I looked into the U.S. Navy's Corsair drone boat that just rescued two American pilots in the Strait of Hormuz, and the engineering is remarkable.
Built by Texas-based Saronic Technologies, the Corsair is a 24-foot autonomous surface vessel powered by AI. It hits 40 mph, carries 1,000 pounds of payload, and can sail more than 1,000 miles without a human aboard. Each unit costs roughly $1 million to produce, which is a fraction of what comparable manned naval assets cost.
The platform runs on Saronic's autonomy stack, which fuses real-time sensor data, computer vision, and AI decision-making to navigate, identify targets, and execute mission objectives without remote piloting. It's part of the Navy's Task Force 59, the unit dedicated to AI-powered unmanned vessels operating in the Middle East.
Saronic stood this up in 12 months from prototype to production. The company is on track to build more than 20 vessels per year by 2027.
This is what American AI looks like in the field. πΊπΈ
Mercedes-Benz will introduce a stretched version of the GLC EV, and, unsurprisingly, it's a China-only model, as the U.S. will miss out on it. https://t.co/YIwUM06ekf
In Terminator 3, the chest-expansion effect was achieved with inflatable air bladders hidden beneath the costume.
The actress Kristanna Loken couldnβt stop laughing because a crew member would literally pump them up by hand.
βIt didnβt always work. Sometimes it popped.β
Audi, looking for a spark to help jump-start sluggish sales worldwide, is returning to the supercar realm with a low-run, midengine model named after a famed Italian racer.
#Audi#AudiNuvolari#automotive#autoindustry
Indiaβs growth momentum remains strong!
GDP growth rate of 7.7% in FY 2025-26 and 7.8% in Q4 of FY 2025-26 reflect the inherent strength of our economy, the success of reforms and the hard work of 140 crore Indians.
We shall leave no stone unturned to further βEase of Living,β βEase of Doing Businessβ and increase opportunities for our youth.
When I first posted this infographic of the Liaoning in 2013, she was barely a year into PLAN service. At the time many observers, including myself, scoffed at China inducting a Soviet relic. Buying the Varyag, an unfinished hull from Ukraine, to serve as its first carrier felt more like a prestige piece. What we completely missed was that the Liaoning was never actually about the hull itself. She was a floating classroom; every arrested landing, deck cycle, and midnight J-15 sortie was quietly teaching the PLAN the complex, foundational DNA of carrier ops completely from scratch. 1/2
I do not know what China phobia is.
I donβt fear China.
I fear our inability to grasp the full scale of the threat posed by the PRC to global peace & security, freedom & democracy, economic security, & to peopleβs very livelihoods.