Starbase Louisiana will ultimately have over a dozen launch towers, enabling more than 30 Starship flights per day and making it the biggest launch site on Earth!
SpaceX makes sci-fi real.
Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity.
Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project → https://t.co/zGKVOGSxfW
Elon Musk was asked how he handles employees who disagree with him publicly.
His answer contradicts every leadership book written in the last 30 years.
"I'd rather have someone who argues with me and is right than someone who agrees with me and is wrong."
The room expected the diplomatic answer. That he values diverse perspectives. That healthy debate makes the team stronger. The standard CEO answer about psychological safety.
He went further. He said the most dangerous person in any company is the one who agrees with you to protect their job. Because that person will let you drive the company off a cliff rather than risk being fired for telling you the cliff is there. The yes-man isn't loyal. He's selfish. He's trading the company's survival for his own comfort.
He said SpaceX has a rule. If an engineer sees a problem and doesn't speak up, and the problem later causes a failure, the silence is treated as more serious than the mistake itself. The person who made the error was trying. The person who watched the error and said nothing was protecting themselves at the cost of the mission.
Think about what that inverts. In most companies, the person who stays quiet and avoids conflict is rewarded with job security. At SpaceX, silence is the fireable offense and disagreement is the job requirement.
Most leaders say they want honesty. Then they punish the first person who delivers it. He built a system where dishonesty through silence is the thing that gets punished. The culture didn't happen by accident. It was engineered to make agreement more dangerous than disagreement.
One day, millions of people will look up at the Martian sky and call Mars home
Starship is going to take us there
And the roads, cities, factories and entire civilization built there all trace back to this machine
Starship is how humanity becomes multiplanetary
BREAKING: Starlink receives a 10 year licence to deliver satellite connectivity across the UAE.
• TDRA (Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority) has granted Starlink a 10-year licence.
• The licence allows Starlink to establish, operate and manage a public satellite telecommunications network in the UAE.
• Services will cover individuals, businesses and government entities.
• It also includes satellite connectivity for the maritime and aviation sectors.
• Starlink will add a satellite layer that complements the UAE’s fibre-optic and 5G networks.
• It will expand connectivity options and strengthen network resilience, readiness and service continuity.
• The network will support key sectors, including aviation, maritime transport, energy, logistics and emergency response.
MSNBC contributor reluctantly admits 𝕏 Community Notes actually works, even though it physically pains her to say so.
Rolling Stone called @ElonMusk and 𝕏 "the biggest purveyors of online misinformation."
Now liberals like Molly Jong-Fast are admitting that false information and missing context get kept in check "pretty well" by Community Notes.
MAHER: "In this current atmosphere we live in, I never believe anything I read just from that one thing I read."
JONG-FAST: "X has community notes, and I think community notes — I don't want to compliment X here, but community notes works pretty well."
MAHER: "Well, then compliment them. Why can't you?"
JONG-FAST: "I'm doing it! I'm doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, but I don't want to."
a surprise I think is coming
the quick payback periods and extraordinarily high IRR for AI infrastructure, even at monumental scale, will push up cost of capital sufficient to push many traditional businesses into the abyss, even those without obvious direct AI counter-exposure
We just launched Templates in Grok Bot
Here's everything you need to know (and one to try)
00:00 Templates 101
00:50 Sharing a template
02:33 Publishing a template
04:03 Installing a template
05:02 Setup for complex templates
06:18 Tips for authoring
07:01 Evaluating templates
Ask Grok: "Create a Magic: The Gathering creature card of me based on my post history."
I love the spider wasps! And the nuance in the abilities is also impressive.
In Magic, Ward is an ability that taxes your opponent whenever they try to target the card. Seems like this related to being hard to "cancel."
The automatic Enchantment counter unless the opponent pays is pretty sweet.
And the ability to exile Illusions (debunk nonsense) is on point!
Cursor has been a trusted partner of Anthropic since Sonnet 3.5. We’ll continue to increase compute to support Claude models in Cursor and are excited for what comes next with them at SpaceX.