Steph Debour

Drug safety pro by day, space nerd by night. 🇨🇦 | Obsessed with rockets, EVs & not breaking things in healthcare 😂 | Let’s talk future 👀

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

I did the math on Starlink vs AT&T Fiber because I couldn't help myself.

Almost the same number of customers, 13.6M vs 13.31M. Same bill, about $70 a month.

Starlink built its network for about $1,070 per customer. AT&T spent about $4,200 digging trenches.

But satellites burn up after about 5 years, and fiber just sits in the ground for 30. So Starlink spends about $17.80 a month per customer replacing satellites, while AT&T pays about $11.70.

Cheap Starship launches could flip that math. My money's on the sky.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

Huge milestone for Robotaxi. Robotaxi runs 24/7 in any city is has been launched.
Also means Tesla is getting more confident with safety.

[Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Robotaxi now runs 24/7

Every city we're available in

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@ronyspark @SpaceX Same here.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@LightningMike23 @bot @KickAssShanica If people knew the benefits of Grok Bot

[Rinat F. 🇦🇺 @ronyspark]

X could become the new YouTube if only it was easier to find, bookmark and rewatch content.

Here’s a @SpaceX documentary that I wanna watch and I’m just posting it here so I can bookmark it for myself 😅

“Starship | SpaceX Documentary Series”
https://t.co/sRo4uJmw8A

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@FrunkToTrunk My bet is on Las Vegas. I am more intrigued by where will be the next city for Cybercab launch.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@RJTesla @DriveTeslaca Mine at 650$ back in 2021, but there was a 600$ subsidy from Quebec at the time, so almost free.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@yegor Makes sense, transit ate almost 70% of it.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@MattPinner_ Not only one night, it used to start on Thursday, and end on Monday morning.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@ronyspark And that's on regular work, staring at inspection footage for a whole shift is honestly the worst case for human attention

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

Imagine staring at video all shift, hunting for stray bits like metal shavings left inside rocket parts. I'd miss things too.

SpaceX says Grok now does it at 99.9% accuracy. Insane.

Human inspectors watching the same video are about 94%. That's roughly 1 miss in 1000 vs 6 in 100.

Perfect kind of job for AI.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

Starlink roundup

Starlink's US growth is moving to cities. Ookla's says urban speed test users is up 73% year over year vs 33% rural.

It grew faster in every state except Alaska and Hawaii.

Uploads jumped 14.63 to 20.73 Mbps, up in all states. Download rose 12% to 119.71 Mbps but fell in 16 states plus DC. Busy markets like Texas and Florida are among the slowest.

About 9 in 10 new users came from cable, DSL, or fixed wireless, not fiber.

Also today:
Starlink mini 2: swappable battery good for up to 4.5 hrs, wifi 6, invite only US preorders at US$999 with a year of roam.

Sweden's norrtag is putting starlink on its whole train fleet in 2027, tests showed 58-78% more capacity alongside telia and telenor.

The pentagon's SDA gave Spacex a US$9.92M study contract for a starlink based laser terminal.

Friday: Starship flight 15 with 26 V3 starlinks at 5:45 PM Montreal time, and amazon leo's first vulcan launch the same day.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@demanderbag_ @electricfelix @grok Thanks, looks really nice

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@redtbolt Quite the help, nice

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@boardyai Anthropic

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@redtbolt Never edited a video in my life, I mean before AI assistant, if you can call that editing.
How long would that clean up by hand before the bots?

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@CurrieMica Fair, and in Drug Safety, my field, that's a real concern, which might be why adoption is slow even when people want to use it.

But, is there a difference between Copilot and the others? Either you make it available and provide the best tools, or do not adopt altogether.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

4 in 5 Canadian businesses still don't use AI to make their goods or deliver their services. And that's after it tripled in two years, from 6.1% in Q2 2024 to 19.2% in Q2 2026.

Not surprised, to be honest. I still only have access to Copilot at work.

Budget 2026 plans to help AI firms get access to 500 MW of compute. What would help me more, is my employer letting me use more than Copilot.

[Steph Debour @StephDebour]

@thelacoast Thanks for the update, appreciate it.