Starship Flight 13 is flying today, and once again it’s going to make history
Throwback: Amazing moment when a SpaceX employee met Elon Musk, gave him a hug, and was very optimistic about the Starship Flight
“We will make it,” the employee said to Elon
BREAKING: Starlink Direct to Cell is coming to Italy. 🇮🇹
Starlink and Fastweb + Vodafone have reached an agreement to bring connectivity to remote areas across Italy.
• First Direct to Cell test will take place in the central Italian Apennines.
• Regular 4G smartphones will connect directly to Starlink satellites.
• Phones will automatically switch to satellite when terrestrial coverage disappears.
• Data and SMS will continue without users taking any additional action.
• No satellite phone, dish or extra hardware required.
Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory is becoming a global export powerhouse 🇨🇳
• Exports doubled to 229,000 vehicles in H1 2026
• Tesla is now China’s No. 6 vehicle exporter
• June exports surged to 36,000, more than triple year over year
• The factory produced 56% of Tesla’s 838,000 global deliveries in H1
• China-made Model Y became the top-selling imported EV in South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand
We've open-sourced Grok Build and have reset usage limits for all users.
Open sourcing Grok Build allows anyone to support making a reliable and robust harness. Check out our code, including the Git repo for the Grok Build CLI.
https://t.co/3SSvPu2Nrz
SpaceXAI is taking a zero-tolerance approach to illegal abuse of Grok.
• 52,222 accounts suspended in 2026
• 73,604 reports submitted to NCMEC
• 244 arrests made
Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.
BREAKING: Grokipedia surges to 37 million visits in the first half of 2026. The platform recorded 6.65 million visits in June alone, up 36.85% from the previous month.
More and more people are moving from Wikipedia to Grokipedia.
Do you know the history of the Bill of Rights?
In 1787, the "Founding Fathers" gathered in Philadelphia to draft the United States Constitution. They sought to create a strong central government to unite the thirteen former colonial states. However, once the text was finalized, a group of politicians—the Anti-Federalists—objected: "You forgot to list our fundamental rights!"
Supporters of the Constitution (the Federalists) countered that this was unnecessary, arguing that the government possessed only those powers explicitly granted to it. Yet, the public and several states refused to ratify the Constitution without a written guarantee that the new government would not devolve into tyranny—like the British monarchy they had just escaped.
To break the deadlock, James Madison (who would go on to become the fourth U.S. President) promised to draft a list of amendments once the Constitution was adopted. He kept his word in 1789. Of the twelve amendments initially proposed, ten were ratified by the states on December 15, 1791. These first ten amendments constitute the Bill of Rights.
I asked Grok to recreate the scene.
BREAKING: Starlink has applied to run rural satellite internet pilots in Colombia 🇨🇴
• Focused on improving internet coverage and performance in rural areas.
• Aims to bring faster, more reliable connectivity to underserved communities.
Elon Musk sharing his favorite and funniest economist joke 🤣
“Two economists are going for a walk in the forest, and they come across a pile of sht. One economist says, “I’ll pay you $100 to eat a pile of sht.” The other takes the $100 and eats it
Then they keep walking and come across another pile of sht. The second economist says, “Okay, I’ll give you $100 to eat a pile of sht.” So he gives him $100, and he eats it too
Then they say, “Wait a second, we both have the same amount of money, and we both ate a pile of sh*t. Oh my God, It sounds like we increased the economy by $200”