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BREAKING THROUGH Tesla AI in 2026

2026 is the year Tesla AI starts to get to significant scale for robotaxi, optimus teslabot and using XAI Grok 5+ for voice and other early AGI capabilities. World’s first fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive, done with Tesla self-driving v14. Congrats and thank you @DavidMoss! https://t.co/NFxzA7suRk — Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy) December 31, 2025 xAI NEWS: Reports ... Read more

China Will Close the Semiconductor Gap After EUV Lithography Breakthrough

China has built a prototype EUV (extreme ultraviolent) lithography machine in a high-security laboratory in Shenzhen. They had a semiconductor Manhattan Project”. The prototype was completed in early 2025 and is now undergoing testing. It occupies nearly an entire factory floor and was assembled using reverse-engineered components. Ramp-up timeline Functional for chip production around 2028. ... Read more

Nvidia Does $20 Billion Deal With Groq

The NVIDIA-Groq $20 billion deal announced on December 24, 2025 is a major strategic move in the AI hardware space. NVIDIA and Groq clarified that it is not a full company acquisition. The deal is structured as a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Groq’s inference technology, combined with NVIDIA hiring key Groq personnel. Groq’s founder and ... Read more

Trump Truth Social is Merging with TAE Technologies Nuclear Fusion

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social and ticker DJT, has announced a definitive agreement to merge with TAE Technologies, a leading private nuclear fusion energy company, in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion.Key details of the merger:This creates one of the world’s first publicly traded nuclear ... Read more

MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro Shooting and His Nuclear Fusion Work with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed two days ago. He lead the MIT Plasma Science Department and was working with Commonwealth fusion. Commonwealth Fusion is one of the leading nuclear fusion startups. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a leading private fusion energy company spun out from MIT, has raised close to $3 billion in ... Read more

Profitable Business Funded the Shipyards and Built the Ships That Colonized America – Applied to Mars

Angry Astronaut is arguing only about some mission timelines and only about getting first footsteps onto Mars. He is asking all the wrong questions. How would making trillions of dollars in profits every year in SpaceX and profitably scaling up Starships to thousands of flights per year and how would building up 100X on the ... Read more

Ford Cancels the All Electric F-150 Lightning — Tesla EV Competition is Going

For years all the Tesla haters would talk about how EV competition was coming for Tesla. Now Ford is cancelling the F-150 Lightning and it will be replaced with an extended range hybrid. Ford CEO Jim Farley: “Instead of plowing billions into the future knowing these large EVs will never make money, we are pivoting.” ... Read more

Quantum Transistors Can Scale Diamond Color Center Qubits #Q2B #Q2B2025

Diamond color centers are a well researched field, but using them at scale as qubits was out of reach until recently. Their Quantum Transistor device (patent pending) resolves the charge stability issue and few more hurdles to enable using color centers as qubits. They presented at the Q2B 2025 conference. They could scale to 250,000 ... Read more

Unsupervised Tesla Robotaxi in Austin and You Can Talk to FSD

It is happening. Yesterday Tesla starting rolling out FSD V14.2.1.25 with XAI Grok Voice. You give verbal navigation directions. Today Tesla robotaxi are being spotted driving around in Austin without safety monitors. Even if you were a passenger who had trouble using a rideshare app to give your destination, you will be able to talk ... Read more

Infinite Money Glitch

There was a 110 year increase of 1000 times in world electricity from 1915 WW1 levels to today. The Industrial revolution increased the world economy by 100 times and increased electricity from nothing but after the first 25 years of establishing electricity increased it by 1000X. Only about 1% of global electricity is used for ... Read more

Updates on the AGI Debate, Humanoid Bots and Karpathy Insight

Tim Dettmers Argues AGI Will Not Happen Dettmers claims GPU performance-per-cost peaked around 2018. Post-2018 gains from one-off architectural tricks now exhausted and facing diminishing returns. Transformers are near physically optimal for local computation versus global attention. Scaling laws demand exponential resources for linear gains. Only 1–2 years of viable scaling left before costs outpace ... Read more

Nate Jones Gets AI Data Centers Wrong

Nate Jones got the AI data centers in space story wrong. I like Nate Jones, he does a lot of useful work gathering AI news and staying on top of developments. He is wrong in this case. Starcloud already has an H100 in a satellite in space. It launched last month. Working with Nvidia and ... Read more

Beyond Human AI and 10000X Scaling of AI Via Space

AI data centers in space will supercharge the AI Singularity to a Solar System Scale Technological Singularity. It is a 17 Singularity Richter Scale Technological Earthquake. It is well beyond Optimus and just replacing labor. The energy on earth CANNOT be built to match the energy in space. Space AI data centers will beat Optimus ... Read more

A Fleet Manager’s Guide to Better ROI

When you manage a fleet, costs always have a way of creeping upward. And while you can’t control every variable, you can influence how efficiently your fleet runs and how much value you get out of every mile, vehicle, and dollar you invest. That’s what ROI really means in fleet management. To put it another ... Read more

Quantware 10K Qubits in 2028 and 1 Million in 2029 – #Q2B25

Quantware has solved the fanout problem for superconducting quantum computers. They are making breakthroughs that can scale quantum computers to millons of qubits by 2029. They are at the Q2B silicon valley conference today at the Santa Clara convention center. QuantWare announces VIO-40K, a new scaling architecture for quantum chips which solves the bottlenecks of ... Read more

XAI Grok 4.2 Trading REAL Stocks in Real Markets with Trades Reported in Real Time -Up 20% Average and 65% Peak in 20 Days o

XAI Grok 4.2 Beat has been trading real money, buying and selling real stocks and reporting results in real time. Four different trading styles used by XAi Grok 4.2 are up an average of 20% over four $10,000 accounts and the best account is at a 65% gain peak over about 20 Days. How They ... Read more

SpaceX $800 Valuation and 2026 IPO to Fund AI Data Centers in Space

SpaceX is reportedly buying back investor and employee shares at an $800B valuation. This is double from the $400B valuation just 5 months ago. The key successes are rapid progress toward full Starship reusability and fast growing Starlink revenue and profits. SpaceX acquired massive mid-band spectrum (8-lane highway vs T-Mobile’s 2-lane) → Direct-to-Cell is now ... Read more

SpaceX Double in Value and IPO in Late 2026

I have written here about Echostar and SpaceX. My last patreon article said that Echostar is the best way to invest in SpaceX before SpaceX is public. Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that SpaceX will raise at double its prior valuation. SpaceX last raised at $400 billion and will now raise at $800 billion. ... Read more