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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