Marc Jichi

Learning everyday

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇫🇷 France's giant banquets are selling out across the country. €81 buys you four courses, unlimited wine and a room full of thousands singing together.

Le Canon Français calls it a celebration of French tradition. La France Insoumise calls it the hard right organizing in plain sight.

The investor behind the company, billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, funds think tanks advocating for immigration restrictions, rolling back abortion rights and promoting France's Christian identity.

Police are investigating alleged racial provocation at one event in Caen.

The organizer says most of his customers vote right or hard right. And that's just how rural France votes now.

Source: BBC

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Head testing

[Marc Jichi @MarcJichi]

@bryan_johnson 😂 good one

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Figure says it has increased humanoid robot production from one robot per day to one robot per hour in just 120 days.

The robots undergo intensive testing, including repeated squats and jogging movements.

Figure also demonstrated the robot's ability to climb stairs and navigate complex terrain using vision-based control.

[UAE Embassy US @UAEEmbassyUS]

In Year One of the $1.4T 🇦🇪🇺🇸 economic & tech framework, the UAE significantly exceeded its US investment commitments. Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority Khaldoon Al Mubarak brought that message to Capitol Hill this week in bipartisan meetings with congressional leaders.

[UAE Embassy US @UAEEmbassyUS]

HE Khaldoon Al Mubarak sat down with @UnderSecE @jacobhelberg to discuss the UAE-US economic and tech partnership, AI infrastructure investment and the UAE's role in the US-led Pax Silica initiative.

[UAE Embassy US @UAEEmbassyUS]

HE Khaldoon Al Mubarak met with Treasury @SecScottBessent this week in Washington, discussing UAE investment flows into the US — now exceeding $1 trillion.

[CNN @CNN]

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour his message to the IRGC and Iran. https://t.co/V3msdvKCG1

[البيت الأبيض بالعربية @WHinarabic]

🇺🇸🦅 موعد فتح مضيق هرمز

الرئيس ترامب يعلن أن مضيق هرمز سيُفتح "فوراً" بمجرد توقيعه على مذكرة التفاهم مع إيران، ويقول:

"مضيق هرمز سيُفتح. لدينا كاسحات ألغام هناك؛ إنها تعمل ببراعة تحت الماء، وتعتمد على تقنية مذهلة."
وتيابع:
"لقد قمنا بمسح الألغام، وتمكنا من إزالة معظمها."

[Chad Wahlquist @chadwahl]

Ontology everywhere

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Path Robotics has developed a legged robot called Rove for large-scale industrial welding.

It moves to the worksite and scans welding seams to understand their shape.

Then, its AI performs welding and adjusts the process in real time.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla IPO market cap was 0.1% of its current value

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SPACEX JUST GOT FAA APPROVAL TO TEST ITS NEW “STARFALL” CAPSULES.

These are not regular reentry vehicles.
SpaceX’s new circular Starfall capsules are designed to bring up to 1,000 kg of payload back from orbit safely, repeatedly, and at scale.

They can launch on either Falcon 9 or Starship, perform in-space manufacturing, then reenter and splash down in the Pacific for rapid recovery.

Why this matters:
• Enables true commercial in-space manufacturing (microgravity + vacuum) that can be returned to Earth
• Could become a “proliferated successor” to the ISS for self-sustaining space industry
• Opens the door to rapid point-to-point cargo delivery from orbit to anywhere on Earth
• Directly competes with companies like Varda that have been flying similar missions on SpaceX rockets

The deeper implication is massive:
We are moving from “occasional experiments in space” to routine manufacturing and logistics in orbit.

If Starfall works at scale, companies could build factories in space, produce high-value materials that can’t be made on Earth, and ship them back down regularly all without needing a full space station.

This is one of the clearest steps yet toward a real, self-sustaining commercial space economy.

What do you think will in-space manufacturing finally become a serious industry, or is this still too early?

Follow for more frontier space and future technology.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Celebrating the milestone of a massive 150+ million downloads of Gemma 4 with the release of the new Gemma 4 12B model! It's incredibly powerful for such a small model and it’s tiny enough to run locally on a laptop with just 16GB VRAM. Apache 2.0 license - happy building!

[محمد بن زايد @MohamedBinZayed]

I extend my sincere condolences to the family of Dr Mahmoud Al Qaisiya, who played a key role as a pioneering teacher and educator during the early years of the UAE. Working alongside the late Sheikh Zayed, he was instrumental in advancing our nation’s education sector and leaves a prominent legacy. May he rest in peace.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "Hezbollah is not just an enemy of Israel and an enemy of America, Hezbollah is an enemy of Lebanon and of the Lebanese people."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[🇦🇪 حسن الأمير 🇦🇪 @DaR_ZaYeD_74]

مشروع التخرج تحول إلى شركة بقيمة 50 مليون دولار... 👍
مع سعادة د. محمد الكويتي رئيس الأمن السيبراني في دولة الإمارات وحديثه خلال مهرجان أبوظبي العالمي لريادة الأعمال

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

“But there’s only going to be one winner when it comes to [making stuff again in America]!”