Future Stories

The US government has released some of the UFO files. Some really interesting ones are the three dots in a photo taken during Apollo 17. Apollo 12 lunar photos: Multiple images flagged as anomalous, including strangely shaped objects or lights captured on film during the mission. Users call these “wild” and are posting close-ups. “Yes. ... Read more

The economics of Tesla Semi versus Diesel Trucks. It is $40000 for two overnight chargers or $188000 for two chargers for 30 minute charging. Tesla has just introduced Semi Charging for Businesses. Pricing starts at $40,000 for 2 Basechargers or $188,000 for two Megachargers. Options: Megacharger Cabinet With Megacharger Post: • Max DC output: Up ... Read more

Nvidia Vera Rubin platform with the Rubin GPU and Vera CPU is a full-stack systems with CPO. It is the next-gen successor to Blackwell. The Vera CPUs are for agentic workloads. There is Groq LPU integration for inference disaggregation. there is projected $1T in combined Blackwell/Rubin orders through 2027. It will have 10x better inference ... Read more

Tesla now has at least 38 unsupervised robotaxi. Austin is up to 27 unsupervised, which is over half of the 53 robotaxi. The count from robotaxitracker is likely only 70% or less of the actual based upon how many Waymo vehicles have been confirmed out of 200 expected vehicles. Tesla FSD 14.3.2 is rolling out ... Read more

XAI gets to about breakeven by renting half of their AI Data center and Anthropic can serve its models and more money and can get to a better IPO. Both get to IPO before OpenAI. Both stronger against OpenAI. OpenAI IPO is hurt. Anthropic is already at pre-IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion. SpaceX XAI will ... Read more

Cambridge, MA, 5th May 2026, CyberNewswire

Starlink supplier projects 100M starlink high speed internet terminals 2028 and 200 million 2030. This is inline with my projections from last week based on looking at customers and price points. I divided up countries into high speed internet subscription tiers. And I have project may ten Starship launches in 2026 and 100 in 2027 ... Read more

During a high-volume deluge test on the new Orbital Launch Pad 2 one of the methalox gas generators that supplies high-pressure nitrogen for the deluge system exploded. The explosion sent roof panels and debris flying. There was the target launch of May 12 for the 12th SpaceX Starship flight. This could be delayed by 1-2 ... Read more

Tesla has added another 7 unsupervised robotaxi in Austin, Dallas and Houston. There are hundreds parked and ready to be added. This is likely an undercount because the crowdsourcwed robotaxitracker.com miss over half of the supervised vehicles for Tesla and Waymo. Just getting Dallas and Houston to the Austin level with population and other adjustments ... Read more