[Press Release] Launch time of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft aboard H3 Launch Vehicle Flight No.10 global.jaxa.jp/press/2026/10…

among the dumbest comments about the flying Roadster is “but how is it practical?” well in a very practical way it’s inspiring the next generation of engineers who will be building the cars we will all be flying around in one day (my kids have been hard at work all morning) we need to work towards a future we are excited about

"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! ft.com/content/11632d03-358c…

We have flying cars! Finally!

Earth.

Casey Handmer on why Starlink and Starmind are so valuable: "If you run the math: What is the revenue per watt of transmitted microwave power for Starlink? It's a billion times higher than space-based solar power. SpaceX is making money hand over fist with Starlink. So you take that model and say, we make lots of money transmitting data from your content delivery service like Netflix, but instead let's transmit tokens of some hyper intelligent model. Once you've got the hardware flying, what is the comparative value between your average Starlink bit versus your average Starmind bit? It's probably at least 1,000 times more valuable. It's not even in the same category. It will be interesting to see if economic demand for intelligence in the form of AI tokens can saturate. I suspect not."

SpaceX’s Senior Director for Starship Operations / Launch just posted a picture from Christmas Island. He was on Normand Ranger leading efforts, according to Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver) on August 7. Perhaps Justin is rotating back to Starbase…or running the marathon! 🏃

Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful.

I thought you guys might enjoy this infographic on the Blue Ring. The first of an entirely new kind of spacecraft…

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is: It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years! Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix. (Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)