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Next Week xAI Releases Grok 3.5 to SuperGrok Subscribers

The Premium+ and SuperGrok plans offered by xAI provide different levels of access to the Grok AI chatbot, particularly with the recent launch of Grok 3 and 3.5 early release. Next week, Grok 3.5 early beta release to SuperGrok subscribers only. It is the first AI that can, for example, accurately answer technical questions about ... Read more

OTP-2 Propellantless Drive Satellite Continues to Show a Shallowing Orbital Decline

Satellite 63235 is Rogue Space Systems’ OTP-2 satellite and the propellanless drive onboard OTP-2 is IVO’s Quantum Drive. The satellite tracking is continuing to show a shallowing of the orbital decline. Rogue’s new spacecraft, named OTP-2, will test the company’s on-board computing software and its ability to aggregate data from multiple sensors and process that ... Read more

Google Claybrook AI Model Great for UI/UX Coding and Web Development

Claybrook is an experimental AI model developed by Google and the model’s focus is on web development with an emphasis frontend tasks such as UI/UX coding. Claybrook leverages advanced techniques, such as reinforcement learning (RL), tailored for frontend design. Frontend tasks—like designing user interfaces—lend themselves to well-defined reward functions, making them suitable for RL optimization. ... Read more

Reinforcement Learning Does NOT Fundamentally Improve AI Models

Reinforcement Learning does NOT make the base model more intelligent and limits the world of the base model in exchange for early pass performances. Graphs show that after pass 1000 the reasoning model is surpassed by the base. Above – Figure 1: (Left) The effect of RLVR on LLM’s reasoning ability. Search trees are generated ... Read more

Deep Dive into the Technology and Financials of BYD, Other China Companies and LIDAR Cost and Supplies

$25K Tesla and unsupervised robotaxis are starting this quarter—and BYD, Xiaomi, and legacy auto won’t keep up. With BYD’s 4% margins a sham (thanks to 3% dodged interest and other non-GAAP accounting), Tesla’s cheaper EV and 5,000+ robotaxi fleet by 2025 and one million Tesla robotaxi network in 2026 in will dominate. We break down ... Read more

SpaceX, Palantir and Anduril Partnership Competing for the US Golden Dome Missile Defense Contracts

U.S. Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman clarified the Golden Dome is not a single mega-shield, but a network of systems built to counter advanced missile threats. The system will combine terrestrial, naval, airborne, and space-based sensors and interceptors, along with non-kinetic defenses like directed energy weapons and electronic warfare capabilities. Saltzman emphasized that decision-making ... Read more

99.7% Likely That Exoplanet K2-18B is an Ocean Planet Teeming With Life

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system. If this 99.7% likely detection of chemical signature is confirmed with another 24 hours of James Webb Space Telescope then we would be 99.99994% certain the DMS chemical signature is good. The most likely reason (when combined with other ... Read more

Expert Jon Twigge and Brian Wang on SURVIVING A FASTER and HARDER AI Future, Part 1

Technology experts Brian Wang and Jon Twigge discuss the fast arriving future of AI. The acceleration of AI technology has already started happening. It is the shocking speed of development and the speed of change which will make adapting and surviving harder. Speed of change is everything. XAI and Tesla have more speed. Physical change ... Read more

Google Dragontail AI is Scary Good, OpenAI Quasar, xAI Grok 3.5

Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently ranked as the top released model on the leaderboards. Google’s has more models lined up, and Nightwhisper (probably Gemini Coder) is reportedly amazing and so is Dragontail. Google Dragontail one shotted a single prompt dashboard page for a school ERP. Google's Dragontail in https://t.co/TIdgRz9epR oneshotted an insane single prompt dashboard ... Read more

Bytedance Hyper Realistic AI Video Animator, Dreamina, Nears Microsoft VASA-1 Level

One year ago Microsoft Researchers created a hyper releastic AI video animator, VASA-1, but did not release it. Now, Bytedance owner of TikTok, is getting closer to matching the VASA-1 ability to hyper-realistically animate the facial muscles of faces and lip-sync based upon a single photograph. The Bytedance product is called Dreamina. The lipsync is ... Read more

Trillions of Rogue Planets ?

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue astronomical bodies. In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered dozens of seemingly physics-breaking rogue objects floating through space in pairs. James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared survey ... Read more

U.S. Navy Cancels HALO Hypersonic Missile

The Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive (HALO) missile in development for the U.S. Navy’s high priority Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 2 (OASuW Inc 2) program has been cancelled. This was announced on the Naval News by Rear Adm. Stephen Tedford, Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons. The U.S. Navy wanted HALO to be ... Read more

xAI Grok 3.5 Likely in May and Grok 4 September

Elon announced that xAI Grok 3.5 will be released soonish. This likely means May. We know that at the February Grok 3 announcement xAI had already installed another 100,000 H100/H200s to go with the 100,000 H100s that trained Grok 3. I think xaI started training in February for Grok 3.5. They will likely use about ... Read more

Jared Isaacman Future NASA Administrator is Pro-Moon, Mars but not Lunar Gateway

Isaacman wants NASA to returns humans to the Moon as quickly as possible. This includes flying Artemis II around the Moon in 2026, and then landing the Artemis III mission later this decade. Isaacman has been a private astronaut who was with a crew that has gotten further from Earth than anyone except the Apollo ... Read more

SpaceX Starship Global Cargo Logistics and Fuel

SpaceX’s Starship upper stages, capable of one-hour cargo flights between continents, could revolutionize global logistics by drastically reducing delivery times compared to the 12-24 hours typical of traditional air cargo. However, to fully capitalize on this speed, bureaucratic and procedural delays—such as customs clearance, security checks, and documentation—must be minimized. By implementing expedited pre-approval processes ... Read more

How to Fully UNLOCK the AI Future

What is a full stack AI company? AI is making huge changes but we have not reached an intelligence explosion. We have not transformed all transportation, labor or computer coding. A company that can fully unlock the AI future would have control all aspects of what is needed for better and better AI. This would ... Read more

Tesla Optimus Has Improved Walking and Actuators

Tesla Optimus has shown improved walking and improved actuators. The actuators will continue to be improved. The walking was mastered using reinforcement learning in a digital simulation. This training approach is used by all of the leading humanoid bot companies. The reports and claims from the humanoid robot companies is that training of skills is ... Read more

SpaceX Starship Next Day Package Delivery Economics

SpaceX Starship could have significantly faster delivery options (12, 24 and 48 hours) compared to the current express standard of under five days. How much demand could there be for this service? People could be willing to pay 2X to 4X the price for ultrafast package delivery. Current express delivery is about 17% of total ... Read more

Boeing Starliner Was a Minute from Disaster in Space Station Docking

The Boeing Starliner faced a critical situation during its approach to the International Space Station (ISS), where multiple thruster failures brought it within minutes o losing full control and potentially endangering the crew. Ars Technica got the details from Astronaut Wilmore on the danger 9 months ago during the docking. The Starliner was likely 30-60 ... Read more

Sentient To Bring Powerful AI Search To The Masses

The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it’s throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and The decentralized artificial intelligence startup Sentient says it’s throwing down the gauntlet to industry giants like OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Anthropic with the imminent launch of Open Deep Search. Known as ODS, it’s a very ... Read more

HUGE Changes in Tesla Factories for $25K Cars in 2025 and $15K in 2026

Tesla’s unboxed process will transform car manufacturing and the cybercab will be revolunize transportation. They are so disruptive, they will need to have two major steps over two years. The first two steps will be done this year and next year. Tesla will no longer paint new cars starting with the new models introduced in ... Read more

Technology Leap of Tesla Cybercab Manufacturing is Like the Fully Reusable SpaceX Starship

The fully reusable SpaceX Starship includes huge combinations of new technologies. The innovations combine into a massive increase in capability. We will be able to launch 1000 times as much payload to orbit. A similar multi-year effort is being achieved with the Tesla Cybercab and its breakthrough manufacturing processes. A Starship uses the Mechazilla launch ... Read more