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“AI, not tele-operated…” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA ($453.25, +5.45%):

– The Big Reveal is Tomorrow!

– Per Elon, “Last minute bug cropped up with V14. Released is pushed to Monday, but that gives us time to add a few more features.” Anyone see V14 drop yet?

– Tesla has posted another video on how to vote your Tesla shares. This time Optimus is explaining. Very cool video showing more of what he is capable of. Love the sauna scene. Remember, you can vote online, by mail, by QR code, or by phone. Click here for help.

– Optimus must have needed the down time in the sauna after his sparring session… Wait? What?! Tesla Optimus learning Kung Fu? Per Elon, “AI, not tele-operated.”

Per Tesla’s Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy), “Just the beginning! Once the AI models for self-driving and Optimus unify it’s going to be fire!”

– Tesla Supercharger highway signs up in Georgia.

– Honda and Acura EV owners in Canada now have access to the Supercharger network across North America via the Honda-approved NACS-to-CCS DC fast-charging adapter. It is available for purchase at authorized dealerships.

– Alexis Jayme Brunner, Tesla recruiter and scholarship program volunteer, announced a successful completion of the “Summer in the Great Lakes“ initiative, visiting the campuses of Ohio Technical College, Universal Technical Institute (Dallas & Lisle campuses), Lincoln Tech (Melrose Park & Grand Prairie), Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Defense Reserve Job Placement Recruiter Tee, and other stakeholders. The Tesla team collectively engaged over 1,000 automotive and collision students during the 3rd Quarter.

– Michelle Hale, Giga Nevada’s Sr. Community & Volunteer Engagement Program Manager, hosted students and chaperones from Silverland Middle School of Fernley, NV, for Manufacturing Day. The students explored manufacturing through hands-on Lego activities, toured the factory, and enjoyed a pizza lunch while engaging in discussions. Per Michelle, “The students impressed all of us with their enthusiasm, thoughtful questions, and genuine interest in learning about careers in manufacturing and technology. Days like this remind us why inspiring the next generation of innovators is so important.”

– Last Friday, Chattrawat Prasertsuk, Tesla Thailand Consumer Engagement Manager, accepted the Tellscore Thailand Award on behalf of Tesla. The award highlights the company’s innovative achievements like the New Model Y launch, reaffirming its status as the world’s best SUV. “A big thank you to our partners, media, publishers, and especially our customers for the incredible support and for embracing Model Y with us.”

– “Accurate.” Tesla confirmed Sawyer Merritt’s (@SawyerMerritt) post that “Tesla’s Supercharger network set a new record in Q3 2025, with an average of 587,000 charging sessions per day worldwide.”

– Daiki Fukuda, a Hosei University student and Tesla intern, was super excited that Cybertruck was in town. “The only Cybertruck in Japan is currently on display at the Tesla Center in Inage, Chiba! It looks so futuristic! The exoskeleton is strong enough to bounce off bullets! I was overwhelmed by its size! I don’t know how long it will be on display, but if you are close to Chiba, please take a look at the pickup truck of the future!“

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 6th of October, ‘25. “Production has resumed after some down time last week following the delivery event. Electrical switchyard steel erection, footings, C/B slab construction & conduit extending to Cortex 2. Roofing, interior slab work & possibly false flooring.”

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■ SPACEX:

– A new NOTAM show everything is still on track for the Flight 11 launch next Monday, the 13th. We should see Booster 15-2 and Starship 38 roll to the Pad 1’s OLM for full-stack soon.

– Starship Flight 11 timeline ahs been posted released. The countdown begins 1 hour and 15 minutes before launch, starting with the SpaceX Flight Director’s poll to verify readiness for propellant loading. Key milestones include loading liquid methane and liquid oxygen (LOX) for the ship and booster, starting at 53 and 46 minutes for the ship and 41 and 35 minutes for the booster, respectively. Engine chill begins at 19 minutes, and propellant loading completes shortly before launch. The flight director confirms launch readiness at 30 seconds, followed by flame deflector activation, Raptor ignition, and liftoff at T-0.

The flight test timeline starts at liftoff, with Max Q (peak aerodynamic stress) at 1 minute 2 seconds. Super Heavy’s main engine cutoff (MECO) occurs at 2 minutes 37 seconds, followed by hot-staging and stage separation at 2 minutes 39 seconds. Super Heavy performs a boostback burn from 2 minutes 49 seconds to 3 minutes 38 seconds, with landing burn from 6 minutes 20 seconds to 6 minutes 36 seconds. Starship’s engine cutoff is at 8 minutes 58 seconds, followed by a payload deploy demo from 18 minutes 28 seconds to 25 minutes 33 seconds. A Raptor in-space relight demo occurs at 37 minutes 49 seconds. Starship reentry begins at 47 minutes 43 seconds, reaching transonic speed at 1 hour 3 minutes 30 seconds and subsonic at 1 hour 3 minutes 52 seconds. The landing sequence starts with a landing burn at 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds, followed by a landing flip, engine reduction, and landing at 1 hour 6 minutes 25 seconds.

– Several truck-loads of vaults were delivered to the Air Separation Unit (ASU) build site this morning. First they tried unloading them with an excavator. Then two excavators. Then the big boy crane showed up to complete the job. Screenshots from @LabPadre‘s live feed.

– Great shot by Carlos (@cnunezimages) of new Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs). These have orange protective jackets.

– On Friday, crews at Pad-1 worked for several hours with a counterbalance beam on the left-side catch arm, and removed the dampers used to soften booster landings. Remember that Booster 15.2 will not be caught, so these are modifications taking place for the Booster variant.

– At McGregor last Friday evening, the new Falcon 9 First Stage Booster B1100 performed a static fire test. Video from NSF’s (@NASASpaceflight) live feed. Link in the sources section.

– SpaceX secured a $714 million contract for five U.S. Space Force National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 missions with launches starting around 2027. Launches include:

USSF-206 with Boeing’s WGS-12 communications satellite.
Three classified missions (USSF-155, USSF-149, USSF-63).
NROL-86 reconnaissance for the NRO.

– Per Elon, “So few understand the implications, even when stated as clearly as below…”

Elon was referencing Luis Batalha (@luismbat) when he posted the above graph and stated that rocket reusability fundamentally changes spaceflight by shifting from a production-limited model of approximately 16 disposable rockets per year to a new paradigm with significantly higher launch volumes, improved economics, and greater ambition enabled by reusable rockets.

– Per SpaceX Software Engineer, Connor Mulcahey (@connormulcahey), “The amount of value we are going to create for the world at SpaceX is going to blow your goddam minds…”

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

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

Launch 130! Tuesday, 7th of October, at 12:13 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.
Launch 131! Tuesday, 7th of October, at 6:00 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-17 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 132! Thursday, 9th of October, 9:34 p.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.
Launch 133! Sunday, 12th of October, at 4:11 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-52 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 134! Sunday, 12th of October, at 12:59 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-19 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 135! 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. Live X link here.
Launch 136! Tuesday, 14th of October, at 4:11 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer C 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 137! Wednesday, 15th of October, at 12:21 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 10-17 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 138! Monday, 20th of October, at 4:00 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-5 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 ??? 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.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

– Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere) posted these great shots from the Monorail of the Vegas LOOP Westgate Station. This is the station’s Third tunnel. “Workers still on site late Friday.”

– TBC detailed its proposed Music City Loop and it features 20 planned stations and potential stops along Broadway to reduce congestion and cut commute times nearly in half.

■ NEURALINK:

– Per Neuralink and Barrow Institute Neurosurgeon, Michael T. Lawton (@mtlawton) at NY Brain-Computer Interface Symposium. “The promise of technology merging with medicine motivated me as an engineering student to go to med school. It’s finally happening. Advances shared are proof. There have been <70 BCI devices implanted over 20 years – our work with Neuralink represents >10%…”

– Neuralink submitted its first scientific paper to the New England Journal of Medicine, detailing safety and performance data from three human patients implanted with its BCI device “Telepathy”, tested at the Barrow Neurological Institute. The Barrow Institute’s CEO confirmed the study is under peer review, emphasizing patient safety.

– Per Neuralink co-founder DJ Seo (@djseo), “People hear “neural plasticity” and imagine neurons breaking and making new connections. That large scale rewiring mostly happens in childhood. In adults, “plasticity” usually means synaptic fine-tuning: strengthening or weakening existing connections… That’s learning.”

■ STARLINK:

– Smiltech Jospin, a student in mobile systems and networks passionate about 5G and IoT, completed an academic internship at Généris, where he honed his skills by installing and configuring Starlink and NanoStation antennas. This practical experience deepened his understanding of broadband connectivity challenges and solutions for his country. He plans to leverage Starlink to revolutionize telecommunications across Africa to enhance connectivity and technological progress.

– UltiSat, an authorized Starlink reseller for U.S. Government SATCOM solutions, received a contract from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to provide Starlink terminals and connectivity plans for the BLM Fire Program. This supports wildland firefighters in remote Western U.S. areas for digital tasks like administrative work, incident map downloads, and real-time data access.

– Caden K., Broadcast Technician at Pegasus Studios and Broadcast Coach at Newport Harbor High School, completed a new Sports Broadcasting Control Room at Newport Harbor High, utilizing Starlink to enable RTMP/SRT feeds for remote venue camera integration. Starlink allows seamless transmission of camera feeds from remote locations back to the control room, supporting high-bandwidth, long-distance routing via tactical single-mode fiber. This setup facilitates real-world broadcast training for students, who rotate through professional roles like Replay, Graphics, and Camera Operation, mirroring industry workflows.

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■ 𝕏:

– X Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) posted a reminder that the Denmark revived the EU’s CSAM proposal, aka Chat Control, will be voted upon October 14th. This would mandate messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Signal to scan all private communications, including encrypted ones. Those for it say it is for finding child sexual abuse material. This measure requires detection of known and unknown CSAM plus grooming indicators, with fines up to 6% of global revenue for non-compliance, and has gained support from 19 of 27 member states including France, though opponents like Germany, Poland, Belgium, and the Netherlands cite risks of mass surveillance, encryption weakening, high false positives, and EU Charter violations on privacy and data protection.

– Robyn Murray (@robynnemo), X’s Administrative Business Partner and co-founder of the Her Voice Project, spoke at a National Women’s Council event for St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services. She focused on mental health and chronic illness. Per Robyn, “I want to continue telling my story even though it isn’t easy and also to be there to listen to others experiences and stories as we continue to make changes for the girls of the future.”

■ xAI:

– Per Elon, “Version 0.1 early beta of Grokipedia will be published in 2 weeks.” Image by X Freeze (@amXFreeze).

– Per Elon, “The xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before the end of next year.“

– Per Elon, “MACROHARD, the much stronger AI equivalent of that other software company!“ xAI’s Macrohard is looking for people to join the execution teams in Palo Alto and London with expert knowledge of Rust, C++ or Go, familiarity with Python, solid understanding of Linux and other operating systems, familiarity with virtualization techniques and implementations, and good knowledge of network stack.

– xAI released an upgrade to Imagine and it has vastly improved. Per xAI’s Haotian Liu (@imhaotian), “The team has been working hard bringing upgrades to Grok Imagine in the past month. We’re rolling out the 1st model upgrade today, with more to come!“

– Per Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce board member Bill Dunavant III. “In one year, xAI has become the second largest taxpayer in the city and county after FedEx. xAI has demonstrated substantial economic commitment to our region, without any tax incentives.” xAI plans to spend over $18 billion acquiring approximately 300,000 additional Nvidia chips for Colossus 2 in Memphis to reach 550,000 total chips. Colossus 2 is the world’s first gigawatt AI supercluster, achieving 200MW capacity in six months compared to 15 months for Oracle, Crusoe, and OpenAI. xAI is raising $10 billion at a $200 billion valuation. Via the WSJ.

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