[caption id="attachment_75049" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Elon Musk replied "No" on Friday to a question about whether Tesla will open ordering for its Optimus humanoid robot in December, undercutting a same-day report that reservations were about to start. Rachyl Jones of The San Francisco Standard wrote on X that Tesla is opening reservations for the...

[caption id="attachment_75045" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: TIME[/caption] SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said Friday that she and her husband, Robert, are giving over 2 million of their SpaceX shares to children's Trump Accounts, with distribution set for December. The update follows her July pledge to put SpaceX stock into those federal children's savings accounts, and...

[caption id="attachment_75042" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Neuralink[/caption] Neuralink engineers spent 72 hours at the home of VOICE study participant Kenneth, building and testing speech tools that let him communicate with thought. The company says the sprint packed weeks of progress into three days. Kenneth is the same participant who earlier used thought-to-speech to tell his wife...

[caption id="attachment_75035" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: WattsApp[/caption] WattsApp is putting a brand-new Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive on the line for Canadian EV owners, alongside winter Supercharging rebates of up to C$25 a month, as the Toronto-based rewards platform refreshes its dashboard and tees up 2027 payouts. In an October 22 update, WattsApp Inc said its...

[caption id="attachment_75039" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Nico Rosberg[/caption] 2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg has been testing a Tesla Cybertruck with FSD (Supervised) around San Francisco this week, and he says it has been life-changing. In a LinkedIn post, Rosberg wrote that he had been test-driving the Cybertruck with Full Self-Driving around the city and...

[caption id="attachment_75032" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla asked Australia's Senate to greenlight public-road autonomous vehicle trials in 2027 and to pull the country's self-driving safety law forward by two years, citing more than 160 million kilometers of FSD (Supervised) driving across Australia and New Zealand since September 2025. In a submission to the Select Committee...

[caption id="attachment_75028" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Viasat/Equatys[/caption] Terrestar Solutions signed a non-binding deal in Ottawa on October 28 that would tie Canada's planned CaStar satellite network to Equatys, a global direct-to-phone system co-founded by UAE SpaceTech firm Space42 and US satellite operator Viasat, adding another Canadian player to the race against Starlink's direct-to-cell service. The Montreal-based...

[caption id="attachment_75025" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink/SpaceX[/caption] Starlink is testing quarterly dynamic pricing on Residential plans in select U.S. areas, and some customers are already seeing bills climb as high as US$156 a month after an earlier round of plan increases in May. SpaceX emailed affected subscribers that Starlink prices are "dynamically based on supply of...

[caption id="attachment_75020" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla's Robotaxi service now runs from 6 AM to 2 AM, stretching the day by three hours past the 11 PM cutoff the company posted earlier this month. The official @robotaxi account laid out the change late Thursday, October 29, in a service update that also shipped a batch...

[caption id="attachment_64178" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Neuralink[/caption] Elon Musk says Neuralink's Blindsight implant is ready from an engineering standpoint and is only waiting on regulators before it can help people who are completely blind, or who have never seen, regain vision. In an October 29 post on X, Musk described Blindsight as Neuralink's second product and...

[caption id="attachment_75014" align="aligncenter" width="970"] City of Starbase/X[/caption] The City of Starbase has put black-and-white police Cybertrucks on display as it builds its first municipal police department, following other Texas agencies that have weighed Cybertruck patrol fleets of their own. In an October 29 post on X, the city account introduced the Starbase Police Department's Cybertrucks...

[caption id="attachment_74892" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla is paying U.S. owners to spread FSD (Supervised) without selling a car, handing friends a one-month free trial and rewarding the referrer when that friend starts a paid FSD subscription during the trial. On Thursday evening, Tesla North America posted the offer for the United States, and the...

[caption id="attachment_74879" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Elon Musk/X[/caption] SpaceX's third-quarter filing shows that one unnamed client, labeled only as Customer B, accounted for 34.5% of the company's revenue in the three months ended September 30, more than any other single buyer and more than Customer A at 16.6%. That concentration figure comes from SpaceX's Form 10-Q....

[caption id="attachment_68220" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's board is asking shareholders to vote FOR every proposal at the December 3 annual meeting, and it puts re-electing Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel at the top of that ask. In a shareholder letter filed with the SEC on Thursday, October 29, as definitive additional proxy...

[caption id="attachment_74714" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX told the Federal Communications Commission on October 28 that T-Mobile is pushing outdated satellite-to-phone rules that would create buffer zones of more than 400 kilometers around cell sites and cut millions of people off from Starlink Mobile. In reply comments filed for the U.S. run-up to the 2027...