Future Stories

The four agents in Grok 4.20 (Grok/Captain, Harper, Benjamin, Lucas) form a native, production multi-agent collaboration system that runs on every sufficiently complex query. This is not a user-facing framework you have to orchestrate (like AutoGen or Swarm) but a baked-in inference-time architecture where four specialized replicas of the underlying ~3T-parameter model (MoE) collaborate in ... Read more

xAI has launched Grok 4.20 live in Beta. Estimated Arena (LMArena) Elo for Grok 4.20: ~1505–1535 provisional (Grok 4.20 analysis). Reasoning: Grok 4.1 Thinking is already at 1483. The multi-agent council + extra inference-time compute + engineering/coding gains + hallucination reduction typically add 20–60 Elo points in crowd-sourced arenas (see historical jumps from single → ... Read more

Washington DC, USA, 17th February 2026, CyberNewswire

Jonathan Wellum, CEO of Rocklinc Investment Partners, discussing capital flows into the US under Trump-era policies (tax cuts, deregulation, tariffs, reindustrialization). He emphasizes how investment in manufacturing, resources, AI, and data centers drives GDP growth via a 3X multiplier. $1 invested generates up to $3 in GDP over 1–2 years. With $2–3T in annual investment ... Read more

For full-year 2025, GOOGLE Other Bets posted an operating loss of $7.52 billion. This was up ~$3.1B (or ~$3B) from $4.4B in 2024. Waymp had higher employee compensation (especially a $2.1B one-time stock-based comp charge for Waymo in Q4, tied to its $16B funding round and $126B valuation) plus rising ops/R&D costs from scaling. Waymo ... Read more

The basics of Real GDP growth from first principles Real GDP measures the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced in an economy. Its growth comes from three sources (the Solow growth accounting identity): More labor (hours worked or workers). More capital (machines, buildings, infrastructure). Higher productivity (total factor productivity, or TFP—output per unit ... Read more

Most careers end up getting derailed because of a slow drift away from what the evolving marketplace demands. Because while experience is helpful, it’s not the only thing that sustains a career. In order to continue gaining opportunities, you have to stack new skills and make yourself “future proof.” The question is, where do you ... Read more

NASA had trouble with a confidence test for Artemis 2. The ground systems need to be repaied. NASA repaired and replaced seals after WDR-1 provided a great deal of data. They observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1. They observed enough and reached a point where waiting out additional troubleshooting was ... Read more

Helion’s Polaris prototype has become the first privately funded machine to demonstrate clearly measurable deuterium–tritium (D‑T) fusion and to reach 150 million °C plasma temperatures, marking a major but still early milestone on their path toward a commercial generator for the Microsoft PPA around 2028. Helion reports that its 7th prototype, Polaris, has achieved measurable ... Read more