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SpaceX Starfall and Future Human-rated Versions
Starfall is SpaceX’s new uncrewed disk-shaped cargo return capsule (launched on its first demo flight today, June 23, 2026, aboard a Falcon 9). It is a flat, low-profile vehicle (~3.1 m diameter × 0.75 m tall) designed for rapid, high-volume return of up to ~1,000 kg of payload from orbit — especially for in-space manufacturing ...
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SpaceX Has Successful Starfall Demo
Today SpaceX deployed and demonstrated the Starfall low cost capsule return system. This a demo of a new vehicle that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for scientific research and in-space manufacturing. After demonstrating controlled flight, the spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean Today’s mission includes a demo of a ...
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Understanding Coding Productivity With AI Today
Practical podcast interview with Matt Pocock (AI engineering educator and creator of popular agent skills). The core message is that the model is important, but the harness (your skills/prompts/procedures + environment + workflow) matters just as much or more. XAI bought Cursor because it is a top level harness and they have the data and ...
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XAI and Cursor Strategy to Catch Up and Beat Anthropic in Coding
Cursor is training its own Opus-class model from scratch. They are no longer fine-tuned on open-source model like Kimi K2. This is a major step up in capability and independence. They are using the 10-20X compute provided by xAI and Colossus 2. In a few weeks the 1.5 trillion parameter coding model and harness. Then ...
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SpaceX Orbital Travel and Orbital Hotels Need Starfall – Getting Back Safe and Cheap is Exciting
People are not super-excited about the SpaceX Starfall test tomorrow. This is a hockey puck shaped space vehicle that will be released from a Falcon 9 flight that goes to orbit or near orbit. It is a heat shield capsule that will hold about 1000 kg of payload and has some cold thrusters and parachutes ...
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Speculations on What Could Show Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Post-spacetime physics refers to the idea that our familiar 4D spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from deeper structures—whether geometric (fiber bundles, higher-dimensional manifolds), quantum (entanglement, information), or vacuum effects. Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity (GU) proposes a 14-dimensional geometric framework (involving a metric bundle over 4D spacetime) from which the Standard Model forces, gravity, and ...
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SpaceX Has Another $150 Million Per Month Deal
SpaceX is adding another $900 million of revenue in 2026 and $1.8 billion of revenue per year with another AI rental. This is with Reflection. It adds from July 2026 to 2029. This means $900 million more in 2026 and a runrate of $2.35 billion per month in Q4. $28 billion per year in 2027 ...
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Modern Warfare Deadlock or Domination
Drone walls and layered short/medium/long-range droning have effectively recreated a modern version of trench attrition warfare, where large-scale land capture is extremely difficult and costly for near-peer adversaries. Only small, incremental gains have been seen in Ukraine. Countries that cannot match drone quantity and integration at scale risks failure or stalemate. Drone Walls and Layered ...
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What Would 2026-2036 Be Like if We 10X World Economy With AI ?
In an interview of Elon Musk, Elon talks about getting greater than 10X the world economy in 10 years. What does this mean, if it were to happen. It means averaging 27% per year GDP growth but starting with a ramp in the first half. NOTE: in WW2, the USA had 18% gdp growth for ...
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Facts on the Ground in Hormuz – 85% Oilflow – Iran Tested on Backing Up Threats
Based upon oil flows Hormuz were 15-20% open at 3 to 4 mbpd last month (May) but yesterday 17 mbpd. This means Hormuz was 85% open. 17 mbpd is 85% of 20 mbpd. It was 20% open with complete opposition from Iran. And now it is 85% open. The ships know they are getting through. ...
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Bill of Materials (BOM) and Cost Estimate for Starfall
Starfall is explicitly designed for mass production (like Starlink satellites), so unit costs drop sharply with volume. It is tiny compared to a Starship upper stage (~2.1 t dry mass vs. ~85–100 t), with far simpler systems (no main propulsion, parachute landing, jettisonable shield). Here is a realistic BOM (Bill of Materials) breakdown and cost ...
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Trillions of Dollars in Opportunity
AI Gives a venture capital take of Anything anywhere delivery via Space rocket. 1hr global TAM for 2k lb / 5.6m³ container • Core TAM: $50B to 100B slice of ~$250B air cargo + $300B express for time-critical high-value goods (pharma, electronics, auto/aero parts, medical). • Expansion opportunity True global JIT slashes inventory costs across ...
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Last Mile of Space and Earth Rocket Package Delivery
SpaceX will be proving out a key part of delivery from space or anywhere on earth in one hour anywhere. Starship flying then eject Starfalls. 50-100 per Starship. Reusable system delivers anywhere. No launch tower and no drone ship needed. Can also deliver people (military commandos first). How much is one hour anywhere delivery at ...
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3 Days Until SPACEX Gamechanger. ANYTHING. ANYWHERE
A new SpaceX vehicle will be demonstrated on Tuesday June 23 2026. It changes everything. SpaceX will be able to deliver anywhere on Earth. They can take anything up and down from space. This opens up multiple huge revenue streams. Deliver even without catch towers or drones ships. ANYWHERE. In future, variants will deliver people ...
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Tesla SpaceX Merger Announcement and Vote Could Happen Over Next 3 Months
Elon exercised his remaining ~304 million Tesla options from the 2018 performance package. This was done via net share settlement — Tesla withheld ~17.5 million shares to cover the ~$7.1 billion exercise cost. No cash changed hands and no shares were sold on the open market. Elon’s Tesla ownership rose to roughly 19.9% (~20%), giving ...
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Gasoline Futures Are Under $3 Per Gallon and WTI Oil is $76 Per Barrel
Gasoline futures for July are under $3 per gallon and Oil is $76 per barrel. AAA Gasoline prices are almost under $4 per gallon.
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Elon Musk Reaches $1.4 Trillion in Net Worth
Elon Musk reached $1.4 trillion in net worth and this is more than the next five richest people in the world. In the age of AI and space 2025, 12 months ago is ancient history. In 2025, SpaceX was making $18.7 billion per year and only had a near monopoly in space payload puttin gup ...
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Aembit Extends IAM for Agentic AI to Microsoft Copilot Studio
Las Vegas, USA / Nevada, 16th June 2026, CyberNewswire
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AppViewX Launches Agent Identity Security to Govern Agents for the AI and Quantum Era
New York, United States of America, 16th June 2026, CyberNewswire
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Developer laptops are the credential store attackers are picking through in 2026, GitGuardian announces Endpoint Protection
New York, New York, 16th June 2026, CyberNewswire
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