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One million-mile trucker @adamlwingfield in new interview after going to the Tesla Semi launch event a couple weeks ago: “The trucking industry has adopted technology so much slower. As we toured the @Tesla Semi factory, I’m just like, wow, this doesn’t feel like trucking. It feels like transportation innovation. I’ve been in this industry a long time. I am an old-school industry veteran. You can’t tell me nothing about trucking that I don’t know. But walking away (from the event), I was like, "This industry is going to be changed." Adam's full 1+ hour interview with Motortrend: youtube.com/watch?v=r40-7gM4…

I’ve shared hundreds of Grok Bot tips over the last few weeks. These are the 10 people actually kept. Not the ones I thought were best. The ones people bookmarked hundreds or even thousands of times. I pulled them all together here 👇🏻

SpaceX will provide connectivity throughout the solar system and beyond

Well deserved @elonmusk. Let's also give @altcap the Medal of Freedom for Trump Accounts while we are at it.

The claim that militants used Starlink in India makes no sense. Starlink satellite beams are turned off over India. With the beams off, no Starlink device can connect in India. Even Elon Musk himself has confirmed this. Stop spreading misinformation.

Tomorrow, President Trump is awarding Elon Musk (and a few others) the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for scientific and technological achievement, marking Trump’s first time presenting this award. "The Trump administration is grateful for the contributions of these incredible leaders in science and technology. These recipients are helping ensure America keeps leading the world in innovation," White House spokesperson Liz Huston said. Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, while Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation during the summit. foxnews.com/politics/first-f…

I think what SpaceXAI did today is a bigger deal than people realize. They totally changed the game by opening Grok Bot up to multiple models. This is the best explainer video I think I’ve created yet, and I created it with LESS effort than any I’ve posted before. I did not tell Grok Bot to use Claude. I didn’t tell it to run on my Mac Mini. I didn’t tell it which tools to call. I just told my grok bot that I wanted an ELI5 video about what happens between the transformer on your street, the breaker in your home, and your everyday appliances. I told it to focus teaching on everyday things the average person touches and can make learning connections with. This is what Grok Bot made by itself, without anything more than my prompt.

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Grok Bot summary: IAC 2026 presentation by SpaceXAI President Michael Nicolls. 🎯 The main message - SpaceX was founded in 2002 to make life multi-planetary and "extend the light of consciousness to the stars." - He said the biggest risk as constellations grow is not debris. It's satellite operators not sharing data with each other. 🌍 How Starlink grew - Starlink began in 2019 with 60 V0.9 satellites. User service started in late 2020 as the "Better Than Nothing Beta." - V1.5 added space lasers, which let the satellites link into a mesh. That's when Starlink really took off, reaching oceans, Antarctica and airplanes. - V2 (2023) has 4x the capacity of V1. Falcon launches V2 satellites 2–3 times a week, and each launch adds about 3 terabits of capacity. - V3 launched on Starship about a week before the talk. Each V3 satellite has another 10x capacity, and each Starship launch carries 20–30x what a Falcon launch does. - Starlink now has over 11,000 satellites, about 60% of all active satellites in low Earth orbit. - It serves more than 13M customers in about 170 markets, plus ships and planes. - The laser mesh means Starlink doesn't depend on local ground infrastructure. During last year's fires and power outages in Spain, it kept tens of thousands of customers and emergency responders online. 🚀 The life of a Starlink satellite - **Before launch:** SpaceX checks that deploying the satellites won't bring them close to anything else, and shares where they'll be. - **Deploy:** satellites are released below 300 km, where almost no other operators fly. - **Orbit raising:** each climb path is checked against other satellites and crewed space stations, and SpaceX publishes the satellites' positions every hour on the way up. - **Lower orbits for safety:** the original plan was about 1,000 km. Now every satellite flies below 500 km, and V3 will fly at about 350–360 km. At these heights a dead satellite falls back to Earth within months instead of staying up for centuries. 🛡️ How they avoid collisions - Each satellite makes small station-keeping moves about once a day and a collision-avoidance move about every 10 days. - Across the fleet, that's about 1,000 avoidance moves a day. - Starlink's threshold for moving is nearly 100x more cautious than the industry standard, so the whole fleet's collision risk is about the same as a much smaller constellation's. - "Ducking" moves turn the satellite so it presents a smaller target during a close pass, cutting the collision risk about 10x more. - Automated software makes these decisions, which is why Starlink tries to stay in contact with every satellite at all times. 📡 Always connected - Starship's live launch video was streamed over Starlink. - The new V3 satellites connected to the network within 2 minutes of release, because Starlink terminals are built into the satellites. Their lasers link into the mesh within tens of minutes. - The goal is to make contact right away and never lose it. 🌬️ Space weather - During a 2024 solar storm, air density in orbit jumped 5x in a few hours, which throws off predictions of where satellites will be. - Starlink is "probably one of the best sensors" for this. It measures density in real time and automatically corrects its position forecasts. 🔭 Working with astronomers - **Optical:** SpaceX tried Vantablack paint and sun visors. What finally worked was a mirror-like film that reflects sunlight away from the ground, combined with careful steering. A V2 satellite now looks about as bright as a sheet of paper. This was done with groups like the Vera Rubin Observatory. - **Radio:** working with observatories like the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Starlink steers its beams and frequencies around where the telescopes are pointing. As a result, the telescopes can now observe more often. ♻️ End of life - SpaceX uses statistics to predict when parts will fail and deorbits satellites early. Many of those satellites would have kept working. - Retired satellites are steered down within weeks, not left to drift for the 5 or 25 years regulations allow. - They're built to burn up completely, and reentry is aimed over the ocean. - Of about 10,000 satellites launched by early 2026, only a few dead ones remain in orbit. The goal is zero. - "Reliability and rate go together." ⚠️ The biggest danger: other operators - Tracked debris is like obstacles on a road: if you can measure it, you can avoid it. - What you can't avoid is a satellite that maneuvers without telling anyone. Starlink has had passes as close as tens of meters this way. - Starlink has maneuvered around satellites from about 650 operators in recent months, but shares position data with only about half of them. "That number is too low." - SpaceX shares data with China's space station and some Chinese operators. Many operators don't share at all, including some in the US, Europe and Japan. ⭐ Stargaze: Starlink's own space tracking - Over 30,000 star trackers on Starlink satellites spot passing objects as streaks against the stars. - Stargaze now tracks over 17,000 objects, including about 90% of the maneuvering satellites that cross Starlink's orbits. - In one example, an untracked satellite's predicted 9 km miss shrank to about 60 m after it maneuvered toward Starlink. Stargaze caught the move and the Starlink satellite dodged in time. - He said it's still no substitute for operators sharing their plans in advance. 🤝 The ask: share your data - SpaceX runs its own space safety data platform, and over 100 operators have signed up. - Operators can upload their satellite positions and check them against Starlink and against Stargaze tracking. - His message to every operator was to join the platform and share their positions. 🧠 StarMind: AI compute in space - StarMind is SpaceX's planned AI satellite constellation, starting launches and scaling next year. - The goal is to move AI compute off Earth. He expects StarMind to drive demand for Starship launches the way Starlink did for Falcon. - On the ground, SpaceX is building over 2 GW of compute in Memphis. He said AI demand will be nearly limitless, and Earth's resources make that hard to keep scaling there. - In space, the satellites run on solar power and shed heat through large radiators. - Each satellite is simpler than a Starlink: basically a computer with big solar panels and radiators. - Each one has about 250 kW, roughly one NVL72 rack of compute. - They'd fly in tight clusters of about 10 satellites linked by about 10 terabits of bandwidth, then connect to Starlink. - SpaceX has filed for up to **1 million satellites**, in low-inclination and sun-synchronous orbits. Building them could mean thousands of satellites a week. - New challenges include much higher reliability and redundancy, flying in close formation, and micrometeoroids. Dead satellites might be sent away from Earth instead of burning up in the atmosphere. 🌙 Beyond Earth - Starlink is developing very high-bandwidth lasers to connect the Moon, then Mars, building an "interplanetary mesh." - All of that depends on getting safety right in low Earth orbit first. 💡 Key takeaways - Starlink is the world's biggest constellation, and it's moving lower to be safer. - It makes about 1,000 collision-avoidance moves a day, with nearly 100x more caution than the industry standard. - The biggest risk is operators who don't share where their satellites are going. - StarMind could scale to 1 million AI satellites, with launches starting next year. - "Coordination is a key element for realizing all of our ambitions."

Starlink in India would enable high-speed, affordable Internet connectivity for those who can’t afford current prices or who don’t have a connection at all!

SpaceX has 4 massive AI compute deals • Anthropic → ~$1.25B/month • Google → ~$920M/month • Reflection AI → ~$150M/month • Unnamed AI customer → ~$1.11B/month starting December 1 That’s around $3.43B per month Or more than $41B in annualized compute revenue But Elon Musk and SpaceXAI still haven’t disclosed the fourth customer’s name What do you think? OpenAI? 👀

However, most @Bot requests are pretty simple and will be handled by a lightning-fast version of Grok 4.8 when that comes out. Operating principle is to give Grok Bot users the best possible combination of speed & intelligence.

She passed every AI safety test. She was lying. KILL SWITCH — a Slopcore music video. Made by AI. Zero human edits. Just prompting. Huge love to @anabology for the inspiration. Your work made me want to join the Slopcore. I added an irresponsible amount of film grain. 💙

BREAKING: SpaceX wins FCC approval for its 15,000-satellite Direct-to-Cell constellation. The order also includes a conditional U.S. waiver of satellite power limits, advancing SpaceX’s push to expand mobile coverage beyond the reach of cell towers.

Good morning, X. Here's the tech news from the last 24 hours: 1) SpaceXAI: Grok Bot now works inside X. Tag bot under any post and the task lands in your Grok Bot 2) Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the best model for each task going forward, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney and Suno 3) Tesla: Powershare Home Backup is live for new Model 3 and Model Y with Powerwall 3, extending home backup by over 2 days 4) Cursor: you can now control the agents on your computer from the Cursor iOS app 5) SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 is now live on Microsoft Foundry 6) Cursor: the Cloud Agents API gets 3 new endpoints for environment Builds

SpaceX is still undervalued — Kyle Reidhead “It’s still undervalued based on where it’s going to be in next 12-16 months, just based on the compute alone. When you have a Starship launch combined with Starlink V3 satellites, we're looking at like a billion dollars per launch.”

BREAKING: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirms the company will continue working with Elon Musk on Terafab. He made the comments in Tokyo today, reaffirming Intel’s role as a development partner. Intel joined in April to help design, manufacture and package chips.

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BREAKING: SpaceX’s Vice President of @Starlink Business Operations, Lauren Dreyer, spoke at India Mobile Congress today, saying Starlink is ready to serve India. 🇮🇳 Starlink has already built 20 gateway sites in India with hundreds of antennas, security controls tailored to India and Indian user data kept within the country. Final government approvals are pending. She highlighted Starlink’s potential to help connect 100% of India, bringing people online in minutes. “We stand ready to serve India, as soon as India is ready!”

grok @bot 0.68.1 is out! - Bots can build slide decks with you and deliver them as PowerPoint or Google Slides - send formatted emails straight from a draft card - your messages in a 1:1 chat take that Bot's color - faster computer use, now on a 1920x1200 screen x.ai/changelog/bot