Ferrari’s CEO Thanks Tesla for the New Roadster: “You Can Still Innovate and Dare”
Image: Tesla Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna has praised Tesla's new Roadster, giving last week's unveil a 10 out of 10 for technology and a 10 out of 10 for presentation, and thanking the company for showing that an old industry still has room to take risks. That's according to Reuters, which interviewed Vigna on Tuesday...
Grok Bot Can Now Handle Your X DMs and Become Your Android Assistant
Image: Matt Palmer/X Grok Bot can now read and reply to your X Chat DMs, take on requests when you tag @bot in an X thread and stand in as the default assistant on Android phones, along with a long list of smaller upgrades that rolled out over the past week. That's according to Matt...
Elon Musk Tells Walter Isaacson People Confuse His Wealth With Spending Money
Image: Tesla Elon Musk says people misread what his fortune actually is, arguing that most of it is simply his stake in SpaceX and Tesla and that people often confuse controlling capital with spending it. Musk made the comments to Walter Isaacson, who wrote his 2023 biography Elon Musk, in the season debut of Isaacson's...
Tesla’s Model X Just Won a Canadian Resale Value Award, a First for the Company
Image: Tesla The Tesla Model X has won the BEV SUV: Premium category in this year's Best Retained Value Awards in Canada, finishing ahead of the BMW iX and the Audi Q4 e-tron, and it's the first time a Tesla has taken a category win in the awards. That's according to Canadian Black Book, which...
ARK’s New Tesla Model Puts the Stock at $4,400 by 2031, With Robotaxi Doing Most of the Work
Image: Tesla Robotaxi/X ARK Invest has updated its open-source Tesla valuation model, and it now puts the stock at an expected value of about $4,400 a share in 2031, with robotaxis making up roughly 80% of what ARK thinks the company will be worth. That's according to ARK's new research article, which the firm shared...
Tesla Quietly Ships FSD v14.3.13 to AI4 Cars With the Same Release Notes
Image: Tesla Update, October 20, 2026: One of the first hands-on takes on v14.3.13 comes from Whole Mars, who shared his first impressions on X early Tuesday after three short trips with the new build. He said it "reversed out of my driveway much more quickly than previous versions," parked "perfectly 3/3 times for each...
X Just Changed What Shows Up in Your Timeline
Image: Elon Musk/X X has changed how it picks posts for your timeline, rolling out a new ranking model that's better at predicting how long you'll spend on a post and a new retrieval model built to find posts people actually read to the end. That's according to a post from Elon Musk on X...
Starlink’s Phone Service Has Now Reached 11 Million People in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh
Image: Starlink Starlink says its phone service, Starlink Mobile, has connected more than 11 million people over the past year across VEON's three launch markets in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh. That's according to a post from Starlink on X on Monday evening, which quoted a VEON post from earlier the same day. Starlink wrote: "In...
The Boring Company Just Found a New Job for Its Tesla-Powered Tunnel Trucks
Image: The Boring Company/X The Boring Company wants to use its tunnels to move freight, and it has modified its latest Prufrock Liner Truck, which runs on Tesla Model 3 batteries and drive units, to carry a standard 20-foot shipping container. That's according to a post from The Boring Company on X on October 19,...
Grok Bot Gets an iPhone Button the Same Day Elon Calls It Your Favorite Employee
Image: SpaceXSI Grok Bot can now sit on the iPhone's Action Button, giving SpaceXSI's AI agent a physical button that starts a voice conversation with one press. The official @bot account announced it on Monday at 11:40 AM PT, writing that "Grok Bot is now one step closer" and that you can "set it as...
Tesla Investors Want Answers on Cybercab, Unsupervised FSD and HW3 Upgrades Ahead of Wednesday’s Call
Image: Tesla Robotaxi/X Tesla's retail shareholders want to hear about Cybercab, unsupervised FSD, Optimus and Hardware 3 upgrades on the company's third-quarter 2026 earnings call, which starts Wednesday, October 21 at 4:30 PM Central Time (5:30 PM Eastern, 2:30 PM Pacific). That's according to Tesla's shareholder Q&A page on Say, where investors submit and upvote...
Tesla Opens a Driver-Voted 8-Stall Supercharger in Cherokee, North Carolina
Image: Tesla Charging/X Tesla has a new 8-stall Supercharger in Cherokee, North Carolina, and it's one of the sites drivers voted for. The Tesla Charging account on X posted "New Tesla Supercharger: Cherokee, NC (8 stalls)" on Monday afternoon, labeled it a "Voting Winner Site" and shared a photo of the new stalls with a...
Alberta Will Pay Rural Households Up to $1,000 for Starlink as Ottawa Moves Away From It
Image: Starlink Alberta is offering rural and remote households a one-time rebate of up to $1,000 toward a low Earth orbit satellite internet kit, and right now Starlink is the only service that qualifies. The province's Alberta Satellite Rebate Program covers satellite hardware, installation and applicable taxes, and the program page says "Starlink kits currently...
Zelenskyy Says Starshield Speed Cap Came From Washington; US Officials Deny It
Image: Starlink Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the speed cap on his military's Starshield terminals, the government version of Starlink, came from the US government and is still in place. Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump, have denied that anyone in the administration ordered...
RBC Models SpaceX Buying Tesla at $480 a Share
Image: SpaceX RBC Capital Markets is modeling a hypothetical SpaceX purchase of Tesla at $480 a share, which would create a combined company worth about $3.74 trillion. That’s according to a Monday research note from RBC analyst Tom Narayan. The $480 figure is the same offer price RBC used in July, but SpaceX’s higher valuation...