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Griffin-1: The Race for a Lunar Foothold

Griffin-1 and Astrolab’s FLIP rover could give NASA and its partners valuable experience at the lunar south pole. The larger competition with China runs through water, power, mobility, communications, and the ability to keep working after landing.

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Iran’s Election Pause: The Escalation Window Has Narrowed

The first follow-up to the October 8 Iran forecast confronts Trump’s election pause, checks actual naval posture, and follows the conflict through shipping, infrastructure, fuel and financing. The November 5 endpoint stays fixed. Four original figures, dated …

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A Thought Experiment: Consciousness

Human labels are one interpretation of a world already full of other minds. Whales, dolphins, crows, our stellar origins, and a thought experiment about consciousness as the universe experiencing itself.

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Taiwan Turns Texas Supplier Parks Into an AI-Hardware Onshoring Rail

Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs says it is working on U.S. industrial parks funded by private companies with government assistance, with each park estimated at about $2 billion to $4 billion. Reporting from Bloomberg, Focus Taiwan, UDN and DigiTimes poi…

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National Compute Turns Idle GPUs Into an AI-Access Grid

National Compute launched the National Compute Grid on October 7, 2026, with a plan to pool AI compute across clouds, labs, providers and chip architectures through a shared scheduler. Vultr says it has joined as a founding consortium member and will contribu…

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The World I’ve Been Mapping Is Taking Shape

I connect the developments now taking shape across AI infrastructure, private power, critical minerals, the Iran energy shock, digital dollars, machine commerce, robotics and productive ownership. The article explains the mechanisms for readers joining the di…

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