- How solar delivers 4.1% home value increase plus 30% of price as federal tax credit up front, plus average $33,000 over net-metering life – SUNz™
- SUNz’s Community Solar has many benefits, little downside
- iPhone iOS 18 features, including the new Notes
- ABBYY AI business moving to Austin
- Elon Musk unveils ‘Cybercab’ robotaxi
Source: Tesla
- Colocating Texas power generation and data centers an opportunity – the EIA ERCOT report BJYEnergy&Water™ SUNz™
- If you import from China – really good news – SUNz™
- Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound
Source: Meta
- Voice chatbots answering phones at more restaurants – SUNz™
- What happens when homes make electricity and prices go negative – SUNz™
Source: WSJ
- X will let people you’ve blocked see your posts
- . . . DOE:
- How Texas is running out of water- Texas & Federal grants – LAkeTX™ 13:18
- Snap’s new spectacles inch closer to compelling AR
- Intel receives Pentagon $3.5 billion
- AMD wins, Intel loses out on Sony PS6 contract
- Ajit Jain dumps more than half of his Berkshire stock – AOF™
- OpenAI releases new ‘reasoning’ AI models in ChatGPT
Source: VentureBeat
- Brazilians protest ban on Elon’s X (w audio) – SnApp™
- AR glasses [will replace tapping on a phone for sure – Ed.]
![AR glasses [will replace tapping on a phone for sure – Ed.]](https://usajobs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/7556f2c8-1275-4b4b-9b84-85f0b906e024-300x170.jpeg)
Source: Goertek
- The Texas grid and others went to Energy Emergency Alert One this Summer, few knew – SUNz™
- Intel is toast – AOF™
- Telegram to drop ‘people nearby’ feature and improve moderation
- We’re getting close to self-correcting GenAI – you can test Reflection today
- Revenue woes force Snapchat to put ads in chat conversations – SnApp™
- . . . Distributed energy examples
- Phil Graham: differences between founders and C-suite execs is night and day – YLabs™
- Rethinking the timeline for electric vehicle dominance [twice as long, self-driving AI will rule – Ed.]
- Wall Street Journal Front Page
- Gradiant Water reaches unicorn status – CHIPartners™, BJYWater (solar + natgas)
- Californians and others may be devastated by solar net metering cuts – SUNz™
- Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet
Source; Ares Industries
- The argument Treasuries not as safe – AOF™
- Uber & GM’s self-driving Cruise join for years
- UT Austin study shows greater solar benefits – SUNz™
- Google announces retirement of sitelinks search box
Source: AP
- Renaissance Man of the millennium Elon Musk expands his world’s largest supercomputer in 19 days, typically takes 4 years
Source: Kim Kulish
- World’s first: Google goes nuclear power for data centers – HYNUS™
- 3 million without power from hurricane Milton – SUNz Freedom™ Whole Home uninterruptible power & AI Internet
- AI TOO BIG FOR TEXAS GRID
- GGG™ Good Gold Grams fly off Costco shelves as GLD rises
- Hyundai and Waymo to partner on autonomous cars (again)
- Meta & Ray Ban got AI glasses right, major update TODAY, Apple may or may not do it better (w audio)
Source: CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
- . . . more (w audio) – SUNz™
- Westinghouse’s 5Mw/15Mw eVinci micro-nuclear goes into 2026 testing – Halliburton Young Nuclear Utility Services™ NYNUS™
- Snapchat’s AR glasses iteration
Source: Brian Heater
- SUNz™ prepares to launch “knockout” backyard 10kw non-roof solar panel Z™ Tracker into massive market
- Snapchat’s new AI selfie feature using your face in ads
- . . . it’s a grant
- Our American power grid, an easy target, has been and will be under attack for the long term – SUNz™
- Car, home and utility scale batteries (ESS) will continue to become better and cheaper – not an asset to hold long term – SUNz™
- Zuckerberg’s new Meta: “No more apologies”
- University of Texas opens robotics program up to incoming freshmen
- Maxeon reports losses, panels seized at Mexican border [re SUNz™]
- Solar is big, really big in Texas – SUNz™
- APPLE MAY BE THE CLEAR AI WINNER
- Warren sold Apple, why you should – AOF™
- Generative AI copyright issues and the AI Act
- Grid scale ESS (battery) – a $trillion business in 5 years (Economist free trial)
- . . . comments
- Your electric bills will continue to rise, unless you’ve SUNz™
- Reuters Daily Audio Podcast For Apple Users
- Drivers hate tech in their cars – Go JPS and RSR9.11™
- China imports record level of chip equipment purchases – CHIPartners™
- . . . more
- U.S. develop new superconductor material for quantum computing – QAI™
Source: Pixabay
- Study: 1 in 4 thinks life is boring – YLabs™ has an answer!
- . . . more
- Musk’s xAI launches API
- . . . far more than impressive
- . . . orders 2 types
- UK & Europe great markets for U.S. ESS & Solar exports, U.K. electricity cost is 4X U.S. – SUNz™
Source: Financial Times
- Here’s what happened to GigaMexico, Tesla’s to-be largest factory 13:42
Source: Tesla
- Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs
- America’s young men 20-25 in a tough position, but have fast, life-fulfilling answers: (w audio) 1. YLabs™ & YC – teams, capital, mentors … life 2. Pivotal family and friends effective support
- . . . more
- Telegram to share user data with authorities
Source: AlternativeTo
- . . . Westinghouse:
- AWS (and Google – Ed.) cloud customers returning to on-premise servers
- Warren’s 3 ways to turn$10k into a fortune – #1 is start young – AOF™
- CATL unveils battery with lifespan 1 million miles – SUNz™ DOEC™
Source: CATL
- . . . more
- Texas cities fast growing traffic congestion, where walk-bike makes real sense – SpeedO™
- Neighbors™ and Homeowners Grid™ virtual power plant strengthens the grid, protects from outages, lowers prices – SUNz™
- Apple unveils the iPhone 16 – good price, good new features
Source: Apple
- Seoul summit: the future of AI in warfare
Source: Washington Post
- . . . rooftop solar continues decline, Maxeon withdraws financial forecasts
- Bill wants to work another 20 or 30 years
- Meta to allow third-party services in WhatsApp
- We’re getting close to GenAI self-correcting, and you can test Reflection today
- Anthropic launches Claude AI enterprise with more security (AI)
- . . . the SUNz™ solution is distributed storage, generation, and arbitrage that benefits the homeowner and everyone
- . . . quantity, type and location of ESS grid projects 2004-2028
- You won’t believe who can listen in on your phone
- New York Times Front Page
- . . . more
- Absolutely, Big Tech doesn’t want you to know the cost of electricity and water that AI will use ($1 four months)
- Meta to discontinue its ‘Spark’ platform for creating AR filters
- China’s cranking up massive manufacturing & export push – SUNz™ Distributors
- Plugin hybrids continue to gain traction – (w audio)
- AGI, 3AI™, CHIPartners™, AI PAPERS:
- a16z: Understanding AI By Easy Steps – The AI Canon
- Try One Yourself – The MIT Brain (AI) Course (1:10s)
- MIT: 20 AI algorithms connected – ENGINEERING CS – AI
Source: MIT
- 19 U.S. AI startups raised $100M to $40B in last 4 months
- Generative AI for secure and scalable multimodal eye movement datasets – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- Privacy focused automotive AI through enhanced GAN-based gaze retention – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Generative AI for cardiac electrophysiology training – a practical review – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- Shaping the next generation of ENT medical information – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- Integrating generative AI into human-machine systems engineering education – EDUCATION – AI
- Prompt-driven and training-free forgetting approach and dataset for large language models – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- OpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model
Source: CFOTO
- Large language models as a path to AGI – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Methylome landscapes with generative AI across genomic ranges – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- Large Language Models for Narrative & Text Analysis with Generative AI – BUSINESS & ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- OpenAI Cofo Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence receives $2B for $32B valuation – ENGINEERING CS AGI
- Mental health treatment using a Generative AI chatbot – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- Exploring the power of Generative AI in visual marketing – BUSINESS – Marketing & Support – AI
- U.S. must regain R&D leadership to win AI race – 140 FIELDS OF UNIVERSITY STUDY – CS AGI
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the era of AGI – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- AGI progress in society technology ethics and brain inspired research – COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE – AI
- AGI governments and free societies – GOVERNMENT – CS – AI
- Gates on AGI + Hunanoids: most professions sitting ducks, humans won’t be needed
Source: Netflix
- . . . Gates’ 3 jobs remaining: Energy, Biologists and Coding (?!)
- Anthropic develops new method to look inside large language models – ENGINEERING CS AI
- The impact of Generative AI on critical thinking – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Transitioning from Generative AI to Innovative AI – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Generative physical AI in visual intelligence – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent – ENGINEERING CS AI.
- . . . more
- Elon (correctly) says humanoids will be 10X any other product ever produced, most every human will have one, $20-$25k – ENGINEERING – AI AGI
- . . . more
- . . . some video
- . . . Humanoid bots much sooner than you think
- AGI even AI replacing most lawyer work – as obvious as radiologists were – LAW & BUSINESS – AI
- AI chatbots elevate nursing training and patient care – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- Meta of diagnostic performance in generative models – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Crafting immersive realities with generative intelligence – ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Role of Generative AI in strategic thinking and evaluation – BUSINESS – Management – AI
- Generative AI is reshaping learning and innovation – EDUCATION – AI
- Breaking barriers in science education with Generative AI and multimodal models – EDUCATION – AI
- AI-powered BIM for intelligent structural design – ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING – CS – AI
- Transforming business strategies with Generative AI – BUSINESS – Management – AI
- Enhancing medical Q&A with effective prompt engineering – MEDICINE & HEALTHCARE – CS – AI
- SEREGY BRIN: AGI CLOSE, LET’S WORK 60 HOUR WEEKS
- . . . AI WILL START IMPROVING ITSELF
- MailAI™ and TYou™ make the new USPS really useful – Certified or First Class from your phone or computer – letters, cards.
- All of Sam & OpenAI’s startup investments, and investors – ENGINEERING ET – CS AI
- SEREGY BRIN: AGI CLOSE, LET’S WORK 60 HOUR WEEKS – ENGINEERING CS AI AGI
- . . . AI WILL START IMPROVING ITSELF
- . . . “FINAL RACE TO AGI IS AFOOT”
- Parenting slows brain aging – Intersection of AI & COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE CS AGI
- Google’s new AI generates hypotheses – SCIENCE, MEDICINE & ENGINEERING CS AI
- “Operator” AI rolled out by OpenAI in most of world – ENGINEERING CS AI
- . . . 6 useful ways to use (technical)
