https://www.spacerock.club/ Stories from the edge of the universe - AI, physics, space and technology. en Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:38:45 GMT https://www.spacerock.club/post/what-happens-when-fighter-jets-break-the-sound-barrier-the-remarkable-science https://www.spacerock.club/post/what-happens-when-fighter-jets-break-the-sound-barrier-the-remarkable-science Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:00:01 GMT Vedant Lakhe Introduction When a fighter jet flies across the sky and shatters the sound barrier (goes supersonic), it is not just a matter of putting a bigger engine inside the metal body. Flying faster than the speed of sound, about 767 mph (1,235 km/h) at sea level, or Mach 1 requires physics, thermodynamics, and aerospace engineering…. https://www.spacerock.club/post/how-do-ai-image-generators-really-work-the-hidden-secret https://www.spacerock.club/post/how-do-ai-image-generators-really-work-the-hidden-secret Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:07:38 GMT Avani Agarwal AI image generation is a type of generative AI used for producing visual content. Usually, based on the user’s textual input, these models produce highly efficient and relevant images. Using mathematical analysis, it identifies and duplicates patterns within the images and illustrations. Its created content is based on preexisting content. It involves using an ANN… https://www.spacerock.club/post/new-memory-breakthrough-where-bio-meets-tech https://www.spacerock.club/post/new-memory-breakthrough-where-bio-meets-tech Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:04:57 GMT ADMIN Currently, we are facing a memory crisis due to AI and next-gen tech. Current computers waste 80% of the energy shuffling data between memory and processing units. This puts a wall for further development if we keep using traditional computing systems. To solve this problem, scientists and researches have been trying to develop a chip… https://www.spacerock.club/post/stripe-deepens-its-ai-push-with-new-openrouter-deal https://www.spacerock.club/post/stripe-deepens-its-ai-push-with-new-openrouter-deal Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:38:17 GMT Lakxhya Vishnoi About Stripe Stripe, LLC is an American multinational financial services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States. Additionally, it is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company mainly deals with payment-processing software and application programming interfaces (APIs) for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. Stripe is the largest privately held financial technology… https://www.spacerock.club/post/gemini-3-7-flash-is-out-now-googles-new-coding-workhorse https://www.spacerock.club/post/gemini-3-7-flash-is-out-now-googles-new-coding-workhorse Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:02:57 GMT Shaurya Sharma Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented rate. Google has recently announced a new model, the latest iteration of its Gemini series of AI models, called Gemini 3.7 Flash. Google is promoting this release as a cost-effective, high-performance model that focuses on more specialised applications, such as coding, web development, and large-scale AI agent orchestration,… https://www.spacerock.club/post/claude-is-now-putting-invisible-watermarks-in-ai-generated-text https://www.spacerock.club/post/claude-is-now-putting-invisible-watermarks-in-ai-generated-text Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:50:14 GMT Swastik Jain Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the way people create and use content. From generating images to generating videos, from writing articles to writing computer code, AI tools are becoming dangerously powerful. However, this rapid growth has led to an avoidable challenge: how can people know if the content they see is created by AI or… https://www.spacerock.club/post/the-remarkable-rise-and-fall-of-indias-d2h-era https://www.spacerock.club/post/the-remarkable-rise-and-fall-of-indias-d2h-era Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:22:10 GMT Vedant Lakhe What is D2H? D2H stands for “Direct-to-Home,” a satellite-based technology that sends television signals to a subscriber’s home, which has a satellite dish.In India, it also refers to Videocon D2H, which is now a part of Dish TV. The Boom Era of D2H: Digitising Indian Homes In the mid-2000s, Indian television meant local cable operators,… https://www.spacerock.club/post/openais-new-ultrafast-mode-makes-gpt-5-6-sol-14x-faster https://www.spacerock.club/post/openais-new-ultrafast-mode-makes-gpt-5-6-sol-14x-faster Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:06:18 GMT Veer Solanki OpenAI announced the upcoming release of the preview capability of GPT-5.6 Sol called Ultrafast, which will be able to perform inference 14x faster than the standard mode, achieving 750 tokens per second. The company is signalling to the industry that it is focusing on making its models perform enterprise-scale operations and not just on making… https://www.spacerock.club/post/how-the-2026-fifa-world-cup-uses-a-new-football-with-sensors https://www.spacerock.club/post/how-the-2026-fifa-world-cup-uses-a-new-football-with-sensors Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:02:17 GMT Aarush Yadav A football isn’t a very complicated piece of technology. It’s just some layers of artificial fibres woven together, and it is kicked around for 90 minutes. But at the FIFA World Cup, the official match ball did much more than just get kicked around. The Trionda is not a normal football; it has sensors inside… https://www.spacerock.club/post/eu-ai-act-a-new-challenge-for-autonomous-ai-agents https://www.spacerock.club/post/eu-ai-act-a-new-challenge-for-autonomous-ai-agents Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:13:26 GMT Avani Agarwal OpenAI and Anthropic are facing scrutiny from authorities after recent hacking incidents involving their AI models. Europe’s AI Act, which kicks in on August 2, is the first legislation in the world to regulate a technology ​used in almost all sectors of business and society. What exactly happened? OpenAI First lets see the calculated attack carried… https://www.spacerock.club/post/openais-first-consumer-device-is-on-the-horizon https://www.spacerock.club/post/openais-first-consumer-device-is-on-the-horizon Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:40:45 GMT Lakxhya Vishnoi About OpenAI OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organisation headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially controlled by OpenAI Foundation, a nonprofit. OpenAI develops generative AI models, particularly the GPT series of large language models. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalysing the AI boom and widespread interest in generative AI. OpenAI uses a… https://www.spacerock.club/post/how-large-language-models-really-work-the-secrets-behind-ai https://www.spacerock.club/post/how-large-language-models-really-work-the-secrets-behind-ai Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:13:16 GMT Veer Solanki Most descriptions of large language models (LLMs) are either hopelessly abstract, involving the linear algebra necessary to define them, or reductive, arguing that they are only fancy autocomplete. Both are true, but both miss the interesting part. An LLM is fundamentally a huge function: text in, probability distribution over text out. Everything else is a… https://www.spacerock.club/post/quantum-leap-new-gold-metacrystal-just-changed-computing-forever https://www.spacerock.club/post/quantum-leap-new-gold-metacrystal-just-changed-computing-forever Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:22:41 GMT Nitai Garg Imagine a supercomputer so fast that it can break complex banking systems and simulate life-saving drugs in seconds. Quantum computing is the next era of computing for humanity. It works on the basis of Schrödinger’s cat, meaning many possibilities can exist at the same time. Humans have already built these quantum computers, but these still… https://www.spacerock.club/post/all-about-apples-2026-september-event-a-new-era-of-iphones https://www.spacerock.club/post/all-about-apples-2026-september-event-a-new-era-of-iphones Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:24:22 GMT Aarush Yadav Every year, Apple announces new devices in their September event. This year, the most anticipated announcements are the ones about the iPhone 18, new updates to the Apple Watch and even a new foldable iPhone. The new iPhone 18 lineup As usual, the new iPhone will be the main attraction of Apple’s September event. The… https://www.spacerock.club/post/demystifying-the-magic-how-cgi-and-vfx-power-modern-cinema https://www.spacerock.club/post/demystifying-the-magic-how-cgi-and-vfx-power-modern-cinema Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:09:13 GMT Vedant Lakhe Have you ever wondered how mythical creatures in movies and different alien worlds feel so real in movies. Cinema has changed drastically from practical sets to digital geniuses. The whole crux of this development is being supported by two pillars CGI and VFX. What are CGI and VFX? CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) CGI stands for Computer-Generated… https://www.spacerock.club/post/metas-new-coding-agent-takes-the-world-by-storm https://www.spacerock.club/post/metas-new-coding-agent-takes-the-world-by-storm Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:49:30 GMT Swastik Jain When I first heard the term “Meta Muse Code” while in a discussion about AI and programming, my first reaction was – how is this possible? However its more of an idea that’s floating right now instead of a proper technology. Developers and students are talking about it as it points where coding will be… https://www.spacerock.club/post/2d-experiment-that-was-labeled-impossible-until-now https://www.spacerock.club/post/2d-experiment-that-was-labeled-impossible-until-now Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:20:58 GMT Nitai Garg In the real word, any object you see, you feel, you touch is 3D, for example: a sheet of paper. Realistically 2D objects aka having only 2 dimensions, which are, length and width are purely theoretical and do not exist in the real world. Thus science tries to research on practical 2D objects, as these… https://www.spacerock.club/post/qwen-3-8-max-everything-you-need-to-know-about-alibabas-latest-ai-model https://www.spacerock.club/post/qwen-3-8-max-everything-you-need-to-know-about-alibabas-latest-ai-model Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:19:44 GMT Veer Solanki Monday morning saw another release from Alibaba. This one is even bigger than the previous one – 2.4 trillion parameters. For output, $2 per million input tokens, $6 compared to $0.25 for cached reads. The model it replaces, Qwen 3.7 Max, cost $2.50 and $7.50, respectively. It gets bigger, better and cheaper every couple of… https://www.spacerock.club/post/google-uses-ai-to-help-fix-1072-chrome-security-bugs https://www.spacerock.club/post/google-uses-ai-to-help-fix-1072-chrome-security-bugs Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:37:31 GMT Lakxhya Vishnoi What are security bugs? A security bug is a flaw, error, or unintended behaviour in software, hardware, or system configurations that can negatively affect security. While not every bug creates a security vulnerability, some bugs can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorised access, disrupt operations, leak sensitive information, or execute malicious code. Security bugs… https://www.spacerock.club/post/6g-what-will-the-next-generation-of-wireless-technology-look-like https://www.spacerock.club/post/6g-what-will-the-next-generation-of-wireless-technology-look-like Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:34:33 GMT Aarush Yadav The arrival of 5G marked a revolutionary leap in technology. It introduced faster downloads, lower latency, network slicing and the ability to connect millions of devices. While 5G delivered all of these improvements the tech industry has already shifted to the next milestone, 6G It might seem like 6G is another yearly upgrade which only… https://www.spacerock.club/post/can-it-run-doom-scientists-just-used-living-e-coli-to-play-the-classic-game https://www.spacerock.club/post/can-it-run-doom-scientists-just-used-living-e-coli-to-play-the-classic-game Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:41:10 GMT Vedant Lakhe What exactly is E. coli? Escherichia coli, commonly known as E.coli, is a species of bacteria found in the intestines of warm-blooded organisms. In scientific research, it is used for studying genetics and advanced biological engineering. DOOM: The Immortal DNA of First-Person Shooters Doom is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software. Players… https://www.spacerock.club/post/opus-5-anthropics-new-flagship-explained https://www.spacerock.club/post/opus-5-anthropics-new-flagship-explained Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:52:47 GMT Veer Solanki Friday afternoon, Anthropic launched Opus 5. 5$ per million input tokens, 25$ for output. Same price as Opus 4.8. Not nearly as good as the selfsame Opus 4.8. This is the sentence they led the press release with: a model coming close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. They’re… https://www.spacerock.club/post/chinas-new-kimi-k3-is-revolutionalising-this-field-ft-moonshot-ai https://www.spacerock.club/post/chinas-new-kimi-k3-is-revolutionalising-this-field-ft-moonshot-ai Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:34:06 GMT Veer Solanki Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, and then had to halt subscription sales within 48 hours due to insurmountable GPU demand. This single fact overshadowed all the model’s technical details: an open-weight Chinese model with enough appeal to derail its own engineering infrastructure. Let’s examine the situation from multiple angles. The Numbers… https://www.spacerock.club/post/the-hidden-6-7-trillion-engine-powering-the-future-of-ai https://www.spacerock.club/post/the-hidden-6-7-trillion-engine-powering-the-future-of-ai Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:25:15 GMT Aarush Yadav The Hidden Engine of AI: Why Data Infrastructure Holds the Key to the Future Every time you prompt an AI, create a digital image, or generate code, the seamless, lightning-fast response hides a complex reality: it takes thousands of interconnected, high-performance servers running in massive global data centres to deliver those results. While tech companies… https://www.spacerock.club/post/3-new-frontier-ai-models-openai-meta-and-xai-make-breakthroughs https://www.spacerock.club/post/3-new-frontier-ai-models-openai-meta-and-xai-make-breakthroughs Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:30:12 GMT Veer Solanki Blinked this week? You missed a generation. Just 72 hours ago, OpenAI announced its GPT-5.6 family in general release, SpaceXAI announced Grok 4.5 – its first model developed in parallel with Cursor – and Meta’s Superintelligence Labs jumped into the image generation market with Muse Image. You’d have heard about each of these on their… https://www.spacerock.club/post/china-isnt-catching-up-in-ai-its-breaking-away https://www.spacerock.club/post/china-isnt-catching-up-in-ai-its-breaking-away Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:30:21 GMT Veer Solanki America’s approach to Chinese AI for years was relatively simple: Keep the best chips out, deny access to crucial technology, and keep piling more companies onto entity lists if necessary. Over time, the gap should just become too wide. Except now, China appears to be doing something else altogether. This week alone, Beijing has blocked… https://www.spacerock.club/post/antimatter-is-really-confusing-heres-how https://www.spacerock.club/post/antimatter-is-really-confusing-heres-how Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:59:29 GMT Nitai Garg In particle physics, Antimatter is one of the most misunderstood concepts by the general public as well as researchers. One of the most well-known facts is that it would cost, theoretically, around $63 trillion to produce 1 g of it. But what exactly is it? How is it created? How can it revolutionise energy production… https://www.spacerock.club/post/why-anthropics-most-powerful-ai-vanished-after-just-3-days https://www.spacerock.club/post/why-anthropics-most-powerful-ai-vanished-after-just-3-days Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:13:11 GMT Veer Solanki Just a couple of days passed when Uncle Sam pulled the plug on Anthropic’s top models. Gone by then, they’d barely had time to settle in. Fable 5, along with Mythos 5, went live June 9. Come Friday night, just three days later, they’d vanished everywhere – shut down without warning. Then Anthropic started drafting… https://www.spacerock.club/post/claude-mythos-why-its-too-dangerous-to-release-hidden-secrets https://www.spacerock.club/post/claude-mythos-why-its-too-dangerous-to-release-hidden-secrets Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:01:38 GMT Veer Solanki “Engineers at Anthropic with no formal security training have asked Mythos Preview to find remote code execution vulnerabilities overnight, and woken up the following morning to a complete, working exploit.” Anthropic has positioned itself as one of the leading AI labs in the world. Maybe the only one with morals, as it appeared during their… https://www.spacerock.club/post/openai-sora-why-it-wasnt-really-ready-hidden-secrets https://www.spacerock.club/post/openai-sora-why-it-wasnt-really-ready-hidden-secrets Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:39:42 GMT Veer Solanki Monday they posted the goodbye. Short. Almost breezy about it. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora” — and then some warm language about the community, and then something about details coming soon. Details coming soon. Right. I’ve been at this long enough to know what that phrase actually means. It means nobody inside has agreed on…