Blue Origin is great and if we had nothing to compare it with, we'd be incredibly impressed with what they built, having raised just $30B.
But let's just use BO to put SpaceX's capital efficiency into perspective;
— SPCX invented the orbital class reusable booster
— flew + landed it like 650 times
— built Starlink; 10M+ customers
— built Dragon; launched like 60 humans to the ISS
— got ~95% of the way to making a fully reusable Starship operational
— acquired xAI, positioning them to do Starmind
All of this on just $10B worth of private equity
Like what the fuck
if we double the industrial production in outer-space every 12 months starting from some initial seed in 2030 then we hit Kardashev I by 2064 and Kardashev II by 2098. If we take 24 months for each doubling, we still hit Kardashev I by 2096 and Kardashev II by 2165
Grok Bot now connects to your finances.
Link your bank, card, and investment accounts with the new Finance integration, then ask Bot to help manage your spending, investments, and more.
🚨INSANE
Democrat Tom Suozzi says his biggest goal in politics is mass amnesty for criminal illegals:
"My biggest goal of what I want to accomplish in politics right now is I want to legalize 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 million people in our country."
the Grok @Bot desktop app just got even faster! we shipped 53 perf fixes over the past few days:
• reconnecting after a flaky connection: 60s → 0.7s
• waking your laptop: 23s → 1s
• switching back to a bot's Computer view: 868ms → 27ms
• opening a chat with a long code block: 954ms → 228ms
• the Media tab no longer re-downloads every time: 137MB → 0.7MB
plus smoother sidebar animations, no more jumpy screenshot-heavy chats, and much lower memory usage while idle.
still more to improve!
Fitch gives Tesla its first-ever BBB investment-grade credit rating.
Fitch highlighted Tesla’s EV leadership, strong profitability, $43.5B in cash and investments, and “unmatched” vertical integration as it expands into AI, Robotaxi and Optimus.
This is huge. 🔥
BREAKING: Elon Musk on Optimus, and a future where money may not matter in his new interview with CCTV:
“If you think like Star Wars, where you had C-3PO and R2-D2, and they were friendly, helpful robots. Well, wouldn't it be great if everyone could have their own personal C-3PO R2-D2? But even better than that, like more productive.
That could take care of elderly parents, guardian and watch over the children. Or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child. And taking care of any jobs that you can think of.
I think everyone would like to have a future where they can have their own personal robots. And then I think you'll see many companies where it's one person with hundreds, maybe thousands of robots. Like physical robots as well as digital robots.
So the productivity of one person will be greatly amplified. And my prediction is that there will be effectively universal high income. In fact, it's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future.”
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We rebuilt customer support around Grok Bot to scale our operations without adding headcount.
It works autonomously to respond to customers, resolve tickets, and manage the queue.
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���NEW: @JTLonsdale & @SquawkCNBC clash on AI and wealth inequality.
Joe Lonsdale: 2030s is the disinflation decade... we're all going to be really wealthy if we don't break this.
Joe Kernen: Everybody's going to get wealthier? Because only the wealthy have been getting wealthier...
Joe Lonsdale: That's not true. Let's go back: 1870 to 1900, the Second Industrial Revolution, the last time productivity shot up a lot, the average American, the average working class American, was twice as wealthy in real terms within one generation...
Andrew Ross Sorkin: Tell me where you land on "We've got to slow everything down, because if we don't, we could end up dying...
Joe Kernen: or worse...
Joe Lonsdale: or worse, the companies go bankrupt
Andrew: versus we've got to go full steam ahead. No matter what. No matter what the case.
Joe Lonsdale: I love the meme where it's Dario and Sam saying, please regulate us. And Trump says, keep building, nerds.
These companies have a lot of liabilities. These companies need to slow down if they see themselves causing damage. I'm not worried about any existential risks in the near term. I 100% could see these companies accidentally causing some problems with hacking with cyber, for example.
They have a responsibility to slow down themselves, and we should be holding them liable if they cause any damage. And so it makes sense that they would be very careful about that. But we were just talking...
2030s is disinflation decade. We're going to all be really wealthy if we don't break this. So don't slow down too much is my view.
Joe Kernen: Go back to this again. You told me that 2030s are going to be the decade of disinflation. We're going to all get rich, and we're not going to need to raise taxes, and we're going to start growing faster. The deficit will come under control. This is going to happen?
Joe Lonsdale: The AI is really good for rooting out fraud and grift in the government. It's really going to bring down health care costs dramatically. It's amazing for bringing back manufacturing. We have companies already bringing back lots of manufacturing here. That's only about to accelerate.
We're at what's called a GPT-3 moment right now for robotics, right. World models, which are a new type of AI -- how do things move and interact in the real world in general terms...
Joe Kernen: So this will help one of our most daunting fears of the $40 trillion and the out of control deficits we're running now, this will come under control from AI?
Joe Lonsdale: If you get productivity up to 3, 4 or 5%, what you 100% should be able to do with these things, if not significantly higher, that solves the deficit problem.
This is an amazing thing for a civilization; this is the answer is to get growth higher, and it's how everyone gets wealthier, it's doing more with less. It's going to do it.
Joe Kernen: Everybody's going to get wealthier? Because only the wealthy have been getting wealthier...
Joe Lonsdale: That's not true. Let's go back: 1870 to1900, the Second Industrial Revolution, the last time productivity shot up a lot, the average American, the average working class American, was twice as wealthy in real terms within one generation.
And that's what happens when productivity goes up. Everyone gets wealthier. We we teach economics very poorly in this country.
BREAKING: SpaceXAI just released a major Grok Build update, with Grok 4.7 now available in Grok Build.
The update improves crash recovery, prompt handling, navigation, configuration reliability and overall subagent performance. It also adds new subagent controls, configurable request limits and long-reasoning reminders.
Release Notes
Version 1.0.41 — September 22, 2026
Features
• Added a new sports_search tool that can look up live NFL scores, standings, schedules, player stats and team records directly from X data.
• Added a subagent model inheritance setting to /settings. It persists in config.toml and respects managed and overlay layers.
• Per-model request size limits can now be configured to match provider HTTP body caps and control inline image eviction.
• A long-reasoning reminder can now be enabled through config to nudge the model after lengthy hidden-reasoning steps.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed the subagent fullscreen view so it no longer shows a stray [Dashboard] button in the header.
• Fixed agent frontmatter mcpServers so headers and URLs from the active agent’s agent.md correctly override config.toml and survive config reloads or agent switches.
• Ctrl+P now opens the command palette immediately from the welcome screen.
• The Dashboard now focuses the “+ New Agent” row instead of leaving the previous session selected.
• Sessions interrupted by a crash now show a clear marker instead of silently dropping the turn.
• Pressing Ctrl+Z immediately after stashing a prompt now restores it.
• The collapsed edit blocks setting now correctly collapses edits even when expanded_by_default is pinned to true.
• Interjections now receive a visible reply before the agent resumes its previous tasks.
• Cancelling a turn blocked on spawn_subagent now tells the model that the child moved to the background instead of claiming it was never executed.
• Saving a queued-prompt edit now returns focus to the composer so the next keystrokes type the next message.
• Subagent activation is now consistent between the TUI and Grok Agent Studio. Tables that only set limits or models no longer disable subagents.
• Effort-level selection now accepts menu labels in addition to IDs.
If AI gave you back 2 hours a day, that's 730 hours a year. What would you do with them? Spend more time with your kids? Get healthy? Start the business you've been putting off? That's the conversation about the future of tech I want to have.
What becomes possible when people get part of their lives back?