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“I now think xAI has a chance of reaching AGI with Grok 5…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA ($425.67, +0.96%):

– JB (@JoltedBytes) spotted 11 Cybertrucks, same wrap, in a convoy at San Felipe and 610 in Houston. See You at the Top Lawyers (@syattlaw), a Houston-based car accident law firm. Their campaign, The Fleet, features custom Cybertrucks that celebrate Houston’s culture and resilience, serving as both a marketing initiative and a tribute to the city. Very cool.

– Eran Moskovich, Tesla Israel Store Manager, celebrated with his team when they delivered the country’s 30k Tesla. “Kudos team Tesla Israel achieving a huge milestone. And to think I was there from #1… See you at 40k!“

– Per Tesla Semi Lead, Dan Priestley (@danWpriestley), “Semi can drop into freight lanes with no compromises at lower operating costs. With Uber Freight matching shippers + carriers and removing revenue and utilization uncertainty, EV adoption will accelerate as operators realize the cost and maintenance benefits Semi offers.”

– Kaavya Jha, Energy Policy at Tesla Australia, chaired the ‘Operating in the NEM’ session at the Queensland Clean Energy Summit today, with panelists Rachel Rundle, Thomas Schmitz, Hao Wang, and Jonathon Dyson, discussing emerging risks and opportunities in the National Electricity Market (NEM), including forecasting trends, reliability management, and impacts of the NEM Wholesale Market Settings Review. The summit also featured Jack Han on configuring hybrids in the NEM and Wen-Cheng Huang on grid-forming inverters’ technical capabilities. Jha co-authored Tesla’s white paper on grid-forming inverters’ role in providing inertia. White Paper link in the sources section.

– Binduja Gopalakrishnan, a Power Systems Engineer at Aurecon, visited the fully commissioned Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) BESS site. She contributed to full-cycle connection studies with Tesla, securing AEMO approval, and highlighted the activation of 444 Tesla Megapacks. The first phase, starting late this year, offers 600 MW capacity and 1.6 GWh storage, powering about 200,000 homes during peak evening hours. Fully scaled, MREH could reach 1.2 GW / 2.4 GWh, supporting Victoria’s 95% renewable energy goal by 2035.

– When Patrick Schnieder, Federal Minister for Transport and Member of the German Bundestag, visited Tesla Automation in Prüm the other day, he noted 190 trainees engaging with state-of-the-art technology, boosting potential for the region, company, and Germany. He observed high motivation among trainees, who value practical training, innovative processes, and future responsible roles. He thanked trainers and trainees for their dedication at Tesla Automation.

– Melanie Richards, Tesla Supply Chain Manager and President of Women in Tesla, led a fireside chat with Sylvia Acevedo at the Tesla Palo Alto Office. Sylvia’s career includes launching missions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, executive roles at Apple, Dell, and IBM, transforming the Girl Scouts of the USA as CEO, and now guiding innovation on the boards of Qualcomm and Credo. They discussed leadership lessons from her book ‘The Trailblazer’s Playbook’.

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 17th of September, ’25. “Many huge deliveries today, both at staging yards & the factory! Production humming along, while new Superchargers are being assembled. Switchyard auger drilling underway, conduits to underground vault, Megapack #2 control trailer cable!”

■ SPACEX:

– Early this morning, Starship 38, Flight 11 and the last V2, rolled to Pad 1 and was mounted on top of the OLM to start its static fire campaign. Road closures are scheduled for tomorrow, the 18th, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and backup for the 19th 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Let’s go! Pics from @LabPadre and of NSF (@NASASpaceflight) live feed’s.

– We have some new V3 Starship sections. Yesterday we saw a slender tank that might be a propellant storage tank. According to Zack Golden (@CSI_Starbase),”This looks like it could potentially be a propellant storage tank for the Tanker Variant of Starship.” Then today we saw an aft section roll out. Per Zack, This is vastly different than Version 2 and may end up with the RVac mounting points recessed into the LOX tank similar to the Grid Fins on the V3 booster.” Zack said this aft tank looks to be a test section that is being scrapped. Pics from @LabPadre‘s live feed. Follow and subscribe to Zack!

– Per VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver), “We are planning to break over both the booster and ship to the horizontal position for transit from Starbase to the Cape. Initial deliveries are a single booster or ship per trip, with the plan to move to multiple vehicles per transit sooner than later.“

– Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering faculty toured Starbase. They visited the Starfactory where the got to see the ring stacking process. Then they went to Launch Complex and toured the pads. The visit aimed to showcase real-world aerospace design, manufacturing, and testing challenges to engineering educators across disciplines and explore new student experiences to prepare them for cutting-edge jobs. The visit was facilitated partly by Robert Shotwell, a 1995 Texas A&M Aerospace Engineering alumnus and husband of SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell.

– Texas State House Representative for District 96, David L. Cook, visited the McGregor Test Facility. “Just wrapped up a visit to SpaceX’s Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor yesterday! The innovation happening right here in Central Texas is shaping the future of space exploration!“

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! Thursday, 18th 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 122! Thursday, 18th of September, at 8:43 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 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.

  • Launch 126! Wednesday, 24th of September, at 6:57 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 17-11 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 127! Thursday, 25th of September, at 4:36 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-15 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.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

– Yesterday, The Boring Company’s VP of Business Development, James Fitzgerald (@FJ_Fitzgerald), spoke at the Music City Industrial Conference about the Music City Loop. He gave a breakdown on the proposed 10-mile project, the Tesla vehicles, and how it aims to reduce surface congestion by removing thousands of vehicles daily. The presentation sparked important conversations about how forward-looking infrastructure could support Nashville’s continued growth and connectivity.

Seth Ford’s (@Drone615net) latest Music City Loop update! “Week 6 update! TBC answers Metro Nashville’s environmental concerns, Prufrock next week?” Follow and support Seth.

– Stitched timelapse of Prufrock-1 retrieval and departure.

■ NEURALINK:

– Romina Nejad (@RominaNejad), Neuralink’s Clinical Trials Lead, posted the above pic, stating. “Beautiful art work by Audrey Crews (@NeuraNova9) using Telepathy.” Audrey is Neuralink’s 9th patient and first female.

■ STARLINK:

– CopaSAT tests its Starlink and Starshield integrated MIL-STD-810H certified STORM V3 SATCOM terminals in Death Valley’s extreme heat, dust, and isolation to ensure reliable performance. The terminals support low-latency LEO connectivity for SATCOM-on-the-Move and Communications-on-the-Pause. CopaSAT collaborates with the U.S. military, including USMC and SOF, to deploy and refine these Starlink-based solutions for mission-critical operations in remote environments.

– Air Canada has equipped a Dash 8-400 turboprop with Starlink, marking the first De Havilland Canada aircraft worldwide to enable gate-to-gate high-speed internet access. Plans are to extend the solution to additional Q400s initially serving routes from Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport to Montreal and Ottawa. Service will launch in October. Starlink will also be available as a factory option via De Havilland Canada’s OEM Refurbishment Program or retrofit for in-service aircraft.

■ 𝕏:

– X Japan (@XcorpJP) stated that X upholds freedom of expression but cooperates with authorities in life-threatening emergencies per its policies. During the July 2025 House of Councillors election, X responded to police requests regarding posts threatening harm to politicians or candidates to prevent terrorist acts. For these safety efforts, X Japan CEO Ayumu Matsuyama (@ayumu_matsuyama) received a letter of appreciation from Police Agency Director of Public Security Division Shigehisa Masatake.

– LiveScore Group, with over 100 million annual users, has partnered with X and xAI to integrate sports media and betting. The collaboration uses X’s real-time content and xAI’s AI technology to deliver richer media, instant news, fan sentiment, influencer commentary, and new engagement features like bet-slip and prediction sharing on X. It enables smarter trading models that adapt to live fan conversations, personalized fan experiences, predictive insights, and automated customer support via X.

Per Chris Park (@chrisparkX), X’s Director & Global Lead of Developer Platform, “We are delighted to partner with LiveScore Group as they push the boundaries of sports engagement and innovation. This partnership highlights how X and xAI can empower forward-thinking companies to harness real-time data and AI to disrupt industries and deliver transformative experiences to users around the world.”

– Promote is now called Boost and being targeted for creators… Still way too expensive for any decent reach. There are no details given, so I do not know it the program has changed or if Grok is driving it to your target audience. As with anything new, iOS only.

■ xAI:

– Per Elon, “Grok 5 starts training in a few weeks.”

– ARC Prize (@arcprize) announced a new state-of-the-art on ARC-AGI, with custom open-source submissions by Jeremy Berman (@jerber888) and Eric Pang (@_eric_pang_) using Grok 4 and program-synthesis outer loops with test-time adaptation: V1 score 79.6% at $8.42 per task; V2 score 29.4% at $30.40 per task. Grok 4 (Thinking) raw base performance is 15.9% on V2, topping Kaggle’s 15.4% and nearly doubling prior commercial SOTA like Claude Opus 4’s 8.6%.

– @blankspeaker posted that xAI is testing a UI update on Grok’s web interface that merges Model and Mode selectors into a single list, eliminating the current settings toggle for “Use Model Mode Selector.” This change is speculated to prepare for an upcoming model release, potentially Grok 4.1 or Grok 4.20.

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  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer

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