Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_72126" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption] Tesla's August registrations painted a split Europe on September 1, with the Model Y taking France's overall best-selling car crown on 4,622 units while Norway and Spain each plunged 79 percent from a year earlier, according to Reuters and national industry tallies. French car industry body PFA put Tesla at...

[caption id="attachment_71674" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla Robotaxi, LLC added its first purpose-built Cybercabs to Texas's official automated-vehicle registry on August 31, listing the two-seat, steering-wheel-free cars in the Texas Motor Carrier Credentialing System three days before the company's September 3 launch event in Austin. The public TxMCCS lookup first showed seven 2026 Cybercabs under...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope off Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:26 a.m. ET on August 30, sending the flagship observatory on a three-month trip toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. NASA said ground controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...

[caption id="attachment_72163" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Robotaxi[/caption] Tesla Robotaxi said it is now serving more of Dallas, posting a bigger service-area map on August 29 and a follow-up comparison that shows the new geofence stretching well beyond the old central zone. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2093733900459950249 [caption id="attachment_72164" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Robotaxi[/caption] The first post is a dark in-app map...

[caption id="attachment_72145" align="alignnone" width="1024"] OpenAI[/caption] OpenAI said on August 28 that it has notified SpaceX it will wind down the contract supplying OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026, after SpaceX acquired the coding tool. https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2093515564786540695 The company wrote that it is giving the maximum notice in the contract...

[caption id="attachment_72136" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption]Tesla Europe said the Model 3 now comes with 572 kilometres of range in European left-hand-drive markets, up from 534 kilometres, after a tire change posted on August 28. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2093400397591568436 The official account wrote that the gain is thanks to new tires and attached a photo of a Model 3 on...

[caption id="attachment_72100" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Liberty Costa Rica[/caption] Starlink said Starlink Mobile is now available in Costa Rica with Liberty, posting the official launch on August 27 and telling customers they can send voice notes, share locations, and use maps in remote areas. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2093069805129744537 [caption id="attachment_72099" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Liberty Costa Rica[/caption] The official account quoted Liberty...

[caption id="attachment_72089" align="alignnone" width="1024"] U.S. Air Force[/caption] The U.S. Space Force posted a public award notice on August 25 for Starshield Custom Fleet Aviation Services, a firm-fixed-price task order to SpaceX that keeps military aircraft on the Starshield network through July 2028. Space Systems Command's Commercial Services Office in El Segundo published the justification on...

[caption id="attachment_72079" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Europe[/caption] Tesla Europe said its Full Self-Driving Supervised fleet has now driven 100 million kilometres in Europe, posting the official milestone on August 26 with a video of the software working through European streets. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2092406487465505037 The official account wrote only that one line: 100 million kilometers driven on FSD Supervised...

[caption id="attachment_72071" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Japan / JATO Dynamics[/caption] Tesla Japan said the Model Y led first-half 2026 new-car registrations in Japan among every foreign brand by model, citing JATO Dynamics data covering January through June. https://twitter.com/teslajapan/status/2092766984991846540 The official account posted the ranking on August 27 and thanked Tesla owners and partner companies. The graphic...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom on August 26, citing outstanding personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom and to relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States. Presidential decree No. 835/2026, published that day and reported by Ukrainska Pravda and Kyiv Post, names Musk as an...

Tesla Optimus will be the greatest product humanity has made and will deliver more value than the iPhone, investor Jason Calacanis said on This Week in Startups on August 25 after a private Tesla demo, predicting 1 billion robots in the world by 2036. “Optimus is going to be the greatest product ever made by...

Tesla Robotaxi now runs from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, the official account said on August 26, adding that the unsupervised fleet is a lot bigger and that smarter vehicle distribution and routing should cut wait times. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2092655287501308296 Those six cities were on...

Tesla is adding passkey support to owner accounts, after a new auth.tesla.com/user/passkey/ route showed up next to the existing password-reset and phone-change paths on Tesla’s login service. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/2092398013016608885 Aaron Perris posted the new path on August 25. Tesla has not published a support note, so this is the company wiring the feature in, not a...

SpaceX is building a giant new home for its Starship rocket, and it is going up in the Louisiana marsh. The company laid out plans for Starbase Louisiana, a roughly $100 billion launch site on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, on its official project page. The scale is the headline, with CEO Elon Musk saying […]