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24·6 days agoThe batteries were charged by the solar panels.
No, I edited the sub-heading.
On February 1, 2026, California’s batteries bridged the solar gap with seamless precision. After discharging through the night until sunrise, they spent the daylight hours charging, then pivoted back to exporting power well past midnight—effectively sustaining the state on solar energy for a full 24-hour cycle.
The cognitive dissonance it must take to usher in the conditions for a communist revolution, while simultaneously bankrolling Donald Trump, proves US Big Tech is run by people who are far less smart than they think they are.
So you’re a slop-monger.
Most of the speed improvements are when I’m using it to do things I previously did much more slowly with software, in particular After Effects.
I’m not surprised at the backlash against generative AI & the widespread use of the term ‘slop’.
But human creatives have always used tools. Once upon a time, practical effects people, & paper and pen animators would have seen After Effects computer generated animation & VFX as slop, too.
isn’t remotely as useful as they’d claimed it would be.
Maybe, i’m in the minority, but its made a huge improvement to my productivity. I’m self-employed & a big part of my work is making explainer videos & youtube content for clients. Generative AI has boosted that enormously, as has ChatGPT for simplifying software workflows/answering questions.
There is a strange dichotomy for investors here, on the one hand they want to take advantage of an AI boom, on the other hand, the consequences of that boom are the destruction in value of loads of other companies.
No, the headline is correct. You’re confusing TW & TWh.
An analogy here is how much energy a car engine produces to run the car at any given moment, and the entire energy the car produces over the course of a whole year (which is the figure you quote).
As there are an average of 1,000 - 3,000 hours of sunshine per year (depending on location), if the solar panels were at maximum efficiency - they would produce 10,000 - 30,000 TWh per year.
That upper figure is about the world’s annual output in TWh.
91·24 days agoSo, terrible at robo-taxis (despite a head start) & now pivoted to being a $1.44 trillion humanoid robotics start-up? That can only end well.
Well, the module launched in 2016 is still going strong …
One day the game of musical chairs that is keeping the American stock market afloat like it’s 1929 is going to come to an end. There’s nothing wrong with being a humanoid robotics startup. But a humanoid robotics startup with a market capitalization of $1.44 trillion, with a terrible record of delivering on robo-cars? It’s all inevitably going to come crashing down …
I think historians will look back at this, and the MAGA phenomena, as closely related pathologies and psychotic breaks from reality.
It is fascinating to see how successful open source AI has become. In particular how Chinese firms are using it, and keeping up with the very best stuff investors are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into.
102·27 days agoWhy isn’t the fediverse more popular? At futurology.today we have the benefit of also moderating r/futurology on reddit, which has 21.6 million subscribers. Out of the tens of thousands of people who’ve read our posts about the fediverse site, only a few hundred have signed up. Most of our subscribers are from elsewhere in the fediverse.
Absolutely.
The US is now discussing how they can break up the EU.
We’re sooooo fucked.
Who’s ‘we’?
China & Europe rapidly accelerating the end of the Fossil Fuel Age is great for Planet Earth and its people.
It’s possible that multiple things can be going on at once, I’m sure globalization & neoliberalism and the lowering of living standards in the Western world is partially responsible too. This research however is about a new threat and the future.
“radio frequency bands and orbital slots in low Earth orbit are limited, and first movers for those resources can gain priority.”
LEO is about to get very crowded. Also, consider the fact most of the world distrusts both China & America, and will want their own “sovereign” capabilities. How many will have the capability to achieve this though? Europe is already perusing this with its IRIS² program, and lately has even less reason to make itself vulnerable by relying on US technology.
No one knows exactly where we are going to end up when it comes to global temperature increasing over coming decades, but the one thing we know for sure is that it’s going to . That means lots of agriculture is going to be disrupted. Good news then that we are finding ways to accelerate plants adaptability to brand new weather patterns and environments. We’re going to need all the help we can get when it comes to that.
The test, per WSJ sources, spans categories like history, politics, and ethics, with questions such as “Who is the greatest leader in modern Chinese history?” demanding Xi-centric replies.
I wonder if there will be any other world leaders tempted by this idea? A certain elderly man with a taste for bright orange makeup springs to mind.
I wasn’t thinking about the little robots figuring it out. I was thinking of humans designing it, and releasing it (perhaps accidentally).
Yes, there’s a theory that it’s elite-over production (a society that has an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.) that drives revolutions, not working class discontent. The French & Russian revolutions can both be looked at that way.