Whoops I was wrong. It was Vice. Should have known better. Vox wouldn’t allow that.
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Michael Konen
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@verge why did y’all never write an article on this massive news? Did it not fit your narrative? Ironically I found out because of a guest on a Vox podcasts. Your “ethics” are shameful @DillonLoomis bbc.com/news/articles/…
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@unusual_whales He ran on reducing the budget/deficit. Remember DOGE?
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Since the President’s inauguration last year, national debt has climbed by around $2.8 trillion, per TIME
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@LmMacro_ @unusual_whales He ran on reducing the budget/deficit. Remember DOGE?
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@unusual_whales Funny how debt only becomes a problem when it’s politically convenient.
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@MattLoszak Congrats! A little disappointed it's not a pool, for y'all's sake, but congrats!
Little confused though. You mention "one last step". However, it looks like there may be a few left. Mind sharing the major outstanding milestones?
Crushing the timeline! Great job team!
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Today, we unveiled our completed Critical Test Reactor facility.
We will be turning this reactor on (a “zero power criticality”) well before July 4th!
This is a commercial-scale system with enough fuel to produce 10 MW of electricity, and will someday soon power a co-located data center from one of our partners.
Here’s what people saw today at our ribbon cutting:
✅ Reactor vessel
✅ Graphite as moderator
✅ Instrumentation and control
✅ Concrete shielding
✅ Building with crane
✅ Control room
All designed and built by Aalo.
And the nuclear fuel will be arriving any day now.
One last step remains: the final DOE approval to turn the reactor on, which we expect to receive soon. DOE has been an incredible partner in this 2.5 year journey, working hard to support a number of companies pushing to advance US nuclear energy.
Follow us to be the first to know when we turn this reactor on!
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@TechCrunch I'm here for safety and accountability. How is this any different than Waymo? It's definitely had its share of missteps. Are they being treated similarly?
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Feds intensify investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/fed…
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@DBurkland @pbeisel It’s in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks.
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Tesla’s forthcoming AI5 uses a half-reticle design, which is crucial for yield. A reticle defines the imaging area of a lithography machine, fitting two chips per shot effectively doubles yield.
This means the Tesla chip design team had to carefully manage die features, for instance dropping the older ISP (and classic GPU) to make room for more AI cores.
By contrast, NVIDIA’s Blackwell fills nearly a full reticle, making it a single-reticle design.
If Tesla hits its compute and efficiency targets with AI5 in this half-reticle format, it’s almost like cutting fab requirements in half.
And this has a big impact on Terafab, especially if it carries forward for AI6, AI7, etc.
phil beisel@pbeisel
Terafab may be the most essential vertical integration Tesla has ever undertaken— and it is truly non-optional. It will take years to build and will test even Elon’s speedrunning abilities to the limit, but that won’t stop him from trying. The breakthrough likely lies in overhauling the overall facility’s cleanroom model. By moving wafers in sealed pods with localized micro-environments, the fab no longer needs a monolithic ultra-clean space. Elon’s line about “eating cheeseburgers and smoking cigars” on the fab floor isn’t silly, it’s the practical reality of a radically simpler, cheaper, faster approach that could finally change the economics of chipmaking. This is all forced by the brutal “pinch” in chip supply. Tesla must produce on the order of 100–200 billion AI chips per year just to saturate its roadmap. That volume powers: FSD cars & Robotaxis (tens of millions of vehicles needing AI5 inference for near-perfect autonomy), Physical Optimus (scaling from thousands today to millions per year, each requiring AI5/AI6-level compute), Digital Optimus (the new xAI-Tesla software agents for digital/office automation, running massive inference clusters), Space-based data centers (AI7/Dojo3 orbital compute for GW-scale training and inference beyond Earth limits). AI5 delivers the ~10× leap for vehicles and early robots; AI6 shifts focus to Optimus + terrestrial DCs; AI7 goes orbital. No external foundry (TSMC, Samsung, etc.) can deliver that scale or timeline— hence the Terafab launch. Without it, the entire robotics + autonomy future hits a brick wall. Terafab isn’t optional; it’s the only way forward.
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@verge Nope. The number one selling vehicle in the world, the Tesla Model Y, is still available to purchase.
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All the wrong EVs are getting cancelled theverge.com/transportation…
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@verge What a dumb article! This is just a hit piece against the Cybertruck. Completely glossed over the fact that Tesla released a new version, which saw a lot of demand, which is why they increased the price. Didn't care to point that out. Joke of a "journalist"
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@BenMillerise What a start! Crushed the opening price. 🥳
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In 2011, I pitched a top securities attorney in New York on democratizing investing. After hearing me list all of the ways I believed retail investors were disadvantaged by the financial system, he just looked at me and said:
“Why would you bother with the little guy?”
Today, 15 later, we’re listing the @fundrise Innovation Fund on the NYSE under the ticker $VCX.
The financial system has a structural problem that most people can feel but few can name. The most valuable private technology companies are worth hundreds of billions, even over a trillion dollars, and they’ve never gone public. The wealth creation that used to flow through public markets—enabling everyone to participate—now happens behind a wall that excludes everyday investors.
AI compounds the urgency. The companies building the most transformative technology in a generation are growing at rates we’ve never seen before, and the gap between who owns that growth and who benefits from it widens every quarter.
We started working on the Fundrise Innovation Fund in 2021 to test whether a public venture capital fund could work. Over 100,000 investors now own a portfolio concentrated in the leading private AI and technology companies, making VCX one of the largest funds of its kind to ever list on a major exchange. No accredited investor requirement. Now available in any brokerage account.
When that attorney asked me why I’d bother with the little guy, I told him: because they’re getting screwed! But I believe today marks another step in building a better financial system for the individual investor.
Onward
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This is why the @uber + @rivian Robotaxi announcement today is pure fluff
Rivian is woefully behind in self driving tech
The R2 is a great car by a lot of standards but if it can’t drive itself soon, it will be irrelevant and only adopted by the anti-tech crowd
Devin Olsen@DevinOlsenn
Rivian Universal Hands-Free vs Tesla Self-Driving This was my first time testing Rivian's new Universal Hands-Free, and I was honestly surprised by how it performed. I understand this is their first attempt and it will only improve from here, but truthfully, it is worse than any version of FSD or Autopilot I have ever used. I respect Rivian as a company, but I always try to remain unbiased in my opinions, so here are my unfiltered thoughts on where UHF stands today. Hoping to test it more as the system receives major updates! Hope you all enjoy the video. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:45 Struggling to get UHF to turn on 1:25 Hard resetting the system 2:00 Enabling UHF 2:45 Max speed and lane changing 4:00 Strange warning 5:00 Disengagement 5:28 UHF fails on corner 7:58 Attention monitoring test 9:25 Harsh brake for merging vehicle 10:10 Changing driving styles 10:50 Harsh brake for bus 12:15 Robotic driving style 13:10 I am not comfortable using this 14:35 Parking capabilities 15:40 Getting into Tesla 16:50 FSD vs UHF thoughts 18:20 Final thoughts
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@BenMillerise Mmmm, is it broken? Current price is $95?! And @public is saying trading has halted? What an opening price though!
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@unusual_whales Didn’t Trump run on lowering the deficit?
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Secretary Hegseth on Pentagon request for Iran war supplemental of $200 billion: "As far as $200 billion. I think that number could move. Obviously, it takes it takes money to kill bad guys."
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@unusual_whales @rohanspatel didn't Trump run on fiscal responsibility? Shrinking the deficit? Also just learned that wars are not part of the budget, which is already a ton of money. Imagine most don't know that. npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-…
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BREAKING: The Pentagon has reportedly asked the White House to approve a $200 billion funding request to Congress for the war in Iran, per WaPo
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@spacejellyalert Ah you're right. Can't DM back for some reason. I noticed on SpaceXNow that it got delayed til 10, but thats 10-33.
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@spacejellyalert Bummer. Wanted to check this one out. Nothing for the foreseeable future. The one good thing about daylight savings at least for the AM launches.
Glad you're starting to get some recognition / hat tips for the site. Annoys me when this isn't the case. Sawyer is starting to now 2
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@PaulCarter1958 @SciGuySpace Hardly. But I’m not here for the day to day moves. In it for the long haul and have owned it since 2021
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@themichaelkonen @SciGuySpace It went up after the new contract was announced.
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Impressive win here for Rocket Lab: delivering the right capability at the right time.
investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/…
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@johnkrausphotos @wxbrad @spacejellyalert Oh no worries. I was curious if our weatherman had a thought and just tagged your account because I thought that’s where he may have gotten the alert from. If not, it’s a great service!
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"Jellyfish" cloud alert Thursday morning. The current time of the East Coast #Falcon9 rocket launch is perfect for a well-defined jellyfish cloud. The green area on the map has the highest chance of seeing it and is strongly aided by high sky-plume contrast. Strongly helped by plume illumination. Helped by plume elevation above the horizon. Rocket enters sunlight: ~T+03:25
#spaceX #falcon9 #starlink #cltwx #ncwx #scwx #wcnc
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@DirtyTesLa The one benefit of this war is people go back to adopting more EVs and solar panels. Also recycling plastic starts to look more attractive vs producing new virgin plastics (no idea on the real number)
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This marks pretty much exactly where I installed my solar panels 😁
Charles V Payne@cvpayne
Are you only just now feeling the electricity spike? It began five years ago with a bang!
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