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Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable infrastructure developer, to develop and deploy nuclear fission to power AI data centers. They have committed to co-developing 2GW of nuclear energy to supply Endeavour’s global portfolio of data centers which operate under the Endeavour Edged brand. The ... Read more

Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede says “We are ready to talk.” Greenland PM will meet Trump. “Greenland looks forward to discussing the possibilities for business cooperation, the development of Greenland’s mineral sector, including critical minerals and other relevant areas with the US.“ Speaking next to Danish PM Mette Frederiksen at a joint press conference, Egede ... Read more

Tesla shares have been between $373 and $489 in the past 25 days. Tesla is at $394 per share. In October, Brian predicted that Tesla will reach $1000 by the end of 2025 and would reach $2500 by the end of 2027. In November, Brian predicted that Tesla will reach $450 by Feb 8, 2025. ... Read more

There have been drones made and used to fight fires. They are used in New York and in China. There are new heavier lift drones that could be used to transport large quantities of water. What was it like responding to yesterday’s crane fire and collapse? Take look at the footage from #FDNY Robotics Unit ... Read more

Los Angeles has major fires that have burned over 38,000 acres out of a total of about 300,000 acres of land in Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles covers a total area of 502.7 square miles (1,302 km2), comprising 468.7 square miles (1,214 km2) of land and 34.0 square miles (88 km2) of water. ... Read more

Neutron Rocket will give Rocket Lab a SpaceX Falcon 9 class vehicle. It will move them up from $8.5 million Electron rocket launches to $55 million per launch. Neutron is scheduled for its debut launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 in Virginia from mid-2025. They want to get to a realistic launch cadence of ... Read more

Expecting a second good booster catch, dummy satellite deployment and Raptor engine relight in orbit and a simulated tower catch for Starship. Flight is now targeting Jan 13 2025, 4pm CST. +00:06:55 Super Heavy landing burn shutdown and catch Planned +00:08:53 Starship engine cutoff (SECO) Planned +00:17:33 Starlink simulators satellites deploy demo Planned +00:37:33 Raptor ... Read more

Based upon 2024 pricing, Tesla could start a robotaxi service that offered $5 base fare and $1.00 for booking and $0.7-1.5 per mile ($1.10 average). If this generated 10,000 trips with an average of 6 miles per trip, then this would be : 60,000 miles for $60,000 base fares and bookings and $66,000 for the ... Read more

Elon Musk made huge announcements that Teslabot will start ramping mass production this year and reach 500,000 to 1 million in 2027. The targets are 5,000 bots in 2025 with Q4 2025 being the start of a factory and 50,000 to 100,000 in 2026 and 500,000 to 1 million in 2027. This would be huge ... Read more

Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla Full Self Driving Unsupervised (no human driver) is already being used by Tesla employees. Tesla is still on track for robotaxi and unsupervised FSD commercial release in California and Austin later in 2025. $tsla elon just confirmed that they’re running unsupervised FSD trials with employees right now, and will launch ... Read more

The Arctic an incredibly rich area. It is about the same geographic size as the African continent – about 6% of Earth’s surface area – yet it holds an estimated 22 percent of Earth’s oil and natural gas resource. Most of this the Arctic is poorly explored for oil and natural gas. The United States ... Read more

A 2021 survey of Greenland had 69.1 percent of those asked think that Greenland should cooperate more closely with the U.S. Greenland is not a member of the EU. When asking Greenlanders about if Greenland should cooperate with the EU, 65% answer that Greenland should cooperate more with the Union and only 22.8% answer that ... Read more

An analysis of one of the most important metrics, auto gross margins, for Tesla share price. Having auto gross margins over 20% is important for Tesla. The key to increasing above Q3 2024 19.6% is continued cost of goods reductions from fewer parts and lower battery costs. There is also a discussion of possible deals ... Read more

Sam Altman talks about AGI products in 2025 and setting OpenAI sights on ASI (Superintelligence). [OpenAI and Sam Altman] are now confident they know how to build AGI as they have traditionally understood it. They believe that, in 2025, the world may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output ... Read more

Greenland joining the USA could make Greenlanders the richest in the world on a per capita basis by quadrupling per capita income and the overall GDP. Based on Greenland’s Self-Government Act of 2009, Greenland has the right to self-determination, including the option of independence. This seems to mean that if Greenland holds a referendum and ... Read more

Blue Origin plans to finally fly the New Glenn rocket and to get a lot of launches. The first launch is in days. For 2025, they expect to have between 8 and 10 launches, with the capacity for up to 12 launches. In 2026, Blue Origin aims to increase this number to 24 launches. Blue ... Read more

The billionaire investors and entrepreneurs at the All in Podcast described 2025 as the year of AI and robots. I, Brian Wang, and Randy Kirk reviewed why and how AI and robots will be transforming the world. Summarizing the key points and claims and providing context. Dave Frieberg says 2025 is the year when people ... Read more

I, Brian Wang, made a bunch of correct calls on the stock price movement of Tesla over the past few months. Tesla pulled back after hitting a high of $488. This was after more than doubling from $213 at the end of October, 2024. Tesla disappointed with 495000 cars delivered in Q4 2024, when there ... Read more

Youtube channel What About It?, Felix Schlang, dives deep into the technology of the SpaceX Raptor 3 engine. SpaceX has made new alloys for withstanding the heat and have build channels and other structures into the engine. This vastly superior engine outperforms the RS-25 engine that was used on the Space Shuttle and is still ... Read more

Jan 10, 2025, SpaceX Starship will have the seventh laucnh and deploy 10 Starlink simulators. They will be similar in size and weight to next-generation (V3) Starlink satellites as the first exercise of a satellite deploy mission. The Starlink simulators will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship, with splashdown targeted in the Indian ... Read more

There is an anonymous commenter who wanted to be a troll about my prediction track record and where I was wrong about technology. I discuss my public predictions and go more deeply into nuclear fusion and other specific topics. My writing that years ago that emdrive and Mach Effect propulsion researchers made and that nuclear ... Read more