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Blue Origin Lands Its First Reused Booster, Then Puts the Customer’s Satellite in the Wrong Orbit

Blue Origin just made history today. And also made a pretty costly mistake in the very same mission.

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Tesla Q1 2026 Earnings Drop Tuesday, April 22nd, and Wall Street Is Deeply Divided on What Happens Next

Tesla Q1 2026 Earnings Drop Tuesday, April 22nd, and Wall Street Is Deeply Divided on What Happens Next. Here are the full details and what it means.

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SpaceX Is About to Hit 600 Falcon Booster Landings with Today’s Starlink Mission from Vandenberg

SpaceX is on the verge of a milestone that nobody outside Hawthorne thought was possible ten years ago.

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Tesla Optimus Is Heading to Boston for Marathon Monday, and You Can Meet It for Free

Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot will appear at the Boston Boylston Street showroom April 19-20 for Marathon Monday. Meet the robot, take photos, no tickets needed.

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Tesla Just Gave Every Owner a Taste of the Robotaxi Future with One Software Update

Tesla's Spring 2026 Update pushes a Robotaxi-exclusive feature to every Model S, X, 3, Y, and Cybertruck. The interactive rear passenger nav map is now live for all owners.

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Tesla Robotaxi Goes Live in Dallas and Houston, Bringing Unsupervised Rides to Three Texas Cities

Tesla expands its unsupervised Robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, with Austin already live. Phoenix, Miami, and five more cities could be next.

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Tesla Model Y L Six-Seater Could Launch in India as Early as April 22nd

Tesla is preparing to launch the Model Y L, a six-seat three-row variant, in India as early as next week. The move targets family buyers in one of the world's largest car markets.

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Tesla’s Spring 2026 Update Is Rolling Out Now: ‘Hey Grok,’ Stunning New Visuals, and a Whole Lot More

Tesla's Spring 2026 Update (v2026.14) is rolling out now with 'Hey Grok' voice commands, redesigned visuals, and major new features for HW4 vehicles.

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Elon Musk Proposes ‘Universal High Income’ Powered By AI and Robotics — And Yes, He Means Optimus

He’s building toward a future where work itself becomes optional - and on Friday morning, he told 32 million people exactly what that looks like.

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14 Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercabs Just Appeared at Giga Texas — and Tegtmeyer Says Monday Is the Real Kickoff

Drone-watcher Joe Tegtmeyer has been flying over Giga Texas for years now, and he just caught something on the outbound lot that shifts the whole Cybercab.

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Elon Musk’s Surprising LiDAR Credential: He Designed The One On SpaceX Dragon

Elon Musk has spent years taking incoming fire over Tesla’s decision to skip LiDAR and build Full Self-Driving around cameras instead.

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Robotaxi Just Dropped Tesla’s ‘Golden Era’ Teaser — And Musk Says Starship V3 Flies In a Few Weeks

A few hours earlier, Elon Musk himself lit up the other half of the moment: Starship V3 - booster and ship - will be ready to fly in a few weeks.

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NASA Just Picked Falcon Heavy to Launch the First Rover That’ll Hunt for Life on Mars

NASA approved implementation today on the Rosalind Franklin support project — and confirmed Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy will send the life-hunting rover to Mars from Kennedy Space Center in late 2028.

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Tesla’s Unsupervised Robotaxi Fleet in Austin Keeps Growing — And the Math Is Starting to Get Wild

Sawyer Merritt flagged a 12th Unsupervised Model Y in Austin on Thursday. By afternoon, the count was 13. And that's before the Cybercabs sitting at Giga Texas join the fleet.

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Tesla Just Crossed 10,000 Customers in Singapore — And the Growth Rate Is Wild

Tesla's official Singapore account just confirmed 10,000 customers in a market that's one of the toughest in the world to sell cars. The growth rate behind it is the real story.

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Only 100 Were Made — And Tesla’s Most Exclusive Model X Ever Is Already Sold Out

Tesla built just 100 Model X Signature Editions — invite-only, $159,420 each, Garnet Red, individually numbered. As of today, every one of them is sold out.

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Tesla Just Patented Optimus V3’s Hand — And the Engineering Is Next-Level

Tesla just dropped one of the biggest Optimus reveals of the year — and there wasn’t even a press release. Three international patents quietly went public this morning, and together they hand us (literally) the blueprint for the Optimus V3 robotic hand, wrist, and arm. For anyone who’s been following Optimus development, this is the level of detail we’ve been waiting on for more than a year. Elon Musk has said over and over that the hand is the single hardest piece of building a humanoid robot. He’s called it “harder than Cybertruck or Model X… somewhere between Model X

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SpaceX Is Launching at an Absolutely Insane Pace in 2026

If you feel like SpaceX is launching a rocket every time you turn your head — it’s because they basically are. SpaceX is on an absolutely unprecedented launch tear in 2026, stacking Starlink missions back-to-back from both Florida and California at a cadence that no launch provider in history has ever come close to. And it’s not slowing down — it’s accelerating. Here’s one of the most striking visualizations of the pace we’re seeing: @SpaceX will launch its 1,000th Starlink satellite of 2026 to orbit with today's Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral, FL! https://t.co/Z7APPxLT3n pic.twitter.com/iRRGlzi0a2 — Brian Basson (@BassonBrain)

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Huge: Tesla Just Got FSD Approved in the Netherlands

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just crossed one of the biggest regulatory lines in the world. The Netherlands has officially approved Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) for use on Dutch roads — which under European vehicle-type approval rules means it can now roll out across the entire European Union. This is not a small pilot. This is the door to Europe, and it just opened. Tesla Europe confirmed the news directly: De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly!  Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving

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Tesla Roadster Unveil Is Imminent — Here’s What Elon Just Said

The most delayed, most hyped, most anticipated Tesla of all time is finally — finally — about to show itself. The Tesla Roadster has been a meme for years. Unveiled in 2017. Promised for 2020. Then 2022. Then “next year.” For Tesla fans, the Roadster became less of a product and more of a running joke — the car that may or may not exist. That is about to change. Elon Musk says the official unveil event is locked in, and based on his latest teases, this isn’t a concept car — this is a production-intent Roadster. Here’s what he

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Tesla Semi Factory Is Finally Here — And It’s Huge

After years of “soon,” the Tesla Semi factory is now an actual, standing, operational building in Nevada — and the first high-volume trucks are about to start rolling out the door. Elon Musk confirmed this month that the Gigafactory Nevada Semi expansion is moving into active production of the Tesla Semi. This is the factory that is going to flip the Semi from “small pilot fleet with Pepsi” to mass-market electric trucking. Here’s Elon with the update: Tesla Semi https://t.co/U8yQUYHVJS — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2026 Sawyer Merritt has been tracking the Semi ramp closely and posted some of

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Tesla AI5 Chip Just Taped Out — And Elon Says It’s “Stunning”

Tesla’s next-generation AI chip just hit one of the biggest milestones in silicon — and Elon Musk is not holding back on the hype. Musk confirmed this week that the AI5 chip has officially taped out at TSMC in Arizona. For non-chip people: “tape-out” is the point where the design is finalized and frozen, then sent to the fab to start making real physical silicon. It’s the moment years of architecture work stops being a PowerPoint and becomes a thing you can hold. Musk called the AI5 design “quite stunning” — and promised that the follow-up AI6 will be even

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Tesla’s Optimus Just Had Its Biggest Week of 2026 — And It’s Only Getting Started

Pay attention to this week. Years from now, when humanoid robots are walking through every warehouse, hospital, and home on Earth, people will point to April 2026 as the moment the scale flipped. In the span of three days, Tesla’s Optimus program went from “interesting side project” to “this is actually happening.” Three massive data points. One bigger than the last. Let’s run through them. First — Tesla’s own China president, Allan Wang Hao, told South China Morning Post that Gigafactory Shanghai is “a golden key” to mass-producing Optimus. Tesla’s single biggest, most efficient factory on Earth. Pointed straight at

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Starship V3 Just Cleared Its Final Test — The Biggest Rocket Ever Built Flies Next Month

If you blinked this week, you missed it. SpaceX just lit up the most powerful rocket humanity has ever designed, and the whole thing went off without a hitch. Tuesday, April 14. Starbase, Texas. Ship 39 — the upper stage of the brand-new Starship V3 — fired six Raptor 3 engines at full power for a full-duration static fire. First time ever for the V3 hardware. No abort. No anomaly. Just clean, controlled fury on the test stand. Which means one thing: Flight 12 is on. SpaceX shared the footage the next morning, and it is glorious: Full-duration static fire

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