Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

[caption id="attachment_75059" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] By late 2028, SpaceX's monthly rollout of orbital AI compute will probably outpace what is deployed on the ground each month, Elon Musk said Friday. Replying to a post charting a SpaceX revenue model from investor Shaun Maguire, Musk wrote that "Terrestrial compute will be peanuts compared to orbital...

[caption id="attachment_75052" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: X[/caption] X Payments told holders of X Money accounts on Friday that starting December 1, the top 6% savings rate will apply only to the first $150,000 in deposits. A notice X Payments sent to account holders, dated October 30, 2026, says eligible Stored Value Accounts that earn 6.00% APY...

[caption id="attachment_75045" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: TIME[/caption] SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said Friday that she and her husband, Robert, are giving over 2 million of their SpaceX shares to children's Trump Accounts, with distribution set for December. The update follows her July pledge to put SpaceX stock into those federal children's savings accounts, and...

[caption id="attachment_75039" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Nico Rosberg[/caption] 2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg has been testing a Tesla Cybertruck with FSD (Supervised) around San Francisco this week, and he says it has been life-changing. In a LinkedIn post, Rosberg wrote that he had been test-driving the Cybertruck with Full Self-Driving around the city and...

[caption id="attachment_75032" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla asked Australia's Senate to greenlight public-road autonomous vehicle trials in 2027 and to pull the country's self-driving safety law forward by two years, citing more than 160 million kilometers of FSD (Supervised) driving across Australia and New Zealand since September 2025. In a submission to the Select Committee...

[caption id="attachment_75025" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink/SpaceX[/caption] Starlink is testing quarterly dynamic pricing on Residential plans in select U.S. areas, and some customers are already seeing bills climb as high as US$156 a month after an earlier round of plan increases in May. SpaceX emailed affected subscribers that Starlink prices are "dynamically based on supply of...

[caption id="attachment_64178" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Neuralink[/caption] Elon Musk says Neuralink's Blindsight implant is ready from an engineering standpoint and is only waiting on regulators before it can help people who are completely blind, or who have never seen, regain vision. In an October 29 post on X, Musk described Blindsight as Neuralink's second product and...

[caption id="attachment_74892" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla is paying U.S. owners to spread FSD (Supervised) without selling a car, handing friends a one-month free trial and rewarding the referrer when that friend starts a paid FSD subscription during the trial. On Thursday evening, Tesla North America posted the offer for the United States, and the...

[caption id="attachment_68220" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's board is asking shareholders to vote FOR every proposal at the December 3 annual meeting, and it puts re-electing Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel at the top of that ask. In a shareholder letter filed with the SEC on Thursday, October 29, as definitive additional proxy...

[caption id="attachment_74566" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Telesat[/caption] Conservative Member of Parliament Jamil Jivani pressed Canada's Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner on Wednesday, October 28, over why Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg, whom Jivani called a longtime friend of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, is not named on the prime minister's conflict of interest screen after Telesat...

[caption id="attachment_74714" align="alignnone" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to move ahead with new satellite-to-phone rules that would open 482 MHz more spectrum to the service, a change that could help SpaceX grow Starlink Mobile. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called the proposal the agency's most comprehensive step yet to modernize its...

[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Lithuania's Criminal Police Bureau says two Germany-based men are the suspects in the October 18 attempted arson of Starlink ground equipment in Vilnius, a follow-up to the wider European attack wave that already includes Turkey's raids on a gang tied to Poland's Starlink fire, and both are already held...

[caption id="attachment_74841" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Europe/X[/caption] Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday, October 29, that he had a "very positive and constructive" conversation with Elon Musk, and that Italy supports a swift EU approval of Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD (Supervised) already cleared in markets...

[caption id="attachment_74973" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla is showing owners how to switch on Trick or Treat mode, a Toybox setting that plays spooky sounds and lights when visitors walk up to the car. It builds on the Halloween features that arrived in the 2026.38.3 Halloween Update earlier this month, just in time for October...

[caption id="attachment_67659" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla named 36 new Supercharger voting winners on Wednesday, October 28, and opened another round so account holders can pick the next sites. Official word came from the Tesla Charging account on X in its usual two-post pattern: a short note that winners are on the Find Us map...