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Late Friday night, Tesla’s Robotaxi account announced that the Austin service is “now available until 11pm.” Until now, it shut down at 10 PM. ...

Some context on that extra hour. When Tesla launched Robotaxi in Austin in June 2025, the app took ride requests from 6 AM to midnight. Fifteen months later, the service closes an hour earlier than it did on day one. ...

What bothers us most is the part Musk skipped. The sun sets a little after 7 PM in Austin right now, so Tesla’s Robotaxis are already driving in the dark every night with a problem he says isn’t solved. And customer Teslas run “Full Self-Driving” on the same cameras at any hour, with no curfew.

We can hope! But when did Maye Musk become a "supermodel"?

>Or so says his supermodel mom, Maye Musk.

>"I think he really would like to live in the city of Mars," Maye Musk said on the Power Players with Brian Sozzi podcast (see video above or listen below). 

Elon Musk recently claimed that his tunneling startup The Boring Company is working on “a simple precursor Hyperloop” between Austin and San Antonio that will reduce the journey between the two cities to less than 30 minutes.

The Boring Company account shared Musk’s statement and said it “would be excited and honored to build this massive infrastructure project.”

Many of The Boring Company’s announced projects — including tunnel systems in Chicago, Los Angeles, and between New York City and Washington, D.C. — have not materialized. However, it does operate a transportation system combining tunnels and surface routes in Las Vegas, and it recently raised a $3 billion round led by the United Arab Emirates.

Musk’s comments about a potential Austin-San Antonio Hyperloop were actually in reply to an AI-generated video depicting a generic science fiction future with human colonies on other worlds. Musk re-posted the video and declared, “This is the future we shall bring into being”.

(Because sure, why not? He could just take his new rocket-powered Tesla roadsters, due out in a couple weeks, and shove them into a tube. )

[ Because of course he does. ]

For years, Musk has used his social-media megaphone to boost antiestablishment parties outside the U.S., railing against “woke” politics, immigration and tech industry-regulation across Europe, South America and Africa. But no other foreign nation has drawn such frequent, sustained attention from the world’s richest man as the U.K., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of 4½ years’ worth of his posts on X.

Musk has twice exceeded 200 monthly posts about British politics and culture wars, though the volume waxes and wanes with the news cycle. In June alone, Musk posted more than 160 times on the topic—over 10% of his posts that month. By July, he was back to his baseline, with just a few dozen tweets.

(this should be a gift link, fingers crossed)

(alt link https://archive.ph/8bVNo )

I had to stop and laugh here:

According to St. Clair, the former MAGA influencer with whom Musk has a child, Musk tries desperately to keep his private life private. Musk offered her $15 million and $100,000 a month for 21 years to sign a nondisclosure agreement requiring her not to share the paternity of her son Romulus with anyone except Romulus himself.

Musk first approached her via Twitter, which she says is not unusual for him. She says she’s since heard from many other young women whom Musk approached on Twitter with the offer to donate his sperm to them in his ardent pronatalist attempt to populate the world with his offspring.

“It’s like a Gatling gun of sperm in his DMs,” she says.

On the lighter side of Elonic nonsense, there's this. Aside from being pretty bad, the 5 minute winner starts with a scene that seems completely ripped off from Nolan's "Inception". Winner "Nem Perez" has 4 imdb credits, 3 music videos from 2018 that seem ok, and this 6 minute epic piece of AI slop from 2024, with all of 977 youtube views since then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxfNaZHuss Except it's more like 2-3 minutes + credits and "making of". It may or may not be worse than his "Odyssey" take. So congrats to Nem on the $100k I guess.

Musk is a uniquely disquieting baseball-capped figure, grinning and giggling and smirking on a thousand sycophantic podcasts like a modern, hyper-evolved version of Anthony Trollope’s wealthy charlatan Augustus Melmotte in The Way We Live Now. But given Musk’s boyish love of space travel and sci-fi, Gibney wittily compares him to the hero of the 1936 film version of HG Wells’s The Man Who Could Work Miracles about godlike space aliens who capriciously confer supernatural powers on a banal, ordinary earthling.

Because of course they did.

Elon Musk, who has said he was prescribed ketamine to treat depression, has previously spoken of the benefits of psychedelics, including MDMA. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2024 that Antonio Gracias and Steve Jurvetson had consumed drugs with the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, along with Kimbal Musk.

(original WSJ link: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/elon-musks-inner-circle-is-pouring-cash-into-making-psychedelics-mainstream-98ea1b57 , securely paywalled as usual. By his behaviour, Elon is not exactly a good advertisement for therapeutic use of anything he's consuming, but that's another story )

SpaceX’s planned foundry would make single-crystal nickel superalloy parts for the turbopumps in its Raptor rocket engines and the power turbines, according to the Morgan Stanley report. It is unclear if SpaceX currently casts its own blades for the Raptor turbopumps, according to the report. 

Even so, sector analysts estimate a brand-new factory would take four years at a minimum, which is a long time in the AI world. Specialized vacuum furnaces required to make these parts have lead times of more than two years, according to Chiang.

Hiring and training people will take time, too. Critical positions require six months to a year of training, according to DPC, where the average tenure of technical workers—such as engineers and metallurgists—is 9.5 years. 

If anything, Musk’s foundry plan highlights just how critical these blades and vanes are to the AI build-out. The recent share-price pullback is a chance for investors to think about what they are willing to pay for this market power. But it doesn’t dim the investment case for Howmet Aerospace and DPC.

(alt link: https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/75693764/elon-musk-wants-to-make-power-turbine-components-it-won?level=2&data_ticket=cb76be6efe305187ce0ce9e7f63cd06c&lang=en-us , free reg/login required )

Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming the driver.

We’re matching those redacted reports, one by one, to real fatal crashes that were covered in the news as ordinary accidents. This is a running investigation, and we’ll add each crash we confirm to this page. You can view this as an investigative hub keeping track of our ongoing investigation.

Because why not? "Hey Elon, want to look under the couch cushions for another couple hundred $million?"

An extremely rhetorical question. Photo of Elon doing "humanitarian" things is a hint.

SpaceX is pitching investors on a trillion-dollar vision of millions of solar-powered satellites equipped with AI chips, aiming to create a new orbital data center market and strengthen Musk's position in the AI economy.

However, the company acknowledged in its IPO filing that its orbital AI compute plans remain highly speculative, relying on complex, unproven or nonexistent technologies that may never become commercially viable.

The throughline with everything we’ve been reporting is the same: the driving may be improving, but the service around it — routing, pickups, drop-offs, and the remote humans still cleaning up after the car — is nowhere near a product people should be paying for.