SpaceXAI is using Grok Bot to run its own customer support, and the numbers it shared Tuesday show the AI teammate absorbing a 175% jump in tickets without the company hiring a single new support agent. The post on the xAI newsroom says the surge followed Cursor becoming part of SpaceXAI on August 14, which […]

A photo posted on Reddit shows Starlink high-performance dishes installed on a BC Ferries vessel, the first visible sign the British Columbia, Canada ferry operator's satellite internet rollout for crews is underway. Reddit user panuvic shared the image in r/bcferries on September 18, showing the vessel's mast with its large traditional satcom dome and flat...

Starlink is expanding its direct-to-device satellite service into Mongolia through a new partnership with Mobicom, giving people in remote parts of the country a way to connect ordinary smartphones directly to satellites when cellular coverage disappears. Mobicom says the new service, called mobiSPACE, will use Starlink Mobile to support messaging and selected apps outside the...

Elon Musk said Tuesday that Grok 4.7 is already doing real engineering work inside Tesla, highlighting a post from a senior staff engineer on the company's AI team describing how the model's new Build harness helped ship features overnight. Yun-Ta Tsai, a senior staff engineer on Tesla's AI team, said Grok Build teams spent the...

Tesla is expanding what Grok can do inside its vehicles, with new Connectors that let the AI access a user's email, calendar and files. The company announced the feature Tuesday, highlighting three main uses: managing an inbox, cleaning up a calendar and discussing existing files, chats and tasks. Tesla says the experience is hands-free, with...

SpaceX has expanded its free Starlink Mini hardware rental to customers on every Residential plan in select countries, opening a perk that was previously reserved for top-tier Residential Max subscribers. Invited customers receive an email with a "Claim Mini" button and a short survey, and the offer is limited to one kit per customer. According...

Tesla's cheapest Model 3 and the new Model Y L are effectively sold out for 2026, with new orders on Tesla's US order pages now showing estimated deliveries in early 2027. The entry Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive, priced at $36,990 with an estimated purchase price of $38,630, shows an estimated delivery window of January to...

The Boring Company is inviting exceptional engineers on an all expenses paid, behind the scenes tour of the Vegas Loop in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 18, with applications due by October 1. Monday brought the announcement of the behind the scenes tour. The Boring Company said Monday the tour will go behind the scenes...

[caption id="attachment_72315" align="aligncenter" width="958"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla says Cybercab number 67 has joined its Robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas, marking another step in the growth of the company's driverless ride-hailing service (insert kiddos saying, "6-7"). Monday's announcement puts the Austin fleet at 67 Cybercabs and counting. Tesla said Monday the newest vehicle joins a service...

NVIDIA launched DSX Ready on September 21 to qualify power and cooling products for AI factories, and Tesla Megapack is among the first qualified battery energy storage solutions. Megapack is Tesla's utility-scale battery system designed for grid-scale energy storage projects. DSX Ready is NVIDIA's new qualification program that vets power and cooling products for use...

Tesla has started auditing suppliers across China's Yangtze River Delta as it pushes the Optimus humanoid robot toward mass production, according to an exclusive report from The Paper published September 21. Optimus is Tesla's humanoid robot program, and the company has said it plans to build several thousand units this year. The model headed for...

SpaceX moved Super Heavy Booster 21 to the launch pad at Starbase on Monday, September 21, as the company prepares for Starship Flight 14, now targeting September 28. The company documented the rollout in photos showing the towering booster making its way to the pad. The move marks the booster's first trip to the pad...

SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7 on Monday, September 21, calling it the company's most powerful model yet for coding and knowledge work, available now in Cursor, Grok Build, and the Grok API. The new model uses a larger base model than Grok 4.6 and was trained with a longer reinforcement learning run on a harder mix...

Sunrun and Tesla announced Monday, September 21, that their fleets of home batteries dispatched more than 580 megawatts of peak power to California's grid on the evening of September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant dispatch on record. The companies coordinated 580 megawatts of residential battery capacity, combining 517 megawatts from 110,000 Tesla Powerwalls...

Tesla released a 57-second tutorial Sunday covering the cabin climate basics every new owner figures out in the first week: checking the interior temperature, heating or cooling the cabin before driving (even while it's parked in a garage), adjusting the seat heaters, and defrosting the windshield. If you just took delivery, preconditioning is worth learning...