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Microsoft team behind the recent breakthrough in physics and quantum computing demonstrated by the new Majorana 1 chip, engineered from an entirely new material that has the potential to scale to millions of qubits on a single chip. Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture ... Read more

If DOGE fails to cut US deficit then what is potential timeline for a U.S. economic collapse similar to the Soviet Union’s (USSR), given a current national debt of $37 trillion increasing by $1 trillion every 100 days. Would this lead to hyperinflation, an upward spiral in interest rates and inflation? The U.S. might lose ... Read more

Baidu revealed progress of their subsidiary, Apollo Go on their earnings call. The number of paid robotaxi rides 1.1 million in 4Q 2024 which is up +36% Year over year The cumulative robotaxi rides now 9 million. This about 25-50% of the level of Waymo. They have some 100% fully driverless (no remote operator) operations. ... Read more

A SpaceX Falcon 9 landed on a new drone ship in the Bahamas. The mission also successfully deployed more version 2 mini satellites. SpaceX’s decision to land Falcon 9 boosters in the Bahamas after launching from NASA’s Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station introduces a new approach to booster recovery, potentially improving efficiency ... Read more

Tesla is currently prevented from solving Full self driving in China because the Chinese government does not allow them to send driving video out of China and the US government does not allow AI model training in China by US companies. How can Tesla localize its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system versions 13.X or 14.X in ... Read more

I worked with Grok 3 to analyze all of the spending deep federal government spending cuts, possible end to the Ukraine war, privatization of parts of government, streamlining agencies and functions. I looked at using improved tax and other policies to achieve strong economic growth (doubling GDP growth from 2% per year to 4-5% per ... Read more

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next Generation Responsive Strike (NextRS) program. The NextRS hypersonic bomber project aims to create a reusable, large-scale platform capable of multi-mission strike and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ... Read more

Expanding the power capacity at xAI’s Colossus supercomputer in Memphis from 250 megawatts (MW) to 1.2 gigawatts (GW)—a nearly fivefold increase—is a complex challenge involving infrastructure, logistics, and regulatory hurdles. The Memphis XAI site hasexisting resources (like natural gas availability at the old Electrolux factory). This assumes typical industry constraints. Current State and Past Expansion ... Read more

IT modernization could slash 388,000 to 1 million admin, support, and non-combat roles. Given the mix (~1.04-1.17 million active-duty, 614,000-695,000 reserve, 778,000-867,000 civilian in non-combat roles), a weighted average cost of $90,000 per person is reasonable for non-combat personnel (balancing higher active-duty costs with lower reserve/civilian costs). For 388,000 to 1 million roles cut: Low-End ... Read more

xAI Grok 3 is the number one ranked AI across categories. xAI is still performing reinforcement learning and other continuing training to improve these models. They are expanding their data center from 250 megawatts of 200,000 GPUs to 1.2 gigawatts and 1 million GPUs. This will be about 20 times the compute of the 200k ... Read more

Grok 3’s voice mode is slated for integration into Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk confirmed this during a February 17, 2025, live demo announcement, stating that Grok 3’s voice capabilities, while “still a little patchy,” are expected to launch “in about a week” (roughly February 24, 2025) and will enhance voice commands in all Tesla cars. ... Read more

We are going through a large federal government spending cut in the range of $1 trillion to $2 trillion per year. This would be drop from $6.7 trillion in spending. The cuts would be 15% to 30% of the total spending. I worked with Grok 3 to come up with a good plan with very ... Read more

xAI has released Grok 3 which is the first model to break a 1400 LLM Arena score. This makes Grok 3 the top AI model. Grok 3 is still undergoing reinforcement learning to make it even smarter. This will help Grok 3 to surpass OpenAI O3. The data center that xAI has built has been ... Read more

Grok was used in a Heinlein novel by a character who was on Mars. Grok means to fully understand something. Here is a preview of the voice mode. Voice mode will be released in about one week. It has voice inflection and tone. NEWS: Here is a sneak peek at xAI’s new upcoming voice mode. ... Read more

xAI revealing Grok 3. Elon Musk claims it will be the smartest AI in the world. https://t.co/HTK4u2aYRu — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2025 X broadcast of the Grok 3 reveal and demo.

All Tesla watchers are eagerly waiting to see the new smaller and lower cost vehicles from Tesla. These new vehicle models are expected to be seen in and built in the next 120 days. However, it is actually tough to spot a compact car with one photo without a full sized vehicle like a Model ... Read more

The Ukraine-Russia war is perfecting the killing of anyone and anything with 6 miles or so of the front. This has been an expansion of no man’s land by 100 times since world war 1. US military planners are talking about massive layers of combat. They are basically saying that the first layers tens of ... Read more

The US, China and Japan are working on research and development in gallium oxide crystal growth and productionizing gallium oxide chips. The Gallium oxide chips can have a voltage resistance value 3 times higher and power consumption reduced by 60%. The power semiconductor market, sometimes called power electronics, is a large and important business that ... Read more

xAI Grok 3 release with live demo on Monday night at 8pm PT. Elon has said xAI Grok 3 will lead on all of the AI metrics when it is released. Grok 3 has been trained on over 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips. Grok 4 will be released later this year. The rapid pace of xAI ... Read more

China’s DeepSeek has made innovations in the cost of AI and innovations like mixture of experts (MoE) and fine-grain expert segmentation which significantly improve efficiency in large language models. The DeepSeek model activates only about 37 billion parameters out of its total 600+ billion parameters during inference, compared to models like Llama that activate all ... Read more

There is massive cost cutting with DOGE. 200,000 jobs eliminated by firing all probationary employees. 77,000 taking the 8 month offer to quit. Soon $100 billion in savings out of $500 billion in known waste. Proposal to halve the US, Russian and China military budgets would save $440 billion for the USA. USA would still ... Read more

In 2023, the Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2023 report, annual climate finance flows surpassed USD 1 trillion for the first time in 2021, reaching almost USD 1.3 trillion in 2021/2022. This represents a doubling compared to 2019/2020 levels. Paris Accords came into effect in 2016. U.S. CO2 emissions fell 14% between ... Read more