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Building a base on Mars will be one of the greatest challenges in human history

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one real issue I have with various agents now is "where is this code going to run" - does it need access to my local filesystem - can I fire it off from my phone and if so does it run on the cloud or needs my Mac mini fired up / synced? The current UX metaphors around this seem to need work.

BREAKING: Elon Musk says Google and Anthropic are leasing AI compute from SpaceX amid a growing power shortage, adding that SpaceX has brought AI compute online better than anyone else so far. “Even before next year, there are challenges with power, which is why Google, Anthropic and many other companies are leasing compute from SpaceX. We’ve been able to bring AI compute online better than anyone else so far. Constructing our own power plants is the only way we were able to do it”

Three Mile Island produced zero deaths, a chest X-ray dose, and a 30 freeze on new American reactors. A stuck valve and a misread gauge caused a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979. “The China Syndrome”, a movie about a cover up at a nuclear plant, released in theaters 12 days earlier, so newsrooms had a field day with this one. While Thornburgh advised pregnant women and small children only inside a five mile radius, national coverage turned it into a regional evacuation. Panic eased when Carter walked the control room 4 days later, but the damage was done. Columbia’s 1990 study of 32,000 nearby residents found no significant cancer increase. Nuclear stayed one of the safest energy sources ever measured. But the movie and the headlines didn’t allow a return to normalcy.

SpaceX’s road to making humanity multiplanetary is really incredible when you see the milestones together - 2008 → Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit - 2010 → Falcon 9 completes its first flight - 2012 → Dragon becomes the first private spacecraft to visit the ISS - 2015 → Falcon 9 lands on land for the first time - 2016 → First Falcon 9 droneship landing - 2017 → First Falcon 9 booster reflight - 2018 → Falcon Heavy launches for the first time - 2020 → SpaceX returns human spaceflight to America - 2021 → Starship SN15 completes a successful high-altitude flight and landing - 2021 → Inspiration4 becomes the first all-civilian crew to orbit - 2022 → Starship and Super Heavy become a full stack - 2023 → First integrated Starship flight - 2024 → Super Heavy gets caught by the launch tower for the first time - 2025 → A Super Heavy booster flies for a second time - 2026 → Starship V3 and Raptor 3 take flight 18 years of relentless iteration. Falcon 1 → Falcon 9 → Dragon → Falcon Heavy → Starship. Each milestone solved another piece of the puzzle And the destination has stayed the same from the beginning: Make life multiplanetary

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Earth is just one of about 100 billion planets in our galaxy, which is just one of about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And our lifetimes are only about 1/3,000 of humanity's existence, which itself is only 1/20,000 of the Earth's existence. In other words, we are unbelievably tiny and short-lived and no matter what we accomplish, our impact will be insignificant. At the same time, we instinctually want to matter and to evolve, and we can matter a tiny bit--and it's all those tiny bits that add up to drive the evolution of the universe. #principleoftheday

If you have a Grok @bot token usage issue, ask the @bot to create a new channel for dedicated tasks and close it when finished. This would allow Grok @bot to focus on the context you are currently interested in. If you want to reuse the same task, have it save the reflection and upload to the repo so it can be repeatable.

Grok Bot can now read, write, and act across your Microsoft accounts. New plugins give your Bots direct access to Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive.

Talking to brilliant physicists who have thought about orbital compute for 3 hours and are convinced it will never work makes me think of this Keanu Reeves quote: “I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of arguments. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right. Have fun."

A few weeks after our newborns arrived, I kept worrying about getting their bath water temperature right, since newborn skin is so much more sensitive. So I used it as an opportunity to test Grok 4.6 and built a tiny Apple Watch app that checks the water temperature and tells me when it’s too hot or cold. Grok Bot was also surprisingly useful for shipping it: it navigated the App Store submission process through the browser, helped fill out the forms, and even helped answer Apple’s questions during review. It’s now on the App Store. If anyone wants to try it, I’d love feedback. apps.apple.com/us/app/baby-b…

Gavin Baker says Grok Bot feels like another ChatGPT moment because it turns hours of Claude Code work into seconds: "You see these 23-year-old kids and just the way they use AI, they're just fluent and native in it. I just feel like maybe in a way that no matter how hard I try, I will never be, and I'm trying really hard." "We got Claude Code. I built some stuff, did some cool stuff, and in, I don't know, 3 minutes of creating Grok Bots, I had much better versions of everything I created." "I love having a podcast summarizer... It takes 10 seconds in Grok Bot. It's amazing, and it's so good." "A Substack summarizer, an X summarizer, an X sentiment tracker for topics and stocks... All of those would have taken me hours working with Claude Code, and they each took 7 to 12 seconds with Grok Bot. And it's better." "To me, Grok Bot does feel like another ChatGPT moment." @GavinSBaker @DavidGeorge83

I just used instinct and stripe link to buy my niece a hot pink piano… entirely from the messaging interface 🤯🤯 Instinct was even kind enough to find me a 15% off discount!!!!

Making cost to orbit and then space will unlock infinite growth for humanity.

Told Grok to add subtitles. Done in seconds. Might not need Photoshop or CapCut anymore👀✨️

Falcon Heavy's two side boosters land at LZ-2 and LZ-40