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The audit opened on Austin day
Same day Cybercab rides began, NHTSA opened AQ26002 into Tesla’s FMVSS certification paperwork.
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KIER put twenty-six-seven on tandem
Korea Institute of Energy Research: Fraunhofer ISE-certified 26.7% perovskite/CIGS tandem, NLR best-cell chart. Beats SNU/KIST 26.3%. EurekAlert / Solar Now ~5 Sep.
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Lean checked Fermat’s Last
Anthropic’s 4 September post: 11 days, ~13 million lines of Lean, ~29,500 intermediate theorems. Buzzard compiled and confirmed. New Scientist 5 September. First complete computer-checked FLT.
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Blue Origin gets the Mars radio
NASA awarded Blue Origin a firm-fixed-price contract on 1 September, maximum potential about US$700 million, for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Orbiter due 31 December 2028. Operations at Mars by 2030.
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Eight hundred on the Trishuli
Nepal’s disaster agency had 788 dead and about 2,500 missing on Sunday. China reported 16 dead and 546 missing in Tibet. The glacier came down on Wednesday.
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Blindsight human trials are in the window
Elon Musk said on 24 August 2026 that Blindsight human implants are six to 12 months out. FDA Breakthrough designation is 17 September 2024. There are still zero human Blindsight implants on the public record.
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VOICE is the speech trial
Neuralink’s VOICE study (NCT07224256) is recruiting at UT Southwestern. Enrollment is listed as six. Start 3 October 2025, primary completion October 2028. The speech stack is a different product from Telepathy’s cursor.
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Twenty-one Neuralnauts
Neuralink says 21 people are now in human trials worldwide. The company’s own Telepathy post puts numbers on bits per second, hours a day, and a safety line of zero serious device-related events.
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NASA and SpaceX are go for Roman at 7:26 a.m. Eastern
Falcon Heavy at 39A, Sunday 30 August. Backup Monday 7:22 a.m. ET. Saturday’s prelaunch briefing confirmed go. Weather was 50 percent. This is the attempt, not a landing.
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Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro
18-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128 GB of unified memory at 614 GB/s. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599. Pre-order 4 March, in shops 11 March.