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A New Kind of Chemistry
Thanks to Kyle Schiller at Marathon Fusion for conversations and information that informed this essay.
 • Brian Potter
Reading List 10/24/26
Minimum lot sizes, Boeing’s next 737 MAX, Fervo short sellers, Figure AI’s training data, and more.
 • Brian Potter
Reading List 10/17/26
Icon’s fundraising, employment in China’s solar industry, grid-scale battery reliability, Tesla’s flying roadster, and more.
 • Brian Potter
How to Train Your Robot
The enormous advance in AI capabilities over the last several years has in large part been driven by the availability of vast amounts of training data.
 • Brian Potter
Reading List 10/10/26
Propane in air conditioners, Anduril making submarine parts, nuclear reactors on the moon, the robotic hand landscape, and more.
 • Brian Potter
The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen
In 1960, a team at the University of Illinois released the first version of their PLATO “computerized instruction system,” a network of what would…
 • Brian Potter
Reading List 2026-10-03
A Senate permitting reform bill, the potential of Tesla’s Cybercab, the Navy’s $200 billion worth of shipyard renovations, returning a SR-71 to service…
 • Brian Potter
Understanding the AI That Drives Robots
An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
 • Brian Potter

September 2026

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