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SpaceX Has Option to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion – XAI and Cursor Try to Catch Athropic Claude Code

SpaceXAI and Cursor_ai are partners trying to catch up to Anthropic and Claude Code. XAI data center and hundreds of thousands of chips can power Cursor Composer 2. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s ... Read more

Elon Replied to My New Glenn, ULA, Space Force Post

My post yesterday on New Glenn, ULA and Space Force transferring payloads to SpaceX got reply from Elon Musk. He agreed Space is hard. Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is grounded during an FAA investigation into the second stage problem they had on the weekend. ULA Vulcan has mishaps with their solid rocket boosters made ... Read more

SpaceX Falcon 9 Almost Only Rocket for AST Space Mobile, Amazon LEO and Space Force

Blue Origin New Glenn is likely grounded for 4 months to investigate the upper stage failure on the weekend. ULA Vulcan is grounded because of two Grumman solid rocket booster failures. The satellite launchers Amazon, Space Force and AST Space Mobile have to rely on SpaceX Falcon 9. Amazon LEO needs 10-15 Falcon 9 launches ... Read more

Alberta May Have Signatures to Force October 19, 2026 Independence Referendum

Alberta separatists claim to have enough signatures to trigger a referendum on whether the province should get independence from Canada. Alberta, home to Canada’s oil sands and decades of the federal government take most oil profits and policies that greatly restrict Alberta oil industry. In May 2025, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she would hold ... Read more

Blue Origin Launches and Recovers Booster, Orbit of AST Space Mobile Satellite is Lower Than Planned

Blue Origin’s New Glenn NG-3 mission launched successfully this morning (April 19, 2026) from Cape Canaveral, carrying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 (Block 2 FM2) satellite. After the launch and booster recover, the mission continued for 90 minutes or so. T Planned second-stage profile (per pre-launch timeline and Blue Origin) was ~T+75 minutes the payload separation ... Read more

Combined Sightings of 100+ Possible Tesla Robotaxi Fleet

Tesla has 70+ robotaxi vehicles parked in Dallas and another 30+ in Houston. They are identified by camera washer hardware, matching Texas manufacturer/test plates, and behavior (simulated pickups/dropoffs in testing). A few individual sightings (service center cars) have visible Robotaxi markings or logos on the rear. The parked vehicles with hardware and plates and some ... Read more

Stocks Are Winners Take Most – and Who are the Top 30 Stock Winners from 2017-2025

The U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest engines of wealth creation in human history. From 1926 to 2025, it generated nearly $91 trillion in shareholder wealth. Most stocks are not wealth creators – they are wealth destroyers. Only 48% of stocks deliver positive returns over their lifetime. Just 41% outperformed Treasury bills. ... Read more

Four Times the Ion Drive Thrust With 20+KW Nuclear Reactor for 2028 NASA Mars Mission

The NASA planned 2028 nuclear powered ion drive spacecraft, SR-1 Freedom will have a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor. SR-1 Freedom will use 20-plus kilowatt fission reactor fueled by High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium and Uranium Dioxide, encased in a Boron Carbide Radiation Shield. This will power a xenon ion drive. Previous nuclear spacecraft designs involved more powerful ... Read more

US Oil Exports Up A Few Million Barrels Per Day

US has total oil products production equal to Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The US exported over 5 million barrels of oil per day last week, a record high, amid the Iran War. In aggregate, the US exported a record 12.7 million barrels of crude oil and refined products per day last week. Total extra ... Read more

All Gas No Brakes for Space Economy

FCC Chair says all gas no brakes for space economy regulatory approvals. Amazon is acquiring Globalstar for their direct to cellphone spectrum. Amazon LEO will make just satellite internet but also DTC. Direct to cellphone. Itis Globalstar satellites, radio frequency spectrum, and operational expertise will enable Amazon Leo to add Direct-to-Device (D2D) services to future ... Read more

Ground-based Telescopes and a Shared Orbiting Starshade Can Directly See Earth-like Exoplanets

Imaging earth like exoplanets around Sun-like stars from the ground is challenging. We have never done it and here is an advance that could make it possible. A Nature paper predicts the performance of a hybrid space–ground approach that combines a large ground-based telescope, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope ... Read more

Echovision AI Glasses for the Blind and Low Vision Users

EchoVision is AI-powered smart glasses from AGIGA, a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2024. The help blind and low-vision users. The glasses look like stylish wrap-around sunglasses, with a wide field-of-view camera, open-ear audio, and a simple button interface for hands-free use. You press a button for real-time AI audio descriptions of your surroundings, switch ... Read more

SpaceX IPO, Index Funds and Lockup Periods

Retail investors (non-institutional individual/public shareholders) own roughly 35–44% of Tesla (TSLA) stock, depending on the exact source and reporting date. This is one of the higher retail ownership levels among trillion-dollar market-cap companies. This is $380-440 billion of the $1.1 trillion valuation of Tesla. Half of the retail investors in Tesla could be long time ... Read more

The Future of Marketing Teams Is Decentralization

There are many ways to manage a marketing team, and companies are always looking for ways to improve upon what they already built. These days, marketing leaders are increasingly leaning into decentralization. But how exactly does decentralization work within the context of a marketing team? And how can you see the full benefits in your ... Read more

IVO Quantum Orbital Thrust Update

30 Jan 2026 blog post from Dr Mike McCulloch, he compared the IVO Quantum drive based on Quantized inertia theory, satellite’s orbit to a nearly identical twin control satellite. From late September to late December 2025 (90 days), the IVO sat fell ~600 meters less than the control (IVO: 4,880 m decay; control: 5,480 m ... Read more

NEXT LEVEL BREAKTHROUGHS for AI, Space and Tesla Technology

There are huge breakthroughs coming in 2026 for space, Tesla technology and AI. SPACE BREAKTHROUGHS Early May SpaceX Starship V3 Flight 12 June SpaceX Flight 13 Orbital Second Half V3 Satellites 10-20 Flights, 400-1000 Satellites $100-200 Per Kg with 10+ booster reuses April 30 FCC Internet Broadband Power will be approved that will enable 1 ... Read more

Tesla FSD Supervised Approved in Netherlands

Dutch regulators (RDW), which just approved Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands. They have just issued an official statement. Due to the continuous strict monitoring of the driver in the vehicle, the system is safer than other driver assistance systems. We have thoroughly researched and checked this system, more than a year and a half. ... Read more

2026 is Breakthrough Year for Reliable AI World Models and Continual Learning Prototypes

\Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) and other AI leaders sees the next big AI gains—and the path to AGI—will come from targeted algorithmic breakthroughs in areas like continual learning, memory architectures, world models, reasoning/planning, and hybrid systems. Demis talked in a 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings. Here’s a structured summary drawn from that interview, his other ... Read more

Anthropic and xAI Model Parameter Counts

Elon Musk says that Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model has 1 trillion parameters and Claude Opus has 5 trillion parameters. XAI’s Grok 4.20, which has 0.5 trillion parameters and there are seven larger models being trained at XAI. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter ... Read more

SpaceX Starship 13 Should be the First Orbital Flight

Starship FCC licenses for Flight 12 and 13 have been modified. Starship Flight 12’s license includes a suborbital first and second stage. Currently, SpaceX is looking at a late April or early May launch for Starship 12. Starship Flight 13’s now says suborbital first stage and ORBITAL second stage. Starship 13 is looking at an ... Read more

Claude Mythos Will Uplevel AI Again and Exposes and Will Try to Fix Cybersecurity Issues

Anthropic Mythos is Anthropic’s newest frontier AI model tier, announced in early April 2026. It will be a step-change in capabilities over their previous top model (Claude Opus 4.6). Mythos is entire higher tier of models that Anthropic says is larger and more intelligent than our Opus models. Why Mythos Is a Big Deal Anthropic ... Read more

Yael Nardi Joins Minimus to Spearhead Growth Operations as CBO

Tech startup Minimus, which specializes in secure and hardened container images made to eliminate CVE risk, is proud to announce the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly established role, Nardi will lead the company’s next phase of scale, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, operations, and corporate development. As the market ... Read more

Two Week USA-Iran Ceasefire

U.S. officials says the ceasefire begins tonight but will take time for orders to reach individual IRGC units. US halts all offensive military operations against Iran, per US official. Defensive actions remain in place as ceasefire takes hold. Officials expect delays before Iran’s IRGC fully receives and implements the order.

Intel Partners with Tesla and SpaceX on Terafab

Intel is now officially partnering with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on the Terafab project. Terafab is their joint venture for a massive, vertically integrated semiconductor facility (primarily in Austin, Texas) that combines logic chips, memory (HBM), advanced packaging, testing, and even photomask production all under one roof. The goal is to produce ~1 TW/year of ... Read more

Anthropic Number One AI in Ranking and Revenue – Making $30 Billion Per Year

Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027. This significant expansion of their compute infrastructure will power our frontier Claude models and help us serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide. The run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion—up ... Read more

China Build Focused Economy Versus India

China’s economy for the past 50 years has been investment/export/industrialization-driven with permissive building. There are fast approvals, state capacity). India’s became more consumption-led with decentralized hurdles and lower infrastructure spending. China’s GDP multiplied ~30× (1980–2010) vs. India’s ~5×. Productivity growth (output per worker) was nearly double India’s for decades. India and China starting point was ... Read more

Housing Supply and Demand

Metro areas/states allowing sprawl (Texas metros like Dallas/Houston permitted ~72k homes in 2024 alone) + densification (Minneapolis, Auckland NZ upzoning → 21–24% rent drops in targeted studies) show housing stock growth 2–3x higher and price appreciation 50–80% lower than restrictive peers (California, New York). Supply elasticity over 0.5 typically caps real price growth near inflation. ... Read more

Forward Arming and Refueling Base for 100-250 Chopper and Drone Flights for Rescue Operations

Videos describe the forward air base built inside of Iran and pictures of the forward airbase after it was used for 2 days and then abandoned. Rescued Airman taken back by little bird choppers back the base. 100+ US military personal were inside iran. FARP stands for Forward Arming and Refueling Point (also sometimes called ... Read more

More Wealth, Healthcare and Housing

Dr. Mike makes the good case that five things can be done to boost standard of living everywhere. The standard of living is how much real goods, services, housing, energy, healthcare, and comfort the average person can actually afford. It is the #1 thing societies care about (even if they vote on it indirectly through ... Read more

Pulsar Fusion

Asteroid: 16 Psyche Conventional Combustion Rocket Mission Time: 5 years round-trip (1,825 days) Specific Impulse: 450 seconds Exhaust Velocity: 4.4 km/s Sunbird Mission Time: 0.4 years round-trip (148 days) Specific Impulse: 10,000–15,000 seconds Exhaust Velocity: 223 km/s (804,672 km/h) Fuel Saved: 1,785 tons methane (launch) CO2 Emissions Saved (Earth Atmosphere): 4,909 tons Barrels of Liquid ... Read more

Tesla Optimus Talk

Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla Lead Director of Optimus, at the ETH Robotics Club INSPIRE Talk in Switzerland. Konstantinos presented Optimus 2.5 and the work behind it and its predecessors. Here are some highlights from the talk. The sim-to-real gap is propaganda. “It’s not a gap if you haven’t tried to model your robot properly.” Hardware matters ... Read more

Blue Origin New Glenn Targets April Launch of AST Space Mobile Satellite

The next-generation AST Space Mobile Block 2 BlueBirds are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the first generation BlueBird satellites. They are needed for the goal of 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage. The service will target approximately 100% U.S. nationwide coverage from space with over 5,600 coverage cells, with ... Read more

SpaceX Discusses Over $2 Trillion IPO Valuation

Bloomberg reports SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 trillion. According to people familiar with the matter, SpaceX and its advisers are already floating this figure to prospective investors. Testing-the-waters briefings (where they share more supporting details) are scheduled to begin in the coming week. Breaking: SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 ... Read more

NASA Successfully Launches Artemis 2 and Completes Translunar Injection Burn

Thursday, NASA’s Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds beginning at 7:49 p.m. EDT, to successfully complete the translunar injection (TLI) burn, sending the crew in Orion out of Earth orbit and on a trajectory toward the Moon. Congratulations to NASA for what has been a broadly successful mission so ... Read more

Beating the Financial Consensus With Prediction Markets

Nicole Kagan, Head of Research at Kalshi, with hosts Nick and Sam) sees Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated prediction markets as emerging financial instruments that can revolutionize risk hedging across finance, insurance, and beyond. Event contracts (binary Yes/No payouts on real-world outcomes) are tools to financialize uncertainty and turn discrete risks like macroeconomic data releases, policy changes, cultural ... Read more

Heat Radiators for AI Data Centers in Space Will Be a Huge Advantage and Not a Huge Problem

There were many complaints that radiating heat from AI Data Centers in space would be a huge problem but in fact they will be a huge advantage. On Earth, cooling an AI data center is an active, energy-hungry process. Chillers, fans, pumps, water loops, and heat exchangers devour power simply to stop silicon from melting ... Read more