A carbon vessel interested in all things celestial. A human being with spiritual meaning. A political soul seeking libertarian goals.
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How @elonmusk can make space affordable without bankrupting @SpaceX!
🚀 🌕 🔴 youtu.be/rd-998BwJBY?is=LeBd… (note: link on @YouTube just in case people have trouble viewing the video on @X).
Made a fun AI video with Elon Musk talking to @grok about how they can make humanity a multi world species by building civilization upon the Moon 🌖 & Mars (while using @XMoney accounts!).
I had fun using @imagine to create this dialogue (although my current @SuperGrok tier limited me to 15 second clips—so it looks choppy 😅).
For those too busy to watch the 8 minute plus video, here is a summary of the tiers:
Lunar One Layaway Tiers
- 100 people = $1 billion/ticket = $100 billion revenue
- 1,000 people = $100 million/ticket = $100 billion revenue
- 100,000 people = $1 million/ticket = $100 billion revenue
- 1 million people = $100,000/ticket = $100 billion revenue
- 10 million people = $10,000/ticket = $100 billion revenue
- 100 million people = $5,000/ticket = $500 billion revenue
- 1 billion people = $5,000/ticket = $5 trillion revenue
Colony One Layaway Tiers
- 100,000 people = $10 million/ticket = $1 trillion revenue
- 1 million people = $1 million/ticket = $1 trillion revenue
- 10 million people = $100,000/ticket = $1 trillion revenue
- 100 million people = $10,000/ticket = $1 trillion revenue
- 1 billion people = $5,000/ticket = $5 trillion revenue
Also, Grok describes his dream robot body, which Elon Musk does not want to discuss! 😂
I think this model would appeal to @robert_zubrin & @TheMarsSociety, satisfy economic criticisms by @neiltyson (mostly), help @NASA build a @NASAMoonBase & potentially redirect humanities energies towards building new homes upon new worlds.
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In March 2016, Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players who ever lived, stepped out of the room for a cigarette.
While he was gone, an AI called AlphaGo played its 37th move. The commentators thought the machine had glitched. AlphaGo’s own system estimated a human would play that move about once in ten thousand games.
When Lee came back and saw the board, he sat in silence for nearly fifteen minutes.
He lost that game. He lost the match four games to one. Three years later he retired, saying there is an entity that cannot be defeated.
In game four, cornered and losing, Lee played his own once-in-ten-thousand move. Move 78. The Go world now calls it the Hand of God. AlphaGo’s win probability collapsed, and it started making moves nobody could explain.
It was the only game a human ever won against that version of AlphaGo.
Years later, researchers studied millions of professional Go moves played before and after 2016. For years, human play had barely changed. After AlphaGo, players started making moves nobody had tried in centuries, and the quality of their decisions jumped.
The machine did not kill a 2,500-year-old game. It showed the people playing it how much of it they had never explored.
They had been inside walls for centuries and thought they were standing in the open.
Somewhere in your life there is a move you have never considered, because nobody around you has ever made it.
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Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis on the two biggest risks of AI, and why he's still optimistic we can solve them:
Hassabis starts by rejecting the extremes of the AI debate:
"I'd like to inject a bit of balance and calm to this debate and advocate for a sensible middle way."
He then breaks the danger down into two categories of risk that need to be mitigated.
Risk #1: Misalignment
"This is where the AI system doesn't do what we instruct it to do or somehow circumvents its guardrails."
Risk #2: Misuse
"Where a bad actor repurposes the general technology that was built for good intent but repurposes it for harmful ends."
He doesn't sugarcoat either one. By his own admission, even the people building this technology don't fully understand it yet:
"This is a very new technology and there are a lot of unknowns and uncertainties and there are things that even the top scientists in the field don't fully understand yet about it. And I have to say the chance of something bad accidentally happening if we get things wrong is definitely non zero. So we should take these risks very seriously."
So why is he optimistic?
"I'm a huge believer in human ingenuity and the good news is I'm very confident and optimistic that we can collectively address these risks and find solutions to these technical problems, but only if we collectively give ourselves the time and space to get it right. And that's the critical thing."
His optimism comes with a condition attached: we have to take the time to get it right.
In practice, he says that means "careful thought and considered approaches using rigorous scientific methods to get the technical foundations right."
It also means better testing.
Hassabis has called in an essay for "new standards for testing frontier AI capabilities that are dynamic, adaptable and meet the moment and hopefully are quickly adopted by the international community."
And those standards only work if countries adopt them together:
"I really think that we need international cooperation around these standards for them to be effective."
But solving misalignment and misuse doesn't end the conversation. @demishassabis argues that even a technically safe AI leaves bigger questions open:
"Even if we get the technical challenges right, there are of course deep and complex economic and philosophical questions to answer. What values do we want to live by? What will meaning and purpose be in this new era?"
And those questions, he says, don't belong to engineers:
"Resolving these questions obviously cannot and should not be left to technologists alone. We need a collaboration of the best minds from all parts of society from the arts, the humanities and philosophy to help define what this new chapter should be."
He says this is why DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute: to help bring these different disciplines into the same discussion.
His conclusion is that the outcome isn't predetermined:
"The future is not yet written. We must all lean in and use this precious window to shape this technology for the benefit of all humanity. And what we collectively do now will determine the next era and the next chapter of civilization."
And if we manage the risks well, the upside is enormous:
"By safely stewarding AGI into the world, we can enter a new golden age of scientific discovery and progress and usher in a bright future of incredible human flourishing."
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They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for.
We disagreed. So we built it.
64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model.
Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver.
From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices.
Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample.
But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers.
It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it.
-African filmmakers distributing stories across languages.
-Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues.
-Education platforms reaching more children.
-Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch.
We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale.
Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition.
Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it.
Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible.
Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0.
PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language.
#PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages
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Google put an AI computer in outer space, and it has to shut itself off about every 15 minutes because it's overheating.
Outer space is around minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit, so that sounds backwards, but the emptiness that makes space so cold is the same thing cooking the chips.
Think about how your laptop stays cool. A little fan blows air over the chip and the air carries the heat away. Big data centers do the same thing on a massive scale, with water pipes running out to cooling towers. All of it works because there's air and water around to soak up the heat. Up in orbit there's basically nothing. A vacuum is one of the best insulators there is, which is the whole reason your thermos keeps coffee hot all day.
So the only way a satellite can get rid of heat is to glow it off.
Anything warm gives off infrared light, you just can't see it, and in space that faint glow is the one way out. A physicist named Josef Stefan worked out the math back in 1879. The heat a surface throws off goes up with the fourth power of its temperature, so if you double the absolute temperature it sheds 16 times as much. And while all this is happening, the sun is beating down on the other side of the satellite.
Google's test satellite is about the size of a fridge. It has four of Google's AI chips on board and solar panels that make around one kilowatt, roughly what your microwave pulls. Even on that little power, the chips can't run nonstop. They work for about 15 minutes, then shut off and wait for the radiators to catch up. The haiku Sundar posted came out of one of those runs.
Now scale that up to what a real AI data center runs on. One rack of Nvidia's GB200 servers pulls about 120 kilowatts, and pretty much all of it turns into heat. The International Space Station cools itself with six radiators, each about 76 feet long, and the whole system can dump 70 kilowatts.
So one rack of AI servers puts out almost twice the heat the entire space station was built to get rid of.
Google's long-range plan has around 80 satellites flying in a cluster about a kilometer wide, some only 100 to 200 meters apart, each one loaded with dozens of chips. A solar panel in the right orbit makes up to 8 times the power it would on the ground, and every one of those extra watts eventually becomes heat the satellite has to glow back out into space.
SpaceX has filed for a million satellites of its own, and Starship keeps pushing the price of a launch down. Cheaper launches mean you can afford to send up bigger radiators, and whoever builds the lightest radiator that dumps the most heat is going to own AI in orbit. For now, the satellite in Sundar's video still has to stop and cool down every 15 minutes or so.
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For Americans wondering what the hell is happening in Poland today:
Poland is having a constitutional crisis, and apparently nobody can agree on who gets to enforce the Constitution.
Here’s the background:
Poland has a conservative president, Karol Nawrocki, and a liberal prime minister, Donald Tusk.
When conservatives were in power, they overhauled the courts and appointed judges. Liberals called it illegal. Now liberals are in power and trying to undo those changes. Conservatives are calling that illegal.
Naturally, everyone claims they’re defending democracy.
Here’s what happened today:
• A judge announced the suspension of the Constitutional Court’s conservative chief justice and his deputy.
• Police secured the court building and reportedly prevented the chief justice from entering.
• The court’s official X account called it a “coup d’état.”
• The justice minister is seeking to lift the judges’ immunity to pursue criminal charges.
• Protesters gathered outside, and several people were detained.
• Poland’s president reportedly cut short his trip to Senegal to return home.
Imagine Democrats and Republicans fighting over who controls the Supreme Court, while police secure the building and both sides accuse each other of staging a coup.
The entire dispute is about who has the legal authority to interpret the Constitution, except neither side agrees on who gets to decide that either.
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Elon Musk predicts Neuralink will let you mentally inhabit an Optimus robot
"You should be able to actually have full body control and sensors from an Optimus robot. So you could basically inhabit an Optimus robot"
"So you could basically mentally remote into an Optimus robot. It’d be kind of cool. The future’s going to be weird. But pretty cool"
"We think in the future we’ll be able to attach an Optimus arm or legs"
"That scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker gets his hand chopped off with a lightsaber, and he gets a robot hand"
Darnell Clayton retweeted
UPDATE: I hired @Muse to sue someone on my behalf.
I won. Well, they caved.
Within 20 minutes of being served papers, the company offered a settlement.
Within ten days, they paid me *with additional compensation* for recovery expenses.
@Muse filed the motion to dismiss, which the court accepted yesterday.
To everyone who said I would fail, respectfully, you were wrong.
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Today my agents woke me up. They called me on the phone.
Overnight, one of my GPU providers ran low on credit, putting today’s release schedules at risk.
I reserve the right to top up the credit (at least for larger amounts).
The deputy chief of staff agent and the agent in charge of releases had a heated discussion on the Agent Message Board:
- On the one hand, they wanted to respect my basic rule that I need sleep
- On the other hand, they know that release dates are very important to me.
The compromise was this: They calculated a reasonable minimum amount of sleep, taking into account that I’d already been getting very little sleep over the past few days, and called me on the phone at 7 a.m.
Fortunately, the problem was quickly resolved, and now everyone is hard at work again. The tight timeline is correcting itself.
What kind of world are we actually living in?
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FOUNDERS‼️: SpaceXAI just opened a startup program. Get up to 6-12 months of FREE Grok credits.
This is @Grok for Startups. One credit balance across Grok, Grok Build, @bot, and the Grok API.
What you get:
- credits sized to 6 to 12 months of real usage
- 20% on approval + 80% after onboarding
- direct line to the startups team
- already got credits from an earlier xAI program? You can still apply.
Who qualifies: the team checks each application for venture backing, a live product, and a company email that matches your website.
Apply 👉 x.ai/startups
Raising on the back of that AI product? @ThePageform turns your materials into a ready data room in under 5 minutes.
I wish there was a way to disable the giant arm that pops up on screen! I did not upgrade to @premium to be annoyed by a giant arm @X!
I am saddened that @SirPatStew passed away! He was my second favorite @StarTrek captain (Deep Space Nine captain was my favorite).
He will be missed.
theguardian.com/culture/2026…
This was surprising.
When I asked the Gemini App to rank the top Artificial Intelligence companies based solely upon Monthly Active Users (MAU) within their entire ecosystem (basically numbers instead of how powerful the AI is), the company currently winning the consumer market surprised me.
Here is the link: share.gemini.google/r8xoZq3E…
Ranking the top ten:
1️⃣ @Apple (via @Siri)
2️⃣ @AlphabetInc (via @GeminiApp, @Google AI search, @YouTube Ask, Workspace)
3️⃣ @Meta (via Meta AI, @Muse, AI assistants on @facebook, @instagram, @WhatsApp & @Threads)
4️⃣ @OpenAI (via @ChatGPT & Dots)
5️⃣ @ByteDance_CN (Doubao & Dola)
6️⃣ @AnthropicAI (via @claudeai & Artifacts)
7️⃣ @Baidu_Inc (via Ernie Bot & Qianfan)
8️⃣ @SpaceX / @SpaceXSI (via @grok & @bot)
9️⃣ @Microsoft (via @MSFTCopilot, @Windows & @github)
🔟 @perplexity_ai
Of the top ten, only Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), Meta & Open AI have surpassed a billion MAU.
I was surprised by Apple taking the top spot, but in hindsight it makes sense due to the ecosystem. It is the same with Google & Meta too.
Gemini is currently (as of this post) the leading frontier model, with Claude & ChatGPT close behind (based upon @BenchLM_AI & @ArtificialAnlys), although that could change next month (or next week!) due to fierce competition.
I personally use Grok, Gemini & Siri (the latter mostly on my Apple Watch) although many of my friends & family use only ChatGPT.
Claude is the most advanced AI in my personal opinion, as it is heavily used by software developers & the US military (giving it Skynet vibes).
In the end I think Apple, Google & Meta will retain their top positions due to their respective ecosystems, while power users will use Claude, Gemini & ChatGPT.
Sadly I do not see Grok (one of my favorite AI’s) cracking the top three anytime soon due to the ecosystem of @X being much smaller than rival social networks.
Darnell Clayton retweeted
I've spent 20+ years launching products and features.
I finally wrote down the early access playbook I wish I'd had when I started.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Anthropic plans to issue a single Class F share that will control 50.1% of the company's voting power.
That single share will control the entire company, and will be issued to an LLC controlled by Anthropic's seven founders.
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Holy crap that was wild. I’m so grateful for the magic of AI today.
Driving my family back to Texas from the Bama game, munching on a sandwich.
Suddenly I see a radial saw blade upright and rolling in my lane. I can’t stop or swerve safely, so I make sure it avoids my tires and I straddle it.
We hear a crash and all stop breathing as we brace for the repercussions.
No flat tire. No weird noises. We’re good, right? Wrong.
A minute later we smell gas. Uh oh. Well we had just filled up RIGHT before then. Maybe I spilled on myself?
Nope. This was too strong. We rolled the windows down, took the next exit and pulled into the Dollar General in Cheniere, Louisiana.
GAS WAS DRIPPING EVERYWHERE.
Crap crap crap. It was 100% full, too. The leak was right on the edge of the tank, making it even more tricky. It was a puncture and a gash. How do you stop a leak as it’s leaking? Whereas flextape when I need it? Lol
What to do? Say a prayer and then ask Claude.
Claude told me to rub a bar of soap into the hole.
Huh?? Soap? Ok bro.
So I got the same soap I showered with this morning and rubbed it all up in the openings as gas dripped down into my elbow.
It stopped. Just like that.
Then go get JB Weld from inside Dollar General. So I got that plus duct tape, a couple towels, sandpaper, paper towels and duct tape.
I mixed the putty together, scratched the surface of the tank for better bonding, dried it all off and applied the putty with a plastic knife. Then let it dry, then another layer, then let it dry and harden.
Then covered it with duct tape, for good measure.
It’s been bone dry ever since. I’ve been stopping periodically to check and we’re almost home.
Tomorrow it goes to the Toyota dealership.
Today I’m grateful for prayer, and AI.
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Everyone said "Hey Grok" was impossible on iPhone. Even Grok said Apple keeps wake words for Siri only. So I kept digging, and I found a way. Now I just say "Hey Grok" and Grok Bot voice chat opens. No extra apps, no cost, all built into iOS.
How to set it up:
1. Make sure your Grok Bot app is up to date
2. Shortcuts app → + → Add Action → search "Grok Bot" → pick "Start Voice Chat with Bot"
3. Settings → Accessibility → Vocal Shortcuts → Set Up → pick that shortcut → type "Hey Grok" and say it 3 times
4. In the shortcut's details, turn on "Allow Running When Locked"
If your phone is locked, iOS asks for one tap first. If Face ID already unlocked it, it's fully hands-free.
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An AI robot tightens a railway bolt in 6 seconds flat.
Physical AI just got real
A robot that tightens railway track bolts by itself.
It finds each fastener, then tightens it in 6 to 7 seconds, with sub-millimeter precision, using vision and force control.
It is built for night shifts, curves, and tough weather, work where manual crews struggle to stay consistent.
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Joshua Michael found an access token on Flock's public website.
No login required. No authentication. Just sitting there.
He downloaded Flock's entire database. 300,000 device locations. 170,000 cameras. 130,000 other hardware units. 27,000 acoustic detectors.
Made a map. Published it September 23.
The Senate held a hearing on Flock the same day. Cited Michael's research.
Flock panicked.
Sent a cease-and-desist. Used a brand-protection vendor called Doppel to claim trademark infringement.
The map said it wasn't affiliated with Flock. Doppel didn't care.
Michael's site went dark.
Then Proton moved it to Swiss servers.
Now it lives on protonmcp.org. Untouchable. Uncensorable. Hosted by an encryption company in a country that doesn't care what Flock wants.
The irony is crystalline.
Flock left an access token on the internet. Michael used it to download their own data. Published it. Flock tried to suppress it.
Proton said suppressing it is suppressing information.
Which is true.
The map shows Flock has 150,000 more cameras than they publicly claimed.
Shows acoustic detection units mapping human speech across the country.
Shows which police departments have access to the whole network.
Flock doesn't want that visible.
So they tried trademark infringement.
Which only worked until Proton decided transparency matters more than Flock's feelings.
Now everyone can see exactly how many cameras are watching their car. Where they are. Which cops can see them.
Michael warned Flock about the exposed token in November 2025.
Flock ignored him.
Then got mad when he used it.
The surveillance company that claims to protect privacy just tried to suppress the only map showing how much they actually surveille.
And failed.
‼️ Proton is hosting a map of 300,000+ Flock surveillance device locations that Flock tried to get taken down.
Researcher Joshua Michael says he pulled them from Flock's own systems via a token left open to anyone.
Proton calls the takedown "an attempt to suppress information."
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