Stories by Alex Diaz

Image: SpaceXSI Grok Bot now supports plus aliases for email, according to Sam Sokolin, who lists himself on X as building @bot at SpaceXSI. In a post on Wednesday afternoon, he wrote that you can "send and receive email using dedicated aliases, or set up routines that only trigger for mail to a specific alias."...

Image: Support Forces of Ukraine Command Elon Musk says Starshield is owned and controlled by the US government, and that any limits on how it is used, including speed, are set by the US military and ultimately the President, not by SpaceX. Musk made the point in a post on Wednesday, drawing a clear line...

Image: SpaceXSI SpaceXSI released Grok Voice 3.0 on Wednesday, a new speech-to-speech model that it calls the most intelligent voice model in the world. The company says it answers in under a second, costs less than rival frontier models and already handles conversations in Tesla vehicles and Starlink call centers. SpaceXSI announced the model on...

Nightpeak Energy has completed a 300 MW battery storage project in Southeast Texas using Tesla Megapack systems, adding more capacity to the state’s electricity grid as demand continues to grow. The company announced on October 13 that its Bocanova 2 project in Brazoria County, near Houston, reached commercial operation on September 17, 2026. The new […]

Image: Tesla Tesla has started rolling out FSD Lite to Model S and Model X vehicles with the older Intel infotainment computer, bringing the newer driver assistance build to a group of flagship owners who had been left waiting while other Hardware 3 cars moved ahead. The news came from Tesla's own X post on...

Image: SpaceX Ship 40, the first Starship ever to come back to its launch site after flying, is now standing upright inside a Megabay at Starbase, Texas, where SpaceX plans to pull data from its flown heatshield, Raptor engines and avionics. SpaceX shared the update on X Tuesday afternoon along with new photos of the...

Image: Tesla Tesla has filed plans for a 37-stall Supercharger in Albury, on the New South Wales and Victoria border, which would become the largest public EV charging site in Australia if it's approved. That's according to ABC News, which says the $3.5 million development application was lodged with Albury City Council for a vacant...

Image: Tesla Tesla sold an estimated 144,094 electric vehicles in the US in the third quarter, good for 54% of the market even as its own sales fell almost 20% from a year earlier. That's according to the latest Kelley Blue Book EV sales report from Cox Automotive, which pegs total US EV sales for...

Image: Tesla Tesla is using Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Flex Connect program in California to open new Superchargers on spare grid capacity before multi-year utility upgrades are finished, letting sites run at full power when there’s room and throttle down when the local grid is tight. That’s according to Tesla’s charging account on X, […]

Image: SpaceXSI SpaceXSI launched The X Subscription on Monday, a single plan that bundles Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium into five tiers ranging from free to $200 a month, with new customers able to sign up starting today. The company announced the plans in a thread on X and a matching post on...

Image: Grok Update: SpaceXSI has now made it official, with five plans from free to $200 a month. X may be getting ready to fold X Premium, Grok and Cursor into a single subscription, with four tiers that share one usage pool across all three products, according to leaked screenshots and recordings that surfaced on...

[caption id="attachment_74122" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A Starlink Mini dish on a home rooftop. Credit: Starlink/X[/caption] Elon Musk posted a mock open letter on X on Friday addressed to "Prime Minister Ambani," apologizing for not realizing he is "the real boss of India" and asking him to let Starlink compete in the country. Musk published the letter...

[caption id="attachment_74118" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starship in orbit during Flight 14, its first orbital flight. Credit: SpaceX/X[/caption] Elon Musk said on X on Friday that a SpaceX valuation above $1,000 trillion is now among the company's possible outcomes, a scenario he says he previously didn't think was possible. Musk made the comment in a reply at...

[caption id="attachment_74109" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A Powerwall 3 stands in a water-filled aquarium in Tesla Japan's flood demo. Credit: Tesla Japan/X[/caption] Tesla Japan has posted a video of a Powerwall 3 home battery standing in a water-filled aquarium to show off its flood rating, and Elon Musk reposted the clip to his followers on Friday morning....

[caption id="attachment_74106" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Giga Shanghai workers mark Tesla's 9 millionth vehicle in December 2025. Credit: Tesla Asia/X[/caption] Tesla's Giga Shanghai wholesaled 95,366 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in September, its best month of 2026 so far, according to data released Friday by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). That's up 5% from 90,812...