Next Big Future
Coverage of Disruptive Science and Technology
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AI Data Centers Can Subsidize Electricity for Host Cities
An AI data center needs enormous amounts of electricity. Building power plants is expensive, but it gets cheaper per unit as you build bigger. A developer could deliberately build more generation than the data center needs, then sell the surplus at lower cost into the surrounding city. If the surplus is cheap enough, residents’ bills ...
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This Week in AI Progress – On the Way to Another 100X in 22 Months
Key points in rapid AI progress, A secretive “ox alpha” model (widely suspected to be the latest Chinese GLM open-source model) shows strong coding gains (~80% on a tough benchmark vs. the 60s for Claude/GPT-style models). Nvidia + a new “harness” hit a perfect 100% on ARC-AGI-3. Intelligence-density progress Chinese Qwen-style 27B models already match ...
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ShieldAI XBAT Drone Fighters Can Give A Fighter Drone Wing to Every US Destroyer
Shield AI states that three X-BATs (with their Launch and Recovery Vehicles / LRVs) fit in the deck space of one legacy fighter or helicopter. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers have a flight deck + dual hangars designed for up to two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. They could each hold six X-BATS in the space used for two ...
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Airlock Digital Completes Independent IRAP Assessment at the PROTECTED Level
Adelaide, Australia, 19th August 2026, CyberNewswire
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Midjourney Plan to Make MRI Level Ultrasound Using AI Enhancement
Midjourney, best known for its AI-powered image generation platform, has announced Midjourney Medical to make full-body imaging system to scan a person in just 60 seconds while delivering image quality comparable to MRI. The scanner is based on Butterfly Network ultrasound chips rather than Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), potentially making it significantly faster and less ...
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Not Yet AI Curing Cancer But Validating Gains Can Be Made
The Moderna Neoantigen selection. A tumor carries thousands of mutations. Only a handful produce peptides that get presented on MHC and recognized by T cells. Moderna’s pipeline takes next-generation sequencing data from tumor and blood samples, reviews the genetic mutations, and predicts up to 34 neoantigens most likely to elicit an immune response. That’s the ...
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Major Progress to Curing Cancer From Moderna Melanoma Vaccine
Moderna is up 130% today with success of a phase 3 trial on AI Assisted personalized MRNA cancer treatment. Major Progress to Curing Cancer From Moderna Melanoma Vaccine. Phase 2 showed 50-60% reduction in cancer deaths, but pathway to personalized AI cancer treatments. This is freaking huge: For the first time, a AI-assisted personalized mRNA ...
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Former Ping Identity and CyberArk Executives Join AppViewX to Scale Machine and Agent Identity Security
New York, New York, 19th August 2026, CyberNewswire
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Some Switching to Grok Bot and SuperGrok Tier
There are reports that some power users are switching from Claude to SpaceXAI’s $300 SuperGrok Heavy tier. They cite slowdowns in models like Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 amid Anthropic’s usage boost ending August 19. They praise Grok 4.6 for its balance of intelligence and lower per-task costs on agentic tasks. Grok Bot adds always-on ...
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Scaling AI and Getting More Efficient
Kaplan/Chinchilla scaling laws provide a broad description of the resources needed to improve AI. The measured relationship is that loss falls as a power law in compute: L ≈ L∞ + A·C^(-α), with α somewhere around 0.05–0.07 for language models. Each halving of excess loss costs roughly 10–1000x more compute depending on the exponent. Converting ...
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Your Car Could Start Paying You. SpaceX, Tesla, Grok Bot, Macrohard, Digital Optimus, Cursor HUGE
Everything about SpaceX are the AI releases coming out every week. Grok Bot released and it is huge. Easier and more useful than OpenClaw. Productivity will mean super users at companies will use it. You can also get Grok Bot for less than $100 per month. Cursor teams. Grok Bot will become part of Macrohard ...
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Tesla Cybercab Launch Day in September
Tesla will be inviting people to a September Cybercab launch day. Ride in Robotaxi through 8/23 for a shot to attend our Cybercab launch event. More rides = better odds. This will be no steering wheel Cybercab for robotaxi and they will sell Cybercabs as well. Ride in Robotaxi through 8/23 for a shot to ...
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OpenMatter Network to Take Verification Message to Belgrade Blockchain Week 2026
Melbourne, Florida, 17th August 2026, CyberNewswire
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Microsoft Will Lease 3+ Gigawatts of AI Data Center from SpaceX in 2027
Microsoft has already signed 10GW of AI data center contracts year-to-date for over $300B of total contract value, but those contribute to late-2027 and 2028 capacity, leaving a near-term gap to fill. Semianalysis has calculated the tokenomics of OpenAI and Anthropic at $100 billion per year per gigawatt. Microsoft can also monetize at $100 Billion ...
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Coreweave Leasing AI Data Center Facilities
CoreWeave ahas heavy reliance on leasing (rather than owning) data-center facilities. It uses a standard real-estate technique—capitalizing an ongoing rent stream—to put leased capacity on the same footing as owned capacity for honest cost comparisons. Breaking down the numbers $165/kW/month** is a representative (or modeled) base rent rate for CoreWeave’s colocation/powered-shell leases. 1 MW = ...
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What Contracted Power Actually Means and What is Available for New Contracts
It is a procurement metric, not a sales metric. There are three separate stacks and the industry deliberately blurs them. CoreWeave’s 3.5 GW contracted power and its $99.4B backlog are two different books. How tightly is the second mapped onto the first. They are very tightly, by design, because layer 3 is the collateral for ...
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Semianalysis Agrees With NextBigfuture $300B Per Year for SpaceX by End of 2027
Semianalysis agrees with my analysis of SpaceX getting up to $300 Billion per year by end of 2027. Spot prices are higher. The AI lease rates make sense. Coreweave and Nebius are spreading out fixed premium GPUs annual prices but requiring 5 year lockin. 5 years for $100 billion but not available during the next ...
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Bugtraq Is Back: The Original Full Disclosure Mailing List Is Live Again
Sophia Antipolis, France, 7th August 2026, CyberNewswire
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Elon Said “FEL FTW.” Here’s the Laser That Will Boost Chip Volumes 50X
SpaceX Will push to new technology to improve the most important part of TERAFAB. These are the secrets that will enable 50 times more chips by 2030-2035 and the thousands more by 2040-2045. ASML technology will be taken to the next level. They only replace and improve the light source, which is about half of ...
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Terafab Rendered in a Video
Terafab will close the gap between today’s chip production and the future’s demand — a future among the stars. Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful. pic.twitter.com/4NweOqTL7y — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2026 Sequoia's @shaunmmaguire explains why @elonmusk's Terafab is massively ...
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