Future Stories

Nextbigfuture is starting regular Kalshi market reviews alongside our usual science, technology and business coverage. Each day I will look at two or three Kalshi markets, mostly in the technology, science and energy categories, where a deeper understanding of what it takes for something to happen tells you which way it is likely to resolve. ... Read more

There are roughly 35–40 million U.S. children in the 2016–2024 birth cohorts (births have averaged ~3.6–3.9 million per year in that period). Michael Dell gave $250 targeted about 25 million of them—primarily those in lower- and middle-income ZIP codes—which the Dells described as covering the large majority of children in that age group. If Elon ... Read more

Top technology leader’s like Elon Musk, Palantir Alex Karp, Lonsdale, and a handful of others possess a rare ability to (1) recognize extreme talent outliers (“blue-note” talent that most institutions systematically undervalue), (2) attract and retain them with high-agency environments and extreme missions, and (3) set company objectives that force full utilization of that talent ... Read more

San Rafael, United States, 19th October 2026, CyberNewswire

The undercounting crowdsourced robotaxitracker using entries from about 40 people has passed 500. 8,238 trips logged last 90 days out of hundreds of thousands of rides. 803 Texas registered + florida 30 counted.

SpaceX went from slab to steel in four days on a 444-acre site in Brownsville, Texas, and about 500 MW of gas turbines are already parked beside the building. I think this site has room for up to 20 minihard AI data centers, with a payback of about six months per building. SuperVC Ben Horowitz ... Read more

Tesla’s Roadster flies. Cold-gas thrusters lift it for about 10 seconds with no ramp, but the thrusters and precision control are the bigger story. The same technology could enable SpaceX to bring cargo back with precise landings anywhere on Earth from space for a tiny fraction of what a Dragon capsule costs. Brian Wang of ... Read more

SpaceX can build a minihard AI data center in about 5 months. There’s room for six in Texas and six more in Tennessee, so a dozen could be under construction at once. Each one costs about $13B to build and could bring in roughly $27B a year in revenue, at about 40% lower cost than ... Read more

Big Tech is spending about a trillion dollars a year on AI data centers, and is now betting on factory modules and tents to go faster. SpaceX is already finishing data centers in about five months. Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all racing to build AI data centers. They are spending about a trillion ... Read more