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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is pursuing funding to increase the laser fusion power at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) from 2.2 megajoules (MJ) to 2.6 MJ as part of the Enhanced Yield Capability (EYC) project. The eighth ignition experiment on April 7, 2025, set new records for both energy yield and target gain. NIF ... Read more

FAA has approved Starship for a launch as early as May 27. FAA has approved Starship's return to flight. pic.twitter.com/NtxV5TY9jz - Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) May 22, 2025

Lawrence Livermore proved over 4X power gain from laser fusion in April 2025. Upgrading to 3.0MJ laser power would take more upgrades but could deliver 20-40X gain. This would be well on the way to proving the 100-200X science gain that is believed to be needed for viable commercial fusion reactor designs. There would also ... Read more

In April 2025, Lawrence Livermore National lab (LLNL) had its eighth successful ignition experiment and set another record for energy yield, delivering 8.6 MJ from 2.08 MJ of energy to the target and further demonstrating that NIF can repeatedly conduct fusion experiments at multi-megajoule levels of energy output. They got over four times the energy ... Read more

Qwen 2.5 Coder/Max is currently the top open-source model for coding, with the highest HumanEval (~70-72%), LiveCodeBench (70.7), and Elo (2056) scores among open models. DeepSeek V3/Coder V2 remains strong, especially in reasoning/math, but is slightly behind Qwen in code generation and competitive programming Elo. Meta Llama 4 Maverick offers unmatched context length (up to ... Read more

Google showcased the Gemini 2.5 PRO model at Google IO 2025. They previously released beta versions of GEmini2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash. They released new versions today and will be releasing final versions next month. Gemini 2.5 Pro is able to correct mistaken human analysis of videos. The models are the top two models ... Read more

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna has 100 million active customers and $92 million in pretax losses for Q1 2025. The Swedish FinTech revealed that milestone Monday (May 19) as it released its quarterly earnings, which showed revenues up 15%, reaching $701 million. Klarna $92 million pretax loss for the first quarter, up from ... Read more

Researchers demonstrated a way to manipulate electrons in graphene using pulses of light that last less than one thousands trillionth (one quadrillionth) of a second. By leveraging a quantum effect known as tunneling, they recorded electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously, a feat that redefines the potential limits of computer processing power. A study ... Read more

Elon says there will be no safety drivers in the cars for the Austin launch of Tesla Robotaxi launch next month. There will be ten initially and if there are no incidents rapidly get to 30-40 in a week and few thousand within a few months. They will expand to other cities like San Francisco ... Read more

Venus Aerospace had the first-ever U.S. flight test of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE)-a next-gen propulsion technology that's been theorized for decades, but never flown... until now. The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) changes everything, and Venus is the first venture-backed aerospace company to bring the RDRE from concept to commercialization. RDREs are a ... Read more

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), SpaceX said SpaceX Starlink satellites can be a next-generation Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solution. Next-generation satellite services can dramatically improve American PNT resilience. Satellite-based PNT systems have long been unrivaled in their relatively low-cost ability to deliver ubiquitous PNT data to end users globally, as ... Read more

Azure provides access to a broad ecosystem of LLMs from multiple providers. Microsoft Azure is adding XAI Grok 3.5. The new XAI Grok 3.5 is available on X, Telegram and Microsoft. Here is the full conversation today between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and @elonmusk. Elon: "With Grok 3.5, which is about to be released, it's ... Read more

Founder Austin Russell has resigned as CEO and Chairman of the Board following a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Inquiry by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors". Youtuber Mark Rober used Luminar LIDAR in a hit piece on Tesla FSD. The video only used Tesla driver assist Autopilot and not the newest ... Read more

Robotaxi softer launch than I would have hoped but hitting the June and ideally June 1 will still be good. Invite instead of going supervised and unsupervised. Dojo 2 getting to volume slipped from late 2025 (what Elon had said at All in Summit), but if they can hit 10X compute and cheaper even with ... Read more

Tesla Master plan 3 targeted a global installation of 30 terawatts (TW) of renewable energy capacity, primarily from solar and wind. This is a monumental scale-up aimed at meeting all energy needs across electricity, transportation, and heating. It involved extensive Battery Storage: It proposes 240 terawatt-hours (TWh) of battery storage worldwide to ensure consistent energy ... Read more

TSMC's roadmap has been extended to 2028, with new technologies like N3C and A14 being introduced. TSMC presented the new roadmap at the 2025 Technical Symposium. TSMC is forecasting building 2.5 million chips for humanoid robots and about 2.5 million chips for robotaxi around 2030. TSMC projects that humanoid robots and robotaxi will reach reach ... Read more

Virtus Solis wants to group satellites into massive arrays-100,000 satellites for 100MW-allowing for a highly scalable energy platform. Arrays can grow to 20 Gigawatt or more. Virtus Solis and Silicon Valley startup Orbital Composites are preparing to begin robotic assembly of hexagonal photovoltaic tiles - essentially solar panels - in a medium Earth Molniya orbit ... Read more

Stanford's Jeremy Utley reveals that most people are not fully utilizing AI's potential." Why is that? He explains that it lies in how we approach AI. He said a simple mindset shift could be what you've been missing in the AI revolution. He wrote the book Ideaflow. Ask AI what it needs to know about ... Read more

AI Chips are everything. Nvidia is worth about $3 Trillion because of chip profits. Tesla Scaling Robotaxi and Teslabot means getting millions of AI5 inference chips profitably deployed into the world. Creating and having the most profitable AI businesses is the next goal for AI. Using the chips for maximum profit and maximum impact. How ... Read more

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All of the new Tesla cars made in Texas drive 1.5 miles on public roads from the GigaTexas factory to a loading area. Hundreds of new Tesla make this drive every day and over a thousand new Tesla make a shorter 1 mile drive in Fremont California. This is evidence that Tesla is ready for ... Read more

On Jan. 1, 2025, tariffs were only 20.8%. When President Trump ended his first term, tariffs were 19.3% against Chinese goods. At the beginning of the year, China tariffs on US goods were 21.2%, 0.4% higher than U.S. tariffs. When Trump ended his first term, Chinese tariffs against the U.S. were 21.2%, 1.9% higher than ... Read more

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Elon Musk was in Saudi Arabia where he predicted tens of billions of humanoid bots. Saudi Arabia and Elon Musk are verbally discussing having Tesla robotaxi and humanoid bots in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia signed up for Starlink Service. There is also talk about Boring Company for Tunnels. Elon also posted that he is thinking ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 9 could launch as soon as Wednesday, May 21 based upon a Coast Guard notice. SpaceX has just performed another static fire test of Flight 9 Starship (Ship 35). It appears nominal based on visuals, pending official confirmation. LFG Flight 9! pic.twitter.com/vdYMKbIctZ - Space Sudoer (@spacesudoer) May 12, 2025 Update: Starship test ... Read more

The announcement is that US Tariffs are down to 30 percent for China and China reduces tariff to 10 percent for the US. The positive China-US trade news is being viewed as great news for Tesla. This is just the start for Tesla with the robotaxi release in about 20 days and the new lower ... Read more

The flagship site for the OpenAI Stargate data center project is currently under construction in Abilene, Texas. The initial phase includes two buildings totaling 980,000 square feet and over 200 MW of power capacity. This phase is slated to be energized in the first half of 2025, setting the stage for subsequent GPU installations. big. ... Read more

A China research team on Sunday successfully captured the laser return signal from the retroreflector of the Tiandu-1 satellite, which is approximately 130,000 km away from the Earth, using the newly upgraded near-infrared lunar laser ranging system of an 1.2-meter telescope. This is the world's first daytime satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space, marking ... Read more

Barrons news cites a Tesla Robotaxi essay by xTesla Engineer Frank Yashar. Frank Yashar, a former Tesla engineer, starts his essay by comparing SpaceX to the traditional satellite industry. SpaceX now has more than 7,000 low-cost satellites orbiting the Earth, providing high-speed Wi-Fi speed service to over 5 million customers. The traditional satellite industry didn't ... Read more

Tesla and Elon continue to develop 4680 batteries, AI4 and AI5 inference chips and Tesla Dojo chips. I have projected that Tesla could get trillions in value from cracking making Dojo chips being broadly useful for xAI for large language model training. 4680 development work continues despite issues scaling towards the original 100 GWh per ... Read more

Nvidia researcher James Fan proposes physical Turing test for robots. The robots do not have to be humanoid robots but he wants the bots to go into a very, very messy room and clean it up and prepare a meal for two and set the table. There would be a prepared clean room, the meal ... Read more

Tesla just added full Robotaxi functionality in the latest app update-quietly prepping for launch next month. There is the need for Tesla to launch Supervised and unsupervised ridesharing in June in Austin. The launch of supervised and unsupervised is not really a choice. Tesla plans to start day one with 10-20 unsupervised vehicles. The issue ... Read more

China's Manus AI is showing an excellent demo of agent capabilities. You can toggle between four applications (Search, browser, coterminal and document editor). David Sacks says AI agents will be connect to all of hour SAAS (Software As A Service) applications. Agents will interact with dozens of apps. There is a new Agent standard called ... Read more

There is a bit more description about the SpaceX Starship 35 Static fire anomaly. There was second planned 60 second static fire but it was aborted after a flash. The static fire was stopped after 25 seconds. The problem might be related to the problems of the seventh and eighth Starship launches.

What is the history of NASA and some Federal Budget overruns? The Space Shuttle, ISS, SLS, and Constellation programs all experienced significant delays (2-7+ years) and budget overruns (billions). NASA has tried to pivot to fixed-price contracts since 2006 contrasts with the DoD's continued reliance on cost-plus for complex procurements, though fixed-price use occurs in ... Read more

A Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel armed with an R-73 air-to-air missile shot down a Russian Su-30 naval fighter roughly 50 km west of Novorossiysk. This is the first time in history that a military aircraft has been downed by an unmanned Navy drone ship.