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IndustrySep 21, 20268 min read

Kairos Brings Samsung Into the Work Between a Reactor and a Power Plant

The conditional investment adds engineering capacity to Hermes 2. Factory integration, fuel qualification and operating approvals still have to turn the plan into electricity.

Why it mattersSamsung C&T's proposed investment and engineering work would strengthen the team delivering Kairos Power's Hermes 2 demonstration plant.

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Intelligence

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Space

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Security

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Industry

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Aug 29, 20265 min

Cursor Just Got a Brutal Lesson in Model Dependency

OpenAI says it intends to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquired the coding company. The proposed cutoff is November 12. The strategic lesson is already here: borrowed intelligence can become a change-of-control liability overnight.

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Builders

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Sep 1, 202615 min

When Almost Anything Can Be Built, Mission Becomes the Moat

At the G20 Innovation Ministerial, Elon Musk presented a vision of the future that was characteristically enormous in scale. Artificial intelligence, he argued, could eventually expand the global economy by 20% to 30%. When combined with physical AI and humanoid robotics, he suggested that economic output could grow by a factor of ten. He also predicted that the world could have roughly one billion humanoid robots within a decade, with each robot capable of producing several times the annual output of a person.

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