Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

[caption id="attachment_72734" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla FSD Supervised. Credit: Tesla / X[/caption] Tesla on September 15, 2026, spotlighted John Foppe, a driver born without arms who has been using Teslas for more than seven years and now relies on Full Self-Driving Supervised for everyday mobility and long family trips. In an official video post, Tesla wrote...

[caption id="attachment_71417" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] SpaceX Starfall demo hardware concept. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX’s new Starfall business of returning manufactured products and research payloads from orbit has signed its first known customer, Luxembourg-based mission integrator Space Cargo, CEO Nicolas Gaume told Reuters on September 15, 2026. Space Cargo plans to fly in 2028 on what Gaume described...

Elon Musk told the All-In Summit that major AI competitors should stop grading their own homework and instead put each other’s models through shared security test harnesses as soon as possible. Speaking with SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in Los Angeles, he framed adversarial peer review as the on-stage follow-through to his weekend line that “Dario...

[caption id="attachment_72693" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Vegas Loop vehicles in the tunnels. Credit: The Boring Company / X[/caption] The Boring Company said on September 14, 2026, that the Vegas Loop’s station count will double by the end of the year, tying the expansion to urgent hiring for drivers and operations managers in Las Vegas. In a post...

Tesla's updated Model Y owner’s manual now lists text messaging among the in-car jobs Grok can handle when the Assistant personality is selected, documenting voice SMS before the feature has finished rolling out to customer cars. Under Assistant mode, the manual says Grok supports phone calls, text messaging, media search and play, Controls panel search,...

Tesla has registered Tesla Motors Vietnam Limited Liability Company in Ho Chi Minh City with charter capital of about 77.7 billion dong (roughly $3 million), according to a Vietnamese business registration filing reviewed by Reuters and reported on September 14, 2026, putting a formal local sales entity on the books in one of Southeast Asia’s...

Zurich Australian Insurance Limited said on September 14, 2026, that Full Self-Driving Supervised is now a rating factor on its InsureMyTesla policies, making Zurich the first Australian insurer to price eligible Tesla coverage around the supervised self-driving stack and only the second insurer globally to do so. In a company media release, Zurich said Tesla...

[caption id="attachment_72658" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] 2026 Tesla Model 3. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla North America said on September 13, 2026, that the 2026 Model 3 earned a 5-star overall rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), plus 5 stars in every individual category the agency scores. https://twitter.com/tesla_na/status/2099256341370187969 In a post on X, @tesla_na wrote that...

SpaceX completed Falcon's 700th overall mission on Sunday, September 13, 2026, when a Falcon 9 lifted the final three SES O3b mPOWER satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:49 p.m. ET. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2099208971022152061 The company confirmed deployment of all three Boeing-built O3b mPOWER satellites into medium Earth...

Hyundai Motor Group believes it can catch and eventually overtake Tesla in autonomous driving within five years, but the company claims it is deliberately taking a slower path to get there. According to the Korea JoongAng Daily, Hyundai is building its strategy around a self-driving system called Atria AI, which the company plans to bring […]

SpaceX is getting closer to attempting something it has never done before with Starship: catching the upper-stage spacecraft with the launch tower. At Starbase in Texas, SpaceX has been testing its second orbital launch tower this week, using the Mechazilla chopstick arms to lift Flight 15’s Ship 42 into a full catch-style position. The rehearsal […]

[caption id="attachment_72625" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Electric Powerwall backup lease offer. Source: Tesla Energy / X[/caption] Tesla Energy said on September 11, 2026, that eligible customers in Texas can lease two Powerwall home batteries with Tesla Electric for about $35 a month after credits, pitching whole-home backup without a traditional generator. https://twitter.com/teslaenergy/status/2098516043711086641 “Stay powered during outages....

Korean Air said on September 11, 2026, that free high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi powered by Starlink will begin on September 15, making the carrier the first full-service airline in East Asia to put SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit network in the cabin for passengers. The service opens on four retrofitted jets — three Airbus A350-900s and one Boeing 777-300ER...

Elon Musk said on September 11, 2026, that Grok 4.7 needs a few more days to cook, arguing that reinforcement-learning choices may have over-penalized response length so the model still gives up too early on hard tasks it can actually solve and is not yet rigorous enough about checking its own work. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2098462085973741960 “Grok 4.7...

Tesla Semi. Source: Tesla Europe / X Tesla Europe said on September 11, 2026, that the company’s electric Semi is coming to Europe, publishing regional specs that put up to 550 kilometres of range on a fully loaded 40-tonne truck and pointing fleets to a fresh German Semi page on tesla.com. “Semi is coming to...