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Three months later, Grok’s progress is amazing, and @bot makes it even more powerful and easier to use. This is the fidelity using the same prompt: “Explain Navier-Stokes equation and how it relates to airfoil design with actual fluid dynamics simulation.”

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow. No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it. This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in. Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again. What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive. The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

Why did SpaceX choose 301 stainless steel for Starship 👇👇

Did you know Elon Musk was weirdly "predicted" in a Wernher von Braun book nearly 80 years ago? In his 1948 novel *Project Mars*, von Braun describes a future Martian government led by a figure called the "Elon." It's not a person's name, but a title for the head of government. Still, considering Elon Musk's lifelong obsession with Mars, this has to be one of the strangest coincidences in space history!

Suspect we will start to hear about a “Pareto optimal” balance of computationally efficient humans, cheaper open-source tokens and frontier tokens. Our internal AI spend @Atreidesmgmt will be roughly 100x higher in August 2026 vs. March 2026. Still roughly doubling every month. Note that is before Grok Bot moves to consumption pricing which will likely create a step function when it happens (at least for me). AI means that scale has become more important to investing imo. I think there will be a minimum token spend required to be competitive in most knowledge based industries. The “compute inequality” referenced by Sholto in our discussion.

people don’t realize this, but 2026 appears to be the first year in human history where humanity as a whole is below replacement fertility. this has never happened before. not during wars. not during pandemics. for the first time in human history, we are not producing enough children to replace ourselves. this is the only real existential crisis.

Unless rectified quickly, most of the US, Europe, and Asia will go extinct This is a true existential risk

ex-Apple engineer gave Grok 4.6 two jobs inside Cursor, went to sleep, and opened the results live the next morning: no babysitting, no checking every generation, just a model left running on real work for hours. • 00:42 - reveal the website Grok redesigned overnight • 23:21 - go from a voice prompt to a full software stack • 45:43 - inspect the generated code + architecture • 01:21:26 - Grok 4.6 vs Opus 5 • 01:46:31 - live PR + Cloud Agent workflow Most coding demos test an AI for 5 minutes. This tests the thing that matters for agents: can the model keep working when you stop watching it? SpaceXAI built Grok 4.6 specifically around longer-running agent tasks, coding and more ambitious visual work. The endgame isn’t prompting faster. It’s giving an agent a job at night and reviewing finished work in the morning. Worth watching before you choose which model runs your overnight agent loops.

The first CPU built for agents is going to work at scale. @SpaceX is deploying NVIDIA Vera to accelerate the orchestration, code execution, and data processing that powers its next generation of agentic AI — keeping GPUs fed and agents acting fast. From gigawatt AI factories to orbit. One NVIDIA architecture, everywhere.

Grok @bot now passes the DOOM test. It ported the entire DOOM to ESP32-S running at a high frame rate without trouble.

Elon Musk reveals why he launched his Tesla Roadster into space. "I fully expected this flight to fail." Musk was talking about Falcon Heavy's first flight. Since he thought the rocket might fail, he didn't want to put something boring on top of it. Instead, SpaceX launched his personal Tesla Roadster with Starman sitting in the driver's seat. The car is now traveling in an orbit that takes it between Earth and Mars. And according to Musk, it could remain up there for around 10 million years. Imagine taking your everyday car and accidentally turning it into a piece of space history.

Singapore just went all in on birth rates Fertility fell to a record-low 0.87 in 2025. Birth rates have fallen seriously low That’s not just a dip. That’s a whole country nowhere near replacing itself. It's a massive problem for the country So Singapore is going directly after the biggest things making parenthood harder: money, time, childcare and housing Money: - Every Singaporean child will receive around S$70,000 in direct financial support from birth to age 17 - S$10,000 Baby Gift during the first year - S$2,000 every year from age 1 to 16. - Plus MediSave, CDA support, Edusave and another S$10,000 education top-up at 17 - And every child gets the same baseline support regardless of whether they’re the first or fourth child Time: Childcare leave is increasing to: • 8 days for one child • 10 days for two • 12 days for three or more And it now covers children all the way through age 12. The government will cover the cost of statutory child-related leave up to the reimbursement limit, taking that burden off employers Housing: - First-time families will get an extra BTO ballot chance for every child they have or are expecting. - More kids = more chances of securing a home. The BTO income ceiling is also rising from S$14,000 to S$16,000 Childcare: - Government-supported full-day childcare is being pushed toward S$150/month and infant care toward S$300/month by 2030 Cash alone was never going to fix collapsing birth rates. Singapore is attacking the actual friction around having children: the cost, the time, childcare and getting a home If you want people to have more children, make having children easier Singapore is actually trying that

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 is now #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index. This index measures whether voice agents can reason over the speech it hears, resolve real customer issues, and correctly complete tasks using agent tools.

this is the real problem most people just don't realize the scale of the fertility collapse. population pyramid inversion in almost all countries and old people massively outnumbering kids is THE cataclysm you won't see the tsunami coming or the meteor in the sky or people dying in a pandemic, but that doesn't mean it’s less existential In the US, if the current fertility trajectory continues, for every 100 people today you'll be left with 25 people in a century. that's like having a pandemic that kills 75% of people worse than your “cataclysmic” bubonic plague. but it happens slower and for self centered people it’s impossible to grasp. the tragedy of modern man is that he has been removed from history and for him nothing exists but today and maybe tomorrow, that’s a real catastrophe. “it doesn’t affect me personally so it’s not a problem” what’s even worse is that the economy might even keep doing great because of AI and robots. the market will boom while humans bring themselves to extinction. you can have rising GDP per capita and a dying civilization at the same time things always get better until they don't

At Starlink, we’re using Grok Voice to resolve over 15,000 inbound customer support and sales calls a day. Grok diagnoses hardware issues, ships replacements, and fulfills over 3,000 orders a week across voice calls and chat.

Grok Bot is insane. I asked it to find every video where Dr. Roger Seheult discusses sunlight, red light, infrared light, and mitochondria, including MedCram videos and interviews with Andrew Huberman, Eric Berg, Steven Bartlett, and others. A few minutes later it had: • Found and transcribed 38 videos into one Word document • Picked the 13 best clips explaining the science • Cut and combined them into one 19:35 video I can watch straight through • Created a markdown file summarizing each clip, the science it covers, and the exact timestamp in the original video No scripts. No code. I just told it what I wanted in plain English, and it turned days of work into minutes. As a non-coder, this is the first AI agent that actually feels like a superpower.