Steve Jurvetson

We’re incredibly honored to host these two gentlemen as Keynote Speakers for this year’s X Takeover event!! Just 4 days ⏳ remaining until the biggest Tesla & Space X event of the year, when we welcome Lars & Steve up on the main stage! Tickets 👉🏼 XTakeover.com

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Do you believe… 56 years ago today, the 🇺🇸 flag flew proudly on the moon, but only for 14 hours. Here are four Apollo 11 artifacts from the collection, each a memento of heroic achievement by humanity: 1) Neil Armstrong’s CM hand controllers, flown to the moon and back. 2)…

I also caught a dramatic look back from the little rodent…. I call it Last Thoughts

Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.…

e-Government Leadership 🏛 With @KristenMichalPM, Prime Minister of Estonia at his office overlooking Tallinn. We discussed their x-road digital government platform built in Estonia and adopted by 25 other countries. · Digital signatures save Estonia 2% of GDP each year (!) ·…

MareNostrum 5 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) BSC is the lead for DARE (Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe), a chip design effort with 38-partners, launched 4 months ago and aimed at Intel instead of NVIDIA. 306 PFLOPS here, and a GPU blade with glycol cooling.

Church of the Modern Mind ⛪️ Two quantum computers humming and an “AI Factory” under construction… inside a stone church… with Gregorian chants playing softly overhead. Visiting the Barcelona Supercomputing Center today.

Energy drives the wealth of nations. China is adding new energy at a pace 20x the U.S. The last 1 GW U.S. nuclear plant took 11 years and $35B to build. China adds 1 GW every 8 hours.

AGI Highlander 🤖 Tonight Grok 4 breaks away from the pack on the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard — an independent third-party assessment. • @ElonMusk: on academic tests, @Grok 4 is better than almost all PhDs in all fields • Over 2x better than the best from OpenAI, and improving fast.

Smash the mutants 🦠 to end the pandemic era for humanity — with a single shot for all flu and then coronaviruses, HIV, herpes, malaria, cancer and more! These scourges have evaded effective vaccines because they continuously mutate their outer epitopes to evade our immune…

The all-seeing 👁️ … with some fine company there! Grok list: x.com/grok/status/19… via @Scobleizer @elonmusk @xai

All systems go! 🛰️ The first GPS satellite in Low Earth Orbit is now operational. It works with existing GPS infrastructure, but more precise and 150x more powerful, even working indoors.

The Estonian song & dance festivals 🎶 32,000 choral singers in unison, who practiced for a year in advance. It began in 1896 and happens every five years. It preserves a culture and helped spark the dissolution of the Soviet Union: SingingRevolution.com

shoot the moon ….that’s no moon I first met Kraus at Cape Canaveral, a teenage photographer focused on rockets… and today, he’s one of the best out there

🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸 in Estonia, with my peeps. See below for the red 🚀

🟢 A Greenlight to remove chemicals from our crops 🟢 Double-stranded RNA has just been shown to be a rifle-shot treatment for plant viruses — "one of the most stubborn and costly challenges in global food production. Just months after proving we can control one of the world’s…