Stories by Alex Diaz

Elon Musk said Sunday that Starlink will likely carry most of Earth's internet traffic over the long term, and that at that point everything else would connect to Starlink. Musk was replying to investor Aaron Burnett, who posted a bandwidth estimate showing how much capacity V3 Starlink satellites could add to orbit. Burnett calculated a...

Dubai has opened a new proving ground for self-driving cars, and Tesla is already on the test roster. The emirate's Roads and Transport Authority, working with the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority, inaugurated Dubai Mobility Labs at Dubai Silicon Oasis on Friday. RTA calls it the smartest integrated ground-testing facility of its kind in the...

Elon Musk discussed China's artificial intelligence progress and Tesla's operations in the country during a new interview with China Media Group, highlighting the Shanghai factory team and advances in AI development. Musk credited Tesla's Shanghai success to its local workforce, saying "To be totally frank, the magic of Tesla Shanghai is because of the Chinese...

The world's biggest AI training clusters require enormous amounts of power, water and community support. SpaceXAI is betting that all three can be secured in the American Mid-South. A new Mid-South website page from SpaceXAI Memphis highlights the company's Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi footprint. The page summarizes previously disclosed figures on the Colossus I...

Tesla has dropped a cryptic 9-second teaser telling fans "see you next week," a clip that has already attracted more than 6 million views and sparked speculation around an October 1 announcement. On Thursday, Tesla posted a 9-second video featuring the text "See you next week." The clip remains almost entirely dark throughout its brief...

The Cybercab has no door handles, no steering wheel, and no driver to flag down. Tesla's phone app has to handle all of those tasks, and its latest build adds more backup options. Third-party tracker Tesla App Updates (iOS) decompiled Robotaxi app version 26.8.2 and posted the findings Thursday, as the Austin Cybercab fleet it...

Tesla's push to bring supervised FSD to Europe faces another delay, with the official agenda for the October 6 committee meeting showing discussions will continue without a scheduled vote on the system. Published in the European Commission's comitology register, the draft agenda for the 119th meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) lists...

With six days remaining before liftoff, the spacecraft set to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station has now arrived at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX announced Thursday that its Crew-13 Dragon spacecraft has reached pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The company shared NASA photos showing the...

Update (October 8, 2026): Banglalink's Starlink service is now commercially live. Starlink announced on Wednesday that Starlink Mobile is available in Bangladesh through Banglalink, letting customers message over apps, share their location and stay connected on compatible phones in cellular dead zones. In its launch press release, Banglalink said customers need only a 4G phone...

Vietjet has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Starlink to bring free, high-speed Wi-Fi to its passengers, formalizing a collaboration that was first teased earlier this week. The agreement was exchanged in New York on Wednesday, September 23, in the presence of Vietnam's President To Lam and senior business leaders from both countries, Vietnam's state...

Google will launch a prototype satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit next week aboard a SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare mission, marking the first in-space test of its Project Suncatcher moonshot to build AI data centers in orbit. Announced last year, Project Suncatcher is a long-term research effort exploring whether low Earth orbit could support scalable...

Tesla says it has now delivered 15,000 vehicles in Ireland, reaching the milestone roughly a decade after entering the market, with new registrations running 21% ahead of last year. The company said Wednesday that it has registered more than 2,729 vehicles in Ireland so far in 2026, already nearing the 2,769 vehicles it delivered for...

An overnight fire at Exatel's Starlink uplink station in Wola Krobowska, Poland, was an act of sabotage, digital minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said Thursday. Speaking to TVP Info, the minister said the fire was intended to disrupt a station he described as vital to the security and continuity of internet services in Ukraine, according to Politico...

Tesla will stream its September 24 Semi Rollout event live from Sparks, Nevada, giving the public a front-row seat to the opening of the company's first high-volume Semi factory. Announced Wednesday by Tesla Semi, the livestream will begin at 6pm PDT on Thursday. The event is an invite-only inauguration of the dedicated Semi plant, with...

Tesla has built the first Cybercab using cathode material produced in-house, marking a manufacturing milestone for the company's robotaxi program. The company's Robotaxi account said Wednesday the gold Cybercab is the first vehicle built with Tesla's own cathode material, sourced from what it described as the first cathode plant in the Americas. A photo shared...