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China's goverment wants to be a global leader in emerging technologies and has identified robotaxi's and autonomous driving as a key target. The top robotaxi and autonomous vehicle companies in China are: AutoX Baidu Apollo Didi Chuxing Pony.ai WeRide. Baidu Apollo seems to be a world leader with more rides given and miles driven than ... Read more

Here is the three page summary of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation of Waymo robotaxi. The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received reports of 22 incidents involving Waymo vehicles equipped with Waymo's 5th generation automated driving system (ADS) wherein the ADS-equipped vehicle was the sole vehicle operated during a collision or wherein ... Read more

On May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter's upcoming Robotaxi service. The decision will be based on Tesla's specific application models and the timing of their entry into the Chinese market. For those that ... Read more

Elon Musk said that Tesla FSD 12.4 goes to internal release this weekend and limited external beta next week. Roughly 5X to 10X improvement in miles per intervention vs 12.3. 12.5 will be out in late June. Will also see a major improvement in mpi and is single stack - no Yeah, seeing it everywhere. ... Read more

Boeing Starliner's CFT (crewed flight test) is delayed again. They are now targeting no earlier than May 21st which is a push by another 4 days. There is a helium leak in the spacecraft. Starliner will launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida's Space ... Read more

Waymo is under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444 Waymo vehicles follows 22 reports of 22 incidents including 17 collisions. The agency said in some of those cases the automated driving systems appeared to disobey traffic safety control devices and some crashes occurred shortly after ... Read more

There is raw video of the SpaceX Falcon 9 that is claimed to be independently captured from the ground by a group of radio amateurs. It gives a view of the Lox tanks and the engine. I decided to upload the unfiltered, raw intercepted video streams from the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket's Upper Stage in ... Read more

Bloomerg reported, Apple is near a deal to use ChatGPT features in iOS 18, the iPhone's next major software update. Apple has held discussions with Google to license the company's chatbot Gemini. In 2023, Google CEO testified that Google pays Apple 36% of its Safari search revenue. The search engine shares this revenue, which is ... Read more

Astronomers decided to look for partially constructed Dyson spheres and other megastructures around stars. They determined that half-built Dyson spheres or megastructures would be easy to see with our telescopes. They made a fairly comprehensive search and found seven candidate stars. The candidate stars are all white dwarfs. They also eliminated stars where other astrophysical ... Read more

In 2022, there were projections predict that we will have exhausted the stock of low-quality language data by 2030 to 2050, high-quality language data before 2026, and vision data by 2030 to 2060. This might slow down ML progress. However, the conclusions rely on the unrealistic assumptions that current trends in ML data usage and ... Read more

Brian talks with Herbert Ong about Tesla FSD and Robotaxi. FSD is showing accelerated improvement. What will this mean for Tesla in China, globally and what will happen with robotaxi?

London, United Kingdom, May 13th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Logicalis, the global technology service provider delivering next-generation digital managed services, has today announced the launch of Intelligent Security, a blueprint approach to its global security portfolio designed to deliver proactive advanced security for customers worldwide. Intelligent Security has been designed by Logicalis' worldwide team of security specialists ... Read more

Torrance, California, May 13th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users. Criminal IP underwent rigorous data evaluation ... Read more

The All-in podcast billionaires try to find out what Sam Altman and OpenAI are planning. They asked Sam about what OpenAI is and will be doing and why. Question- when will get to vastly cheaper and faster language models (free queries) Sam says that is goal but he does not know when. Translation - Sam ... Read more

An 83 page 2023, report to the US Congress by the Department of Energy has three citations to articles by Nextbigfuture.com Alternate Fuels: Thorium and Uranium-233, Report to Congress March 2023 This report describes the potential use of thorium fuel and uranium-233 (U-233) in future eneration IV reactor designs and in current light water reactors. ... Read more

QuEra has sold another neutral atom quantum computer to a national agency. This one is in Japan. QuEra previously had a sale to the UK. QuEra Computing has a 6.5 Billion JPY contract (approx. $41M USD) from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to deliver a state-of-the-art quantum computer, advancing quantum ... Read more

Relativity Space is a private space company that is developing 3D printed rockets, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. They have raised about $1.34 billion and have a valuation of about $5 billion. They plan to launch the Terran R from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base starting in 2026. It is a ... Read more

RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, observed the key starting point of a Technological Singularity that would transform human civilization, Mars and enable the full colonization of the Solar System. I will review ... Read more

Northrop Grumman Corporation completed assembly of a full-size uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) prototype known as Manta Ray. A new class of UUV, it is an extra-large glider that will operate long-duration, long-range and payload-capable undersea missions without need for on-site human logistics. The Manta Ray can wait on the seabed to intercept nuclear submarines. DARPA's ... Read more

In the Q1 earnings call, Uber says Tesla FSD looks like a a great product and they also said startup Wayve looks good. Uber stated they want to partner with autonomous vehicle companies. Uber says they will provide demand for autonomous vehicles. Wayve is a startup that just received over $1 billion in funding from ... Read more

Humanoid robotics entrepreneur, Herbert Ong, gives a compilation of the top 7 humanoid robotics companies. He reviews the humanoid robots with video clips of the robots and his insights from talking the CEO and executives at those companies. He describes how they have different approaches to humanoid robots. We show what the bots can do ... Read more

Sam Altman tells everyone how survive in the age of artificial intelligence. You are about to enter the greatest golden age of human possibility..." To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are: - Deep familiarity with the tools - Staying abreast of changes - Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where ... Read more

SpaceX had a successful static fire test and is ready for the fourth orbital flight of the Super Heavy Starship. Static fires for the third launch were about 2-3 weeks before the actual launch. Static fire of Flight 5 Starship's six Raptor engines pic.twitter.com/UiF5UG432F - SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 8, 2024

Elon Musk has posted that Tesla FSD 12.4 will start its rollout next week. Tesla FSD 12.4 has been almost completely retrained. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes accelerates or brakes too fast for most people's taste. 12.4 has almost completely retrained models. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes ... Read more

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Security Risk Advisors (SRA) announces the launch of their OT/XIoT Detection Selection Workshop, a complimentary offering designed to assist organizations in selecting the most suitable operational technology (OT) and Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) security tools for their unique environments. Led by seasoned OT/XIoT security consultants, the workshop provides ... Read more

Chinese officials told Musk that China welcomes Tesla to do some robotaxi tests in the country and hopes it to set a good example, the sources said, but authorities did not immediately approve its widespread use of FSD functions. Tesla will reveal its robotaxi and robotaxi plans on August 8, 2024. China is Tesla's second-largest ... Read more

Tesla FSD has enough compute and driving data for training so the limiting factor is how fast the system can be validated. Only about 1/10,000 of distance driven is useful for training. This means of the 1 billion miles per month that is gathered by Tesla from over 1 million cars using FSD, there is ... Read more

Humanoid robotics entrepreneur, Herbert Ong, has a Humanoid robotics company and is working with and spoken to almost all of the humanoid robotics companies. He reviews the humanoid robots with video clips of the robots and his insights from talking the CEO and executives at those companies. He describes how they have different approaches to ... Read more

Elon Musk discusses the future of humanity with Michael Milken, touching on topics such as birth rates, the most impactful factors shaping our future, and his vision of a multiplanetary species. Elon Musk was at the 27th annual Global Conference hosted by the Milken Institute, which was livestreamed from May 6 to 8, 2024. Watch ... Read more

The US Army has used lasers to take down hostile drones in the Middle East, Doug Bush, the Army's head of acquisitions. It's the first time the Defense Department has acknowledged that such weapons have been used in combat. The US is not the first country to use lasers in actual combat. Starting in 2020, ... Read more

San Francisco, United States, May 7th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Hunters, the pioneer in modern SOC platforms, today announced its full adoption of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), coupled with the launch of groundbreaking OCSF-native Search capability. This strategic advancement underscores Hunters' commitment to standardizing and enhancing cybersecurity operations through open, integrated data sharing frameworks. Uri ... Read more

Space based solar ecosystem map created by Erik Kulu. There is a huge new economically sustainable space industry and with a great vision to provide 24/7 abundant clean energy to Earth. Erik Kulu prepared this ecosystem map for his talk Space Solar Power - Updated Survey of Private Initiatives" at the International Conference on Energy ... Read more

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was scheduled to launch tonight to get certification. The mission was scrubbed for today. Atlas valve issue. The scrub was recommended after launch control teams detected anomalous behavior by the pressure regulation valve in the liquid oxygen tank of the Centaur upper stage of the ULA Atlas V launch vehicle. Engineers are ... Read more

The Israel Defense Force has announced the beginning of Offensive Ground Operations against the City of Rafah in Southern Gaza, with the Spokesman stating that IDF Troops are now Striking and Operating" against Hamas Targets in Eastern Rafah. The IDF is currently conducting targeted strikes against Hamas terror targets in eastern Rafah in southern Gaza. ... Read more

TeslaFSDTracker provides crowdsourced data about Tesla FSD. They are showing Tesla FSD 12.3.6 users reporting 399 miles between disengagements in City driving. This is over three times more distance than the best version of Tesla FSD 11.X. They are also showing 98% of drives having no critical disengagements versus 11.X having 91-94.5% of drives having ... Read more

Tesla showed new video of improved Optimus Teslabots and some are doing some useful work in factories. The hands have been improved and hands and AI are the keys to successful humanoid bots. Tesla Engineer Milan Kovac reports that Tesla has deployed a couple bots at one of the Tesla factories. SanctuaryAI and Tesla have ... Read more

Ex- Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and IMF Economists said the pre-1983 inflation formula would have record inflation in 2022 at 18%. The new paper by a group of economists from Harvard and the International Monetary Fund, headlined by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that that rising interest rates were as much a part of ... Read more

There has been a lot of speculation about why Tesla cut the 500 person team for Tesla Supercharging infrastructure. Patrick Bet David, successful entrepreneur, podcaster and youtuber has posted the case that Elon Musk cut the Tesla Supercharging infrastructure team and slowed/paused Supercharging network buildout as a power move to get concessions and leverage over ... Read more

Building a base on the Moon and a city on Mars will require millions of spacesuits. The development of many new suit and the execution of the spacewalk will be important steps toward a scalable design for spacesuits on future long-duration missions as life becomes multiplanetary. This EVA suit evolve from the Intravehicular Activity (IVA) ... Read more

There are still flaws with Tesla FSD 12.3.X but if Tesla FSD 12.4 and FSD 12.5 fix lane selection problems, speed issues, all construction zones, flashing red lights and reverse then it could a over a month to find flaws. The reported data is from the TeslaFSDtracker.com. There is crowdsourced data that 12.3.6 can go ... Read more

Researchers closely tracked and computationally analyzed moon and asteroid sized objects beyond Neptune and determined that a ninth planet about five times bigger than the Earth is about 16 times further than Pluto. A planet matching Planet Nine's expected characteristics would still be relatively small, with a mass just five times that of Earth, and ... Read more

There were huge fears that Apple would have bad earnings and bad guidance. Apple is buying back a lot of shares. The company is boosting its buyback program by $110 billion. For context, Apple upped its authorization by $90 billion a year ago, and analysts were expecting a similar increase this time around. Apple being ... Read more

A second whistleblower connected to Boeing has suddenly died at the age of 45 after catching a sudden illness. Whistleblower Joshua Dean was known for being in good health and having a healthy lifestyle. Dean was one of the first whistleblowers to accuse Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems of cutting corners. He was fired in April ... Read more

Crowdsourced results show that Tesla FSD 12.3.6 should have the best disengagement results for any version prior version of FSD. FSD 12.3 had slightly better city driving results but usually the reported disengagement results improve from the first days. It would be a very solid result for 12.3.6 to get over 300 miles for city ... Read more

A deep discussion of FSD, Tesla in China, FSD competition. Warren and Brian talk Supercharging, FSD and Teslabot analysis that is unique, deep and sometimes mindblowing. There has been a lot of highly impactful news from Tesla about FSD improvements and they are in the process of being able to use and sell FSD in ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2nd, 2024, CyberNewsWire Early adoption by Fortune 100 companies worldwide, LayerX already secures more users than any other browser security solution and enables unmatched security, performance and experience LayerX, pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of ... Read more

South Korea plans a 120 Gigawatt space based solar project which would generate more power than the US nuclear industry's 95 gigawatt. Two Korean research institutes are designing a space solar power satellite project with the aim of providing approximately 1000 TWh of electricity to the Earth per year. The 95 gigawatts of nuclear in ... Read more

Sanctuary AI and Microsoft will work together to bolster AI research and development and Sanctuary AI will leverage Microsoft's Azure cloud resources for their AI workloads. SanctuaryAI is among the humandoid robotics companies that have partnered with Nvidia. Among the nine companies on stage with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had the SanctuaryAI bot at the ... Read more

Chinese automakers and suppliers have level-two-plus driver-assistance systems with LIDAR and other sensors. There are at least 10 chinese automakers and suppliers that have unveiled driver-assistance systems over the past two years that can navigate city streets and make turns at intersections. EV makers Xpeng, Li Auto, Xiaomi , Huawei are among the carmaker with ... Read more