Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

[caption id="attachment_69738" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption] xAI's Louise Giam told a Tesla owner to stay tuned after she asked whether Grok Bot can connect to a Tesla so she can talk to Grok and assign tasks to her agents while she drives. https://twitter.com/buildwithmaya/status/2093367120524402911 Maya, posting as buildwithmaya on August 28, called it a long shot and...

Tesla Elon Musk said SpaceX can accelerate natural-gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months by casting the blades and vanes in-house, a step he called a profound game-changer while Tesla and SpaceX each race 100 gigawatts a year of solar production. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2093794565274669068 Musk wrote on August 29 that both companies are building that...

Starlink has started emailing small-boat owners a new Personal Maritime plan that costs $185 a month and keeps unlimited data in territorial waters worldwide without the 30-day Roam travel limit. https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2093345601672929523 The email says the plan is for people who use Starlink on a vessel and stay on the water for extended periods before returning...

[caption id="attachment_72125" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Tesla[/caption] Tesla's European configurators now list a €1,200 Zen Grey interior on the Model Y Premium in place of the white cabin, a change that appeared on August 28 in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and more. https://twitter.com/TeslaNewswire/status/2093334572381462835 [caption id="attachment_72126" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Tesla[/caption] The order page...

[caption id="attachment_72110" align="aligncenter" width="471"] Tesla Motors Australia[/caption] Tesla told Hardware 3 owners in Australia on August 28 that Full Self-Driving Supervised v14 Lite is rolling out in North America and South Korea, with active development now underway for Australia and New Zealand. https://twitter.com/sam_mz20/status/2093176776537383239 [caption id="attachment_72111" align="aligncenter" width="471"] Tesla Motors Australia[/caption] The company emailed customers that...

[caption id="attachment_72086" align="alignnone" width="1024"] UAEGOV / TDRA[/caption] The United Arab Emirates' Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority granted Starlink a 10-year General Satellite Services Licence on August 28, putting SpaceX's satellite broadband on a formal public-network footing across the country. https://twitter.com/UAEmediaoffice/status/2093240541106544875 The official UAEGOV account wrote that TDRA grants Starlink licence to provide satellite internet...

[caption id="attachment_72076" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Starlink[/caption] Starlink said on August 27 it is cutting Residential service plans 50% for new and existing customers in the Vermilion Parish area of Louisiana, as SpaceX invests in a new Gulf Coast spaceport. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2093035331633435007 The official account wrote that SpaceX is building a new spaceport on Louisiana's Gulf Coast and...

[caption id="attachment_72064" align="alignnone" width="1024"] SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX said Ship 40 is loaded onto a semi-submersible for a several-month trip back to Starbase, after engineers spent several days inspecting the Flight 13 ship in the waters off Christmas Island. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2092988521376059899 [caption id="attachment_72065" align="alignnone" width="1024"] SpaceX[/caption] The company posted that the team collected heatshield samples and gained vital...

The Tesla Model Y is the world’s best-selling car through the first seven months of 2026, according to Focus2Move figures covering 162 countries, after sales rose 19.6 percent and pushed the Toyota Corolla into second place. Ukravtoprom circulated the ranking on August 25. The Corolla is down 6.0 percent over the same stretch. Behind them...

The Tesla Model Y is Europe’s best-selling electric vehicle through the first seven months of 2026, with 115,957 registrations, Tesla Senior Sales Advisor Philip Powers said on August 26, citing Dataforce. https://twitter.com/PhilipPowerss/status/2092584265821094218 That volume is up 55 percent from the same stretch of 2025 and puts the Model Y fifth among all cars in Europe,...

Tesla said its 2026 Summer Release is using Grok Think Fast 2.0, putting the new voice model in the car instead of waiting on a later Grok Voice drop. https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2092460375132586350 The company posted that line on August 26, quoting a SpaceXAI note from August 24 that Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 is now number one...

JPMorgan kept an Overweight rating and a $240 price target on SpaceX on August 25, pointing to the closed Cursor acquisition and early Grok gains after Cursor data went into training. Analyst Doug Anmuth wrote that SpaceX’s AI ambitions are coming into sharper focus, and that the bank is increasingly positive on Grok. The $240...

SpaceXAI said Starlink is using Grok Voice to handle more than 15,000 inbound customer support and sales calls a day, with the same system diagnosing hardware issues, shipping replacements, and filling more than 3,000 orders a week across voice and chat. The company posted the Starlink numbers as a follow-up to a claim that Grok...

The German state of Brandenburg is in talks with Tesla about deploying Robotaxis in remote regions, transport minister Robert Crumbach said, a plan that would use the vehicles as rural transit rather than city ride-hailing. Crumbach confirmed the discussions in an interview with Märkische Allgemeine. “Where a regular bus does not run at all, or...

SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to run the tool-use, code, and data work behind its next agentic AI apps, and Elon Musk said the companies have designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in the fourth quarter of 2027, with significant scale in 2028. “SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has...