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Tesla FSD 13.2 can reverse, park and unpark itself. This means far more complete no intervention drives. It does three point turns. The Tesla fleet can talk to each other. FSD improvements over the last ~60 days: • FSD v13 with ~5-6x improvement in miles between necessary interventions • Unpark, Park, and Reverse in FSD ... Read more

Trump says he wants the Ukraine war and the Israel war over before he takes office. Vlodymr Zelensky said he is willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time. The Ukrainian president said his country could give up land temporarily in exchange for a ‘Nato umbrella’ over the territory ... Read more

The Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment (SEAQUE) on the space station tests two technologies that could advance the field of quantum communications. The first technology is a novel method to transmit quantum data. This method could make way for a scalable quantum information network and provide the foundation of quantum cloud computing, a technology ... Read more

Brian Wang had an interview with Tesla Youtuber Herbert Ong. Herbert interviews dozens of experts about Tesla robotaxi and full self driving every month and publishes about 60 videos a month on Tesla. Brian gave two major insights about robotaxi and Tesla full self driving that literally left Herbert speechless. One how xAI till help ... Read more

Renault is selling its 36% share of Nissan and without a new major investor Nissan will go bankrupt in 12-14 months. At its news conference, Nissan’s Chief Monozukuri Officer (Head of Manufacturing) Hideyuki Sakamoto described major cost cutting moves. Nissan’s current plan is to reduce the operational maximum capacity of these 25 production lines by ... Read more

Rep. Kiley has introduced legislation to make the Office of Commercial Space Transportation report directly to the Secretary of Transportation. This comes after Rep. Kiley questioned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Whitaker before the Aviation Subcommittee with respect to the FAA’s decisions with SpaceX launches in September. The bill streamlines the oversight process by ... Read more

Firefly Aerospace successfully completed environmental testing on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the Moon supporting NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly is now preparing to ship the lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in mid-December for launch on Following launch and vehicle separation, Blue Ghost will begin its ... Read more

Eric Berger expects NASA and the public support for the SpaceX Mars city will surge with the first unmanned landings on Mars. Erc X rendered an Earth Orbit SpaceX Refueling depot. Elon has talked about sending a fleet of five Starships to Mars in October-December 2026. Refueling and orbital propellant transfer is key to this ... Read more

Eric Berger is the Ars Technica, senior space editor and author of Reentry, a book about the behind the scenes SpaceX development of Falcon 9. Berger’s primary focus is on NASA and private aerospace companies. He authored Liftoff, which was published by William Morrow and Company and released in March 2021. The book chronicles the ... Read more

Centrifugal Magnetic Mirrors could enable commercial nuclear fusion reactors on Earth and are also promising for next level propulsion in space. There is funded near term work for both goals. An early Centrifugal Magnetic Mirror propulsion concept could achieve 1 to 10 newtons of thrust with 10,000 to 30000 ISP. This would be propulsion that ... Read more

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on a side. There is still work needed to make the sail area about ... Read more

Elon Musk has said that SpaceX will send five unmanned Starships to Mars in 2026. The launch window is about October 2024 to January 2025. The 1000 tons of payload will include thousands of Teslabots and dozens of cybertrucks. What will this mean for Tesla, SpaceX and the future. What will the Teslabots build on ... Read more

Smart money is selling Uber and buying Tesla for the bet that 2025 will be the year of Tesla robotaxi. Brad Gerstner sold over $1 billion of Uber in his Altimeter Capital fund and bought Tesla in the last weeks. Altimeter reported over $1 billion in Uber as of September 30, 2024 in their 13F ... Read more

OTOY has recreated scenes recapturing 2001 a Space Odyssey. They are doing next level rendering.

A great Kirk, Spock and Saavik Star Trek fan film. It is made by OTOY.

Super Venture Capitalists Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner analyze the future of AI. The rate of improvement of large language models is slowing for pre-training. However, it is still improving and AI intelligence is improving with post-training and test time training. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a major AI advancement for 2025, featuring models with infinite ... Read more

OORT, a pioneer decentralized cloud computing platform for AI applications, today reported that its customized AI solution (OORT AI) has significantly improved Githon Technology’s customer service standards. The integration of OORT AI has seen Githon Technology (formerly Lenovo Image) cut its customer support cost by 40% while also increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 95%. ... Read more

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Quantum Circuits recently raised $60 million in a new funding roudn and they have just announced a new unique superconducting hardware system drives more efficiency with error-detecting dual-rail qubits. They have new software, simulator, and cloud service for full-stack enterprise solution that corrects first, then will be able to scale. Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced highly ... Read more

SpaceX Starship survived the soft landing. A great simulated tower landing.

The sixth SpaceX Starship flight will be in a few minutes. The rocket and starship are almost fully fueled and we are about five minutes from launch. This should have another booster catch landing and an orbital Starship engine relight. The engine relight will set the stage for orbital flights in the next missions. SpaceX ... Read more

New experiments by swiss researchers have show that industrial-relevant temperatures of 1,050°C can be generated from solar concentrators. Solar power for industrial heat would be able to decarbonize power as much as converting electricity generation to stop using fossil fuel. Current solar converters are expensive and inefficient when generating temperatures above 1,000°C for industrial processes. ... Read more

MIT researchers achieved 61.9% on ARC tasks by updating model parameters during inference. Is this key to AGI? We might reach the 85% AGI doorstep by scaling and integrating it with COT (Chain of thought) next year. Test-time training (TTT) for large language models typically requires additional compute resources during inference compared to standard inference. ... Read more

Elon posted that Tesla FSD (full self driving) V13.X will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between intervention. Cool. V13 will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between interventions. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2024

Unnamed OpenAI researchers told The Information that Orion (aka GPT 5), the next OpenAI full-fledged model release, is showing a smaller performance jump than the one seen between GPT-3 and GPT-4 in recent years. On certain tasks, the Orion model is not reliably better than its predecessor according to unnamed OpenAI researchers. eX-OpenAI co-founder Ilya ... Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been named to head a department of government efficiency. Vivek has described how to remake the federal government. Elon eliminated 80% of the staff of Twitter and made the company more innovative and productive. Elon has made real time enterprise systems for running his companies and making his employees ... Read more

The top goal for Nvidia Jensen Huang is to have AI designing the chips that run AI. AI assisted chip design of the H100 and H200 Hopper AI chips. Jensen wants to use AI to explore combinatorially the entire chip design. He wants AI assisted cross modular codesign. They would optimize all of the thousands ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang describes the AI revolution as going beyond computer tools to AI skills. They are already revolutionizing the data center with compute accelerating GPUs. The $2 million AI GPU racks have far denser compute than regular CPU powered servers. The cables connecting the old larger racks cost more than the new denser ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 6 plans to launch in 6 days on November 18, 2024. They will be performing a similar flight to flight 5 but have made changes to the heat shield and other systems. The booster should return for a catch but if anything is going wrong it will be aborted. The upper stage ... Read more

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new method that could extend the lifespan of aqueous zinc-ion batteries by several orders of magnitude. Instead of lasting just a few thousand cycles, they could now endure several hundred thousand charge and discharge cycles. The main innovation is a special protective layer for ... Read more

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Tesla shares have surged and the companies value is over $1 trillion. I have a video where I discuss why there will be follow through. (not financial advice). There is a strong chance of $450 in the next 90 days. $1000 in the second half of 2025. And a 10X to $3000 by 2027. Elon ... Read more

SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars. Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system—capable of transmitting 4 Mbps or more—across 1.5 astronomical units, the distance between Earth and Mars. The system will use multiple satellites in Mars orbit and leverage Starlink’s ... Read more

SpaceX has massively accelerated the development of space. Predicting the speed of space development requires predicting the financial future of SpaceX. This is because if trillions of dollars of profits each year can be used to increase space development then this will be far more than $2 billion/year of the NASA budget that is actually ... Read more

Naval Ravikant is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and investor. He is worth about $100 million. He is the co-founder, chairman and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Postmates, SnapLogic, and Yammer. Naval describes how Elon Musk is different. Bill Gates had just taken out some huge ... Read more

Here is the President’s plan to restore free speech and remove the deep state. This is WILD. President-Elect Trump lays out a 10-point plan to unravel the Deep State. 🔥 1. RESTORE President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. 2. FIRE corrupt actors in National Security and Intelligence apparatus. 3. REFORM FISA courts, which are “so ... Read more

The sixth flight test of SpaceX Starship is targeted to launch as early as Monday, November 18. There should be far fewer delays from the FAA. The FAA will be more efficient and motivated. The sixth flight already had approval as the fifth flight had no problems that required investigation. Starship’s fifth flight test was ... Read more

There have been some laboratory experiments and theoretical work done to validate aspects of the plasma magnet propulsion concept. The Plasma Magnet is a wind drag device invented almost twenty years ago by Dr. John Slough from the University of Washington. A rocket that uses a propellant to create momentum. A plasma magnet (newer / ... Read more

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ... Read more

This ICBM Test is actually scheduled to happen as reported by Vandenberg Space Force. An operational test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled between 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 5 to 5:01 a.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 6 from north Vandenberg. The purpose of ... Read more

Tesla is on the verge of superhuman driving in the next few months. Tesla is starting the release of a vastly improved FSD (full self driving) version 13 this weekend. It is feature complete for unsupervised driving. There were 50 Tesla vehicles driven without human drivers on Robotaxi day a few weeks ago. Tesla vehicles ... Read more

While 3D printing might have been around for a while, its capabilities are still somewhat limited and many don’t quite realise what the extent is that it can do. While many know it can do things like print keyrings or little token items, they haven’t actually witnessed how it can help our civilization and the ... Read more

The New York Post reports NVDA is looking to make a strategic investment in Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI. xAI is exploring a new funding round in January 2025, which could value the company at $75 billion. xAI last raised a $6 billion round with a $24 billion valuation earlier 2024. xAI is doubling the ... Read more

Magic is building frontier code models to automate software engineering and research. This AI coding assistance startup raised $320 million in a funding round led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Magic’s total funding now stands at $515 million. Magic had about 23 people (+ 8000 H100s) in August, 2024. They are hiring more Engineers ... Read more

Tesla is rolling out FSD (Full Self Driving) version 13 this weekend to Tesla employees. This includes a fleet of Tesla cars being used to give Waymo-Uber like ridehailing to Tesla employees. I make the case that FSD Version 13 and the systems that follow next year will give Tesla a 5-10 year lead. The ... Read more