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Genetically Engineered War Dogs for 7 Foot – 134 Pound Cyborg Dire Wolves

Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Andruil’s Palmer Luckey are genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and other emergency response teams. They announced its emergence from stealth as Warhound, armed with $200 million in funding from investors including In-Q-Tel, Sequoia, and 8VC. The round values the company at $1.2 billion. Warhound will ... Read more
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The AI That Doesn’t Just Predict Equipment Failures—It Decides What Happens Next

The most consequential deployment of agentic AI this year isn’t happening in a chatbot or a copilot. It’s happening on the shop floor, where software is beginning to decide, on its own, when a bulldozer comes offline and which technician meets it there. The dollars are small so far and the implications are large. Heavy-equipment ... Read more
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Elon’s $1 Trillion Pace: What Has to Go Right

Breaking down Elon’s confidence about 13-23 Gigawatts of data center which will result in about a trillion dollars of revenue in 2027. SpaceX and Elon are superconfident about energy, land and shell. They believe that is assured. Nvidia CEO Jensen and others say funding, land, power and shell are the biggest challenges. SpaceX are building ... Read more
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FigureAI Humanoid Bots All Hands

FigureAI is spending $8.1 million last week on data. They are training new models and are learning from humans at scale. They will spend billions on data in the next year or two. Brett says they will need larger compute clusters than the LLM have today. FigureAI has an Nscale partnership. NScale has a deal ... Read more
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Nextbigfuture Kalshi Question Review #2

Every day I review 2–3 Kalshi energy, science and tech markets where I think the outcome is clearer than the odds suggest. I’ve forecast on Metaculus and Manifold since 2019: 6,596 predictions, a best-ever #8 of 34,617 Baseline Accuracy rank on Metaculus, and a Brier score of 0.071 vs the Metaculus site’s 0.080 (Oct 2023). ... Read more
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