Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Anthropic has agreed to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceX’s AI compute through 2029. The figure comes from the Claude maker’s IPO filing, and it adds a new name and a hard number to the GPU buildout SpaceX has been borrowing to fund. Anthropic filed its Form S-1 registration statement with the US Securities […]

Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen drove the next-generation Roadster to a dinner at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Sunday night, during the car’s four-day public display in Los Angeles. Once he arrived, the team opened up the back of the car so guests could see the pressure vessel behind the seats. Video from the […]

Tesla filled the roads around Circuit of the Americas with Cybercabs on Sunday, October 25, as its Robotaxi service carried Formula 1 fans to and from the United States Grand Prix in Austin. Riders and spotters at the track counted more than 50 Cybercabs dropping off passengers by midday, just days after Tesla stretched its […]

Tesla Robotaxi has switched on a bigger service area in Houston, and the new map looks a lot like a Starship rocket, a nod the company made obvious with a “Houston, we have liftoff” post on X at 6:38 AM PT on Monday. It comes days after Tesla said Robotaxi will run until 2 AM […]

Update: SpaceX has now officially announced the deal, saying on Monday, October 26, that it reached a binding commitment for an approximately $40 billion master finance lease for GPUs and related equipment with an entity managed by Apollo Global Management. SpaceX calls it the largest GPU financing ever and says the lease will deliver NVIDIA’s […]

Grok Imagine, the image and video generator from SpaceXSI, released the first episode of an AI-made Odyssey series on Friday, October 23, and Elon Musk shared it with his followers that night. In its post on X, Grok Imagine said the episode was “made with Grok Imagine” as a creative collaboration with Wonder Studios and […]

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, said on Saturday, October 24, that Ukraine’s military violated Starlink terms of service by using it for offensive drone strikes, and that SpaceX closed that loophole last week. In a post on X, Musk also warned that if Starlink were turned off, “the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately,” adding, “This […]

A Tesla engineer says Grok helped tune the new rearview camera view that Cybercab riders can now open during a ride, to the point that he didn’t need to read the hardware datasheet. Yun-Ta Tsai, a senior staff engineer at Tesla Super Intelligence, the company’s AI team, shared the detail on X Saturday morning, two […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, October 24, that Starlink and Starshield service in Ukraine has been restored to the speeds the country had before the restrictions. The announcement comes after nearly two weeks of slowdowns that Kyiv says disrupted drone operations, and two days after President Trump said Elon Musk “put it back”, […]

[caption id="attachment_74785" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Credit: Tesla LATAM/X[/caption] Tesla is offering 0% interest financing on the Model 3 and Model Y in Colombia, Tesla LATAM announced on X on Friday. The regional account posted that the rate is "now available" for both cars, and that it's valid for deliveries before December 31, 2026. It's the latest...

[caption id="attachment_74778" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Credit: Tesla/X[/caption]Tesla says Giga Berlin built 7,000 Model Y in a single week, calling it the next production milestone for its German factory. "Ramp-up is in full swing at Giga Berlin. This week we hit the next production milestone: 7,000 Model Y built in one week," the company's Tesla Manufacturing account...

[caption id="attachment_74769" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Credit: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla has shared its first official video of the next-generation Roadster's interface, posting a 34-second clip on X Friday afternoon with the caption "Inspired by fighter jet cockpits, Roadster's interface was designed around the pilot." The video walks through the car's red-and-black touchscreen, from the home screen to a...

[caption id="attachment_74763" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Credit: NASA/SpaceX[/caption] NASA gave the public its first look at the crew cabin SpaceX is building for its Starship moon lander on Friday, during an Artemis Acceleration briefing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The images show Cabin 1, which is under construction inside SpaceX's Starfactory at Starbase, Texas, and they...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants to rewrite parts of the federal lighting standard for cars with no steering wheel or pedals, and it would let self-driving vehicles carry optional cyan lights that tell everyone nearby the car is driving itself. NHTSA laid out the plan in a proposed rule set for publication...

Credit: SpaceX AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are pressing the Federal Communications Commission to keep two key 5G bands out of its plan to expand satellite-to-phone service, according to a letter filed with the FCC by their trade group, CTIA. The push lands as SpaceX turns Starlink Mobile into a would-be fourth US carrier and hunts...