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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

New evidence changes best estimate of the start of life on Earth and time when the earth will become uninhabitable due to changes in the Sun. Previously, scientists believed that life (simple single cell) started 700 million years after the earth cooled and oceans formed. New evidence has pushed this start date to 200 million ... Read more

Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI, has left OpenAI. Miles was at OpenAI for 6 years and 3 months advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness. Nextbigfuture covers what Miles thinks is needed for AGI readiness. I agree the world needs to be able to capture more value from rapidly ... Read more

Israel is hitting various military targets and an Iranian oil field. This appears to be a proportional response to the prior Iran missile attack. ⚡🚨Breaking: Violent explosions in Iran First pictures of Israel's attack has begun and at this stage it is attacking several locations in Tehran with missiles, the second largest oil field in ... Read more

Boeing is trying to sell the Starliner spacecraft and the ISS support operations that the company performs. Boeing will keep overseeing the Space Launch System. NASA still gives about $3-4 billion per year for Space Launch System. Boeing as part of ULA launched 7 spacecraft while SpaceX launched 525 in the first quarter of 2024. ... Read more

Tesla beat analysts estimates by 18% on earnings for Q3. However, it was achieved with repeatable cost improvement in the cars and in the batteries. Tesla announced that everything that optimists and shareholders have been waiting for is happening. Profits and growth is back and the future of cars, energy, robotaxi and Teslabot look great ... Read more

The future of Space with a fully reusable SpaceX Starship means everything about space will become huge. Our dreams for space were unfulfilled for decades. We could only put tiny satellites into space and costs were at the weight in gold or silver. The shocking SpaceX Starship tower catch means the a rocket with double ... Read more

There were claims of a Rossi e-cat device providing extra range for an electric car. Here is how the test could have been faked. The creator and claimant for the e-cat devices has a history of likely fraud. Two electric vehicles, Renault Twizy 80, were driven and one had an 80 kilogram box that supposedly ... Read more

Nww Linear-complexity Multiplication (L-Mul) algorithm claims it can reduce energy costs by 95% for element-wise tensor multiplications and 80% for dot products in large language models. It maintains or even improving precision compared to 8-bit floating point operations. By replacing complex floating-point multiplication with integer addition Solution in this Paper – Approximates floating-point multiplication using ... Read more

Developers can now direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking, and typing text. Claude can use other tools as well. Introducing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. We’re also introducing a new capability in beta: computer use. Developers can ... Read more

From 2011-2016, Andrea claimed to generate up to a megawatt of power from an cold fusion based energy catalyzer. This ended with a lawsuit from a partner and no commercialized devices. Rossi is now back. Rossi is now promoting an energy device which he claims powers an electric car. On July 30, 2011, Editor Steven ... Read more

CHINA approved 11 nuclear reactors across five sites in August for a cost of $40 billion. They will take about 5 years to build. China has approved 10 new reactors in each of the last two years. China has 56 reactors currently in operation, with a combined capacity that equates to around 5 per cent ... Read more

Nuclear fusion startup, Fuse, is trying to make a mass production version nuclear fusion system based upon the Sandia Z Machine. This is magnetized target fusion using Marx generators. They leverage the Z pinch for their pulsed power approach. They are making a 1-Terawatt TITAN machine and plan to build Z STAR which aims to ... Read more

Construction activity will start this month on a 7 Petwatt laser research facility located on Colorado State University’s Foothills Campus. It shluld be operational mid-2026. CSU, DOE Fusion Energy Sciences program and a strategic $150 million public-private partnership with industry leader Marvel Fusion that launched in 2023.  The ATLAS Facility will be a unique cluster ... Read more

Donations from Didier Coeurnelle enable next phase of LEVF (Longevity escape velocity foundation) Robust Mouse Rejuvenation research program. The initial donation of €200,000 (approximately $220,000) will be increased by a further €200,000 donations to LEVF during the month of October 2024 will be doubled. Donate to LEVF in the next 10 days to boost antiaging ... Read more

Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia described how xAI built a 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU AI cluster in 19 days. Other customers need a year (365 days or about 20 times as long) to install the same size AI cluster. Jensen called the xAI achievement superhuman. The customers of Nvidia GPUs have to work with ... Read more

Elon Musk said the SpaceX starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster. Full and rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit and beyond by over 10,000%. The cost per kilogram to space will ... Read more

Sandy Munro is a car expert whose company has taken apart thousands of cars to analyze how to improve the manufacturing and design. Sandy was super-impressed by the Tesla robotaxi, robovan and teslabots. He thinks the robovan will dominate and grow the limousine market. The All-in-podcast guys think the robovan will open up new markets ... Read more

xAI completed its 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI data center before Meta and OpenAI despite the Meta and OpenAI getting chips delivered first. xAi completed the main chip installation and build in 19 days and the overall project in 122 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this scale of build can take a year for many ... Read more

SpaceX has applied to the FCC to make changes to Starlink to increase communication speed from 200-300 Mbps to about 1 gigabit per second or more. SpaceX will get the Starship flying and will launch new Starlink satellites that are about three times bigger than the Starlink version 2 mini. SpaceX wants to lower the ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows exactly how long it takes most companies to build an AI data center using Nvidia GPUs. He describes how his Nvidia team worked with xAI and Elon Musk to build a complete AI Data Center with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in 19 days. Elon Musk has said it took 122 ... Read more

Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries are ramping up to serious scale and could offer a 20% boost in energy density over LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries. LMFP operates at a higher voltage than LFP, its theoretical energy density can reach up to 230 Wh/kg, which is 15% to 20% greater than that of LFP ... Read more