this year. This likely means that they have to have some level of ... Read more

Tesla earnings call is highlighting FSD and robotaxi progress and some regulatory delays in Europe and China. They expect to get past those delays shortly. In two weeks, the Austin robotaxi area will expand again. Tesla will have robotaxi and unsupervised FSD for half the population of the US by end of this year. This ... Read more

The Volonaut Airbike flying motorbike is a breakthrough in personal air mobility and replicates the Star Wars Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike. Volonaut has not publicly released pricing or a launch date for the Airbike as of July 2025. They are located in Poland. Industry commentary and related eVTOL products suggest a potential price ... Read more

Chinese media tested ADAS and FSD in various scenarios, including highways and night driving. Tesla vision-based system significantly outperformed emerging Chinese brands like Huawei & Xiaomi, as well as traditional manufacturers. Even with LiDAR, competitors' ADAS performance lags behind Tesla. Only 6 out of 34 other systems passed half of the tests (3 out of ... Read more

Sam Altman's recent claim (from mid-July 2025) that OpenAI will bring well over 1 million GPUs online by the end of this year" appears to refer to aggregate compute capacity across many partnerships and locations. The main Texas location for Stargate plans to have 400,000 chips installed in the middle of 2026. Oracle partnership announcement ... Read more

XAI is complete installation of 550,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs in weeks. This is far faster than previously expected. It is over 7 times the compute used to train Grok 4 which was released just weeks ago. It is 30 times the compute used to train Grok 3 which was released in February of this year. ... Read more

Austin, United States / TX, 22nd July 2025, CyberNewsWire

Bloomberg reports that xAI is in advanced talks to secure multi-gigawatts of AI Data Center compute capacity in Saudi Arabia. xAI is negotiating with @HUMAINAI It would be a long term lease for MULTI-GIGAWATT scale data centers in the Kingdom. There would be a separate 200 MW data center for immediate deployment. The smaller data ... Read more

Astronomers believe there is a Planet Nine in the outer solar system beyond Neptune. A team led by Amos Chen from the National Tsing Hua University, is searching for Planet Nine's heat signature. When you double the distance from the sun, reflected light becomes 16 times fainter. This is an inverse fourth-power relationship. But thermal ... Read more

Boeing is expected to spend 2.8 billion dollars on NASA's new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS). The EUS will be launched by the Space Launch System Block 1B version of the rocket. Its first flight is planned for Artemis IV in 2028. However, the Trump administration has proposed terminating the SLS program after Artemis III, which ... Read more

Waymo has expanded its Austin Robotaxi service area. Waymo now serves a larger area than Tesla. Tesla is testing in areas 20 minutes outside of its current service area. Both Waymo and Tesla will likely expand to serve the entire City of Austin within 2-6 weeks.

Sam Altman, Casey Chu, Isa Fulford, Yash Kumar, and Zhiqing Sun introduce OpenAI the unified agentic model in ChatGPT. It is a ChatGPT Agent. The agentic capabilities and tool use let the OpenAI models perform better on benchmarks like Humanity's last exam. BREAKING: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Agent It allows ChatGPT to think, plan, and ... Read more

The larger Tesla Model YL seating arrangement versus the old Model Y. Also the effect of the extra 7 inches length and extra width is made clear. The new 3rd row seems about as large as the old 2nd row. For robotaxi versions the three rows of seating are all easily accessible. the vast majority ... Read more

Tesla will launch a new Model 3 version called Model 3+ in China as early as September. This return the sedan's longest-range variant. The new variant is expected to be priced around RMB 270,000 ($37,610), potentially making it Tesla's longest-range model to date. The current long range Model 3 US version has about 363 miles ... Read more