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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a $20 billion plan to build a permanent U.S. base on the Moon over the next 7 years. NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit. “NASA is committed to achieving the near‑impossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump’s ... Read more

NASA will launch the Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028, demonstrating advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Nuclear electric propulsion provides an extraordinary capability for efficient mass transport in deep space and enables high power missions beyond Jupiter where solar arrays are not effective. ... Read more

The Tesla Terafab will likely take a 2-4 years to build and those first phases will not be all of the 100+ million square foot building or complex. The start of the project with the pilot lab facilities can start paying immediate dividends. Speeding up the design of the chips and allowing for more experimentation ... Read more

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 24th March 2026, CyberNewswire

Nvidia has 19 car company partners for robotaxi. Those car companies have deployed cars with driver assist but they do not have unsupervised robotaxi. The LIDAR needed for driver assist is produced in substantial volume but only a few thousand are produced for robotaxi grade LIDAR sensors. The car partners have not bought and installed ... Read more

Tesla Model Y is the number 2 top selling vehicle in China and Tesla Model 3 is the 5th most sold EV in China. Only the $10,000 Geely Xingyuan sold more units in February 2026. BYD only had one EV model that sold over half as many units as the Tesla Model 3. The BYD ... Read more

SpaceX, Elon and Tesla and XAI are showing the AI space plans out in the open because there is no competition for decades. Tesla will need to make billions of optimus for the Petawatts per year of moon production. “I just want to live long enough to see the mass driver on the moon. Because ... Read more

Iran fired two missiles at Diego Garcia which is over 4100 Kilometers away. There were previous assurances from Iran that they would not develop missiles firing over 2000 kilometers. 4100 kilometer missiles can strike London, and all cities in Europe and all US military bases in Europe. The US fired an SM3 missile that was ... Read more

Iranian retaliation has caused an effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz since ~March 2–4. Traffic has dropped from 150+ vessels/day to near-zero on many days, with 21+ confirmed attacks on merchant ships. This matches the scenario’s description of disruption, price spikes, and US-led response pressure. Reopening Hormuz is economically non-optional. It carries 20% of ... Read more

U.S. Navy’s 2005 SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) on the decommissioned supercarrier USS America (CV-66). This remains one of the most significant and still largely classified live-fire tests ever conducted on a modern aircraft carrier. The 2005 live fire tests show that US aircraft carriers can take dozens of 250-500 kg bombs to top decks without sinking ... Read more

Andrej Karpathy is pioneering autonomous loop” AI systems—especially coding agents and self-improving research agents—while advancing AI-native education through Eureka Labs and ultra-minimal open-source LLM implementations. Coding agents can now reliably edit code, run experiments, and iterate for days. He created AutoResearch, AI agents that fully close the research loop—design experiments, edit training code, collect data, ... Read more

NASA is proposing SpaceX Starship now handles translunar injection (TLI) propulsion and the full landing role, while SLS/Orion is limited to LEO only. This shrinks Boeing’s role and gives more to SpaceX Starship. Artemis III (2027) — LEO Docking Test (Almost Unchanged, Now a Perfect Dress Rehearsal) Before today’s proposal (Feb 27 baseline): Orion (with ... Read more

Nvidia has new level 4 chips for autonomous driving. Will this kill Tesla? They have 19 car partners who collectively can make 18 million cars per year. How many Nvidia Thor chips are installed in those cars ? How many cars have those partners created that are gathering data right now for self driving? Have ... Read more

Microsoft is threatening to sue OpenAI over the February 2026 Amazon $50B investment and $100B cloud-expansion deal. Microsoft says the Frontier agent platform on AWS (stateful runtime) violates the Azure exclusivity for stateless OpenAI APIs that was in the original ~$13B Microsoft investment agreements (updated Sept 2025). Microsoft publicly restated Azure remains the exclusive cloud ... Read more

Web3 infrastructure and professional athletics never appeared to be a match in the early days of crypto, but they’ve proven to be a match made in heaven. It began as a niche interest in digital collectibles, hosted on the sports blockchain, but has since turned into a robust infrastructure that is changing how sports franchises ... Read more

Organic molecules delivered from extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for life on Earth. Scientists have found all five canonical nucleobases—purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil)—in samples returned from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission. This likely means that organic molecule building ... Read more

Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Keynote Highlights (March 16, 2026) NemoClaw Launch NVIDIA unveiled NemoClaw, an enterprise-ready, secure version of OpenClaw (open-source AI agents platform). This is the enterprise ready OpenSource form of Openclaw. Openclaw is by some measures the most successful open source project ever. Surpassing Linux in some ways. Nemoclaw adds privacy guardrails, sandboxing ... Read more

New York, United States, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire

New York, NY, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire

Nvidia will structure hundreds of zettabytes per year of unstructured data to make it the ground truth for AI. AI will created value from that data. Nvidia will have confidential computing. Even the operator will not see the data

The pre show is done. Which had Gavin Baker and Alfred Lin. And many CEO of Robotaxi and AI companies The AI YouTuber and venture capitalist who headed up (or co-hosted/led) the NVIDIA GTC preshow is Sara Guo the GTC Pregame Live with Alfred Lin (Sequoia partner) ahead of a recent GTC event. Sarah Guo, ... Read more

Ford has three separate issues requiring recalls. They affect more than 2.3 million of its SUVs in all, including models from Lincoln, the Blue Oval’s luxury brand. Ford has issued 18 recalls so far in 2026 affecting 7.4 million vehicles and one tiny engine-block-heater campaign. This new 2.3 million SUV batch is just the latest ... Read more

Bill Gates is down to 19th richest person in the world. He has a little more than three times as much as his x-wife. Bill has one eighths of the wealth of Elon Musk. Bill got out of Microsoft shares and into railroads and conservative mostly non-tech investments. Bill has also been shorting Tesla. SpaceX-XAI ... Read more

Elon Musk dropped huge news that changes everything. 7GWs of data center that would be 5 times bigger than XAI colossus and would keep growing faster. Accredited Investors can sign up for educational discussion and Q&A with Brian Wang. Tesla and XAI digital optimus will start in about 6 months.

x-Admiral Montgomery’s sees a 2-3 week timeline to US control of Hormuz. Conditions must be set for control, if they are not set then it will very difficult to end the war. The degradation strikes continue (including on all the island sites) could reach the knock-down point by ~March 21–28. After the missiles, drones are ... Read more

Super Heavy booster has been ready to continue preflight testing for 5 days and has been testing. SpaceX is conducting a series of tests to activate Pad 2 at Starbase, exercise new propellant loading operations, and operate a vehicle with new Raptor 3 engines installed for the first time. Super Heavy booster ready to continue ... Read more

The has struck all military targets on Kharg Island in the last 2 hours or so. Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island. Our Weapons ... Read more

Menlo Park, California, USA, 13th March 2026, CyberNewswire

Elon Musk says Optimus 3 (teslabot) is essentially complete and will be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing’s even close. The production start is the Summer 2026. It will be a very slow/low-volume ramp initially. There will be high-volume production in the ~Summer 2027. Tesla will try to release a new ... Read more

Elon explicitly pushed back on today’s Business Insider “Macrohard stalled → pivot to Tesla” FUD. XAI minor staff churn, departures did not delay the project. Macrohard project is not dead or abandoned. It’s been integrated as the planned joint architecture all along. The XAI digital robot that watches the last 5 seconds of your screen ... Read more

SpaceX Starbase is where SpaceX builds and launches its most powerful rocket, Starship. It is where rockets are designed, assembled, tested, and launched all in one place. They will build hundreds and maybe thoudsands of Superheavy Starships. They will build thousands of Raptor engines. They are already expanding it to double its size.

Tesla was moving 30+ Cybercabs via transport trucks and at the crash testing facility today. The Cybercabs being loaded onto the trucks have Steering for testing. Tesla loading 30 cybercabs pic.twitter.com/ErGZwH7He4 pic.twitter.com/3sTxvI1llB — nextbigfuture (@nextbigfuture) March 10, 2026

Menlo Park, USA, 10th March 2026, CyberNewswire

TankerTrackers.com is one of the highest-quality public sources available right now. Kpler & Vortexa now note the trickle of dark or escorted transits. 14-16 Tankers passed through Hormuz Today. Traffic is way down with normal ~150+ vessels per day has collapsed to low single digits or low teens (80-90% drop). Tactics being used are turning ... Read more

Philadelphia, PA, United States, 9th March 2026, CyberNewswire

X money is live in a limited public beta. It will allow far more than Paypal and provide 6% on cash deposits and an X debit card. They will get into loans and stock and crypto trading. In-app Money tab with real-time USD balance. Instant send/receive/request money (like a DM). Direct deposit setup. 6% APY ... Read more

CONFIRMED – U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on national TV today, March 8, 2026. on Fox News Sunday and CBS “Face the Nation” and other appearances). The plan is to get oil and natural gas and fertilizer and all the products from the Gulf flowing through the Straits before too long… one large tanker ... Read more

Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell statement that CHANGE AT VERY LARGE SCALE is coming on self-driving. As a top futurist predictor I think Elon is saying TESLA FSD 14.3 (10x model with reasoning) will come in March/April and this will unleash robotaxi and Cybercab at scale.

For too long the US was using $2 million missiles to fight $300-$30000 threats. No longer. There is shift and and armraces of the cheap, good enough drones. The US now has cheap $35000 drones too and combat lasers are getting deployed for $5 per shot defense. It is $35000 drone for $35000 drone and ... Read more

Israel’s Iron Beam (aka Or Eitan) laser air-defense system is fully operational. On December 28–30, 2025, the first operational 100 kW system formally delivered by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to the IDF. This was the transition from testing to serial production. They are integrated as the innermost (fifth) layer of Israel’s multi-tier air defense alongside ... Read more

The U.S. Navy has deployed the HELIOS (High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance) during Operation Epic Fury and there are reports of shooting down Iranian drones. US CENTCOM released footage in 2026 showing an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer equipped with the steerable high-energy laser operating off Iran’s coast while launching strikes. The New York ... Read more

The 2026 Iran war is quantitatively ~2–4× bigger in key metrics already and in half the time. Trump has said it will last weeks and the use of B52s is increasing the attack rate by 4 times. The duration could be 3 times longer or more. It could end up at 20 or more times ... Read more

X (x.com) has traffic surges during major global events like wars, as users turn to it for real-time updates, videos, and discussions. The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran starting February 28, 2026 drove a significant spike with a daily Surge +13.3% from Friday (Feb 27) to Saturday (Feb 28). This made it X’s biggest day ... Read more

Sandy Munro did a 2020 Tesla Model Y Teardown 42-video youtube series. They covered fit and finish, battery pack, wiring harness. Ford CEO in 2026 had his team do a Tesla teardown and was shocked to find 70 lbs lighter wiring harness and 1600 meters of less wiring versus a Ford Mach E. Sandy Munro’s ... Read more

No specific ships have been reported using this new US insurance to transit safely in the last 24 hours, as the program is brand new and traffic remains halted. Some vessels are reflagging or signaling Chinese ownership to gain passage under Iran’s exemptions, rather than relying on insurance. Single-digit transits (1-3 confirmed crossings), far below ... Read more

Elon says Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form. He ties this to Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots and advanced manufacturing systems, which enable real-world interaction and precision manipulation at scales that pure digital AI can’t match. Grok 5 should be out in ... Read more

Iran does not conduct official ethnic censuses, so all figures come from CIA World Factbook, Britannica and demographic compilations. The breakdown has remained stable: Persians (Fars): 61% (~56–57 million) — majority in central, northern, and eastern provinces; dominant in Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, etc. Azerbaijanis (Azeri Turks): 16% (~15 million) — mainly northwest (East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, ... Read more

William Shatner, Captain Kirk, gave screenshots of the live X Money UI. X Money (also called X Payments or the payments/wallet feature inside the X app) is Elon Musk’s long-planned move to turn X into a super app like WeChat. Handling P2P transfers, wallets, debit cards, bills, shopping, creator payouts, and eventually banking/investing/crypto all in ... Read more

New York, USA, 4th March 2026, CyberNewswire

President Trump announced today (March 3) that the Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait if needed, and the U.S. government will provide political-risk insurance so commercial ships can operate. This is modeled directly on the 1987–88 Operation Earnest Will tanker convoy system during the Iran-Iraq Tanker War. Oil tankers are waiting by Oman ... Read more

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled as a gas or liquid during processing) to build a gun-type nuclear bomb. It must first be converted to metallic uranium, which is required for any fission weapon core. However, once converted they ... Read more

US Treasury (under Bessent) claims direct visibility into wire transfers landing in global banks. Pre-strike Central Bank of Iran data (reported February 18–20, 2026) showed a record ~$15 billion capital outflow in a recent period, more than offsetting an $11 billion trade surplus — accelerating as oil revenues fell and uncertainty rose. One earlier report ... Read more

200 mobile launchers destroyed in Iran. This is roughly 50% of Iran’s operational launcher fleet at the start of the current campaign. Iran missile stockpile was 3000, inventory estimate 1500-2500 (500 fired). Esfahan North Missile Base (near Najafabad, Esfahan Province) — at least one launcher + missile storage facility destroyed. Iran increasingly relies on cheaper ... Read more

The real secret of SpaceX is an operating system built around Time Over Money. It is the governing law with extreme loop compression (making every development cycle radically faster). In aerospace cost = people × time compressing time by 10× automatically makes things 10–1000× cheaper. Musk’s team ruthlessly deletes bureaucracy, sets impossible deadlines as forcing ... Read more

Iran’s regular surface navy is being systematically sunk and the Iran Navy headquarters was crippled, but the mini-subs and small mine-laying vessels—the ones actually capable of rapidly closing the Strait of Hormuz—remain the primary active threat and have not been neutralized in public reporting. ⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 | U.S HAS SUNK THE IRIS ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 2nd March 2026, CyberNewswire

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2nd March 2026, CyberNewswire