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BOOM 🚨 Nikkei reports that Elon Musk’s Terafab team just flew to Japan and gave chip toolmakers delivery deadlines measured in months, not years 🔥 According to the report, several Terafab procurement officials made a confidential visit to Japan earlier this month. They met with local equipment suppliers, laid out their ordering plans, and started working through the details of moving tools into the fab. Terafab is the joint chip project of Tesla and SpaceX in Texas, and the urgency comes from the target Elon set last month: mass production in the second half of 2028. One Japanese equipment maker told Nikkei that Terafab set a delivery deadline just a few months away. They admitted the request is unreasonable, but said they will do as much as they can to meet it. Elon has openly called his 2028 timeline very aggressive. A leading-edge fab typically takes at least three years to go from planning to mass production, and even after the tools are installed, it takes time to bring defect rates down. He is already pulling every lever he has. On SpaceX’s October 20 earnings call, he thanked ASML and its partners for moving equipment delivery dates earlier. The suppliers are leaning in too. When Elon unveiled Terafab in March, many insiders doubted how serious he was. Now that real orders are taking shape, more suppliers see it as a genuine business opportunity. One supplier executive put it bluntly: the biggest topic in chips right now “isn’t Kioxia or Rapidus. It’s Elon Musk.” And the prize is huge. Terafab reportedly told suppliers this fall that it plans to reach 1 million wafers per month after 2032, which Nikkei notes is 40 times the capacity of the Rapidus plant in Hokkaido. Seven months ago, Terafab was still collecting price quotes and reportedly offering to pay well above them to jump the queue. Now it is handing out delivery dates, and Japan’s toolmakers are doing everything they can to meet them. Whether 2028 holds or slips, the companies that build the machines that make chips are already moving at Elon’s pace.

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we have a winner for the most absurd AI startup ever this Peter Thiel backed company uses AI robots to stab fish in the brain so they taste better and last up to 3x longer it's called Shinkei and it modernizes a centuries-old Japanese technique dozens of Michelin-star restaurants are already lining up to buy the fish here's how it works: > the problem is when a fish gets caught, it usually just suffocates on the boat > that stress floods the meat with hormones and lactic acid, which hurts the flavor and texture > the old Japanese fix for this was spiking the fish through the brain right after the catch, which stops all that > but doing it by hand is impractical for most American fishing crews > so Shinkei built a fridge-sized robot that sits right on the boat's deck > the crew feeds in a fish and AI identifies the exact species, so it knows exactly where the brain and gills are > the robot then drives the spike through the brain and cuts near the gills in about 7 seconds > the fish goes into an ice slurry so the blood drains out > so the fish doesn't sit there stressing out, and that tasty flavor and texture is preserved example number 5,392,417 of how AI can be applied to literally anything