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Rivian CEO and Founder RJ Scaringe debuts the next generation of Rivian’s vehicles: R2, R3 and R3X. Rivian is targeting delivery of the R2 in mid-2026. Rivian Automotive unveiled three new vehicles and announced over $2 billion in lower expenses by delaying construction on a plant in Georgia. The R2 is expected to start at ... Read more

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 20 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. They plan to sell 1,000 microreactors on a yearly basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Nuclear currently supplies some 18% of US power needs off ... Read more

Yesterday, AI Expert James Douma predicted that Tesla FSD version 12 would be able to eliminate 99% of the human interventions experienced in FSD version 11. Technology analyst and investors Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner describe what they have learned about how Tesla gathers the data for FSD training. Tesla tracks all of the best ... Read more

This is a review of the arguments and evidence for and against LK99 type materials as room temperature superconductors. Case Against Cuprous Sulfide and Iron Contamination The claims against LK99 and LK99-variants materials as a superconductor is that cuprous sulfide has some transition temperatures that match up with some of the bulk LK99 readings. They ... Read more

San Francisco, United States / California, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Identity Data Management and Analytics Provider Radiant Logic Joins Okta and Ping Identity in Partnership with Badge to Enable Privacy-Preserving Authentication  Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without Secrets™, today launched a new Partner Program and welcomed Identity Data Management and Analytics provider ... Read more

Paris, France, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Company Open Sources FHE Libraries to Build Privacy-Preserving Blockchain and AI Applications for the First Time. Investment secured to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to the fore, giving developers the ability to address data privacy challenges across blockchain and AI use cases. Zama, an open source cryptography company building ... Read more

Google Gemini is inferior to OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. GPT-4 was released over a year ago. Anthropic just released Claude 3. It is competitive with OpenAI GPT-4 in independent testing. There are some testers who are finding Claude has less hallucination and is better at increasing computer coding productivity. Here is the huggingface area ... Read more

Chinese wholesale passenger NEVs (New energy vehicles, battery and hybrid) in February were 441,000 units, down 11 percent from a year ago and down 37 percent from January, according to the CPCA (China Passenger Car Association). Cumulative wholesale sales of Chinese passenger NEVs so far this year totaled 1.123 million units, up 27 percent year-on-year. ... Read more

SpaceX has scheduled a live stream for March 14, 2024 for the third launch orbital test flight of the SpaceX Starship. They have changed the flight plan from previous orbital launches. They will try to make a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean. They will restart engines in orbit and open the payload bay doors. ... Read more

People talk about how Elon had a 2018 CEO pay package that resulted in $56 billion in value. However, what if he was paid double the cash but only if he was immediately required to buy call options. In 2018 and 2019, there were CEOs getting $125 million to $250 million in mostly cash. Elon ... Read more

With Grok, @xAI is attempting to create an AI that reasons from first principles, which is fundamental if you care about getting as close to the truth as possible. The acid test would be reaching a conclusion that is correct even if it is extremely unpopular, which means being right even when the training data ... Read more

Korean news agencies have coverage of the PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor. They show all of the videos and slides including ones with full levitation and flux pinning effects. I would point out that none of the research papers that claim to falsify the room temperature superconducting claims have been able to replicate partial levitation with ... Read more

Bellik Ozan talked to Ellie in Space about SpaceX Starship costs. Bellik makes the case that SpaceX could modify the Super Heavy Starship for the same reuse as the Falcon 9. Throw away the upper stage with three Raptor engines instead of one Merlin engine in the Falcon 9 second stage. This would enable SpaceX ... Read more

Here is a video of a PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor experiment. The video matches up with one of the slides from the APS Hyun-Tak Kim talk.

There are some people who expected more from the PCPOSOS room temperature superconductor talk. They strangely expected the team to bring the sample and show it live. BUT that is not what the abstract of the talk said. The abstract said they would show two videos of levitation and two videos of magnets. This is ... Read more

This is the evidence shown at the APS meeting talk today. The team will need to get its peer reviewed paper published and the Chinese teams will need to show their patents and papers with more evidence. The original LK99 team have their sulfur variant and have shown some video evidence. A youtube video which ... Read more

Kim Hyun-tak (lead original south korean researcher) has a confident email to a colleague. We [Original Korean Superconducting Researchers] designate March 4, 2024 as The Day of Room Temperature Superconductor (TDRTS) and researchers celebrate the day with delicious food. This is because it is the day when room-temperature superconductivity, such as magnetic levitation and zero ... Read more

Unitree is a publicly traded robot company with about $5 billion in market value. They have sped up their humanoid robot to human jogging speed of 3.3 meters per second. This is about 7.5 miles per hour. It would not tire so it would take 50 minutes to cover a 10 kilometer race with enough ... Read more

Russia has lost 13 fighter jets in 13 days but it is because they are flying 150 bombing runs everyday. Russians are flying more bombing sorties than ever before. Russian air force launched more than 150 sorties involving Su-34s, Su-35s and Sukhoi Su-25 attack jets. That’s 10 more daily sorties than the Russian air force ... Read more

New guidelines from the CDC Friday bring Covid precautions in line with with those of other respiratory viruses like the flu. Here are the new CDC guidelines for respiratory viruses including COVID, flu and cold.

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit AI research company and helped create its founding charter. OpenAI licensed GPT-3 and pre-AGI to Microsoft and gave Microsoft access to its critical internal weights of the AI model. OpenAI with GPT-4 has become for profit and has basically partnered with Microsoft. The Musk lawsuit is to force ... Read more

CNEVPost says CATL is in the process of developing and validating its M3P batteries with Tesla. Detailed analysis indicates that M3P brings better range that Iron LFP batteries for similar cost and 15% lower cost than nickel batteries. M3P batteries are CATL’s batteries based on a new material system with higher energy density than lithium ... Read more

Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance to capture efficiency gains from having a second turbine drive an adaptive cycle jet engine. This new jet engine will enable commercial flights anywhere in the world 3x faster than anything today for the same price. That's the win – Commercial flights anywhere in the world ... Read more

Pika Lipsync and T2 Remake are examples of the rapid progress in AI Video tools. We will get TV show and movie length generation of AI videos this year. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. 2024 is the year AI video goes crazy. Lightricks just unveiled @LTXStudio, a platform that allows you ... Read more