ELON CHRON: The Daily Chronicle of Elon Musk’s Companies

“A tweet/post is how I initiated the dozen or so startups that constitute Tesla…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA ($452.42, +4.31%):

– Will Coggins (@Patient_Profits) spotted a Cybercab with Optimus in Times Square. Optimus was handing out candy! Very cool, Will! This was all part of Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm on ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss details of her letter to shareholders, what to expect from this year’s annual meeting, details of CEO Elon Musk’s pay package, Tesla’s growth outlook, Elon Musk’s business ambitions, Tesla’s autonomous driving future, AI bubble, and more. Full video link in the sources section.

Robyn also released a new letter warning shareholders that rejecting the 2025 CEO Performance Award by November 5 could prompt Elon Musk to step down as CEO due to inadequate pay-for-performance incentives, risking Tesla’s value, innovation in FSD/Optimus/AI, and competitive edge. It urges “FOR” votes on Proposal One (re-elect directors Ira Ehrenpreis, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, Joe Gebbia for Musk-aligned governance), Proposal Three (award Musk voting power tied to 7.5 years of leadership and milestones), and Proposal Four (incentives for shareholder value and abundance).

Shortly after, the State Board of Administration of Florida said it is voting in favor of Elon’s CEO Performance Award on Nov 6th. They $1.23 billion of stock.

– Robotaxi iOS update 25.10.5 introduces a complete codebase for airport pickups and drop-offs, enabling full terminal service at geofenced locations like Austin; it features an “Airline Picker” module that prompts users to select their airline, then auto-determines exact terminal and door via getTerminal and getAirportData functions to eliminate manual pin-drop errors in multi-level airports. A walkContainer module provides in-app walking directions from baggage claim to designated pickup curbs, mimicking Google Maps integration. H/T @NotATeslaApp.

– India’s Chamber of Marathwada Industries and Agriculture (CMIA) sent a letter today, urging Tesla to select Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad) as one of nine proposed Starlink satellite gateway stations in India, instead of only Mumbai, Noida, Chandigarh, Kolkata, and Lucknow. CMIA cited the region’s USD 11.5 billion in investments. CMIA addressed the letter to Tesla likely due to the common public association of Elon’s companies.

– Nicholas Elston, Tesla Customer Engagement and marketing manager for Tesla Denmark, reported overwhelming interest in Tesla vehicles during the first two days of Elbilmessen at MCH A/S in Herning, Denmark, from both first-time electric car curious visitors and industry professionals. He highlighted enthusiastic dialogues on Tesla’s future mobility approach and strong reception for the new Model Y Standard, which enhances accessibility while upholding high quality and the unique Tesla experience.

Today, the Tesla AI account their Bay Area ride-hailing (Robotaxi) service now goes to San Jose Mineta International Airport (SJC) airport.

– Model YL in Shanghai. Pic by Tesla China.

– Tesla has introduced a feature that automatically pauses and extends active subscriptions and free trials for vehicles in service longer than one business day, triggered when a repair requires more than one business day as detected by Tesla’s integrated service software, with no manual requests or service advisor involvement needed.

– Tesla is already releasing and update to v14. My experience so far is a lot of improvements in some areas and regression in others. Tesla is already on the move to fix the issues.

– Get the new XX Bomber Jacket ($195) while you can! “Celebrating 20 years of transitioning the world to sustainable energy. The limited-edition Tesla XX Bomber Jacket features a modern silhouette with a water-resistant exterior shell and fully lined interior.”

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 27th of October, ‘25. “Foggy start to the day, but cleared up over time. Production resuming, many vehicles transported off site over the weekend. Cortex 2 facility seeing massive changes with conduit, a reinforced raised platform area with many steel piles.”

■ SPACEX:

– On Sunday, launch 141 of Falcon 9 Starlink 10-21 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This was the 24th flight for first stage booster B1077. It previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I6-F2, CRS-28, Intelsat G-37, NG-20, TD7, and 18 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. 28 Starlinks were deployed.

– On Saturday, launch 140 of Falcon 9 Starlink 11-12 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 19th flight for first stage booster B1081. It previously launched Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, Transporter-10, EarthCARE, NROL-186, Transporter-13, TRACERS, NROL-48, and 9 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 28 Starlinks were deployed.

– Falcon 9 First Stage Booster B1067 returning from flight 31 of SpainSat NG II mission. Fleet leader and Launch King! Pics by Asher B (@asherbphotos) and Jenny Hautmann (@JennyHPhoto).

– Spotted at Starbase and the consensus is… No. Not Starship HLS with windows. Too randomly placed. It very interesting though… Pic via @LabPadre‘s live feed.

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

City Commission Regular Meeting, November 19, 2025 7:00 PM
City Commission Regular Meeting, December 17, 2025 7:00 PM

Countdown to 180 (136 – Falcon 9, 0 – Falcon Heavy, and 5 – Starship):

Launch 142! Monday, 27th of October, at 2:12 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-21 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 143! Tuesday, 28th of October, at 9:14 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-37 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 143! Thursday, 30th of October, at 1:06 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-23 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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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

– Louis Mendiola, Sr Operations Director for the Network of HCA Healthcare Urgent Cares, described an exceptional employer visit to The Boring Company’s Bastrop, Texas location, emphasizing strong employer relationships with the hosts. He expressed awe at witnessing the future unfolding through the company’s innovations, and extended special thanks to coordinators Priscilla Garza Bauer, Jennifer Gonzales, and Karina Vidal. The post concluded with the tagline “Tunnel Mars,” alluding to Elon Musk’s vision for tunneling technology in Mars colonization.

■ NEURALINK:

– Today, Neuralink announced they implanted Telepathy in their first UK participant, Paul, who is paralyzed from motor neuron disease, at University College London Hospitals (UCLH). Hours post-surgery, Paul controlled a computer using only his thoughts. The Neuralink ultra-thin threads were inserted by the R1 Robot led by neurosurgeons Chief Investigator Harith Akram (@HarithAkram) and Principal Investigator William Muirhead (@WRMuirhead), with Neuralink engineers and UCLH/UCL support facilities.

Per Neuralink Principal Investigator Dan Adams (@Dan___Adams), “Bringing it home, University College London!“

He’s now working with our engineers to explore using the implant to play his favorite video games like Dawn of War and perform other tasks that could enrich and restore autonomy in his daily life.

■ STARLINK:

– A Starlink vending machine in an Iowa mall. Pic by Erica (@EricawithaC13).

– The Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) deployed 100 Starlink kits, donated by SpaceX, across 100 priority locations in Masbate province to restore connectivity after Typhoon Opong (Bualoi) affected 44,536 families and caused power interruptions in over 19 local government units due to flooding and soil erosion. Sites include government offices, barangay halls, healthcare facilities, and disaster response units for emergency communication and public services. Installation began October 15, 2025, with 48 units activated by October 24.

– Per VP of Starlink Engineering, Michael Nicolls (@michaelnicollsx), “Significant improvements in Starlink network performance in 2025, with median peak-hour network-wide speeds increasing by over 50%. Typical download speeds are over 200 Mbps, typical upload speeds are over 30 Mbps, and median global latency is around 26 ms.”

– On the 14th of October, SpaceX via Starlink Satellite Communications Pvt. Ltd. registered a lease for a 1,294 sq ft office space in Mumbai’s Chandivali Boomerang building for five years.

■ 𝕏:

– Per Elon, “We found a significant bug in the 𝕏 For You algorithm that resulted in users seeing far fewer posts from people that they follow. It should be fixed by tomorrow. Also, based on a user suggestion, we are adding a setting for your Following feed to see either everything from everyone you follow or only the highlights. That should make the Following feed much more usable.”

– X Platform Developer, Michael Rosinsky’s (@mike_rosinsky), leveled up his Raspberry Pi X API webhook project. Red LED for likes, green for posts, blue for follows. Add PWM fading on LEDs over 15s post-event; trigger 10s rainbow flash after 100 likes/hour. Wire piezo buzzer (GPIO 18) for tones—1 beep/like, 2/follows, MIDI melody on retweets. Add 128×64 OLED (I2C pins 2/3) via Adafruit SSD1306 to display counters/timestamps. Expand to yellow LED for mentions, orange for retweets. Log to SQLite for pandas hourly analysis + matplotlib CSV heatmaps. Use Flask endpoint, RPi.GPIO, ngrok tunneling; add battery/enclosure and Grok API for sentiment alerts. Link in sources section.

– X’s official Android app in beta version 11.34.0-beta.1 has initiated migration from its legacy codebase to the latest X Lite codebase, providing users with a switch option that instantly updates the UI to X Lite’s design.

■ xAI:

– Grokipedia is now live! https://grokipedia.com

– Per xAI Colossus Lead Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX), “Want to highlight that it takes the entire xAI and xAI Memphis hardcore A$$ team to develop these technologies and deploy them as fast as possible… results are the metric and if those “results” are not at the forefront of the organization you will (and should) fail.”

■ ELON NEWS:

– David Sacks (@DavidSacks), All-In Podcast contributor, Venture Capitalist, Donald Trump appointed White House AI and Crypto Czar chair to the Advisory Council on Science and Technology, posted the images saying, “Three years ago, a house guest asked if I wanted to tag along to the office, and I got to be part of this historic moment. Here are a few more photos of the day free speech was liberated.“

– Friday, at Rome’s Capitoline Hill (Sala del Carroccio), Ancient Rome Live announced 11 winners of the first Expandere Conscientiae Lumen (ECL) grants—$1M total from the Musk Foundation to the American Institute for Roman Culture. ECL funds non-profit innovations in Greco-Roman archaeology, conservation, digital preservation, and public engagement with sustainable outcomes. Elon joined via live stream: “I’m interested in history, and Rome is a large part of the history of Western civilization. AI + archaeology lets us rewrite history books from ancient materials, filling knowledge gaps. E.g., Egypt’s pyramids: not slave-built, but by off-season farmers as religious cathedrals. SpaceX aims to extend human consciousness multi-planetarily for survival—now feasible after millennia.” Winning projects:

Underwater archaeology at Ripa Puteolana harbor, Bay of Naples, Italy—docs submerged Roman structures.
Pigment analysis for Pompeii’s colors, Italy—researches ancient hues.
Textile heritage study/conservation/digital enhancement, Roman Empire-wide, Italy-led.
Digital scan/documentation of Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy.
Hydraulic systems speleology/archaeology in Aquinum Roman theater, Italy.
Cyrene preservation initiative—protects/docs Libyan heritage site.
Greco-Roman site documentation/preservation, Jordan.
Roman archaeology promotion/public initiatives, Morocco.
Theodosian Palace conservation, Stobi, North Macedonia—mosaics, walls, marbles.
Numluli Roman city research/restoration/training summer school, Tunisia.
Butrint UNESCO religious monuments stabilization/consolidation, Albania.

– President Donald Trump today on Elon today.

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