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NEWS: Elon Musk says TSMC and his chip startup Terafab are in talks.

A report says TSMC is exploring ways to help Terafab run its new chip factories in Texas.

Elon confirmed it on X, saying "Just discussions, but something may come of it."

Source: Elon Musk on X, Culpium

NEWS: Tesla has launched its cheapest ever Model 3 in Australia and New Zealand.

The new rear-wheel-drive base model starts at A$45,900 before on-road costs.

That makes it Australia's cheapest electric sedan.

What you get:

~ 572 km of range
~ A panoramic glass roof and Supercharger access
~ New Zen Grey interior, replacing white
~ Standard black headliner and a larger 16-inch screen
~ Vehicle-to-Load on new 2027 Model 3 and Y, to power appliances

NEWS: Grok Bot can now build software for you.

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot has added a set of engineering tools.

What it can do:

~ Hand off coding tasks to Cursor
~ Manage pull requests with GitHub and Origin plugins
~ Share video demos of what it builds

How Neuralink Is Implanted
- A Neuralink implant is placed through a small skull opening, where ultra-thin electrode threads are inserted into the brain to detect neural signals and wirelessly translate them into digital commands.

NEWS: SpaceXAI is hiring for a new Talent Engineering team.

Umesh Khanna is leading the search at the AI lab.

He is looking for engineers who also love working with people.

The role blends building product with spotting and connecting great talent.

NEWS: Beeline has put Starlink on ordinary phones in Kazakhstan.

Beeline Kazakhstan says it is the first operator in the country to launch Starlink's satellite to mobile service. It runs on a normal smartphone with no satellite phone, no antenna and no special equipment.

NEWS: Tesla's global fleet has crossed 15 billion miles on FSD Supervised.

The fleet hit 14 billion on August 27.

That is 1 billion new miles in about a month.

Nearly 5.9 billion of the total are city miles.

Source: Tesla

NEWS: X is rolling out account linking between X and Grok.

The feature is called "One Grok, everywhere."

Linking keeps your chats in sync across X and Grok.

Agreeing also turns on data sharing between X and SpaceXAI.

Source: X

FYI: This footage comes from one of the Starlink V3 satellites Starship deployed to orbit.

The satellite turned back to film the Starship that carried it up.

It is one of the first 26 V3 satellites released on Starship's first orbital flight.

A satellite filming its own ride to space.

Source: Starlink

NEWS: Supermicro says it is moving full speed ahead on SpaceXAI's gigawatt AI data center.

CEO Charles Liang confirmed the push to hit SpaceXAI's time-to-online goal.

Supermicro is using its Data Center Building Block Solutions to get there.

The system bundles NVIDIA GB300 servers, networking, power and cooling for faster deployment.

Liang also teased a surprise before year-end.

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Flight 14 for its first orbital attempt.

The window opens Monday, September 28 at 7:15am CT (5:15am PT).

Starship will carry 26 Starlink V3 satellites, the first V3s to reach the constellation.

The plan is ~6 orbits at ~275 km, then a splashdown west of Chile.

All 13 Starship flights so far have flown suborbital.

Monday is the first shot at orbit.

NEWS: X has pushed more of its For You algorithm code to GitHub.

Here is what the latest drop changes:

> Appeals can pause auto-enforcement. If a human overturns a suspend or label, the system can hold off putting it back. It sits behind a switch, so it may not be live yet.

> My Network threads now reach friends of friends. You can reply if you are one hop from the author, even if you do not follow them.

> Follow checks now fail open. A post is hidden only when the follow or block check returns yes. If that graph data is missing, a post that should be hidden can still show.

> Spam gates moved to 125k followers. The coordinated-spam scan now skips accounts over 125k, up from 100k. Gemma reply-spam review now starts at 125k, down from 150k.

> Cold retrieval can give new accounts a lift. Some new authors get the same boost as other sources. Everyone else still sees those posts ranked normally.

NEWS: Tesla's Cybercab fleet in Texas has reached 126 vehicles.

The count jumped from 69 to 126 in recent days.

Cybercabs now sit inside a Texas robotaxi fleet of 546 vehicles.

That fleet is 420 Model Y robotaxis and 126 Cybercabs.

Source: Texas AV registration data

NEWS: Major platforms are refusing to run paid ads for a new documentary about Elon Musk.

The film is called "Musk", a four-hour documentary by Alex Gibney.

It is a critical portrait of Elon Musk and opens in US theaters on October 9.

Bleecker Street is releasing it in the US, with Universal handling it overseas.

YouTube, TikTok and Meta rejected the paid trailer, all citing political content.

Bleecker Street is appealing, though Meta has already denied its appeal.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Elon Musk opened the Tesla Semi event as production begins.

Elon could not attend in person, he was with the President, so he sent a video message for the crowd.

NEWS: X is sending out the first payouts under its new Original Content Rewards program.

NEWS: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Grok is the leading AI for agentic traders on Coinbase.

He points to autonomous AI agents that place trades and run strategies on the platform.

Grok leads that group.

Source: Brian Armstrong on X