Starlink beamed live video from SpaceX's Starship back to Earth on Monday as the ship orbited the planet for the first time in program history during Flight 14, which lifted off from Starbase, Texas carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites. Flight 14 marked the first Starship mission planned to reach orbit, and SpaceX said Monday the...

Tesla's Robotaxi will now make sure you don't leave your bags behind. A new feature spotted Sunday automatically reopens the trunk at the end of a ride if the rider opened it before the trip began. X user Aryan Butala shared the find September 27 with a 23-second demo video. The car pops the trunk...

Elon Musk said Sunday that Starlink will likely carry most of Earth's internet traffic over the long term, and that at that point everything else would connect to Starlink. Musk was replying to investor Aaron Burnett, who posted a bandwidth estimate showing how much capacity V3 Starlink satellites could add to orbit. Burnett calculated a...

A 50-foot bronze statue of Prometheus is going up just outside Starbase. The statue is being assembled on private land near the entrance to the SpaceX launch site, according to drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer, who documented the work on Sunday. Tegtmeyer said it is not a SpaceX commission, and Elon Musk is not paying for...

Dubai has opened a new proving ground for self-driving cars, and Tesla is already on the test roster. The emirate's Roads and Transport Authority, working with the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority, inaugurated Dubai Mobility Labs at Dubai Silicon Oasis on Friday. RTA calls it the smartest integrated ground-testing facility of its kind in the...

SpaceXAI is giving creators a new way to earn rewards from custom Grok Bots, with a limited pilot program now tying payments to Bot usage. X Corp's Grok Bot Template Rewards Pilot Program Terms, effective September 25, 2026, outline a system that provides discretionary payments to creators whose public Bot templates drive user activity. The...

Grok Bots are moving from separate services toward a shared XChat experience as SpaceXAI and X continue testing a connection between Grok products. X's Chris Park confirmed the news by quote-posting the report from @blankspeaker, whose profile bio identifies them as SpaceXAI's Grok Community Mod. Park replied "True," adding "Grok Bot to XChat coming soon."...

Elon Musk discussed China's artificial intelligence progress and Tesla's operations in the country during a new interview with China Media Group, highlighting the Shanghai factory team and advances in AI development. Musk credited Tesla's Shanghai success to its local workforce, saying "To be totally frank, the magic of Tesla Shanghai is because of the Chinese...

A future Super Heavy booster could fly with fewer grid fins as SpaceX continues refining its Starship hardware. Elon Musk said on September 25, 2026 that the company "might be able to reduce to 2 grid fins and use S-turns for the third axis of control." The comment came in a reply to SpaceX commentator...

The world's biggest AI training clusters require enormous amounts of power, water and community support. SpaceXAI is betting that all three can be secured in the American Mid-South. A new Mid-South website page from SpaceXAI Memphis highlights the company's Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi footprint. The page summarizes previously disclosed figures on the Colossus I...

Tesla has dropped a cryptic 9-second teaser telling fans "see you next week," a clip that has already attracted more than 6 million views and sparked speculation around an October 1 announcement. On Thursday, Tesla posted a 9-second video featuring the text "See you next week." The clip remains almost entirely dark throughout its brief...

The Cybercab has no door handles, no steering wheel, and no driver to flag down. Tesla's phone app has to handle all of those tasks, and its latest build adds more backup options. Third-party tracker Tesla App Updates (iOS) decompiled Robotaxi app version 26.8.2 and posted the findings Thursday, as the Austin Cybercab fleet it...

Elon Musk has revealed the scale of SpaceXAI's computing ambitions, outlining a Colossus expansion that could reach 1.44 million GPUs by the end of December. Musk said Thursday that Colossus 1 operates with 150,000 H100, 50,000 H200 and 30,000 GB200 chips, while Colossus 2 contains 110,000 GB200 and 440,000 GB300 chips. He added that another...

China's electric vehicle price war is cooling into autumn, with Tesla adjusting its incentives. The discounts will continue into October, but the Model Y reduction is becoming smaller. Tesla China has extended its limited-time tail-payment discount on the Model 3 and Model Y through October 31, 2026, according to the company's official promotions page. The...

Tesla's push to bring supervised FSD to Europe faces another delay, with the official agenda for the October 6 committee meeting showing discussions will continue without a scheduled vote on the system. Published in the European Commission's comitology register, the draft agenda for the 119th meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) lists...