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by cybernewswire on (#71QP0)
Horsham, United Kingdom, 25th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
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NextBigFuture.com
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by Brian Wang on (#71Q7C)
XAI continues to apply updates and fixes to Grok 4.1. Google Gemini 3 Pro is slowly slipping on the realtime ratings on lmarena for text. It is down from the low 1505-1510 level to 1495. Grok 4.1 thinking is holding at 1481. It is only a 1% or 14 point ELO gap. XAI Grok 4.1 ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#71NKN)
The loss of Booster 18 during gas pressure testing only cost SpaceX the shell of a booster. There were no raptor engines in it. UPDATE SpaceX says they will stack the Booster 19 Super Heavy Booster in December, 2025. They plan to keep the flight test for First Quarter 2026. The Starbase team plans to ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#71PMS)
Tel Aviv, Israel, 24th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#71N8V)
TESLA FSD v14.2 is the smoothest, least hesitant, most confident version yet - a meaningful step toward unsupervised. It handles emergency vehicles well, hand gestures, it is smooth and does not have braking problems. It is judged good enough for unsupervised geofenced areas. FSD 14.2 is great The biggest remaining blockers for true door-to-door robotaxi ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#71N85)
SpaceX Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing... No propellant was on the vehicle, and engines were not yet installed. The SpaceX teams need time to investigate before they are confident of the cause. There were no engines inside. There was no damage to the site. This is not unusual for a ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71N47)
Tesla FSD 14.2 release is hugely important. It is critical to show that FSD improvement to unsupervised is on track and unsupervised robotaxi at scale will happen. Tesla started a limited rollout of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) version 14.2 via software update 2025.38.9.5 to Hardware 4 vehicles like Model Y, Model X, and Cybertruck. Key upgrades ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71MJB)
XAI just released Grok 4.1 Fast. It is fast model that is leading AI agent ranking. It has real-time X data, web browsing, and code tools. Elon Musk says Grok 4.20 should release by Xmas. It will upgrade top benchmarks where Grok 4.1 Fast scored perfectly in agentic tool use and beat rivals like GPT-5 ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71MJC)
Waymo announced plans to expand Minneapolis, Tampa, and New Orleans. Here is a of Waymo expansion in 2026 and 2027. Waymo is in 5 cities now and will be in 10 in a few months and 15 by the end of 2026 and about 20 by 2027. Waymo goes into new cities with about 100 ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71MFG)
Blue Origin is making huge improvements to the New Glenn rocket. In early 2026, there will be 15% more first-stage thrust and 25% upper-stage boost starting with the NG-3 flight in early 2026. They unveiled a 9*4 super-heavy version capable of over 70 tons to low Earth orbit, ideal for mega-constellations and lunar trips. New ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71MBZ)
Tesla Robotaxi app rolled out to all iOS users. People are getting instant access. Tesla fleet in Austin appears to have scaled from ~50 ~200 vehicles in Austin cutting wait times from 10-20 min to 3-4 min despite huge demand surge. ~500-600k miles/month now. There have only been 7 minor accidents reported Texas already ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71KGK)
Multi-billionaire fund manager Gavin Baker gives the overview of the state of AI. Nextbigfuture identified the AI data center scaling of google and XAI over a year ago. AI Scaling Laws are Intact. Four leaders in AI - Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic. BUT Google and XAI will pull away with faster and more compute ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71KGM)
AI growth has re-accelerated. Nvidia earned an adjusted $1.30 a share on sales of $57 billion in the quarter ended Oct. 26. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected Nvidia to earn an adjusted $1.26 a share on sales of $54.9 billion in the quarter ended Oct. 26. In the year-earlier period, Nvidia earned 81 cents ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71KBW)
The 3I/ATLAS comet is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. While it poses no threat to Earth and will get no closer than 170 million miles to Earth, the comet flew within 19 million miles of Mars in early October. We still could not resolve ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71KBX)
Elon Musk announced a major partnership between his AI company xAI and Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI firm Humain (backed by the Suadi Public Investment Fund) to build a 500-megawatt (MW) AI data center in the kingdom. It will use Nvidia GPUs and will be xAI's largest and first data center project outside the United States. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71KBY)
Elon Musk announced a major partnership between his AI company xAI and Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI firm Humain (backed by the Suadi Public Investment Fund) to build a 500-megawatt (MW) AI data center in the kingdom. It will use Nvidia GPUs and will be xAI's largest and first data center project outside the United States. ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#71K5F)
Tel Aviv, Israel, 19th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
by Brian Wang on (#71K5G)
There are about 50 Zoox Robotaxis in Las Vegas and San Francisco. Zoox robotaxis are custom-built vehicles without steering wheel or pedals. Zoox has started inviting early riders from a waiting list to ride the robotaxi. Previously only employees and their friends and family have been able to hail a ride. This is not a ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#71K27)
Palo Alto, California, 19th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by cybernewswire on (#71JVP)
Singapore, Singapore, 19th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#71JHX)
Tomorrow NASA finally shows their HiRise, triple current best resolution images. In ~4 days a CME (sun coronal mass ejection) is expected to slam into a now very active 3I/Atlas - potential for spectacular tail disconnection event or brightening. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb explains how Tianwen-1's high-resolution Mars-orbit imagery has refined the comet's path with ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71JCH)
Tesla Robotaxi service access has officially gone wide to all Apple iOS users. @Tesla has opened access today to BOTH its ride-hailing service in the Bay Area and its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. People who just downloaded the app tell me they got immediate access to the service. BREAKING: Tesla Robotaxi service access has ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71JCJ)
Gemini 3 is here and it edges out XAI Grok 4.1 as the state of the art model topping the leaderboards. This is likely be the best for coding in Apps with tool use. The new agentic development platform, Google Antigravity will be a Cursor (AI coding) competitor. They used the guts of windsurf and ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71JCK)
NASA has officially announced a live event on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. EST where they will share these HiRISE images along with other new data and visuals from Hubble, SPHEREx, and additional spacecraft/telescopes. NASA's HiRISE instrument, on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captured the highest-resolution images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#71J9G)
Orem, United States, 18th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
by cybernewswire on (#71J9H)
Austin, TX/USA, 18th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
by Brian Wang on (#71HWW)
Gemini 3 has not been officially released yet; only preview checkpoints are accessible to select users via routing errors or A/B testing in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed Gemini 3 will arrive before end of 2025. The Context Window is up to 1 million tokens and has standard tiers ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71HVM)
Tokens are the fundamental units that LLMs process. Instead of working with raw text (characters or whole words), LLMs convert input text into a sequence of numeric IDs called tokens using a model-specific tokenizer. A single token typically represents a common word like (hello") a subword (un" + derstanding") a punctuation mark or space and ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71HVN)
A research article by Horace He and the Thinking Machines Lab (X-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati founded) addresses a long-standing issue in large language models (LLMs). Even with greedy decoding bu setting temperature to 0 wiht the goal of no intentional randomness and fixed seeds, the same prompt often produces different outputs across runs or servers. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71HSW)
As of November 17, 2025, Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder and Blue Origin owner) has co-founded and is taking an active operational role in a new AI startup called Project Prometheus. Thisis his first formal CEO-like position since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021. Elon thinks it is a copy cat because they are also ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71HSX)
In LMArena, Grok4.1 (Thinking) and Grok4.1 ranks first. In the earlier benchmark tests, Grok4.1 (Thinking) ranked first with a score of 1510. Currently, it is still first but with a score of 1483. Grok 4.1 is second. There is a massive reduction in hallucination. It drops from 12% to about 4%. This version scored more ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#71HB4)
Menlo Park, California, USA, 17th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
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Casey Handmer Makes a Detailed Case Why the NASA Orion Space Capsule Has 1 in 10 Chance of Crew Loss
by Brian Wang on (#71H0S)
Casey Handmer is an Australian-born physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and pilot renowned for his pioneering work at the intersection of astrophysics and sustainable energy. Holding a PhD in general relativity from Caltech, where he also taught courses in waves, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and computational methods, Handmer honed his expertise through research on frontier technologies at ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#71H0T)
3I/ATLAS showed a complex tail structure early this morning of November 8, 2925. It was observed at 29 degrees elongation from the Sun. In July and August , other researchers calculated that 3I Atlas is rotating about every 16 hours. How could these jets maintain their orientation if 3I/ATLAS is rotating every 16.16 hours? Other ... Read more
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by cybernewswire on (#71GZT)
Menlo Park, CA, 17th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
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by Brian Wang on (#71GR1)
Microsoft EVP of Cloud + AI Scott Guthrie says the goal is to be able to 10X the AI training every 18-24 months. This likely includes maintaining the 2-4X pace of chip improvement. Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and Dwarkesh an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 datacenter. Microsoft is building ... Read more
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by Brian Wang on (#71G4X)
Elon Musk outlined a vision for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots to perform sophisticated medical procedures with superhuman precision, enabling universal access to elite surgical care worldwide. Imagine a world where everyone has access to the best surgeons. Optimus will have the level of precision that is frankly superhuman... There's a very limited number of great ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71G0C)
Elon described a goal of 100 gigawatt per year for AI Data centers in space. This will need about 30k-50k starship launches per year. The US has about 460 Gigawatts of electricity if the energy was constantly generated. Five years of launches at the target rate would surpass current US electricity for AI in Space. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71G0D)
Elon Musk updated that XAI Grok 5 has 6 trillion parameters and has more intelligence density per gigabyte. It will be released in Q1 2026. Grok 5 should have 1.4 to 1.6 times performance and 96-100% scores on a lot of phd areas. A 2-3X performance jump in AI was the GPT-3 to GPT-4 move. ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71FQN)
Baron reiterated his unwavering belief in Musk's companies. Ron Baron does not expect to sell my personal Tesla or SpaceX shares in my lifetime. 65% of his personal wealth is tied to Musk's ventures (40% in Tesla, 25% in SpaceX, and the rest in related funds like xAI). Baron highlighted Baron Capital's has made over ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71FQP)
China's electricity per capita is up 569% since 2000. The last 25 years. USA energy is down 7% from 2000. China has 17% of global population and over one third of global electricity. 56% of the total world electricity growth. China has 90%+ dominance across the solar supply chain. How do people not see this? ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71FQQ)
There are about 10+ Gigawatts per year of of AI data centers being built over the next 10+ years. Megapacks are proven in improving the energy quality that AI needs. This will be potentially $500 million per gigawatt of data center. This will be $5+ billion per year of potential Megapack sales. This can become ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71F11)
Blue Origin had to scrub the New Glenn NG2 twice. Launched today. Good Separation. Relit engines and coming in for landing. They counted down to 20 seconds about an hour ago. Reset the clock to 34 minutes. Counted down again and had a hold at about 14 minutes and reset the clock again.
by Brian Wang on (#71EY2)
Elon's companies are converging around space-based AI data centers as the ultimate mult-trillion-dollar opportunity. Analyze October sales dips (Tesla trailing BYD in China units but dominating revenue). Tesla dominates EV revenue and has even more dominance with EV profits.
by Brian Wang on (#71EY3)
Mustafa Suleyman's is CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind. He thinks of superintelligence from a Humanist superintelligence (HSI) view. He verticalized, human-serving AI at enterprise scale-positions Microsoft. The microsoft superintelligence group is about a year old. The OpenAI agreement had to be modified to permit Microsoft ... Read more
by Brian Wang on (#71EV2)
Tesla Model Y outsells Top 15 other non-tesla EV model in sales revenue. Tesla is likely the only car company profitably selling EVs. Tesla sells cars for about $40000 versus $10000-15000 for BYD and other Chinese Car makers. China BEV sales surpassed 1.1 million per month. Tesla is selling about 150,000 per month on average ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#71E9K)
New York, New York, 13th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
by cybernewswire on (#71E6K)
Singapore, Singapore, 13th November 2025, CyberNewsWire
by Brian Wang on (#71C69)
Blue Origin has a critical next flight in November for New Glenn. The second New Glenn launch is scheduled for November 12, 2025 after the Nov 9 scrub. The new launch window for Blue Origin's New Glenn NG-2 mission (carrying NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes) opens at 2:50 p.m. ET (19:50 UTC) on Wednesday, November 12, ... Read more
by cybernewswire on (#71C3B)
Menlo Park, CA, USA, 10th November 2025, CyberNewsWire