Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_74103" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The Starlink Wi-Fi switch on the flight deck of an airliner flying with the service. Credit: Starlink/X[/caption] Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Friday that his airline's decision to pass on Starlink wasn't personal, telling CNBC's Squawk Box there's "no tit-for-tat" with Elon Musk and that he's a Starlink fan...

[caption id="attachment_74100" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Grokipedia's most-read articles shown as a bookshelf in SpaceXAI's v0.3 video. Credit: Grokipedia/X[/caption] Elon Musk says SpaceXAI is handing Grokipedia, its AI-written encyclopedia, over to its own agents, writing on X on Thursday night that "we're just going to have @Grok Bots manage Grokipedia." Musk posted the line at 8:19 p.m....

[caption id="attachment_74096" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla's AI5 chip, which Elon Musk said the team taped out in April. Credit: Elon Musk/X[/caption] Tesla has renamed its artificial intelligence team's X account from Tesla AI to Tesla Super Intelligence, swapping the @Tesla_AI handle for @TeslaSI and following through on Elon Musk's push to replace "AI" with "SI." The...

[caption id="attachment_74091" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A Tesla Cybercab shares a downtown Austin street with mounted police. Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X[/caption] Tesla has added 150 more Cybercabs to Texas's official automated vehicle registry, lifting its authorized robotaxi fleet in the state to 739 vehicles, according to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles' public lookup. The TxDMV listing for...

[caption id="attachment_74086" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla's Robotaxi account marked Cybercab #67 joining the Austin fleet on September 21. Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X[/caption] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given Tesla until October 30 to deliver sworn answers on how it certified the Cybercab, its Austin robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, a public NHTSA memo...

[caption id="attachment_74080" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla's lead image for the renamed Tesla Assisted Driving page, showing a Model 3 driving past the Colosseum in Rome. Credit: Tesla.[/caption] Most of Tesla's European websites now call FSD Supervised "Tesla Assisted Driving," after Germany's Transport Ministry revealed Tesla offered the new name in talks where both sides agreed the...

[caption id="attachment_74075" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] SpaceX's render comparing V1 and V2 Starlink Mobile satellite beams. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX has agreed to buy a nationwide block of 800 MHz low-band spectrum from investment firm Grain Management, a deal it says will let Starlink Mobile operate as a full mobile carrier in the U.S. rather than a satellite...

[caption id="attachment_74070" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Dragon descends under its four main parachutes moments before Crew-12's splashdown off Los Angeles. Credit: SpaceX/X[/caption] SpaceX's Dragon Freedom splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m. PT on Thursday, bringing NASA's Crew-12 astronauts home after 237 days aboard the International Space Station. On board were NASA...

[caption id="attachment_73086" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starlink is still waiting on final security clearance to launch in India. Credit: Starlink[/caption] Elon Musk asked on X on Thursday whether "Ambani" is "the real boss of India," escalating his fight over Starlink's stalled launch in the country hours after India's government insisted its satellite rules treat every operator the...

[caption id="attachment_74058" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla's California Virtual Power Plant dashboard for Tuesday's grid event. Credit: Tesla Energy/X[/caption] More than 85,000 Powerwall owners across California sent over 600 megawatts of stored power into the state's grid on Tuesday evening, according to Tesla Energy, a new high for the company's home battery Virtual Power Plant. Tesla Energy...

[caption id="attachment_74048" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starlink's new referral screen, from the video the company posted with Thursday's announcement. Credit: Starlink/X[/caption] Starlink says existing customers and the friends they sign up will each get $100 in cash or service credit, or CA$140 in Canada, a bigger referral reward the SpaceX-owned satellite internet provider says is live in...

[caption id="attachment_74044" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Gold Cybercabs lined up along the fence at Tesla's Dallas Robotaxi hub on Thursday morning, with dozens more parked across the lot. Credit: @dallastsladavid/X[/caption] Tesla has filled the fence line at its Dallas Robotaxi hub with gold Cybercabs, according to a new photo from local owner @dallastsladavid, pushing out the row...

[caption id="attachment_74040" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Zack's Model 3 outside Manhattan's Red Ball Garage, the traditional New York bookend of the Cannonball Run. Credit: @BLKMDL3/X[/caption] A three-person team of Tesla owners says FSD Supervised just drove a Model 3 across the United States in 45 hours, 37 minutes and 50 seconds with zero interventions, cutting more than...

[caption id="attachment_74034" align="aligncenter" width="665"] Slovak Transport Minister Jozef Ráž announcing that Tesla FSD will soon be usable in Slovakia, from the video shared by @slovakevguy. Credit: @slovakevguy/X[/caption] Slovak Transport Minister Jozef Ráž says his ministry will send a letter recognizing the Netherlands' Tesla FSD Supervised approval within days, a move that would make Slovakia the...

[caption id="attachment_74033" align="aligncenter" width="876"] Megapack-powered mobile Superchargers at Tesla's Brandon, Fla., Supercharger in October 2024, three days after Hurricane Milton made landfall. Credit: Tesla Charging/X[/caption] Tesla is telling owners in the path of Hurricane Isaias to charge their cars to 100% at home before the storm hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, and says it's ready...