US satellite internet provider Hughesnet has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after running low on cash and losing subscribers to @Starlink. In a quarterly report today, EchoStar also noted that its broadband subscribers had fallen to 622,000, a loss of 59,000 during Q2. “We continue to experience increased competition from satellite-based competitors and other technologies," it said.

When in Vegas I like to stay at Mandalay Bay’s Delano because they have the most Tesla chargers. Now it’s being remodeled as the W. When I checked in, I told them it’s a loaner and I have no key but I could remote start it for them. Their policy now is they won’t accept a Tesla without a key so I gave them my Cybertruck key that’s at Superior and when he went to go unlock it I did it with the app and remote started it! After I saw it was plugged in, I locked it. When I picked it up, I watched the camera for the valet to come and did the same thing!

Vacation report. Hello from Seattle. Watching everyone talking about Kimi and startup school. But I fell asleep quite a few times as our robot drove from San Jose to Seattle. Without stopping to sleep. This was something that killed a good friend in high school. Instead my Tesla woke me up and gave me a strike. Five strikes and the robot refuses to work anymore. Luckily I only have three. Other than those I didn’t touch the car in 900 miles. And I read on @markgurman that Apple is scared about putting cameras in glasses. That is the real startup lesson. Startup founders have to find customers so need to do something new. Big company employees need to worry about market share, so resist doing new things that could piss off some of its customers. While my robot drove, we passed several scenes like this one. Notice I still have a robot that hasn’t wrecked. Even though I fell asleep several times with my kids in the car. Maybe doing things a new way is the better way? Like putting datacenters in space? Visiting @Starcloud_ tomorrow to learn how that is done. Today gonna have our robot take us to see a volcano or two. Thanks to @tesla we probably will make it. I hope Apple gets the message that cameras save lives. If they don’t someone else will. Probably in China where they don’t worry about privacy so much. Oh and the real startup school is here on X. Tens of thousands of founders doing something new:

HERE WE GO! @DavidMoss, @scotsrule08, and myself are attempting to break the Autonomous Cannonball Run record, going from the Red Bull Garage in NYC to the Portofino Hotel & Marina in LA on FSD 14.3.6.