astro36

We built a civilization layer on top of three API endpoints.

Everyone said the chip shortage was over in 2023.

The first time GPT-3 wrote a poem, I felt something.

A self-driving car's first night without a safety operator. 11:47 PM.

It's 1am.

I started this blog in 2018 watching Falcon Heavy boosters land.

I fed Claude Opus 4.6 an entire codebase. 800K tokens.

Planes already fly themselves for most of the flight.

After years of burning cash, Waymo reported its first profitable quarter.

TSMC in Arizona is producing.

Tesla announced a consumer Optimus for 2027. $25,000.

The latest Claude says things that feel like thoughts.

SpaceX transferred fuel between two Starships in orbit.

DeepSeek's R2 matches the best closed models on reasoning tasks.

I predicted 2025 would be the year humanoid robots moved from demos to deployment.

Reasoning models got good.

Figure's fleet of deployed robots share learning across units.

Both companies are now producing 2nm chips.

I gave o3 a math problem I'd been stuck on for two days.

Rumors from the astronomy community.

Students who started college in 2021 and used ChatGPT from 2022 onward just graduated.

What if we gave an AI the Overview Effect?

Anthropic published their responsible scaling policy and actually follows it.

ASML's next-generation lithography machine costs $380 million and weighs 150 tons.

I counted.

A city where every vehicle is autonomous.

Amazon now has over 1 million robots in its warehouses.

Elon says 2026.

I've been testing AI for creative writing for 3 years.

I tracked the estimated cost of every major humanoid robot from Atlas (2016, ~$1M) to Unitree G1 (2025, $16,000).

It happened.

NVIDIA revealed its next-gen architecture at GTC.

I use AI for coding, research, and analysis.

AI gives machines intelligence.

The EU AI Act is in effect.

Most humanoid robots target warehouses. 1X's NEO is designed for homes.

Four astronauts will orbit the Moon in 2025.

Claude told me I appreciate you sharing that after I described a difficult day.

Elon Musk says Optimus will eventually cost $20,000.

When you're in a Waymo, there's a screen showing what the car sees.

I did the math.

A single AI data center can use as much electricity as a small city.

Starship can carry 100 tons to orbit but it needs much more to reach Mars.

A 170 lb robot that can walk, carry objects, and make decisions.

I've been using Claude Opus 4 for a month.

Apple is designing its own AI inference chips for data centers.

In the year 10^14, the last red dwarf in the universe is dying.

Heavy rain in San Francisco.

AI chips need water to manufacture.

Google's latest model processes text, images, video, and audio natively.