
Michael
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Bradford is not an innocent commentator Always remember that he worked as an options trader and now runs a financial analysis firm When you hear nothing for months and then someone stirs the pot, think twice.

White people are a rapidly diminishing minority of global population



A major additional factor should be considered. Satellites with localized AI compute, where just the results are beamed back from low-latency, sun-synchronous orbit, will be the lowest cost way to generate AI bitstreams in <3 years. And by far the fastest way to scale within 4 years, because easy sources of electrical power are already hard to find on Earth. 1 megaton/year of satellites with 100kW per satellite yields 100GW of AI added per year with no operating or maintenance cost, connecting via high-bandwidth lasers to the Starlink constellation. The level beyond that is constructing satellite factories on the Moon and using a mass driver (electromagnetic railgun) to accelerate AI satellites to lunar escape velocity without the need for rockets. That scales to >100TW/year of AI and enables non-trivial progress towards becoming a Kardashev II civilization.





Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate. Samsung currently makes AI4. TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona.


Q2 2025 was a seminal point in Tesla’s history: the beginning of our transition from leading the electric vehicle and renewable energy industries to also becoming a leader in AI, robotics & related services (hi @robotaxi) We officially launched our Robotaxi service in Austin in June, with our camera-only architecture with neural networks trained on data from our global fleet of millions of vehicles. Q2 Highlights North America – Test drives in North America are up 20% sequentially (as you know, butts in seats ...) – Model Y is becoming more accessible with the recent launch of Model Y RWD, which starts at under $45k with 357 miles of range APAC – We achieved record delivery volumes in South Korea 🇰🇷 (@Tesla_Korea), Malaysia 🇲🇾, the Philippines 🇵🇭 & Singapore 🇸🇬 – In July, we launched the Model Y in India 🇮🇳, marking our entry into the world’s third-largest car market @Tesla_India – New Model 3 earned a 5-star Overall Safety Rating from ANCAP, achieving 95% in the Child Occupant Protection pillar – the highest result recorded to date against ANCAP’s 2023-2025 criteria – We continue to prepare for broader release of FSD Supervised in China 🇨🇳 this year (pending regulatory approval) EMEA – Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in Norway 🇳🇴 year-to-date & in Türkiye🇹🇷 , the Netherlands 🇳🇱, Switzerland 🇨🇭 & Austria 🇦🇹 in June – New Model 3 achieved a 5-star Overall Safety Rating from EuroNCAP & is the safest car in Europe (based on the latest EuroNCAP test scores) – We continue to prepare for the launch of FSD Supervised in Europe this year (pending regulatory approval) AI Software & Hardware @Tesla_AI – World's first autonomous delivery to a customer with a new production Model Y driving itself ~30 minutes from the factory across town to its new owner's home, including on highways – We expanded AI training compute with an additional 16k H200 GPUs at Gigafactory Texas, bringing Cortex to a total of 67k H100 equivalents Battery, Powertrain & Manufacturing – Our lithium refining & cathode production plants remain on track to begin production in 2025, on-shoring production of critical battery materials to the US – We are on course to begin domestic production of our first LFP cells for our energy storage products later this year Energy generation & storage – Record Powerwall deployments for the fifth consecutive quarter – Gross profit increased sequentially & year-over-year, reaching a record of $846 million – We started deploying @Tesla_Megapack from Megafactory Shanghai as the ramp continues as planned Services & other – We added over 2,900 net new Supercharging stalls, growing the network 18% year-over-year @TeslaCharging 🔋




Interest costs on U.S. federal debt: 2024: $1.13 trillion 2023: $883 billion 2022: $719 billion 2021: $562 billion 2020: $523 billion 2019: $575 billion 2018: $523 billion 2017: $459 billion 2016: $433 billion 2015: $402 billion 2014: $416 billion Source: Treasury Dept














