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SpaceXSI just officially launched Grok Bot 1.0, and this is a massive upgrade Grok Bots now has a intelligent teammates that work alongside your entire team, collaborate with each other, take initiative, and continuously improve Here's what's NEW: 1. MULTIPLAYER TEAMMATES • Share Grok Bots with your entire team • Work together directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams • Invite Bots into video meetings • Bots follow discussions, remember decisions, and understand team context • Multiple Bots collaborate to complete complex projects 2. PROACTIVE TEAMMATES • Bots identify tasks that need attention without being asked • Monitor ongoing projects and upcoming deadlines • Follow up on unfinished work • Prepare materials and suggest next steps • Coordinate with other Bots and involve humans when decisions are needed 3. BOTS THAT LEARN TOGETHER • Learn from interactions with different team members • Remember preferences, decisions, and workflows • Improvements taught by one teammate benefit the entire team • Become increasingly useful as they gain experience 4. SMARTER AND MORE CAPABLE • Faster, more reliable browser automation • Improved document and presentation creation • Interactive Pages that Bots can build and update • Better Gmail, Google Calendar, and GitHub integrations • Smarter approvals with fewer unnecessary interruptions • New settings and team usage analytics And the biggest shift is that Grok Bots no longer need to wait for someone to assign every task They are becoming proactive teammates that understand what needs to get done and start making progress From accounting and customer support to sales, marketing, research, and everyday operations, the potential is absolutely extraordinary SpaceXSI turned Grok Bot into an entire workforce of digital teammates things are getting incredibly exciting even more

SpaceXSI just secured a major regulatory win in Mississippi for its massive 1.2 GIGAWATT power plant After two days of testimony, Mississippi’s Environmental Quality Permit Board voted to uphold the air permit for SpaceXSI’s permanent Southaven power plant on November 10 The project includes: • 41 permanent natural gas turbines • Approximately 1.2 GW of power generation capacity • Electricity to support SpaceXSI’s expanding SI compute infrastructure, including Colossus II The decision keeps the existing air permit in place, supporting SpaceXSI’s plans to expand its massive computing infrastructure The race for superintelligence is also an energy race, and this decision clears a major regulatory hurdle toward expanding the power infrastructure needed to keep scaling SI compute at an extraordinary pace

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk has OFFICIALLY been invited to relocate its Tesla headquarters from Texas to the free state of FLORIDA ☀️ And the invite points STRAIGHT to the fact Democrats won Texas Gov. Ron DeSantis has also warned that Elon may soon be TARGETED because of the election results REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: "While others seek to investigate and punish success, Florida welcomes it." "I write to formally invite Tesla to consider relocating its corporate headquarters and expanding its operations from Texas to the free State of Florida, where innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic freedom are celebrated." "With the recent election of self-described Democratic Socialists to positions of power in Texas, I share your concerns about excessive government interference, politically motivated investigations, and policies that punish success." "No company should face political retaliation for creating jobs, investing in American innovation, and contributing to our nation's prosperity." "The Sunshine State is open for business." Musk already took his companies OUT of California because of hostile politics If Texas starts heading down that same road, Florida is ready!

🚨 BREAKING: SpaceX just locked up 100+ GW of solar cell manufacturing equipment from German toolmaker SINGULUS to build STARMIND AI satellites The first turnkey heterojunction line arrives in Bastrop, Texas in H1 2027, running wet chemistry, vacuum coating and thermal processing under one roof. Elon Musk says most of the mass of a Starmind satellite is solar panels, meaning the solar cell factory is the satellite factory. 100 GW is enough solar for 400,000 Starmind sats “Time to make the mind of a sentient sun.”

SpaceX is making moves to become the first AI carrier $SPCX • Current cell towers are still mostly “dumb” radios. The Qualcomm deal is about making them AI-native. • Edge inference at the tower, like an updated Akamai for AI • Starlink Direct-to-Cell and V3 satellites alongside the terrestrial build Qualcomm’s CEO said the SpaceX agreement is finalized — not an engagement. SpaceX will build the base stations. Qualcomm supplies the silicon and the RAN accelerator for a terrestrial network he called one of the largest 5G deployments in the United States, with an AI-native architecture.

We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time. Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes. Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.

The Data Center Buildout Is Not Dead The Senate’s 73-25 vote to advance the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act undercuts the claim that rapid data center expansion is politically finished. With White House support and President Trump publicly backing the measure as a way to unleash energy production and protect ratepayers, the bill both raises costs for operators and clears the largest practical obstacle to new capacity: the inability to build power and transmission on a workable timeline. Under the legislation, large loads of roughly 20 megawatts or more must cover the full incremental cost of the generation, transmission, and distribution upgrades built to serve them. Ratepayers are shielded from cost shifting, and states gain additional tools to impose collateral or other requirements. Modeling suggests this could meaningfully increase the retail power price faced by data centers and add roughly 10 percent to the annualized cost of a gigawatt-scale facility. Those numbers are real, and some marginal projects will be repriced or delayed. They are not fatal. The same bill shortens federal environmental reviews, limits the window for legal challenges, strengthens project certainty, and expands federal transmission siting authority after a defined state review period. The binding constraint on data center growth has not been the willingness of capital to fund servers; it has been the multi-year wait for reliable power. Faster permitting of generation and transmission addresses that bottleneck directly. Higher power costs and clearer cost allocation will push some developers toward co-located generation or more selective site selection. That is an adjustment, not a shutdown. The combination of ratepayer protections, accelerated infrastructure deployment, and explicit Trump administration support is more likely to sustain the buildout than to end it. The political signal is that Washington is prepared to let the projects proceed, provided the incremental costs fall on the operators rather than on everyone else.

Bloomington, Indiana, has banned artificial superintelligence. The city council voted 7–0 to bar superintelligent AI within city limits, including through apps and browsers. Violators face fines and possible prosecution. Lifting the ban would take approval from more than 95% of registered voters.

Tesla has just officially announced a new Robotaxi city! San Antonio, Texas @Tesla robotaxi rides begin on November 9th at 5 AM CT.