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Third ARC AGI Test

Sun, 03/29/2026 - 20:35
ARC-AGI-3 is an interactive benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments in which agents must explore, infer goals, build internal models of environment dynamics, and plan effective action sequences without explicit instructions. Like its predecessors ARC-AGI-1 and 2, ARC-AGI-3 focuses entirely on evaluating fluid adaptive efficiency on novel tasks, while avoiding language ...

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Tesla China Launching Sub-$30,000 Standard Model 3 in April-June

Thu, 03/26/2026 - 16:08
There are reports Tesla Giga Shanghai already has dedicated production lines running for the standard Model 3. This variant is the simplified, lower-cost version (smaller battery, ~480 km CLTC range) that Tesla will sell in China and export to Asia. Expected pricing for the new Standard version per Multiple sources (Global China EV, CarNewsChina, 36Kr, ...

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SpaceX Starlink Satellite and Launch Plans from Shotwell

Thu, 03/26/2026 - 13:27
Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Humans on lunar surface before 2030. HLS (Human Landing System) planned ready by 2028, though much must go right. Starlink Constellation Size has ~10,000 Starlink satellites launched and [high speed internet] likely cap 15,000–20,000. There has been a separate FCC filing for 15000 ...

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Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries Will Boost Energy Density by 20% for Tesla

Wed, 03/25/2026 - 12:25
Carbon Nanofibers in Dry-Coated Batteries (21.8% Energy Density Gain) is described by Jordan at the Limiting Factor. A new University of Chicago paper (published March 2026) demonstrates a simple but powerful tweak to dry-electrode cathode design that delivers a 21.8% increase in usable energy density while maintaining excellent cycle life. The breakthrough relies entirely on ...

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2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Winners Announced during RSA Conference as AI Security Dominates

Wed, 03/25/2026 - 08:00
San Francisco, USA, 25th March 2026, CyberNewswire
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Recursively Self Improving AI Will Have Unlimited Space Based Solar Power

Tue, 03/24/2026 - 18:27
Eric Schmidt and other AI leaders (Karpathy, Musk, Anthropic executives) have described recursive self-improvement (RSI)—AI autonomously designing, testing, and deploying better versions of itself—as the pivotal transition from narrow, human-guided progress to potentially explosive, closed-loop intelligence growth. RSI is not yet fully autonomous across the entire AI stack with no human oversight but narrow versions ...

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High Gear Moonbase Program Kicks Off With 30 Robotic Moon Missions Starting in 2027 and Nuclear Powered Base by 2030

Tue, 03/24/2026 - 15:41
NASA will advance lunar science by affordably building out of the Moon Base and underpin future Moon and Mars exploration. An accelerated CLPS cadence, targeting up to 30 robotic landings starting in 2027. NASA is expediting delivery of science and technology to the lunar surface. There will be many opportunities for payload delivery including rovers, ...

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CISO Whisperer Names 11 Vendors Leading the Shift from Tools to Outcomes at RSA Conference 2026

Thu, 03/19/2026 - 09:07
Austin, United States, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire
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SpyCloud’s 2026 Identity Exposure Report Reveals Explosion of Non-Human Identity Theft

Thu, 03/19/2026 - 09:00
Austin, TX, USA, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire
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SpaceX Starship V3 Initiated a Ten Engine Static Fire

Thu, 03/19/2026 - 02:29
Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: ...

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TESLA FSD 14.3 Testing Now Will Wide Release in a Few Weeks

Thu, 03/19/2026 - 02:24
Tesla FSD 14.3 is in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks. It’s in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2026 AI5 will punch far above its weight, because the entire Tesla AI software stack is designed to make maximally effective use of every ...

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NVIDIA ROBOTAXI READY? IS TESLA DOOMED

Thu, 03/19/2026 - 02:01
Nvidia has new level 4 chips for autonomous driving. Will this kill Tesla? They have 19 car partners who collectively can make 18 million cars per year. How many Nvidia Thor chips are installed in those cars ? How many cars have those partners created that are gathering data right now for self driving? Have ...

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OpenAI Sam Altman Lies and Deceives Business Partners

Wed, 03/18/2026 - 15:05
Microsoft is threatening to sue OpenAI over the February 2026 Amazon $50B investment and $100B cloud-expansion deal. Microsoft says the Frontier agent platform on AWS (stateful runtime) violates the Azure exclusivity for stateless OpenAI APIs that was in the original ~$13B Microsoft investment agreements (updated Sept 2025). Microsoft publicly restated Azure remains the exclusive cloud ...

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All Organic Building Blocks of Life Likely Form Naturally in Space

Wed, 03/18/2026 - 13:10
Organic molecules delivered from extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for life on Earth. Scientists have found all five canonical nucleobases—purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil)—in samples returned from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission. This likely means that organic molecule building ...

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Blockchain ecosystems are expanding into global sports industries

Wed, 03/18/2026 - 11:10
Web3 infrastructure and professional athletics never appeared to be a match in the early days of crypto, but they’ve proven to be a match made in heaven. It began as a niche interest in digital collectibles, hosted on the sports blockchain, but has since turned into a robust infrastructure that is changing how sports franchises ...

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Nvidia Structured Data is the Ground Truth of AI – $120 Billion Structure Data Ecosystem

Tue, 03/17/2026 - 14:23
Nvidia has a structured data enablement strategy. Nvidia provides libaries, software and hardware to index and search data faster. The Indexing and retrievals are way faster 10-40X faster in most cases. How cuDF + cuVS Work Together (The GTC 2026 “Ground Truth” Pipeline) Unstructured data (PDFs, videos, logs, emails, sensor streams) → embedding model (NeMo, ...

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Nvidia GTC Highlights – Nvidia Goal to Make All Data Ground Truth for AI

Tue, 03/17/2026 - 14:04
Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Keynote Highlights (March 16, 2026) NemoClaw Launch NVIDIA unveiled NemoClaw, an enterprise-ready, secure version of OpenClaw (open-source AI agents platform). This is the enterprise ready OpenSource form of Openclaw. Openclaw is by some measures the most successful open source project ever. Surpassing Linux in some ways. Nemoclaw adds privacy guardrails, sandboxing ...

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Orchid Security Recognized by Gartner® as a Representative Vendor of Guardian Agents

Tue, 03/17/2026 - 09:00
New York, United States, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire
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US Navy is Opening the Strait of Hormuz

Tue, 03/03/2026 - 15:40
President Trump announced today (March 3) that the Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait if needed, and the U.S. government will provide political-risk insurance so commercial ships can operate. This is modeled directly on the 1987–88 Operation Earnest Will tanker convoy system during the Iran-Iraq Tanker War. Oil tankers are waiting by Oman ...

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How US Navy Jams and Spoofs Iran’s Hypersonic Missiles

Tue, 03/03/2026 - 12:44
Navy Decoded, youtube channel, explains how the US Navy prevents Iran’s Hypersonic missiles from hitting US ships or the aircraft carrier. The US mainly relies on electronic countermeasures. The iranian missile has to be able overcome jamming to try to maintain a lock on a moving target. The US creates spoofing for false targets. The ...

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