Cybertruck Owner Runs 2 Groks at Once, and Elon Musk Floats a Fix
Elon Musk has floated letting Tesla owners sign in to their cars with their own Grok Bot, days after Grok Bot started making phone calls for users. The idea came up on X on Sunday, October 25, when a Cybertruck owner asked for one Grok that follows him from his phone to his truck. Cybertruck […]
Tesla’s Robotaxi Fleet Swarms Austin F1 Weekend With Over 50 Cybercabs
Tesla filled the roads around Circuit of the Americas with Cybercabs on Sunday, October 25, as its Robotaxi service carried Formula 1 fans to and from the United States Grand Prix in Austin. Riders and spotters at the track counted more than 50 Cybercabs dropping off passengers by midday, just days after Tesla stretched its […]
Elon Musk Says Starship-Shaped Houston Robotaxi Map Is a Coincidence
Tesla Robotaxi has switched on a bigger service area in Houston, and the new map looks a lot like a Starship rocket, a nod the company made obvious with a “Houston, we have liftoff” post on X at 6:38 AM PT on Monday. It comes days after Tesla said Robotaxi will run until 2 AM […]
SpaceX Fires All 33 Engines on the Booster Elon Musk Wants to Catch
Update, October 28: SpaceX says Ship 42’s static fires are done. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 ran a full-duration six-engine static fire, then fired a single Raptor to simulate a deorbit burn. Ship 42 static fires complete. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 performed a full duration, six-engine static fire, and fired a single […]
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Locked In $40B of GPU Debt as Lenders Pull Back
Update: SpaceX has now officially announced the deal, saying on Monday, October 26, that it reached a binding commitment for an approximately $40 billion master finance lease for GPUs and related equipment with an entity managed by Apollo Global Management. SpaceX calls it the largest GPU financing ever and says the lease will deliver NVIDIA’s […]
Elon Musk Says Grok Bot Will Phone Businesses and Report Back to You
Elon Musk says Grok Bot can now pick up the phone for you, five days after SpaceXSI’s agent started reading and replying to your X DMs. In a post on X on Sunday, October 25, at 7:35 AM PT, Musk wrote that the Bot can call a person or a business on your behalf, make […]
6,493 Tesla Shareholders Press the Board to Fast-Track a SpaceX Merger
A group of Tesla retail shareholders is pressing the company’s board and the special committee weighing a SpaceX merger to get a deal done, and its organizers say 6,493 people holding more than 17.5 million shares signed on in less than 48 hours. The shareholder letter, signed by Tesla investors Alexandra Merz and Amy Steffens […]
Elon Musk Shares Episode 1 of Grok Imagine’s AI-Made Odyssey Series
Grok Imagine, the image and video generator from SpaceXSI, released the first episode of an AI-made Odyssey series on Friday, October 23, and Elon Musk shared it with his followers that night. In its post on X, Grok Imagine said the episode was “made with Grok Imagine” as a creative collaboration with Wonder Studios and […]
Tesla Press Kit Shows Roadster Performance Trim Tops Out at 210 mph
Tesla’s next-gen Roadster splits its rocket hardware, gold-tinted glass and special paint across its three trims, according to press materials shared on X by Ryan Zohoury and broken down by Sawyer Merritt on Saturday night. The trim names and 0 to 60 mph targets were part of Tesla’s October 15 reveal, but the new sheets […]
Starlink Closes Loophole After Ukraine Used It for Offensive Drones
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, said on Saturday, October 24, that Ukraine’s military violated Starlink terms of service by using it for offensive drone strikes, and that SpaceX closed that loophole last week. In a post on X, Musk also warned that if Starlink were turned off, “the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately,” adding, “This […]
Tesla Engineer Says Grok Tuned the Cybercab’s New Rearview Camera View
A Tesla engineer says Grok helped tune the new rearview camera view that Cybercab riders can now open during a ride, to the point that he didn’t need to read the hardware datasheet. Yun-Ta Tsai, a senior staff engineer at Tesla Super Intelligence, the company’s AI team, shared the detail on X Saturday morning, two […]
Tesla Japan’s New CHAdeMO Adapter Opens Up 14,000 Fast Chargers
Tesla Japan says a new CHAdeMO adapter is on the way that will let owners charge at up to 130 kW on the roughly 14,000 CHAdeMO fast chargers across the country. In a post on X on Saturday, the company said the adapter goes on sale in Tesla shops starting in January 2027, the same […]
Zelenskyy Says Starlink Speeds Are Back as Ukraine Logs Over 400 km/h
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, October 24, that Starlink and Starshield service in Ukraine has been restored to the speeds the country had before the restrictions. The announcement comes after nearly two weeks of slowdowns that Kyiv says disrupted drone operations, and two days after President Trump said Elon Musk “put it back”, […]
Tesla Ships Cybercab Live Activity for iPhone and Apple Watch
[caption id="attachment_74790" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Credit: @gheeunit/X[/caption] A Tesla designer says Cybercab riders in Austin now get a redesigned Live Activity on iPhone and Apple Watch, and he's teasing a surprise for anyone who rides at night. Wayne S., who works in Tesla's design studio, called it his "first ship" for Robotaxi on Friday night. It...
Tesla Brings 0% Financing to Model 3 and Model Y Buyers in Colombia
[caption id="attachment_74785" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Credit: Tesla LATAM/X[/caption] Tesla is offering 0% interest financing on the Model 3 and Model Y in Colombia, Tesla LATAM announced on X on Friday. The regional account posted that the rate is "now available" for both cars, and that it's valid for deliveries before December 31, 2026. It's the latest...