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Tesla Added at Least Six Unsupervised Robotaxi in Texas
Tesla is up to at least 25 Unsupervised vehicles in Texas per the robotaxitracker. Robotaxi tracker is crowdsourced. This means someone who took a ride in a Tesla robotaxi in Texas has to report the license plate to the app or website. They miss over half of the known Waymo vehicles. Austin 19 Dallas 3 ...
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Tesla Semi Truck Has Officially Started Mass Production
Tesla Semi mass production has officially begun. Long Range • Range: ~500 miles • 4680 cells • Fully electric steering assist (vs hydraulic before) • Uses beefed up Cybertruck actuators • 48 volt architecture • Powertrain: 3 independent motors on rear axles • Drive Power: Up to 800 kW • Curb Weight: 23,000 lbs • ...
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Brinker Introduces a Novel Approach to Deepfake Detection
WILMINGTON, Delaware, 29th April 2026, CyberNewswire
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UAE Leaving OPEC May 1, 2026 Can Reach 5-7 Millions of BPD
The UAE had steadily increased production to around 3.6 million bpd. The UAE’s stated crude oil production capacity currently stands at 4.85 million bpd, with an official target to raise that to 5.0 million bpd by 2027 through continued upstream investment led by ADNOC. Only the UAE and Saudi Arabia currently have pipelines around the ...
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Berkeley Conference on Aging This Weekend
BerkeleyCAL is convening a select group of scientists, technologists, and global thought leaders at the University of California, Berkeley on May 2nd and 3rd to explore the frontiers of aging, longevity science, and their broader societal impact. The conference will feature a keynote by Her Royal Highness Dr. Haya Al Saud alongside prominent scientists such ...
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TESLA Unsupervised FSD Will Change Everything in 2026 before Robotaxi Scales in 2027
TESLA Unsupervised FSD Will Change Everything in 2026. TESLA Robotaxis do not crash — they only hesitate and unsupervised FSD will roll out to owners in ~7 months. The driving experience will be transformed. The full global million-scale robo-taxi is tied to v15, but unsupervised for personal cars + early robotaxi fleet will have meaningful ...
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SpaceX Launch Rate in 2026 After Reaching Orbital Operations, Booster and Starship Recovery
If the next three Version 3 Starship flights go as planned. Flight 12 in May is the V3 rocket debut with in-space Raptor relight. Flight 13 will have orbital insertion and possibly initial commercial V3 Starlink deployments. Flight 13 should have booster recovery and if things go good a Starship catch attempt. Flight 14 could ...
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New Anti-drone, Anti Trench Weapon – Precision, Semi Auto Grenade Launcher
New weapon for US soldiers can wipe out drones and enemy in trenches with rapid fire air burst grenades. These are $50K per gun for the version being reviewed. This is a follow up to previously failed grenade weapons. One shot clears a room or can take a section of trench. Semi auto grenade launcher ...
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AI Demand is Still Booming
The Dylan Patel, head of Semianalysis, interview is a must watch for anyone tracking AI economics, infrastructure, and future societal shifts. SemiAnalysis’s own AI spend exploded from tens of thousands last year to $7 million annualized run-rate right now. Even non-technical staff are now heavy Claude/Code users. Semianalysis metrics and work are cited by Nvidia ...
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SpaceX XAI 2027
SpaceX dish production is ramping toward 50,000 dishes/day. It is already at ~25k/day recently. The high speed internet subscriber base could more than double to ~20–25 million by end of 2026 and then ~50 million in 2027. This will be about $25-30 billion of revenue by the end of 2026 when including launch revenue. The ...
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TESLA Q1 Was Confusing. Technical and Business Decoding Is Required
Tesla financial and operations numbers like free cash flow and margin were growing. Those were good things. They beat on earnings and other forecasted metrics. However, the discussion about higher capital expenditures spooked Wall Street. There was also not a hard core locked in timeline for scaled unsupervised robotaxi. The growth in FSD and the ...
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DeepSeek V4 is Good, 10X Cheaper Than Frontier and 10X More Efficient With Memory
Deepseek v4 is out now, about expected, close to frontier behind about 3-6 months maybe. The big thing is price, its 1.74 per million tokens in and 3.48 per million tokens out. The output tokens are like up to 10x cheaper than the frontier. If you accept gpt 5.2 or gemini 3 performance they will ...
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China Backs Orbital Data Center Startup with $8.4 billion in Credit
China is $8.4 billion in credit lines + state-backed plans targeting gigawatt-scale AI compute in space by 2035. China’s orbital AI data center push, led by startup Orbital Chenguang (Beijing Orbital Twilight Technology Co., Ltd.) with massive state-aligned backing, represents an ambitious, hybrid public-private effort to sidestep terrestrial constraints on AI scaling. The goal is ...
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Multi-Tbps Quad Band Starlink Satellite Gateway
SpaceX filed FCC application SES-LIC-20260306-00745 for a next-generation quad-band gateway earth station called First of Its Name for the Starlink factory in Bastrop, Texas. The station will use 40 antennas, each with a 1.99-meter parabolic dish, to harness additional spectrum in the Ka-, V-, E-, and W-bands. This will allow connection to more satellites simultaneously ...
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OpenAI GPT 5.5 Has Good Ranking Scores But Is It Better?
OpenAI GPT-5.5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by 3 points, breaking a three-way tie with Anthropic and Google. There is indication that is faster and has some good results but some results are mid. More time is needed. It is a good model but it does not appear to be groundbreaking. OpenAI topping five ...
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Tesla Has Started Cybercab Production
Tesla Cybercab is now in production at Giga Texas. They are very different from the wrapped engineering versions. Purpose-built for autonomy Cybercab in production now at Giga Texas pic.twitter.com/Y9qG3KyWBa — Tesla (@Tesla) April 23, 2026
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Seven Month to Start of Unsupervised TESLA FSD for Customer Usage
In about seven months Tesla will Start region by region deployment of unsupervised TESLA FSD for Customer Usage. The owners of FSD will start to get unsupervised FSD. This will be before extreme (aka material) scaling of unsupervised robotaxi. Getting beyond 20,000 to 60,000 unsupervised robotaxi will be a few months after FSD 15 is ...
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SpaceX Will Buy Cursor
Cursor is already at ~$2 Billion ARR (annual recurring revenue as of February 2026) and was on track to triple to over $6 billion ARR by the end of 2026 even before the xAI deal. The brand-new partnership with xAI/SpaceX gives them massive Colossus supercomputer access, which removes their biggest remaining bottleneck and should let ...
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SpaceX Has Option to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion – XAI and Cursor Try to Catch Athropic Claude Code
SpaceXAI and Cursor_ai are partners trying to catch up to Anthropic and Claude Code. XAI data center and hundreds of thousands of chips can power Cursor Composer 2. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s ...
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