The curious minds at What If explain the entire Kardashev Scale in just 20 minutes, exploring energy consumption from planetary to galactic civilizations.

Some readers may recall one of my earlier columns about the Kardashev scale. Essentially, this column discussed applying a theoretical framework — in which ...

Elon Musk has been a lot of things on his lifetime — CEO and former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, you name a few. Now, he can add prognosticator to the list as he has predicted ...

Elon Musk called Bitcoin a “physics-based currency” tied to energy and suggested that advances in AI and robotics could eventually make money obsolete. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has reignited ...

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Speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Wednesday, Musk was asked to share his thoughts on AI being in space. "You must have solar-powered AI satellites in deep space" to use even a fraction of ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in one form or another, but only recently have we gained the tools and ...

Dive deep into the Kardashev Scale, an innovative framework that measures a civilization’s technological advancement based on its energy consumption. The scale ranges from Type 1 to Type 7 ...

Nearly half a century ago, astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale for ranking civilizations based on their energy consumption. Now, a new study is reconsidering the Soviet scientist’s ...

Elon Musk said Grok may soon discover new physics as xAI works on a more advanced, vision-capable model. The xAI team revealed its latest development plans following the launch of Grok 4, as founder ...