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[caption id="attachment_74118" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starship in orbit during Flight 14, its first orbital flight. Credit: SpaceX/X[/caption] Elon Musk said on X on Friday that a SpaceX valuation above $1,000 trillion is now among the company's possible outcomes, a scenario he says he previously didn't think was possible. Musk made the comment in a reply at...

[caption id="attachment_74109" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A Powerwall 3 stands in a water-filled aquarium in Tesla Japan's flood demo. Credit: Tesla Japan/X[/caption] Tesla Japan has posted a video of a Powerwall 3 home battery standing in a water-filled aquarium to show off its flood rating, and Elon Musk reposted the clip to his followers on Friday morning....

[caption id="attachment_74106" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Giga Shanghai workers mark Tesla's 9 millionth vehicle in December 2025. Credit: Tesla Asia/X[/caption] Tesla's Giga Shanghai wholesaled 95,366 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in September, its best month of 2026 so far, according to data released Friday by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). That's up 5% from 90,812...

[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...