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Tesla’s 4% decline on Friday, August 29, 2025 while the broader market was only slightly down was due to technical patterns: Tesla hsa been forming a wedge, struggling to break through resistance at 350-360. Tesla-specific positives: New Model YL (three-row SUV) and Performance variant (0-60 in under 3 seconds, improved range). No major negatives noted, ... Read more

As of 2025, Europe’s Muslim population is estimated at around 46 million, or about 6% of the continent’s total population of roughly 745 million. This is up from 4.9% in 2016, driven by migration (about 50-60% of growth) and higher fertility rates (40-50%). Most Muslim migrants come from the Middle East and North Africa (e.g., ... Read more

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) detected significant nickel vapor but almost no iron in the interstellar 3I/Atlas comet. Having nickel without iron is not a chemical signature found in known natural comets and is more consistent with industrial alloy refining processes. Nickel Without Iron and Carbon Dioxide Without water Astronomers using the VLT observed emission ... Read more

Jujtusu Kaisen is the the peak of Shonen anime (superhero animated action). Season 3 will release Jan 2026. It is the best superhero show. It has the best pacing, characters, powers and innovative power interactions. Season 1 is on Netflix and season 2 is on Crunch roll streaming. The manga has completed and there about ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 10 proved that Starship can fly to orbit and deliver payload. This makes Starship lower than even partially reusable Falcon 9 for cost to space. But that is just the start. Flight 10 shows the mass deployment of Starlink version 3 satellites will start happening in months. It also means that regular ... Read more

SpaceX released new high resolution photos and video of the SpaceX Starship 10 soft landing in the Indian Ocean. The images were taken by the floating camera created by the company, Marksetbot. View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally ... Read more

Drug seizure data suggests that 2025 has about half the level of trafficking in 2024. Drug over deaths are declining but there is only data up to March 2025. Drug trafficking levels are at the lowest levels in three years. If this correlates to lower trafficking deaths then the next four months should be at ... Read more

NASA is working on photophoretic levitation to uase light-induced heating to create a force that lifts and propels specially designed structures in rarefied atmospheres, such as Earth’s mesosphere (approximately 50-80 km altitude). This involves metamaterial plates or 3D hollow geometries (e.g., cones, spheres, or rocket shapes) with porous sidewalls that act as Knudsen pumps: light ... Read more

Google Sergey Brin funded LTA (Lighter then Air Ships) and they completed a 400 foot (124 meter) long Pathfinder 1. Pathfinder 1 is a subscale prototype of the airship LTA Pathfinder 3, currently under development at another WWII-era hangar in Akron, Ohio. LTA will eventually submit for certification by the FAA. The Pathfinder 3 will ... Read more

Tesla is expanded the Austin Robotaxi service area and is now doubling the number of robotaxi service vehicles in the area. They will soon be providing service to the Austin Airport. The map of the service area is 170 square miles. Tesla FSD 14 will be out next month and it should be 2-3 times ... Read more

NVIDIA shares fell ~4-5% in after-hours trading erasing some pre-earnings gains despite the overall beat. This reaction stems from a mix of high market expectations, subtle misses, and broader concerns. Slight Miss on Key Segment: Data Center revenue ($41.1B) came in just below estimates (~$41.2-41.3B), which is the core driver of NVIDIA’s growth. At NVIDIA’s ... Read more

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29. The detection was made during a Webb observation Feb. 2, 2025. The newly discovered moon is estimated to be just six miles (10 kilometers) in ... Read more

3I/ATLAS is just the third-ever interstellar object confirmed to be from outside the solar system and which we have telescopes to observe in detail 3I/Atlas is by far the largest and it if known to come from the core of Milky Way so it is the oldest comet ever found. The other two interstellar intruders ... Read more

Now that there has been a successful Flight 10 of Starship. There will be the start of using version 3 Starship in flight 12. Fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test as much as they can in the single Starship launches as previously discussed by NASA. ... Read more

SpaceX had a very successful Flight 10 of Starship. They will have one more flight of the Version 2 Starship and booster. They had a successful engine relight and soft landing of Starship in flight 10. They wanted to prove engine relights of Starship before going to real orbit. They went sub-orbital so that STasrhip ... Read more

SpaceX Starship test launch 10 was successful on Tuesday. This launch is transformational for SpaceX. Dummy Version 3 Starlink satellites were successfully deployed. They can start launching real Starlink version 3 satellites with the next launch in September or October. All other rockets just deploy payload and lose the rockets. Starship deploying payload and expending ... Read more

The DARPA Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred. ... Read more

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages diffraction to cancel out normal photonic pressure components, allowing thrust to align along the ribbon’s length when oriented at a tilt to incoming sunlight. ... Read more

Official SpaceX Starship ten launch coverage has started and countdown is at 29 minutes. Weather seems nominal now. Fueling has started. Elon Musk says anyone can come and visit the rocket. There is a public highway that is very close. You cannot come close during a launch but at other times. SpaceX will be building ... Read more

SpaceX Starship test launch 10 was delayed from yesterday to today. They had an liquid oxygen leak that could not be repaired in the 60 minute launch window. The new launch attempt is about 4 hours from now. This launch could be transformational for SpaceX. If they can deploy dummy Version 3 Starlink satellites, then ... Read more

Musk announced that xAI’s Colossus 2 will be the world’s first gigawatt-plus AI training supercomputer and this will be used to start training XAI Grok 5 next month (September 2025). Elon says Colossus 2 has a non-trivial chance of achieving AGI. He says xAI is close to having all the pieces in place for AGI. ... Read more

Nick Bostrom discussing his new book *Deep Utopia* (2024), which builds on his earlier work *Superintelligence* (2014). He explores a post-singularity future where superintelligence solves humanity’s major challenges like disease, scarcity, and mortality. Bostrom outlines optimistic scenarios, potential pitfalls, and broader philosophical implications. The discussion covers AI alignment, governance, moral considerations for digital minds, cosmic ... Read more

XAI Grok 1 launched in November 2023 using rented Oracle GPUs, but xAI shifted to in-house builds due to compute shortages. Colossus 1 in Memphis: Built in a former Electrolux factory, it reached 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in 122 days (May 3 to September 2, 2024). It expanded to 230,000 GPUs (including H200s and GB200s) ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 10 will launch in about two hours. We will cover the launch live.

NASA NIAC is developing X-ray imaging in crucial wavelengths that will be a million times better for observing key aspects of a super massive black hole. We still know very little about giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). After 30 years of study, we don’t know precisely how these objects produce their power. This requires observations ... Read more

The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) projecst that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 2025‒2035 period. This will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 ... Read more

The tenth test flight of SpaceX Starship is scheduled for Sunday, August 24, with the launch window opening at 6:30 p.m. CT. The booster on this flight test is attempting several flight experiments to gather real-world performance data on future flight profiles and off-nominal scenarios. The Super Heavy booster will attempt these experiments while on ... Read more

As of August 2025, no truck maker or startup has deployed autonomous platooning of semi trucks where the following trucks operate without any human drivers at any location. Platooning with drivers out in the following vehicles but with drivers in convoy sharing the team driving of the lead truck can increase miles driven and provided ... Read more

There is an intermediate step before full self-driving (FSD): automated truck platooning, where multiple Tesla Semi trucks follow a lead vehicle with only one driver for a whole fleet. This is enabled by advanced FSD software available in 2025. This would be significant scale starting in late 2026, leveraging Tesla’s Nevada factory ramping-up 50,000 trucks ... Read more

xAI added Grok 4 powered vending machine in its office, in partnership with Andon Labs. XAI Grok 4 beat OpenAI GPT-5 in real world vending machine operation This shows Grok 4’s long-term coherence syccess. Managing a long running business scenario in this case would include balance inventories, place orders, set prices, and handle daily fees ... Read more

Brian and Cern Basher had a deep dives into why Tesla robo-trucking (autonomous electric semis) may be an even bigger profit driver than robo-taxis: Cern adapted his robotaxi financial models for trucking. Tesla’s robo-trucks are overlooked but could be as big or bigger than robo-taxis in revenue, profit, and market value. Profitability Comparison: $40k Tesla ... Read more

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There is a 119 page report of the Run on Less Electric depot 2023 event. Tesla Semi operated by Pepsi had 1600 miles driven over 2 days in 2023 in real world tests with Pepsi and several 1000+ mile days in 24 hours. In the 2 years after, Tesla and Pepsi have improved megacharging and ... Read more

Everyone is missing the potential profitability and stock impact of Tesla’s Semi truck equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD), transforming it into a robotruck. FSD is making solid progress in Austin and FSD 14 will be released in September with 10X the parameters. Test pilot production has started for Tesla Semi as the factory in Nevada ... Read more

Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, talks about the AI hardware landscape, GPT-5, business models, and the future of AI infrastructure with A16z Venture partners. Dylan covers Nvidia’s dominance, reactions to OpenAI’s GPT-5, monetization strategies, and threats from custom silicon. Nvidia has unassailable advantages in AI hardware: superior networking, high-performance memory (HBM), process nodes, time-to-market, ramp-up ... Read more

Andrew Duggleby, co-founder and CTO of Venus Aerospace, discusses their groundbreaking propulsion technology. They have a ramjet integrated with a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) which they call the Venus Detonation Ramjet (VDR2). This will enable hypersonic flight (up to Mach 6-10) from conventional runways, with emphasis on efficiency, challenges, and innovations. It could also ... Read more

Professor Zhang Zhiqian revealed a plan for a Pregnancy Robot in 2026. He has developing pregnancy robots for over 2 years after establishing a corporation in Hong Kong. I don’t believe this has been done. He cites work for premature babies and premature animals. The ethical path to an artificial womb and pregnancy robot would ... Read more

Grok 4 had lower lmarena scores than I had projected based upon the amount AI training compute used. I had projections for Grok 3.5 which was renamed Grok 4. We do not have elo lmarena score for Grok 4 heavy. My old projection had assumed what will now be called Grok 5 was called Grok ... Read more

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light speed or more. Scientists at DESY now report some of the first signs that PWA (Plasma Wakefield Accelerators) is ready to compete with traditional ... Read more

John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would enable any telescope to observe exoplanets, a top priority for astronomy worldwide. Compared with other starshade concepts, they aim for a lower mass, cost ... Read more

The resurgence of nuclear energy is driven by the massive power demands of AI data centers. Needing 150 GW annually by 2030 with a 100 GW gap by 2028. This means adding all of the current power of the USA and Europe in the 2030s. Covering the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) initiative to fast-track ... Read more

As of August 16, 2025, there are 16 companies in the top 50 most valuable (by market capitalization) that are not headquartered or predominantly in the United States. This includes Saudi Aramco, TSMC, Tencent, Alibaba and Mitsubishi. China has 5 in the top 50. Europe has 7. SpaceX has a valuation of $400 billion. OpenAI ... Read more

As of mid-2025, the US economy remains the world’s largest by nominal GDP, valued at approximately $30.5 trillion, compared to China’s $19.2 trillion—making the US economy about 1.59 times larger. China’s economy leads in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. China continues to have more GDP growth than the USA. China has stimulus measures, export strength, ... Read more

CATL has three groundbreaking EV batteries but the most important is Sodium ion batteries that could lower the cost of batteries. Chinese engineers at CATL have begun mass-producing sodium-ion cells at their new 30GWh facility in Fujian province. Chery and BYD will start using them in a few months. CATL’s first-gen sodium batteries already power ... Read more

There is robotics revolution in manufacturing, with a focus on Tesla, Foxconn and Nvidia as major players driving the shift toward AI-driven and robotic factories. Key points: The U.S. is entering a new era of manufacturing powered by automation, AI, and robotics, aiming to reshore production and increase efficiency. Foxconn and Amazon have experimented with ... Read more

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell assured NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship (Lunar Starship) remains on track for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, currently targeted for 2027, despite potential distractions or delays. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell gave a guarantee that Starship HLS will be ready on the current schedule for ... Read more

OpenAI GPT5 had better performance for some users like Theo at launch and before. However, it has gotten substantially worse as OpenAI has tried to address issues. Also, OpenAI was too aggressive with the removal of old models which they had to reverse. The coding and other actual experiences have shown far less improvement and ... Read more

SpaceX has the first grid fin for the next generation Super Heavy booster. The redesigned grid fins are 50% larger and higher strength, moving from four fins to three for vehicle control while enabling the booster to descend at higher angles of attack. They’ll also be used for vehicle lift and catch, made possible by ... Read more

United Launch Alliance launch of a Vulcan rocket with a military payload has successfully taken off. We will see if the actual satellite deployment is successful.

ROBOTERA Unveils L7: Next-Generation Full-Size Bipedal Humanoid Robot has powerful mobility and dexterous manipulation. They are a Chinese humanoid robotics startup founded in August 2023 and spun out of Tsinghua University, China’s top university. They raised around CNY 500 million (approximately USD 70 million) in a Series A funding round led by CDH Investments and ... Read more

Tesla is passing Waymo in the next two or four months. The expansion of Tesla robotaxi services in the SF Bay Area and Austin to allow open usage to whoever wants to book will require 2 to 5 cars per square mile. This means 2000-5000 ridesharing vehicles for the 1000+ square miles of the SF ... Read more

DARPA and the Navy had envisioned hyper-efficient cargo planes able to move thousands of tons by leveraging extra lift by flying close to the ground. Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do ... Read more

Figure AI videos of the Helix Humanoid Robot loading washing machines in a residential setting and sorting objects from a conveyor belt for industrial settings.

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Thorcon International, an innovative nuclear technology developer based in Singapore, has received official approval for the Kelasa site evaluation plan (PET) and the site evaluation management system plan (SMET) from nuclear regulator, BAPETEN. It is the first-ever nuclear power plant-related licensing approval from the Indonesian government, and it marks the completion of the first step ... Read more

Northrop Grumman has a new rendering of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter. The F/A-XX was struggling for funding and development has been delayed. The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a draft defense spending bill that would reverse the Pentagon’s plan to freeze the F/A-XX program. The large bubble canopy show it is single pilot ... Read more

Richard Mansell, CEO of IVO Ltd, has announced that the Quantum Drive testing has started its initial calibration and assessment phase. All is good so far and they are excited to see the results of the upcoming tests. He said – No timeline will be made public and they will not be issuing intermediate findings. ... Read more

Tesla obtained a rideshare license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on August 7, 2025, is a significant step toward operating its Robotaxi service statewide. This Transportation Network Company (TNC) license aligns with Senate Bill 2807 (SB 2807). This new law signed by Governor Greg Abbott in June 2025 that takes effect on ... Read more

Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot with computer aided stabilization. The future is arriving. Thanks to advanced computer aided stabilization the Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot. For more details visit https://t.co/XbqDfW9AUz pic.twitter.com/4Aqs3HNDxX — Volonaut (@Volonaut) August 8, 2025

Here are some first looks at OpenAI GPT5 coding capabilities. This is the best coding model that OpenAI has released so far. GPT-5 is a next level model. It can solve virtual rubik cubes and create professional images, simulations and websites.

There is widespread speculation in the AI community that they represent a stealth preview, variant, or test version of OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5 model. They have exceptional performance, timing, and shared characteristics with OpenAI’s tech stack. The Horizon models (primarily Horizon Alpha and Horizon Beta) surfaced anonymously around July 30-31, 2025, on platforms like LM Arena ... Read more

Patrick, CTO and co-founder of an AI-native startup (launched ~2 years ago, working with brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Nike), shares his orchestration playbook from a talk at Microsoft. The core problem: Many engineers struggle to achieve 10X productivity gains from AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code (formerly Codex), and others due to endless ... Read more

In a paper published recently in the journal GeroScience, the UC Irvine team reports that a combination of naturally occurring compounds – nicotinamide (a form of vitamin B3) and epigallocatechin gallate (a green tea antioxidant) – can reinstate levels of guanosine triphosphate, an essential energy molecule in brain cells. In tests on neurons in a ... Read more

Neo Semiconductor X-HBM architecture will deliver 32K-bit wide data bus and potentially 512 Gbit per die density. It offering 16X more bandwidth or 10X higher density than traditional HBM. NEO Semiconductor’s CEO, Andy Hsu, gave keynote presentation at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025. I, Brian Wang, attended. Neo Semiconductor is a private, ... Read more

We do not know what lies in interstellar space. There are an expected to be 300,000 larger than Death Star sized objects beyond Neptune. There are some expected moon and planet sized objects around the edge of our solar system and we cannot see them. We must search through new data from the NSF-DOE Rubin ... Read more

Anthropic Claude 4.1 was released today is an upgrade to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 model with key improvements. This was released ahead of OpenAI releasing GPT-5 in about two days. Anthropic plans to release substantially larger improvements to their models in the coming weeks. Caluse 4.1 Coding Performance Claude 4.1 achieved a 74.5% score on ... Read more

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The very low Energy Efficiency seems to make it not worthwhile. It is important to have station keeping like the Quasite system but this can also be dynamically maintained. The low efficiency makes the dynamo storage idea via TARS not worthwhile. The TARS (Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun) launching catapult concept can be ... Read more

The US Navy is spending aggressively on integrating and developing drones, CCAs, and networking upgrades for its F-35C and Super Hornet fleets. The next-generation F/A-XX fighter is largely delayed. The hope is for unmanned and loyal wingman drone deployment and incremental fighter upgrades. MQ-25 Stingray The MQ-25 Stingray (see above) is the U.S. Navy’s carrier-based ... Read more

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or modified version of a traditional statite. A statite is an earlier idea for a solar sail-based satellite that remains completely stationary relative to a ... Read more

Google and Microsoft have both gone over $100 billion in annual net income. The big technology companies are growing by as much as 20-25% each year. Their combined annual net income is already over $500 billion. By 2027, they will have combined net income over $700 billion and should reach over $1 trillion combined net ... Read more

If we are sending manned interstellar missions to other star systems, it becomes very hard to keep masses and power levels nearly reasonable. Interstellar travel missions really work out better after humanity has scaled up overall human power levels by a thousand or even a million times by industrializing the solar system. Various anticipated propulsion ... Read more

The US Air force is making YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A unmanned jets that will fly with the F-47 sixth generation fighter. There will be about five drones for each F-47 fighter. Over 1,000 of the unmanned aircraft are planned. the unmanned jets will start operating first from 2025-2029 while the F-47 will start prototype flights in ... Read more

China is starting production of a new stealth fighter the J-35. It is less stealthy than the F-35 but is more stealthy than other Generation 4 or 4.5 fighters. The J-35 is a close copy of the F-35 in design (e.g., blended wings, DSI inlets) but is larger, faster (Mach 2.0 vs. 1.6), and twin-engine ... Read more

The HAL Tejas Mark 2 (aka Radiance or Medium Weight Fighter) is an Indian 4.5 generation single-engine, canard delta wing, multirole combat aircraft designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC)of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). India’s domestic fighter program has been ... Read more

The largest Cogito v2 671B MoE model is amongst the strongest open models in the world. It matches/exceeds the performance of the latest DeepSeek v3 and DeepSeek R1 models both, and approaches closed frontier models like o3 and Claude 4 Opus. Deep Cogito extend their work on building superintelligence using Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA) ... Read more