Tesla Japan opened its Cybercab Japan Tour on September 11, 2026, putting the steering-wheel-free two-seater on public display for the first time in the country at OMAKASE Aoyama Garden by GMO in Tokyo’s Minato ward, the company said in a fresh X post that also published opening hours for the full four-stop run. “Cybercab, designed...

SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference on September 10, 2026, that the company closed another terrestrial AI compute hosting deal earlier this month worth about $1.11 billion a month starting December 1 — roughly $13 billion in annualized recurring revenue that sharpens conviction in a $100 billion...

Image: SpaceX SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference on September 10, 2026, that the company’s upcoming Starship Flight 14 later this month is set to generate revenue by flying production Version 3 Starlink satellites into operational orbit. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2098130338413183215 Johnsen framed the mission as the shift from demonstration...

xAI is staging Grok Bot Galaxy across three days from September 15 to September 17, 2026, with in-person sessions at The Howard, 661 Howard Street in San Francisco, and a parallel livestream anyone can follow from elsewhere, the company said on its Galaxy event page. The pitch is practical: put Grok Bot on real work,...

[caption id="attachment_68751" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Image: Tesla[/caption]Tesla’s official Cybertruck account said on September 10, 2026, that Powershare can now work with Powerwall 3 to keep a home powered during an outage, extending backup by more than three days — energy the company equated to about nine additional Powerwalls. https://twitter.com/cybertruck/status/2098114127160094897 “Powerwall 3 & I can now power...

[caption id="attachment_72280" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla’s Robotaxi account said on September 10, 2026, that anyone can try Cybercab in Austin by downloading the Robotaxi app and hailing a ride, quoting a Cybercab experience clip from journalist Dave Lee as the public invitation goes wider. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2098099999888593064 The short post — “Anyone can try Cybercab in...

[caption id="attachment_72556" align="alignnone" width="1024"][/caption] Tesla amplified a Full Self-Driving clip on September 10, 2026, and credited photon count reconstruction for how the system handled a car that was nearly invisible to a human driver in direct sunlight. The official Tesla account quoted owner Ananto Mohammad's dashcam-style video with a short line — "Photon count reconstruction...

Grok Bot quality-of-life improvements. Source: Grok Bot / X Grok Bot outlined a fresh quality-of-life package on September 9, 2026, highlighting inline message drafting that lets users ask their Bot to compose outbound messages for approval before anything is sent, and Elon Musk amplified the thread the next morning. https://twitter.com/bot/status/2097759948189106686 Alongside the draft-before-send flow, the...

SpaceX launched the USSF-153 mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday, September 10, 2026, confirming liftoff on X minutes after the three-hour window opened at 8:37 a.m. PT. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2098074872203358540 According to SpaceX’s USSF-153 mission page, the flight is the 27th for the first-stage...

Update (September 10, 2026): We got this wrong in the original headline and framing. SpaceX is not suing Texas to hide that Terafab received a tax deal. That Grimes County abatement is already public. What is in court is the supporting application and negotiation file after Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered most of those records...

Tesla amplified a video of 98-year-old Larry driving his new Model Y on FSD Supervised for everyday trips, sharing the clip on September 9, 2026, after the interview showed how far supervised autonomy has come for an owner whose first car was a 1931 Ford Model A. In the clip Tesla pushed out, Larry says...

The Boring Company raised a $3 billion Series D funding round led by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, valuing the tunneling company at $23 billion, the firm said on September 9, 2026, in an announcement that also deepens a push to build more than 150 kilometers of tunnel across the UAE beyond...

[caption id="attachment_72534" align="alignnone" width="1024"]Tesla California Virtual Power Plant dashboard. Source: Tesla Energy / X[/caption] Tesla Energy said on September 9, 2026, that about 69,000 Powerwall owners across California are currently dispatching more than 500 megawatts to the grid, helping meet peak demand during today’s heatwave. “Equivalent to the output of a power plant, but from...

[caption id="attachment_72531" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Starlink Router 4. Source: Starlink / X[/caption] Starlink said on September 9, 2026, that its next-generation Router 4 brings faster peak speeds and indoor coverage of up to 3,500 square feet (325 m²), calling it the first Starlink router built around a Wi-Fi 7 chipset for streaming, gaming, and everyday home...

Tesla’s purpose-built Cybercab count in Texas automated-vehicle records has moved up by four, according to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles listings shared on September 8, 2026, bringing the registered Robotaxi Cybercab fleet to 49 after earlier public tallies had sat near 45 ahead of Austin’s public-ride launch. Screenshots of the state automated motor vehicle roster...