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Anthropic Could Pass OpenAI in Revenue Runrate within 5 Months
OpenAI may be a household name, but Anthropic could soon be earning more revenue. Anthropic has recently grown substantially faster (10× vs 3.4× per year) and could overtake OpenAI by mid-2026 if recent trends continue. Extrapolating recent trends is an aggressive way to forecast revenues. Growth rates this high often slow as companies scale, and ...
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SLS Second Wet Rehearsal Going Well
✅ Progressing well — no major hydrogen leaks reported this time. ✅ Rocket is now in its final fueling configuration (“replenish mode”) on all stages (core stage + Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage). ✅ Brief ground communications glitch earlier this morning (around 11 a.m.) was quickly resolved by switching to backup systems. ✅ Teams have completed ...
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Making Clavius MoonBase for Real
SpaceX will make a large moonbase by 2036 as part of the industrialization needed for scaling AI data centers in space. SpaceX will need to make mining and factories on the moon in order to increase space based AI satellites from 100-1000 Gigawatts per year to 10 to 1000 terawatts per year. 10 Terawatts would ...
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2001 Technology Predictions Like Seatback TVs on Planes and We Will Soon Have Moon Bases
The 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured numerous fictional future technologies and many of them are or will still happen. Over fifty organizations contributed technical advice to the production, and a number of them submitted their ideas to Kubrick of what kind of products might be seen in a movie set in ...
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The First Tesla Sub-$30,000 Cybercab Will be Sold to Marques Brownlee
Marques Brownlee will likely be sold the first commercial Tesla Cybercab that will be used outside of Tesla. Most Tesla Cybercabs will be built and used internally for the Tesla robotaxi fleet. Marques made a bet that a Cybercab would not be made and sold for less than $30,000 before 2027 and delivered to a ...
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AI Under Control: Link11 Launches AI Management Dashboard for Clean Traffic
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19th February 2026, CyberNewswire
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ELON Secret Weapon GROK 4.20 Make 4 Million Tesla Cars into 100 Million Digital Workers
I reveal • How Grok 4.20’s 4-agent system (Captain Grok + Harper + Benjamin + Lucas) works with shared weights for massive efficiency • The bombshell “MacroHard” project: digital humans that watch your screen, move your mouse, and automate repetitive white-collar work using Tesla Hardware 4 chips in parked cars • Why this could create ...
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XAI Grok 4.20 is a Big Improvement Practical coding, Simulations and Real World Agentic Tasks
Elon Musk confirmed to me, Brian Wang, that the current beta model is the ~500B parameter base model. Overall early consensus from testers, it beats or matches frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 4/Opus 4.5, Gemini 3) in practical coding, simulations, iterative work, and real-world agentic tasks. XAI Grok 4.20 will scale to 16 agents in Heavy ...
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XAI Grok 4.20 Makes Scheduling Repeated Monitoring Easy for Up to 200 Queries
How Many Scheduled Reminders & Queries Can xAI Grok 4.20 Handle Per User? Current practical limit is 150–200 active trackers comfortably, with no degradation in quality. It can simultaneously track dozens of companies, technologies, events, launches, earnings, regulatory filings, production numbers, funding rounds, etc. Real-world usage, it routinely manages 80–120 active items for power users ...
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SpaceX Shifts to Rapid Moon Development Instead of Mars for More Scaling of AI in Space
SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. Elon Musk is talking about building a city on the Moon at a faster pace. The real reason is to make hundreds of trillions from ...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 True Cost to Launch is About $300 per Pound Which is 25% of Selling Price to Customers
There are many sources like Our World in Data describe the cost to launch with SpaceX Falcon 9 as $2600 per kilogram or $1200 per pound but the cost to SpaceX is $629 per kilogram or $285 per pound. The ~$67–70 million external selling price is for about 30 out of the 170 missions in ...
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Development of the Next Generation Fighter F47 Gets $4.4 Billion
There is accelerated funding for the F-47 (aka Next Generation Air Dominance or the NGAD). The F-47 is the first sixth-generation air superiority fighter, developed by Boeing under the NGAD program to replace the aging F-22 Raptor fleet. It has superior stealth to the F22 and F35. It have speeds exceeding Mach 2 and a ...
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BYD Half as Many Cars Sold in January from December With Tough Competition from Geely
BYD NEVs include both passenger and commercial vehicles recorded January sales of 205,518 units, down 30.67% year-on-year and down 50.45% month-on-month. BYD’s January sales of passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) totaled 83,249 units, down 33.60% year-on-year and down 56.35% from December. BYD’s power battery and energy storage battery installations in January totaled about 20.187 GWh, ...
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SpaceX Authorized to Increase High Speed Internet Download Speeds 5X Through 2026
The FCC has given SpaceX a time-limited waiver for 18-24 months, effective January 9, 2026 to increase KU band transmission. This immediately authorizes SpaceX to exceed equivalent power flux density (EPFD) limits for KU-band operations in the US, enabling higher transmission power from Gen2 Starlink satellites. This will be made permanent during the next 6-12 ...
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SpaceX is Worth More than Tesla
Tesla is down to $1.24 trillion in market capitalization. After SpaceX bought XAI a few days ago the valuation of SpaceX is $1.25 trillion.
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Elon Musk Describes Emulated Humans and AI in Space
Elon Musk discusses the convergence of AI, robotics, energy, and space tech as critical to humanity’s future. There are bottlenecks in power, chips, and manufacturing. Elon predicts orbital data centers will become the cheapest and most scalable AI infrastructure within 30-36 months due to unlimited solar energy and regulatory ease, with SpaceX launching hundreds of ...
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Space AI is the Key to the Technological Singularity
The path of first the SpaceX IPO and then the attempt to merge SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX and xAI merged pre-IPO to optimize AI operations in space, avoiding double taxation and enhancing margins by 5-10%. SpaceX builds satellites and xAI runs AI like Grok. XAI Grok AI would eventually be like Amazon AWS (web services) ...
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Preventing, Mitigating and Recovering from a Kessler Syndrome
The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter will be grappled by a ClearSpace-made spacecraft equipped with an ESA-developed robotic arm. A Kessler Syndrome cascade is something that would play out over the course of decades if not centuries, rather than ...
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SpaceX Patent Makes Low Earth Orbit Direct to Cell Far More Efficient
SpaceX Starlink Direct-to-Cell aims to connect billions of existing smartphones to LEO satellites. No hardware modification required. No special SIM card. T-Mobile’s beta already delivers SMS to unmodified phones via Starlink. But scaling to full voice and data service demands solving a hidden bottleneck. Every time a LEO satellite passes overhead and hands off to ...
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How SpaceX and Tesla Combine and Overcome Regulatory Barriers
The SpaceX + xAI + Tesla Merger Path that Larry Goldberg outlines. • Product integration can’t work across separate companies • SpaceX IPO → absorb xAI → merge with Tesla • Endgame: Engineered abundance, not financial engineering Larry is invested into SpaceX and there have been discussions with other large investors. Goldberg outlines a phased ...
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