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“TSLA up $69 to ~$420 as foretold in the prophecy…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA ($410.26, +3.62%):

– Last Friday, September 12th, Elon, through the Elon Musk Revocable Trust, purchased 2,546,975 shares of Tesla, Inc. common stock in multiple transactions at weighted average prices ranging from $371.90 to $396.359 per share at a total of roughly $1 billion. This increased his indirect ownership to 413,362,808 shares. Additionally, he directly owns 96,000,000 shares. No derivative securities transactions were reported.

– I visited the future production site of Megapack 3; the Brookshire Megafactory. This was the first time I saw employees wearing Tesla hardhats and vests They are nearly complete with the exterior of the new 600k sqft building. The entire concrete apron around both the 600k and 1M sqft facilities is complete. Landscaping is complete. The fencing between the buildings is completely removed, and they are working on the foundation to combine the two. I posted over 75 pics and video for my subscribers.

– The new Model Y Performance is arriving at Tesla Centers in Europe. I wish the future owners all the best with their Tesla deliveries. See you soon on the roads! Pics by Tesla Owners Club in Romandy, Switzerland, (@teslaswissclub).

– Giga Berlin plant manager, André Thierig, reports strong sales signals for Q3 and Q4 2025. “We have a very good current sales situation and have therefore revised our production plans upwards for the third and fourth quarters. We are looking at how the market is developing and continue to see positive signals for all the markets we supply. Of course, this extends far beyond Germany. We supply well over 30 markets and definitely see a positive trend there.”

– Tesla has discontinued the Long Range RWD Cybertruck in North America. The stripped down $69,990 variant never took off.

– Tesla extended Robotaxi service by 2 hours. Operations now runs from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.

– Viola Zhou, Tesla’s Head of Talent Acquisition APAC, and team at the Campus Recruitment event at the National University of Singapore (NUS). “What an incredible turnout – the hall was packed with energy and curiosity! It was inspiring to see so many bright minds eager to learn more about Tesla’s journey of innovation, engineering excellence, and the future of sustainable energy.”

– EAVE Solar of Midvale, Utah, installing 3 Tesla Solar Roofs on new builds. “The Tesla roof system is more elegant, insulating, and durable than traditional roofing materials. These were installed with no solar integrated – only metal tiles. All materials above deck are Tesla.”

– Tesla has a new “High-Priced Propulsion-Related Part Warranty” for 2026 model year vehicles (excluding Cybertruck) offers 7 years or 70,000 miles (110,000 km) of coverage for specific parts: Power Conversion System Assembly, PCS Inlet and Outlet Assembly Hoses, Ancillary Harness Assembly, High Voltage Fast Charge Contactors Assembly, High Voltage System Controller, Front and Rear Halfshaft Assemblies, Front, Right, and Left Electrical Harness Assemblies, Supermanifold Assembly, Cooling Fan Assembly, and Radiator. This extends protection beyond the standard 4-year or 50,000-mile vehicle warranty, enhancing long-term value and repair cost security.

■ SPACEX:

– Saturday morning, launch 119 of Falcon 9 Starlink 17-10 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 28th flight for first stage booster B1071. It previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, Transporter-13, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153, NROL-192, and 16 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 24 Starlinks were deployed. This was the 300th Starlink flight on Falcon!

– Yesterday, launch 120 of Falcon 9 Cygnus CRS-2 NG-23 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This was the fourth flight of first stage booster B1094. It previously launched Ax-4, Crew-11, and a Starlink mission. The booster returned to site and landed at Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

This is the 23rd flight of the Northrop Grumman’s uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 22nd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The Cygnus XL cargo ship is named the S.S. William C. “Willie” McCool after Columbia Shuttle pilot on STS-107S.

– Possible redesigned header tank spotted inside the Starfactory by NSF’s Ceaser G (@CeaserG33).

– On Saturday, the third leg for LC-39A’s OLM was installed. Video from @NASASpaceflight‘s live feed.

Starbase City Commission Meeting (Located at 39046 LBJ Blvd, Unit 2, Brownsville, TX 78521):

  • City Commission Regular Meeting, September 17, 2025 7:00 PM

  • City Commission Regular Meeting, October 15, 2025 7:00 PM

  • City Commission Regular Meeting, November 19, 2025 7:00 PM

  • City Commission Regular Meeting, December 17, 2025 7:00 PM

Countdown to 180 (116 – Falcon 9, 0 – Falcon Heavy, and 4 – Starship):

  • Launch 121! Wednesday, 17th of September, at 8:41 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 17-12 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.

  • Launch 122! Thursday, 21st of September, at 5:30 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-61 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 123! Sunday, 21st of September, at 5:20 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-27 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Launch 124! Sunday, 21st of September, at 10:37 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 NROL-48 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. This is the eleventh batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

  • Launch 125! Tuesday, September 23rd, at 7:32 a.m. ET, Flacon 9 IMAP & Others will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. This launch also includes several secondary payloads from NASA, which are: Lunar Trailblazer, space weather satellite SWFO-L1, mission GLIDE to study far ultraviolet emission in exosphere, and the Solar Cruiser solar sail mission.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

– Per Elon, “So much boring ahead!“

– Prufrock-1 emerged after completing a 2.26-mile Vegas Loop tunnel connecting property near Harry Reid International Airport in the south to the Westgate Resort in the north. There are eight new stations planned along this route including Virgin Hotels and Hughes Center. Prufrock-1 was fully extracted from the ground and loaded onto the transport trailer “The Monster” for maintenance and then shipment to its next site. TBC is targeting a November relaunch to begin its seventh tunnel.

– TBC posted a new video on Prufrock-4. This is their most advanced TBM, designed for speed, intelligence, and safety. They noted that Prufrock-5, 6, and 7 are still under construction at the Bastrop, Texas, HQ.

– Tim Toerber, President of the Americas at Assaia AI, visited TBC HQ for the Vegas LOOP. “It was amazing to see first hand what The Boring Company has built and demonstrates the potential for tunnels to support remote terminals at airports and offer alternatives to desperately needed relief on arrivals drives.”

■ NEURALINK:

– Audrey Crews (@NeuraNova9) shared a video of her brain waves while thinking about moving her thumb up and down. She describes observing distinct patterns in her brain’s electrical signals while she thinks about moving different fingers or body parts. “To think I’d be looking at this and have the opportunity to share my story with so many people. I’m changing my life and so many more to come.”

– Neuralink co-founder, DJ Seo (@djseo), lectured at the Korea Education Foundation in Seoul and spoke with Jung Jae-seung, professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the students. Of note, He said the following on the Speech device, “Starting next month, we will launch a new clinical trial for patients with speech impairment who cannot speak… We will capture brain signals and synthesize them directly into sound to enable conversation without a keyboard.” And on Blindsight, he said, “It is a technology that stimulates the brain’s visual cortex according to information from camera-captured scenes to let people with visual impairments imagine images… We are developing it with the goal of clinical trials next year.”

■ STARLINK:

– Starlink’s Community Gateway on Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas cruise ship delivers 10 Gbps symmetrical throughput!

– The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued a draft Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) license framework, simplifying entry for satellite operators like Starlink. This requires only one license at US $500,000, down from 15 previous licenses costing US $640,000. The 15-year non-exclusive license covers Fixed Earth Stations, Gateway Earth Stations, and VSAT for broadband, backhaul, intranet, and bandwidth services. Operators must register with the Pakistan Space Activities Regulatory Board (PSARB) first, launch services within 18 months, establish at least one Gateway Earth Station in Pakistan, and comply with local data laws keeping user data domestic.

– Starlink experienced a brief global outage today lasting approximately 30 minutes. SpaceX acknowledged the issue in a now-deleted post, stating their team was investigating. The outage impacted users worldwide.

■ 𝕏:

– Per Elon, “While at times the discussion on 𝕏 can become negative, it’s still good that there is a discussion happening. 𝕏 is the global town square.”

– In Post Activity, you will soon be able to sort quote post by Top and Recent. H/T P4mui (@P4mui).

– X is testing the ability to make Premium Exclusive posts. In other words, only for verified users. H/T @blankspeaker.

■ xAI:

– Amy Soller, formerly Nvidia and DARPA, has joined xAI as Mission Manager for the Intelligence Community. She will focus on integrating AI into defense and intelligence sectors to support U.S. Government national security efforts. She has 30 years in AI at the technology-public service intersection, she aims to collaborate with xAI and SpaceX teams to advance defense and intelligence vision.

– xAI laid off approximately 500 data annotators or “generalist AI tutors” who handled tasks like ranking answers, labeling data, and cleaning training sets for Grok. The company is shifting focus to “specialist AI tutors” in fields such as math, coding, finance, medicine, and safety, planning to increase this team by tenfold. These specialists will create and evaluate complex tasks, stress-test the model, and enhance quality in specific domains. This move prioritizes automating routine tasks to allow focus on higher-level problems, though it involves higher costs due to specialists’ higher pay. Affected employees were evaluated for specialist roles through tests. Per xAI, “Specialist AI tutors at xAI are adding huge value. We will immediately surge our Specialist AI tutor team by 10x! We are hiring across domains like STEM, finance, medicine, safety, and many more.“

– On Saturday, Grok 4 Fast launched GrokSuper users. This is by far xAI’s most powerful, fastest thinking highest intelligence model available.

– Grok Web will soon have the ability to read responses aloud. H/T @blankspeaker.

– Kapehe S (@kapehe_ok), Head of Developer Community at Vercel, posted these images from the xAI – Vercel hackathon last Thursday.

– Per xAI’s Colossus Lead, Andree Jacobson (@nmswede), “Optimizing server infrastructure to fit the requirements of applications, network, power, cooling, available rack space and current core / storage density is incredibly important for the xAI infra.”

■ ELON NEWS:

– Pics by Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) at the UK protest this weekend.

– Per Elon, “It’s true. I offered financial support to get his message out, if needed, but he respectfully declined.”

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