Morgan Stanley Launches $SPCX as Elon Green‑shoeed IPO
And thank you to the Morgan Stanley trading crew in “Mission Control” sculpting the debut of $SPCX today. Here is the moment of first trade. P.S. Elon finally agreed to the IPO greenshoe options… but only if the bankers all wore green shoes. 👟 —> Mementos for all. https://t.co/wLRtrblm26
Urban Mining Needed as Copper Demand Outpaces Supply
🪱 Bringing Copper Home — Red Metals’ debut today TLDR; Copper is the workhorse of electrifying everything. We need to refine more copper in the next 25 years than in all of human history. FastCompany: “The world faces a looming copper shortage:...
Cernan’s “Spacewalk From Hell” Highlights Gemini IX‑A Risks
🚀 60 years ago today, Gemini IX-A launched Cernan and Stafford for a three-day mission riddled with mishaps. Cernan performed America’s 2nd EVA which he called “the spacewalk from hell” as he became the first person to orbit...
AI Chatbots Successfully Persuade People to Abandon Conspiracies
W͢h͢a͢t͢ ͢i͢f͢ ͢A͢I͢ ͢c͢o͢u͢l͢d͢ ͢d͢i͢s͢a͢b͢u͢s͢e͢ ͢u͢s͢ ͢o͢f͢ ͢f͢a͢l͢s͢e͢ ͢b͢e͢l͢i͢e͢f͢s͢?͢ This would be a superhuman accomplishment, IMHO, sorely needed by humanity. Humans seem to do a poor job of dissuading others of irrational beliefs. When confronted with moon-landing-deniers, astrologists, telepathy tapes, or any...
France's Forgotten Spacelab Computer Reveals Industry's Rise and Fall
Mighty Ken reverse-engineered my French minicomputer designed to control ESA's reusable Spacelab. It flew on 22 Shuttle missions (1983 - 1998) with astronauts like Owen Garriott and Cady Coleman. Spacelab was Europe's first space station, and so it was to...
Hybrid AI Chip Achieves 100× Compute‑per‑Watt via Analog Flash
On the silicon side, it's the era of analog inference. This company combo will deliver the first hybrid AI platform with 100x more compute per watt than the best GPUs. How? Mythic performs the core AI operation (8-bit multiply & add)...
Zyphra Unveils Open-Source, Compute-Efficient AI Models
The DeepSeek of the West, Zyphra, has been releasing a series of AI models that are much more compute-efficient than the SOTA, and they are open weight / open source.
First Tesla Model S Delivery: 2012 Historic Footage
A historic vehicle…. Here’s the 2012 video of the first delivery, inside Tesla HQ: https://t.co/zqbk0NxIYG
Memory, Not Math, Drives AI's 1000× Energy Gains
To improve AI energy efficiency by 1000x, it's all about memory and data movement, not the efficiency of the arithmetic. Biomimicry of the brain, with analog in-memory compute, affords a 100x. Getting to 1000x might be unconventional: a continuous-time physical dynamical...
Zyphra Unveils Open ZAYA1
Nice to see DeepSeek calling Zyphra the "Best of the West." Zyphra just released ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning MoE optimized for intelligence density and approaching frontier levels (GPT-5-High) on math and reasoning, despite being much smaller... and actually open :) https://t.co/ur5NWwr6U6
Direct Protein Reading Platform Ends Proteomics Blind Spot
🐠 Everything we know about biology has been built on an incomplete picture. DNA tells us what a cell might do. Proteins tell us what it’s actually doing. Pumpkinseed announced their $20M Series A today (led by Future Ventures and NfX)...
ZaiNar Sells Universal Geolocation Data to AI World‑model Firms
The Everything Bagel of geolocation 🥯 CEO Daniel Jacker said his technology can track any phone, car, drone or robot in almost any environment... He framed his company’s technology in cinematic terms: “We know where everything, everywhere, all at once...
Fortnite Leader Launches Stealth EdTech to Empower Millions
“You can’t leisure yourself to meaning.” — LucasArts & Epic Games President Paul Meegan, reflecting on six months of attempted retirement before reenlisting the core Fortnite team...
RNA‑based Herbicide Kills Resistant Weeds, Leaves Crops Untouched
🟢 GreenLight = no chemical residues on our crops 🌱 The company heard the call to get off of glyphosates and already has more EPA approvals and products in the pipeline than any other new approach. Why does this matter? Herbicide resistant weeds...
Reimagining the GT40 as a Tesla‑powered Electric Racer
Ford v. Ferrari v. Tesla The boys’ GT40 slot car inspired me — the legendary race car that finally beat Ferrari at Le Mans in ’66. It’s 40” tall with a bubble roof to fit a helmet. What if we made an...