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Using Civilian Products for Military Purposes

Bad people violating the terms of service for commercial passenger planes. Mixing civilian and military uses is not good. IF SpaceX civilian products were used for military offensive purposes then Starlink would become high priority targets for other militaries. Leaked documents from a joint forum and reports from investigative outlets indicate a three-stage approach to ... Read more
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SpaceX Starlink Has Never Been a Weapon System But SpaceX Starshield Is

Elon Musk / SpaceX has long restricted Starlink (the commercial/civilian service) from offensive military uses such as guiding drones, consistent with its terms of service, and offers a separate military product (Starshield). This is common for technology companies and especially satellite companies. Just because SpaceX Starlink is the best and most important unjammable communication does ... Read more
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Genetically Engineered War Dogs for 7 Foot – 134 Pound Cyborg Dire Wolves

Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Andruil’s Palmer Luckey are genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and other emergency response teams. They announced its emergence from stealth as Warhound, armed with $200 million in funding from investors including In-Q-Tel, Sequoia, and 8VC. The round values the company at $1.2 billion. Warhound will ... Read more
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The AI That Doesn’t Just Predict Equipment Failures—It Decides What Happens Next

The most consequential deployment of agentic AI this year isn’t happening in a chatbot or a copilot. It’s happening on the shop floor, where software is beginning to decide, on its own, when a bulldozer comes offline and which technician meets it there. The dollars are small so far and the implications are large. Heavy-equipment ... Read more
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Elon’s $1 Trillion Pace: What Has to Go Right

Breaking down Elon’s confidence about 13-23 Gigawatts of data center which will result in about a trillion dollars of revenue in 2027. SpaceX and Elon are superconfident about energy, land and shell. They believe that is assured. Nvidia CEO Jensen and others say funding, land, power and shell are the biggest challenges. SpaceX are building ... Read more
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FigureAI Humanoid Bots All Hands

FigureAI is spending $8.1 million last week on data. They are training new models and are learning from humans at scale. They will spend billions on data in the next year or two. Brett says they will need larger compute clusters than the LLM have today. FigureAI has an Nscale partnership. NScale has a deal ... Read more
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