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Figure AI signed a deal to deploy humanoid robots in a BMW factory.

I let an AI agent plan and book a trip.

There's no sound in space.

I made a timeline of every major humanoid robot walking milestone from 2018 to now.

Meta released Llama 4 with mixture-of-experts architecture.

After years of delays, culture clashes, and water concerns, TSMC's Arizona fab is producing 4nm chips.

Anthropic released Claude Code and I've been using it for two weeks.

Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol.

Atlanta and Miami now have Waymo.

Tesla showed Optimus navigating a warehouse without human control.

OpenAI's largest model yet.

Anthropic gave Claude extended thinking.

xAI built a 100,000 GPU cluster in Memphis and trained Grok 3 on it.

Some day, a baby will be born on Mars.

The hydraulic Atlas that did parkour and danced is being retired.

AI that can reason.

DeepSeek built a reasoning model that matches OpenAI's o1 using older GPUs and clever engineering.

Figure's latest update shows their robot learning physical tasks by watching demonstration videos.

SpaceX flew Starship again.

SpaceX caught a rocket.

A Chinese lab trained a frontier model for $5.6 million.

Figure walked and talked.

Waymo is the clear leader in robotaxis.

I've been writing about the future for 6 years.

A Sanctuary AI humanoid robot worked an 8-hour shift at a warehouse alongside human workers.

NVIDIA announced the B200 at GTC. 208 billion transistors. 20 petaflops of FP4 inference.

AI agents that can browse the web, write code, file issues, and complete multi-step tasks.

Claude can now see my screen and click buttons.

NASA launched a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa.

Writing about this separately from the booster catch post because I keep finding new things to say.

They actually did it.

Agility's Digit robot is working in an Amazon warehouse.

RISC-V is an open source chip architecture.

A civilian crew performed the first commercial spacewalk.

OpenAI's o1 doesn't just generate text.

Samsung is catching up to TSMC at 2nm.

Rivian is burning $1.5 billion per quarter.

100,000 rides per week.

TSMC is now manufacturing at 2nm.

Every AI company says they're building 'agentic AI.'

Light-years.

To build a colony on Mars, SpaceX needs to launch Starship roughly 3 times a day.

In 2047, a home care robot named Kenta has served the Tanaka family for 12 years.

Boeing's Starliner launched with thruster failures and helium leaks.

Legs get all the attention.

It writes better code than I do.

15 books that shaped my thinking this year.

Apple's AI strategy is 'make the stuff you already do slightly better.'

For the first time, a Starship survived reentry and splashed down in the Indian Ocean.

'It's like a very smart parrot that has read every book.'