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Elon Musk Has Not Been Fighting Fair so Tesla Optimus Will Win

Brian Wang — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:32:32 +0000

Everyone compares Tesla Optimus with Figure and other humanoid robots: better hands, better walking, better demonstrations. But what happens when the factory or the world is changed so the robot can succeed ? Tesla’s advantages go far beyond Optimus itself. It can develop the robot, redesign its workplaces, and improve both together. This changes how ...

SpaceX Could Beat Its Entire 2025 Revenue in Just 2 Months

Brian Wang — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:08:46 +0000

AI compute leasing, Grok, Cursor, Starlink and Starship are combining into a much larger business — and why SpaceX could win across more scenarios than companies dependent on having the leading AI model. Why looking backward at 2025 revenue can miss the scale of SpaceX’s AI transformation The September AI deal snapshot: $41 billion in ...

Axoflow Launches AxoDetect, Bringing Detection Into the Pipeline and Making the SIEM Optional

cybernewswire — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:09:46 +0000

Stamford, CT, 16th September 2026, CyberNewswire

Where is the AI Chain Reaction ?

Brian Wang — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:33:48 +0000

Sakana AI has progressed beyond its early demonstrations. But I did not find evidence that it has established a widening research lead through sustained, accelerating RSI. Its published results support bounded self-improvement and increasingly capable orchestration. Your test asks for something stronger: does the improved researcher make the next improvement faster, cheaper, and more consequential? ...

Anthropic Fears RSI – What is RSI? What Specifically is It?

Brian Wang — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:13:47 +0000

AI leaders are talking about RSI ( recursive self improving AI) but not describing the levels of capability. People know something about self driving. Are we warning helping, autopilot, what level of automation. The AI researcher progression: Autocomplete helps me type. An intern executes my plan. A postdoc advances my project. A research leader finds ...

Space Telescope Interferometer to Image Exoplanet Continents

Brian Wang — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:23:01 +0000

A NASA NIAC project will try to Mapping Alien Continents using formation-flying optical interferometer. Two hierarchical nullers ~100 km apart that first suppress the host star by ~10¹⁰ in visible light, then combine the leftover planet light as a Michelson interferometer. That baseline gives an angular resolution of order 1 µas at 500 nm. An ...

NASA Super Light Solar Sail Project Will Be 12-40 Times Lighter and Faster

Brian Wang — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:39:55 +0000

NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration–potentially up to 2 mm/s²–and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m², to support future ultra–high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond the ...

World GDP AI&ROBOTS Purchasing Power Parity 2024 to 2037 – by Country

Brian Wang — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:59:23 +0000

This is the nextbigfuture GDP PPP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI ...

SpaceX Huge Next Flight and 150 Days to Change the World

Brian Wang — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:34:50 +0000

What has already been proven wrong about doubters think about SpaceX ? What will get proven wrong in the next 150 days. Count down of 14 SpaceX bear claims. Following the engineering into the revenue and profits. Starship’s commercial payload, booster recovery, engine reuse, AI compute hosting, and the buildout behind my forecast of $120B+ ...

Gen1 Makes It Easy To Capture GrandParents Stories – Know Your Family History

Brian Wang — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:36:45 +0000

Most families say the same thing too late. They wanted to know their grandparents better. They wanted the stories while the person was still in the room. Then the person is gone, and what is left is three anecdotes and a box of unlabeled photos. The point is not a prettier keepsake. It is to ...

Successfully With Pullups at the Age of 60

Brian Wang — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:29:47 +0000

I have been able to do 4 pull-ups with a neutral grip. This is the first time in my life that I have been able to do any pull-ups. I had more strength and lower weight in my 20s but I had bad technique. I now realize I was just going arms and not getting ...