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There is a BEAD Dashboard that shows how the Rural Broadband funding bill created an obstacle course for providing rural broadband. The bill created a pointless process of creating plans and maps and approving nothing. Each applicant got $5 millions near the start to fund them going through years of submissions, plan creation, map creation ... Read more

A primary focus of LEV Foundation’s work is to empirically demonstrate the feasibility and value of the divide-and-conquer approach to treating age-related disease – that is, the simultaneous deployment of therapies that independently address the distinct classes of damage that accumulate in aging bodies. With a steadily increasing number of such therapies now showing benefits ... Read more

There are various approvals that will start in Netherlands in April 2025, there will be a EU vote in May 2025 and then the various countries in the EU will approve Tesla FSD from Jun-October 2025.

ChatGPT 4o image recreation ca take a photo and apply all kinds of styles. Styles: Studio Ghibli Wallace and Gromit Rick and Morty Attack on Titan Improved capabilities OpenAI trained the 4o native image models on the joint distribution of online images and text, learning not just how images relate to language, but how they ... Read more

Commerce Secretary Lutnick describes how the US Debt, Deficit, Economy and Taxes will be fixed. The US has been spending $6.5 trillion but taking in $4.5 trillion with a $2 trillion deficit and $37 trillion in debt. However, the US has $500 trillion to $1000 trillion in assets. DOGE will cut $1 trillion of waste, ... Read more

xAI Grok is available at no extra cost to about ten million Telegram Premium users. Tracking the website and download activity, xAI Grok 3 appears to moving into second place behind OpenAI and ChatGPT. Telegram just hit 1 billion monthly active users—and now, it’s getting Grok AI. 𝕏 to Telegram – Grok’s first major expansion ... Read more

RogueSpaceCorp launched the OTP-2 satellite with the @ivo_ltd Quantum Drive as a payload. Another IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within a few to ten weeks and then operated for many weeks or months. The previous satellite had communications failure and the IVO drive was not activated. The ... Read more

Yann LeCun is an AI expert that claims that generative AI and the current approaches to AI need to be abandoned. He says that the failure to achieve level 5 self driving cars and very capable humanoid bots shows that LLM are a failure. Tesla has again stated that they will have unsupervised robotaxi starting ... Read more

I will review the AI chips made by AMD, Google and Tesla. It is possible that Tesla with a strong Dojo 3 chip could pass AMD as second best AI chip performance and volume of chips. The top line of Tesla Abundance slide has AI compute along with Optimus, Robotaxi and FSD. This could indicate ... Read more

Two weeks ago, D-Wave System announced a scientific breakthrough using their quantum annealing computers systems. They published in the esteemed journal @ScienceMagazine. Their newest annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving a complex magnetic materials simulation problem with relevance to materials discovery. The new landmark peer-reviewed paper, Beyond-Classical ... Read more

The new SpaceX Gigabay at Boca Chica is designed to be a massive vertical integration and assembly facility to support the production and refurbishment of the Starship launch system. The Gigabay will stand 380 feet tall and provide approximately 46.5 million cubic feet of interior processing space, with 815,000 square feet of workspace. It is ... Read more

Gemini 2.5 and Deepseek 3.1 both do very well on coding challenges and tests. Those who have tested them and Claude 3.7 Sonnet still prefer Claude for coding. 🚀 DeepSeek V3-0324 is now available in Cline. This model offers significant improvements for coding tasks while being up to 53x cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet with ... Read more

Google Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. The first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities. Gemini 2.5 achieved a new level of performance by combining a significantly enhanced base model with improved post-training. Going forward, google ... Read more

Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses his Robust Mouse Rejuvenation (RMR) studies at the LEV Foundation. He believes that three more RMR (Robust Mouse Rejuvenation) studies of combination therapy will get us to the goal of adding an average 12 months of lifespan to a 2 year old mouse that would normally be expected to live ... Read more

Tesla China weekly insurance registrations were 17,400 which were 4,200 more than the same week in 2024. This increase has enabled the YTD domestic China car sales to pass the YTD in 2024. This shows that the production ramp of the new Model Y is basically fully ramped. $TSLA 🇨🇳BREAKING: Tesla China insured units <Mar ... Read more

The Tesla Supercharging Network in the USA, at 80% utilization with ~28,000 stalls, can support 16.4 billion miles/year, sufficient for a 100k–200k Cybercab fleet but not 500k. High robotaxi utilization strains this capacity. Conversely, 3 million Tesla owners could provide 30–150 billion miles/year via home charging, leveraging solar and grid power, with a grid load ... Read more

Rapid improvement in Tesla FSD driving between critical interventions should see another 10X improvement between now and the planned June 2025 launch of unsupervised driving in Austin, Texas. There should be 10-50X reduction in critical interventions with driving in Texas, California and Florida where the system is better adapted. There would also be reduction in ... Read more

Tesla China has officially announced that the FSD update for HW3 and HW4 vehicles will be available via OTA. Also, the paused FSD 1 month trial will be re-distributed. Everything is currently pending regulatory approval. China appears close to giving full approval for Tesla FSD. A Chinese driver owns both a Tesla vehicle with FSD ... Read more

SpaceX’s Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed for interplanetary travel, with test flights conducted to refine its capabilities. As of early 2025, eight test flights have occurred, with Flights 7 and 8 both ending in the upper stage (Ship) exploding. There are significant technical challenges, possibly related to amplified vibration problems. ... Read more

Here is an LLM Hardware Calculator. If you enter the size of the LLM model you want to run locally, then the calculator will provide the GPUs, memory and other primary specifications needed to run the model.

NVIDIA released a new petaflop AI computer DGX Spark (aka DIGITS). There is an ASUS version using the same Nvidia chip and board. These compete with Apple and other third parties for personal AI developer systems. The Apple M3 Ultra can scale to 512 GB per unit, offering vastly more total memory (up to 2.56 ... Read more