NEWS: Travis Kalanick (@travisk) says, we should all thank @elonmusk for buying Twitter. The Uber founder, back in public after years out of the spotlight, credited new media and Elon Musk for why he is speaking again. In a recent interview he said: "Elon buying Twitter is the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that." Kalanick said old media was overwhelmingly negative and that podcasts now let people "say what you need to say" without going through legacy outlets.

NEWS: Ron Baron says no one will ever match Tesla on robots The Baron Capital founder said Optimus may be a bigger advantage for Tesla than anything it has done, with Musk aiming far past early targets. "He's not talking about 10 million. He's talking about 100 million and then he's talking about a billion," Baron said of Musk's robot plans. (Source: Ron Baron on The Compound and Friends, July 2026)

JUST IN: Cathie Wood's ARK bought about 14 million dollars of SpaceX today ARK added to its SPCX position again as the stock trades well below its IPO price, according to the firm's daily trade disclosure. Wood has been buying the sell off repeatedly, including a 21.3 million dollar purchase as shares fell 45% from their record high. ARK even sold Deere and Company to help fund its recent SpaceX buying. (Source: ARK Invest daily trade disclosure, July 28, 2026)

NEWS: SpaceX Starlink's direct to phone service in Japan passed 5 million users, NTT Docomo says. The docomo Starlink Direct service launched on April 27. It reached 5 million connected users about two months later, on July 9. The service connects smartphones straight to Starlink satellites, with no ground towers. It works on 89 compatible phone models already in circulation. It covers all of Japan and up to 12 nautical miles offshore. Users can send texts, share location and use some data apps in dead zones. Docomo is Japan's largest carrier, with about 92 million subscribers.

NEWS: A new EU safety mandate is good news for Tesla. All new cars and vans must add five safety features from July 7, the European Commission says. The rules cover every newly registered vehicle. Cars already on the road are not affected. Five new systems and tests are now required. - Advanced emergency braking that detects pedestrians and cyclists - Advanced driver distraction warning - Better forward vision - New tests for worn tyres - A larger safety glass area to protect pedestrians The requirements fall under the EU General Safety Regulation. Tesla already ships camera based driver monitoring and pedestrian detecting emergency braking as standard. The wider regulation is expected to save over 25,000 lives by 2038, EU estimates show.

NEWS: The new Air Force One is now fitted with Elon Musk's Starlink, President Trump says Trump unveiled the jet on Friday at Joint Base Andrews near Washington. He praised its communications gear and pointed to Starlink by name. "My friend Elon is going to be very happy" This is the first confirmed use of Starlink for presidential communications. The system supports secure video calls and fast data transfer in the air. The $400 million Boeing 747 came as a gift from Qatar and will serve until new presidential jets arrive.

NEWS: China is losing the race to claim prime orbital slots to Starlink, the head of China's main satellite system says. Hu Haiying runs the Qianfan satellite system, China's answer to Starlink. He told state media space orbits and frequencies are "non-renewable" and going fast. Starlink has over 12,400 satellites in orbit. China's Qianfan has 200. Starlink controls more than 60% of all active satellites worldwide. It also controls more than 70% of the prime orbits for direct to cell service. China has approval to launch 200,000 satellites but has not built them yet. The first orbital slot to file with the ITU keeps the rights.

NEWS: A CNN panelist from Brownsville tore into Elon Musk for trashing her local beaches, right as the chyron behind her called him the world's first trillionaire. To be clear, SpaceX runs Starbase under federal and state environmental oversight and coordinates with the wildlife agencies on the refuge around it. The beach is only closed for launches and tests. It reopens the moment the operation ends. It is accessible by public. Also, here is what SpaceX did. ~ Reached orbit as the first privately built liquid-fuel rocket, back in 2008 ~ Built and landed the first orbital rocket booster, reflew it and made reusable rockets normal ~ First private company to send a spacecraft to the space station ~ First private company to fly humans to orbit, ending US reliance on Russian rockets in 2020 ~ Brought home the two astronauts Boeing's Starliner left stranded in space ~ Flew the first commercial spacewalk ~ Caught a returning Super Heavy booster out of the sky with the launch tower ~ Built Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown ~ Was picked by NASA to land its astronauts back on the Moon ~ Put up the largest satellite network in history and beamed internet to millions, including disaster zones ~ Launches more often and lifts more to orbit than the rest of the world combined She is upset about the beach, but SpaceX is serving humanity and will make humans a multi-planetary species. To get something you want, you have to let go of something you want.

NEWS: Joe Lonsdale on whether Elon Musk wins the AI race. "It's crazy to think he's not going to win." The 8VC founding partner and Palantir co-founder was asked directly about Steve Eisman's bear case on CNBC. His answer. Trillions are pouring into AI infrastructure, about $5 trillion over the next five years, and Elon is the best hardware builder in the world at exactly the moment that matters. On the compute SpaceX already rents out, Lonsdale says the payback is well under a year on the roughly $26 billion it is bringing in. And the regulation fight only helps him. Every rule that blocks data centers on the ground pushes the work to space, where Lonsdale says Elon has already shown how it scales.

NEWS: Fidelity is opening the SpaceX IPO to any customer with at least $2,000 in a retail brokerage account, down from as much as $500,000 for previous offerings. The reason, per Fidelity's own FAQ, is that SpaceX reserved up to 30% of the offering for retail investors. Typical IPOs set aside just 5% to 10%. Customers can request anywhere from 1 share to 1 million shares. If demand outruns supply, Fidelity will run a lottery to spread allocations as fairly as possible. One warning for flippers. Selling allocated shares within 15 days of trading brings a 6 month ban from future IPOs at Fidelity. A second flip brings 1 year. A third is permanent.

NEWS: Jeff Bezos on SpaceX and the future of the space industry, in his CNBC interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. "I admire what SpaceX has done and I want the world to have at least two SpaceXs." "Great industries are made up of big competitors." Source: CNBC, Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

JUST IN: SpaceX lists "digital human augmentation" as an official AI growth strategy in its S-1 filing.

JUST IN: SpaceX's S-1 filing officially discloses that Elon Musk previously served as Senior Advisor to the President of the United States.

JUST IN: SpaceX's bylaws prohibit shareholders from filing class action lawsuits against the company, per its S-1 filing. All shareholder disputes must go through mandatory arbitration or the Texas Business Court. Jury trials are also waived.

JUST IN: SpaceX built COLOSSUS II's second cluster of 110,000 GB300 processors and 220 megawatts of compute in just 64 days, per its S-1 filing. Faster than the first cluster at 91 days. The next expansion phase will add at least 220,000 more GB300 processors and over 400 additional megawatts.