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by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2025-10-30T20:45:31.605Z
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Fresh, New ‘Jacobin’ Faces of the Democrat Party - YouTube Added: Oct 30, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: The Fresh, New ‘Jacobin’ Faces of the Democrat Party
Site: YouTube
Democrat Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner claims that he didn’t know he got a Nazi tattoo in 2007 while serving as a U.S. Marine, saying on “Pod Sav...
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Double de Blasio: Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year | National Review Added: Oct 30, 2025
Double de Blasio: Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year | National Review
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Harvard’s Grade Inflation and the Value of ‘Impostor Syndrome’ | National Review
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SpaceX looking into 'simplified' Starship Artemis 3 mission to get astronauts to the moon faster | Space Added: Oct 30, 2025
SpaceX looking into 'simplified' Starship Artemis 3 mission to get astronauts to the moon faster
Site: Space
"We've shared and are formally assessing a simplified mission architecture and concept of operations that we believe will result in a faster return to the moon while simultaneously improving crew safety."
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Zohran Mamdani faces test of ties with Democratic Socialists if elected New York mayor - POLITICO Added: Oct 30, 2025
Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialists prepare for complicated partnership
Site: POLITICO
The frontrunner and the Democratic Socialists of America are entering uncharted political territory.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Trump wants to test nuclear weapons. Here's why we stopped Added: Oct 30, 2025
Why the U.S. stopped testing nuclear bombs
Site: Axios
The military played a large role in the testing of nuclear weapons for decades.
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The Literal ‘Skeletons’ In The Democrat Party’s Closet
Added: Oct 30, 2025The Literal ‘Skeletons’ In The Democrat Party’s Closet
Site: tippinsights
By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal | October 29, 2025
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. The Democrats are in a quandary. The old guard of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi are very worried about this young group of more radical, Jacobin,
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Who Are the Real Kings? › American Greatness
Added: Oct 30, 2025Who Are the Real Kings? › American Greatness
Site: American Greatness
So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries. He ran three times in a general election. He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress. In contrast…
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The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’ › American Greatness
Added: Oct 30, 2025
The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’ › American Greatness
Site: American Greatness
In the late 1850s, “Bleeding Kansas” was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-be Confederacy fought each other over whether Kansas…
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Are Americans Better or Worse Off Since January? › American Greatness
Added: Oct 30, 2025
Are Americans Better or Worse Off Since January? › American Greatness
Site: American Greatness
The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while Trump trolls both on social media. But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts of Trump’s first…
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Introducing the Jules extension for Gemini CLI - Google Developers Blog Added: Oct 30, 2025
Introducing the Jules extension for Gemini CLI
Introducing the Jules extension for Gemini CLI, an autonomous sidekick that streamlines coding workflows by handling tasks in the background.
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Not content with dominating the market for AI GPUs, Nvidia is turning its attention to QPUs for quantum computing | PC Gamer Added: Oct 30, 2025
Not content with dominating the market for AI GPUs, Nvidia is turning its attention to QPUs for quantum computing
Site: PC Gamer
GPUs plus QPUs equals a new computing paradigm?
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STATE OF EMERGENCY Declared Over Food Stamp CRISIS, Judge Says Trump MUST FUND SNAP | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
Text TIM to 36912 to get 60% off the BAERSkin Hoodie today! Or click: https://baer.skin/tim 20% CAST BREW CODE TURKEY20 - https://castbrew.com/SUPPORT THE SH...
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Free software scares normal people | Hacker News
Added: Oct 30, 2025Free software scares normal people | Hacker News
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Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney Added: Oct 30, 2025
Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney
80% of the people only need 20% of the features.
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Exclusive | Ex-CBS reporter Debora Patta -- fired in wake of controversial Gaza reporting -- may sue network: source Added: Oct 30, 2025
Exclusive | CBS reporter fired in wake of firestorm over Gaza interview with Mike Huckabee now looking to sue
Site: New York Post
Sources speculated that newly-minted CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss — who is pro-Israel — played any role in the decision to oust Patta.
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Bari Weiss blindsides CBS News president after tapping ex-WSJ editor as top deputy: report
Site: New York Post
Weiss announced the move during a Tuesday editorial call, telling staff that Forelle will serve in a deputy editor role for at least a few months.
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Savage whispers inside CBS as Bari Weiss begins cull of woke staff
Site: Mail Online
Swingeing job cuts are underway, with the network's formidable new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss telling staff this week that an 'enormously difficult' period lies ahead.
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Mamdani's NYC mayor lead narrows but holds at 16 points in Fox poll | Fox News Added: Oct 30, 2025
Mamdani's NYC mayor lead narrows but holds at 16 points in Fox poll | Fox News
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How to vibe code with Gemini: 17 creative builds Google just revealed | Tom's Guide Added: Oct 30, 2025
How to vibe code with Gemini: 17 creative builds Google just revealed
Site: Tom's Guide
Go beyond Nano Banana and chat with these APIs
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Ex-NYS GOP chair and Trump ally backs Cuomo for mayor to stop ‘communist’ Zohran Mamdani
Site: New York Post
Upstate Rep. Nick Langworthy, the former New York State Republican Party chairman, endorsed Andrew Cuomo instead of GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa for mayor to stop “communist” Zohran Mamda…
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NYC Candidates Court Final Endorsements as Hasidic Leaders Criticize 'Scare Campaign' Against Mamdani - U.S. News Added: Oct 30, 2025
NYC race nears finish line; Hasidic leaders criticize 'scare campaign' against Mamdani
Site: Haaretz
Both Candidates Are Expected to Continue Campaigning for the Hasidic and Jewish Vote in the Lead Up to Tuesday's New York Mayoral Election After Satmar Leaders Announced They Won't Endorse a Candidate. Mamdani Maintains a Double-digit Lead Over Cuomo in Polls
NEW YORK – With less than a week until Election Day and hundreds of thousands of ballots already cast through early voting, mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo are making a final push to garner support from Jewish communities and other key constituencies across New York City.
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First Evidence for a Non-Gravitational Acceleration of 3I/ATLAS at Perihelion | by Avi Loeb | Oct, 2025 | Medium Added: Oct 30, 2025
First Evidence for a Non-Gravitational Acceleration of 3I/ATLAS at Perihelion
Site: Medium
By the date of its perihelion, 3I/ATLAS displayed the first evidence of a non-gravitational acceleration. The report (accessible here) was…
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SpaceX - Updates Added: Oct 30, 2025
SpaceX
Site: SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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How to stop automated text messages from subscriptions - Google Search Added: Oct 30, 2025
How to stop automated text messages from subscriptions - Google Search
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Victor Davis Hanson: No, Jen Psaki. Joe Biden Was the Real Manchurian Candidate
Site: YouTube
On Thursday’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson and Jack Fowler pick apart former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s “silly” at...
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Vance and Erika Shine at TP, Kamala Whiffs, and Turning NJ Red, with Stuckey and Jack Ciattarelli
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly discusses the massive turnout at the Ole Miss Turning Point USA event with Erika Kirk and JD Vance, Usha Vance and Erika Kirk’s friendship, Vance...
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Shutdown Blues; Trumpy Tariffs; "Regime Change" War with Venezuela? | Independent Outlook 73
Site: YouTube
What makes government shutdowns drag on? On the other hand, how much does it matter? Shutdown or no shutdown, President Trump’s tariffs are about to go bef...
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Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life
Site: YouTube
Get UPDF with a Great Discount Now: https://updf.com/youtube/sabine2511, to edit, convert, and chat with AI PDF Editor. It’s risk-free with UPDF’s 30-day mon...
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Mysterious “Dark Star” Made of Dark Matter Spotted in Webb Telescope Data (Maybe)
Site: YouTube
Improve your problem solving skills with Brilliant! Start learning for free at https://brilliant.org/sabine/ and get 20% off a premium subscription, which in...
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There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Added: Oct 30, 2025
There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Site: Nature
The claim that so-called artificial intelligence (AI) can gain consciousness is on the verge of becoming mainstream. The thesis of this conceptual study is simple: There is no such thing as conscious AI. We argue that the association between consciousness and the computer algorithms used today (primarily large language models, LLMs), as well as those that would be invented in the foreseeable future, is deeply flawed. We believe that these flawed associations arise from a lack of technical knowledge and the way several new technologies (especially LLMs) work, which can create the illusion of consciousness. Moreover, we argue that the public discourse about AI is skewed by “sci-fitisation”, which involves the unsubstantiated influence of fictional content on perceptions of this technology. To justify our claim, we reveal the incoherence in the argument that several computer algorithms are treated differently from other computer algorithms despite congruent modes of operation and a reliance on binary code and semiconductors. We believe that mathematical algorithms implemented on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate. We emphasise that the recognition of the consciousness of LLMs on the basis of their assertions is flawed because the language usage of LLMs is strictly probabilistic. Unfortunately, because the remarkable linguistic abilities of LLMs are increasingly capable of misleading people, people may attribute imaginary qualities to LLMs. Thus, a socially dangerous phenomenon referred to as “semantic pareidolia” is reinforcing.
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"I guess I'm not allowed to run": Trump concedes third term won't happen
Site: Axios
Trump said it's "too bad" he can't run again.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB graphics cards just aren't selling, and Nvidia is reportedly taking action Added: Oct 30, 2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB graphics cards just aren't selling, and Nvidia is reportedly taking action
Site: PCGamesN
Gamers don't want the VRAM-restricted version of Nvidia's mid-range gaming GPU, with them buying the 16GB version instead, so Nvidia is said to be cutting supply.
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Powell says that, unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn’t a bubble: ‘I won’t go into particular names, but they actually have earnings’ | Fortune Added: Oct 30, 2025
Powell says that, unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn’t a bubble: ‘I won’t go into particular names, but they actually have earnings’ | Fortune
Site: Fortune
However, the Fed chair noted that the growth is unevenly distributed and concentrated among only a few companies.
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NYC mayor warns antisemitism spreading 'like a cancer' across city | The Times of Israel
Added: Oct 30, 2025NYC mayor warns antisemitism spreading 'like a cancer' across city | The Times of Israel
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NYC mayor condems antisemitic art exhibit | The Jerusalem Post
Added: Oct 30, 2025NYC mayor condems antisemitic art exhibit | The Jerusalem Post
Site: The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
The exhibit, which was displayed on Sunday, was “unsanctioned by Governor’s Island” and was taken down a few hours after it was installed, Adams said.
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The Shutdown Pressure Cooker - WSJ Added: Oct 30, 2025
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What both sides of America’s polarized divide share: Deep anxieties about the meaning of life and existence itself Added: Oct 30, 2025
What both sides of America’s polarized divide share: Deep anxieties about the meaning of life and existence itself
Site: The Conversation
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, it’s likely that at the root of what gets you fired up are deep, fundamental human fears about mortality, moral responsibility and meaning.
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The week in whoppers: Chuck Schumer fibs about White House ballroom, JB Pritzker denies his own Hitler comparisons and more
Site: New York Post
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer shared a misleading quote that claims President Trump was only focusing on the construction of the new White House ballroom.
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Common act might be slowly dying out in modern dating
Site: New York Post
Modern dating is a brutal left-swiping madhouse, and the big question is, has the humble pick-up line gone extinct in 2025?
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Universal Music strikes strategic alliance with Stability AI to develop ‘next-generation’ AI music-making tools Added: Oct 30, 2025
Universal Music strikes strategic alliance with Stability AI to develop ‘next-generation’ AI music-making tools
Site: Music Business Worldwide
UMG artists will be involved in the development process, gathering feedback on what creators need from AI-powered recording and composition tools.
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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down | WIRED Added: Oct 30, 2025
The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
Site: WIRED
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.
The question everyone wants an answer to is: How will the bubble pop? Will we wake up and realize that we don’t really want to talk to LLMs anymore? Will someone find a way to build AI tools at one-thousandth the price, letting a thousand ChatGPTs bloom? Are we going to check the news one day and see those photos of stock traders yelling to each other on the floor of the exchange as tech companies’ stock prices blink bright red? My answer is: I have no earthly idea. But I really, really hope that, someday soon, AI becomes … normal. I love normal technologies. They come with manuals. They change periodically, but you can build craft and professional skills around them. Bubble technologies change constantly, and there is always a threat that they will either destroy society (bad) or make everyone besides you wealthy (worse). There are many ways to forecast when a technology is becoming normal—price-to-earnings ratios and other boring stuff. The metric I use is the C/B ratio: conferences to blogging. If people are steadily attending conferences about a subject, it is not normal yet. If they’re mostly blogging about it, it is. I made this up, but I assure you it’s predictive. I work with AI all day long, and right now there are so, so many conferences and gatherings and not that many good, boring technical blog posts. The tech industry loves conferences, because our product is so abstract that it’s hard for us to figure out where we sit in the nerd-chimp hierarchy. This is why VC firms are so often sponsoring get-togethers; they allow for pheromonal exchanges and dominance displays, usually enacted with PowerPoint. Invoke the Chatham House Rule if you’re feeling naughty. People sometimes talk about the golden age of blogging but less about why people blogged: No one had money, and nothing is cheaper than putting words online. When the money flies to money heaven, and the startups become enddowns, the conference budgets are often the first thing to go. Nerds still want to talk their nerd talk, though. That’s when they start posting—it’s the only way to figure out who you are. Eventually, AI’s C/B ratio will start to tip blogward. Not yet, though. We may have a ways to go. The globalized economy has become, out of expedience and greed, a world-spanning suspension bridge, hung off a few giant anchorages like OpenAI and Nvidia and Google, bolstered by promises of planetary AI transformation—and if one of those anchorages were to falter, just a little, and the promises fail to materialize, maybe the cable would sag and the whole bridge would crumble, and all the AI startups (including mine) would fall into the sea. Constantly anticipating this is just one of the many things that has made 2025 so fun. I know I should dread this. But maybe when the crash comes it’ll look like the dotcom crash: A Pets.com or two gets razed to the ground, but the new infrastructure remains, and we humans spend years—decades—weaving it into our systems. I was there for the dotcom crash. I could barely make rent, but it was delightful. I attended tech salons at people’s apartments. The price of admission was a six-pack. I switched to Linux and no one cared. I blogged day and night, as free as a bee. All I could do was read O’Reilly books, learn to code, and hang with friends. What a slice of heaven. And tech became less magical—more normal, more boring. Not driving culture, but reflecting it. What will it be like when AI is normal and boring? Well, the magic show will be over. You won’t have those moments of awe and wonder, like when ChatGPT told you dogs in Slovenia can talk, or Dall-E showed you your first sexy Pikachu. Yes, giant companies will continue to have the biggest and best AI, and they’ll still use it primarily to enhance the shopping experience and sell banner ads frictionlessly. And yes, we’ll continue to see tons of glazed AI-generated videos showing large-breasted human-cat hybrids abandoning their crying kittens. I’m sure we’ll see tremendous advancements in breast generation. But then there’s everything else. We nerds have to learn how to teach people about LLMs, about how to put guardrails on AI projects and not just count on OpenAI to do it for us. We’ll have to ship products, and make smarter chatbots, and help people use these tools in good ways, even as other people are using ChatGPT to automate their dating lives. We’ll have to figure out where vibe coding is good and where it’s dangerous. And we’ll have to do it all while the world melts, both cognitively and glacier-ly, knowing that AI is contributing to that melt. On one side you’ve got these new human-impersonating machines that spew words, images, videos, and sounds by the millions per minute, and on the other you’ve got 8 billion agitated primates with access to weapons. The entire human commons is about to become a Superfund site, and the people who made the mess will move on to quantum computing. Once the frenzy fades, there’s just going to be a lot to do, and less sovereign wealth with which to do it. Nobody with a mutual fund is likely looking forward to that day, and people without mutual funds definitely aren't. But, in one way, I am. Because it’s when the real nerds can come out. These are the nerds who love the tech, who hack around on the weekends. But since there are no conferences, and no one else wants to hear about it, they start a little newsletter—not a “10 important links” newsletter but a “10 extremely long paragraphs on obscure subjects” newsletter—or jump on open source projects and start fighting among themselves, which is one of the greatest forms of entertainment. I have hope and faith in weirdos doing weirdo things. I want to see people use AI to create new human languages and then start speaking them with their friends, or figure out how to run an LLM on a digital greeting card. I hope people share what they learn as they go. When the bubble is big, every idea feels like a billion-dollar idea. I yearn for cheap ideas from strangers. I’ve felt so alienated from tech over the past couple of years. Part of it is the craven authoritarianism. It dampens the mood. But another part is the monolithic narrative—the fact that we live in a world where there seem to be only a few companies, only a few stories going at any time, and everything reduces to politics. God, please let it end. Give me glut, give me mess, give me a million incomplete open source projects and a billion Saturday-night blog posts about how to play with these toys. Lord, fill my feed reader. People often wonder how to get back to the vibes of the early, heady days of the internet. It’s easy: Crash the global economy and leave lots of young people with keyboards and spare time. Make it boring. That’s what’s interesting. The good news is that right now I think we’re on our way. After AI is normal, a few conferences will go on, of course—often scruffier, in lesser venues. It’ll still be a huge industry, just not the only industry. People will still have the same light in their eyes. They’ll stand up with their undesigned, clunky decks, and say: Look what I made! And it’s not money.
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AI Is Making the Aircraft of the Future Possible
Site: WIRED
How Siemens is Pushing Industrial Design Forward
The underlying reason lies in the complexities of designing and constructing new aircraft. Significant engineering challenges involving aerodynamics, thrust, and lift must be addressed. In addition, thousands of individual components require rigorous design, testing, and manufacturing. Furthermore, aviation is governed by strict regulatory frameworks, with agencies like the FAA supervising every stage from conceptualization through release and ongoing maintenance. Nevertheless, the difficulty associated with innovation does not diminish its importance. While established manufacturers may find it challenging to shift toward entirely new aircraft models, this environment presents opportunities for agile startups. Enter JetZero, an aviation startup that is developing an all-wing aircraft aimed at improving fuel efficiency by up to 50 percent by the 2030s. Welcome to Siemens So how does a startup tackle a project as complex as designing and manufacturing a completely new type of aircraft? With some help from Siemens, an industrial technology company focused on manufacturing, infrastructure, and transportation. That help comes in the form of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform that can connect design, production, and maintenance through digital threads. It allows startups and small companies to access enterprise-grade tools that let them operate on the same level as massive incumbents. It does so in part by utilizing cutting-edge AI at every step of the process. “It’s almost easier to say, where doesn’t AI fit in?” explains Tom Tengan, director of digital enterprise at Siemens. “In almost every application that we have, artificial intelligence in some form is integrated into the solutions.” By integrating AI so deeply, Siemens helps businesses plan for the future in a way they never could before. “Siemens Xcelerator gives us the functionality that we need today, but it’s also a platform that’s connected to all the functionality that we need in the future,” says JetZero CEO Tom O’Leary. “Siemens Xcelerator allows JetZero to begin with the end in mind.” Meet the Digital Twins Siemens lets companies begin with the final product in mind by providing them with AI-assisted digital twin technology. “A digital twin is a virtual representation of a product,” explains Tengan. “It allows you to visualize exactly what the product will look like, and how it will act. It allows you to do comprehensive simulations to verify the performance of the product.” In JetZero’s case, that means designing and testing their new Z4 all-wing airplane virtually before any hardware is actually manufactured. That ease of testing has led to the Z4’s cutting-edge design, making it the first truly new major aircraft design in decades. And the results they’ve been able to achieve so far are impressive to say the least. “First principal physics and aerodynamics can get you a 30 percent improvement over the traditional tube and wing shape that we’re used to flying on today,” says O’Leary. “And it turns out that once you change that shape, you give your engineers the opportunity to reevaluate every facet of commercial air travel and make it better.” JetZero employs rigorous and efficient testing methods to drive innovation across all components of their new aircraft, including wing architecture and cabin configuration. Building Smart Factories Design is just one major challenge in bringing a new aircraft to market. While the aerodynamics and cost savings are impressive, when a design is finalized, it still needs to be manufactured at scale. And Siemens is there to help JetZero achieve those goals as well. JetZero is utilizing Siemens Xcelerator's digital twin and AI technologies to build a factory of the future with real-time monitoring and automated quality control, designed to support current and future manufacturing needs. “The digital twin can help you design the factory to have flexibility so you can anticipate how you can create your future designs even before you know what they look like,” says Tengan. And by utilizing AI, the factory of the future totally changes how machinery is maintained. “It evaluates manufacturing processes and can gather critical information off of machines on the shop floor to anticipate how that machine is performing,” Tengan says. “It can tell you what stage or health that machine, or all your machines, are in, and anticipate what problems are going to occur if you don’t resolve vibration, heat generation, or bottlenecks.” By integrating Siemens’ digital manufacturing platform from the ground up, JetZero’s new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will allow for scalability of production processes and pave the way for Z4 production after its first full-scale test flight in 2027. The Future of Industrial Design From design to manufacture, Siemens Xcelerator puts the bleeding edge of industrial design at the fingertips of even small startups. What JetZero can do is just one example of how small businesses and manufacturers can level the playing field and compete with enterprise-level precision and efficiency. While creating and testing new industrial designs used to require thousands of man hours and prohibitively expensive equipment, the advent of a digital platform that utilizes AI to create massive efficiencies is a game-changer. And if something as complex and challenging as a new type of aircraft can be created this way, it’s clear that there’s untapped potential just waiting to be exploited in nearly every product category. Seeing what’s possible with Siemens, it’s hard to not be excited about the technology we’re about to see take off.
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Trump tells Senate Republicans to use "nuclear option" to end shutdown
Site: Axios
Most Senate Republicans have been publicly and consistently opposed to the idea.
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Scoop: GOP senator pushes Vance for help on Trump
Site: Axios
Kennedy said Trump had called him to try to convince him to change his mind on blue slips.
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Astronomers Catch a Ring System Forming Around Chiron in Real Time : ScienceAlert
Added: Oct 30, 2025Astronomers Catch a Ring System Forming Around Chiron in Real Time
Site: ScienceAlert
New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system of rings forming and evolving, even as we watch.
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I upgraded my motherboard, and I didn't expect to love this part the most
Added: Oct 31, 2025I upgraded my motherboard, and I didn't expect to love this part the most
Site: XDA
It's the little things that can make such a huge difference when building
