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TESLA’S FSD “14.3 is where the last big piece of the puzzle finally lands”. Elon Musk Elon Musk just confirmed that Tesla’s v14.3, (that he’s described as feeling sentient) is in final testing with wide release expected in just a few weeks.

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The Cybertruck has exceptional emergency and accident avoidance capability compared to any other vehicle, including most other Teslas. I experienced it firsthand last November.

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Most people credit Elon for rockets and EVs The real legacy Elon rebuilt is America's engineering backbone As Katherine Boyle said: "We had lost that capability in the U.S. The pendulum had moved so far to software that we didn't have someone thinking from first principles" Legacy defense primes handed engineers a requirements doc and said, "Build it exactly as we say" Elon asked a completely different question - "How do you actually build as quickly as you possibly can in ways that didn't exist before?" Two rules became the religion at SpaceX → "You don't separate engineering for production from building for manufacturing" → "The best part is no part" Now look at the diaspora. Castelion. Anduril. Dozens of deep tech startups - all SpaceX alumni carrying that discipline like a doctrine "They all know something that they've learned from the previous generation of companies" Over 20 years, Elon did not just build rockets He trained a generation of engineers to think differently - and that might be his most important contribution to this country

Elon’s Photonic Escape Hatch: Sidestepping ASML’s EUV Monopoly with Light-Speed Thinking🔥 Elon Musk doesn’t fight monopolies head-on — he changes the game entirely. While the semiconductor world obsesses over ASML’s $400 million EUV machines and sub-2nm shrinks for Dojo, AI5, and Optimus chips, Elon is already hiring the talent to bypass the entire bottleneck. SpaceX (deeply intertwined with xAI and Tesla post-merger) has been quietly posting senior Silicon Photonics Design Engineer roles since February 2026. The job: build custom Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) that move data with light instead of electrons. Why? 10–100× higher bandwidth, drastically lower power, almost zero heat — perfect for orbital AI data centers, Starlink satellites, and massive terrestrial clusters. Here’s the first-principles genius: traditional chips are trapped in EUV’s physics prison because shrinking transistors demands extreme ultraviolet lasers, tin plasma, and flawless mirrors. Photonics flips the script. Optical interconnects (the highways between chiplets, cores, or entire racks) don’t need bleeding-edge nodes. Mature 7nm/5nm or even older silicon works beautifully for waveguides, modulators, and photodetectors. You still use some conventional transistors for logic, but the data movement — the real power hog in AI training/inference — runs on light. Result? You get supercomputer performance without queuing for ASML’s High-NA machines or paying the Dutch tax. For Tesla’s Terafab? Imagine this: • Build core AI dies on readily available DUV nodes (no EUV monopoly). • Connect everything with in-house photonic links designed by the same team building space data centers. • Stack chiplets vertically (Tesla’s packaging expertise + Optimus automation). • Suddenly Terafab scales to hundreds of billions of chips without waiting years for EUV slots. Even better: inference-heavy workloads for FSD and Optimus are photonics’ sweet spot. Light-based computing (or hybrid photonic-analog designs) slashes energy use so hard that “older” silicon suddenly feels like next-gen. Add xAI software optimization and Neuralink-inspired brain-like architectures, and the EUV dependency shrinks to near zero. This is pure Elon: vertical integration on steroids. Don’t copy ASML’s 30-year, trillion-dollar nightmare. Build the interconnect layer yourself, use light as the new electron, and let the physics monopoly wither. China is already pushing silicon photonics for the same reason — to escape EUV sanctions. Elon is just doing it faster, bolder, and with rockets attached. The hiring posts are live. The orbital data-center vision is public. The Terafab is coming. While the industry kneels at ASML’s altar, Elon’s photonic army is already marching around it. Light wins. Monopoly over. Game changed. 🚀

🚨 MICROSOFT ABOUT TO SUE OPENAI & AMAZON >be microsoft >invest $1B in openai >gets exclusive azure cloud deal >invest another $10B+ >gets rights to 49% of profits +IP >Azure goes brrrrrr >Altman lies to board, quietly launches ChatGPT >board fires him for being a lying manipulative snake >Satya goes to war for Altman. saves his entire career >Altman retvrns in 5 days >immediately purges everyone who purged him >full control. no oversight. thanks Satya! >fast forward to 2025 >OpenAI restructures from non-profit to PBC >MSFT $13.8B is now worth $135B. 10x return >plus 27% of OpenAI >but gives up cloud exclusivity + profit share >KEEPS API clause >all API calls contractually MUST route through Azure >Satya thinks life is good lol >5 months later >Sam Altman becomes strong enough to betray you >"raises $110B round" >doesn't need satya daddy's money anymore >announces $50B deal with AMAZON >$138B in AWS cloud commitments >amazon and openai claim they built some cope called a "Stateful Runtime Environment" >Microsoft lawyers hmmm >Altman: it's not what it looks like. i can totally explain >so it's technically not an API call because it's "stateful" >and it's a... "Runtime Experience" >totally di!erent thing >pls ignore the TCP packets lol >Microsoft engineers look at the SRE architecture >"THIS IS NOT TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE without violating the contract." *Satya finds out he's been cucked* Microsoft exec literally tells FT: "We know our contract. We will sue them if they breach it." >AWS quietly gives employees a memo on which words are legally safe lmao >can say: "powered by" or "enabled by" or "integrates with" OpenAI >cannot say: "enables access to" or "calls on" ChatGPT >also cannot suggest frontier models are "available on AWS" Microsoft: "If Amazon and OpenAI want to take a bet on the creativity of their contractual lawyers, I would back us, not them." Scam Altman strikes AGAIN.

The EU's human rights chairman was caught with €600,000 cash in his apartment. He admitted it. 300 attempts to manipulate the European Parliament. €4 million from Qatar and Morocco.  5 years sentence. 4 suspended. Walked free. This is the institution that lectures you about democracy.

Holy crap. For something called "Universal Hands-Free" without any modifier like "Beta", these limitations are wild (taken from Rivian's user manual):