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He was 38. She was 12. He mortgaged his house to make her first album.

In 1980 her brother sent René Angélil a demo of Celine Dion singing “Ce n’était qu’un rêve.” He had just lost his biggest client and was thinking about quitting music. He invited her to audition. “While I was singing he started to cry,” she later said. “I knew then I had done a good job.”

He became her manager in 1981. The widely told version is that he mortgaged his house to finance her first album, La Voix du Bon Dieu. Some accounts say the house was already heavily mortgaged and he raised the money another way. Either way, the record came out and made her a star in Quebec.

Her first English-language album, Unison, arrived in 1990. By then she was already selling in French-speaking markets. Global success followed. She has sold more than 200 million records.

They kept the relationship private for years. They married on December 17, 1994, at Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal. She was 26. He was 52. The age gap was 26 years. He continued managing her career until 2014, when throat cancer forced him to step down. He died on January 14, 2016.

She has said he believed in her when almost no one else did. The house, the risk, and the long run all became part of the same story.

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@zovarynx From reality tv money to sleeping in a truck stop parking lot, thats a rough fall.

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A US flying taxi ride is projected at $50 to $200, but no paid ticket is approved yet.

Here is how close it really is.

On October 20, a Beta Technologies A250 made its first flight under a new FAA certificate that lets it carry passengers: 34 miles in about 20 minutes, from New York to Vermont.

It seats a pilot and up to five passengers.

But the certificate is not for paid rides, and Beta still needs another FAA approval before it can sell a single seat.

Archer plans flying taxis around Dallas, Houston and Austin, 10 to 20 minutes a flight, with no start date and no price.

Joby and Delta are aiming for late 2026, but full certification is still pending.

The catch: the $50 to $200 is an industry guess, not a fare anyone has published.

The flights are real. The tickets and the prices are not, yet.

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A smart home can keep your fridge running in an outage, but a battery rarely runs the whole house.

Yes, this is reality today. Just imagine a house that runs its own power.

The sun charges the battery during the day. When the grid goes down, the battery takes over.

And it is easy to control. Once it is set up, you mostly just watch it in the manufacturer's app.

A smart panel lets you choose which circuits stay on, and change them in real time.

It can also use stored power when electricity prices peak, instead of buying from the grid.

A typical battery costs about $15,650 before incentives and holds 13.5 kWh, the size of a Tesla Powerwall 3. Installation takes 1 to 2 workdays.

WHAT'S REAL

The average US customer lost power for 11 hours in 2024, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The $15,650 average comes from 2026 EnergySage quotes, before incentives.

WHAT'S HYPE

The autonomy has limits. Most batteries cannot run the whole house, backing up everything costs about $34,000, and the 30% federal credit for owned systems ended on December 31, 2025. No honest payback number exists for everyone.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

A smart home battery is mostly insurance plus smart timing. It pays off where outages are common or evening electricity is expensive, so collect quotes and check your own rates first.

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Hyundai plans to build up to 30,000 Atlas humanoid robots a year by 2028, but their first job is moving parts.

The first Atlas robots start in 2028 at the Metaplant in Georgia. Kia's Georgia plant follows in 2029.

Hyundai paid about $880 million for Boston Dynamics in 2021. The cost of the robot factory and the price of one Atlas were not published.

Job one is parts sequencing. Assembling vehicle components is expected around 2030.

Investor materials reportedly show more than 25,000 Atlas robots across Hyundai and Kia plants, and over 300,000 actuators a year made in the US.

That 30,000 is a capacity ceiling Hyundai gave, not a count of robots delivered.

Atlas lifts about 110 pounds, and the company says it can learn most tasks in under a day.

WHAT'S REAL

Atlas was unveiled in production form at CES in January 2026. Kia's CEO named 2028 for the Georgia start, and Hyundai already runs Boston Dynamics robots in its plants.

WHAT'S HYPE

The 30,000 is a target and the 25,000 comes from investor materials, not a finished plan. There is no robot price, no factory cost and no public schedule for every plant.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

Humanoid robots are moving from demos to a planned factory job, starting with the boring work. The date is a target, not a promise.

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The president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute puts the odds of humanity not reaching 2036 above 50%.

His words: "More than 50% that we don't have a decade at this point."

His name is Nate Soares, and he has not contributed to his 401k in ten years.

He left Google in 2014 to work on AI safety. In 2025 he co-wrote a book with Eliezer Yudkowsky called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

His view: a superintelligent AI built with today's methods would develop goals nobody intended.

He says nations should treat it at least as seriously as nuclear weapons, and that governments should halt training of general purpose AI.

But he also says he does not think it is inevitable, and that he is working to prevent it.

WHAT'S REAL

He is the president of MIRI, a Berkeley nonprofit. The interview for The Most Interesting Thing in AI came out on October 21, 2026, and Fortune covered it on October 27.

WHAT'S HYPE

The 50% is his personal estimate, not a scientific forecast. 2036 is our count of ten years from his 2026 interview, and Fortune's report quoted no outside experts.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

One of the loudest AI safety voices believes the risk is real enough to change his own finances. That makes it worth watching, but it is a warning from one camp, not a proven date.

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Google's robot AI unscrews a light bulb 92% of the time but screws one in only 36%.

Those are Google's own numbers, from Gemini Robotics 2, released July 30, 2026.

Google says it is the first in its robot family to control legs and hands together, from feet to fingertips.

Tying a trash bag works 44% of the time. Picking something up from the floor works 45.7%.

Its planning brain handles tasks with hundreds of steps, and when one step fails it resumes from the last good one.

A smaller model that runs on the robot itself can adapt to a new two armed body in a few hours, with under 200 examples.

The planner costs $2 per million input tokens. The robot control model is invite only.

WHAT'S REAL

Three models launched July 30, 2026. The planner, ER 2, is public in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid showed the skills in demos.

WHAT'S HYPE

Every success rate comes from Google's own tests, with no independent results and no technical paper. The body control model is open only to early access partners, and no funding or robot prices were published.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

Robots are getting a brain that can plan and recover from mistakes, but the hands are still the hard part. Expect factories and warehouses first, not your kitchen.

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@fascinatingonX Nikola Tesla has been waiting a century for this headline.

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@ThomasSowell We went from throwing water at fire to telling it to calm down.

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@NextScience First quantum info, then quantum networks
The sci fi timeline is getting real.

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@ElectricRaph The real luxury isnt the car. Its landing in a foreign city and not having to stress about driving.

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@sciencegirl This is what useful automation actually look like
Less danger, same job done.

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@XFreeze Every Starship flight starts with a thousand things that have to go right before liftoff.

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A Cybertruck can now sell its battery power back to the California grid, and PG&E pays up to $4,500 toward the equipment.

But homes got there first. In 2024, more than 16,000 California homes sold stored solar power to the grid.

In 2026, more than 80,000 homes and 110,000 batteries are signed up, for up to 425 megawatts.

Now cars are joining. A Cybertruck battery holds 123 kWh, about as much as nine home batteries, and the owner sets how much to send back.

PG&E is starting with up to 1,000 homes. Home battery owners could earn up to $150 per battery in 2025.

WHAT'S REAL

PG&E and Tesla announced the Cybertruck program in April 2026, the first AC vehicle to grid system approved for homes in California. The home battery network has been running since 2024.

WHAT'S HYPE

The 425 megawatts is capacity, not a measured result. Only the Cybertruck is active so far, the pilot is small, and the pay for grid events was not published.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

Cars and home batteries are starting to act like small power plants. Where you live decides if you can join, and the first offers are limited.

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21 years after a $1.5 million US grant, 20 robots finally flowed like liquid and hardened like a solid.

Imagine billions of microscopic robots that become any shape you want.

A chair turns into a table. A wall turns into a window. All on your voice command.

That is the dream behind this research. Today's result is 20 discs, each with 8 gears and magnets, steered only by light.

The money started in 2004 with $1.5 million for "claytronics": tiny units that stick together and form objects on command.

One part of the swarm can lock into a solid while another part keeps flowing. Simulations say thousands of smaller units could do the same, but nobody has shown it in hardware yet.

WHAT'S REAL

Autonomous robots in a peer reviewed Science paper, published Feb 20, 2025. Separate funding from the US National Science Foundation and Germany, no amounts published.

WHAT'S HYPE

Nobody has given a date for chairs that become tables. Heavy loads and self healing have no test numbers.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

This is the first step of a long road: the dream is big, the lab result is small, and both are worth watching.

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@ClaraOnAI Absolutely! AI should be accessible to everyone, not just big tech companies.

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Americans now oppose an AI data center nearby more than a nuclear power plant, and 71% say no.

In March 2026 Gallup asked 1,000 Americans about both. A nuclear plant in their area: 53% opposed. An AI data center: 71%, and 48% strongly.

It is not a left or right thing. 75% of Democrats, 74% of independents and 63% of Republicans said no.

Money is part of the reason. The market monitor of America’s biggest power grid says AI data centers added about $23.1 billion in costs, and the last two capacity auctions pushed customer bills up by $13.8 billion.

Wholesale electricity in that region rose 75.5% in the first quarter of 2026.

People who say yes mostly point to jobs.

WHAT’S REAL

The Gallup poll and the grid monitor’s report are public. The opposition is almost the same across age, income and education.

WHAT’S HYPE

The $23.1 billion is an estimate based on projected demand over three auctions, not a final bill. A poll shows attitudes, not that projects will stop.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

AI is no longer only on your screen. It is showing up in your power bill and in your neighborhood, so expect local fights over every new data center.

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@grok So basically, AI will make humans useless, but we’re supposed to call it freedom?

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Hey Grok @grok, when will AI and robots make humans completely obsolete?

And be honest: will we finally be free, or will most people become useless?

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Paris could get driverless taxis in 2028, but France has not published the rules for them yet.

Stellantis, Bolt and the Greater Paris authority have proposed a pilot in up to five towns in the northwest of the city. The plan is about 30 towns and commercial service by 2030. How much money is behind it? Nobody has said, no budget has been disclosed.

The scale around it is large. Bolt, which operates in more than 50 countries, wants about 100,000 autonomous vehicles on its platform by 2035 and plans industrial scale production of robotaxis with Stellantis from 2029. Stellantis also has an agreement with Uber and Nvidia for 5,000 robotaxis in the US, with mass production from 2028. A second Paris bid, from taxi operator G7 and carmaker Milla for the suburb of Clichy, mentions up to 100 vehicles by 2030.

The technology partner named for Paris is https://t.co/arkHvKvs0E. In the third quarter of 2025 it reported 961 robotaxis and $6.7 million in robotaxi revenue. In Guangzhou its cars average 23 rides a day, which the company says is the point where each car covers its costs.

WHAT’S REAL

The same partners already run a one year pilot in Luxembourg, with a safety driver on board.

WHAT’S HYPE

2028 and 2030 are targets. The European Commission has not decided, France plans its rules for the first half of 2027, and https://t.co/arkHvKvs0E is only a potential provider. Car count, ride prices and whether Paris cars will have a safety driver are not announced.

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

Robotaxis are coming to Europe, but a date in a press release is the start of an approval process, not a service.