“Is the algorithm starting to feel better?” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
■ TESLA ($443.21, +0.64%):
– Tesla’s posted a new video to persuade shareholder approval for Elon’s new pay-for-performance plan (Proposal 4). This plan is linked directly to Tesla’s next phase of growth and value creation. The plan basically ties Elon’s voting rights to delivering economic value. The board is encouraging shareholders to vote “FOR” Proposal 4. Voting instructions available at votetesla.com.
– I visited the Brookshire, Texas, Megafactory on Saturday. Very little activity this past Saturday. HVAC units are staged in the west side parking lot of the main factory and possibly materials for installing them on the south side. Perimeter apron looks complete except for a few areas of concrete work and electricians finishing up around new facility. A few docking bays are being updated. Drainage system complete. There were a few roll-up doors open, and from what I could see, there is still no equipment inside. 70 pics posted for subscribers!
– Tesla has activated its first V4 Supercharger cabinet in Rosewood City, California. It is delivering 0.5 MW total power to support up to 2x more stalls (eight superchargers), achieving 3x higher power density for increased throughput and efficiency while reducing costs and accelerating deployments. It is currently limited to Tesla vehicles; non-Tesla EV compatibility is pending final validations.
John and the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) crew were with Tesla’s Max de Zegher (@MdeZegher) at the V4 launch. Per Max, “We have the best power electronics engineers in the world, because we need the most of it, and across Tesla. The V4 Supercharger cabinet benefits from engineering and parts from Megapack, Powerwall and our S3XY vehicles. It feels like a cheat code.“ Max gave us the pics of the V4 Team and interior of the cabinet. The bottom pic is of the first public plug-in. John provided the pic with Max.
I have told Max this before, but I really hope he and the team know how much we all appreciate the hard work and effort they put in for us. This network means a lot.
– Tesla was at the Up.Summit Community Day in Bentonville, Arkansas. On hand was Optimus, Cybercab, and a Robotaxi. Screenshots from Marcus_the_Astronot (@ksclc39a) videos.
– Per Tesla’s VP of Finance Sendil Palani (@sendilpalani), “Was able to visit Giga Berlin last month, and witness what the plant can do now that it is really stretching its legs. The factory was originally configured to build the structural pack Model Y, reoriented itself towards the (now) legacy design, and then once again to the New Model Y, including the Performance variant. Quality, Cost, and Volume achieving records as we leverage the talent of the entire team there alongside the learnings from the past several years.”
– Tesla and Copec Flux signed a strategic alliance to integrate Megapacks into medium and large-scale projects in Chile. Copec Flux is Tesla’s first Certified Service Partner in the country. Copec Flux technicians and engineers are being trained by Tesla in the US for operating, maintaining, and commissioning the systems, ensuring high standards of safety, efficiency, and local support. The partnership’s first implementation involves installing three Megapacks in the hybrid solar PMGD Cousiño project in the Pirque, Metropolitan Region.
Per Sandra Barba Lizarralde, Tesla’s Business Development and Policy lead for Latin America, “I am proud to share that, together with great allies like Copec Flux, we are taking battery storage to another level in the country. This type of partnership not only reaffirms Tesla as an industry leader, but ensures world-class local support and accelerates the adoption of solutions such as Megapack in large-scale projects.”
– Tesla Malaysia sold their 10,000th vehicle. Pics by Tesla Advisor, Leona Bong. “So glad I got to be part of this milestone and to see how we’re accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance!”
■ SPACEX:
– Last night, we had beautiful launch 128 of Falcon 9 Starlink 11-20 from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 28th flight for first stage booster B1063. It previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, NAOS, and 18 Starlink missions. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX achieved 16 Falcon launches for September. The West Coast team hit their record of 8 launches from Vandenberg, the first time since October 2019. Vandenberg also handled 50% or more of the monthly manifest. Per SpaceX VP of Launch, Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver), “I promised the west coast team that if/when they pulled off an 8 launch/month, I would show up to California in a chicken or clown suit ready for a dunk tank and pies to the face. Time to make good on my promise…”
– In Florida at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A, SpaceX installed both sections of the flame bucket within hours of each other. Video by NSF (@NASASpaceflight).
– Down at Roberts Road, NSF’s Max Evans (@_mgde_) and Julia Bergeron (@julia_bergeron) got air born. The Giga Bay has started rising with the first center columns of steel are standing tall. Under the tent, LC-39A’s OLM is progressing. Amazing views! Watch the space coast live via NSF here.
Starbase City Commission Meeting (Located at 39046 LBJ Blvd, Unit 2, Brownsville, TX 78521):
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City Commission Regular Meeting, October 15, 2025 7:00 PM
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City Commission Regular Meeting, November 19, 2025 7:00 PM
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City Commission Regular Meeting, December 17, 2025 7:00 PM
Countdown to 180 (124 – Falcon 9, 0 – Falcon Heavy, and 4 – Starship):
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Launch 129! Friday, 3rd of October, at 2:39 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-59 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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Launch 130! Friday, 3rd of October, at 6:00 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-39 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.
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Launch 131! Friday, 3rd of October, 11:43 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Project Kuiper (KF-03) 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. This is the third of three launches contract for Amazon’s Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.
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Launch 132! Monday, 13th of October, at 6:15 p.m. CT, Starship Test Flight 11 will launch from Orbital Launch Pad 1 at Starbase, Texas. Vehicles are Starship 38 and Super Heavy Booster 15-2. This will second flight for Super Heavy Booster 15-2 and it will make a planned splashdown in the Gulf of America. Starship 38 will splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
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Launch ??? Wednesday, 22nd of October, at ??? ET, Falcon 9 SpainSat NG II 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. This is the second of two new-generation satellites built by Airbus to provide secure communications to the Spanish government, its allies, and various international organizations.
■ THE BORING COMPANY:
– Blake Urmos (@blakeurmos) of Low Voltage Nation visited the Music City LOOP site the weekend and provided the above video.
– TBC’s VP of Business Development and Music City LOOP Lead, Jim Fitzgerald (@FJ_Fitzgerald), addressed a gathering of Nashville business leaders at Geodis Park, stating The Boring Company is conducting geotechnical assessments of Nashville’s geography to solidify Music City Loop construction plans. This is to evaluate the city’s challenging limestone geology, map underground utilities, and ensure safe boring with Prufrock.
– TBC has gone live with their Global Operations Control Center from the Bastrop, Texas, HQ. “Engineering and Ops Teams can remotely monitor and control multiple Boring Machines simultaneously across the country from this one room.” I had a feeling it was going to launch soon considering the acceleration of projects. It looks sick. I wonder if it is available on PS5…
■ NEURALINK:
– On Saturday, Romina Nejad, Neuralink’s Clinical Trials Lead, and Team participated in the 21st annual endurance fundraising event by Your ALS Network; the Napa Valley Ride, Walk, and Roll. Per Romina, “Meeting members of the community with ALS or who have been impacted by ALS was an excellent reminder that we need to band together and END ALS.”
■ STARLINK:
– Kamran Cheema, CEO of Akoustis of North Carolina at the SpaceX Starlink satellite factory in Redmond, Washington. “Truly an inspiring place to be…”
– Today, the DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) team in Bangladesh handled a shipment of Starlink Gateway antennas. Country Safety and Security Lead, Ahammed Jubair, praised the IWS team for their detail-oriented approach and readiness for bigger challenges, emphasizing meticulous planning, communication, and safety protocols to ensure incident-free delivery. Per Ahammed, “This wasn’t our biggest shipment, but it was a special one. Every step — from toolbox talks and multiple safety checks to on-site supervision — was done with safety as our top priority.”
– Kayla Dafoe, Starlink Enterprise Account Manager for APAC and a member of the Detroit Economic Club (DEC) Young Leader Board of Directors, celebrated the success of another DEC Young Leader Conference. The teams organized a sold-out event with diverse industry leaders and inspiring speakers including Alan Whitman, Princess Castleberry, Lem Cartman, BSHCL, MHA. They also held an impactful speed networking sessions. “I’m beyond grateful to have worked alongside such a committed and passionate team to help make this year’s conference a complete sellout!”
■ 𝕏:
– Singular, a marketing intelligence platform, announced an X Advanced SAN integration that enhances iOS advertising measurements for X Ads by addressing App Tracking Transparency limitations through SKAdNetwork attribution and Unified Measurement. This direct connection with X Ads boosts conversion accuracy via stronger recognition, accelerates reporting and attribution cycles for quicker insights, and adds data points for granular analysis like cohort-based reporting. This maintains privacy compliance for IDFA opt-outs while preserving full visibility for opt-ins. Advertisers benefit from precise campaign outcomes, faster cross-channel optimization, and improved efficiency.
– X Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) posted concerns about the recent order from the Karnataka court in India, which will allow millions of police officers to issue arbitrary takedown orders through a secretive online portal called the Sahyog. X argued this violates Article 19(1)(a) free speech rights, the 2015 Shreya Singhal Supreme Court ruling mandating court or Section 69A orders for takedowns, and contradicts the Bombay High Court’s recent invalidation of a similar government fact-checking regime stripping safe harbor protections. The single-judge bench, led by Justice Nagaprasanna, rejected the plea, deeming Sahyog a “public good” for combating cybercrime, asserting social media cannot operate in “anarchic freedom” or treat India as a “playground.”
■ xAI:
– Grok 4 Fast models, including grok-4-fast-reasoning for agentic decision-making and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning for streamlined workloads, are now in Azure AI Foundry’s Model Catalog for immediate developer deployment. They are supporting structured outputs, long-context processing, image input, and parallel tool use with enterprise features like RBAC, private networking, and customer-managed keys. Enterprises can fine-tune via Azure’s orchestration tools for custom data integration. Per Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (@satyanadella), “Welcome Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry!“
– Per Elon, “Grok Code now being used more than all other AIs combined on OpenRouter.” Grok Code Fast 1 ranks No.1, while Grok 4 Fast ranks No.4. H/T X Freeze (@amXFreeze).
Grok 4 also ranks No.1 in the Artificial Analysis Coding Index with a score of 55, outperforming ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. Grok 4 Fast ranks No.4, while Grok 4 Heavy, using multiple agents to collaborate and reach a consensus on answers, scores 44.4% on Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) with tool use, surpassing GPT-5 High’s 42%. Base Grok 4 achieves 25.4% on HLE, edging out GPT-5’s 25.3%. On ARC-AGI-2, Grok 4 Heavy scores 15.9%, doubling the prior state-of-the-art and beating GPT-5 High’s 9.9%. On ARC-AGI-1, Grok 4 scores approximately 66.7%, slightly above GPT-5’s 65.7%.
– You may have seen MSM being dramatic and shocked that Elon has placed 20 year old Diego Pasini (@Diego__Pasini) as a lead on the Grok Team. So I thought we should review some of his achievements and see if it is warranted. Diego graduated high school in 2023, where he served on the robotics team and presented drone research at MIT. He then enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study computer science and economics. In 2024, he became a fellow at Contrary investment firm, focusing on robotics and hard tech startups.
In January, he and his Team won xAI’s grand prize at its San Francisco hackathon with their “Grok as Your Hitchhiker’s Guide to X” tool. This tool fetches tweets via an X username, builds an interactive graph from the data, and allows users to explore it with guidance from Grok AI; it used Python (Uvicorn backend), npm (frontend), and API keys for xAI, X, and OpenAI.
8 months later he took a leave from the University of Pennsylvania to begin work at xAI. Here recently in September, Elon promoted him to head the Grok training data annotation team, overseeing labeling across STEM, coding, finance, legal, media, and other tasks. Diego was part of the recent restructuring where they had layoffs of generalist tutors and hiring specialized tutors. Per Elon, “Diego is making the right moves. Some super smart tutors at xAI. I meet with them regularly.”
– Jason Strickland of Preferred Sales Agency celebrated the success of Gigi Campbell (@GigiZhang461790) and her HICO Team after installing a 245kV 80kA circuit breaker for xAI at Colossus 2. Per Jason, “Electrifying Success in Memphis, TN! We’re beyond excited to celebrate our partnership with Gigi and HICO, delivering this breaker to one of America’s largest data centers in the Mid South!“
– Per xAI Colossus Lead, Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX), “The amount of hardcore engineers we have xAI is hard to comprehend. If you are in a room with individuals, you’re quite literally around the brightest minds in our country. Develop, question requirement, make requirements less dumb, all the things happen on an hourly basis here! That said, we need more engineers and executors.“ Apply here.
■ ELON NEWS:
– At Tesla’s engineering HQ in Palo Alto, Elon met with a BRIDGE Summit delegation, led by H.E. Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Butti Al Hamed (@AMB_Alhamed). The talks focused on AI, energy-efficient data centers, and content integrity. The delegation invited Elon to the BRIDGE Summit in Abu Dhabi this December. Not sure if he accepted.
– Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband), the UK Energy Secretary, accused Elon of inciting violence and calling for the overthrow of the UK government, labeling him “dangerous.” He criticized Reform UK for pushing a “US-style culture war” on climate change and net zero policies, rejecting climate skepticism as a “dead end.” Miliband also noted Tesla’s application for a UK energy supply licence under Ofgem’s oversight and affirmed the UK’s commitment to emission reduction plans despite Donald Trump’s attacks on renewable energy.
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