BREAKING: Tesla Full Self-Driving has crossed 13 billion miles driven The FSD Supervised total just passed 13,000,002,051 miles, including more than 5 billion city miles. (Source: Tesla FSD Vehicle Safety Report, August 2026)

NEWS: Short seller Michael Burry disclosed on Tuesday that he shorted Tesla at $416.22 as part of a 5-stock bet against what he calls an AI and semiconductor bubble Tesla was last on Burry's list. He also shorted Caterpillar, Nvidia, Applied Materials and the iShares Semiconductor ETF. Burry did not disclose the size or structure of the Tesla short. His Tesla shorts have historically been smaller than headlines suggest. A widely reported "half billion dollar" Tesla short in 2021 was actually a much smaller premium bet. He covered it by November 2021. Tesla stock had risen roughly 10% intraday on Tuesday. Burry sold short into the rebound. Tesla will report Q2 2026 deliveries in the coming days. Analyst Gary Black expects roughly 410,000 vehicles, above Wall Street's consensus of 406,000. (Source: Cassandra Unchained Substack, June 30, 2026)

NEWS: Elon Musk walked the Optimus production line in Fremont, sharing a photo from the factory floor Musk stood with the Optimus team for the shot inside the Fremont plant. "Walking the Optimus production line in Fremont" is all he wrote. Fremont is where Tesla is building its Optimus humanoid robot.

NEWS: Tesla has hired a 17 year Intel veteran, Gary Jiang, to lead its Terafab chip plant, his LinkedIn profile shows Jiang is the first named leader for Tesla's plan to build advanced chips in house. He now lists his role as Director, Terafab, based on site in Austin. At Intel he spent nearly 18 years, most recently running its cutting edge 18A process. That covered tool installation and factory ramp, exactly the skill Tesla lacks. Terafab is Tesla's chip fab project with SpaceX and Intel, announced in March. Musk has framed the prototype as a $20 billion bet, with the full buildout far larger.

BREAKING: Elon Musk called the global memory chip shortage "the biggest price jump in anything I've ever seen" Musk was agreeing with Apple CEO Tim Cook's hundred-year flood warning from a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this month. Cook said he had not seen anything like it in his 40 years in the industry. Musk responded on X this week. He added that the production shortfall relative to demand is insane and that much higher production is needed. DRAM and NAND chip prices have both quadrupled over the past year. AI data center buildouts have absorbed nearly all available memory supply. Apple raised Mac prices by 15% to 20% and iPad prices by 15% to 25% on Thursday. The MacBook Air jumped $200 to $1,299. The MacBook Pro climbed $300 to $1,999. The iPad Pro rose $200 to $1,199. Microsoft is raising Xbox prices by $100 to $150 starting August 1. HP, Dell and Nintendo have also raised prices. Musk has been warning about memory specifically since January. He told Tesla's Q4 earnings call that memory could become an even bigger limiter than AI logic. That is why Tesla, SpaceX and Intel announced Tesla Terafab. The joint project will combine logic chip production, memory manufacturing and advanced packaging in one facility. Tesla itself depends on memory chips for vehicles, Optimus and FSD. Tesla has started hiring semiconductor workers for the new chip facility. (Sources: @elonmusk on X and WSJ, June 25-26, AM.

NEWS: Tesla has now delivered over 15,000 vehicles in Malaysia, Tesla Malaysia announced today (Source: Tesla Malaysia on X, June 30, 2026). That is less than 3 years after Tesla officially launched in Malaysia on July 20, 2023. Tesla reached its 10,000th Malaysia delivery in September 2025. The next 5,000 deliveries took just 9 months. Tesla's previous pace was about 5,000 deliveries per year. The recent pace works out to roughly 5,000 every 9 months. The growth is accelerating. Tesla operates 76 Supercharger stalls across 18 locations in Malaysia. That is above the government's mandated target of 50 Superchargers. The Model Y is Tesla's top-selling vehicle in Malaysia. The lineup also includes the Model 3 Highland. BYD held the lead in Malaysia's EV market as of late 2025 with about 25,000 registrations. Tesla is climbing fast.

JUST IN: Tesla just teased its Uruguay launch directly, posting a Model Y driving through Montevideo Tesla Latinoamérica says its Model 3 and Model Y are getting closer to the country. Uruguay will be Tesla's third market in South America after Chile and Colombia. Regulators have already approved both models for sale there.

NEWS: Tesla Korea was selected for South Korea's 2026 EV subsidy program, while Chinese rival BYD was excluded 🔥 The selection means Tesla vehicles sold in South Korea will continue to qualify for both national and local EV purchase subsidies. National subsidies pay up to 6.8 million won, about $4,700 per vehicle. Local subsidies on top can add more. 10 passenger vehicle companies were approved including Tesla Korea, Hyundai Motor, Kia, BMW Korea, Mercedes-Benz Korea, Volkswagen Group Korea, Volvo Cars Korea and Polestar Korea. BYD was excluded from the final list. New BYD subsidy applications submitted from July 1 will no longer qualify for government support. The new evaluation system was introduced this year to assess each automaker's ability to operate in the Korean market and provide adequate after-sales support. It scores companies on industry contribution, R&D capability and local investment. South Korea designed the system in part to favor domestic brands. Tesla was widely expected to be at risk because it has no dedicated EV R&D facility in Korea. Tesla cleared the hurdle anyway. The Korean Ministry of Environment had said foreign automakers need to expand local after-sales networks, collaborate with parts suppliers and increase Korean market contributions to remain eligible. For context, Tesla sold about 60,000 vehicles in South Korea last year. The Model Y is the best-selling EV in the country.

NEWS: Tesla has started rolling out FSD v14 Lite to its older HW3 cars, the company's AI team says This is the first new FSD build for HW3 in about 14 months. It reaches roughly 4 million cars that were stuck on the older v12 software. Tesla shrank the HW4 v14 model down to fit HW3, which has far less memory. Musk said HW3 has only about 15% of HW4's memory bandwidth, so it was a tough job. The update adds parking, unparking and reversing, plus options for where the car parks. Early access drivers get it now. A wider rollout follows over the next few weeks.

BREAKING: Elon Musk announced that Grok 4.5 is now in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, with early evaluations showing performance "close to, perhaps exceeding Opus" Grok 4.5 is based on the V9 foundation model, which has 1.5 trillion parameters. That is 3 times the size of the V8 model currently serving all Grok production traffic. The model was trained with a large amount of Cursor developer workflow data in supplemental training. Opus refers to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, one of the leading general-purpose AI models alongside GPT-5.5. Musk's comparison is the first public benchmark claim against a frontier rival for Grok 4.5. Musk also said that SpaceX will release a completely new foundation model, trained from scratch, every month for the rest of 2026. That cadence is unprecedented. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google currently release major frontier models every 3 to 6 months. The private beta at Tesla and SpaceX is the first internal deployment of Grok 4.5. Reinforcement learning continues to improve the model. V9 foundation model training completed on May 26, 2026. SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60 billion earlier this month. (Source: @elonmusk on X, June 28, 2026)

NEWS: Tesla is launching in Uruguay soon, the company says in a teaser from Tesla Latinoamérica Uruguay will become Tesla's third market in South America. Tesla entered Chile in 2024 and Colombia in 2025. Regulators in Uruguay have already approved the Model 3 and Model Y for sale. Those cars will ship in from Tesla's Shanghai factory. Uruguay is one of the region's leaders in electric car adoption.

NEWS: Tesla ranked as the #2# most sustainable international company with a Canadian subsidiary, according to Corporate Knights' 2026 ranking Tesla scored 69.79% on the sustainability methodology used for the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world. That puts Tesla ahead of Cisco, HP and every other US company on the list. Only Schneider Electric of France ranked higher, at 72.69%. Schneider was the top company on the 2025 Global 100 list. Novo Nordisk of Denmark came in third at 68.46%. The ranking only includes companies that earn over $1 billion in revenue in Canada and are not headquartered there. Technology and industrial firms dominate the list, with most tied to electrification or digital infrastructure. Corporate Knights is a Toronto-based research firm that produces the annual Global 100 sustainability ranking. (Source: Corporate Knights, June 23, 2026).

NEWS: Starbase has picked Glenn Bennett as its first ever police chief, the city's commission says Bennett will build and lead the new Starbase Police Department from scratch. He is currently a special operations lieutenant at the Belton, Texas police department. He served in the US Army from 2006 to 2021 and deployed to Afghanistan. More than 50 people applied for the job since March. Starbase created the force this year after a county deputy contract fell through. The SpaceX town incorporated as a city in 2025 and keeps adding its own services.

BREAKING: The FTC cleared SpaceX to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a SpaceX-alumni startup making 1.6 terabit per second optical transceivers for AI data centers, Bloomberg reported (Source: Bloomberg, June 26, 2026). The FTC granted early termination of its antitrust review on June 25, 2026, with no significant competition concerns flagged. Mesh was founded in 2025 by 3 former SpaceX engineers. Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos and Serena Grown-Haeberli built the laser communication system that connects thousands of Starlink satellites to each other in orbit. They left SpaceX to apply the same optical technology to data centers on the ground. Mesh's Alpha C1 chip converts electrical signals to light at 1.6 terabits per second. It replaces copper cables that currently connect GPUs inside AI data centers. Copper interconnects burn power and run hot. Optical interconnects are faster, cooler and more efficient. Mesh came out of stealth in February 2026 with a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital. Less than 5 months later it is being acquired. The acquisition fits into Musk's broader AI infrastructure stack. SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion this month. Now the optical layer is joining the portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed.

BREAKING: SpaceX will join the Nasdaq-100 Index before market open on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, Nasdaq announced (Source: Nasdaq press release, June 26, 2026). Index funds and ETFs tracking the Nasdaq-100 will begin buying SPCX shares after market close on Monday, July 6. The Nasdaq-100 is tracked by more than 200 investment products with over $800 billion in assets under management worldwide. This is one of the fastest Nasdaq-100 inclusions in recent history. SpaceX went public on June 12, just 25 days before inclusion. SpaceX will join Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla and Meta in the index.

NEWS: SpaceX, Tractor Supply and the National 4-H Council announced a partnership today to expand Starlink rural broadband access across the US. SpaceX will provide 100 Starlink kits and service to designated 4-H clubs serving rural youth. Every Starlink kit purchased at Tractor Supply stores or TractorSupplycom will generate a donation to the National 4-H Council. SpaceX will donate the value of the customer's first month of service. Tractor Supply will donate $500,000 to the National 4-H Council to launch the initiative. The announcement was made at the Great American State Fair. US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins attended alongside Tractor Supply CEO Hal Lawton, National 4-H Council CEO Jill Bramble and SpaceX VP of Satellite Policy David Goldman. Tractor Supply operates 2,435 stores in 49 states. The chain has raised over $27 million for 4-H since 2010 through its Paper Clover fundraiser. According to the FCC, 22.3% of rural Americans lack standard broadband coverage compared to 1.5% in urban areas. (Vice President of Satellite Policy at Space X David Goldman, U.S. Agriculture Department Secretary Brooke Rollins, President and CEO of National 4-H Council Jill Bramble, and Tractor Supply President and CEO Hal Lawton announce alliance at the Great American State Fair)

NEWS: Tesla showed its Semi staying stable on ice using its Vehicle Dynamics Control system, the program lead says Dan Priestley, who leads the Tesla Semi program, posted the winter test video. The Semi runs three motors making 1,072 hp and can control its rear wheels independently. The system reads wheel speed, steering and grip, then sends torque to single wheels in microseconds. That reacts far faster than the traction control on a diesel truck. Priestley said the trailer was fully loaded for the test, not empty. Tesla has claimed since 2017 that the Semi is impossible to jackknife.

NEWS: SpaceX will break its own news on X, not on newswires, an SEC filing shows The company named its X account @SpaceX as an official disclosure channel. Its investor page at is the other. SpaceX says it will skip wire services like Business Wire and PR Newswire. It tells investors to follow @SpaceX for material updates.

NEWS: Two years ago, an internal document from the Center for Countering Digital Hate listed "K*ll Musk's Twitter" and "Trigger EU & UK regulatory action" as annual priorities. CCDH was co-founded by Morgan McSweeney, who later became UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff. This week, Starmer threatened to remove X's right to self regulate. UK regulator Ofcom opened a formal investigation into X over Grok. Ofcom can fine X up to 10% of its worldwide revenue or block X in the UK entirely. Starmer also announced this week a UK ban on under 16s using social media including X by spring 2027. The 2024 documents were published by journalists Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi.

NEWS: NEWS: Anthropic is interested in SpaceX data centers in space, pre Daniela Amodei, President and Co-Founder of Anthropic. Anthropic expressed preliminary interest in using potential SpaceX data centers in space, President and Co-Founder Daniela Amodei says, while playing down the near-term timeline. Amodei said the interest was part of Anthropic's announcement with SpaceX, whose Colossus compute Anthropic already rents for $1.25 billion a month. On timing, she was direct. Space data centers are not "on our to do list in 2027." SpaceX is pitching orbital compute as the future of AI infrastructure, and CFO Bret Johnsen says it is coming within a couple of years. Amodei's comments show the customer interest is real. The open question is when, not whether.