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 …
In 2018, Nextbigfuture predicted that Canada would have 40 million people in 2023. Statistics Canada determined that Canada had 40 million people on June 16, 2023. I correctly made this prediction 6 years before it happened. The UN population “actual” numbers are off by 5% for Canada. The UN predictions are off by 20% or …
Yesterday, Elon tweeted that the SpaceX Starship launch is in about 3 weeks. Starship were meant to fly and our next one launches in about 3 weeks, but I recommend waiting for a few more test flights before hopping on board @NICKIMINAJ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
OpenAI GPT5 has likely started its final training run. An earlier smaller run of a test version of GPT5 gave Sam Altman one of his top 4 feelings of a leap in AI capability. GPT5 will likely include the ability to explain in plain english all of the inference steps and for about 10,000 validation …
Canada’s realtime population count is about 3 weeks from reaching 41 million people. On June 16, 2023, Statistics Canada announced that Canada’s population had reached 40 million people. Canada is adding over 100,000 per month with 868,000 added over less than eight months. This will each over 880,000 by Feb 16, 2024. 15% of the …
In 2024, Samsung will launch low latency wide (LLW) DRAMs that are designed to improve the power efficiency of artificial intelligence applications by 70% more than that of regular DRAMs. LLW DRAMs will become its flagship, next-generation chips and be embedded into AI devices such as extended reality headsets. Samsung aims to beef up artificial …
Machines with human-level intelligence should be able to do most economically valuable work. This aligns a major economic incentive with the scientific grand challenge of building a human-like mind. Here Sanctuary AIs CEO Geordie Rose and CTO Suzanne Gildert describe their approach to building and testing such a system. Their approach comprises a physical humanoid …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is talking with leaders of the UAE and elsewhere for $7 Trillion for a new AI Chip company. The WSJ report indicates Sam wants to raise money and then ask TSMC to build factories. Sam must believe that a new class of chip is needed that will build a sustainable advantage …
Last month, Chinese researchers published a pre-print article where they found Possible Meissner effect near room temperature in copper-substituted lead apatite. This was an Lk99 variant with sulfur in the chemistry. They detected evidence of possible Meissner effect magnetic fields which would be consistent with room temperature superconductivity. The lead researcher, Yao Yao, is sending …
Bladder tissue was successfully grown from baboon bone marrow. It was kept functional for two years. This success is promising for success with human tissue over the next few years. Scientists from Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University have succeeded in regenerating fully …
Here is a paper written by Virtus Solis, Space based solar power startup. Virtus Solis is a funded startup working to develop space based solar power. They would leverage the low cost launch of the SpaceX Starship and modular satellites to enable power to be beamed from space at lower cost than coal or natural …