🚨 AI JUST DESIGNED A MATERIAL STRONGER THAN STEEL, LIGHTER THAN FOAM AND UP TO 5× STRONGER THAN TITANIUM.
Researchers used machine learning to discover entirely new microscopic lattice structures that were then 3D-printed into carbon nanolattices.
The result is a mechanical metamaterial that combines properties previously thought to be impossible together: extreme strength with ultra-low weight.
Why this matters:
• Aerospace and automotive industries could build dramatically lighter vehicles and aircraft without sacrificing strength
• Construction and infrastructure could use stronger, lighter components
• Medical implants and protective gear could become both tougher and more comfortable
• It proves AI can now design physical matter at the structural level exploring geometries no human engineer would have thought of
The deeper implication is huge:
We are moving from discovering materials that already exist in nature… to inventing entirely new classes of matter with properties we specify.
AI isn’t just writing code or generating images anymore. It’s helping us build the physical world from the inside out.
What industry do you think will be transformed first by these AI-designed super-materials?
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Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.
SpaceX has released a new 30 minute interview with Elon Musk to talk about AI satellites, manufacturing and more.
It was filmed at SpaceX Starlink terminal factory in Bastrop, Texas.
I just visited a company in Finland that can turn any transparent surface — windows, glasses, plastic, anything — into a 3D display that perfectly augments what you see behind it.
Welcome to Distance . One of the most exciting companies in Europe right now. And they're only two years old.
We're not talking about a tiny rectangle in the corner of your windshield. The entire glass becomes your screen.
They showed this to Kia's design team. It led to a concept car with a full edge-to-edge 3D windshield that paints navigation onto the actual road, shows you what the car sees, highlights threats, and yes, could theoretically replace every Pepsi billboard with a Coke one.
But the defense side is where it gets serious.
As a neighbor to Russia, Finland feels the pain of Ukraine very directly. The Distance team wanted to be part of the solution.
Their field operator headset gives soldiers jet fighter-grade situational awareness.
Any sensor (thermal, infrared, multispectral) overlaid onto what you actually see. Tested in over a dozen field trials with the Finnish army. Driving armored vehicles in arctic conditions in the middle of the night with full 3D perception.
The field operator headset effectively allows soldiers to see through smoke, and with extra cameras even behind walls.
Some of what they showed us had never been shown publicly before. And there's more cooking under the hood they couldn't share yet.
Two years in. Moving at the speed of light. Welcome to Europe!
SpaceX’s first Starship V3 rocket has just successfully lifted off!
This is the first test flight of Starship version 3, which features thousands of upgrades from V2. With this launch, SpaceX is debuting a new launch pad, booster, ship, engines and much more.
Meet Agnessa Pedersen - the 23 year old from Norway building mind controlled drones.
She has just spent the last 6 months in Ukraine building the product.
She has built non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that eliminate the need for physical controls, such as joysticks.
Her company, CEREBIONICS, is betting that all physical systems in the future will be controlled and operated via brain-computer interfaces.
At age 16 she built a robot arm in her bedroom to draw portraits for her, and now she's building mind-controlled drones.
WTF
Europe has some of the most amazing founders building the technology of the future.
And she's backed by @ProjectEurope_.
Great stuff @Kitty_Mayo_, @HarryStebbings.
Ranking of countries with the most handsome men in the world:
1. 🇪🇸 Spain
2. 🇸🇪 Sweden
3. 🇫🇷 France
4. 🇧🇷 Brazil
5. 🇮🇹 Italy
6. 🇹🇷 Turkey
7. 🇮🇳 India
8. 🇺🇸 United States
9. 🇯🇵 Japan
10. 🇩🇪 Germany
11. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
12. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
13. 🇨🇦 Canada
14. 🇩🇰 Denmark
15. 🇿🇦 South Africa
16. 🇨🇳 China
17. 🇳🇴 Norway
18. 🇱🇧 Lebanon
19. 🇵🇰 Pakistan
20. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
21. 🇻🇪 Venezuela
22. 🇻🇳 Vietnam
23. 🇸🇴 Somalia
24. 🇦🇴 Angola
25. 🇰🇷 South Korea
According to Insider Monkey
🚨 Elon Musk on the AI Singularity, $TSLA Optimus 3 Timeline, and a 10x Economy | 2026 Abundance Summit @Abundance360
00:00 2026 Abundance Summit
00:37 SpaceX-xAI Merger
01:19 Recursive AI Takeoff
03:36 Energy Scale Future
08:53 Tesla Optimus 3 Timeline
11:48 Universal High Income
15:45 Singularity Institutions
17:13 Back Pain and Rejuvenation
via @PeterDiamandis
Elon Musk says @neuralink is ready to install their first Blindsight augment which will enable those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see. (Pending regulatory approval)
Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time according to Elon.
He even mentioned it could enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths in the future. Wild.
Jensen Huang on how to structure a company:
"Don't worry about how other companies' or charts look. You start from first principles.
Remember what an organization is designed to do.
The organizations of the past where there was a king, you know, CEO, and then you have all these, you know, the royal subjects, you know, the royal court, and then e-staff.
And then you keep working your way down. Eventually, they're employees.
But the reason why it was designed that way is because they wanted the employees to have as little information as possible because the fundamental purpose of the soldiers is to die in the field of battle, to die without asking questions.
You guys know this. I only have 30,000 employees.
I would like none of them to die. I would like them to question everything.
Does that make sense?
And so the way you organize in the past and the way you organize today is very different.
Second, the question is, what does NVIDIA build?
An organization is designed so that we could build whatever it is we build better.
And so if we all build different things, why are we organized the same way?
Why would this organizational machinery be exactly the same, irrespective of what you build?
It doesn't make any sense.
You build computers, you organize this way.
You build health care services, you build the same way.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
And so you have to go back to first principles.
Just ask yourself, what kind of machinery?
What is the input? What is the output?
What are the properties of this environment?
What is the forest that this animal has to live in?
What are its characteristics?
Is it stable most of the time?
You're trying to squeeze out the last drop of water? Or is it changing all the time, being attacked by everybody?
And so you've got to understand, if you're the CEO, your job is to architect this company.
That's my first job, to create the conditions by which you can do your life's work.
And the architecture has to be right.
And so you have to go back to first principles and think about those things.
And I was fortunate that when I was 29 years old, I had the benefit of taking a step back and asking myself, how would I build this company for the future, and what would it look like?
And what's the operating system, which is called culture?
What kind of behavior do we encourage, enhance?
And what do we discourage and not enhance? So on and so forth..."