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“I want to know what is real, even if the answer is total obliteration of my consciousness…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA ($346.40, -1.27%):

– New images of the Next Gen Optimus were released and wow! Looks like those hands and arms really are looking more human. Love the gold Cybercab finish, and… wait… *gasp* 👽

– We also go to see the blacked out Optimus at the Tesla Diner. Previously hinted with the action figure.

– Per Elon this Saturday, “Just had a great design review today with the Tesla AI5 chip design team! This is going to be an epic chip. And AI6 to follow has a shot at being the best by AI chip by far. Switching from doing 2 chip architectures to 1 means all our silicon talent is focused on making 1 incredible chip… Milliseconds matter… I think AI5 will probably be the best inference chip of any kind for models below ~250B params. By far lowest cost silicon and best performance/Watt. AI6 will take that much further.”

– James Middleton, Tesla’s General Manager for Enterprise Sales in Australia and New Zealand, announced that the Tesla for Business team attended the SIXT Australia National Conference on the Gold Coast, Australia, where the Tesla ecosystem—including the Model 3, Model Y, Powerwall 3.0, and Supercharger V4—was showcased to the corporate team and SIXT franchisees, highlighting Tesla’s turnkey solutions for commercial fleet operators and business owners.

– For August, the China Automobile Association reported that the Model Y was the best-selling car, with 58,888 units sold. Tesla China delivered 57,152 vehicles to retail customers, and exported 26,040 units.

– Tesla has partnered with real estate development company Aldar (@aldar) to build Abu Dhabi’s first Tesla Experience Centre on Yas Island. It will include a showroom, service center, and delivery center. The render below was posted by Aldar.

– Tesla Super Charging Director Max de Zegher (@MdeZegher) posted that Tesla now sells fully managed Superchargers to businesses with an out-of-the-box charging solution without customizations. Just like their vehicles, the chargers are supported by continuous software updates. “Our goal is to accelerate charging ubiquity by making the best charging tech available for any business. To accelerate charging affordability through more supply & competition. To accelerate installation cost efficiency, through more installers and our economies of scale.”

– On Episode 118 of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) podcast, Tesla Semi Director Dan Priestley (@danWpriestley), discusses the Semi’s early development, its on-highway market strategy, key lessons learned, and current progress. He highlights his enthusiasm for collaborating with fleets, the challenges fleets face in adopting new technology, and his belief that fleets will value the longevity and potential of electric vehicles in the future. Per Dan, “We have taken the approach that we’ve brought over from the passenger car side, which is, we want to challenge the specs, we want to try to design a great, simple product that serves the vast majority of needs.”

– Cybertruck’s lead engineer, Wes Morrill (@wmorrill3), has confirmed that wireless charging is not coming for Cybertruck. This is due to physics and efficiency challenges from the vehicle’s high ground clearance creating a large air gap that reduces charging and slows the process. H/T @NotATeslaApp.

– Latest image of the Giga Nevada Semi Factory by Zanegler (@HinrichsZane).

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 8th of September, ’25. “Transport trucks were busy this weekend moving most of the new vehicle inventory off site! Production gearing back up for a full week! Switchyard expansion & vault progress, Cortex 2 walls, roofing & ground utilities installation continues.”

■ SPACEX:

– Sunday morning, SpaceX static fired Super Heavy Booster 15! It will be reused for the upcoming Flight 11. Following the successful Static Fire, B15 was dismounted and rolled back to production.

– On Saturday, launch 116 of Falcon 9 Starlink 17-9 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 20th flight for first stage booster B1075. It previously launched SDA-0A, SARah-2, Transporter-11, and 16 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 24 Starlinks were deployed.

– The next-gen V3 forward section test tank B18.3 and its accompanying common dome tank section exited the Starfactory on Friday. They will soon be stacked in Mega Bay 1. Pics by Anthony Gomez (@AnthonyFGomez) and @StarshipGazer.

– New shots of the McGregor, Texas, test facility by Reagan Beck (@bluemoondance74). You can see what should be the HLS site, and a new Falcon 9. Great job Reagan!

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 (112 – Falcon 9, 0 – Falcon Heavy, and 4 – Starship):

  • Launch 117! Monday, 8th of September, at 8:02 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Nusantara Lima 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. Nusantara Lima is an Indonesian geostationary communications satellite with a capacity of more than 160 Gbps.

  • Launch 118! Wednesday, 10th of September, 7:12 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer B 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 a classified mission launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.

  • Launch 119! Saturday, 13th of September, at 8:41 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 17-10 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 120! Monday, 15th of September, at 6:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Cygnus CRS-2 NG-23 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 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.

  • Launch 121! Tuesday, September 23rd, at 7:30 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:

– Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere) stopped by the Vegas LOOP Firefly site. This is one of TBC’s location on Paradise Road and the closest to The Sphere.

– The Boring Company submitted an 18-page document last week addressing Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s office questions on the Music City LOOP. Key security and emergency access details include compliance with National Fire Protection Association standards and productive consultations with the state Fire Marshal’s Office and Nashville Fire Department. No road closures are anticipated during the project and flood management via elevated stations with barriers, drains, and pumps. Regulation involves TDOT reviewing plans and issuing an grading permit for the project. There is a long-term lease for tunnel occupancy and operation.

– Boring Reps scouting the Job Fair at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville.

■ NEURALINK:

– Per Neuralink Neuroscientist Michael Anthony Brito (@MBritoNeuro), “People continue to underestimate Neuralink, but in the less than 3 years I’ve been a part of the company, I’ve seen us go from pre-IDE to multiple EFS trials. Our pace will be limited only by the laws of physics. We haven’t even come close to realizing our true potential.”

– According to Neuralink, their implant enables immediate visibility into real-time neural activity. This video captures the gradual surge in brain signals as one of their recent human participants awakens following the procedure.

Per Neuralink co-founder DJ Seo (@djseo), “This is a spike raster plot, where each row represents neural activity of a single channel over time. There are over 1,000 rows, a channel count of the N1 implant. Each white pixel represents a spike. You can tell the precise time when our participant wakes up.”

– Neuralink patient No.8, Nick Wray (@Telepath_8), gave us an update and plans to more every week on Sunday. He and his girlfriend Lexi attended a 30-day post-op checkup at the University of Miami Health System (@UMiamiHealth), where he demonstrated his BCI capabilities to neurosurgeons from the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (@BuonicontiFund). He also met up with fellow NPs Derick and Audrey (@NeuraNova9). Nick’s family reassembled his desktop setup after years, allowing him to enjoy expanded screen space and he’s now mixing unreleased tracks from his band So Long, Stargazer and collaborating with Grok on a dance pop song.

■ STARLINK:

– A MAXAR satellite conducting a routine Earth observation captured this shot of a SpaceX Starlink satellite. The rainbow effect you see is called a pan-sharpening spectral artifact. Essentially, their imaging system was merging high-resolution black & white data with color data while the Starlink zipped past at orbital velocity. Pic posted by Susanne Hake, SVP and General Manager, USG, Maxar Intelligence.

– SpaceX acquired 50 MHz of S-band spectrum and global MSS licenses from EchoStar to deploy its next-generation Direct to Cell constellation, This will enable broadband service to unmodified LTE phones worldwide. With over 600 Direct to Cell satellites currently operational at 360 km altitude, integrated with Starlink’s 8,000+ satellite laser mesh, it provides 4G coverage to over six million users across five continents, supporting messaging, video calls, and apps.

Per Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell), “We are so pleased to be doing this transaction with EchoStar and working with operators across the globe to advance our mission to end mobile dead zones everywhere on Earth!“

Per SpaceX VP of Starlink Engineering, Michael Nicolls (@michaelnicollsx), “Could not be more excited for the future of Starlink direct to cell!“

– Japan is equipping 66 large Coast Guard patrol vessels with Starlink starting this year and ending with 16 more in 2026. They are also installing it on all four hydrographic survey ships. The 4.26 billion yen ($29 million) investment includes encryption upgrades and cyber defenses for secure communications amid tensions near the Chinese disputed Senkaku Islands.

– The Salvation Army Marion Corps has launched its first emergency disaster response vehicle (EDRV) equipped with Starlink and funded by a Lilly Endowment grant through Territorial Headquarters. The truck provides hot meals, coffee, hydration, supplies, emotional/spiritual care, and connectivity in communication in down areas during disasters.

– Timothy Livingston of Baker Aviation announced that the company’s final flight using the outdated internet on its 21-aircraft Citation X fleet occurred yesterday, marking the end of an era with unreliable connectivity. Effective today, all 21 Citation X aircraft have been fully equipped with Starlink Aviation. “Your passengers have probably already experienced it at some point on our fleet but now its guaranteed on every Citation X flight you book with us.”

■ X:

– Per Elon, “On this platform, the people decide the narrative. You hear all sides of an argument. Community Notes corrects everyone, no exceptions. Notes data & code is public source. Grok provides further fact-checking.“

– This fall, Axios (@axios) is launching an exclusive unfiltered video interview series with the biggest influencers in politics, business, tech, and culture. Full episodes will stream on X as an X Originals.

– Ahead of the September 13th opening of the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships, X Japan has launched a limited-time “World Athletics Portal” featuring a dedicated feed and tabs with a wealth of posts related to the Championships. Link in the sources section.

– X is currently testing to block screenshots from the web version of XChat.

■ xAI:

– xAI’s newly announced engineering hub in Seattle has job openings on its image and video generation teams, as well as its GPU kernel teams. Salary ranges are between $180,000 and $440,000 annually. The location of the facility is still unknown.

– Grok Companions have a new tab for easier access, and their icons have been updated. No, they are not available on Android.

– xAI is working to give Grok a ‘Background Thinking’ capability. “Keep chatting while Grok thinks.”

– Grok Code Fast 1 hit 1 trillion tokens last week on OpenRouter.

■ ELON NEWS:

– Elon died in PoE2 hardcore (again)…

– Some random quotes this weekend by Elon:

  • “You’ll Thank Me Later.”

  • “Are you awake now?”

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■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

  • Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer

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