When Elon Musk was a 19-year-old student in Canada, he read a newspaper and found a bank executive's name. Elon got his phone number and dialed him to ask for a job. Peter Nicholson of Scotiabank later said Elon was "the only person who ever called me out of the blue and asked me for a job." He hired him as a summer intern. Digging into Latin American debt, young Elon found what he believed was a near-certain win in Brady Bonds and told his boss: "We could just instantly make $5 billion. Right now." But Scotiabank said no. Years later, still carrying that lesson about how banks think, Elon built X dot com — the company that became PayPal. Now, he's putting that view into practice with X Payment.

Grok Bot just got access to the apps on your phone 📱 SpaceX's AI assistant can now work with Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and more apps directly on your phone. The update is rolling out now on both iOS and Android. In practice that means you can ask it to add an event, set a reminder or find a contact, and it handles it for you, all with app-by-app permissions you approve. I use Grok Bot every day; I think I’ve become addicted to it😂

Starlink is now riding along with police and firefighters in Tecate, Mexico 🇲🇽 🛰️ The border city of Tecate in Baja California just handed out 9 Starlink kits to its emergency crews. Six went to the municipal public safety and traffic department, and three went to Civil Protection and the fire department. City councilman Isaac Contreras López arranged them with help from local private businesses. The kits let crews set up their own satellite Wi-Fi wherever regular cell coverage is weak. When police and firefighters can share information and coordinate from rough terrain or remote roads, response times get shorter and lives get saved. This is a small city buying a handful of dishes, which is exactly how Starlink is quietly becoming standard gear for first responders everywhere.

Tesla just opened its charger business to companies across Canada 🇨🇦 Canadian businesses can now buy Tesla Superchargers for their own sites, and fleets can buy chargers built for the Tesla Semi. For cars, the minimum is four posts. The stalls work with every EV, can show up on the in-car map, and come with a 97% uptime guarantee, with V4 posts rated up to 500 kW. For trucks, the minimum is two posts: the Megacharger (up to 1.2 MW, about 60% of a Semi's range back in roughly 30 minutes) or the slower 120 kW Basecharger for overnight depot charging, which starts delivering in early 2027. Tesla's charging team says the goal is to offer this in every market where Tesla runs charging, which is 55+ countries. Tesla is turning the best charging network in the world into a product other companies can own. That means more fast chargers in more places without Tesla paying for every site. And Semi charging showing up in Canada before the trucks arrive is how you get a freight network ready on day one. In British Columbia, R.R. Plett Trucking is already planning Canada's first Megachargers in Langley and Kamloops ahead of 12 Semis arriving in June 2027.

Tesla just filed for FSD approval in South Korea 🇰🇷 Tesla Korea sent its request for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) approval to South Korea's transport ministry this week, by email and registered mail. The filing came out today in a National Assembly audit, where Transport Minister Hong Ji-seon confirmed it had come in. Right now about 77.6% of the 238,968 Teslas registered in Korea can't use FSD at all. Most of those, 183,407 cars, are China-built Model 3 and Model Y. Only US-built cars get FSD there, thanks to the US-Korea free trade agreement. Korea is one of Tesla's hottest markets, and the owners who've been locked out are the vast majority. Lawmakers are now telling the ministry that since an application is on the table, it has to actually test the system instead of just saying no. If this goes through, it could switch on FSD for well over 180,000 cars in one go.

You can see the new Tesla Roadster in person this weekend 🚀 The same Roadster Tesla showed off at its October 15 reveal at SpaceX's McGregor, Texas site goes on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. It's there from Saturday, October 24 through Tuesday, October 27. This is the public's first chance to get up close to the car. At the reveal, Tesla showed a prototype hopping into the air on cold-gas thrusters built with SpaceX, and another car driving upside down using fan suction. After a reveal that wild, seeing is believing, and now anyone in LA can walk up and look at the real car.

Grok is heading into India's IT giants 🇮🇳 Tech Mahindra, India's fifth-largest IT services company, is teaming up with SpaceXSI to bring the Grok Build coding agent into enterprise software work. Together they plan to help large companies modernize legacy systems, speed up software delivery and raise code quality in banking, telecom, manufacturing, healthcare and retail. Tech Mahindra will also run Grok training and certification programs for engineers, and the two companies will sell joint solutions to clients. Firms like Tech Mahindra maintain huge amounts of old business code for global clients, so this puts Grok right inside real enterprise workflows.

Starlink just reached a rural classroom in Uganda 🇺🇬 MTN Uganda, one of the country's largest mobile carriers, officially launched "MTN Starlink for Business." They chose to unveil it at Libra International School in Zirobwe, Luweero District. Before Starlink, the school paid a lot for internet that didn't work well enough for teaching and research. The school's director says students can now do research much more easily, and the whole campus is connected, including the computer rooms. MTN is also offering the service to clinics, farms, tourism, energy and humanitarian groups working beyond the reach of fiber and cell towers.

Texas just said “YES” to Tesla's $10.1 billion solar factory ☀️ Fort Bend County commissioners near Houston approved every Tesla agreement on the table this afternoon. All four passed 4-0, with one abstention. That covers the property tax abatement, an economic development deal, and two payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements for "Project Crystal Sun," a planned plant that would make solar cells and full solar modules on about 3,000 acres. Tesla's state filing projects 9,712 permanent jobs by 2033, with production starting in early 2029 if this site wins. Tesla is clearly treating solar as one of its core businesses, not a side project. Bringing cell manufacturing back to the US at this size would be a big deal for energy independence. The state still has to sign off, and Tesla is still looking at sites in other states, but Texas is making a strong offer.

Belgium just turned an old coal plant site into a Tesla battery hub 🔋⚡ On the grounds of the former Langerlo power station in Genk, where coal was burned until 2016, energy company Storm has installed 106 Tesla Megapack 2XL units. Flemish minister Jo Brouns toured the site today. The park packs 100 megawatts (MW) of power and 400 megawatt-hours (MWh) of storage, roughly equal to 40,000 home batteries, and is set to go live in 2027. Tesla supplies and installs the batteries, while Eneco will run the park for 10 years. The same grid connection that once carried coal power will now soak up extra wind and solar and release it when the grid needs it. Megapack keeps landing in Europe's biggest storage projects, and Tesla Energy is quietly becoming one of the company's strongest growth stories.

US regulators just handed Starlink Mobile more spectrum 📶 On Wednesday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved SpaceX's purchase of three unused spectrum licenses from Tristar License Group. They cover 5MHz of uplink in the 1695 to 1700MHz band across 62 counties in eight US states, including Massachusetts, North Carolina and Virginia. SpaceX has to hit uplink benchmarks starting in November 2029. Spectrum is the scarcest resource in wireless, and every block SpaceX adds brings Starlink Mobile closer to being a real fourth US carrier.

Starlink is heading to 25 rural classrooms in Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan's government just handed Starlink terminals to 25 schools across the country, aimed at remote, hard-to-reach villages. Deputy Prime Minister Ulan Mamatkanov joined the handover. The equipment was donated free of charge. The cabinet said this follows a satellite internet pilot launched in 2025, after which the country adopted rules allowing satellite connectivity to be used permanently.

NEWS: A rural high school in Argentina just got connected to the world, thanks to Starlink 🛰️ Students and teachers at Provincial Oriented High School No. 33 in General Urquiza, in Argentina's Misiones province, now have working satellite internet on campus. The town government, the regional school supervisor and Marandú, the provincial state telecom company, worked together to make it happen. The school's principal called it "a door opening to the future." For a rural school, getting online used to mean waiting years for cables or towers that might never come. A Starlink dish skips that wait entirely. These kids now get the same research and learning tools as students in the big cities.

Tesla just started producing Optimus robots in Fremont 🤖⚡️⚡️⚡️ That line is buried in Tesla's Q3 2026 update, released after the bell today. Tesla says the robots coming off its new high-volume lines are the first production-quality Optimus units it has ever built, and that the process is proven suitable for a commercial product. Summary on the Q3:
• Revenue of $28.05B, flat year over year
• Adjusted earnings per share of $0.48, beating the $0.45 Wall Street expected
• $1.53B in positive free cash flow
• Tesla Semi now in production on the high-volume line in Nevada
• Full Self-Driving (Supervised) on over 75% of new North American deliveries, with 1.74M active subscriptions
• Nearly 2 million unsupervised Robotaxi miles, now with Cybercabs in Austin
• Megafactory Texas has started production Wall Street will argue about margins all night, but the real story is that three new products moved from slides to factory floors in one quarter. Optimus, Semi and Cybercab are all being built now, not just promised. Tesla says battery supply, not demand, is what is holding volumes back, and a four-year-high backlog backs that up.

In 1995, having just finished his studies at Penn and arrived in Silicon Valley for grad school at Stanford, Elon Musk was convinced the internet would change the world, and he wanted nothing more than to work at Netscape, the company that seemed to be building that future. He applied, waited, and never heard back. So he went to Netscape's office and stood in the lobby, hoping to find someone he could talk to. Years later he admitted, "I was too scared to talk to anyone. So then I left." It's hard to imagine now that the man who launches rockets and isn't afraid to argue with the whole world once stood in a lobby feeling too shy to say hello, but that's exactly who he was back then. With Netscape off the table, Elon spent the summer writing code, and instead of starting at Stanford that fall he put grad school on hold and started his own company, Zip2, with his brother Kimbal.

NEWS: Starlink just switched on in Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 As of today, people across Bosnia can order SpaceX's satellite internet at home. Plans start at 68 marks a month (about €35) for 100 Mbps with unlimited data, and the Residential Max tier delivers 400+ Mbps for 108 marks. Every home plan comes with a 30 day trial, and the kit is self-install. Demand is already so high that some areas are showing a waitlist. Bosnia's mountain villages and rural towns are exactly where fiber and cable never arrived. One small dish on the roof can now give a farm or a family business the same speed as a city apartment in Sarajevo. And when the first thing people meet on launch day is a waitlist, that tells you how badly the connection was needed.

SpaceX is now switching on about 200,000 Nvidia AI chips every single month🤯 On the SpaceX Q3 earnings call, Elon Musk said the company is on track to bring roughly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 graphics processing units (GPUs) online each month for the rest of 2026. Next year the buildout shifts mostly to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin systems. Elon admitted that powering and cooling that many chips a month is "absolutely insane," but said that is exactly what the team is doing right now, and the pace will only accelerate. He's "fairly confident" SpaceX adds about 10 gigawatts of new compute in 2027, with a 440,000-chip Vera Rubin training cluster planned by the end of the second quarter. Very few companies on Earth could even physically absorb this many chips. Compute is the raw fuel for Grok and everything SpaceX is building in AI. Paired with Starlink cash flow and the launch business, SpaceX is turning into one of the most vertically integrated AI players out there.

BREAKING: Bolivia signs Starlink deals with 85 towns to connect public schools 🇧🇴 Bolivia's President Rodrigo Paz signed agreements with 85 municipalities in the La Paz region to put Starlink dishes in public schools under the Connected Classroom (Aula Conectada) program. Paz pointed out that the dishes link to thousands of satellites without the country buying its own, unlike the Tupac Katari satellite, which cost more than $250 million. Rural schools in the Andes have been shut out of online learning for years, and this is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to close that gap. The pilot runs through 2026 and 2027, with full coverage planned by 2030. The Education Ministry is adding teacher training, while towns have to keep the dishes running.