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6 days ago | nextbigfuture.com | Brian Wang

$25K Tesla and unsupervised robotaxis are starting this quarter—and BYD, Xiaomi, and legacy auto won’t keep up. With BYD’s 4% margins a sham (thanks to 3% dodged interest and other non-GAAP accounting), Tesla’s cheaper EV and 5,000+ robotaxi fleet by 2025 and one million Tesla robotaxi network in 2026 in will dominate. We break down the numbers, the supply chain, the tech, and the tariffs hitting China’s carmakers hard. Only 1% of LIDAR are robotaxi grade lidar.

6 days ago | nextbigfuture.com | Brian Wang

U.S. Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman clarified the Golden Dome is not a single mega-shield, but a network of systems built to counter advanced missile threats. The system will combine terrestrial, naval, airborne, and space-based sensors and interceptors, along with non-kinetic defenses like directed energy weapons and electronic warfare capabilities. Saltzman emphasized that decision-making is still in early stages.

1 week ago | nextbigfuture.com | Brian Wang

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system. The most likely reason (when combined with other observation) for seeing 1000 times more of the chemical DMS would be that exoplanet K2-18B is an ocean planet teeming with life. This ocean filled with life is causing the chemical DMS to saturate the atmosphere. Researcher are now 99.7% certain of the detections of the key chemical signature.

1 week ago | nextbigfuture.com | Brian Wang

Home » Artificial intelligence » Impressive Robotics and Animatronics at Universal How To Train Your Dragon Universal’s Isle of Berk had it’s soft opening two weeks ago. The dragon robots and large animatronics are very impressive. Visitors are very impressed with the walking baby dart dragon robot. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month.

1 week ago | nextbigfuture.com | Brian Wang

Technology experts Brian Wang and Jon Twigge discuss the fast arriving future of AI. The acceleration of AI technology has already started happening. It is the shocking speed of development and the speed of change which will make adapting and surviving harder. Speed of change is everything. XAI and Tesla have more speed. Physical change speed. Integrated speed. XAI will get 180 times more AI compute in one year. This is 8 years of moore’s law in one year or 3 years of LLM change in one year.