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Is the Cybercab cheaper than Waymo? Will Uber drivers lose jobs? What makes the Cybercab efficient? Summarise the video This video from Best in Tesla argues that Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab will significantly outperform competitors like Waymo and disrupt Uber’s current business model by offering a more cost-effective and efficient autonomous ride-hailing service. Key Takeaways: Cost Efficiency: The video estimates the Cybercab will cost approximately $17,500 to produce, compared to an estimated $100,000 for a Waymo robotaxi (1:23 - 2:49). This results in a massive gap in depreciation costs per mile (3:00 - 3:19). Operational Simplicity: Unlike Waymo, the Tesla Cybercab...

Elon Musk took the spotlight at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. Well, not in person! But he and his influence took center stage as filmmaker Alex Gibney discussed his new doc, simply called Musk, during a press conference around lunchtime.The film about the owner of X and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, world-premiering in the Italian fest's Venice Open -- Out of Competition program, comes from producers Jigsaw Productions (Gibney, Jessie Deeter, Erin Edeiken), Closer Media (Zhang Xin), Anonymous Content (Nick Shumaker, Jessica Grimshaw) and Double Agent (Dana O'Keefe)...A couple of questions focused on the tech mogul's support for...

(the splash screen is generally not all that pertinent) Elon Musk posted 26 times on X today (09/06/26) | 18:56 Jacob & Isaac | 45K subscribers | 42,810 views | September 6, 2026

On Monday’s All In, host Chris Hayes just went on a hypocrisy-lined tear against X owner Elon Musk for spending big in the midterms, while completely downplaying the enormous spending already unleashed by leftist billionaire George Soros. Hayes decried Musk’s “unfathomable amounts of money” to “elect Republicans this cycle,” browbeating him for not giving that money to charity or some other noble cause: “At least $100 million people are saying — quite possibly much more. That’s in addition to the nearly $300 million Musk already spent electing Trump back in 2024.” But perhaps just as egregious, check out the pathetic...

The richest man in the world, who was laser-focused on delivering Pennsylvania for President Donald Trump in 2024, is wielding his wallet in the Keystone State once again to support Republicans in three swing congressional districts ahead of the midterms. America PAC, Musk’s super PAC, has contributed roughly $12,000 apiece in support of U.S. Reps. Ryan Mackenzie, of Lehigh; Rob Bresnahan, of Lackawanna; and Scott Perry, of York — all GOP incumbents facing tough reelection challenges, according to an independent expenditure report filed Wednesday. Though small potatoes in comparison, America PAC’s contributions in Pa. come roughly two years after Musk...

On Friday evening, Booster 21 fired all 33 engines. SpaceX says: full duration. But the burn was 10 seconds shorter than on the last two flights, and SpaceX doesn't say why. I have a theory, and it tells us a lot about what one launch really costs a pad. Ship 40 is sailing the wrong way around the planet, on purpose. Louisiana has already started work on its 100 billion dollar Starbase. And Flight 14? Two weeks out. What did SpaceX just quietly change, and why? Starship Flight 14: Is This The Most Important Launch Yet? Will It Go To...

SpaceX's plan to build the world's largest facility -- 100 million square feet in Grimes County, Texas, near Houston -- to do advanced computing and also manufacture, test and package silicon chips for its own use and by other Elon Musk-owned companies, will be self-powered using a gigawatt-scale natural gas power plant and battery storage, according to the company.The operations "are not expected to use electricity from the grid," the company said in a tax abatement agreement it entered into with the county in June.

SpaceX conducted a full-duration static fire test of Starship's 33-engine Super Heavy booster at Starbase, Texas on Aug. 28, 2026, as part of preparations for Flight 14. SpaceX fires up Starship's 33-Engine Super Heavy booster ahead of flight 14 | 1:03 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 58,856 views | August 29, 2026

In this video, we dive into the complex maritime operation of loading SpaceX's Starship 40 onto the heavy-lift vessel MV Forte for its journey home. Following its successful splashdown and subsequent recovery, the process of securing such a massive piece of hardware at sea presents unique engineering and logistical challenges. We look at the equipment used, the role of the recovery fleet, and what this means for the future of rapid rocket reuse. SpaceX Starship 40: The Process of Loading a Rocket at Sea | 12:40 What's Going on With Shipping? | 714K subscribers | 77,031 views | August 26,...

In this episode of What the Ship, we break down the top five maritime stories as of late August 2026. From high-stakes salvage operations in the Pacific to escalating economic warfare in the Black Sea, global shipping is facing unprecedented challenges. We look at how these regional disruptions are redrawing trade maps, spiking freight rates, and ultimately impacting global inflation. What the Ship (Ep 146) | Starship 40 & SLNC York Hormuz, Black Sea & Chokepoint Chaos | Containers 30:26 | What's Going on With Shipping? 713K subscribers | 34,153 views | August 24, 2026

Tesla Inc. TSLA has landed an order for 500 Semi electric trucks from Einride AB ENRD, in what the Swedish freight company calls the largest Tesla Semi deployment announced to date. The deal comes just months after the first Semi rolled off Tesla’s new high-volume production line in Nevada, a milestone that arrived years behind schedule. Einride announced the Tesla deal alongside its first-half results Tuesday, forecasting constant-currency revenue growth of 60% to 73% in the second half, accelerating from 26% in the first half. Einride shares surged 18% in premarket trading Tuesday. Tesla Semis Will Haul Freight for Amazon,...

This week at Starbase as construction pushes ahead on Booster 23 and Ship 43, Ship 41 undergoes static fire testing and we catch our first glimpse of hardware that SpaceX will be using to transport Starships to Florida. Starship's 14th Flight Moved Back To Next Month | 8:00 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 1,896 views | August 23, 2026

Well, Starship's Next Flight Just Changed! Big time actually. The first Starship tower catch now pushed back months so we will have an ocean splashdown for the upper stage again with Flight 14. Never the less, Ship 41 just completed its static fire testing ahead of what should still be Starship's first fully orbital flight. Meanwhile, Ship 40 has reached Christmas Island after Flight 13, and a massive semi-submersible vessel is on the way to transport it all the way back to Starbase, Texas. Along with that China's reusable ZhuQue-3 successfully lands, NASA astronauts conduct more ISS spacewalks, Rocket Lab...

After approx. 24 days at sea, the SpaceX Recovery team successfully guided Starship to a location just off the coast of Christmas Island. A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle in calmer waters before attempting to return it to Starbase.

SpaceX launched eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar from Florida, as well as the USSF-366 mission for the U.S. Space Force from California, on Aug. 15, 2026. [Full Story on Space.com] The two rockets launched just 38 minutes apart, breaking SpaceX’s previous record -- set on Aug. 31, 2024, with two Starlink missions -- by 27 minutes. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta ( / spaleta_space_odyssey ) SpaceX Launches 2 Rockets 38 Minutes Apart -- New Record! Sticks Landings | 9:19 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 7,146 views |...

SpaceX is closing in on 130,000 acres of Louisiana coastline. A second mega Starbase, so large that today's Starbase would fit into it more than nine hundred times. And that's only half of the expansion story, because in a letter to the federal government on Friday, SpaceX asked to open up the ocean itself. Yes. The Starship oil rigs are back. Meanwhile, at the pad that just launched Flight 13, our flyover caught something nobody expected: scaffolding deep inside the flame trench. We dug into what's happening down there, and the answer comes with a clock attached, because the paperwork...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman tells Lydia Moynihan why Elon Musk is so important to America’s space program. Isaacman also explains why it’s crucial for America to beat China in the race back to the moon. This is an excerpt of the Full interview, "NASA Chief Jared Isaacman: The Race to Mars, Extraterrestrial Life & Elon Musk". NASA Chief Jared Isaacman: Elon Musk is the greatest engineer in history | 13:57 Pod Force One with Miranda Devine | 112K subscribers | 3,795 views | August 8, 2026

On Tuesday morning, we published an episode arguing that Starship's heat shield doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be serviceable. On Tuesday afternoon, on SpaceX's very first earnings call as a public company, Elon Musk went further than we ever dared. Quote: "I'd consider the heat shield problem solved at this point." And that was just one hour of this call. A ship catch attempt at the end of this month. Operational Starlink V3 satellites on Flight 14. One Starship launch per day within a year. Boots on the Moon in 2028. All of it on the record,...

Elon Musk reveals what happens when a rocket launch needs approval from Fish and Wildlife Elon: "Nonetheless, we were forced to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, put headphones on the seal and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed." Elon: "This is an actual thing that happened. This is actually real. I have pictures." Before the seal, there was a shark. Elon: "One of the things that was a bit of a challenge at one point is that they were worried about our rocket hitting a shark." He asked for the...

Reuse. It's the entire reason Starship exists. And right now, SpaceX is towing a flown Starship across an ocean just to get its hands on it again. Meanwhile, the internet declares that the heat shield that brought it home can never work as intended. Today, we run the actual numbers on that claim. The result surprised even me. And then there's Flight 14. The signs point to something we have never seen before. A Starship that doesn't come home after an hour. One that might stay in orbit for days, for the first time ever. And then it comes back...