Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Senator Richard Blumenthal has opened a congressional inquiry into how Ukraine lost full access to SpaceX's Starshield service, and he wants Elon Musk to answer in writing by November 5. The Connecticut Democrat, who is the ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, announced the probe on Wednesday,...

Credit: Mark Carney/X Prime Minister Mark Carney says the slowdown of SpaceX's military satellite service in Ukraine had real human costs, and that Canada doesn't want to be left depending on a single provider that could do the same to Canadians. Carney made the comments at a press conference in Istanbul on Friday, October 23,...

Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X Tesla's first reported Cybercab crash happened at about 5 mph in an Austin parking lot, when the two-seat robotaxi drove into a large pothole filled with water, according to crash data published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). A safety monitor was inside the car, there were no passengers, and...

Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X Tesla's Robotaxi service in Austin is now taking ride requests until 1 AM, and its service area has grown to take in Circuit of the Americas right as Formula 1 rolls into town for the United States Grand Prix, according to David Moss on X. The new cutoff is one hour later...

Credit: Support Forces of Ukraine Command President Donald Trump says Elon Musk has restored Ukraine's satellite connectivity, but officials in Kyiv say the speed limits on their terminals are still in place. Asked on Thursday whether he had called Musk about Starlink in Ukraine, Trump wouldn't say. "I don't want to comment on it, whether...

Credit: Tesla Tesla has told Cybertruck reservation holders in Australia and New Zealand that the electric pickup won't be coming to either country after all. The news arrived Thursday in an email titled "Important Update to Your Cybertruck Reservation," according to emails shared on X by EVStraya and Sawyer Merritt. Noooooooooooo! No @cybertruck for Australia...

Credit: The Boring Company Part of SpaceX's US$4.4 billion third quarter profit came from a paper gain on The Boring Company. In its Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on Thursday, SpaceX says it recorded a US$561 million unrealized gain on its Boring stake in the quarter after the tunneling company "completed a new round...

Credit: SpaceX A member of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said on Thursday that landing Starship on the Moon could take "around 22" refueling launches, and Elon Musk quickly disagreed. Charlie Precourt made the comment during the panel's public meeting on October 22, describing it as the latest estimate for the number of refuelings needed...

Credit: SpaceXSI SpaceXSI launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network on Thursday, an official program for companies that build products, services and integrations around Grok for business customers. The company, which Elon Musk said would drop the SpaceXAI name earlier this month, says more than 130 companies took part in the program's early-access phase, according...

Credit: Tesla Fort Bend County, Texas, has approved a package of tax breaks and economic development agreements for Tesla's proposed US$10.1 billion solar factory near Needville. County commissioners passed all four Tesla agreements on Thursday afternoon, each by a 4-0 vote with one abstention, according to video of the Commissioners Court meeting. The project, known...

Credit: American Airlines/X American Airlines CEO Robert Isom says the airline is staying with Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi, telling Squawk Box on Thursday that customers demand connectivity and that SpaceX's service is the best product available (via CNBC). Isom was asked whether American is comfortable doing business with Starlink after The Wall Street Journal reported...

Credit: Tesla Elon Musk predicted on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21 that Tesla will eventually handle most of the world's passenger miles, but he added a caveat about governments that may want to protect their own car industries. The comment came after an analyst said Tesla appears to be pricing its Robotaxi...

Credit: Tesla Tesla's chief financial officer agreed with an estimate from New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu that Full Self-Driving now brings in close to US$1 billion a year in recurring revenue. Vaibhav Taneja made the comment on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21, the same afternoon Tesla reported that FSD was included...

Credit: Tesla Tesla has started building a second Optimus factory in Austin, and it will be able to make far more humanoid robots than the company's line in Fremont, chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja said on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21. Fremont only just began what Tesla calls production-quality builds, as we...

Credit: Tesla Elon Musk says Terafab will need "tens of billions" of dollars in capital equipment through early 2028 and will "probably be north of" US$100 billion over the long term. He gave the estimate on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21, a day after he said Terafab's output would rank among the...