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Every business owner wants their business to succeed, but unfortunately, not all of them will. There are both objective and subjective factors that can influence the survivability of your company, and it pays to study both successful and unsuccessful examples of businesses so that you can put yours in a better position to succeed. Adaptable ... Read more

BYD’s significant cash burn for the second consecutive quarter is a major concern. BYD will likely slash production in 3Q to release inventory capital, alleviating cash burn. BYD has about $15 billion in inventory (66 days). This is about tracking to 3 million sales for the year. 550k cars in inventory. BYD’s growth will significantly ... Read more

The booster landed with a speed that was far higher than normal. This resulted in damage that eventually broke one of three landing legs. SpaceX had a run of 267 consecutive successful landings. SpaceX booster 1062 has suffered a landing failure after its 23rd flight! 💥 This ends a run of 267 consecutive landings. pic.twitter.com/2TNhegTjp9 ... Read more

Nvidia has released their quarterly results and they have beat on revenue with $30 billion versus expectations of $27 billion. Nvidia is guiding to $32.5 billion for revenue in the next quarter versus expectations of $31 billion. Record quarterly revenue of $30.0 billion, up 15% from Q1 and up 122% from a year ago Record ... Read more

Tesla just presented a highly technical talk about Dojo’s networking protocol at the Hot Chips conference. The Tesla networking protocol is twice as fast as the industry standard NVLink used in Nvidia supercomputers. Tesla Dojo is cost competitive to Nvidia. Tesla is nearing the end of Dojo Version 1. They are working on Dojo Version ... Read more

BYD has another quarter of billions in quarterly negative free cash flow. BYD is the major competitor to Tesla for the number of electric vehicles they make. In the fourth quarter of 2023, BYD made more electric cars than Tesla but since then Tesla has retaken the lead in electric car production. BYD is selling ... Read more

Humanity is on the verge of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted decades ago that we would reach AGI in 2029. AI and Large Language Models could reach AGI sooner than 2029. However, the definitions of artificial intelligence that surpasses individual humans has issues around definitions and measurement. Kurzweil also predicted the Singularity ... Read more

Boeing Starliner is designed to operate autonomously and previously completed two uncrewed flights. NASA and Boeing will work together to adjust end-of-mission planning and Starliner’s systems to set up for the uncrewed return in the coming weeks. Starliner must return to Earth before the Crew-9 mission launches to ensure a docking port is available on ... Read more

Cerebras is a startup that makes wafer sized AI chips. They are making a data center with those AI wafer chips to provide super-fast AI inference. ‣ Llama3.1-70B at 450 tokens/s – 20x faster than GPUs ‣ 60c per M tokens – a fifth the price of hyperscalers ‣ Full 16-bit precision for full model ... Read more

Tomorrow should be the start of a SpaceX Dragon mission that will take advantage of Falcon 9 and Dragon’s maximum performance, flying higher than any Dragon mission to date and endeavoring to reach the highest Earth orbit ever flown. Orbiting through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, Polaris Dawn will conduct research with the ... Read more

Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in dozens of age- related diseases, including Alzheimer’s, retinal disease, liver dysfunction, immune senescence, and more. Mitrix Bio has pioneered a new way of addressing these diseases, using young bioreactor-grown mitochondria encased in vesicles, which they call Mitlets. Mitochondrial energy declines as we age, causing a wide array of chronic diseases. ... Read more

Here’s a summary of the major problems associated with various Boeing aircraft models and projects, based on the information available up to August 2024: Boeing 737 MAX Crashes: Two fatal crashes (Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019) led to the grounding of the entire fleet due to issues ... Read more

2024 World Robotics Conference in China has two human actors in front of some humanoid robots. This video from the 2024 World Robotics Conference in China is going viral Hate to break it to you: The front two ‘robots’ are human actors (just look at the hands) Seems like the point of the demo was ... Read more

The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the amount of deep groundwater could cover the entire planet to a depth of between 1 and 2 kilometers, or about a mile. A cutout of the Martian interior beneath NASA’s Insight lander. The top 5 kilometers of the crust appear to be ... Read more

The US Federal government is projected to spend about $6.5 trillion (23% of US GDP in 2024). The US government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis as of Q3 2023 estimates $10.0 Trillion in annual total government expenditure and $27.6 trillion annual total GDP which is 36.2%. The OECD for 2021 shows general US government spending at ... Read more

Usain Bolt has the world record for the 100 meters at 9.58. He did not run his best race as he often would look around at the finish. If we combined his best 20 meter sections then Bolt could have run 9.52. This would take his best start, best finish etc… There many records set ... Read more

The two astronauts, Butch and Sunny, who launched on Boeing Starliner will now return on SpaceX Crew 9 in February 2025. The Boeing Starliner will leave uncrewed in early September. It will have a modified departure that will get away from the ISS faster than previous mission profiles. Boeing will try to figure out how ... Read more

AstroForge announced it has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Nova Threshold, including investments from 776, Initialized, Caladan, YC, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Jed McCaleb. The funding brought AstroForge’s total capital to $55 million. AstroForge has several upcoming missions, including the development of its third mission, Vestri. Scheduled to launch in ... Read more

Fed Chair Jerome Powell declared, “THE TIME HAS COME FOR POLICY TO ADJUST,” which confirms that the Federal reserve will start cutting interest rates. The stock market is up on the news.

Here is a 2015 Stanford analysis of the impact of venture capital backed companies. The importance and contribution of companies that were started with venture capital has only increased. Venture capital backed companies are now well over half of the value of the SP500 stock index. Tax increases get passed along. The rich run the ... Read more

Two Upper stages of Rockets at the Blue Origin New Glenn Factory were damaged in the last few weeks. These incidents are only now being reported. The upper portion of one rocket crumpled into itself, in part due to worker error, while it was being moved to a storage hangar. It was moved from hot ... Read more

The Eric Schmidt Stanford talk keeps getting censored on Youtube. It is a very important talk with a lot of insights for the future of AI. People need to see the whole thing. Former Google CEO tells AI startups to steal content and hire lawyersEric Schmidt, Google’s one-time CEO and executive chairman, gave a recent ... Read more

There are reports that Tesla FSD Supervised is enabling drivers scores to be increased from 90 to 100 which reduces the Tesla insurance premium by $70 per month. This nearly offsets the $99 per month Tesla insurance cost. For two years, I have predicted that Tesla FSD Supervised becoming safer than human and enabling increased ... Read more