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On March 7, 2025, the FCC allows Starlink’s direct-to-cell service to operate at higher power which will enable faster, more reliable service. The power level will enable 4G/5G speeds. It is unclear if the max speed requires any extra antenna on existing phones. Elon Musk has previously mentioned that direct to cellphone from satellite could ... Read more

Manus AI, developed by the Chinese startup Monica.im is making a lot of splash as the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent. Manus operates independently, executing complex, multi-step tasks without human oversight. It has GAIA benchmark edge but it has some errors and problems. Competitors are either more reliable now (Operator, Claude) or poised to ... Read more

Let us look at the AI Opportunites, Robotaxi, Robotrucks and recursively improving AI and AI data centers. Robotaxis: 10X Safer, Millions Deployed, Lower Costs Imagine a world where robotaxis—self-driving vehicles like Tesla’s Cybercabs—are 10X safer than human drivers. This isn’t a stretch; autonomous systems, free from human error (fatigue, distraction, recklessness), could drastically reduce the ... Read more

Tesla FSD 13.2.X seems to get pretty good reviews even with a lot of snow and ice on the road. There were some issues with getting to close to curbs which were covered with snow. This driver felt good with the drive. A Tesla FSD 13.2.5 had 1 intervention for speed over 22 miles in ... Read more

National Security AI is a plan of geopolitical control in world of powerful AI and superintelligence. It has superintelligence strategy. I propose a robust opensource and distributed AI to all citizens of the USA and even all citizens of the world. The website https://www.nationalsecurity.ai/ explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and national security, focusing ... Read more

Yann LeCun is both a giant in the field of AI but also a major skeptic of the ultimate potential of large language models. He is a major skeptic about large language models getting to TRUE AI (aka real AGI or actual superintelligence). He feels the LLM AI will not be able to learn the ... Read more

Information from someone who lives and works in the area, online transcripts from the public meetings and public reports, Grok 3 analysis (based upon my giving it my view of the context to get to first megapack production at the new megapack factory in Texas gives this 9 month timeline. – 8-10 month timeline likely ... Read more

GibberLink is a new audio communication protocol developed by Boris Starkov and Anton Pidkuiko during the ElevenLabs London Hackathon in February 2025. It enables AI agents to switch from human-like speech to a more efficient, machine-optimized, sound-based communication method when they recognize each other as AI entities. Leveraging ElevenLabs’ conversational AI technology and the open-source ... Read more

ManusAI is an AI from China that is mind blowing good. It outperforms OpenAI DeepResearch by a lot. It demoed stock analysis, deep real estate property analysis and resume analysis of job candidates. Others have shown Manus AI creating interactive websites. This is wild. China's Manus AI just dropped and it will completely change the ... Read more

Cern Basher and Ark Invest provides some analysis and tracking of the rapidly improving quality of Tesla FSD and robotaxi. Tesla is will soon pass the 6 billion miles of driving data which Elon said in 2016 would be needed for robotaxi that is both safe enough and provably safe for regulators. Tesla is on ... Read more

Starship’s V2 redesign suffered almost exactly the same failure on flight 8 as it did on flight 7, fire in the engine bay leading to engine failure and RUD. There is alot more video of the inside and outside of the spacecraft. SpaceX has more video and sensors to analyze what happened. Starship tumbled out ... Read more

NVIDIA’s chip roadmap progresses from the B200, part of the Blackwell architecture, to the Rubin architecture, with hints of potential “ultra” chips or new architectures in the future. The next generation Nvidia Rubin chip is expected late in 2025 and their should be an Ultra variant of the Blackwell chip. At the late 2024 All ... Read more

A step-by-step analysis and projection of the xAI’s Colossus supercomputer project. Memphis development and xAI have talked about a 1+ million chip supercluster at the site. Considering AI rack density power, internal power allocation for 1 million chips, potential for expansion beyond to 2-3 million GPUS and a likely project timeline for 2025–2027. Industry norms ... Read more

In 2025, xAI has bought a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI Data Centers which already has 200,000 Nvidia H100/H200 chips. The new facility will complement xAI’s existing operations and support the company’s growing presence in Memphis, with the Colossus supercomputer well on the path to the supercluster size. Greater Memphis Chamber ... Read more

Information from someone who lives and works in the area, online transcripts from the public meetings and public reports, Grok 3 analysis (based upon my giving it my view of the context to get to first megapack production at the new megapack factory in Texas gives this 6 month timeline. – 6 month timeline likely ... Read more

Looking at the top 5 humanoid bot companies scaling to thousands and even millions of humanoid robots in the next 4 years. Tesla Optimius Figure AI with Figure 2 and Figure 3 Apptronik 1X Technologies Agility Robotics The tech and AI gianta behind them from the startups or from XAI, OpenAI, Google, Amazon. Tesla Optimus ... Read more

Join Curt Jaimungal talks to Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes and Scott Aaronson. Jacob Barandes claims quantum mechanics can be reformulated without wave functions. Barandes has a new formulation of quantum mechanics which is considered a serious proposal by Scott Aaronson. Quantum computer theoretician Scott Aaronson gives his perspective. Barandes’ “indivisible” approach challenges the standard Schrödinger ... Read more

The Startup Alice and Bob have been working on the cat qubit. Alice & Bob is a Paris-based quantum computing startup founded in 2020 by Théau Peronnin and Raphaël Lescanne, with a mission to build the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Their main technological advantage is the proprietary “cat qubit” technology. With over 110 employees ... Read more

Previously, SpaceX has talked saving about 500 kilograms from Raptor 1 to Raptor 3 and 100-200 kilograms from going from Raptor 2 to Raptor 3. But on the Flight 8 launch preparation, they talked about saving 1 metric ton of mass per Raptor 3 engine. This must be mass beyond the engine to related components ... Read more

I am expecting a clean SpaceX Starship test flight 8. UPDATE: I was wrong. Starship had self destruct activated as SpaceX lost center engine and Starship started tumbling. There was a scrub a few days ago and there were some minor issues yesterday and there was the explosion of the upper stage on Starship Test ... Read more

Tesla Fremont factory has 15 spherical community gateway receivers. The Starlink Community Gateways program is designed to deliver high-speed internet for businesses, remote and underserved areas. This program can provide symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) per gateway. We don’t know if each spherical unit is a gateway ... Read more

SpaceX Starship had two weird problems today. There was a part that fell off the Starship. Later, there was some ball bearing problem on the Mechazilla launch tower. Despite the issues. Starship is stacked on the booster and hopefully ready for Flight 8 tomorrow. Live now on @NASASpaceflight – Starship being destacked again after a ... Read more