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Tesla Optimus Talk

Brian Wang — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:51:03 +0000

Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla Lead Director of Optimus, at the ETH Robotics Club INSPIRE Talk in Switzerland. Konstantinos presented Optimus 2.5 and the work behind it and its predecessors. Here are some highlights from the talk. The sim-to-real gap is propaganda. “It’s not a gap if you haven’t tried to model your robot properly.” Hardware matters ...

Tesla Optimus V3 Ready for Mass Production

Brian Wang — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:04:00 +0000

Konstantinos Laskaris (Tesla Optimus Program Lead/Director) gave an INSPIRE keynote talk at the ETH Robotics Club in Zurich on April 2, 2026 (attended by 400+ students and robotics enthusiasts). He presented Optimus 2.5 (and predecessors), showcased the robot live, discussed hardware progress, and revealed slides on Optimus Gen 3 as the first “mass manufacturable” model.

Blue Origin Launches Planned for 2026

Brian Wang — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:49:29 +0000

Blue Origin has several NASA missions, AST Space Mobile and Amazon LEO satellite launches planned. The plan is for four launches of New Glenn in 2026. There is an upcoming NG-3 for AST Space Mobile and then three launches. An Amazon LEO mission, a NASA moon mission and then another AST Space Mobile mission.

Blue Origin New Glenn Targets April Launch of AST Space Mobile Satellite

Brian Wang — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:32:31 +0000

The next-generation AST Space Mobile Block 2 BlueBirds are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the first generation BlueBird satellites. They are needed for the goal of 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage. The service will target approximately 100% U.S. nationwide coverage from space with over 5,600 coverage cells, with ...

SpaceX Starship Launch Delayed Until May 2026

Brian Wang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:48:39 +0000

Elon Musk says the next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away. This means it is delayed from Aoril into May. Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away pic.twitter.com/tg4OQQ7pyI — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April ...

AI Future: The Leading International AI and Web3 Forum to Take Place in April

cybernewswire — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:33:39 +0000

Moscow, Russia, 3rd April 2026, CyberNewswire

Tesla Misses Q1 Analyst Target But Regains Global Battery EV Lead

Brian Wang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:51:46 +0000

Tesla has regained the global lead in BEV deliveries, as BYD’s BEV sales dropped significantly in the first quarter. Tesla had 358023 BEV sales globally in Q1 2026 while BYD had 310,389. Tesla China Mar wholesale deliveries jump as market recovers. Tesla China’s wholesale volume reached 85,670 vehicles in March, representing a 46.20% increase from ...

SpaceX Discusses Over $2 Trillion IPO Valuation

Brian Wang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:32:50 +0000

Bloomberg reports SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 trillion. According to people familiar with the matter, SpaceX and its advisers are already floating this figure to prospective investors. Testing-the-waters briefings (where they share more supporting details) are scheduled to begin in the coming week. Breaking: SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 ...

NASA Successfully Launches Artemis 2 and Completes Translunar Injection Burn

Brian Wang — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:25:06 +0000

Thursday, NASA’s Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds beginning at 7:49 p.m. EDT, to successfully complete the translunar injection (TLI) burn, sending the crew in Orion out of Earth orbit and on a trajectory toward the Moon. Congratulations to NASA for what has been a broadly successful mission so ...

Beating the Financial Consensus With Prediction Markets

Brian Wang — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:08:09 +0000

Nicole Kagan, Head of Research at Kalshi, with hosts Nick and Sam) sees Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated prediction markets as emerging financial instruments that can revolutionize risk hedging across finance, insurance, and beyond. Event contracts (binary Yes/No payouts on real-world outcomes) are tools to financialize uncertainty and turn discrete risks like macroeconomic data releases, policy changes, cultural ...

Cybersecurity Firm TAC Security Hits 10,000 Clients, Enters Top 5 in Global VM & AppSec

cybernewswire — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:10:09 +0000

New York, New York, 1st April 2026, CyberNewswire