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Optimus Teslabot Would Be an Edge Computing Beast

Brian Wang — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:24:47 +0000

Gavin Baker described how in ~3 years (around 2028–2029), a bigger/bulkier iPhone with enough extra DRAM could run a pruned/distilled/quantized version of a frontier model like Gemini 5 (or Grok 4.x / ChatGPT equivalent) at 30–60 tokens per second on-device. This would be free, private, and good enough for most users. An enhanced future iPhone ...

Merging SpaceX and Tesla Will Win AGI and Make More Money for Tesla Investors

Brian Wang — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:19:15 +0000

SpaceX + xAI + Tesla to WIN AGI Not Robotaxi. AGI supremacy. 2. Why merge at all? Because AI is WAY BIGGER than Robotaxi. Merging creates:$140B+ combined cash for AI spending Frictionless capital allocation (no board votes, no transfer pricing, no negotiations) One P&L, one balance sheet = Elon moves at max speed Peter Thiel ...

Future Space Tourism and Space Industry Will End Up Being Great for the Environment

Brian Wang — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:15:19 +0000

Global international tourism is massive with around 1.5 billion arrivals per year. This covers flights, cruises, road/rail travel, and more. Domestic tourism adds even more volume, but international arrivals give a solid benchmark for around the world leisure/business travel. Carbon Footprint of Global Tourism A comprehensive 2024 study (using 2019 data) estimates the total global ...

Internet Society Foundation Opens Global Call for Common Good Cyber Fund to Strengthen Cybersecurity

cybernewswire — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:31:41 +0000

DC, United States, 23rd June 2026, CyberNewswire

SpaceX Starfall and Future Human-rated Versions

Brian Wang — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:55:07 +0000

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 ...

SpaceX Has Successful Starfall Demo

Brian Wang — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:02:11 +0000

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 ...

Understanding Coding Productivity With AI Today

Brian Wang — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:39:17 +0000

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 ...

XAI and Cursor Strategy to Catch Up and Beat Anthropic in Coding

Brian Wang — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:05:48 +0000

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 ...

SpaceX Orbital Travel and Orbital Hotels Need Starfall – Getting Back Safe and Cheap is Exciting

Brian Wang — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:32:53 +0000

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 ...

Speculations on What Could Show Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Brian Wang — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:21:46 +0000

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 ...

SpaceX Has Another $150 Million Per Month Deal

Brian Wang — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:49:23 +0000

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 ...