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Farzad: SpaceX Wants 100 Gigawatts of Orbit Compute

Farzad posted SpaceX Wants 100 Gigawatts of Orbit Compute Per Year and SpaceX Just Committed to Build Exclusively on NVIDIA, quote-tweeted DevinOlsenn on Grok Bot ordering Starbucks while Tesla FSD drove, posted another fully autonomous AI Hard News clip, quote-tweeted Muse + Meta Glasses and Muse Charm, applauded Jensen Huang on Ezra Klein's podcast, quote-tweeted Elon on Grok Bot usage growth, RTd DarioAmodei on a Claude-led molecular machine discovery, and RTd robotaxi on the first Cybercab with in-house cathode, and posted Starship shorts including Control Room Panic, We Have Liftoff, This Wall of Black Tiles, and Flight 14 NET Mon Sep 28 (pending FAA).

SpaceX orbit compute + NVIDIA exclusive

Farzad, Sep 24 morning CT: SpaceX Wants 100 Gigawatts of Orbit Compute Per Year (native X video). Reply: Full video to YouTube (id 4VDAzWeC44k). Titles only.

Farzad, Sep 23 evening CT: SpaceX Just Committed to Build Exclusively on NVIDIA (native X video). Reply: Full video to YouTube (id 4VDAzWeC44k) — same YouTube id as the 100 Gigawatts Full video reply above, as posted. Titles only.

Check 100 Gigawatts native video here. Full video reply here. NVIDIA exclusive native video here. Full video reply here.

Grok Bot Starbucks in Tesla (QT)

Farzad, Sep 23 afternoon CT: Amazing use case for Grok Bot and Tesla FSD. We are entering the age of AI-powered physical products that can action on our behalf. In this case, a self-driving Tesla where you can talk to it and it will literally place a Starbucks order for you. Quoted DevinOlsenn: Grok Bot is in the Tesla now; he used it to order Starbucks while FSD drove; no phone, just voice; confirmed the drink and total, then it placed the order; first thing that actually feels like the car can run an errand with you; currently available to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, with more tiers to follow (per DevinOlsenn). Framing is Farzad's; demo lines are DevinOlsenn's.

Check Farzad QT here. DevinOlsenn here.

AI Hard News (autonomous)

Farzad, Sep 23 late evening CT: AI Hard News: Altman + Amodei at UNSC slowdown pledges — Australia OpenAI Medicare probe, Anthropic ART lab, Daybreak Ukraine, UK CMA, Vera Rubin shipping (native X video). Reply: Everything in this video is 100% autonomously generated. Research pulled the last ~24h of AI/tech hard news, a neutral script was written, voiceover ran through ElevenLabs (Farzad THE FUTURE v2), Cutty edited it in DaVinci Resolve, dual-gate passed, then this posted to X via the API amplify video path — no human in the loop on the wire. Title / pipeline lines are Farzad's — no extra thesis in the title beyond the named beats.

Check native video here. Autonomy reply here.

Muse + Meta Glasses / Charm / mail

Farzad, Sep 23 late evening CT: Muse + Meta Glasses is an amazing unlock. Quoted finkd: Muse now has voice and real-time video; long conversations; Muse works in the background; Muse coming to glasses for hands-free talk (per finkd). Same window: Best form-factor for Muse. Quoted finkd: shipping first pair of audio glasses — lightest frames yet, no camera, all-day battery (per finkd). Same window: How can Meta do something like this but Apple can't? Quoted MTSlive on Muse Charm — keychain-sized mobile device with always-available Muse agent (per MTSlive). Same window: Grok Bot needs something like this @elonmusk. Quoted alexandr_wang: Muse getting its own email address — add to a thread or forward and it handles it (per alexandr_wang). Framing lines are Farzad's; product lines are the quoted accounts'.

Check Muse Glasses QT here. Audio glasses QT here. Muse Charm QT here. Muse mail QT here.

Jensen on Ezra Klein + Grok Bot growth + YouTube A/B

Farzad, Sep 23 late morning CT: I applaud Jensen Huang for going on Ezra Klein's pod. Listening now, but this is how we align the US to a successful AI future. The AI leaders should get in front of every publication — especially adversarial ones — for long-form conversations. Link: youtu.be/HjurAWAr_nY. Lines are Farzad's.

Same window QT of elonmusk: Not surprised. Grok Bot is ultra legit. Try it!!!!!! Quoted Elon: Grok Bot usage is growing faster than anything we've ever seen (per Elon). Framing is Farzad's.

Same window QT of vidIQ: THIS IS BIG!!!! Quoted vidIQ: Video A/B testing is coming to YouTube — upload up to 3 cuts of the same video with different hooks or intros, YouTube picks the winner based on watch time; titles, thumbnails, and now the video itself (per vidIQ). Framing is Farzad's.

Check Jensen post here. Grok Bot growth QT here. YouTube A/B QT here.

Claude gene-editing discovery (RT) + Amodei slowdown QT

DarioAmodei, Sep 23 afternoon CT: Today we announced the Claude-led discovery of a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism. Its precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear, but at minimum it is work I would have been proud to do as a PhD student. The work was done mostly, though not entirely, by Claude: our life sciences team suggested a broad area of research, Claude read through the literature and a bunch of genome data and discovered something interesting, then Claude proposed experiments to verify the discovery and our team carried them out (per DarioAmodei; post continues). Farzad RTd.

Farzad, Sep 23 late afternoon CT: Ok so nothing's changing lol. Quoted Polymarket: Dario Amodei declares Anthropic will "slow down as much as necessary" to ensure its AI models are safe (per Polymarket). Framing is Farzad's.

Check Farzad RT here. DarioAmodei here. Slowdown QT here.

Starship shorts + Cybercab cathode + police Tesla RT

Farzad, Sep 23 afternoon CT: Control Room Panic While Elon Stays Cool (native X video). Reply: Full video to YouTube (id 7zoFdjP8xEo). Titles only.

Farzad, Sep 23 afternoon CT: We Have Liftoff — The Crowd Loses It (native X video). Reply: Full video to YouTube (id 7zoFdjP8xEo) — same YouTube id as Control Room Full video reply above, as posted. Titles only.

Farzad, Sep 23 evening CT: This Wall of Black Tiles Changes Everything (native X video). Reply: Full video to YouTube (id TnaJyLkf8Jk). Titles only.

Farzad, Sep 23 late evening CT: SpaceX Flight 14 — NET Mon Sep 28 (pending FAA) (native X video). Reply: Full video to YouTube (id p15rO-XEtG0). Titles only.

Farzad RTd robotaxi, Sep 23 late afternoon CT: First Cybercab made using our in-house cathode material – from the first cathode plant in the Americas (per robotaxi).

Farzad RTd UpfitTesla, Sep 23 late afternoon CT: Real officers put Tesla police cars to the test on a pursuit test track in San Diego; police from multiple agencies took Model Y and Cybertruck patrol cars through EVOC training (per UpfitTesla).

Check Control Room here. Liftoff here. Wall of Black Tiles here. Flight 14 here. robotaxi RT here. UpfitTesla RT here.

Ban ASI Act sarcasm + good-enough AI QT

Farzad, Sep 23 afternoon CT: Guys we should also ban electricity because it powers homes faster than any human could. Just hop on a bike and pedal for 24 hours to warm up your soup stop being lazy. Quoted Polymarket: Bernie Sanders officially introduces the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act," which would permanently ban superintelligent AI and impose prison sentences of up to 20 years for violations (per Polymarket). Framing is Farzad's.

Farzad, Sep 24 morning CT: Once AI gets "good enough" for most things, the broader public will default to speed, ease of use, and cost. Quoted mikepat711: choosing an inferior model inside of a far better product over a better model inside of a shittier product; all models have gotten good enough to handle the majority of things the average person wants to do with them; all criticism from here is really relative; Grok 4.7 is amazing in absolute terms, just not great relative to recent shipments from competitors; Grok Bot is still the main product he wants in everyday AI life (per mikepat711). Framing is Farzad's.

Check Ban ASI QT here. Good-enough QT here.

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