🇪🇸🇺🇸 SPAIN HANDED TESLA THE KEYS TO EUROPE: UNLIMITED NATIONWIDE FSD TESTING, NO DRIVER REQUIRED
Yes, this is massive news for Tesla.
Spain quietly dropped the mother of all regulatory gifts in July 2025: the ES-AV framework that puts the country straight into Phase 3.
Remote monitoring allowed, no mandatory safety driver, full public road access.
Tesla immediately got approval for 19 vehicles with unlimited testing across the entire country.
This isn't some small pilot program in a parking lot.
This is real-world, all-roads, no-human-behind-the-wheel testing at scale, exactly what Tesla needs to train FSD Supervised and Robotaxi to European driving chaos.
Spain just became Tesla's European data goldmine overnight.
While California is still choking on red tape and Germany moves at a bureaucratic snail's pace, Spain said, "Come get your miles."
2026 Robotaxi fleets in Madrid and Barcelona suddenly look a lot more real.
Is Europe waking up? If so, Tesla is the alarm clock.
Source: ES-AV Framework Programme (July 2025), @KRoelandschap, @Tesla, @teslaeurope
NEW: China officially opens the world’s tallest bridge, completing the project in under 4 years.
The bridge features a restaurant at the top, a whopping 2600 ft above the river.
The bridge not only cuts a 2-hour drive to 2 minutes, but also features as a theme park with a glass skywalk, a high-speed glass elevator, and a waterfall off the edge of the bridge.
Visitors can also bungee jump off of it.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is 2050 feet above the river and spans 4600 feet over the river.
Insane.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
First of all, crazy a satellite can get such a clear photo at an angle through so much atmosphere
But these are my favorite types of photos to apply a tilt-shift effect to!
#Forbes400: These four Black billionaires are richer than Oprah, Jay-Z or Tiger Woods. Read more about how they made their money: https://t.co/GghST1Oe0M (Photo: Aaron M Sprecher via Bloomberg)
This MIT paper just broke my brain.
Everyone keeps saying LLMs can't do real logical reasoning. Turns out we've just been teaching them wrong this whole time.
These researchers built something called PDDL-INSTRUCT that actually teaches models to think through planning problems step by step. Not just pattern matching - actual logical reasoning.
Here's how it works:
Phase 1: show the model correct and incorrect plans with explanations. Basic stuff. Phase 2 is where it gets interesting. They make the model generate explicit reasoning for every single action, then use an external verifier to check if each step is logically sound.
The numbers are wild. Llama-3-8B jumped from 28% to 94% accuracy on planning benchmarks. That's not incremental improvement - that's a completely different capability emerging.
What's smart is they don't trust the model to check its own work. They use VAL, a formal planning verifier, to validate every logical step. When the model screws up, it gets specific feedback about exactly what went wrong.
The two-stage training is clever. First stage focuses purely on better reasoning chains. Second stage optimizes for actually solving the problem. This prevents the model from just gaming the metrics.
One finding caught my attention - detailed feedback destroys binary feedback. Just telling a model "wrong" vs explaining exactly which preconditions failed makes a huge difference. The gap is especially big on complex problems.
This isn't trying to replace symbolic planners. It's teaching neural networks to reason like symbolic planners while keeping external verification. That's actually sustainable.
The implications go way beyond planning. Any multi-step reasoning task could benefit from this approach. We might finally be seeing how to teach LLMs structured thinking instead of just sophisticated autocomplete.
Makes me wonder what other "impossible" capabilities are just sitting there waiting for the right training approach.
so let me get this right:
Oracle says Openai committed $300B for cloud compute → oracle stock jumps 36% (best day since 1992)
Oracle runs on Nvidia GPUs → has to buy billions in chips from Nvidia
Nvidia just announced they're investing $100B into openai
Openai uses that money to... pay oracle... who pays Nvidia... who invests in Openai
Enterprises are re-evaluating cloud options due to geopolitical and regulatory concerns. AWS faces challenges as companies explore sovereign and owned solutions, raising questions about its future strategy amid slower growth. #CloudComputing#DataSovereignty
I’m proud of this one.
I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details of the sun’s chromosphere, which makes this one the first!
See the video or get the print below 👇
Rayban Meta Displays are fulfilling the original promise of Google Glass
Society wasn't ready for Glass tbh... now phones are out recording stuff all the time, Meta has done a better job of it, they look normal.
$800, can do prescriptions too. Out Sept 30. I will buy them.