Overview
Today’s feed circles three threads, all tugging at the same knot. Space and energy loom large as xAI and SpaceX talk orbital compute and SpaceX prioritises the Moon. On the ground, coding agents and AI video sprint ahead while human interfaces and public taste try to keep up. Meanwhile, autonomy quietly spreads from robots to rail, and a 1977 mystery reminds us why we look up in the first place.
The big picture
AI meets space, and energy sits at the centre
Gerstner: xAI and SpaceX aim for orbital data centres
Brad Gerstner calls Elon Musk’s tie-up of xAI with SpaceX a fusion of the two biggest markets, pointing to orbital data centres that tap abundant solar and side-step some terrestrial limits on energy for AI. He frames a 30 month execution window, while replies flag heat and maintenance risks in orbit. 🔗 Post link
SpaceX puts the Moon ahead of Mars, targets uncrewed 2027 landing
SpaceX is refocusing on an uncrewed Starship lunar landing by March 2027 in support of Artemis, with orbital refuelling seen as a key milestone before Mars. Most replies back the stepwise plan, arguing a Moon base builds the skills and kit that Mars will need. 🔗 Post link
Musk: “The future currency will essentially just be wattage”
A clip of Elon Musk’s line about energy as money lands differently in a week filled with AI compute talk. If wattage maps to value, orbital solar and grid upgrades start to look like monetary policy by other means. 🔗 Post link
Agents can think fast, but our tools make them feel slow
Opus 4.6 Max codes a Minecraft-like game in Cursor
Angel shows Opus 4.6 Max building a feature-rich Three.js voxel game, about 3,900 lines in 32 minutes for roughly $11. It needed bug passes and a long prompt, but the end result shows how far agentic code generation has come for rapid prototypes. 🔗 Post link
Opus 4.6 fast mode is brisk, and the bottleneck is the interface
Eno Reyes confirms a 1M token context in FactoryAI’s Droid, notes top scores on fresh coding and reasoning benchmarks, then points at the real blocker now, the human-computer interface that can handle this much model headroom. 🔗 Post link
Zach Lloyd: after a week with Claude Code, I miss a proper GUI
The Warp founder tried Anthropic’s coding agent and came away craving clicks, multi-cursor edits, dropdowns and scroll views, arguing agents belong in high-fidelity editors, not just terminals. Replies suggest hybrids and IDE add-ons. 🔗 Post link
Agents in the wild, messaging-first
Cross-platform iMessage, RCS and SMS for OpenClaw
Nick Vasilescu ships a plugin that hooks OpenClaw’s clawdbot into Linq’s API for iMessage, RCS and SMS on Linux, Windows or Mac. It supports tapbacks, typing, media and DM policies, removing the always-on Mac Mini hurdle. 🔗 Post link
YC: UseBits sets up OpenClaw in five minutes
Y Combinator spotlights UseBits, a service that spins up a secure OpenClaw instance in the cloud in about five minutes. With OpenClaw’s local-first ethos and multi-app reach, easier onboarding is the missing piece for many. 🔗 Post link
AI video crosses into prime-time, and into a backlash
Kling 3.0 guide and a big promo drive interest
Higgsfield AI posts a three step guide for best results from Kling 3.0, with a time-limited 85% discount for unlimited access. The demo reels show sharp emotion, action and multi-shot control in 4K. 🔗 Post link
The Winter Olympics intro was AI-made, and people noticed
Justine Moore highlights that Milan-Cortina’s intro was made with Alibaba Cloud’s Wan AI, a first for the Games. The internet split, some cheering the milestone, others panning the look and tone. 🔗 Post link
Seedance 2.0 stuns with smooth fight scene, IP questions hang
A clip shared by nachos2d, made with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, looks crisp and fluid at 1080p. The characters echo League of Legends styles, and replies poke at how fast these tools are catching studio-quality, and what that means for rights. 🔗 Post link
Robots and rail, from demos to service
Atlas shows flips, Optimus targets factory work
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas returns with acrobatics, while comparisons to Tesla’s Optimus stress different bets, showmanship versus scalable utility. Cost, runtime and training methods diverge, and so do routes to market. 🔗 Post link
Denmark orders 226 autonomous S-trains
DSB taps Siemens and Stadler for driverless electric trains on Copenhagen’s network, first service by 2030 and full rollout by 2036. Capacity could rise by about 30% without adding tracks, with open standards pitched as a European edge. 🔗 Post link
Big ideas, old mysteries
Kurzweil: retirement will fade as work decouples from income
Peter Diamandis shares Ray Kurzweil’s case that exponential tech leads to financial independence without traditional jobs, pushing people toward lifelong meaningful projects. Replies also call for new tax and pension models. 🔗 Post link
The Wow! signal still haunts us
Latest in Cosmos revisits the 1977 1420 MHz burst that never repeated. The clip rekindles debate, and reminds us why AI-driven anomaly hunts in SETI might matter. 🔗 Post link
Why it matters
- Space plus AI is not just spectacle, it is an energy story. If compute demand keeps climbing, ideas like orbital data centres will tempt investors and regulators. Musk’s wattage-as-currency line captures where value may accrue, to those who can harvest and move electrons at scale.
- Coding agents show that raw capability is racing ahead of the wrappers. Long context, faster plans and stronger reasoning are here. What is missing is editor-grade control, safe automation, and pricing that makes daily use feel routine, not a special treat.
- Messaging-first agents will spread as setup costs drop. The OpenClaw posts point to a near term path, real users, familiar apps, clear privacy promises. Expect telecom policies, spam controls and number costs to become part of the AI stack.
- AI video is entering mainstream slots, which means the audience now has a vote. Toolchains like Kling, Wan and Seedance can do glossy work, but taste, legal rights and brand risk will decide what ships. The bar will rise fast.
- Autonomy is moving from labs to networks. Humanoids will be judged on jobs done per pound and per watt, not flips. Rail automation, built on standards and long horizons, shows how patient infrastructure plays can compound.
- Curiosity still pays. From Kurzweil’s forecast to a ghost signal in Sagittarius, today’s posts ask where we are headed, and who gets to decide. The answers look less like single breakthroughs, more like systems that turn energy, software and policy into durable progress.
