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Tesla Ramping Unsupervised Robotaxis from 28 to 197 in Three Weeks With Four Days to Cybercab Day

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 17:43
Is the Tesla Robotaxi Era finally here. Many Tesla believers had lost faith. But look out Tesla is ramping unsupervised robotaxi. There are about 1000 Cybercabs parked in and around Austin and other Tesla robotaxi cities. Elon and Tesla AI lead Ashok are talking about flooding Austin with Cybercabs. Unsupervised Cybercabs are already being added ...

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Tesla Has At Least 195 Unsupervised Robotaxi Before Cybercab Day

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 11:59
The Tesla Robotaxi tracker does not capture all Tesla Robotaxi but still identified 195 unsupervised robotaxi. Tesla doubled the vehicles in the last month and quadrupled in the last four months. It is a crowdsourced identification of unique robotaxi where people must submit vehicles and license plates to the system. The system has identified about ...

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Lunar Cyber Launches Token Exposure Monitoring as Infostealers Target Developer and AI Credentials

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 10:09
Bnei Brak, Israel, 31st August 2026, CyberNewswire
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Security Risk Advisors Launches SCALR AI as a Free SOC AI Platform for Security Teams

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 09:01
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 31st August 2026, CyberNewswire
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SpaceX Is Building the Chips AND the Rockets

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 19:09
SpaceX already lifts about 85% of everything humanity puts in orbit — roughly 2,400 tons a year versus a few hundred for the rest of Earth combined, including China. The next Starship flights start stacking V3 satellites that add on the order of 20 Falcon 9 Starlink missions of capacity per launch. Starbase Louisiana is ...

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AI Agents – Grok Bot vs Open Claw vs Poke

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 13:11
Here is a quick comparison of AI agents. Grok Bot versus open claw vs poke.
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All in Podcast Friedberg Says NeoAntigen Cancer Treatment Can Cost $50,000 and not $500,000

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 12:51
David Friedberg on @theallinpod says the neoantigen approach is sequence the tumor, make the protein, put it back in the body, let the immune system destroy the cancer. Sequencing and protein production are cheap now, and the technique came out of decades of NIH-funded research. “You can pay someone $50,000 to do this for you ...

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US Has Over 10X China AI Compute – US AI Domination

Fri, 08/28/2026 - 16:44
In 2022 the US was adding roughly 45–50% of the world’s new compute and China 30–35%. Export controls plus a huge US buildout flipped that: today about 70% of new AI data-center watts are going into America and China is under 10%. US AI chips are 2.3 to 2.7 times better at compute per watt ...

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World of Cheap and Productive Overnight Agents

Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:21
One person with a chatbot burns tokens only while typing. One person with 3–20 background bots burns tokens all night. This month sees the start of grokbot boom that adds hours and ultra low cost models. Cheap models make it affordable. GLM-5.3-Flash at $0.15/$0.50 per million is ~10x cheaper than a frontier model. $20 per ...

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X Identified 200,000 Account China Bot Farm – 200 Accounts Were Anti US Data Centers

Fri, 08/28/2026 - 02:45
X identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, they found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that ...

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Elon Projects SpaceX $3.5 Trillion Revenue in 2033

Fri, 08/28/2026 - 01:54
Elon Musk says his best guess for SpaceX ~$3.5T revenue is roughly around 2033. This could after adding 10-20 Gigawatts per year of earth based data centers from 2027 to 2033 and adding 100 Gigawatts per year of space based data centers from 2030-2033. This would be about 500 gigawatts of cumulative ai data center. ...

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SpaceX Has 17 Starship Launch Pads Under Development

Tue, 08/25/2026 - 17:28
The $100B Starbase Louisiana will have 10 pads (5 complexes × 2) and will start building in 2027 with a first launch targeted 2029. The new launch facilities will not have a positive revenue impact until 2029 and only if the work stays on schedule. SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those ...

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OpenAI Jalapeño Inference Chip just announced at Hot Chips

Tue, 08/25/2026 - 17:05
OpenAI Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt at peak throughput and 1.7 to 3.6 times lower end-to-end latency than the comparison systems. For highly interactive workloads, it delivered 2.1 to 4.1 times higher performance. In June, OpenAI unveiled the chip program in partnership with Broadcom, built from a blank ...

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Sodium Battery Technology

Tue, 08/25/2026 - 02:05
Sodium-ion batteries are commercializing with mass production in 2026. CATL in China is scaling it as a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion using abundant sodium from salt. They are targeting grid and stationary energy storage first and more affordable/entry-level EVs or low-speed vehicles and should be lower cost than iron LFP. CATL’s Naxtra reach ~175 ...

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Unreleased Anthropic Mythos 2 and Mythos 3 and OpenAI Astra

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 23:23
Semianalysis reports Mythos 2 is done training and Anthropic are not releasing the model. Anthropic’s August 2026 Risk Report describes an unreleased internal model it calls Model 2. It is more capable than Mythos 5, with no current plan to release it externally and the normal external-release evaluation suite not completed. They describe Model 2 ...

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Semianalysis Deep Dive on the SpaceX 10 GW 2027 AI Data Center Build

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 21:46
SemiAnalysis talk about SpaceX’s 10 GW AI compute ambitions. SpaceX can fund the build, they have the power for it, they have the sites and they will get the chips. The Frontier labs [Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft] can generate ~$100 million of revenue per megawatt per year today on API inference with GB300-class systems. Cost ...

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Reviewing the IVO Quantum Drive

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 19:31
Did the orbital test of the IVO Quantum Drive produce a real thrust signal in orbit—or did an ambitious experiment leave us with an intriguing but unresolved anomaly? Physicist and author Dr. Mike McCulloch, originator of Quantised Inertia, describes the IVO Ltd.’s attempt to test a propellantless electric-drive concept in space. Mike developed Quantized Inertia ...

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SOLVING AI Data Centers

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 18:57
AI Data Centers are at the center of controversy and there many fights over what can and cannot be built. How can we solve the energy, water and other problems ?
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Space Optimized Vera Rubin System for Space Based AI Launching Q4 2027

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 18:55
SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, have designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028. The design is significantly simpler, lower cost, denser and lighter than a traditional rack. SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch ...

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What Purpose Can We Create if AI Replaces Current Jobs and Work?

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 17:58
Thomas Sowell has made many deep insights into humanity and the history of society. Thomas Sowell, born 1930, is an economist trained at Chicago. He was a Marxist until his mid-twenties, and cured of it not by theory but by a summer working inside the U.S. Department of Labor. He watched the agency’s institutional interest ...

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