.@grok estimates that sending 4 humans to summit Olympus Mons (~22km, the tallest volcano in the solar system) would cost $1.5–18B, mostly depending on how well @elonmusk does with Starship cost optimization. I think "we" should do it.

Korean Christians appeal to Supreme Court after ruling forcing them to allow men into women's nude spa Attorneys with the Pacific Justice Institute and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a petition Monday asking the court to hear Olympus Spa v. Armstrong.

Happy #FieldworkFriday#! PNSN field crew recently took a helicopter ride to upgrade equipment at seismic station OSD (Snow Dome) on Mount Olympus in Olympic National Park. Ride along to check out the views!

NEWS: NVIDIA has delivered its first Vera CPUs to SpaceX, with Elon Musk meeting NVIDIA's Ian Buck in person to receive the chip for SpaceXAI. Vera is purpose-built for agentic AI. It features 88 Armv9.2 Olympus cores, 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth and pairs with Rubin GPUs for 10x faster workflows. SpaceX is eyeing Vera specifically for reinforcement learning in rocket design. This is the compute layer that powers the next generation of AI. SpaceX is at the front of the line.

PCSX2 2.8.0 has been released, bringing a major update to the popular PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 says it has made significant performance gain The new version focuses heavily on performance, compatibility, and quality-of-life improvements. -Full EyeToy camera support is now available across Windows, Linux, and macOS -Support for additional PS2 peripherals, including train controllers and Olympus storage devices The update also adds more customization options for the on-screen display, improvements to the Achievements system, cover downloading in Big Picture Mode, and the ability to create shortcuts with custom icons.

SpaceXAI is going all in on NVIDIA’s next-generation AI architecture....from Grok on Earth all the way to AI compute in space SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs for its next generation of agentic AI workloads while expanding the infrastructure behind Grok with Vera Rubin And Vera is built specifically for what AI agents actually need When an agent is working, the GPU is only part of the story Between model calls, the system has to: • Execute code • Use tools • Process huge amounts of data • Run simulations • Orchestrate multiple tasks • Keep feeding work back to the GPUs That increasingly becomes a CPU problem Vera has 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, delivering up to 1.8× faster task completion than x86 CPUs across workloads including agentic AI, reinforcement learning and data processing SpaceXAI plans to use that performance to make AI agents faster while keeping its massive GPU infrastructure better utilized And this gets much bigger SpaceXAI is scaling toward gigawatts of AI computing capacity using NVIDIA Vera Rubin And it doesn’t stop at terrestrial data centers SpaceXAI’s first-generation Starmind AI satellite is planned around an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system Basically, the same NVIDIA computing architecture being built for giant AI factories on Earth is now being adapted for orbital AI compute The direction is becoming pretty clear: Vera CPUs → faster, more capable AI agents Vera Rubin → gigawatt-scale AI factories Starmind → AI computing infrastructure in orbit SpaceXAI is building an AI architecture that starts on Earth and eventually extends into space That is a completely different scale of ambition