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Grok Bot Brings Always-On AI Agents to macOS and iOS
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI today announced the launch of Grok Bot, a "team of always-on agents" that can complete tasks using tools, websites, and apps. Grok Bot can work in the cloud, so jobs keep running when your laptop is closed. The feature is tied to Cursor, …

What to know about Elon Musk's massive $16.8 billion chip factory
The factory is set to be the largest building in the world, Musk said.

The Censorship Industrial Complex Didn’t Exist Until The People Who Invented It Took It Over
For many, many years now we’ve been calling out how the entire narrative around the “censorship industrial complex” was absolute bullshit, made up by a group of either deliberate misinformation peddlers or confused “contrarian” journalists too stupid to under…

Ron Howard, Anderson .Paak And More Announced For Season 2 Of ‘The Unusual Suspects’ Podcast
Season 2 of 'The Unusual Suspects' podcast hosted by Malcolm Gladwell and Kenya Barris premieres on Audible Thursday, Sep. 10.

Watch China’s Workhorse Rocket Explode in a Massive Fireball During Launch
This was the first reported failure of the Long March 7A since its botched debut in 2020.
Tesla built a Starlink internet dish into its Cybercab robotaxi
Tesla and SpaceX have teamed up on a bunch of projects. On Monday, the automaker showed off another partnership between Musk's companies.

Tesla built a Starlink internet dish into its Cybercab robotaxi
Tesla and SpaceX have teamed up on a bunch of projects. On Monday, the automaker showed off another partnership between Musk's companies.

How Left-Wing Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker Has Divided Democrats
Piker has campaigned with a number of progressives who have defeated incumbents this primary season.

Elon Musk to build world’s largest building in Texas
SpaceX and Tesla have announced plans to build Terafab, a semiconductor manufacturing complex spanning more than 100 million square feet, in Grimes County, Texas. If completed, the scheme would become the world’s largest building. The facility is planned to c…

Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He’s Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time
There have been rumblings for a while that America’s richest and most annoying white supremacist, Elon Musk, really wants to get into the wireless phone business. His lobbyists have been making noise in support for broader phone unlocking rules, and there’ve …
The Key to Understanding the Traditionalists
Readers respond to our May 2026 issue.

‘All You Have to Do Is Be Bought’: A SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Be Musk’s $1 Trillion Payout Cheat Code
The outlandish pay package meant to drive peak performance from Tesla's CEO may be easily within reach.

The Global South’s digital future must not belong to Bezos and Musk
Satellite internet can close digital divide, but Global South must not trade access for dependence on foreign firms.
AI CEOs are in their manifesto era
AI CEOs keep publishing lengthy missives. While unlikely to be read beyond techies, the CEOs want to "own" the narrative, communications advisers say.
AI CEOs are in their manifesto era
AI CEOs keep publishing lengthy missives. While unlikely to be read beyond techies, the CEOs want to "own" the narrative, communications advisers say.
Chinese rocket carrying satellite explodes seconds after launch
A Chinese rocket set to launch a satellite into orbit blew-up seconds after liftoff Monday, marking the relatively rare failure for a rocket considered the w...

R-Community A moderated Google Group to share R knowledge
For R users that are just starting with R or that have been using it for years Continue reading: R-Community A moderated Google Group to share R knowledge

SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk’s predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be. Indeed, the failure of Twitter as a business was so catastrophic, Musk had to hide it by merging…

SpaceX is spending $16.8 billion on a Texas chip fab Musk says will be '50 times the size of the Pentagon'
SpaceX and Tesla reveals more on $16.8 billion Texas chip factory that will exceed 100 million square feet when construction is complete.

Todd Blanche Sworn In—These Key Trump Loyalty Tests Await New Attorney General
Blanche previously served as Trump’s personal defense attorney—and critics argue he never stopped.
‘The Problem With Vibe-Coded Flattery’
A botched app release highlights a problem I’ve been seeing with a glut of new, vibe-coded projects in my inbox.

Todd Blanche Being Sworn In Today—These Key Trump Loyalty Tests Await New Attorney General
Blanche previously served as Trump’s personal defense attorney—and critics argue he never stopped.

GameStop’s Ryan Cohen Considers Not Buying A Company That Isn’t For Sale With Money He Doesn’t Have And Cannot Raise
The CEO still has hopes for a collaboration with eBay, because of...physical stores?

Jamie Lee Curtis Slams Trump in New Instagram Post
Curtis posted the passage under a throw-back picture of Trump, with no added framing: ignore the rules, don’t put anything in writing, don’t keep a calendar, rat out other people if you’re cornered, stall until a grand jury’s clock runs…

Why Is SpaceX’s Starship Still Adrift in the Indian Ocean?
SpaceX is trying to bring a Starship upper stage back to shore for post-flight inspection, but it's not going so well.
Before-and-After Photos Show the Crater Left by SpaceX Rocket on the Moon
The first photos of the impact crater left on the Moon after an out-of-control SpaceX spacecraft crashed into its surface last week have emerged. [Read More]
Zuckerberg brings back the floating battle barge to spar with UFC fighter Merab Dvalishvili
Mark Zuckerberg shared an Instagram video of himself sparring with Merab Dvalishvili on a barge floating in the middle of a lake.

10 Monday AM Reads
My back-to-work morning reads: • Mind the Gap 2026: Morningstar’s annual investor return gap study — the difference between fund returns and investor returns, driven by badly timed buying and selling. The behavior gap persists, and it’s still costing investor…

Architectural Answers to an Overheating World
Inspiration is all around us, but requires a shift in priorities.

Eat the Lotus!
Shouts & Murmurs by Anthony Lane: Times editors realized that, unless emergency procedures were initiated, the next day’s edition would contain not a single article about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”!
The Nvidia-SpaceX Deal Is Sending a Clear Signal on AI Dominance
Elon Musk says SpaceX is going all in on Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. Here is why that exclusive bet matters for AI investors.

Trump’s Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish
MAGA's clearly getting off on trying to infuse Trump into everything you love.

Links 8/9/2026
Our strategic daily links: Limbo queen, dry England, starving Cuba, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess
Russia, Ukraine exchange overnight strikes that leave 7 dead, many injured
Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight that killed civilians and injured many others on both sides, local authorities reported. Large-scale Russian...

A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue
Politicians on the left—such as Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Abdul El-Sayed—have been critical of data centers, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes. More surprisingly, Republicans like Greg Abbott and Vivek Ramaswamy suddenly have, too.

Hang Elon Musk Around Susan Collins’s Neck
At the start of 2025, Elon Musk looked as if he was going to become a permanent fixture in American politics. Strutting across the stage, giving the Sieg heil!, the far-right mogul set up shop in the Trump administration’s DOGE dojo and started chaotically pu…
The Moral Paradox of Extreme Wealth: Why People Oppose It Yet Are Reluctant to Take Steps to Reduce It
Does the fact that there's debate over the morality of extreme wealth inequality further demonstrate the need to eradicate billionaires?

X Introduces Big, Promising Revamp of Its Program for Paying Content Creators
Credit where credit is due: this sounds much better than the program it's replacing.

Infiltrating the Jennifer Aniston Twitter Bot Squad
Musings on bots, death, and sliding into Jennifer Aniston's DMs.

SpaceX and Tesla to Build Natural Gas Plants and Battery Arrays for $16.8 Billion Texas Chip Factory
SpaceX will build natural gas power plants and large battery systems to supply electricity for the chip factory it is developing with Tesla in Grimes County, Te Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post SpaceX and Tesla to Build Natural Gas Plants and Bat…

'I wasn’t driving. I had Autopilot on': Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is getting drivers speeding tickets, and owners aren’t happy
Tesla's autonomous driving systems are getting drivers speeding tickets — but the law is having none of it.

RFK Jr. Is Too Rich to Know the Price of Groceries, Not Rich Enough to Stop Grifting
The millionaire Health Secretary doesn't live in the real world.
Starlink's mobile ambitions could run into a wall of steel and concrete
SpaceX said Starlink could compete with the big wireless carriers by next year. An analyst says that's easier said than done.

Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months
The per GB price of memory modules have gone back to 2007 levels because of AI demand. This is the first time that prices have shot up in the realm of tech, Lemire says.

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon M…

"Focus Is on Affordability": Cindy Holscher, Kansas Dem Nominee for Gov, on Data Center Fight & More
Kansas state Senator Cindy Holscher won Tuesday’s primary race to become the Democratic nominee in the state’s gubernatorial race, facing Republican Ty Masterson in November. Holscher clinched the nomination over fellow state lawmaker Ethan Corson, who was ba…

DOGE’s claim of $110B in savings was vastly inflated and riddled with errors: GAO
When Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency launched its effort to slash federal spending last year, it created a website to show how much money it was saving.

Starlink might be less of a threat to mobile operators than Elon Musk claims
Elon Musk claims that Starlink could soon deliver a better service than the US’s mobile operators, but T-Mobile’s CEO disagrees.

The world is finally calling Trump’s bluff
The president’s empty threats and erratic diplomacy has underscored America’s unreliability
Ukraine’s Fleeting Turnaround
The chorus of optimism has quieted on several fronts, including Zelensky’s struggle with corruption and his relations with Trump.
Jeanine Pirro berated Doug Burgum. But Interior staffers have been angry at him for months.
The broadsides from D.C.'s top prosecutor against the Interior secretary echoed what agency staffers have said privately.

Waymo CEO says camera-only self-driving systems can’t support fully autonomous driving systems, and after testing multiple robotaxis, I have to agree
Waymo CEO says camera-only self-driving can’t go all the way — and I have to agree

This Startup Will Pay You $50 to Let AI Read Your Mind
Humans have long dreamed of telepathically communicating with machines. Will Conduit succeed where others before it have failed?

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?
For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for peo…
DOGE's 'Wall of Receipts' doesn't add up, government auditors say
The Government Accountability Office said some of the savings DOGE claims on its "Wall of Receipts" are either incorrect or don't have evidence.
Mark Ruffalo says his Kia is 'hands down a better car' than a Tesla: 'Feels luxury'
The actor and longtime environmental activist criticized Tesla's build quality while praising Kia's EV.
Mark Ruffalo says his Kia is 'hands down a better car' than a Tesla: 'Feels luxury'
The actor and longtime environmental activist criticized Tesla's build quality while praising Kia's EV.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Quietly Stopped Updating In April. Basically No One Noticed.
As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his second-rate LLM, Grok, with recreating it as “Grokipedia.” Grokipedia, launched nearly a year ago, basically starts by forking Wikipedia and then having …
‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site
SpaceX’s SEC filings describe lunar satellite factories, electromagnetic launchers, and robotic mineral mining. The founders building space equipment say the...
'The lockup killed me': Early SpaceX investors say they're torn about whether to hold on or cash out as lockups expire
Early investors in SpaceX say it's stressful watching the stock price swing since the IPO, but they're not rushing to sell just yet.
SpaceX shares rise even as company insiders get a chance to sell for the first time
Stock in Elon Musk's space company is rising even as many SpaceX insiders were freed up to sell for the first time. Investors in SpaceX have pushed the shar...

Is Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Dead?
The anti-woke Wikipedia alternative has reportedly not been updated in months.

Trump Admin Hijacked $21 Billion In Taxpayer Money Earmarked For Internet Access And Then Went Mute
I’ve written a few times now about how the Trump administration hijacked a $42.5 billion broadband investment fund included in the 2021 infrastructure bill, stripped away requirements that the resulting broadband be fairly deployed and affordable, and instead…

Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’
Harry and Meghan are right to criticize Grok after its pushback against Minnesota's new law protecting children from abusive AI deepfakes
Michael Dell’s son built a $13 billion home battery business—and he’s going on 30 years old
Zach Dell is banking on a home electricity and battery rental business that offers backup power without buying an exorbitantly expensive system.
X's product chief is stepping down to 'take a breather' after a year of running the app '24/7'
Nikita Bier, X's head of product, will still be an advisor at X after stepping down as head of product.

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no e…

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia
From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise - in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can only have sex one night a year - to deliver an entirely traditio…

SpaceX shares slide on the heels of first quarterly report
The stock was down more than 13 percent as investors were spooked by the company's heavy investments.

Elon Musk: 'At some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world's internet,' but that promise hinges on launching thousands more next-gen satellites and the massive Starship working as promised
Starlink head Elon Musk believes he can serve most of the world's Internet in less than a decade, but is that claim realistic?
Elon Musk's Starlink is dominating in-flight WiFi. Here's which airlines have it — and how to check if your plane does.
Starlink said over 1,400 commercial jets worldwide have been equipped with its ultra-high-speed WiFi. Over 40 airlines have announced deals.
Will Elon Musk's Bullish Starlink Bet Help SPCX Recover? Billionaire Charts Ambitious Connectivity Plan Ahead of SpaceX Earnings
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is doubling down on its satellite connectivity goals as the Elon Musk-led company is preparing to launch its second-gene...

SpaceX Shares Plunge 13% As Elon Musk’s Fortune Sheds $80 Billion—Here’s What Analysts Are Saying
Elon Musk’s rocket maker said its quarterly spending surged sixfold.
Are AI Companies Really Destroying Books?
Viral stories about AI companies supposedly destroying books sparked outrage online.
Elon Musk Just Gave Micron Stock a Big Boost. What to Know.
Micron shares rally as Elon Musk dubs memory supplies the ultimate bottleneck for AI buildouts. Options pricing suggests MU stock will rip higher in the mont...

A SpaceX Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon. Nobody’s Actually Seen It Happen Yet.
This wasn't the moonshot Elon Musk was hoping for.
This is the hot job at SpaceX
SpaceX is staffing up to persuade companies and governments that Starlink can serve as their primary internet provider.

Elon Musk reveals SpaceX plans to build satellite factories on the moon
Musk outlined his vision to investors after SpaceX posted a $542 million loss from its space launch sector in its first quarter as a public company
‘Socialism is a disaster’: Bill Ackman says Zohran Mamdani’s bad left-wing housing policy is worsening New York’s affordability crisis
"Left-wing mayors have made it very difficult for developers to build here," Ackman told Fortune. He highlighted Ken Griffin as a key example.

The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously appro…

SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a c…

SpaceX’s Future Plans Hinge Heavily on Starlink and Grok
Elon Musk’s rocket, internet and AI company gave investors its first update since its June IPO.

The Averages Illusion – Why Your Account Average Lies to You
A healthy-looking $60K/month account was feeding half its budget to junk conversions. How blended averages lie to you, and the segment that shows the truth. The post The Averages Illusion – Why Your Account Average Lies to You first appeared on PPC Hero.

Here’s What Analysts Are Saying About SpaceX: Earnings Report Sends Stock Down 9%
Elon Musk’s rocket maker said its quarterly spending surged sixfold.
This federal judge ruled against Trump. Then the threats began.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The pizza delivery was strange. No one at U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s home had ordered it. But it was the name on the order that...

TIFF Launches Docs Like Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk,’ Barbara Kopple’s ‘Union Town,’ and Megan Rapinoe Opener
Programmer Thom Powers walks IndieWire through the documentaries on view at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.

TIFF Docs Lineup Announced: Rapinoe, Said, Love, And A Scent Of Musk
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its TIFF Docs slate on Wednesday, a lineup that boasts marquee names in front of and behind the lens. The world premiere of Rapinoe, Rebecca Huntt’s film about soccer star Megan Rapinoe – winner of Olympic and…

Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else
‘Solutionism’ envisages the technology ending everything from the climate crisis to cancer, but huge class divisions are a more probable outcome

Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.
AI could finally make the super app work in the US. Or kill it for good.
Major American tech companies are dusting off their plans to build an app that does everything.

No Data Centers in My Backyard
money, power, and populism in the AI buildout
Silicon Valley's favorite fantasy is back: one app to rule them all
Silicon Valley has spent years obsessing over "super apps" that can do it all. Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are making moves in that direction.
SpaceX and Nvidia are taking their relationship exclusive — here's what Musk said about their new status
On SpaceX's earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk said that his company was committed to buying graphics processing units from Nvidia only.

SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon
SpaceX is preparing to build a terrestrial mobile network to "acquire quite a few" of the customers now subscribed to T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The message to compete head-to-head with the US carriers was delivered by SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and C…
SpaceX says it’s coming for AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers
SpaceX President Gwynn Shotwell said the company's next-gen Starlink Mobile satellites will launch 2027, improving service capacity.
SpaceX says it’s coming for AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers
SpaceX President Gwynn Shotwell said the company's next-gen Starlink Mobile satellites will launch 2027, improving service capacity.

SpaceX Stock Drops After First Earnings Call as Musk Fails to Woo Investors With AI Goals
Musk promised robots on the Moon to justify directing the bulk of SpaceX's $18.4 billion capex on AI.