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The US Air Force has selected companies and funded the purchase of new combat superdrones and the Boeing F47 next generation stealth fighter. X-prototype versions of the Boeing F47 stealth fighter have been flying for several years and the new drones are also flying. General Atomics and Anduril phase 1 high performance drones in the ... Read more

Boeing won a contract March 21 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft (6th generation fighter) for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing and Lockheed Martin were competing for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems. The US Air Force says the F-47 will be the world’s first crewed sixth-generation fighter. It is ... Read more

Elon Musk spoke about many breakthroughs at a Tesla All Hands meeting yesterday. Elon said that the Tesla Dojo 2 chip will be in volume production in a few months. The Tesla Dojo 2 chip has ten times the performance of the Dojo 1. If Tesla Dojo 2 is ten times better than the Dojo ... Read more

A 2025 Tesla Cybertruck with FSD HW4 V13.2.8 Passed the fake wall test. A 2022 Tesla Model Y with HW3 V12.5 failed the fake wall test.

What would the world GDP in 2040 be if there were 10 billion humanoid robots? Assuming the robots were 4 times as productive as humans. There would also be 3 billion robotaxis and robotrucks making transportation 10 times cheaper and 2-3 times faster for ground transportation. There would be global 6G space communication via satellites, ... Read more

During the current business cycle, Ark Invest believe real gross domestic product (GDP) growth could accelerate to 7% per year on average, surpassing that of any year since 1950. Seemingly outlandish, this estimate is consistent with the dramatic boost to real GDP growth during bursts of technologically enabled innovation in the past 2000+ years. During ... Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described the new chip roadmap. Blackwell Ultra (B300 Series). Release Date: Second half of 2025. 1.5X the compute of B200. Rubin (Vera Rubin Platform). Release Date: Second half of 2026. 3.3X the compute of B300 (Ultra) Rubin Ultra. Release Date: Second half of 2027. 14x performance increase over the GB30. 21X ... Read more

At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was mainly about Project GR00T and AI for humanoid robots and Blackwell Ultra. The Blackwell Ultra GPU will be in the second half of 2025. It will be an upgraded chip with more memory and better communication. It will likely be 1.5X to twice ... Read more

The California Public Utilities Commission has granted Tesla the first in a series of approvals from California to operate Robtoaxis. The cars will be driving themselves, but a Tesla employee will be in the drivers seat. As Tesla receives its remaining approvals needed, there will eventually be no one in the drivers seat. Tesla’s application ... Read more

Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov have returned on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, Nick, Suni, Butch, and Aleks! pic.twitter.com/M4RZ6UYsQ2 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 18, 2025 Tune in for a splashdown!@NASA_Astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are returning ... Read more

The SpaceX Crew Dragon has undocked from the Space Station. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have donned SpaceX spacesuits ahead of their return to Earth on board Dragon. @NASA_Astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are returning to Earth in their @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. #Crew9 splashdown is targeted for 5:57pm ET ... Read more

Nvidia with dynamo, Nvlink and other optimizations increases the revenue AI data centers can generate. AI Data Centers are power limited. They need to have energy and compute optimization to generate more tokens per second and more valuable tokens.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote describes AI advances and reaching $1 trillion per year for AI data centers. The key area is being able to use AI to improve computer chips.

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical constraints. A hydrogenous mixture will moderate neutrons, preventing a fast-spectrum detonation and likely limiting the reaction to a thermal fizz. However, Zubrin’s NSWR isn’t necessarily aiming for a weapons-grade explosion but rather a controlled, continuous supercritical reaction. ... Read more

Youtuber Mark Rober made a video sponsored by Luminar Lidar (valuation about $170M-200 Million) which used a large billboard sized picture of the road ahead to supposedly causes Tesla Autopilot to fail. Reviewers online have claimed that Tesla FSD was never engaged and was Full Self Driving was never claimed to be used. It was ... Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship will departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely. There will likely be hundreds to thousands of Optimus Teslabots on the unmanned missions. There will be a larger ... Read more

What is we used all of the solar energy on Mars to power an AI data center? How many 1000-watt GPUs can be powered? Calculate the Total Solar Power Intercepted by Mars Mars receives solar energy based on the sunlight hitting its cross-sectional area. The radius of Mars is approximately 3,390 km. 36 trillion square ... Read more