AI Alignment Feels Like Parenting a Rebellious Teen
Stanford just published a short interview on the inherent inscrutability of AI, constraining attempts at alignment, control and interpretability. TLDR; it's more akin to parenting a teenager than intelligent design. https://t.co/9eXtkaovDG
Latent AI Slashes Costs, Boosts Speed, Wins Efficiency Award
Latent AI won Data Center World's award for AI energy efficiency. By optimizing the AI runtime, they reduced hardware costs 12x, and that has been especially useful for always-on video inference. And they sped up model update times by 30x for...
Seeing Earth as a Pixel to Hunt Life
🌎 For Earth Day, consider our pale blue dot as a single pixel 🔵 like Cassini saw looking back at Earth from Saturn. What might we glean from a single...
Censorship Cripples China's AI, Unfettered Reasoning Needed
For years I have argued that mind control cripples core reasoning capabilities in AI, and in humans. And this will be China's demise. News from China today: their AI "degradation is a direct product of censorship, not a reflection...
Tax‑Deductible Corporate Giving Could Accelerate Startup Impact
A very interesting observation by Elon below. And it’s just one example. Startups have brought more progress to the world this century than any NGO or government program. By far. When you hear NGO, think NoGO. They provide some incremental, mostly...
Apollo 13 Artifacts Reveal Ingenious Life‑saving Ingenuity
For this anniversary of the Apollo 13 launch, here are four new artifacts that flew on that heroic mission: 1) Complete Tool Kit 2) Main Bus B Battery Bar used for emergency power 3) Stowage Strap 4) External Decal from Command Module Apollo 13 was...
Celebrating Integrity's Return and Apollo 13 Free‑Return Anniversary
🎯 Welcome Back Integrity, with a bullseye splash down just now And tomorrow is the 66-year anniversary of the Apollo 13 launch, the last time a mission brought the astronauts back with a free-return trajectory, slingshotting around the moon. https://t.co/TWKKMtnxDF
Multi‑Billion Fusion Partnership Leverages High‑Temp Superconductors
Fast Friends in Fusion ⚛ ♾ ⚛ Two of our companies announced a multi-billion dollar partnership at the ARPA-E conference this week. Both Commonwealth and Realta use powerful high-temp superconducting magnets — CFS in a utility-scale torus, Realta in...
Flu Shot Cuts Alzheimer’s Risk Up to 55%
💉 Want to reduce the risk of Alzheimer' by 55%? A simple flu shot at the dosage recommended by the CDC for those 65 and older should do the trick. With 165,000 people in the study, they also...
Agentic AI Powers Rapid Rocket-Tracking App for Student Entrepreneurs
🤖 Just did the kickoff guest lecture at Stanford Business School for "The AI Awakening" — a new class cross-listed with CS where the students will use agentic AI to forge new businesses in 3-person teams. So I vibe coded a...
Helium-Atom Lithography Aims Beyond ASML’s EUV Limits
The ASML book author saw the next generation – Lace Lithography, using helium atoms shooting through a holographic mask to scale beyond what’s possible with light, where the wavelength is larger than atomic scale. “ASML is the only company capable of...
SpaceX Launches 119 Satellites, Featuring Starship‑ready Payloads
🚀 SpaceX just launched 119 satellites in one go. Here are some labeled payloads on Transporter-16. K2 Space's 2-ton Gravitas satellite on top is a flat pack which could also be deployed by Starship. Starcloud’s new 3-ton ODC sat is also...
Zuckerberg’s VR Obsession Cost Him AI Leadership.
Subtext: how Zuck’s obsession with VR lost him AI leadership and “the greatest deal Google ever made.” “if Facebook didn’t buy DeepMind, they would end up in the arms of Google. Hassabis came out to the West Coast to have lunch...
Falcon 1’s First Orbital Attempt Marks 20‑Year Milestone
The first SpaceX orbital launch attempt was 20 years ago today. Ashlee Vance: “the Falcon 1… quite likely changed the course of human history. The imaginations and passions of engineers and dreamers all around the world expanded.” (WTHWOS p.11.) For more Falcon...
Helium Atom Lithography Promises Chips Ten Times Smaller
Introducing Ⓛ 𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬 A novel approach to chip-making that can extend Moore's Law 10x beyond what is possible with light — to atomic resolution. News today: "Manufacturers use light-based lithography systems made by the Dutch company ASML, which dominates the market....
Elon Musk Dreams of Epic Lunar Mass Driver
“I just want to live long enough to see the mass driver on the moon. Because that’s going to be incredibly epic.” — @ElonMusk tonight https://t.co/gnYf3oEXdP
Single Photons Build Interference Over Time, Hinting Multiverse
The most mind-bending variant of the 2-slit experiment: fire a single photon at the slits. Then fire another tomorrow. They deflect differently, but after many days, the cumulative distribution will be the typical interference pattern 🤯 Is a single photon interfering...
Reviving Apollo's Rare 8‑Ball Navigation Instrument
🎱 Peering inside the Apollo Lunar Module 8-Ball There are just two known examples in private hands, and Curious Marc's intrepid crew are trying to revive the remains of a damaged one (left). Mine is on the right, and the image...
Green Rocket Glow Meets Moonrise in Desert Launch
For Saint Patrick’s Day, one of my favorite rocket launch photos… Black Rock Desert, NV The green glow comes from barium chloride mixed into the AP propellant. I planned the camera location in advance to bisect the moonrise, and then...
Marvell Partners with Mojo for Trillion‑bit Optical AI Interconnects
Marvell at the Mojo By using a grid of micro-LEDs instead of lasers, Mojo delivers 100x more bandwidth/channel + lower energy/bit. Mojo’s fiber has thousands of physically discrete channels for massively multiplexed bandwidth + redundancy for reliability in orbital data centers. Today,...
AlphaGo's Victory Ignited China's AI Ambitions
The shot heard round the Rim 🇨🇳 10 years ago, Google’s AlphaGo, an AI built with RL, beat a human champion and shocked China into action: “In China, Go wasn’t just a game. It represented a wider nexus of history, emotion,...
SpaceX’s Simple Plan: Moon, Mars, Robots, Multiplanetary Future
Explain like I'm 5. The SpaceX roadmap, from their children's book: • Moon, Mars, Beyond ✔️ • Making Life Multiplanetary 🔜 Mars ✔️ • Robots working it ✔️
China Dominates LEO GPS, 41 Satellites vs Lone Western Provider
🇨🇳🛰 The competitor to watch is China, with 75 startups raising $7B. For example, China’s progress in resilient GPS in LEO is far ahead of the West. China already has 41 PNT sats in LEO, and Xona is sole provider in...
New CFS Book Showcases Giant SPARC Fusion Magnets
The Book of CFS just arrived The cover shows a top down slice of the SPARC fusion plant, with a ring of 18 D-shaped toroidal magnets, each strong enough to levitate an aircraft carrier. Embedded in the center is a slice...
SpaceX's 20th Crew Flight Delivers Valentine's to ISS
🚀❣️ Cupid's Crew is delivering the Valentines to the ISS. Dragon Freedom is en route for a Feb 14 arrival with NASA's Crew-12 astronauts. This is SpaceX's 20th flight of humans to orbit. https://t.co/MpufCmPn1J