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Model Y drivers have the only SUV of 4 that stopped in time when a car pulled out of a side road in AAA's new braking test 🇺🇸 The American Automobile Association (AAA) tested automatic emergency braking at intersections on four 2026 SUVs: the Tesla Model Y, Chevrolet Equinox, Ford Explorer and Hyundai Tucson. In 74 closed-course runs, a robotic soft target car played the other driver. All four passed the standard Euro NCAP left-turn test. The hardest scenario was new: a car turned right out of a side road into the path of the test vehicle, which was going 30 mph. The Model Y warned the driver and braked hard in all 5 runs, stopping about 1.6 meters short every time. The other three hit the target car on every run at roughly 25 mph, and the Ford and Hyundai gave no warning and didn't brake at all. The Model Y also avoided the target in every run of the other scenarios.

New lines and new jobs are coming to Tesla's Tilburg factory 🇳🇱 Tesla opened its factory in Tilburg, in the south of the Netherlands, in 2013. It was the place where cars shipped from California were finished for European buyers. In 2015, Elon Musk, then 44, came to Tilburg to open a second, much bigger building at the same site. Most of the floor was still empty, and he told reporters: "That space will be filled." Now, 11 years later, it's happening! Tesla is hiring engineers in Tilburg to design, build and launch new production lines for battery modules and packs. Tesla has also asked the city for a permit to rework the building and the site.

Patients and health workers at 751 clinics across all 10 provinces of Zambia are getting Starlink internet 🇿🇲 Zambia's e-government agency, the Smart Zambia Institute, has started the rollout with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The first 90 Starlink kits have already reached the Provincial Health Office in Western Province, and they are going to clinics in remote, hard-to-reach areas. Staff there will be able to use electronic health records, share information quickly and offer digital health services.

Kids in 50 of Sri Lanka's most under-resourced schools are getting access to digital learning, thanks to SpaceX’s Starlink and World Vision 🇱🇰

Full reusability of rockets is significant not just in its own right, it fundamentally transforms the cost of spaceflight. As Elon Musk stated multiple times, when a vehicle can be used repeatedly, the primary expense is reduced to the cost of fuel. And since oxygen and methane are extremely cheap, refilling a spaceship becomes tiny compared with building a new one every single time. The 15th test flight represents another concrete step along this path. SpaceX plans to return both the booster and the spacecraft itself to the Starbase launch site. Every component of the system that is recovered, rather than discarded, brings the cost of the next launch closer to the price of the fuel alone. Hopefully, this is the kind of future people will envision as they watch this test.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has opened its formal review of SpaceX's deal for 546 low-band 800 MHz licenses covering about 100% of Americans. The package covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum across all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Comments and petitions are due December 1, and oppositions are due December 8.

flydubai has started fitting its Boeing 737s with free Starlink Wi-Fi, with about 50 jets due by the end of 2026 🇦🇪

Most people assume SpaceX began because Elon Musk wanted to build rockets, but the original idea was smaller. Around 2001 he looked for the date of NASA's Mars mission, discovered there were no plans to send people at all, and came up with Mars Oasis, a little greenhouse with seeds in dehydrated gel that would land on Mars and send back an image of green plants against red soil, just to get people excited about space again and help NASA get a bigger budget. Then he realized the real obstacle was the cost of rockets: "I was wrong… there actually was plenty of will if people thought there was a way. So then I decided, okay, well, I need to work on the way." SpaceX was born to serve the dream of exploration, not to compete with it 🩵

When people ask why Tesla doesn't simply add more factory space, I always think of what Elon Musk explained at Battery Day in 2020: designing the machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself, and making a Model 3, Model Y or Cybertruck prototype is really quite trivial compared with designing the factory that makes it, at least 10 to 100 times harder, with the prototype being at best 10% of the difficulty and probably closer to 1%. That is why a high-volume line is never just a bigger building. Back in 2016 Elon was already saying that the true difficulty, and where the greatest potential is, is building the factory and thinking of it as a product in its own right. Tesla treats every production line as an invention.

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When Elon Musk talks about abundance, I think about people having more room to breathe because the things they need become less expensive to provide. That is the possibility I find compelling in Terafab. Its planned chips are meant to support AI and robots, and if those systems help us produce goods and deliver services more efficiently, the benefits could reach far beyond the technology industry, into the cost of everyday life. For me, that is what makes a chip factory worth caring about. The meaningful version of abundance is not simply having more impressive machines, but building a future in which meeting ordinary needs puts less pressure on ordinary people.

Elon Musk confirms Tesla will rent Optimus robots, not sell them, as build cost falls from about $30,000 toward $20,000 At today's Baron Investment Conference with Ron Baron, Elon said Optimus will initially cost about as much as a car to build, then drop well below that. Asked whether Tesla would rent or sell the robots, he answered: "I think probably rent them." 
Renting keeps the fleet and the usage data with Tesla, the same recurring-revenue path Full Self-Driving already follows. Outside deliveries are still aimed around the end of 2027, so this is the shape of the first customer offer before anyone outside Tesla gets a unit. It also lets Tesla pull robots back and upgrade them as the hardware improves instead of stranding early buyers with an outdated machine.

Elon Musk has requirements for an Super Intelligence to be good for us: it has to seek the truth, and it has to be curious. Speaking with Michael Milken in 2024, he said a maximum truth-seeking AI should never be taught to lie, and that a maximally curious AI is the one most likely to foster human civilization, because we are much more interesting than a bunch of rocks. Elon doesn’t want a machine that flatters us or hides things from us, he wants one that wants to understand the world, and that still finds people worth paying attention to. If an intelligence that powerful is also curious about us, it has a reason to help civilization flourish, not to look past it.

Malaysia’s Election Commission will deploy Starlink at Sarawak polling areas for the Dec 12 state election The Election Commission said Starlink will support its new Optical Character Recognition Voter Attendance system, including in rural inland settlements and islands where regular internet is weak. Officials said they aim to provide Starlink in every area so turnout can be tracked in real time instead of by hourly hand counts. The rollout still depends on a Melaka trial on Nov 14 going smoothly.

SpaceX is targeting Friday, November 13 for Starship Flight 15 and its first try at catching both stages 🚀 Nobody has ever fully recovered an orbital rocket. If both catches work, Starship becomes the first launch system that can come home in one piece and fly again. 8 days to go 🙌🏼

Grok's tips just put a child abuser behind bars in Alabama 🚨 The Mobile County Sheriff's Office Internet Crimes Against Children unit got three reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Those tips came from xAI's Grok platform and flagged suspected child sexual abuse material. Detectives identified Daniel Thomas Gunn, 47, executed a search warrant at his Wellesley Court home in Mobile, and booked him Thursday on five counts of unlawful production and five counts of unlawful possession of child pornography. This is Grok doing the hard, unglamorous work platforms are required to do, and it moved from tip to arrest in a real local case. Three automated reports were enough for deputies to find a suspect, search a home, and take him into custody the same day the news broke. For anyone who asks what xAI builds beyond chat demos, a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children pipeline that helps cops is a concrete answer. Innocent until proven guilty, but the reporting system worked.

Paratus just opened Starlink enterprise service in Lesotho, up to 220 Mbps for remote mountain businesses 🇱🇸 The pan-African telecom group launched Paratus Lesotho as a joint venture with Real Image Lesotho and named Makali Lepholisa managing director. As an authorized Starlink reseller, it will offer enterprise satellite internet with local technical and customer support to businesses and organizations where fiber and other ground networks are limited, especially outside major towns. Paratus Group already operates in 16 countries across sub-equatorial Africa. Its Lesotho site lists downloads up to 220 Mbps, professional installs within 3 business days, and billing in local currency.

Kalynivka just handed Ukraine's National Guard 100 Starlink Mini terminals for the eastern front 🇺🇦 Starlink is a key and vital part of Ukraine's defense! The Vinnytsia Oblast Council confirmed today that Kalynivka city community delivered 100 Starlink Internet Satellite Mini kits to fighters of the Chervona Kalyna National Guard brigade. The gear comes from the winning project "Stable connection at the front is life" in the council's Safe Sustainable Communities 2026 contest, with a total budget of about 2.04 million hryvnias (1 million from the oblast budget). Mayor Vasyl Polishchuk said every one of their projects is aimed at giving the National Guard modern communications and drones. Deputy council head Anatoliy Tkach noted a Mini can be brought online in minutes and can run straight from an ordinary power bank, so units stay connected for hours with far less power than full-size dishes. Soldiers said the terminals are headed to the eastern direction.

Starlink has connected clinic on remote islands in Indonesia 🇮🇩 Patients across 10 remote islands in Indonesia's Pangkep regency, about 180 miles from the regency seat, now have a local health clinic connected by Starlink. The Puskesmas Sailus community health center in Liukang Tangaya serves five villages spread over ten islands. Until now, the staff struggled with almost no internet. The regency's communications office installed a Starlink dish there, and the regent came to check it during his visit on November 1. Four more hard-to-reach mountain and island sites in the regency got the same setup.

About 172,000 people in rural Honduras are set to get faster Starlink internet after regulators approved the first Starlink ground station in all of Central America, a $10 million build 🇭🇳 Honduras's telecom regulator, the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), signed off on the gateway station today. It's meant to improve speeds and cut lag for satellite users, especially in remote villages, and it should add about 17 million lempiras a year to the local economy. A ground station inside the country means the signal doesn't have to bounce through a gateway far away, so rural users get a noticeably snappier connection. Honduras is already putting Starlink in public schools across all 18 departments, and this makes that network stronger. Central America just got a piece of SpaceX infrastructure that used to be reserved for much bigger markets.