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JUST IN: Center for AI Safety warns AI is rapidly approaching the ability to automate all remote work, as Claude Fable 5.2 successfully completes 41.3% of real freelance projects — up from 2.5% a year ago.
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🚨 BREAKING: A serving member of the US Army has been arrested in the UK under the National Security Act on suspicion of spying for Russia
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I‘d rather be highly unpopular with my statements short-term, yet correct long-term. See the date of my post.
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BREAKING: Claude Fable 5.2 solves 2 longstanding problems in theoretical physics involving black holes & quantum gravity.
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Happy Gujarati New Year 🎇🙏🏻
Saal Mubarak 🎇
Nutan Varshabhinandan 🪔
નૂતન વર્ષાભિનંદન 🎇🙏🏻
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America’s defense industrial base has a metal parts problem. Since the 1980s, the U.S. has lost roughly 1,600 foundries (~50% of the domestic base) and 4,400 metal casting facilities (~75% of the base). Critical cast and forged alloys now face 70–80 week lead times.
The 155mm artillery production effort shows what this erosion looks like in practice. The Army has invested $4.5B since 2022 with the goal of producing 100,000 rounds per month. As of March 2026, output was 36,000 rounds per month.
Much of the constraint sits upstream in qualified projectile metal parts production. A ~$500M Texas facility designed to produce 30,000 parts per month had yet to produce a single contract-compliant part as of March 2026.
That same supply chain weakness affects missile production, propulsion, drones, shipbuilding, and other critical systems. These programs depend on the ability to produce complex metal components at speed and scale.
Rebuilding the industrial base requires more than new factories. It requires qualified domestic capacity to cast, forge, machine, inspect, and produce complex metal parts – plus flexible manufacturing capacity that can shift across programs as demand changes.
This is the defense industrial base challenge.
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Pay attention!
America’s defense industrial base has a metal parts problem. Since the 1980s, the U.S. has lost roughly 1,600 foundries (~50% of the domestic base) and 4,400 metal casting facilities (~75% of the base). Critical cast and forged alloys now face 70–80 week lead times.
The 155mm artillery production effort shows what this erosion looks like in practice. The Army has invested $4.5B since 2022 with the goal of producing 100,000 rounds per month. As of March 2026, output was 36,000 rounds per month.
Much of the constraint sits upstream in qualified projectile metal parts production. A ~$500M Texas facility designed to produce 30,000 parts per month had yet to produce a single contract-compliant part as of March 2026.
That same supply chain weakness affects missile production, propulsion, drones, shipbuilding, and other critical systems. These programs depend on the ability to produce complex metal components at speed and scale.
Rebuilding the industrial base requires more than new factories. It requires qualified domestic capacity to cast, forge, machine, inspect, and produce complex metal parts – plus flexible manufacturing capacity that can shift across programs as demand changes.
This is the defense industrial base challenge.
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નૂતન વર્ષાભિનંદન...
આજથી શરૂ થઈ રહેલું નવું વર્ષ આપ સૌના જીવનમાં સુખ, સમૃદ્ધિ, શાંતિ, નવ સંકલ્પ, નવ ઉત્કર્ષ લઈને આવે, નવા ઉત્સાહ સાથે જીવનને તેજસ્વી બનાવવાનું બળ મળે તેવી શુભકામનાઓ...
#HappyNewYear #નૂતનવર્ષાભિનંદન
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ભગવાન શ્રીકૃષ્ણની કૃપાથી નૂતન વર્ષનો દરેક દિવસ મંગલમય રહે, પરિવારજનોના જીવનમાં સુખ, શાંતિ અને સમૃદ્ધિ જળવાઈ રહે તેમજ જીવનમાં નવી આશાઓ અને સિદ્ધિઓનો સંચાર થાય.
નૂતન વર્ષાભિનંદન! 🙏🏻
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This is a huge deal. This will begin to massively reduce the need for launches. Instead, space infrastructure will be constructed remotely using 3d printing techniques and drawing on repurposed space debris. Space forges are being constructed so that key metals can be mined, refined, and put to work without ever having to return to Earth. The space economy will self-assemble rather than be constructed from Earth. Think of the next James Webb Telescope as something that was never on Earth in the first place.
BREAKING: A robot developed by Caltech and funded by DARPA has successfully built part of a structure in orbit without astronauts, marking what researchers describe as the first autonomous construction of a structure in space.
The experiment, called ASTRA, uses a robotic arm to retrieve individual structural tubes and connecting joints, then assemble them into sections of a larger framework directly in orbit.
Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March, the system has spent approximately six months in space testing the technology.
The robot successfully constructed a new section of a truss structure, demonstrating that spacecraft could eventually assemble large structures from smaller components rather than launching them fully assembled.
The experiment is part of DARPA's NOM4D program, which aims to enable construction of enormous structures in orbit, potentially hundreds of meters or even kilometers across.
Potential applications include:
> Giant space telescopes
> Large satellite communications antennas
> Orbital solar power stations
>Future space infrastructure too large to fit inside conventional rockets
The demonstration did not complete the full planned antenna, but establishes an important proof of concept for autonomous orbital construction.
The technology could eventually allow the size of structures built in space to exceed the physical limits of the rockets used to launch their components.
Link to official report submitted by Caltech: sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
ALT Concept art showing how a NOM4D-inspired device might one day autonomously construct a truss structure in space. Credit: DARPA, Colie Wertz
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Singularity was “prophesied” to occur by 2035 but the speed and acceleration of innovation is mind-blowing.
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The Soviets put a cat, a pigeon, guinea pigs and fish into ZERO GRAVITY. The footage is incredible.
During the Space Race, Soviet scientists took animals aboard aircraft to see how they reacted to weightlessness.
The pigeon tries to fly. The cat has absolutely no idea what to do with itself.
Actual science, conducted with the most confused test subjects imaginable.
Writer: Oliver
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It was nice knowing you all… see you in the next life 😂😂😂
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@neso_energy now paying over £1500 /MWh to keep the lights on...
@neso_energy withdrew the EMN for this morning after buying back lots of volume on the interconnectors as expected
But this evening is tighter than this morning was an no warning has been issued
However interconnector buying continues and, as with Friday, NESO is spending large in the BM
Everything now hangs on whether wind picks up as forecast (and not later or by less) and demand is not higher than expected. Given the state of NESO's forecasting both are big IFs
@Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @jonathan_leake @julietsamuel @energygovuk
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Embrace the New Year with fresh beginnings, renewed hope, and gratitude. May this year bring you happiness, success, and countless opportunities. Gujarat Tourism extends warm greetings to all. #NutanVarshabhinandan
#gujarattourism #gujarat #newyear #festival #festiveseason
