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Tesla has made its driverless Robotaxi zone in Houston far bigger, and the new map is shaped like a Starship. What changed • @robotaxi posted "Houston, we have liftoff. Bigger service area now live" at 9:38am ET (6:38am PT) today • @elonmusk quoted it seven minutes later: "I swear it's just a coincidence" • The zone now covers about 254 square miles, up 916% today, per @SawyerMerritt's count (secondhand) Where it reaches • Rider @Matthewtcone says the new map takes in Downtown, the Medical Center and NRG Park • His family took their first ride in the bigger zone this morning, with nobody in the driver's seat • Per @SawyerMerritt, Houston is now second only to Austin at 272 square miles, and all six of Tesla's zones are fully driverless The bottom line Tesla's Houston Robotaxi zone is now nearly as big as Austin's. Video: @Matthewtcone

SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from California tonight. The launch • Falcon 9 is targeting 12:45am ET Tuesday (9:45pm PT Monday) from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base • Launch trackers list a window running to 4:45am ET (1:45am PT) • @SpaceX says its webcast starts about 10 minutes before liftoff The booster • It's the 26th flight for booster B1082, which has flown USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, Transporter-18 and 21 Starlink missions, per @SpaceX • It's set to land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific about 8.5 minutes after liftoff Can you see it? • @SpaceX says Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may hear sonic booms • In the US, check whether you'll see it from where you are and which way to look, and let your phone's compass point you there: superchargeddaily.com/see-th… Video: Supercharged Daily

A new drone flyover shows The Boring Company's headquarters in Bastrop, Texas, home of its Prufrock tunneling machines. The footage • @SERobinsonJr posted the 6-minute flyover on Saturday at 2:04pm ET (11:04am PT) • He says every machine is tested at the site before it ships, and that Boring also makes tunnel segments, liner trucks and conveyor systems there (secondhand) What's on site • Prufrock-MB4, a hard-rock machine being built for Nashville's Music City Loop. Boring said in October it wants four machines underground in Nashville by the end of the year • A 500-foot walkway tunnel under a busy road that began as a test bore and now links the SpaceX site to Boring's side of the road, per @SERobinsonJr • Prufrock-5, filmed just before it shipped to San Antonio, where @boringcompany says it will dig a 0.8-mile tunnel at Morgan's Inclusion Campus The bottom line Bastrop is where Boring's growing fleet of tunnel machines gets built, tested and sent out. Video: @SERobinsonJr

easyJet is adding Starlink Wi-Fi across its Airbus fleet, its first ever onboard internet. The plan • @easyJet announced it at 7am ET (4am PT) today: "COMING SOON... the fastest Wi-Fi in the sky" • Installs start in the first half of 2027 on its A320, A320neo and A321neo jets, and should finish by early 2028 • Passengers will be able to stream, game and browse on their own devices • Older A319s, which are being retired, won't get it, per AeroTime (secondhand) What we don't know • easyJet hasn't said what it will cost passengers or what it is paying • In January, CEO Kenton Jarvis said the economics of onboard Wi-Fi were challenging, per Reuters The reaction • @elonmusk: "Starlink coming to EasyJet" • Rival Wizz Air signed a Starlink deal in June, per Reuters The bottom line One of Europe's biggest budget airlines, flying about 100 million passengers a year, is going straight from no Wi-Fi to Starlink. Video: @easyJet

Turo will let U.S. renters book Teslas with FSD (Supervised) verified as switched on, starting Wednesday, Oct 28. How it works • Turo announced it at 7am ET (4am PT) today. Hosts link their Tesla account, and Turo checks FSD status directly through Tesla's API • Guests can then search for and book those cars. Turo says thousands are already listed • Eligible U.S. hosts get a free one-month FSD trial The safeguards • Renters are warned they must supervise the system and be ready to take over, and can watch a Tesla tutorial, per TechCrunch Why it matters • Model 3 and Model Y are already Turo's third and fourth most popular cars this year • Tesla said last week about 1.7 million customers have paid for FSD • Turo CEO Andre Haddad says 55% of Americans are interested in driverless tech for travel, and 71% of Gen Z, per Turo's own research Image: @SawyerMerritt

A new clip gives a close look inside the Cybercab's battery pack, from a Munro Live teardown filmed at Giga Texas. The clip • @RobotaxiRadar shared a 75-second preview on Sunday at 7:37pm ET (4:37pm PT) and said the full Munro Live video was due today • It shows an opened Cybercab pack on a stand inside the factory, with an engineer walking Munro's team through it What the engineer says • The pack is built around three big tests: durability, front crashes and side impacts • The cells aren't meant to absorb crash energy. They act as stiff backup for the main crash structure • The top cover bolts into the main enclosure through long beams, so crash loads skip the glued layer of cells • The modules also brace against those beams, which he calls "kind of semi-structural. Video: @RobotaxiRadar

Tesla says its supervised self-driving software is now approved in Latvia, the 10th EU country to sign off. What happened • @teslaeurope posted "Now approved in Latvia, rollout begins soon" at 6:36am ET (3:36am PT) today • Latvia's road safety agency, CSDD, accepted the Dutch approval from April. In Europe the software is now called Tesla Assisted Driving • Latvia joins Estonia and Lithuania, so all three Baltic states now allow it What changed • CSDD says Tesla lowered how far over the speed limit the system can drive, made manual speed offsets reset after every trip, and tightened driver monitoring • Drivers must watch the road at all times and can't use a phone The fine print • CSDD warns snow, mud and road salt can interfere, and it may struggle on gravel roads • It costs about $111 a month in Europe, per Electric Vehicles (secondhand) Image: @teslaeurope

106 Tesla Megapacks are being installed on the site of a former coal power plant in Genk, Belgium. The project • Developer Storm is building the battery park at the old Langerlo plant, where coal was burned for power until 2016, per Nieuwsblad • It will deliver 100 MW of power and store 400 MWh, using Megapack 2XL units • Most have arrived, and Storm says all 106 should be in place by early November What it's for • The batteries soak up power when wind and solar are plentiful and release it when demand rises • Storm CEO Jan Caerts told VRT it is enough to supply around 40,000 households • Energy company Eneco will run the park for 10 years What's next • Hooking up to the grid is planned for spring 2027, per VRT • Together with a second, 200 MW park in Ruien, Storm is investing about $370 million

Boeing is installing SpaceX's Starshield satellite network on U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo jets. What's happening • The work is at Boeing's Port San Antonio site in Texas, per the San Antonio Express-News (secondhand) • 9 C-17s are done, and 19 are due by March under two contracts worth $13.5 million combined, the Air Force told the paper • Sierra Nevada Corp. supplies the kits What it does • Starshield is the government and defense version of Starlink • It lets crews share mission data by satellite in flight • It runs a new Air Force comms suite called ATOMS, short for Airlift/Tanker Open Mission Systems What's next • The Air Force expects follow-on deals to cover all 222 of its C-17s, per the Express-News (secondhand) • A separate Space Force order covers Starshield service on military aircraft through July 2028, per Spacenews Image: @BoeingDefense

Bolivia plans to put Starlink in public schools across the country, with about 4,700 dishes going in. The plan • President Rodrigo Paz announced the 4,700 figure on Tuesday as he signed deals with 85 towns around La Paz, per Correo del Sur (secondhand) • Those first deals cover 307 schools and more than 73,000 students, per Bolivia's Education Ministry • Rural areas come first, and the program is called Aulas Conectadas, or Connected Classrooms The timeline • A pilot runs through 2026 and 2027 • The full rollout to all nine regions is planned for 2027 to 2030 • The ministry will train teachers, while towns handle buildings and logistics The reaction • @elonmusk on Saturday at 2:43pm ET (11:43am PT): "Starlink in Bolivia!" • Paz: even "in the deepest ravine" schools will have a connection (translated) The bottom line A country of mountains and jungle is looking to space to get its rural kids online. Image: @Starlink

Jordan's central bank has switched on a Starlink backup for the country's entire banking system. What happened • The Central Bank of Jordan says it has built and turned on a satellite internet gateway supplied by Starlink, per a letter to bank managers reported by Jordanian outlet Al-Haqiqa International • It sits at the Aqaba Digital Hub, the data center that also hosts the central bank's disaster recovery site • It's run through JoFinCERT, the financial sector's cyber incident response team Why it matters • It's for when the cables linking Jordan to the internet fail, whether from natural disasters, major outages, cyberattacks, war or sabotage • Banks have been told to finish setup so they can switch over when needed • @elonmusk reposted @EvaFox's summary at 10:42am ET (7:42am PT) Video: @Starlink / @SpaceX

Grok Bot can now make phone calls for you, according to Elon Musk. The announcement @elonmusk at 10:35am ET (7:35am PT): Grok Bot "can now call someone or a business for you, make a request on your behalf, take notes on the response and send you a note summarizing the conversation" What testers spotted • @blankspeaker found a Calls panel in Grok Bot 0.77 pre-release builds on Saturday • @alexmichael says the Bot can dial, sit on hold, press keypad options and get transferred while you watch a live transcript • There's no @bot post or help page on calls yet, so rollout details are unclear A busy week • On Thursday, Grok Bot got Calendar, Reminders and Contacts access on iOS and Android, plus 1Password logins Elon's tip: use it like you're "hiring a super competent employee" Video: @bot

Tesla's Powerwall can see a storm coming and fill itself up before it hits. How Storm Watch works • It watches for local alerts like hurricane, tornado, winter storm, flood and red flag warnings, per Tesla's support page • When one is issued, Powerwall charges to full and you get a push notification • It returns to normal when the event ends, and you can opt out of any single storm • Grid charging has to be enabled Where it works • The US, UK, Italy, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand The owner's view • A Powerwall owner in Hawaii in a recent @teslaenergy video: "Electricity goes out, I know my family's safe, and that means a lot to me" More power • Powerwall 3 delivers 11.5 kW of continuous power, nearly double Powerwall 2, per @teslaenergy Video: @teslaenergy

Aer Lingus now has free Starlink Wi-Fi on its flights to the US, months ahead of schedule. What's done • Its A321LR, A321XLR and A330-300 jets are all fitted, per @OneMileataTime and TravelUpdate. Two older A330-200s are not, and are due to be parked • It's free in every cabin, with no loyalty sign-up needed • The first Starlink flight was Dublin to New York JFK on March 29. The original target for the long-haul fleet was early 2027 • The 14 A321s took just over two months, at as little as 12 hours a jet, per the airline The bigger deal • Parent group IAG signed with Starlink last November for 500+ aircraft at British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, LEVEL and Aer Lingus • BA offers it free to loyalty members, and Iberia has started fitting its jets • Aer Lingus says its short-haul jets follow in 2027 @elonmusk at 10:56am ET (7:56am PT): "A cunning move by Aer Lingus" Image: @AerLingus

Tesla has shipped its first Megapacks built entirely with battery cells it makes itself. What changed • The LFP cells come from Tesla's own line at Gigafactory Nevada, per its Q3 update • That line is rated at 7 GWh a year and is still in early ramp • Tesla calls it an important milestone in bringing LFP cell supply home The bigger picture • Megafactory Texas has started production, with 50 GWh of planned capacity • That puts Tesla's Megapack capacity at 110 GWh a year across California, Shanghai and Texas • Tesla deployed 13.7 GWh of storage in Q3 and 36.0 GWh so far this year • Energy storage orders and backlog hit record highs, with data centers a big driver, per Tesla Why it matters Tesla says battery supply is still what limits how fast it can ramp production. Making its own LFP cells cuts its reliance on outside suppliers just as storage demand hits a record. Video: @Tesla

Starlink satellites made 207,152 thruster maneuvers in six months, mostly to stay clear of collisions. The numbers • From SpaceX's July 1 safety report to the FCC, covering Dec 2025 to May 2026 • Gen 2 satellites averaged about 46 maneuvers each per year, Gen 1 about 36 • SpaceX moves a satellite when the collision risk tops 3 in 10 million. The industry standard is 1 in 10,000 • @Starlink says it now operates more than 11,000 satellites How they see what's coming • Star trackers on each satellite read star patterns to keep it oriented, and also spot nearby satellites and debris, per @Starlink • Observations from thousands of trackers are fused on the ground into real-time trajectories, and the satellites plan their burns from that The biggest risk, per @Starlink: other operators that maneuver without sharing where they're headed. The bottom line More than 11,000 satellites, steering themselves around traffic every day, using cameras built to look at the stars. Video: @Starlink

SpaceX could fire all 33 engines on Starship Booster 22 today, the last big ground test before a flight that tries to catch both stages. Today at Starbase • Beach and Highway 4 closures run 7am-7pm ET (4am-4pm PT), with Monday as backup, per @TeslasRUs • B22 rolled to Pad 2 on Saturday and was lifted onto the launch mount • @NASASpaceflight is streaming live, with no firing yet as of 8:05am ET (5:05am PT) Why this booster matters • On SpaceX's Q3 webcast on Oct 20, @elonmusk said Flight 15 will try to catch both the booster and the ship • No orbital rocket's upper stage has ever been caught • He called success "more likely than not" • Flight 15 is penciled in for no earlier than Nov 8 on an air-traffic planning slide, per @NASASpaceflight. SpaceX has not set a date The bottom line Thirty-three engines today. Next month, the first try at catching an entire Starship. Video: @SpaceX

Elon Musk says X will let you send someone $1 just by long-pressing the like button. What was announced • "We're adding long press on like to send someone $1 via 𝕏 Money," @elonmusk posted at 10:39pm ET (7:39pm PT) on Saturday • No release date was given • The post passed 5.5M views and 100K likes in about nine hours What X Money already does • @XMoney started rolling out to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers on July 27 • Creator payouts can now land in X Money instantly, per @XMoney • Joint accounts went live in beta on October 6 • It comes with a metal Visa debit card Why it matters A tap still likes a post. Holding it would send real money to whoever made it. That puts a tip jar under every post on X, with no menus and no app switching. The bottom line The like button has been free since day one. X now wants to give it a $1 setting. Video: @XMoney

The new Tesla Roadster sucks itself onto the road with fans, a trick Formula 1 hasn't raced since 1978. @elonmusk says suction and active control surfaces will let it "crush the best Formula 1 track times," even without thrusters. The suction system - Four 20 kW fans pull air from under the car, with skirts that drop to seal it (Lars Moravy to Hagerty, via Car and Driver) - Tesla says it can hold the car upside down, even standing still - Moravy: over 2g in corners below 50 mph - The fans are bigger versions of the Roadster's heat pump compressor motor (Car and Driver) The wings - Track Mode switches between High-Downforce and Low-Drag - @Tesla says the wing is moved by the @Tesla_Optimus actuator system The F1 history The Brabham BT46B fan car won its only F1 race, the 1978 Swedish GP with Niki Lauda, and was then withdrawn. The bottom line No lap time yet. But Tesla built a road car around the trick F1 dropped after one win. Video: @Tesla. Music: "Techno Fights" by Alejandro Magaña (Mixkit)

xAI built its Colossus AI supercomputer in 122 days. That's xAI's own figure, and it says it had been told the job would take 24 months. How it went, per xAI - Built in 122 days, about four months - Then doubled in another 92 days - 200,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in a single connected cluster The scale, per xAI - 170 petabytes per second of combined memory bandwidth - 0.5 exabytes of storage for training data and checkpoints - A roadmap to 1 million GPUs How they did it xAI says the team "questioned everything, removed whatever was unnecessary" and finished in four months instead of two years. The bottom line A build xAI was told would take two years took four months, and then it doubled in three more. Image: @xai