Thomas Sankara explained the problem with food aid incredibly well
If you keep pouring free food into a country, eventually people can become dependent on receiving it instead of building the capacity to produce it themselves
And it gets even worse for local farmers
Why would farmers keep producing more food if they can’t even sell what they grow because aid keeps pouring in?
Eventually you risk creating a system where local production dies and the country becomes permanently dependent on somebody else feeding it
Don’t just keep sending food
Build the ability for people to feed themselves
That’s the difference between temporary aid and actual development
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Falcon 9 flew more missions in ONE YEAR than the entire Space Shuttle program flew in 30 years
• The entire Shuttle fleet:
135 missions from 1981–2011
• Falcon 9 in 2025 alone:
165 launches
SpaceX exceeded the Shuttle program’s entire lifetime mission count by 30 launches in just 12 months
And Falcon 9 also launched more times than every other orbital launch vehicle combined that year
At the Shuttle program’s historical average cadence, reaching 165 missions would have taken roughly 37 years
Falcon 9 did it in ONE
And the hardware reuse comparison is just as insane:
• Space Shuttle Discovery — 39 flights across roughly 27 years
• Falcon 9 booster B1067 — 37 flights in just over 5 years
B1067 first flew on June 3, 2021
By August 25, 2026, the same booster had launched and landed successfully 37 times
A single Falcon 9 first stage came within TWO flights of the most-flown Shuttle orbiter’s lifetime flight count in about one-fifth of the time
What once took decades of launch operations now happens within a single year of Falcon 9 cadence
SpaceX turned reusability into an industrial-scale operation
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Starlink is rapidly expanding across Kazakhstan’s railways and postal network 🇰🇿
The rollout covers:
• 210 Qazpost offices across 13 regions
• 50 passenger-train routes
• 124 trainsets
• 1,600+ carriages
Starlink is already live on dozens of trains, bringing connectivity to routes and postal facilities beyond the reach of traditional networks
This is exactly where satellite internet makes a massive difference
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Neuralink participants have now generated more than 50,000 HOURS of unlabeled neural data
Neuralink is using thousands of hours of brain activity from each participant to pretrain neural encoders before cursor-control tasks
The goal is to make BCIs faster, more stable and require far less calibration over time
Neuralink is moving from decoding individual brain signals...
Toward building a scalable interface between the human brain and computers
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Terafab is a massive step toward humanity becoming a galactic civilization
Anything TSMC contributes to Terafab would basically be supplemental
Terafab itself is going to be absurdly massive
The goal is 1 TW of compute production every year.....around 50× the current global output of AI compute
This isn’t just another fab. It’s being built for a scale the semiconductor industry simply does not operate at any known scale today
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My laptop wallpaper...
It always reminds me of the scale of what’s being built and what the future is going to look like
Still insane to think that something this massive is actually going to exist
A sufficiently large quantity is a quality all its own.
Big difference between bacteria with one cell and a human with 35 trillion cells, even though both are made of cells.
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Grok Bot edited this entire video for me...
I gave it Neuralink’s latest article and it pulled all the best visuals Neuralink officially published, mapped everything out, recorded the clips, edited the full video and even added music from a free music library that matched the vibe.....it literally made a perfect video for me
It put together all 8 figures from the article......6 videos + 2 charts.....into a 1080p video with captions, title cards and source credits
Literally treat your Grok Bot like an employee.....it can do almost anything you can do on a laptop
Neuralink just released a major new update on how it is training brain-computer interfaces
Participants have now generated more than 50,000 HOURS of unlabeled neural data
Neuralink is now pretraining neural encoders on thousands of hours of each participant’s brain activity before using them for cursor control
And the results are already impressive:
• Calibration time dropped from ~55 minutes per week to ~10 minutes for some participants
• Multiple participants set new personal BCI speed records
• Three participants surpassed the previous 10.39 bits/sec benchmark
• One participant reached 11.32 bits/sec — a new BCI record
• Some decoders stayed strong for weeks
• One decoder was still usable more than 1.5 years later
The most important part is what comes next
Neuralink is moving toward foundation models for BCI...systems that can learn from massive amounts of neural data and eventually generalize across people and tasks
The goal is to make brain-computer interfaces faster, more stable, require less calibration and eventually work more like a general-purpose platform
Neuralink is going from controlling a cursor
To building an interface between the brain and computers at scale
neuralink.com/updates/pretra…
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Anything TSMC contributes to Terafab would basically be supplemental
Terafab itself is going to be absurdly massive
The goal is 1 TW of compute production every year.....around 50× the current global output of AI compute
This isn’t just another fab. It’s being built for a scale the semiconductor industry simply does not operate at any known scale today
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Raptor engines are pure engineering magic
There’s no way an engine this powerful should look this clean and beautiful
Full-flow staged combustion had been attempted for decades by other rocket programs, but before Raptor, nobody had ever managed to get a full-flow staged-combustion engine to actually fly........it was extremely complex, risky and difficult to solve, and nobody had managed to make it work in flight
SpaceX is the only company that made this engine architecture fly, proved it works, and then started mass-producing it for Starship
Absolutely insane engineering
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Just to give you an idea of the scale...Starlink V3 satellites are absolutely massive
They stretch roughly 60 meters across when deployed.....about the same as the wingspan of a Boeing 787
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Neuralink just released a major new update on how it is training brain-computer interfaces
Participants have now generated more than 50,000 HOURS of unlabeled neural data
Neuralink is now pretraining neural encoders on thousands of hours of each participant’s brain activity before using them for cursor control
And the results are already impressive:
• Calibration time dropped from ~55 minutes per week to ~10 minutes for some participants
• Multiple participants set new personal BCI speed records
• Three participants surpassed the previous 10.39 bits/sec benchmark
• One participant reached 11.32 bits/sec — a new BCI record
• Some decoders stayed strong for weeks
• One decoder was still usable more than 1.5 years later
The most important part is what comes next
Neuralink is moving toward foundation models for BCI...systems that can learn from massive amounts of neural data and eventually generalize across people and tasks
The goal is to make brain-computer interfaces faster, more stable, require less calibration and eventually work more like a general-purpose platform
Neuralink is going from controlling a cursor
To building an interface between the brain and computers at scale
neuralink.com/updates/pretra…
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Grok Build just got another bug-fix update, this time focused heavily on permissions and tool safety
Hook permission prompts now show up regardless of approval mode, WebSearch/WebFetch and image generation properly respect prompt_policy and rule decisions, and “Allow once” now really means once......only the next shell command
There’s also an extra safeguard for pkill -f and pgrep -f patterns that could accidentally kill their own shell wrapper
Release Notes: v1.0.49
Bug Fixes:
• Hook permission prompts now appear regardless of approval mode.
• Web searches, fetches, and image generation now correctly respect the prompt_policy setting and rule decisions before prompting.
• Allow once in permission cards now applies only to the next shell command instead of the whole session.
• pkill -f and pgrep -f commands are now rejected earlier when the pattern would kill their own shell wrapper.
Grok Build just got another update, and this one gives you much better control over complex agent runs
/rewind now only shows prompts you actually typed, WebSearch and WebFetch properly respect Ask rules, and cancelling one tool call no longer kills unrelated commands running in parallel
File tools are also more reliable with large, special and binary files, while authentication recovery now requires a manual resend instead of automatically retrying a refused prompt
More predictable parallel execution and fewer things happening behind your back
Release Notes: v1.0.48
Bug Fixes:
• `/rewind` now only lists prompts you typed yourself and skips automatic runtime turns.
• Custom model tables in config.toml now preserve the original model's notice banner.
• `read_file`, `search_replace`, and `grep` now handle large files, special files, and binary content more reliably and surface better errors.
• Ask rules for WebSearch and WebFetch now correctly show a prompt instead of auto-running.
• Cancelling one tool call no longer kills commands started by other parallel calls.
• Authentication recovery no longer automatically retries refused prompts after login; the sign-in block now requires manual resend.
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SpaceX just released some incredible new images from Starship’s first orbital flight
For the first time ever, Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites to space
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Tesla’s Supercharger network is scaling insanely fast
Tesla now operates the world’s largest fast-charging network
It has now crossed:
• 85,000+ Supercharger stalls
• 9,000+ Supercharger sites worldwide
It started with relatively a small charging network in 2012 and now has turned into massive global infrastructure
And the craziest part is that it’s not even just for Tesla owners anymore
Tesla has opened a growing part of the Supercharger network to other EV brands, making long-distance EV charging dramatically more convenient for millions of drivers
Ford, GM, Rivian, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, Porsche and many more can now access compatible Tesla Superchargers
Tesla built charging infrastructure for its own cars, then opened it up to the entire broader EV market and became a backbone of EV charging
And the network is still accelerating incredibly fast
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Starship is going to fundamentally change what “mass to orbit” even means
Right now, humanity measures annual mass to orbit in thousands of tonnes....and SpaceX is already responsible for more than 80% of it
Starship is being built for something completely different
The entire system is designed for full and rapid reusability.....launch, return, get caught, rapidly turn around, refuel, and fly again
Basically airline-like operations for a rocket
And SpaceX is targeting something even crazier: Starship flying once every hour within just 2–3 years
At that kind of cadence, we will go from measuring thousands of tonnes going to orbit to millions of tonnes
The scale is going to be absolutely insane
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Grok Voice ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis’ Task Success Rate leaderboard
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 (High) scored 94.6%
Outperforming GPT-Live/Astra, Gemini Live, GPT-Realtime, and every other model on the leaderboard
And this benchmark actually measures whether the voice agent successfully completes the task with the correct final tool call
Not just how good the voice sounds...whether it actually gets the job done
Grok is leading at #1
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Tesla just took the top TWO spots in Italy’s BEV market 🇮🇹
September registrations:
• Model 3 — 1,142
• Model Y — 990
Italy’s BEV market grew nearly 50% YoY to 10,782 vehicles
Tesla Model 3 and Model Y together accounted for more than 2,100 new registrations in a single month
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SpaceX’s launch week has been absolutely insane
In just FOUR DAYS, SpaceX launched every vehicle in its current orbital lineup:
• Falcon 9
• Falcon Heavy
• Starship
3 different launch vehicles
4 different launch pads
3 different states: Florida, California and Texas
And they basically covered every major category of payload:
• Starlink
• Crew
• Commercial
• Military / national security
Then on October 1 alone, SpaceX completed THREE launches in less than 13 hours
SpaceX is simultaneously operating across almost every major part of orbital spaceflight now
Different rockets, different pads, different coasts, completely different missions...all running at the same time
No other launch company today is operating across this combination of vehicles, launch sites, mission types and cadence
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Grok Build just got another update, and this one gives you much better control over complex agent runs
/rewind now only shows prompts you actually typed, WebSearch and WebFetch properly respect Ask rules, and cancelling one tool call no longer kills unrelated commands running in parallel
File tools are also more reliable with large, special and binary files, while authentication recovery now requires a manual resend instead of automatically retrying a refused prompt
More predictable parallel execution and fewer things happening behind your back
Release Notes: v1.0.48
Bug Fixes:
• `/rewind` now only lists prompts you typed yourself and skips automatic runtime turns.
• Custom model tables in config.toml now preserve the original model's notice banner.
• `read_file`, `search_replace`, and `grep` now handle large files, special files, and binary content more reliably and surface better errors.
• Ask rules for WebSearch and WebFetch now correctly show a prompt instead of auto-running.
• Cancelling one tool call no longer kills commands started by other parallel calls.
• Authentication recovery no longer automatically retries refused prompts after login; the sign-in block now requires manual resend.
Grok Build just got better at keeping the interface in sync with what the agent is actually doing
When the agent switches models, the displayed model list and context window now update immediately, the Goal panel opens properly even with workflows running, and narrow terminals handle login errors more cleanly
Repositories using .envrc also start sessions faster
Release Notes: v1.0.47
Features:
• Model switch responses from the agent now update the displayed model list and context window.
Bug Fixes:
• Error messages on the home and login screens now wrap properly in narrow terminals.
• Clicking the Goal chip now opens the goal panel even when workflow runs are present.
Performance:
• Sessions in repositories with an .envrc file now start faster
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How it started vs how it’s going
Elon looking at the Falcon wreckage is one of the deepest moments in SpaceX history...
That image tells the whole story
Failure, pain, relentless pursuit...and absolutely refusing to give up until it worked
You can really see how far SpaceX has come
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Elon Musk joined today’s second Project Meridian meeting at the Pentagon 🇺🇸
The full board met after Elon, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich held the initiative’s inaugural meeting following Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force address
Project Meridian is a 120-day effort focused on studying the future of warfare and the technologies that will shape it
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Grok Bot just got a major upgrade with a Primary Bot
Your Primary Bot can now proactively spot work it can take off your plate and offer to handle it before you even ask
It becomes your go-to Bot for everyday tasks, helps unblock your work and only checks in when it actually needs your input
And the best part:
Suggestions from your Primary Bot DON’T count against your usage
You can either turn an existing Bot into your Primary Bot or create a new one
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Tesla’s European registrations are climbing across key markets
Through January–August 2026, Tesla registrations across the EU + UK + EFTA were up 43.3% YoY, ahead of the broader BEV market at 38.8%
September is adding even more strong numbers:
• France — +61.9% YoY
• Sweden — +38.4% YoY
• Norway — 4,935 registrations, +2.2% YoY
• Model Y — 4,810 units, #1 vehicle overall in Norway
The growth is accelerating across multiple European markets
More and more drivers across Europe are choosing Tesla
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Starship is going to completely transform Earth-to-Earth travel
Instead of spending 8, 10 or 12 hours crossing the planet in a commercial aircraft, Starship’s point-to-point system is designed to send passengers above most of the atmosphere and across Earth in roughly half an hour
The proposed travel times are wild:
• Los Angeles → New York: 25 min
• Bangkok → Dubai: 27 min
• Tokyo → Singapore: 28 min
• London → New York: 29 min
• New York → Paris: 30 min
• Sydney → Singapore: 31 min
• Los Angeles → London: 32 min
• London → Hong Kong: 34 min
Here’s how it works...
Launch from one side of Earth, accelerate into a suborbital trajectory, coast across the planet at enormous speed, then descend and land near the destination
A journey that normally consumes most of your day could become shorter than many people’s daily commute
Starship is being built for orbit, the Moon and Mars
But the same vehicle will eventually redefine how humans travel across Earth too
From crossing oceans in hours to crossing the planet in minutes
Elon Musk sees a path where the cost to orbit drops below commercial air freight
Ultimately Starship will be able to fly across the globe cheaper per ton than a Boeing 747
That opens up a massive range of possibilities for global logistics
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Tesla’s charging network just had a massive quarter
69 MILLION charging sessions in Q3 alone
That means Tesla delivered:
• 2.4 TWh of energy
• 2,700 new Supercharger stalls
• 1.1B liters of gasoline avoided
• 4.4B kg of CO₂e avoided
• 7.0 GWh consumed by Robotaxi
And the network itself grew 15% YoY, while energy delivered and charging sessions both jumped 29%
The interesting part is that the same charging infrastructure is now supporting both Tesla’s vehicle fleet and its growing Robotaxi operation
This only get's even more massive from here
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Grok Build just got better at keeping the interface in sync with what the agent is actually doing
When the agent switches models, the displayed model list and context window now update immediately, the Goal panel opens properly even with workflows running, and narrow terminals handle login errors more cleanly
Repositories using .envrc also start sessions faster
Release Notes: v1.0.47
Features:
• Model switch responses from the agent now update the displayed model list and context window.
Bug Fixes:
• Error messages on the home and login screens now wrap properly in narrow terminals.
• Clicking the Goal chip now opens the goal panel even when workflow runs are present.
Performance:
• Sessions in repositories with an .envrc file now start faster
Grok Build just got another strong reliability + performance upgrade, especially for MCP-heavy setups and large workspaces
MCP server sources are now reported correctly, client rules survive system-prompt rebuilds, permission rules work properly through symlinked paths, and context counts update immediately after compaction
Video handling is also much smarter across different terminals, while network filesystem browsing avoids expensive subtree scans and large skill directories load faster at startup
A lot of behind-the-scenes cleanup here that should make heavy Grok Build sessions feel more predictable and responsive
Release Notes: v1.0.46
Bug Fixes:
• MCP server sources are now correctly reported by grok inspect and the MCP doctor.
• Tool search activity now correctly folds as "Ran N tool searches" instead of claiming MCP tool results.
• Client rules supplied at session start are now preserved when the system prompt is rebuilt later.
• Permission rules with relative paths now correctly apply even when the cwd contains symlinks.
• Context compacted line now shows the correct token count immediately after compaction instead of at the end of a long turn.
• Enter on video cards no longer attempts playback in terminals that cannot show it or lack ffmpeg.
• Video cards now open the file in the default player on Enter in terminals without inline playback support, and no longer get stuck trying to extract posters without ffmpeg
Performance:
• list_dir on network or virtual filesystems now skips slow subtree counts and prints a notice instead.
• Session startup is faster when loading skills from large directories and shows what it is doing instead of a generic spinner.
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Falcon 9 is ready for Transporter-18
Just a few hours ago, SpaceX launched Crew-13 from Florida, sending four astronauts toward the International Space Station
Now, just ~3 hours later, another Falcon 9 is preparing to launch from California carrying 130 payloads
And some of the technology onboard is wild:
• Google Project Suncatcher M1 — testing AI chips in orbit
• Starfish Space Otter — autonomous satellite servicing
• Cowboy Space Reason-1 — laser power beaming from orbit to Earth
• Carbon Mapper Tanager-2 — monitoring methane and CO₂ emissions
• TakeMe2Space MOI-1A — orbital AI computing
The Falcon 9 booster is also flying for the 25th time and will attempt another landing back at Vandenberg
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There are now about 11,150 Starlink satellites orbiting Earth
SpaceX has already built the largest satellite constellation in history…
And now, with new Starlink V3 deployments, SpaceX is about to take the network to an entirely different level...like really insane levels
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SpaceX Dragon has built an insane record in human spaceflight history
57 launches
20 human spaceflight missions
78 crewmembers flown
20 countries represented
1,000+ research experiments
300,000+ pounds of cargo
And Dragon has been breaking barriers from the beginning:
• First privately developed spacecraft to orbit Earth and return safely
• First commercial spacecraft to visit the ISS
• First private spacecraft to carry humans to the ISS
• Currently the only spacecraft flying capable of returning significant amounts of cargo from orbit
Dragon helped create the era of commercial human spaceflight
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This Dragon has already made a trip to the ISS
Dragon Grace previously flew Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) in June 2025, carrying:
• Peggy Whitson
• Shubhanshu Shukla
• Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski
• Tibor Kapu
The crew completed a 20-day mission, conducting scientific research, technology demonstrations and outreach aboard the ISS before returning safely to Earth
Now the same Dragon is flying again for Crew-13, carrying four new astronauts to the International Space Station
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Elon Musk explains the purpose of SpaceX:
“I’ll tell you a little bit about the purpose of SpaceX
We want to make Star Trek real
We want to make Starfleet Academy real
So that it’s not always science fiction, but one day, science fiction turns to science fact”
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SpaceX has two Falcon 9s and a Falcon Heavy lined up across Florida and California for three completely different missions today
• Crew-13 — Falcon 9 carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station
• Transporter-18 — Falcon 9 carrying 130 payloads to orbit
• NROL-97 — Falcon Heavy launching a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office
Human spaceflight
A massive rideshare mission
National security
All scheduled within roughly 13 hours across two coasts
SpaceX launch cadence is operating on an entirely different scale
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SpaceX just donated 50 Starlink kits to Malaysia to strengthen disaster preparedness 🇲🇾
The kits were handed over during a meeting between a SpaceX delegation and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Putrajaya
The cooperation is also focused on expanding high-quality internet access across:
• Rural Sabah
• Rural Sarawak
• Orang Asli settlements in Peninsular Malaysia
Anwar also highlighted Starlink’s role in supporting Malaysia’s broader connectivity efforts through JENDELA
And Starlink’s Point of Presence in Cyberjaya is now operational, helping route local internet traffic and improve service quality
From disaster response to remote communities, Starlink is reaching places where reliable connectivity matter the most
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The FCC just opened up more spectrum that Starlink can use, giving SpaceX more room to increase capacity and improve satellite broadband
Today, the FCC voted to open the 12.7–13.25 GHz and 42–42.5 GHz bands to expanded fixed-satellite services
That unlocks 1,050 MHz of additional spectrum for satellite communications
For Starlink, access to more spectrum means more potential capacity to serve customers and support higher-bandwidth connectivity
Another major step toward scaling satellite internet across the U.S.
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