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TESLA'S DEDICATED OPTIMUS FACTORY CONSTRUCTION OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY AT
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Tesla's new Optimus factory is officially under construction at
Gigafactory Texas. The project will add more than 5.2 million square
feet of new industrial space. Tesla plans to build about 27,000
Optimus robots a day at the new factory. Production will start either
in July or August of this year, with high-volume output starting in
Summer 2027.
APPLE DEVELOPING IPHONE ANTI-SNATCHING FEATURE THAT LOCKS STOLEN
PHONES INSTANTLY (2 MINUTE READ) [8]
Apple is working on a feature that will lock users' phones if the
system detects that the device has been snatched from their hands. The
feature will use the gyroscope, accelerometer, and other sensors to
determine when a device has been grabbed. It is unknown when the
feature may be added to iOS. Android already has a similar feature.
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right kinds of chips, compute demand needs to grow massively larger,
and agentic inference needs to unbundle current architectures. The
risk attached to any of these assumptions should be discounted from
any valuation put on the business. Elon Musk has already pushed
humanity forward on multiple vectors and SpaceX has already invented a
lot, so it's not totally implausible that the company may reach its
goals, but there's still real risk.
US SPACE FORCE CONFIRMS SPACEX WILL BUILD SENSOR-TO-SHOOTER TARGETING
NETWORK (6 MINUTE READ) [10]
SpaceX has won a contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data. The $2.29 billion firm-fixed-price agreement will result in the creation of a network
based on technology originally developed for SpaceX's Starlink global
Internet constellation. It will act as the core communications layer
for US Space Force war-fighting systems, ensuring sensors and shooters
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to deliver a full operational prototype by the end of 2027.
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Coding is expensive and time-consuming. Every feature carries ongoing
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into triggers consumed by agents. This post discusses the implications
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AVOIDING DEATH ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (23 MINUTE READ) [15]
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of complex, often vertical problems that can't simply be solved with a horizontal tool with access to standard tools and computer use. The
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JUDGMENT IS THE SKILL THAT MATTERS MOST IN THE AI ERA (7 MINUTE READ)
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