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Super-Turing AI operates more like the human brain and with much less energy. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do. AI data centers are consuming power in gigawatts, whereas our brain consumes 20 watts. That’s 1 billion watts compared to just ... Read more

There is a global total of $60 trillion of final consumer consumption for 2025. The US with about 4% of total world population has 33% of total consumption.

Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. They build short range surface to ship missiles. They tried for a low earth orbit test and it failed after 30 seconds. They went for an orientation change it failed. The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms ... Read more

Chinese electronics giant Huawei is testing elements for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine at its Dongguan facility, according to two sources posting photographs on X social media. The sources say the equipment is scheduled for trial production of circuits in 2Q25 with full-scale manufacturing in 2026, without attributing the information to any sources of ... Read more

SpaceX is going to make huge advances with fully reusable Super Heavy Starships. A fleet of 100 fully reusable Starships with boosters could transport about 2 million tons per year to orbit. This would be about one thousand times more than last year. SpaceX is making huge progress in these few months. They are on ... Read more

When might AI truly transform our world, and what will that transformation look like? The Epoch AI research team focuses on the future of AI. They have a mission of understanding the future of AI. They have disagreement about timelines for AGI. Two Epoch AI researchers with relatively long and short AGI timelines candidly examine ... Read more

Palo Alto, USA, 29th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). I think this means xAI is valued at $113 billion after the acquisition. Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the ... Read more

I finally got XAI Grok 3 to admit that tree planting, if scaled correctly, can be a complete and permanent solution to the CO₂ problem, offsetting all annual emissions and removing historical excess to restore a pre-industrial atmosphere. I drew a parallel to farming—where we don’t expect every sector to grow its own food but ... Read more

The Mark Rober created fake wall test was used to trick Tesla Autopilot, a driver assist system. This fake wall test was also recreated for new tests with different versions of Tesla FSD and Tesla with Hardware 3 and Hardware 4. Tesla FSD 12.X with Hardware 3 fails the test. Tesla FSD 13.2.X with Hardware ... Read more

There is a BEAD Dashboard that shows how the Rural Broadband funding bill created an obstacle course for providing rural broadband. The bill created a pointless process of creating plans and maps and approving nothing. Each applicant got $5 millions near the start to fund them going through years of submissions, plan creation, map creation ... Read more

A primary focus of LEV Foundation’s work is to empirically demonstrate the feasibility and value of the divide-and-conquer approach to treating age-related disease – that is, the simultaneous deployment of therapies that independently address the distinct classes of damage that accumulate in aging bodies. With a steadily increasing number of such therapies now showing benefits ... Read more

There are various approvals that will start in Netherlands in April 2025, there will be a EU vote in May 2025 and then the various countries in the EU will approve Tesla FSD from Jun-October 2025.

ChatGPT 4o image recreation ca take a photo and apply all kinds of styles. Styles: Studio Ghibli Wallace and Gromit Rick and Morty Attack on Titan Improved capabilities OpenAI trained the 4o native image models on the joint distribution of online images and text, learning not just how images relate to language, but how they ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 27th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Commerce Secretary Lutnick describes how the US Debt, Deficit, Economy and Taxes will be fixed. The US has been spending $6.5 trillion but taking in $4.5 trillion with a $2 trillion deficit and $37 trillion in debt. However, the US has $500 trillion to $1000 trillion in assets. DOGE will cut $1 trillion of waste, ... Read more

xAI Grok is available at no extra cost to about ten million Telegram Premium users. Tracking the website and download activity, xAI Grok 3 appears to moving into second place behind OpenAI and ChatGPT. Telegram just hit 1 billion monthly active users—and now, it’s getting Grok AI. 𝕏 to Telegram – Grok’s first major expansion ... Read more

The new SpaceX Gigabay at Boca Chica is designed to be a massive vertical integration and assembly facility to support the production and refurbishment of the Starship launch system. The Gigabay will stand 380 feet tall and provide approximately 46.5 million cubic feet of interior processing space, with 815,000 square feet of workspace. It is ... Read more

Google Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. The first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities. Gemini 2.5 achieved a new level of performance by combining a significantly enhanced base model with improved post-training. Going forward, google ... Read more

Menlo Park, United States, 25th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Tesla China has officially announced that the FSD update for HW3 and HW4 vehicles will be available via OTA. Also, the paused FSD 1 month trial will be re-distributed. Everything is currently pending regulatory approval. China appears close to giving full approval for Tesla FSD. A Chinese driver owns both a Tesla vehicle with FSD ... Read more

SpaceX’s Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed for interplanetary travel, with test flights conducted to refine its capabilities. As of early 2025, eight test flights have occurred, with Flights 7 and 8 both ending in the upper stage (Ship) exploding. There are significant technical challenges, possibly related to amplified vibration problems. ... Read more

NVIDIA released a new petaflop AI computer DGX Spark (aka DIGITS). There is an ASUS version using the same Nvidia chip and board. These compete with Apple and other third parties for personal AI developer systems. The Apple M3 Ultra can scale to 512 GB per unit, offering vastly more total memory (up to 2.56 ... Read more

Chinese humandoid bot leaders, UBTech and Unitree, are testing dozens of bots in factories and should reach over 1000 bots each by the end of 2025. Tesla and FigureAI will each have the capacity for 12,000 bots per year from new factories in 2025. Tesla will have 5000-6000 completed humanoid bots this year and will ... Read more

There was experiments to test the performance of the different positioning frameworks with Starlink satellites before year 2024. The results showed meter level accuracy. The unprecedented results from these analyses show that, with an average of only three active Starlink satellites, a positioning solution with a 3D position estimation error of two meters can be ... Read more

Manus, developed by the Chinese startup Monica, is the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent. It launched on March 6, 2025. It can independently execute complex, real-world tasks. Manis AI can: Analyze stocks by conducting deep research, creating checklists, and generating reports with investment recommendations. Research AI tools by ranking the top 50 business AI ... Read more

The US Air Force has selected companies and funded the purchase of new combat superdrones and the Boeing F47 next generation stealth fighter. X-prototype versions of the Boeing F47 stealth fighter have been flying for several years and the new drones are also flying. General Atomics and Anduril phase 1 high performance drones in the ... Read more

Boeing won a contract March 21 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft (6th generation fighter) for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing and Lockheed Martin were competing for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems. The US Air Force says the F-47 will be the world’s first crewed sixth-generation fighter. It is ... Read more

A 2025 Tesla Cybertruck with FSD HW4 V13.2.8 Passed the fake wall test. A 2022 Tesla Model Y with HW3 V12.5 failed the fake wall test.

What would the world GDP in 2040 be if there were 10 billion humanoid robots? Assuming the robots were 4 times as productive as humans. There would also be 3 billion robotaxis and robotrucks making transportation 10 times cheaper and 2-3 times faster for ground transportation. There would be global 6G space communication via satellites, ... Read more

During the current business cycle, Ark Invest believe real gross domestic product (GDP) growth could accelerate to 7% per year on average, surpassing that of any year since 1950. Seemingly outlandish, this estimate is consistent with the dramatic boost to real GDP growth during bursts of technologically enabled innovation in the past 2000+ years. During ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described the new chip roadmap. Blackwell Ultra (B300 Series). Release Date: Second half of 2025. 1.5X the compute of B200. Rubin (Vera Rubin Platform). Release Date: Second half of 2026. 3.3X the compute of B300 (Ultra) Rubin Ultra. Release Date: Second half of 2027. 14x performance increase over the GB30. 21X ... Read more

Bengaluru, India, 19th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

The SpaceX Crew Dragon has undocked from the Space Station. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have donned SpaceX spacesuits ahead of their return to Earth on board Dragon. @NASA_Astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are returning to Earth in their @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. #Crew9 splashdown is targeted for 5:57pm ET ... Read more

Nvidia AI and simulation is used for faster and more profitable AI data centers.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote describes AI advances and reaching $1 trillion per year for AI data centers. The key area is being able to use AI to improve computer chips.

Palo Alto, USA, 18th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical constraints. A hydrogenous mixture will moderate neutrons, preventing a fast-spectrum detonation and likely limiting the reaction to a thermal fizz. However, Zubrin’s NSWR isn’t necessarily aiming for a weapons-grade explosion but rather a controlled, continuous supercritical reaction. ... Read more

Youtuber Mark Rober made a video sponsored by Luminar Lidar (valuation about $170M-200 Million) which used a large billboard sized picture of the road ahead to supposedly causes Tesla Autopilot to fail. Reviewers online have claimed that Tesla FSD was never engaged. There are also issues of the timing of when Tesla systems were engaged ... Read more

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 17th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship will departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely. There will likely be hundreds to thousands of Optimus Teslabots on the unmanned missions. There will be a larger ... Read more

AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). Switching from water to polyethene and storing in sausage strings could enhance its performance and safety, particularly focusing on avoiding criticality during storage, minimizing parasitic mass, and addressing practical challenges like micrometeorite protection and fuel state. Robert ... Read more

Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering and there are versions that could reach 7-8% of light speed. The use low grade uranium enrichment for a more near term version is the one that is often described. However, if weapons grade uranium (90% enrichment) and the exhaust would ... Read more

The large swings in egg prices has had a noticeable impact on the actual CPI. Normally a small 0.1% component would not have a noticeable impact but increasing by 250% or decreasing by 60% has an effect. Today, the trading economics egg price tracker using USDA information shows that egg prices have dropped to $4.15 ... Read more

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day range depending upon where Mars was in its orbit relative to Earth. This would be with constant 0.33G acceleration and deceleration. What exactly is ... Read more

Youtuber Dr. Mike does an excellent give into intelligence, superintelligence and AGI. He parses all of the different intelligence domains. He observes that machines are already superintelligence in many areas of intelligence. Computers have long been superintelligence in calculation and memory. The new LLM AI are dominating in writing, summarizing research and many other new ... Read more

Saturn has an official count of 274 moon after 128 new moons found in 2023 were recognized. A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the U.S., and France discovered the 128 new moons in 2023 using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). On March 11, 2025, the International Astronomical Union has officially approved them. These ... Read more

Egg prices returning to normal and lower energy prices will get inflation back below 2.0%. The last 2.8 CPI reading is with data that is 2-4 weeks old. Actual inflation is already far closer to 2.0. Dropping egg prices from 200% of normal to normal and lower energy prices already working through the economy should ... Read more

Cary, North Carolina, 13th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

The Hague, the Netherlands, 13th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

Currently, the two motor Tesla Cybertruck costs $79,990 and has a range of 325 miles. Tesla is developing its own iron LFP 4680 battery. Iron LFP batteries are about 20-30% lower cost than nickel batteries, but are less energy dense. Lower cost LFP4680 would be about $70-80 per kWh instead of $100 per kWh for ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, 12th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

San Jose, United States / California, 12th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX Starlink direct to cell tests do work with 500 enabled satellites. However, there are times where service can degrade to 5-7 minute delay. Perhaps only 300 of the 500 satellites are in position and fully active. There will be a need to increase satellites by the end the year for reliable voice and internet ... Read more

Boston, USA, 11th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

On March 7, 2025, the FCC allows Starlink’s direct-to-cell service to operate at higher power which will enable faster, more reliable service. 500 Starlink satellites have direct to cell service. The FCC permit allows up to 7500 Starlink satellites to use direct to cell at higher power levels. FCC has authorized a 770% increase in ... Read more

Manus AI, developed by the Chinese startup Monica.im is making a lot of splash as the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent. Manus operates independently, executing complex, multi-step tasks without human oversight. It has GAIA benchmark edge but it has some errors and problems. Competitors are either more reliable now (Operator, Claude) or poised to ... Read more

Let us look at the AI Opportunites, Robotaxi, Robotrucks and recursively improving AI and AI data centers. Robotaxis: 10X Safer, Millions Deployed, Lower Costs Imagine a world where robotaxis—self-driving vehicles like Tesla’s Cybercabs—are 10X safer than human drivers. This isn’t a stretch; autonomous systems, free from human error (fatigue, distraction, recklessness), could drastically reduce the ... Read more

Yann LeCun is both a giant in the field of AI but also a major skeptic of the ultimate potential of large language models. He is a major skeptic about large language models getting to TRUE AI (aka real AGI or actual superintelligence). He feels the LLM AI will not be able to learn the ... Read more

Information from someone who lives and works in the area, online transcripts from the public meetings and public reports, Grok 3 analysis (based upon my giving it my view of the context to get to first megapack production at the new megapack factory in Texas gives this 9 month timeline. – 8-10 month timeline likely ... Read more

GibberLink is a new audio communication protocol developed by Boris Starkov and Anton Pidkuiko during the ElevenLabs London Hackathon in February 2025. It enables AI agents to switch from human-like speech to a more efficient, machine-optimized, sound-based communication method when they recognize each other as AI entities. Leveraging ElevenLabs’ conversational AI technology and the open-source ... Read more

ManusAI is an AI from China that is mind blowing good. It outperforms OpenAI DeepResearch by a lot. It demoed stock analysis, deep real estate property analysis and resume analysis of job candidates. Others have shown Manus AI creating interactive websites. This is wild. China's Manus AI just dropped and it will completely change the ... Read more

NVIDIA’s chip roadmap progresses from the B200, part of the Blackwell architecture, to the Rubin architecture, with hints of potential “ultra” chips or new architectures in the future. The next generation Nvidia Rubin chip is expected late in 2025 and their should be an Ultra variant of the Blackwell chip. At the late 2024 All ... Read more

In 2025, xAI has bought a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI Data Centers which already has 200,000 Nvidia H100/H200 chips. The new facility will complement xAI’s existing operations and support the company’s growing presence in Memphis, with the Colossus supercomputer well on the path to the supercluster size. Greater Memphis Chamber ... Read more

Information from someone who lives and works in the area, online transcripts from the public meetings and public reports, Grok 3 analysis (based upon my giving it my view of the context to get to first megapack production at the new megapack factory in Texas gives this 6 month timeline. – 6 month timeline likely ... Read more

Looking at the top 5 humanoid bot companies scaling to thousands and even millions of humanoid robots in the next 4 years. Tesla Optimius Figure AI with Figure 2 and Figure 3 Apptronik 1X Technologies Agility Robotics The tech and AI gianta behind them from the startups or from XAI, OpenAI, Google, Amazon. Tesla Optimus ... Read more

Join Curt Jaimungal talks to Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes and Scott Aaronson. Jacob Barandes claims quantum mechanics can be reformulated without wave functions. Barandes has a new formulation of quantum mechanics which is considered a serious proposal by Scott Aaronson. Quantum computer theoretician Scott Aaronson gives his perspective. Barandes’ “indivisible” approach challenges the standard Schrödinger ... Read more

The Startup Alice and Bob have been working on the cat qubit. Alice & Bob is a Paris-based quantum computing startup founded in 2020 by Théau Peronnin and Raphaël Lescanne, with a mission to build the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Their main technological advantage is the proprietary “cat qubit” technology. With over 110 employees ... Read more

Previously, SpaceX has talked saving about 500 kilograms from Raptor 1 to Raptor 3 and 100-200 kilograms from going from Raptor 2 to Raptor 3. But on the Flight 8 launch preparation, they talked about saving 1 metric ton of mass per Raptor 3 engine. This must be mass beyond the engine to related components ... Read more

I am expecting a clean SpaceX Starship test flight 8. There was a scrub a few days ago and there were some minor issues yesterday and there was the explosion of the upper stage on Starship Test Flight 7. We are an hour or so away from the scheduled launch of test flight 8. I ... Read more

Tesla Fremont factory has 15 spherical community gateway receivers. The Starlink Community Gateways program is designed to deliver high-speed internet for businesses, remote and underserved areas. This program can provide symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) per gateway. We don’t know if each spherical unit is a gateway ... Read more

Palo Alto, Singapore, 6th March 2025, CyberNewsWire

SpaceX Starship had two weird problems today. There was a part that fell off the Starship. Later, there was some ball bearing problem on the Mechazilla launch tower. Despite the issues. Starship is stacked on the booster and hopefully ready for Flight 8 tomorrow. Live now on @NASASpaceflight – Starship being destacked again after a ... Read more

There are report that there will be a third Tesla megapack factory and it will be in Texas. The will be located in Waller County, within the Empire West Industrial Park, near Houston and part of the Houston metropolitan area (close to Katy, Texas). It is expected to span approximately 1.6 million square feet, though ... Read more

Brian Wang talks to Herbert Ong, Brian White and Nick Gibb about his pick for the first China carmaker to license Tesla FSD. The financial impact of the tax deductible interest on car loans for US made cars and how many more cars Tesla will sell. What will happen with the Tesla share prices ? ... Read more

Colossus Bioscience creation of the woolly mice Tuesday in a news release and posted a scientific paper online detailing the achievement. Scientists implanted genetically modified embryos in female lab mice that gave birth to the first of the woolly pups in October. Reviving extinct species like the mammoth, the dodo and others could help repair ... Read more

Many space people are worried about a space junk catastrophe called the Kessler Syndrome. Lower orbits reduce the risk of the Kessler syndrome. Here are considerations of fuel needs and aerodynamic factors, especially in the context of SpaceX’s low-cost launches with reusable Starships. De-Orbit Times and Fuel Requirements Above is a table summarizing the estimated ... Read more

Tesla China weekly registrations are at about the level in the same week last year. YTD only 8K behind last year despite the Model Y refresh ramp. The Tesla Model 3 has started a 0% interest rate incentive in the US. I think this is to clear model 3 inventory ahead of the new model ... Read more

San Francisco, California, 3rd March 2025, CyberNewsWire

AI spending is huge and it is sustainable and has indications that it is profitable spending. Returns are from AI are being seen. The smaller spending from 2 years ago sees a lag in returns but adjusting for lag shows profits. Pascal’s Wager Applied (CEOs Believe in Godlike AI) Invest and AI Succeeds: Huge payoff—competitive ... Read more

Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry about a dozen passengers, traveling at Mach 9, nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer, which measures 150 feet long by 100 feet wide, will travel between two cities in the world by flying 6,905 mph at an altitude of 170,000 feet. Hypersonic is ... Read more

The UK is talking about sending ground troops to the Ukraine. March 2, 2025, Starmer has discussed the possibility of the UK participating in a coalition of the willing alongside France and other nations to deploy troops to Ukraine. However, this is framed as a peacekeeping effort to enforce a potential peace deal, rather than ... Read more

The smallest widely available Starlink antenna is the Starlink Mini, which is significantly larger than a typical cellphone (about the size of a laptop or small tablet). There is a range of Starlink antenna offerings. What are there specifications? What are there use cases? How Larger Version 3 Satellites Boost Signal Strength The larger size ... Read more

SpaceX launches the 8th Starship flight tomorrow March 3, 2025. There will be four dummy version 3 Starlink satellites deployed. If this test is successful it will set the stage for version 3 Starlink satellites on all future Starship test and real flights. SpaceX Starship will go Orbital after the launch tomorrow. There will be ... Read more

A drone operator flying over the Tesla Fremont factory is spotting thousands of front vehicle casting being stored at the factory. He also found one of the castings by itself so its shape can be seen. Castings for in production vehicles would normally not be stored in such high numbers. There was an accumulation of ... Read more

SpaceX @Starlink has over 5 million customers, up from 4.6 million in December 2024 and 3 million in May 2024. Starship Flight 8 goals: – Deploy four Starlink simulators – Super Heavy Booster launch, return, and catch – Conduct critical reentry tests, including stress-testing with fewer tiles and evaluating new thermal protection options pic.twitter.com/em0Jj9DPPj — ... Read more

Venus Aerospace, a leader in hypersonics deep-tech startups aimed at revolutionizing high-speed flight, has successfully achieved ignition of its ‘VDR2’ engine. VDR2 offers a single engine solution from Mach 0 to Mach 6. This marks the first successful Rocket-Based Combined Cycle test. The engine architecture was unveiled in October at UP.Summit and combines the high ... Read more

In 2024, Hermeus built their first aircraft and completed its ground test campaign. They opened a new test facility – set to become a national asset for high-Mach and hypersonic propulsion testing, and quickly brought it online with F100 engine tests. They expanded ther Los Angeles footprint, grew the team across both coasts, and increased ... Read more