Future Stories

How has sport performance changed and what are the sources of improvement? Training is the engine for improving world record sport performance. Wearables largely makes the engine run more efficiently rather than adding independent gains. Better training and sports science remain the dominant long-term driver of elite performance — the core of “individual excellence.” New ... Read more

The world-renowned athletic tracks installed for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the resurfacing was spearheaded by Mondo S.p.A.. They installed their state-of-the-art Mondotrack EI (Ellipse Impulse) at the Stade de France. If the world record mile run had the same conditions but had the most up to date track surface then the world ... Read more

SpaceX will post financial and operational results for the second quarter of 2026 after market close on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. SpaceX management will host a live audio-only webcast to discuss the results at 3:30 p.m. CT / 4:30 p.m. ET the same day. We will post our Q2 2026 financial and operational results on ... Read more

There is a report that SpaceX has placed its first orders for Nvidia GB300-based AI servers to Taiwan’s Foxconn. SpaceX will buy 13,000 racks for about 1 million GPUs/ It is a deal worth an estimated US$52 billion, ($4M each rack). It is a Taiwan media report citing unnamed industry sources. SpaceX has placed its ... Read more

Feynman’s made a lecture and book that mathematics is needed to describe nature. It (in The Relation of Mathematics to Physics) is descriptive and he is slightly awestruck. The fundamental laws turn out to be statable in mathematics, and there’s no obvious reason they had to be. It’s the same puzzle Wigner named the “unreasonable ... Read more

Josh Kerr of the UK delivers on his World Record Attempt and runs 3:42.66 to break Hicham El Guerrouj’s 27 year-old world mark of 3:43.13. He splits 1:51.1 through 800m, 2:46.5 through 1200m and returns back to split 3:27.7 through 1500m before ultimately crossing the line in 3:42.66.

Here are the 12 hottest takes from RAISE Summit Day 2. 1. Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) There will be a pullback. The current level of spending on models, employees, and general opulence in AI companies is unsustainable. We’re in the “opulence phase” of the bubble, and cycles move faster than people think. He referenced the ... Read more

A highly detailed, month-by-month financial model for xAI/SpaceX’s AI data center leasing business. This highlights three existing major leasing deals already in place:Google deal ramping to nearly $1 billion per month (fully online by October) and predicts 1–2 additional major leasing deals will be announced before the end of the year (2026). This could push ... Read more

AI progress has returned to predictable, substantial leaps. The key isn’t just making models bigger. It’s mastering data quality, building synthetic data factories, and creating fast verification loops in domains like math and programming. Where you can reliably check whether an output is correct (compiling code, solving math problems, running simulations), you unlock rapid compounding ... Read more