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The AI race is becoming an energy buildout. This excellent talk puts a scale on the electricity data centres will need and asks the question every AI investor should understand, where will the power come from?
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Victoria has given state approval to a 1.5 gigawatt wind farm with two 300 megawatt batteries. Now publish the firm output during a multi day wind drought, the transmission bill and who pays for backup. Nameplate capacity is not reliability.
AI models are moving beyond answering questions and into doing serious overnight work. Gemini 4 Argon helped turn months of Chrome refactoring into weeks while reducing code rollbacks. Software development is moving from AI assistance to AI execution.
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Ten full time technical colleges for students in years 10 to 12 is a strong plan for Victoria. The proposed investment could train 5,000 young people in real trades and help build the homes the state needs.
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What a night for Australian football. A packed AAMI Park, a late equaliser, penalties, then an NPL club lifting the Australia Cup. An incredible win for South Melbourne and their supporters.
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One ship home, another already testing. This steady production and test flow is exactly how frequent Starship launches become possible.
The latest with Starship, as Ship 40 returns home and Ship 42 heads out for more testing.
By Ryan Weber (@rweb11742)
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Well worth watching this Nuclear for Australia's interview with Dr Sarah Lawley gets straight into the questions Australia needs answered: how much power data centres will need, what that means for bills and whether nuclear fits.
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This is a healthy reality check for Australia's AI boom. Demand can be huge and investors can still insist on built sites and proven execution before funding the story. Ambition has to earn capital.
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Breaking ground at Nolans is a major step for Australia's rare earths industry. Now build the processing plant, meet the three year timetable and turn public backing into an Australian supply chain that ships.
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Switzerland may vote on lifting its ban on new nuclear plants. Four reactors already supply about a third of its electricity, yet voters could restore the option to assess new projects. Australia should lift its ban and let proposals face the evidence.
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Google’s deal supports more than $4.3 billion in reactor upgrades and 20 years of nuclear power. This is serious energy planning. AI demand is exploding, grids are tightening and nuclear is proving again that reliable power wins.
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Governments can reverse bad policy overnight. At last, energy realism is winning. Nuclear expertise and infrastructure take decades to build, so protecting what already works is far smarter than paying to recreate it later.
Belgium is reversing course on nuclear.
Decommissioning has been halted.
The government has signed a letter of intent with Engie for a full state takeover of the nuclear fleet.
For years, Belgium followed the green script. They shut reliable nuclear. Bet on weather-dependent power. And increased reliance on imports.
Now reality has intervened.
Prime Minister Bart De Wever says Belgium wants safe, affordable, sustainable energy with less dependence on foreign supply -- which raises the obvious question, why was that not Belgium's policy all along?
Nuclear was always the sane option. Dense power. Low carbon. Dispatchable. Domestic control. It works when wind drops. It works when the sun sets. It works when gas prices spike.
Belgium is not "transitioning." It is backing away from a big mistake. Europe, it appears, is finally waking up to the green folly.
This is a fascinating look at the overlooked hardware behind the AI boom. AI’s energy problem is not only generating more power. It is how much gets lost between grid and chip. Drew Baglino explains how Heron Power could halve conversion losses, deliver more compute and make the transformer 100x smaller. That is a serious infrastructure breakthrough.
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This is how a new nuclear industry gets built. A shared national test bed lets companies prove fuelled hardware without each having to build an entire nuclear facility from scratch. If Unity proves itself, nuclear batteries could bring dependable power to remote sites where extending the grid makes little sense.
Houston-based Deployable Energy will test its 1 MWe Unity nuclear battery at full power inside DOME, Idaho National Laboratory's 100-foot-tall microreactor test bed, in 2027. DOME is built inside the old containment dome of the EBR-II reactor and can host fuelled experiments of up to 20 MW thermal, and Deployable Energy will be only the second company to test there, after Radiant.
Now this is commitment. Most drivers fly to Singapore! A gravel bike, roads less travelled and the longest formation lap in Formula 1 history. Safe travels, Valtteri! 🚲
Yea I’m riding to Singapore 🚲
On the gravel roads less travelled with my new @canyon_bikes Grail CFR.
See you there 🇸🇬
This should end the pretence that nuclear is incompatible with climate policy. Australian now have a clear choice follow the evidence and lift the ban, or admit ideology matters more than reliable low carbon power.
The UK Greens now recognise nuclear as a "low-carbon electricity source", dropping opposition at their conference overnight.
Its time for the new leadership of the Australian Greens to support lifting Australia's nuclear power bans.
⚛️ Take Action
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One Minute Eye Correction. If this survives animal and human trials, vision correction could become quick, incision free and potentially adjustable instead of permanent. That could change the decision for millions who are uneasy about surgery. Early science, enormous possibility.
🚨 A one-minute vision correction could be on the horizon
Scientists are exploring a striking new way to reshape the eye without a laser, cutting, or removing tissue.
The technique, called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), uses a tiny electrical current and a specially shaped platinum lens. The current temporarily changes the chemistry of the cornea, making its collagen structure easier to reshape. The lens then moulds the cornea into a new form.
In early tests using 12 isolated rabbit eyeballs, researchers successfully achieved the intended focusing correction in all 10 eyes treated for simulated nearsightedness.
Unlike LASIK, EMR does not require an incision or tissue removal—and researchers say the process could potentially be simpler and even reversible.
But there is a major catch: this has not been tested in living humans. More animal research is needed before human clinical trials can even begin.
A cut-free, one-minute vision correction sounds futuristic. For now, it remains an intriguing early-stage possibility.
Source: ScienceDaily. (2026, September 29). Electromechanical reshaping offers a non-invasive approach to correcting refractive errors. Occidental College & University of California, Irvine.
ALT A one-minute vision correction could be on the horizon Scientists are exploring a striking new way to reshape the eye **without a laser, cutting, or removing tissue**. The technique, called **electromechanical reshaping (EMR)**, uses a tiny electrical current and a specially shaped platinum lens. The current temporarily changes the chemistry of the cornea, making its collagen structure easier to reshape. The lens then moulds the cornea into a new form. In early tests using **12 isolated rabbit eyeballs**, researchers successfully achieved the intended focusing correction in all 10 eyes treated for simulated nearsightedness. Unlike LASIK, EMR does not require an incision or tissue removal—and researchers say the process could potentially be simpler and even reversible. But there is a major catch: **this has not been tested in living humans.** More animal research is needed before human clinical trials can even begin.
NASA tested a DAVINCI probe the size of a yoga ball at 465°C, matching how fast it will heat during its descent to Venus. Building something that can work in that atmosphere is ridiculous engineering. I cannot wait to see what it finds.
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The biggest win here is independence. Every minute removed from calibration is more time someone can spend communicating, working and controlling their world. This is breakthrough science becoming life changing technology.
Our clinical trial participants have now used their Neuralink implants for over 50,000 hours, building one of the largest datasets of intracortical neural activity ever.
We used it to pretrain a foundation model for BCI: self-supervised neural encoders that turn noisy, drifting spikes into stable representations.
Some initial results:
• Decoders that keep working for weeks instead of days. For some users, calibration dropped from 10 min/day to 10 min/week
• Teleporting cursors that jump straight to the intended target
• A new cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second (exceeding the performance of most able-bodied people)
We’re just getting started. Future directions include pooling data across participants, one-shot (or zero-shot) calibration, and an API for the motor cortex.
Read more:
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