Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

SpaceXAI has renamed its official X account to SpaceX Super Intelligence, swapping the @SpaceXAI handle for @SpaceXSI and finishing the rebrand Elon Musk promised earlier this month. The change is live on the same account that joined X in May 2023. It still shows roughly 2.07 million followers, while the old @SpaceXAI handle no longer...

A Tesla Cybercab in Austin opened its passenger-side door only partway when it was parked beside a fence, while the door on the open street side swung up fully. Tesla owner and YouTuber Dirty Tesla shared the photo on Thursday, then followed up Saturday with video he called "evidence" that the car limits the door...

Tesla’s Robotaxi account says more than 300 Cybercabs are now serving Austin, an eightfold jump in the 30 days since paid rides began. Update: Tesla AI chief Ashok Elluswamy quote-posted the announcement with a hint at what's next, writing that Cybercabs are "everywhere in Austin now. Dallas soon." He didn't give a date. Tesla already...

Elon Musk says Digital Optimus, the AI agent Tesla and SpaceXAI are building to use computers like a person, can now get about halfway through the Diablo campaign just by watching the screen. Musk shared the progress early Saturday in a reply on X, and said fast games are going well too. “Skill at Counter-Strike...

A Falcon 9 lifted off from California at 12:39 a.m. PT on Saturday with 21 Space Development Agency satellites, five days after the same mission was stopped by an auto abort in the final second of its countdown. The rocket flew from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX says it...

Tesla has a new mandatory tutorial for Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD Supervised, and the city it's driving through appears to be Berlin, where owners still can't switch the system on. Every owner has to sit through it. Tesla's Dutch support page lists four steps to turn the system on: tap Controls,...

Cybercab riders who ask Grok for their own Grok Bots are getting turned away for now, but a senior Tesla AI engineer says an upcoming software update will close that gap, and that he has been testing the fix every day. The complaint came from Tesla creator Dirty Tesla, who posted Thursday afternoon that "You...

Panama’s +Móvil has switched on Starlink Mobile satellite texting for free for all of its customers after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the country on Friday, letting people send SMS from places where the cell network has gone quiet. Update: Starlink has gone a step further for people hit by the quake. On Friday evening...

Tesla has opened a new 8-stall Supercharger in Iași, Romania, and says the site was chosen by its own customers through the company's Supercharger voting program. The Tesla Charging account announced the site on X on Friday afternoon: "New Tesla Supercharger: Iași, Romania (8 stalls)Voting Winner Site 🏆 If there's a place where you've always...

Brazil's telecom regulator, ANATEL, has voted to approve Starlink Mobile's full 2 GHz access in the country, Starlink said on Friday afternoon. That opens mid-band spectrum for SpaceX's satellite-to-phone service in what is already Starlink's second-largest market. Starlink announced the decision on X at 2:49 p.m. PT: ANATEL just scored a huge win for the...

A Model Y on display at Tesla’s Chennai location. Image: Tesla India/X Tesla India has announced a new Experience Centre at Skymark One in Sector 98, Noida, its third sales location in the Delhi area. The company shared the news in a statement on October 9. The Noida site joins Tesla’s Experience Centre at Aerocity...

Venezuela's national telecom regulator Conatel said Friday it has legally authorized Starlink to operate across the country, granting SpaceX's local entity a general license and seven Ku-band spectrum concessions. In a statement published on its site, Conatel said its board approved Habilitación General HGTS-00639 and seven general concessions in the Ku band for SPACEX VZ,...

Image: @omg_fsd/X Tesla's official X account is hinting that a wider Cybercab release is coming. On Friday morning it posted "Floodgates are opening" on top of an owner's photo that shows four gold Cybercabs driving through Texas traffic together. The photo comes from Zach, who posts as @omg_fsd. He shared it Thursday evening with a...

Image: SpaceXAI SpaceXAI is giving Grok Bot its own email inboxes, with the official @bot account on X saying Friday morning that the feature is rolling out to users today and that you can claim one just by asking your Bot. The post went up at 10:16 a.m. PT and kept it short: “Rolling out...

Update, October 9: Tesla has since switched on more Megacharger sites along the freight lane between Atlanta and the port city of Savannah. "New Megacharger sites between Atlanta & Savannah now online," the Tesla Semi account posted Thursday afternoon, adding that "many more Southeast sites" are coming soon. Dan Priestley, who leads Tesla's Semi program,...