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CallasEV compared a Waymo against Tesla FSD version 12.3.6. Tesla FSD12.3.6 had no disengagements and completed the drive 2 minutes ahead of the Waymo because of superior route planning. The FSD ride and the Waymo rides were both smooth. Tesla FSD can operate across North America and is getting certified in Europe, China, Asia and ... Read more

The US Air Force plans to spend $28.5 Billion on the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program from 2025 to 2029. This will be for the 6th generation fighter and the companion wingman drones. The development will ramp up with production starting around 2030. The NGAD will have next level stealth, vastly better engines ... Read more

Dyson spheres (aka Dyson Swarms) are hypothetical structures where civilizations build solar power satellite collection around a star. We currently generate about 50 megawatts from space based solar power out of a total of about 20 terawatts. The total solar energy that hits the earth is about 10,000 times more and the total energy from ... Read more

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

OpenAI GPT 4O is free to use (limited queries) but has 5 times the usage limits with paid access. It is faster and better than the competing AI models. It clearly shows that the foundational models will be free. Fast and free was discussed by Sam Altman as a goal in his All-in- podcast interview. ... 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