Next Big Future
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China EV Makers Having Rising Losses, Rising Costs and Intense Competition
China EV automakers are currently facing a double squeeze. Multiple Chinese automakers have issued earnings forecasts for the first half of the year, revealing a troubling trend. Rising costs for raw materials and components are eroding profit margins. Rising costs from upstream price hikes for materials and components are estimated to increase per-vehicle material costs ...
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Grok Can Now Do Way More With Natural Conversation
The big upgrade is that Grok now controls real car functions through natural conversation. Here’s what you can do Phone Calls & Media “Call John” “Play my workout playlist” “Play something upbeat” Vehicle Controls “Set temperature to 72°” or “Turn on the AC” “Make it cooler” “Open the glovebox” Ask Your Tesla “What’s my current ...
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Kimi K3 Technical Advancements Explained
Understand the two technical improvements made by Kimi k3. Kimi Delta Attention a hybrid linear-attention mechanism the company says delivers over 6x faster decoding at long context, and Attention Residuals, a drop-in replacement for standard residual connections that improves training efficiency. Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) refines the gated delta rule with fine-grained, channel-wise gating and ...
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Kimi K3 And Global AI Impact
For about two years, the working assumption on Wall Street was that frontier AI was an American duopoly with a comfortable lead. On July 16, a two-year-old startup in Beijing reminded everyone that the race is, at minimum, a two-horse one. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model — the largest the open-source ...
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Ozempic and GLP-1 are the Gateway Drugs to a Truly Healthy Lifestyle and Population
Ozempic and GLP-1 are the gateway drugs to a truly healthy lifestyle. We have the means to massively lower the obesity rate in the population and make real changes in behavior. People thought this was impossible BUT it is not. We can get most people to a healthy weight and healthy lifestyle that includes weight ...
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What Are the Sources of Sports Performance Improvements
How has sport performance changed and what are the sources of improvement? Training is the engine for improving world record sport performance. Wearables largely makes the engine run more efficiently rather than adding independent gains. Better training and sports science remain the dominant long-term driver of elite performance — the core of “individual excellence.” New ...
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SpaceX Starlink Communications Will Be in Every Tesla Cybercab
SpaceX Starlink V5 satellite terminal directly integrated into the Cybercab’s roof structure (alongside the GPS antenna, 5G LTE antenna, FSD computer, and various cameras). This is a clean, factory-integrated design rather than the external Starlink Mini dishes spotted on earlier prototypes/testing vehicles (often mounted on the trunk lid). Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab pic.twitter.com/FxzTtzjB6I ...
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World Record Mile Record Could Be Under 3:42 With Upgraded Track Surfaces
The world-renowned athletic tracks installed for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the resurfacing was spearheaded by Mondo S.p.A.. They installed their state-of-the-art Mondotrack EI (Ellipse Impulse) at the Stade de France. If the world record mile run had the same conditions but had the most up to date track surface then the world ...
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SpaceX First Earning Report and Earning Call is August 4 2026
SpaceX will post financial and operational results for the second quarter of 2026 after market close on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. SpaceX management will host a live audio-only webcast to discuss the results at 3:30 p.m. CT / 4:30 p.m. ET the same day. We will post our Q2 2026 financial and operational results on ...
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Elon Musk Denies Report SpaceX was Buying 1 Million B300 GPU Racks from Foxconn
There is a report that SpaceX has placed its first orders for Nvidia GB300-based AI servers to Taiwan’s Foxconn. SpaceX will buy 13,000 racks for about 1 million GPUs/ It is a deal worth an estimated US$52 billion, ($4M each rack). It is a Taiwan media report citing unnamed industry sources. SpaceX has placed its ...
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Gavin Baker Says Kimi K3 is Bad for Anthropic and OpenAI but Good for Others
Gavin Baker says anything that increases competition and compresses margins at the model layer (foundation models) is net positive for every other layer in the AI stack — power, semiconductors, hyperscalers/neoclouds, and even software. A world with only 2–3 dominant high-margin frontier labs is bad for the rest of the ecosystem because those labs become ...
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SpaceX Louisiana Launch Facility Should Become Primary for Starship Launch in 2028
SpaceX is buying and developing a massive ~136,000-acre (roughly 212 square miles) tract of coastal marshland in Vermilion Parish, near Pecan Island and Freshwater City. This land is primarily owned by ExxonMobil (with surface management by the Vermilion Corporation) and lies along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, about 10 miles inland from the Gulf but with ...
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Superintelligence ASI Arrives Unevenly, Sorted by Grader Quality
Superintelligence is not one event — it is and will be a frontier that advances domain by domain, in strict order of how cheaply each domain’s work can be verified. Synthetic data factories can push capability arbitrarily far above human level in any domain where the grader is superhuman-checkable — because there, self-play works, exactly ...
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Graded AI Tasks and the Data Flywheel
A graded trajectory is a complete recording of an AI’s attempt at a task plus a verdict on whether it succeeded, and it’s the fundamental unit of modern AI training data. A free grader is any mechanism — passing tests, physical reality, paying customers — that produces those verdicts automatically at zero marginal cost, and ...
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AST Space Mobile Delayed into 2027 to 2028 for Start of Intermittent Commercial DTC Service
June 2 2026, ASTS Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski on June 2, 2026) said initial ASTS commercial services pushed to the first half of 2027 (H1 2027). This is a 3–6 month delay caused primarily by Blue Origin’s New Glenn launchpad explosion during a static-fire/hot-fire test on May 28, 2026 (following the earlier April 19 ...
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SpaceX Will Be Worth More Than Earth. NOT CRAZY. Here’s the Actual Math
Can a company outgrow Earth’s economy? The claim is not crazy on long timescales. Saudi Aramco already approximates a whole nation’s economy, tech megacaps now dwarf the entire stock market of 15 years ago, and history shows step-changes in growth (0.3% agrarian → 2-3% industrial). North America’s economy became larger than the economy of Europe. ...
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Improved Research and Roadmaps For Quantum to Crack Main Internet Security RSA-2048
Shor’s algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions in estimated resources over the past 18 months. Theoretically breaking RSA-2048 would still require multi-day runtimes and billions of non-Clifford logical operations (primarily Toffoli gates) under realistic error rates (~0.1%) and cycle times. This remains far beyond near-term machines. ...
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Reports Tesla Order Suppliers to Scale to 1,000 Units per Week by September
Reports indicate Tesla suppliers were issued specific Optimus Gen 3 parts procurement guidelines, requiring them to increase production capacity to 1,000 units per week by September of this year and increase to 2,000 to 2,500 units per week by end of year. They are stating Elon reviewed and approved the latest version of Optimus during ...
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Technology and Plan for the Next 100K SpaceX Multi-Gigabit Satellies
SpaceX have filed for a 100,000 satellite Gen3 NGSO system. The satellites will be 2000-2500 kg, area 300 to 400 sq m. Orbits 320-480 km at various inclinations. The FCC application says the Gen3 constellation will deliver extremely low-latency, multi-gigabit symmetrical throughput. And the sheer number of satellites will ensure multiple satellites are always visible ...
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Raymond James Gives $800 SpaceX Price Target and Analyzing
Financial Firm Raymond James Analyst Brian Gesuale gave a SpaceX price target of $800. He told investors that industrialized access to orbit and AI are driving the most significant infrastructure convergence since the advent of the Internet with SpaceX building the foundational platform for the next generation of industrial capacity across transportation, communications, compute, manufacturing ...
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