Getting census data and links to census data from the ChatGPT and other large language models is revealing. ChatGPT is censoring census data. Partial list of countries that censor census data. There are countries that avoid creating any census data. Countries that have not had a census since 1990 include: Lebanon (1932) Afghanistan (1979) Eritrea …
EpiSci will use AI software to leverage infrared satellite data from the Space Development Agency (SDA) future constellation of hundreds of satellites. The satellites will have overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) sensors. The startup EpiSci has expertise in signal processing technology using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) techniques to provide warfighters a competitive advantage. A …
Ukraine reports that six of Russia’s most modern fighters were shotdown over three days. The Russia-Ukraine war is an intense war of attrition, where both sides are losing a lot of equipment and personnel. Nextbigfuture has previously reported on the Russian and Ukrainian air force losses. Russia has now lost about 88 modern fighter planes. …
Israel in the Gaza War has had a total number of air strikes that is 39% of the number of airstrikes that the US Air Force performed in the 1991 Gulf War. The Israel Air Force has carried out strikes against more than 31,000 targets belonging to Hamas and other terror groups since the war …
There are some claims that surface to air missiles can shoot down SpaceX Starships when the US military starts using them in a few years for cargo missions. The people who make these claims have not looked at the specifications of surface to air missiles. A SpaceX Starship will be much harder to shootdown than …
Ukraine and Russia have both lost a lot of their Navy in the war. Ukraine claims to have destroyed nearly a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet less than two years. 25 vessels have been destroyed, and 15 more are under repair. There is some dispute to this number and lower estimates are about …
The US military will need to build hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers by 2030. The US military is planning to get to thousands of SpaceX flights per year and this will mean that the US military will need hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers. SpaceX, the US Air Force and the US Space Force discussions about …
Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has completed a critical assessment of its Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) offering with the U.S. Air Force, moving the program closer to completing its detailed design review. The team is now working towards ground testing of its NGAP prototype, referred to as XA103, which is expected to …
The US Air Force awarded contracts to five companies to design and build Collaborative Combat Aircraft that can fly autonomously alongside manned platforms, a spokesperson confirmed. The plan is to spend $5.8 billion over the next 5 years. In its fiscal 2024 budget request, the Air Force outlined plans to spend $5.8 billion on CCAs …
There are reports that China has a new superchip MT-3000 processor designed by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). The MT-3000 has general-purpose CPU cores, control cores, and matrix accelerator cores. NUDT’s MT-3000 processor features a multi-zone structure that packs 16 general-purpose CPU cores with 96 control cores and 1,536 accelerator cores. The MT-3000 …
The White House’s national security adviser said Wednesday that he had already scheduled a classified meeting with congressional leadership before a top House Republican requested that President Joe Biden declassify all information that relates to serious national security threat. An anti-satellite nuclear weapon would likely be something that would generate an electromagnetic pulse. In 2018, …