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Super-Turing AI operates more like the human brain and with much less energy. This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do. AI data centers are consuming power in gigawatts, whereas our brain consumes 20 watts. That’s 1 billion watts compared to just ... Read more

Bodidata has next level size-matching technology for clothing and this will eliminate costs, reduce environmental waste, and make things easier and faster for customers. The 3D body scanner has over 15 x Faster than traditional fitting + 90% Accuracy on recommendations If this is used this would stop nearly a trillions of garments that don’t ... Read more

There is a global total of $60 trillion of final consumer consumption for 2025. The US with about 4% of total world population has 33% of total consumption.

Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. They build short range surface to ship missiles. They tried for a low earth orbit test and it failed after 30 seconds. They went for an orientation change it failed. The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms ... Read more

Chinese electronics giant Huawei is testing elements for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine at its Dongguan facility, according to two sources posting photographs on X social media. The sources say the equipment is scheduled for trial production of circuits in 2Q25 with full-scale manufacturing in 2026, without attributing the information to any sources of ... Read more

SpaceX is going to make huge advances with fully reusable Super Heavy Starships. A fleet of 100 fully reusable Starships with boosters could transport about 2 million tons per year to orbit. This would be about one thousand times more than last year. SpaceX is making huge progress in these few months. They are on ... Read more

When might AI truly transform our world, and what will that transformation look like? The Epoch AI research team focuses on the future of AI. They have a mission of understanding the future of AI. They have disagreement about timelines for AGI. Two Epoch AI researchers with relatively long and short AGI timelines candidly examine ... Read more

Millions of hectares of old-growth forest disappearing every year, along with tens of thousands of forest species, scientists are calling for a greater emphasis on forest regeneration, in which natural forests are allowed or encouraged to recover under their own steam, for the benefit of ecosystems, communities and the climate. Environmentl Research Journal – Mapping ... Read more

@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). I think this means xAI is valued at $113 billion after the acquisition. Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the ... Read more

I finally got XAI Grok 3 to admit that tree planting, if scaled correctly, can be a complete and permanent solution to the CO₂ problem, offsetting all annual emissions and removing historical excess to restore a pre-industrial atmosphere. I drew a parallel to farming—where we don’t expect every sector to grow its own food but ... Read more

The Mark Rober created fake wall test was used to trick Tesla Autopilot, a driver assist system. This fake wall test was also recreated for new tests with different versions of Tesla FSD and Tesla with Hardware 3 and Hardware 4. Tesla FSD 12.X with Hardware 3 fails the test. Tesla FSD 13.2.X with Hardware ... Read more

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