Starlink’s challengers are stepping up their game, as AST SpaceMobile has successfully launched its largest and most powerful direct-to-cell satellite yet. The Texas-based company announced this week that its first second-generation BlueBird Block 2 satellite, dubbed BlueBird 6, is now in orbit after launching aboard the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)’s LVM3 rocket. The satellite […]
Tesla’s long-promised autonomous future is starting to look a lot more real — and it’s now chauffeuring Elon Musk himself around Austin. In a post on X, Musk said a Tesla running “unsupervised” Full Self-Driving (FSD) recently drove him across Austin with no driver or safety monitor in the vehicle, while he sat in the […]
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14 is getting some rare and notable praise from outside the company, with Nvidia’s Director of AI and Distinguished Research Scientist, Jim Fan, calling it the first AI system to pass what he describes as the “physical Turing test.” Fan, who leads embodied AI research at Nvidia and plays a key […]
Tesla is once again facing regulatory scrutiny in the U.S., this time over concerns tied to emergency door releases in the Model 3. According to Reuters, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a defect investigation into Tesla Model 3 sedans amid worries that the vehicles’ emergency door release controls may not be […]
Tesla is continuing its steady global expansion of Full Self-Driving, and Cybertruck owners in South Korea are now officially part of that rollout. According to longtime Tesla watcher @tslachan, Tesla Korea has begun deploying Full Self-Driving (Supervised) on the Cybertruck in South Korea, marking the first time the all-electric pickup has received FSD in the […]
Tesla has opened an official Engineering Investigation into ongoing issues with the Cybertruck’s massive windshield wiper, suggesting the long-running “Gigawiper” saga is far from resolved. Despite earlier software tweaks aimed at improving its behaviour, new service information indicates Tesla now believes there may be a deeper hardware problem at play (via Not a Tesla App). According […]
Tesla has quietly rolled out an updated Robotaxi website, offering the clearest public signal yet that its autonomous ride-hailing ambitions are accelerating beyond the company’s initial pilots in Austin, Texas, and the Bay Area. While a Robotaxi landing page has existed since Tesla launched its early service in Austin earlier this year, the refreshed site […]
Tesla has started rolling out a new update to its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software, with early testers now receiving FSD version 14.2.2. The update began deploying earlier this week as part of software version 2025.45.5 and is expected to reach a wider group of early access users in the coming days. The rollout was first […]
Starlink’s global growth is showing no signs of slowing down. SpaceX’s satellite internet service has officially surpassed 9 million active users worldwide, reaching the milestone at a pace that’s accelerating faster with each passing month. In a post on X, Starlink confirmed the new figure, saying it is now “connecting more than 9M active customers […]
Tesla has landed another major win for its energy business, securing a new $275 million Megapack order tied to a landmark battery storage project in Scotland. Matrix Renewables has announced a full EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) agreement with Tesla to deliver a 500 MW/1 GWh standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) in Eccles, marking […]
Concerns are growing in Western intelligence circles that Russia may be developing a new type of anti-satellite weapon specifically designed to disrupt or disable SpaceX’s Starlink network, a system that has become critical to Ukraine’s war effort and broader Western communications infrastructure. According to an Associated Press report, intelligence agencies from two NATO countries believe […]
Tesla’s next big push into grid-scale energy storage is officially leaving the lab and heading into the real world. Construction has begun on a new $220 million battery project in South Australia, which will also mark the first deployment anywhere on the planet of Tesla’s new Megablock technology, according to Renew Economy. Australian renewables giant […]
Tesla may be preparing to expand Full Self-Driving (Supervised) into another major global market, with Elon Musk hinting that the advanced driver-assistance system could launch in the United Arab Emirates as soon as next month. The tease came on X after Musk reposted a Tesla video showing Full Self-Driving (Supervised) handling an entire trip end-to-end, […]
Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab appears to be inching closer to production, and a newly surfaced video may give us the clearest look yet at what the final version could look like. Footage and photos shared by longtime Tesla watcher Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt), originally provided by @Cory__17, show what appears to be a production-ready Cybercab on display […]
Tesla’s Robotaxi program in Austin just crossed another major threshold — and this time, the public is officially along for the ride. Over the weekend, Tesla began offering fully autonomous Robotaxi rides to members of the public using Full Self-Driving “Unsupervised,” with no one in the front seats — not even a safety monitor. One […]
