Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_72712" align="alignnone" width="960"] Cybercab Australia and New Zealand Tour. Credit: Tesla AUNZ / X[/caption] Tesla Australia and New Zealand on September 15, 2026, posted an eight-city Cybercab display tour that starts in Sydney this month and runs through Auckland in 2027, extending the static showcase circuit already underway in Japan, Hong Kong, Beijing, and...

Asiana Airlines confirmed on September 15, 2026, that complimentary high-speed cabin Wi-Fi powered by Starlink is now live onboard, and Starlink posted the same day that the service is available on the carrier. https://twitter.com/Flyasiana/status/2099681823630692360 https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2099685998846152898 The airline says passengers can use the free connection for HD streaming, real-time messaging, gaming, and everyday connectivity at altitude....

[caption id="attachment_72630" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starship hardware at Starbase. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] The Federal Aviation Administration’s Current Operations Plan Advisory now lists SpaceX Starship Flight 14 from Starbase, Texas, with a primary airspace window on September 22, 2026, from 12:15 to 14:14 UTC (7:15 to 9:14 a.m. Central Time) and the same hours held as a backup...

[caption id="attachment_72689" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla FSD Supervised with Grok. Credit: Whole Mars Catalog / X[/caption] Tesla on September 14, 2026, amplified an owner account of using Grok voice commands with Full Self-Driving Supervised to run an ATM errand and then return home without touching the steering wheel, writing that “FSD Supervised w/ Grok is a...

[caption id="attachment_70512" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] SpaceXAI. Credit: SpaceX.[/caption] Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI moved on September 14, 2026, to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple in a Texas federal court filing, ending the Apple track of a lawsuit that still targets OpenAI. According to Reuters, the companies filed to drop the Apple claims from the...

Elon Musk laid out xAI’s Grok model ladder on September 14, 2026, saying Grok 4.8 will finish training this week and move into reinforcement learning, ranking Grok 4.9 as roughly Astra/Fable class, and answering an AGI question by pointing past 4.8 to Grok 5 while adding that Grok 5 “maybe better than anything.” The timeline...

Tesla Charging said on September 14, 2026, that Semi Charging for Business is now available in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom, giving fleet and depot operators in those markets a direct path to buy and install Tesla Semi chargers. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2099531391658815782 In the post, @TeslaCharging linked country pages for each market and...

[caption id="attachment_72654" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla confirmed Monday, September 14, 2026, that its Cybercab will go on static public display in Beijing and Shanghai later this month, adding venue names and date windows to the Asia tour Tesla North first flagged when Tesla Asia listed Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai together....

[caption id="attachment_72237" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Falcon 9 lifts off from California with 27 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX is targeting Sunday, September 13 for a Falcon 9 launch of the SES O3b mPOWER mission to medium Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with an 87-minute window opening...

Tesla has officially set October 1 for what is heavily implied to be the reveal of its next-generation Roadster. On Saturday, the automaker shared a cryptic teaser on X featuring the caption “Go for launch”. The image displays the sleek rear profile of a dark sports car under intense vertical light beams, paired a glowing […]

Tesla Charging said on September 11, 2026, that 33 Wall Connector for Business sites opened in the last two weeks with 310 total Wall Connectors across public and private properties, in a fresh site-by-site drop that puts large SpaceX campuses in Redmond, Washington, at the top of the list. The biggest single install is Beekman...

Microsoft Teams connector for Grok Bot. Source: Grok Bot / X xAI’s official Grok Bot account said on September 11, 2026, that Grok Bot can now search and act across Microsoft Teams, adding a connector that searches, reads, and sends chats and channel messages from inside the agent workflow. https://twitter.com/bot/status/2098481256417866145 “Grok Bot can now search...

[caption id="attachment_72607" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Oasis Supercharger Labor Day stats. Source: Tesla Charging / X[/caption] Tesla Charging said on September 11, 2026, that the company’s Oasis Supercharger in Lost Hills, California, cleared the Labor Day travel window with 6,038 charging sessions over four days across 164 stalls, while generating 7 megawatts of solar power on site...

[caption id="attachment_72550" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Grok Bot quality-of-life improvements. Source: Grok Bot / X[/caption] xAI’s official Grok Bot account said on September 10, 2026, that Grok Bot is now more powerful for sales teams, with connectors for Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Clay, Granola, and other GTM tools so agents can stay on top of accounts, finish follow-ups,...

Starlink is providing free service through October 11, 2026, to every new and existing customer on the island of Kauai following Hurricane Lowell, the company said late on September 10, after coordinating with response authorities before landfall and deploying more than 200 Starlink kits with emergency response organizations across the island. “Starlink is providing free...