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Saturday, October 10, 2026
Starbase, TX -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51909STARBASE.
Is Elon Musk / SpaceX partnering with Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Californiia Institute Of Technology?
SpaceX Vs NASA -- launch pads and launch facilities only -- how does SpaceX compare with NASA with regard to their footprints in square feet and number of personnel.
YouTube, Terafab, link here.
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Starship
YouTube, Starship - Critical Path -- August, 2026, link here.
Anticipation: Devon Energy's Clifford Bakke Well
Locator: 51906CLIFFORDBAKKE.
From November 1, 2010 -- almost sixteen years ago.
The parent well:
- 18896, 5,061, BEXP/Devon Energy, Clifford Bakke 26-35 1-H, Alger oil field, 38-stage fracture, second highest IP in the Williston Basin, Ross Project Area; Alger oil field; t10/10; cum 672K 8/26.
Map of today's activity:
Top Ten Business / Investing Stories -- Gemini's List -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51904INVESTING.
Query:
There is simply so much news coming out of the business/investing sector each week, I cannot keep up. I may have to start asking you to list the top ten business/investing stories each week. So, for the past week, ending October 10, 2026, what do you see as the top ten business/investing stories?
Reply: for full discussion, see this link. Link: https://share.google/aimode/R3tckRtwYVepl55gy.
The top ten:
- Wall Street closes out a record-breaking week. Wall Street will celebrate four years of the current bull market next week;
- SpaceX shakes up telecom with an $8 billion deal;
- OpenAI revenue report sparks AI jitters
- energy stocks surge amid Iran conflict
- consumer sentiment plunges to historic lows (Wall Street closes out a record-breaking week)
- hawkish Fed minus pushed bond yields higher
- Wall Street gears up for a pivotal earnings season
- Human soars on upgraded Medicare star ratings
- India enacts drastic currency interventions (Indians want US dollars; don't want their own rupees)
- Apple cuts iPhone 18 component orders
Top Ten AI Stories This Past Week -- Gemini's List -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51903AI.
Query:
There is simply so much news coming out of the AI sector each week, I cannot keep up. I may have to start asking you to list the top ten AI stories each week. So, for the past week, ending October 10, 2026, what do you see as the top ten tech stories?
Reply: for full discussion, see this link. Link: https://share.google/aimode/sOnyF0gFnj49ggF5x.
Briefly:
- President Trump launches the "Super Intelligence Force" (oxymoron?)
- Tech titans sign the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence" (short title: "Trust Us")
- Claude AI disclosed for submitting a fake homicide tip to police (well, the tip had to come from somewhere)
- OpenAI fires three top safety researchers over leaks (see the "Paperclip Maximizer")
- Meta's AI agent "Muse" triggers marketplace privacy scares (dog bits man)
- Amazon eyes $8 billion off-balance-sheet shift for Nvidia Blackwell chips (okay, we bought them, but can't afford them right now so we'll lease back the chips -- circular financing on steroids)
- FTC launches wide-ranging "Rogue AI Agent" investigation (at least we're not crashing airplanes yet)
- if this is anything like the NTSB, we won't know results for at least a year
- Google debuts "Playground" for no-code generative video games (this seems noteworthy)
- peer-reviewd study warns 10 minutes of AI use erodes deep focus (I can attest to that)
"This Is Not A Drill" -- Google Paid $2.7 Billioin To Bring Back A Former Employee To Work On Cutting-Edge Projects -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51902AI.
I mentioned this the other day: one of my pet peeves is having to listen all day to CNBC talking heads having little understanding of the sixth industrial revolution (AI) as Jensen Huang, Sam Altman others see it.
Almost every CNBC talking head seems to think the AI tsunami can't last much longer, that it's nothing more than a bubble, similar / identical to the 2000 dot.com debacle.
Two articles caught my attention yesterday.
First article, link here: from Shay Boloor -- AMD CEO Lisa Su is heading for South Korea to secure HBM4 supply from SKHY and Samsung as MI450 ramps with 432GB of memory per GPU.
Second article, link here:
Google really wanted pioneering AI researcher Noam Shazeer back.
The longtime employee left to start his own company but in 2024, Google paid $2.7 billion for him to return to work on cutting-edge projects, including its most powerful AI technology, Gemini.
Even that, though, couldn’t ensure that Shazeer got the computing resources he wanted.
Less than two years later, he sent a note to one of his teams saying that Google had cut what was allocated to them in favor of another project. Shortly thereafter, Shazeer left for rival OpenAI.
Compute, the industry shorthand for computing power, is the lifeblood of the AI boom, and it’s in short supply. Now fights over how to get more of it—and what projects to give priority to—are sending a powerful industry scrambling. Bitter rivals are forming new alliances, such as Elon Musk and Dario Amodei, whose companies worked together to secure computing power. Venture-capital firms are touting access to AI chips to woo startups. And power struggles are more frequent as companies compete in a worldwide treasure hunt for the tech industry’s most coveted resource.
“There’s a big gold rush happening at the moment,” said Evan Conrad, chief executive officer of San Francisco Compute. “It’s hard to fully comprehend the scale.”
Conrad’s company vets data centers and then rents their computing power to AI companies that range from the largest players like Nvidia to small startups like Standard Intelligence. Its chief technology officer, Eric Park, travels the globe in search of computing resources hiding where few else think to look.
In the spring, it was far-flung corners of rural America, where one promising new data center turned out to be AI servers humming inside what appeared to be a converted chicken coop. Then Manila in monsoon season, where Park’s car stalled in floodwater and he and his colleagues waded to safety, bags held over their heads. Eventually, a passing truck shuttled him to the airport, where he bought a new pair of shoes and boarded a flight to Taipei—to meet with a company building servers for the AI boom.
For the record: I love Gemini -- I use Gemini almost exclusively among the many chatbots which I have tried. Free version.
Back to the blog: Google doesn't pay $2.7 billion to entice one worker back to the company if this were a six-week project. Do the math, but if the $2.7 billion is one million dollars / year this equates to 2,700 years -- and that doesn't include cost of deploying that $2.7 billion -- and that's for one employee.
I honestly cannot get my mind around the dollars being spent in this sector.
Maybe The WSJ made a typographical error.
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The Book Page
It's hard to wait for the arrival of this book which will arrive today from Amazon. Gemini recommended it based on my reading history and our discussions.
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz | Feb 15, 2022. 384 pages.
Initial Production Data For Wells Coming Off Confidential List This Next Week -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51901B.
These have been previously posted. I was getting a little ahead of myself (an idiom which makes no sense to me) so I won't be adding any new wells to the list this week.
The wells:
- 42564, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia Federal 44X-10F-N, Grinnell, npd,
- 42563, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia Federal 44X-10BN, Grinnell, npd,
- 42230, conf, Whiting, Cliffside Federal 5103 41-7 3B, Assiniboine,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 13609 | 8330 |
| 7-2026 | 16613 | 10891 |
| 6-2026 | 20723 | 20944 |
| 5-2026 | 22011 | 19104 |
- 41913, conf, Devon, Scha 33-34 5H, Alger,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 13363 | 13085 |
| 7-2026 | 19426 | 18409 |
| 6-2026 | 26325 | 21492 |
| 5-2026 | 27505 | 19754 |
| 4-2026 | 12122 | 8012 |
- 41768, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 6BX, Tioga,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 29263 | 35051 |
| 7-2026 | 14570 | 17652 |
| 6-2026 | 3858 | 4407 |
| 5-2026 | 43435 | 51137 |
| 4-2026 | 3397 | 4012 |
- 41767, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 5B, Tioga,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 16843 | 12486 |
| 7-2026 | 21739 | 14062 |
| 6-2026 | 22873 | 14001 |
| 5-2026 | 22512 | 14918 |
- 42562, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia 44X-103E-N, Grinnell, npd,
- 42226, conf, Whiting, Paulson 5104 44-13 3B, Assiniboine,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 16843 | 12486 |
| 7-2026 | 21739 | 14062 |
| 6-2026 | 22873 | 14001 |
| 5-2026 | 22512 | 14918 |
- 41766, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 4B, Tioga,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 21173 | 32676 |
| 7-2026 | 25490 | 32914 |
| 6-2026 | 26377 | 31542 |
| 5-2026 | 23500 | 27337 |
| 4-2026 | 14777 | 16445 |
- 42561, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia 44X-10A-N, Grinnell, npd,
- 42231, conf, Whiting, Cliffside Federal 5103 41-7 3B, Assiniboine,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 21401 | 15060 |
| 7-2026 | 14656 | 9393 |
| 6-2026 | 18607 | 17873 |
| 5-2026 | 18826 | 17661 |
- 41765, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 3B, Tioga,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 21824 | 37194 |
| 7-2026 | 25429 | 35124 |
| 6-2026 | 23942 | 28007 |
| 5-2026 | 23397 | 27951 |
| 4-2026 | 15259 | 17191 |
- 41764, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 2B, Tioga,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 20360 | 31559 |
| 7-2026 | 25908 | 35154 |
| 6-2026 | 28774 | 33739 |
| 5-2026 | 26945 | 31022 |
| 4-2026 | 15477 | 15964 |
- 36548, conf, Oasis, Thelen 5297 11-6 4B, Banks,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 2038 | 24401 |
| 7-2026 | 2702 | 31854 |
| 6-2026 | 3319 | 26182 |
| 5-2026 | 3113 | 21584 |
- 34479, conf, Whiting, Moen 41-2-5H, Stockyard Creek,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 1125 | 7141 |
| 7-2026 | 2086 | 9761 |
| 6-2026 | 2402 | 10722 |
| 5-2026 | 941 | 3933 |
| 4-2026 | 1068 | 4251 |
- 33509, conf, Whiting, Vance 44-9THF, Truax,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 420 | 8945 |
| 7-2026 | 750 | 14151 |
| 6-2026 | 877 | 14240 |
| 5-2026 | 541 | 6468 |
| 4-2026 | 148 | 1568 |
- 32932, conf, Whiting, Koala 31-2H, Poe,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 388 | 3859 |
| 7-2026 | 325 | 3436 |
| 6-2026 | 139 | 2819 |
| 5-2026 | 128 | 2000 |
| 4-2026 | 254 | 3173 |
- 32075, conf, Whiting, Koala 14-32HU, Poe,
| ate | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 1130 | 6177 |
| 7-2026 | 1214 | 5861 |
| 6-2026 | 477 | 3373 |
| 5-2026 | 28 | 0 |
| 4-2026 | 252 | 1818 |
- 24197, conf, Whiting, P Evans 154-99-2-24-18-1H, Epping,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 362 | 3808 |
| 7-2026 | 391 | 4117 |
| 6-2026 | 379 | 4091 |
| 5-2026 | 455 | 4270 |
| 4-2026 | 456 | 3329 |
- 42232, conf, Whiting, Cliffside Federal 5103 41-7 4B, Assiniboine,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 15930 | 11618 |
| 7-2026 | 24025 | 14908 |
| 6-2026 | 26411 | 15865 |
| 5-2026 | 24627 | 16462 |
- 41974, conf, KODA Resources, Amber 2133-1BH, Fertile Valley,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 21144 | 9994 |
| 7-2026 | 15567 | 6535 |
| 6-2026 | 22896 | 8033 |
| 5-2026 | 24112 | 10065 |
| 4-2026 | 11127 | 3894 |
- 42225, conf, Whiting, Paulson 5104 44-13 2B, Assiniboine,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 18104 | 13825 |
| 7-2026 | 15229 | 9597 |
| 6-2026 | 22533 | 13694 |
| 5-2026 | 16549 | 11460 |
- 41922, conf, Hess, GO-Lemire-157-973613H-2, Ray,
| Date | Oil Runs | MCF Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 8-2026 | 14715 | 37347 |
| 7-2026 | 16310 | 34301 |
| 6-2026 | 14353 | 26555 |
| 5-2026 | 4186 | 34700 |
| 4-2026 | 27159 | 45988 |
Wells Coming Off Confidential List This Next Week -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51900B.
These have been previously posted. I was getting a little ahead of myself (an idiom which makes no sense to me) so I won't be adding any new wells to the list this week.
Friday, October 16, 2026: 37 for the month, 37 for the quarter, 536 for the year,
42564, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia Federal 44X-10F-N,
Thursday, October 15, 2026: 36 for the month, 36 for the quarter, 535 for the year,
42563, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia Federal 44X-10BN,
42230, conf, Whiting, Cliffside Federal 5103 41-7 3B,
41913, conf, Devon, Scha 33-34 5H,
41768, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 6BX,
41767, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 5B,
Wednesday, October 14, 2026: 31 for the month, 31 for the quarter, 530 for the year,
42562, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia 44X-103E-N
42226, conf, Whiting, Paulson 5104 44-13 3B,
41766, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 4B,
Tuesday, October 13, 2026: 28 for the month, 28 for the quarter, 527 for the year,
42561, conf, XTO, GBU Sophia 44X-10A-N,
42231, conf, Whiting, Cliffside Federal 5103 41-7 3B,
41765, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 3B,
41764, conf, Oasis, Davidson 5795 31-33 2B,
36548, conf, Oasis, Thelen 5297 11-6 4B,
34479, conf, Whiting, Moen 41-2-5H,
33509, conf, Whiting, Vance 44-9THF,
32932, conf, Whiting, Koala 31-2H
32075, conf, Whiting, Koala 14-32HU,
24197, conf, Whiting, P Evans 154-99-2-24-18-1H,
Monday, October 12, 2026: 18 for the month, 18 for the quarter, 517 for the year,
42232, conf, Whiting, Cliffside Federal 5103 41-7 4B,
Sun day, October 11, 2026: 17 for the month, 17 for the quarter, 516 for the year,
41974, conf, KODA Resources, Amber 2133-1BH,
Saturday, October 10, 2026: 16 for the month, 16 for the quarter, 515 for the year,
42225, conf, Whiting, Paulson 5104 44-13 2B,
41922, conf, Hess, GO-Lemire-157-973613H-2,
Money Market Fund Assets Just Shy Of New Record Despite Massive Inflow Of New Funds -- October 10, 2026
Locator: 51899MMF.
Tag: MMF MMFs
Total MMF assets are just shy of a new record despite massive inflow of new funds.
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