Tesla 19% Auto Gross Margins and Energy Ramping $TSLA

Tesla released its first quarter 2023 financial report and had 19.3% auto gross margin. Energy storage increased to 3.9 Gigawatt hours which is about 1000 megapacks in a quarter. The Energy revenue increased to $1.5 billion in the quarter. Tesla’s near-term pricing strategy means having less current profits for more a long-term profits given the …

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Facebook Sold Your Private Data for 15 Years So You Now Get Less Than $1 Per Year

Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties (like Cambridge Analytica) and there is now a legal settlement for $725 million. You and about 200 million other Americans can get a piece of that settlement. If almost everyone who is a US user of Facebook applies then each applicant will get about …

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Russian Tank Count from Imaging Analysis

More accurate counts of tanks in Russian storage tell us when Russia’s ability to replace destroyed tanks will drop. This will be a further drop in Russia’s military capability. The other key take away is that traditional military assessment sources like the International Institute for Strategic Studies (British research institute) are likely less accurate than …

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Emergent Capabilities of LLM as They Get Bigger

In Emergent abilities of large language models, emergent ability are defined as an ability that is “not present in small models but is present in large models.” Is emergence a rare phenomena, or are many tasks actually emergent? It turns out that there are more than 100 examples of emergent abilities that already been empirically …

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SpaceX Starlink Satellite Direct to Cellphone Gets Second Phone Company

SpaceX has found its second partner for their upcoming Starlink-enabled direct satellite-to-cellular service. New Zealand’s telecommunications company, One NZ (formerly known as Vodafone), has announced it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to offer mobile coverage across the country, eliminating cellular dead zones. SpaceX announced the direct satellite-to-cellular service with T-mobile. T-Mobile has more than …

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Cash App Founder and MobileCoin CPO Stabbed to Death in San Francisco

Bob Lee, Cash App founder and chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, was killed in a San Francisco stabbing. San Francisco allows crime to go unchecked and now Bobs daughters have to grow up with no father pic.twitter.com/FhIypmlHGk — Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) April 5, 2023 MMA fighter Jake Shields posed I just found out …

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Tesla Next Generation 4 Million Car Per Year Production Plan and FSD Coming to China

There are reports (rumors) from China that Tesla is planning a next generation low-priced high volume car with initial production capacity of 4 million vehicles. 36 Krypton learned from several industry insiders that Tesla is planning a grand production capacity map for its new low-priced models.   “This low-priced model is a small Model Y.” The …

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GPT-4 Was Released 3 Weeks Ago and 48% of Surveyed Companies Have Started Replacing Workers

OpenAI released it March 14, 2023 but it was finished training in August, 2022. They finished testing and tuning it and aligning it for the next 7 months. GPT 3.5 is outputting 310 million words per minute. This means it is publishing the entire published works of humanity every 14 days. CS India has appointed …

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