Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_75154" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Superintelligence compute will end up almost entirely in space, Elon Musk said Monday, extending his late-2028 orbital compute forecast with a harder claim that the share "will round up to 100%." Replying to Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire, Musk wrote that "Future super intelligence compute will obviously be overwhelmingly...

[caption id="attachment_75126" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Chart: Robotaxi Tracker[/caption] Cybercab traffic outside Tesla's Austin robotaxi service area is climbing, with southwest cameras logging 33 sightings last week after just one the week of September 28, according to Robotaxi Tracker counts that Austin tracker Ethan McKanna highlighted Sunday. McKanna said the ramp showed up on cameras in both...

[caption id="attachment_75146" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla says its Robotaxi ride-hailing service opens to riders in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday, adding a fourth Texas city after Austin, Dallas and Houston. The company announced the launch on Sunday night from its official Robotaxi account, saying rides start at 6 AM Monday. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2117128711761985656 Robotaxi is Tesla's...

Tesla clocks in British Columbia reportedly fell back one hour on Sunday, even though the province stayed on year-round Pacific time and did not change its clocks. Owners across the province said their cars showed the wrong time after much of North America set clocks back. British Columbia adopted permanent Pacific time, or PCT, at...

[caption id="attachment_75115" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Similarweb[/caption] X kept people on its website longer than any other major social network in September, according to new data from Similarweb. The average visit to x.com lasted 13 minutes and 25 seconds worldwide, ahead of Facebook and Instagram. Elon Musk shared the chart on Sunday morning, adding that X...

Tesla China is taking ¥5,000 (about $700 USD) off its certified used cars for the rest of November. The offer went live on November 1 on Tesla China's promotions page, and it follows a busy few weeks for the brand in the country after Shanghai's best month of 2026 in September. Buyers who order any...

[caption id="attachment_67659" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla opened a pair of new 8-stall Superchargers in Canada this week, one in Keremeos, B.C., and one in Norwood, Ontario, according to the Tesla Charging account on X. Keremeos is the newer of the two. Tesla Charging listed "Keremeos, BC (8 stalls)" with a Find Us map link...

[caption id="attachment_74849" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Robotaxi/X[/caption] A Houston Robotaxi rider logged 74.1 miles and 3 hours 5 minutes for $133.25 on Saturday, running from the northern edge of Tesla's expanded geofence to the southern edge and back to the same starting point. https://twitter.com/scotsrule08/status/2116681294994096639 Spencer, who posts as @scotsrule08, shared an app receipt for the...

[caption id="attachment_74714" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will not hook its defenses to a satellite network one billionaire can switch off, and he told Politico that Ottawa's own low Earth orbit constellation should be operating in 2028. The interview was recorded in Montreal on Thursday, October 30, after Carney hosted...

[caption id="attachment_75089" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceXSI[/caption] SpaceXSI will put an invisible watermark on text from its Grok API models starting November 7, 2026, according to the company's own Output Watermarking docs. Starting that day, the mark is on by default for grok-4.7, grok-4.6, grok-4.5 and grok-4.3, plus grok-4.20 in its reasoning, non-reasoning and multi-agent flavors....

[caption id="attachment_75082" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] CBI, a Quebec-based financing and warranty provider, is ending new extended warranties for Tesla vehicles in Canada after October 31, according to an email the company sent to customers. Denis, a Tesla Model Y owner, shared the notice in a Canadian Tesla owners group on Facebook. CBI said its...

[caption id="attachment_75074" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have made hundreds of thousands of their employees meaningfully wealthier over the years. He went further on Saturday morning, saying the two companies have also improved the retirement savings of hundreds of millions of people. Musk wrote: "Tesla and SpaceX have created meaningful...

[caption id="attachment_75063" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Building on his overnight orbital compute forecast, Elon Musk said Saturday that a mass driver on the Moon could launch superintelligence satellites into deep space at far more than a petawatt of new capability each year. Replying to TV personality Spencer Pratt, Musk wrote: "Launching super intelligence satellites into...

[caption id="attachment_75049" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Elon Musk replied "No" on Friday to a question about whether Tesla will open ordering for its Optimus humanoid robot in December, undercutting a same-day report that reservations were about to start. Rachyl Jones of The San Francisco Standard wrote on X that Tesla is opening reservations for the...

[caption id="attachment_75042" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Neuralink[/caption] Neuralink engineers spent 72 hours at the home of VOICE study participant Kenneth, building and testing speech tools that let him communicate with thought. The company says the sprint packed weeks of progress into three days. Kenneth is the same participant who earlier used thought-to-speech to tell his wife...