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SpaceX Starship Flight 12 Likely Late May After Generator Explosion and Deluge Damaged
During a high-volume deluge test on the new Orbital Launch Pad 2 one of the methalox gas generators that supplies high-pressure nitrogen for the deluge system exploded. The explosion sent roof panels and debris flying. There was the target launch of May 12 for the 12th SpaceX Starship flight. This could be delayed by 1-2 ...
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Tesla Adding Unsupervised Robotaxi in Texas to Reach and Undercounted 33 With 100s Parked and Ready
Tesla has added another 7 unsupervised robotaxi in Austin, Dallas and Houston. There are hundreds parked and ready to be added. This is likely an undercount because the crowdsourcwed robotaxitracker.com miss over half of the supervised vehicles for Tesla and Waymo. Just getting Dallas and Houston to the Austin level with population and other adjustments ...
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Economics of a Megawatt of AI Data Center
Granular Unit Economics per MW Cruseo CEO Lochmiller broke down the inputs/outputs with high precision (April 2025 contract pricing and the talk) Upfront capex is ~$59M per MW of developed capacity. Roughly half (~$30M) is IT (GPUs, CPUs, networking, storage, etc.). The rest covers data center build, power plant/generation, and other infrastructure. Annual revenue (pure ...
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SpaceX Starship Flight 12 May 12
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 is scheduled to launch May 12, 22:30 UTC / 17:30 CDT An advisory has appeared on the CADENA Operational Information System. – NEW Trajectory – Afternoon Launch Window.
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AI Demand Strong, Memory Prices Will Go Up and AI Model Profits are Proven
Semianalysis AI Value Capture – The Shift To Model Labs Anthropic is now making $44 billion per year run rate and this is heading to $100 billion per year by the end of 2026. As of today, Memory SOCAMM contract pricing paid by Nvidia at ~$8/GB in 1Q26, a sharp step-up from 4Q25 to 1Q26. ...
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INSANE SECRETS OF SPACEX STARLINK WILL ENABLE 100X
SpaceX Starlink can get a billion customers. Their total market is not only 50 million or their current 12 million. They can get 100X as many customers. This will drive more customers, revenue and profits. For the poorest people in rural India and Africa, SpaceX can match the $5 per month charge for a few ...
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Rule Change so SpaceX Should Join Sp500 6 Months After IPO
The S&P Dow Jones Indices has officially proposed rule changes where megacaps like SpaceX will be included into the index in 6 months instead of 12 months. This would align also with the unlocking of shares of many SpaceX SPV investors after 6 months. When Tesla was included into the SP500 the shares went up ...
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Criminal IP and Securonix ThreatQ Collaborate to Enhance Threat Intelligence Operations
Torrance, United States / California, 1st May 2026, CyberNewswire
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TESLA SURGE CHIPS AND AI BEFORE TERAFAB AND TERALAB
Tesla and Elon have huge partnerships to deliver a surge in tens of millions of chips needed for AI domination. They also have increased their AI and model competitiveness. Tesla and SpaceX tying up with Intel for the most advanced 14nm process chips. This will deliver AI6 and AI7 chips. Tesla TERAFAB and TERALAB will ...
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Q1 Earnings and AI Surprises for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and TESLA Semi Mass Production
Q1 Earnings and AI Surprises for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and TESLA Semi Mass Production. Google EPS of $5.11 beat expectations of $2.63. Revenue of $109.9B beat expectations of $107.2B Search: +16% YoY Q1 Youtube: +11.7% YoY Q1 Cloud: +50% YoY FY26 Capex 175B – 185B FY26 EPS: $11.7 Amazon Bedrock had 170% growth instead ...
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Crude Oil Movement By Rail in Canada and Iran
Commissioned in May 2015, the Edmonton Rail Terminal is one of the largest crude oil loading facilities in North America. It will accommodate up to three unit trains per day comprised of 150 railcars each. The facility is capable of loading 76 individual railcars at one time, achieving an ultimate capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels ...
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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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