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Recursively Self Improving AI Will Have Unlimited Space Based Solar Power 2027-2032

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Eric Schmidt and other AI leaders (Karpathy, Musk, Anthropic executives) have described recursive self-improvement (RSI)—AI autonomously designing, testing, and deploying better versions of itself—as the pivotal transition from narrow, human-guided progress to potentially explosive, closed-loop intelligence growth. RSI is not yet fully autonomous across the entire AI stack with no human oversight but narrow versions …

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Anthropic Could Pass OpenAI in Revenue Runrate within 5 Months

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OpenAI may be a household name, but Anthropic could soon be earning more revenue. Anthropic has recently grown substantially faster (10× vs 3.4× per year) and could overtake OpenAI by mid-2026 if recent trends continue. Extrapolating recent trends is an aggressive way to forecast revenues. Growth rates this high often slow as companies scale, and …

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AI Models Specializations and Moving to Parallel and Many Agent Systems

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xAI Grok 4.20 has native 4-agent council (Grok = Coordinator/Synthesizer, Harper = Research/Facts/X-grounding, Benjamin = Logic/Math/Code, Lucas = Creative/Balance). They run in parallel on shared weights + KV cache. Internal structured debate rounds + RL-optimized orchestration. It has large gains in reasoning depth, fact-checking, blind-spot detection, and open-ended engineering without exploding costs (effective ~1.5–2.5× single-pass …

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XAI Grok 4.20 Releasing Next Week

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XAI Grok 4.20 will include enhancements like improved multimodal capabilities (text, images, video), reduced hallucinations via fact-checking tools, advanced reasoning modes, superior AI trading performance, and boosts in coding, math, and real-world tasks. It aims for better overall intelligence over 4.1. Heavy use of real-time X (Twitter) data is a key differentiator. In the Alpha …

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Waymo Raising $16 Billion on $110 Billion Valuation

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Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous driving subsidiary, is close to finalizing or has finalized a $16 billion funding round that values the company at $110 billion, more than doubling its valuation from the previous round. Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is providing about $13 billion of the $16 billion. New investors: Sequoia Capital, DST Global (led by Yuri …

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Waymo Hits Child in Santa Monica

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On January 23 around 7:40 a.m. near Grant Elementary School, Santa Monica Waymo’s driverless Jaguar I-Pace hit a child who ran from behind a double-parked SUV amid crossing guards and stopped cars. The vehicle braked from 17 mph to under 6 mph before minor-impact contact, then called 911 and stayed until police cleared it; the …

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Google AI Lead Shane Legg Defines Levels of AGI and Superintelligence and How to Test for It and When he Expects It

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Shane Legg talks about the 1997 and later creation and popular definition of general intelligence. Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, defines levels of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a spectrum rather than a single binary threshold. NOTE: He mentions a 1997 paper on nanotechnology security that defined AGI. I, Brian …

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Google Nano Banana Pro Visual Reasoning Model

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Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), is Google’s state-of-the art image generation and editing model, available starting today in Vertex AI and Google Workspace, and coming soon to Gemini Enterprise. Nano Banana Pro can use Google Search to research topics based on your query, and reason on how to present factual and grounded information. …

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Highly Customized Optical Networking Critical for Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)

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Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated optical-electrical-optical transformations. This enables efficient data sharing across thousands of chips in a single pod, with signals remaining in the optical domain for most inter-chip communication. Ironwood, seventh generation TPU, is purpose-built …

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