Author: itembalabantu
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The quantum-sensing landscape — the most mature corner of quantum technology, but genuine “beats-classical-in-the-field” advantage is narrow, not broad
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. All sensitivity, stability and precision figures are attributed to the specific instrument, trial or company; peer-reviewed results, company claims and agency projections are labeled and kept separate (noted inline). Sensitivities quoted for different…
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The fusion commercialization paradox — the private-capital boom is real (a record $4.48bn in 12 months, $14.24bn cumulative), yet that money has moved zero of the outcome-layer metrics that actually gate grid electricity
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. All funding, valuation and roadmap figures are attributed to the industry association, the company, or the primary filing; many are company press releases, SPAC merger figures or association surveys rather than audited or…
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Fusion commercialization and economics — the “2030s grid” roadmaps are real, but the bottleneck is timeline and cost, not science; a scientific milestone does not move the LCOE stack
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. There is no operating fusion power plant anywhere in the world, so no measured LCOE, capex or availability exists; every economic figure in this post is a model or an estimate, attributed to…
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The fusion physics-to-engineering gap — ignition (Q_plasma>1) is real, but the four outcome-layer constraints it never touches are where commercial fusion is actually decided
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. Q values are always attributed to a device, series and denominator (scientific Q_plasma, engineering Q, or wall-plug Q are not the same number); tritium, materials and duty-cycle figures are attributed to the peer-reviewed…
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Magnetic confinement fusion — 2021-2025 delivered energy, triple-product and duration records, but every one is non-Q: no magnetic device has shown Q_plasma>1, and none of any kind has shown Q_engineering>1
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. There is no pure-play listed fusion stock today (Commonwealth Fusion Systems is private). Every figure for energy (MJ), temperature, magnetic field (T), triple product, duration, power (MW) and timeline is attributed to the…
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The embodied-AI commercial landscape — a record funding boom coexists with almost no deployed autonomous worker; the bottleneck is the outcome layer (autonomy, robot data, reliability), not the chassis
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. All valuation, funding and market-size figures are attributed to the company announcement, trade press or bank projection as noted inline; private post-money rounds are not audited or market-clearing values, “in-talks” rounds are not…
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Embodied AI, Part 4 — the hardware is maturing and the demos and pilots are real, but the true ceiling is the deployment layer: lights-out autonomous reliability and labor-replacement unit economics
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. All deployment, pilot, uptime and cost figures are attributed to their source, and separated into three tiers: peer-reviewed / primary reporting (IEEE Spectrum), company press release or company page (company claim), and secondary…
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Embodied AI Part 3 — the data bottleneck: robot foundation models have no internet-scale corpus, and teleop, sim and human video have not closed Goldberg’s 100,000-year gap
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. All dataset sizes, teleoperation costs, simulation-fidelity claims and synthetic-data figures are attributed to the relevant arXiv paper, journal, NVIDIA blog or company announcement. Peer-reviewed sources (Science Robotics, arXiv academic work), company/vendor claims (NVIDIA,…
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Robot foundation models / VLA — the “ChatGPT moment for robotics” claim versus what the benchmarks actually measure
Evidence-first notes on bioscience and deep tech, at the edge of the lab and the market. Information only — not investment advice. Every generalization figure below is attributed to the model’s arXiv paper or to a DeepMind / Nvidia / Physical Intelligence / Figure announcement; peer-reviewed and arXiv results are separated from company demos and…
Uthando Nethemba 