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Elon Musk is confident of unmanned SpaceX Starships going to Mars in the 2026 launch window. The Starships will bring Teslabots and Cybertrucks to Mars as part of the payload. SpaceX will need to bring systems to make methane fuel and liquid oxygen out of the Mars atmosphere. It would be ideal to have the ... Read more

Aligning the quantum property known as spin for fusion fuels could make it easier to generate electricity economically. Above – An artist’s interpretation of spin-aligned atoms during the process of fusion. (Illustration credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department) A different mix of fuels with enhanced properties could overcome some of the major barriers to ... Read more

Plasmonic structures exhibit a wide range of physical characteristics, which are benefited by the localized and intensified light–matter interaction. There have been many recent advancements with ultrafast plasmonics. Ultrafast plasmonic properties are exploited in numerous applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, sensors, and optical feedback in lasers. In addition to these applications, the ultrafast ... Read more

OORT, a pioneer decentralized cloud computing platform for AI applications, today reported that its customized AI solution (OORT AI) has significantly improved Githon Technology’s customer service standards. The integration of OORT AI has seen Githon Technology (formerly Lenovo Image) cut its customer support cost by 40% while also increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 95%. ... Read more

Quantum Circuits recently raised $60 million in a new funding round and they have just announced a new unique superconducting hardware system drives more efficiency with error-detecting dual-rail qubits. They have new software, simulator, and cloud service for full-stack enterprise solution that corrects first, then will be able to scale. Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced highly ... Read more

The sixth SpaceX Starship flight will be in a few minutes. The rocket and starship are almost fully fueled and we are about five minutes from launch. This should have another booster catch landing and an orbital Starship engine relight. The engine relight will set the stage for orbital flights in the next missions. SpaceX ... Read more

SpaceX Starship will have its sixth launch tomorrow. This will hopefully be the second successful catch of the booster. SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell describes how SpaceX Starship will be even more valuable than Starlink. Starlink could capture 30% of the global communication industry. SpaceX Starship can take over long range global air cargo and generate ... Read more

There is a new type of EUV lithography using only four reflective mirrors overturns conventional technology and will contribute to advanced semiconductors at 7nm and below. Professor Tsumoru Shintake of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard in semiconductor manufacturing. EUV lithography based ... Read more

Ohysicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison produced a tokamak plasma that is stable at 10 times the [old] Greenwald limit. The findings may have implications for tokamak fusion reactors, though the researchers caution that their plasma is not directly comparable to that in a fusion reactor. Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Greenwald identified a density ... Read more

New experiments by swiss researchers have show that industrial-relevant temperatures of 1,050°C can be generated from solar concentrators. Solar power for industrial heat would be able to decarbonize power as much as converting electricity generation to stop using fossil fuel. Current solar converters are expensive and inefficient when generating temperatures above 1,000°C for industrial processes. ... Read more

MIT researchers achieved 61.9% on ARC tasks by updating model parameters during inference. Is this key to AGI? We might reach the 85% AGI doorstep by scaling and integrating it with COT (Chain of thought) next year. Test-time training (TTT) for large language models typically requires additional compute resources during inference compared to standard inference. ... Read more

Elon posted that Tesla FSD (full self driving) V13.X will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between intervention. Cool. V13 will be another 5 to 10 times better in miles between interventions. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2024

Unnamed OpenAI researchers told The Information that Orion (aka GPT 5), the next OpenAI full-fledged model release, is showing a smaller performance jump than the one seen between GPT-3 and GPT-4 in recent years. On certain tasks, the Orion model is not reliably better than its predecessor according to unnamed OpenAI researchers. eX-OpenAI co-founder Ilya ... Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been named to head a department of government efficiency. Elon Musk has said at least $2 trillions per year could be removed from the $6.5 trillion annual federal government budget. The US budget in 1998 was $1.65 trillion. the 1998 budget inflation-adjusted to 2024 value is $3.2 trillion. = ... Read more

The top goal for Nvidia Jensen Huang is to have AI designing the chips that run AI. AI assisted chip design of the H100 and H200 Hopper AI chips. Jensen wants to use AI to explore combinatorially the entire chip design. He wants AI assisted cross modular codesign. They would optimize all of the thousands ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang describes the AI revolution as going beyond computer tools to AI skills. They are already revolutionizing the data center with compute accelerating GPUs. The $2 million AI GPU racks have far denser compute than regular CPU powered servers. The cables connecting the old larger racks cost more than the new denser ... Read more

SpaceX Starship flight 6 plans to launch in 6 days on November 18, 2024. They will be performing a similar flight to flight 5 but have made changes to the heat shield and other systems. The booster should return for a catch but if anything is going wrong it will be aborted. The upper stage ... Read more

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new method that could extend the lifespan of aqueous zinc-ion batteries by several orders of magnitude. Instead of lasting just a few thousand cycles, they could now endure several hundred thousand charge and discharge cycles. The main innovation is a special protective layer for ... Read more

Tesla shares have surged and the companies value is over $1 trillion. I have a video where I discuss why there will be follow through. (not financial advice). There is a strong chance of $450 in the next 90 days. $1000 in the second half of 2025. And a 10X to $3000 by 2027. Elon ... Read more

SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars. Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system—capable of transmitting 4 Mbps or more—across 1.5 astronomical units, the distance between Earth and Mars. The system will use multiple satellites in Mars orbit and leverage Starlink’s ... Read more

There is a bull market in stacks after the election. This will likely last for 2-4 months. Tesla has ha a strong runup of 32% ($79) in five days. Tesla should have a strong fourth quarter with more earnings from cars, energy and FSD. There are more improvements with 4680 batteries which lowers costs for ... Read more

SpaceX has massively accelerated the development of space. Predicting the speed of space development requires predicting the financial future of SpaceX. This is because if trillions of dollars of profits each year can be used to increase space development then this will be far more than $2 billion/year of the NASA budget that is actually ... Read more

Naval Ravikant is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and investor. He is worth about $100 million. He is the co-founder, chairman and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Postmates, SnapLogic, and Yammer. Naval describes how Elon Musk is different. Bill Gates had just taken out some huge ... Read more

X Payments is coming soon! – The feature is being tested internally on iOS and web X Payments still faces several hurdles before it can fully implement its P2P payment feature: * The company needs to obtain money transmitter licenses in the remaining U.S. states and territories. * After securing “transmitter” licensing, X will also ... Read more

Here is the President’s plan to restore free speech and remove the deep state. This is WILD. President-Elect Trump lays out a 10-point plan to unravel the Deep State. 🔥 1. RESTORE President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. 2. FIRE corrupt actors in National Security and Intelligence apparatus. 3. REFORM FISA courts, which are “so ... Read more

The sixth flight test of SpaceX Starship is targeted to launch as early as Monday, November 18. There should be far fewer delays from the FAA. The FAA will be more efficient and motivated. The sixth flight already had approval as the fifth flight had no problems that required investigation. Starship’s fifth flight test was ... Read more

There have been some laboratory experiments and theoretical work done to validate aspects of the plasma magnet propulsion concept. The Plasma Magnet is a wind drag device invented almost twenty years ago by Dr. John Slough from the University of Washington. A rocket that uses a propellant to create momentum. A plasma magnet (newer / ... Read more

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ... Read more

This ICBM Test is actually scheduled to happen as reported by Vandenberg Space Force. An operational test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled between 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 5 to 5:01 a.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 6 from north Vandenberg. The purpose of ... Read more

Adam Dissel, President of Reaction Engines, reported that business operations were being shutdown. The US business of the UK company operated for 8.5 years. They pushed the boundaries of propulsion and thermal management with our technology. The team achieved some astounding milestones and technology firsts, including engine precooler tests at Mach 5 equivalent temperatures, the ... Read more

Tesla is on the verge of superhuman driving in the next few months. Tesla is starting the release of a vastly improved FSD (full self driving) version 13 this weekend. It is feature complete for unsupervised driving. There were 50 Tesla vehicles driven without human drivers on Robotaxi day a few weeks ago. Tesla vehicles ... Read more

While 3D printing might have been around for a while, its capabilities are still somewhat limited and many don’t quite realise what the extent is that it can do. While many know it can do things like print keyrings or little token items, they haven’t actually witnessed how it can help our civilization and the ... Read more

The New York Post reports NVDA is looking to make a strategic investment in Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI. xAI is exploring a new funding round in January 2025, which could value the company at $75 billion. xAI last raised a $6 billion round with a $24 billion valuation earlier 2024. xAI is doubling the ... Read more

Magic is building frontier code models to automate software engineering and research. This AI coding assistance startup raised $320 million in a funding round led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Magic’s total funding now stands at $515 million. Magic had about 23 people (+ 8000 H100s) in August, 2024. They are hiring more Engineers ... Read more

Tesla is rolling out FSD (Full Self Driving) version 13 this weekend to Tesla employees. This includes a fleet of Tesla cars being used to give Waymo-Uber like ridehailing to Tesla employees. I make the case that FSD Version 13 and the systems that follow next year will give Tesla a 5-10 year lead. The ... Read more

OpenAI ChatGPT Search, aka SearchGPT, is live. AI for Search is already a big thing and could become dominant. The big loser if it succeeds is Google search. This is a threat to Google Search and Perplexity. ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely ... Read more

Back in January, 2024 Ford cut production of the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning in half. A few months later, Ford also trimmed its workforce at the Rouge plant, shifting some to other facilities and offering others retirement packages. Production of the 2025 Ford F-150 was slated to begin in November, but now, Ford will instead ... Read more

Tesla AI has updated its FSD (full self driving) achievements. There will be huge progress towards nearing human level driving. Tesla expects to surpass human level driving in mid-2025 (6-9 months). Solving robotaxi and full self driving is key to Tesla’s future. Version 13.X should get them from 12% FSD adoption (% of people who ... Read more

2024 has been a groundbreaking year for the cryptocurrency industry and the stage is set for significant advancements in 2025. Key developments like the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, the resurgence of decentralized finance (DeFi), the rise of asset tokenization, and the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) have drastically reshaped the competitive landscape. In ... Read more

Tesla has been operating supervised ridehailing of robotaxi for Tesla employees in California for the past year. Tesla also has large numbers of employees in Texas. It would be trivial for Tesla to start a supervised ridehailing for robotaxi for Tesla employees in Texas. Tesla has 20,000 employees in Fremont, California. Tesla has over 20,000 ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, will give a talk about Space Friday, Nov 8. Whoever is interested can sign up at EventBrite. It is a free talk that will be via online video presentation. In the world of space exploration, what once seemed impossible is now becoming reality. A giant rocket has been caught in mid-air, and ... Read more

Elon gave a bunch of predictions at a conference about the future. Tesla will start unsupervised robotaxi in Texas and California in Mid-2025. All Tesla vehicles will be autonomous. Autonomy is here. There will be hundreds of millions of Tesla and they will all be autonomous. Elon agrees with Ark Invest that robotaxi will make ... Read more

Australian battery tech company Li-S Energy has a major improvement in the performance of its lithium-sulfur battery technology, with its latest battery achieving an energy density close to 500 Wh/kg. It is semi solid state battery. They are manufactured full-size 10 Ah semi-solid-state cells that deliver an energy density of 498 Wh/kg on first discharge ... Read more

Elon Musk gave a 30-minute lecture on @Neuralink last month at the 2024 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). The roadmap is achieve millions of electrodes connecting to billions of neurons for a whole brain interface that costs about $1000-2000 each with implant surgery only taking 10 minutes. The first generation Neuralink device has 1000 electrodes ... Read more