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Tesla just passed Waymo on the Texas robotaxi registry, 1,302 to 1,297. Back on Sept 1 it was 314 to 736. Registered doesn't mean all of them are giving rides yet, but going from less than half to ahead in about 10 weeks is wild.
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Boring Co just broke ground on a tunnel at Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, the theme park built for people with disabilities. Nearly a mile long, so families get a covered shuttle ride between the hotel, the park and the care center no matter the weather. An anonymous donor is paying for it. Out of everything they've dug, this one might be my favorite.
Starlink Mini 2 just dropped and the funny part is it got thinner even with a battery inside. 23.1 mm vs 38.5 mm on the first one, and it runs about 4.5 hours unplugged.
Preorder is $999 but that includes a year of Roam Unlimited, which SpaceX values at $2,100. If you were paying for Roam anyway the dish is basically free.
theverge.com/tech/1031028/sp…
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SpaceX is going for the first catch of both Starship stages this Friday the 13th, pending approval. The booster comes back to the tower about 6 and a half minutes after liftoff. The ship stays up for about 14 orbits and doesn't come home until around 3 AM Texas time Saturday, 22 and a half hours later.
Worth staying up for.
spacex.com/launches/starship…
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A health worker at a remote clinic in Papua New Guinea stopped the bleeding on an open lung wound in the middle of the night, with a doctor coaching her step by step over telemedicine. No doctor on site, no flight out until morning. He made it to the hospital in Lae the next day.
The clinic at Indagen had just gotten Starlink installed. The medevac company's CEO said it means no more climbing trees to make a phone call. That line stuck with me.
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iVan retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Elon Musk emailed his team: "Andrej is the #2 computer vision mind on Earth, after Ilya Sutskever"
At 15, Karpathy left Slovakia for Toronto. He studied under Geoffrey Hinton, did his PhD under Fei-Fei Li, and spent 17 years teaching machines to see
In 2012 he wrote that computer vision was "really, really far away"
Slovakia → Toronto → Hinton → Stanford → OpenAI → Tesla → The Man Everyone Learns From
8 minutes on how one person got there
Bookmark it
Then read the "Harness, Loops, Graphs" guide below ↓
iVan retweeted
What's New in Grok Bot
00:14 Shopping cards
00:27 Product pages
00:39 Order tracking
00:53 Payments
01:33 Custom modes
01:52 Team Bot logins and setup
02:09 Share and find Team Bots
02:51 Connector asks in Slack
03:12 Contacts in Vault
03:31 Rapid fire
iVan retweeted
I've created a new Grok @Bot Efficiency Optimizer template that helps you make your Grok Bot usage/credits last longer.
Every week it will analyze usage across your bots and routines, identify inefficiencies, and recommend ways to reduce unnecessary usage. It also once per week gives you a quick breakdown of which bots and routines used the most the previous week.
This template will reduce your overall usage, not increase it. It doesn't run constantly, and my test of it used less than 1% of my capacity. It just sends you one efficiency review and one short recap per week of what ate up the most usage, and makes suggestions on what to do to improve usage efficiency.
x.ai/bot/6q44k3eKlHmC0keocH7…
Worth knowing before people celebrate, it's a rear view mirror. It only covers last month and shows up about 10 days after the month ends, so if a post gets flagged tomorrow you find out around Dec 10. Fun detail from the open source code too, if 3 or fewer of your posts got a label it lists them no matter what the percentage is.
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Elon says the next Colossus 2 cluster is named Gun Range because it was literally the local police department's gun range and they bought it. The one after that is Spam, since the building used to house Hormel products.
So if the timeline holds there's 220K GB300s training where cops used to practice their aim by end of November, and about 200K more in the old Spam building in December. Nobody does facility names like this lol
teslanorth.com/2026/10/31/sp…
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SpaceX's new FCC filing says T-Mobile wants a protected zone of more than 400 km around its cell towers to keep satellite phone signals away.
The ISS orbits about 400 km up. So the bubble around one tower would reach as far as the space station is from the ground. From the one US carrier that's literally selling Starlink's T-Satellite right now lol
pcmag.com/news/spacex-to-fcc…
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Best part of Canada's push to diversify away from Starlink is how the alternative gets to orbit. Telesat's Lightspeed has 14 Falcon 9 launches under contract for its 225 satellites, and the first two test sats are now riding along on somebody else's Falcon 9 next June because Telesat didn't want to burn one of its own slots, per SpaceQ. Global service just slipped to mid 2028.
So the way off Elon's satellites is Elon's rockets lol
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The restate it in your own words tip is basically ATC readback. Pilots read every clearance back to the tower so a wrong altitude gets caught before anyone acts on it. Same deal with a bot, way cheaper to catch the misunderstanding in chat than after it already ran the whole task wrong
here’s a short grok bot guide on how i create high quality bots and manage my team. ask @bot to read this post and help you improve your team!
• add dr eggbot to your team! he’s my bot designer that i use to create bots
• you don’t need a lot of bots. a few good bots can be more useful and easier to manage than a large team
• tell your bots to create skills for itself as you give it instructions on how to do tasks. this lets them do them more consistently even over long conversations. you can even ask it to create a private github repo for you to store all your skills if you want them preserved independently
• add connectors, use the vault, and give access to all the tools you use to do your work. you can also ask your bot to setup its own email and it can sign up for its own accounts for better separation
• thinking about all the work you do by hand, or steps in your workflows where you have to copy and paste information back to your bot. ask your bot how it can do that for you instead!
• imagine you hired an intern, how would you onboard them and help them do the work correctly and efficiently? introduce yourself to your bot and describe the work you do, then ask it how it can help you automate it
and my favorite tip: use voice mode or the transcription option! it’s a good way to just brain dump a lot of information. then, at the end, tell your bot to “restate this in your own words” so you can confirm it understood you
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Salesforce Tower's own fact sheet says the elevator gets you from the street to floor 61 in 39 seconds. So the Roadster has a real benchmark to beat lol
Incredible test flight of new Tesla Roadster. Can’t wait to fly to @SalesforceTower! ❤️🎃🤣🤘
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video is AI-generated, not real footage of a Tesla Roadster test flight.
leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202…
Tesla’s only verified Roadster thruster demo (Oct 15, 2026) was a short hop/flip from a purpose-built ramp at a closed SpaceX site.
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english.factcrescendo.com/2026/10/31/tes…
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The ruling turned on Mississippi's rules even though the story says outside Memphis, because the turbines sit just over the state line in Southaven. xAI argued all 35 count as mobile sources and Judge Brown didn't buy it. DOJ already lost its own motion to toss this earlier in the month too
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
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$20B at a $1.25T post money valuation works out to about 1.6% of OpenAI. The cut from $30B is the headline but the FT detail that some investors shrank their checks before the Friday deadline says more about the mood right now
OpenAI pares fundraising goal, now seeking up to $20 billion in latest round cnbc.com/2026/10/31/openai-f…
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