Next Big Future
Coverage of Disruptive Science and Technology
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NY Times Reporting OpenAI May Delay IPO to 2027
SpaceX recently completed the largest IPO ever, raising more than $85 billion and debuting at a ~$1.77 trillion valuation. Shares have since pulled back (a common post-IPO pattern, especially in volatile markets), but the raise was enormous. xAI is part of that story because of the earlier integration. FEb 2026, SpaceX acquired xAI and the ...
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Major AI Data Center Build Projects – Timelines, Status 2026–2028
Epoch.ai tracks the top ~17+ frontier sites via satellite. SemiAnalysis uses its Datacenter Industry Model for hyperscaler self-build/colocation forecasts. Here is a tight compilation of the most prominent ones from Epoch, SemiAnalysis mentions, and cross-referenced industry tracking. Focus is on hyperscaler/AI lab projects (hundreds of MW to GW-scale). Many announced 2026 projects face delays like ...
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18-20 million Barrel Per Day Through Hormuz and 70 Ships Per Day
Traffic has rebounded sharply since the US-Iran MoU/deal around June 17–18, 2026, which eased the effective blockade and sanctions waivers. However, it remains volatile, below pre-war levels. Traffic has rebounded sharply since the US-Iran MoU/deal around June 17–18, 2026, which eased the effective blockade and sanctions waivers. However, it remains volatile, below pre-war levels June ...
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Optimus Teslabot Would Be an Edge Computing Beast
Gavin Baker described how in ~3 years (around 2028–2029), a bigger/bulkier iPhone with enough extra DRAM could run a pruned/distilled/quantized version of a frontier model like Gemini 5 (or Grok 4.x / ChatGPT equivalent) at 30–60 tokens per second on-device. This would be free, private, and good enough for most users. An enhanced future iPhone ...
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Merging SpaceX and Tesla Will Win AGI and Make More Money for Tesla Investors
SpaceX + xAI + Tesla to WIN AGI Not Robotaxi. AGI supremacy. 2. Why merge at all? Because AI is WAY BIGGER than Robotaxi. Merging creates:$140B+ combined cash for AI spending Frictionless capital allocation (no board votes, no transfer pricing, no negotiations) One P&L, one balance sheet = Elon moves at max speed Peter Thiel ...
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Future Space Tourism and Space Industry Will End Up Being Great for the Environment
Global international tourism is massive with around 1.5 billion arrivals per year. This covers flights, cruises, road/rail travel, and more. Domestic tourism adds even more volume, but international arrivals give a solid benchmark for around the world leisure/business travel. Carbon Footprint of Global Tourism A comprehensive 2024 study (using 2019 data) estimates the total global ...
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Internet Society Foundation Opens Global Call for Common Good Cyber Fund to Strengthen Cybersecurity
DC, United States, 23rd June 2026, CyberNewswire
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SpaceX Starfall and Future Human-rated Versions
Starfall is SpaceX’s new uncrewed disk-shaped cargo return capsule (launched on its first demo flight today, June 23, 2026, aboard a Falcon 9). It is a flat, low-profile vehicle (~3.1 m diameter × 0.75 m tall) designed for rapid, high-volume return of up to ~1,000 kg of payload from orbit — especially for in-space manufacturing ...
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SpaceX Has Successful Starfall Demo
Today SpaceX deployed and demonstrated the Starfall low cost capsule return system. This a demo of a new vehicle that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for scientific research and in-space manufacturing. After demonstrating controlled flight, the spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean Today’s mission includes a demo of a ...
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Understanding Coding Productivity With AI Today
Practical podcast interview with Matt Pocock (AI engineering educator and creator of popular agent skills). The core message is that the model is important, but the harness (your skills/prompts/procedures + environment + workflow) matters just as much or more. XAI bought Cursor because it is a top level harness and they have the data and ...
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XAI and Cursor Strategy to Catch Up and Beat Anthropic in Coding
Cursor is training its own Opus-class model from scratch. They are no longer fine-tuned on open-source model like Kimi K2. This is a major step up in capability and independence. They are using the 10-20X compute provided by xAI and Colossus 2. In a few weeks the 1.5 trillion parameter coding model and harness. Then ...
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SpaceX Orbital Travel and Orbital Hotels Need Starfall – Getting Back Safe and Cheap is Exciting
People are not super-excited about the SpaceX Starfall test tomorrow. This is a hockey puck shaped space vehicle that will be released from a Falcon 9 flight that goes to orbit or near orbit. It is a heat shield capsule that will hold about 1000 kg of payload and has some cold thrusters and parachutes ...
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Speculations on What Could Show Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Post-spacetime physics refers to the idea that our familiar 4D spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from deeper structures—whether geometric (fiber bundles, higher-dimensional manifolds), quantum (entanglement, information), or vacuum effects. Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity (GU) proposes a 14-dimensional geometric framework (involving a metric bundle over 4D spacetime) from which the Standard Model forces, gravity, and ...
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SpaceX Has Another $150 Million Per Month Deal
SpaceX is adding another $900 million of revenue in 2026 and $1.8 billion of revenue per year with another AI rental. This is with Reflection. It adds from July 2026 to 2029. This means $900 million more in 2026 and a runrate of $2.35 billion per month in Q4. $28 billion per year in 2027 ...
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Modern Warfare Deadlock or Domination
Drone walls and layered short/medium/long-range droning have effectively recreated a modern version of trench attrition warfare, where large-scale land capture is extremely difficult and costly for near-peer adversaries. Only small, incremental gains have been seen in Ukraine. Countries that cannot match drone quantity and integration at scale risks failure or stalemate. Drone Walls and Layered ...
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What Would 2026-2036 Be Like if We 10X World Economy With AI ?
In an interview of Elon Musk, Elon talks about getting greater than 10X the world economy in 10 years. What does this mean, if it were to happen. It means averaging 27% per year GDP growth but starting with a ramp in the first half. NOTE: in WW2, the USA had 18% gdp growth for ...
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Facts on the Ground in Hormuz – 85% Oilflow – Iran Tested on Backing Up Threats
Based upon oil flows Hormuz were 15-20% open at 3 to 4 mbpd last month (May) but yesterday 17 mbpd. This means Hormuz was 85% open. 17 mbpd is 85% of 20 mbpd. It was 20% open with complete opposition from Iran. And now it is 85% open. The ships know they are getting through. ...
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Bill of Materials (BOM) and Cost Estimate for Starfall
Starfall is explicitly designed for mass production (like Starlink satellites), so unit costs drop sharply with volume. It is tiny compared to a Starship upper stage (~2.1 t dry mass vs. ~85–100 t), with far simpler systems (no main propulsion, parachute landing, jettisonable shield). Here is a realistic BOM (Bill of Materials) breakdown and cost ...
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Trillions of Dollars in Opportunity
AI Gives a venture capital take of Anything anywhere delivery via Space rocket. 1hr global TAM for 2k lb / 5.6m³ container • Core TAM: $50B to 100B slice of ~$250B air cargo + $300B express for time-critical high-value goods (pharma, electronics, auto/aero parts, medical). • Expansion opportunity True global JIT slashes inventory costs across ...
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Last Mile of Space and Earth Rocket Package Delivery
SpaceX will be proving out a key part of delivery from space or anywhere on earth in one hour anywhere. Starship flying then eject Starfalls. 50-100 per Starship. Reusable system delivers anywhere. No launch tower and no drone ship needed. Can also deliver people (military commandos first). How much is one hour anywhere delivery at ...
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