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Want to Know: Your Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)
Content
6th of February, 2025
"It’s almost like I’m good with money..." - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
■ TESLA $TSLA ($374.32, -1.02%):
- Tesla Texas... Pic by Hope Burress, Mechanical Engineering Student at Texas State University.
- On Ford's Q4 earnings call, CEO Jim Farley stated the company is deciding whether to partner with another company on full self-driving. "We're not so pollyannish about our own capability that we're not going to look at other people's system or not believe that Level 4 personal autonomy is going to be interesting at some point. We need a strong strategy team to decide, do we partner? I'm very confident in Sami and Doug and their technical prowess. They know the FSD system." Possible colab with Tesla here.
- TreeHacks 2025, Stanford's premier and largest hackathon, announced Tesla will be the Official Sponsor for the Autonomy Track this year. Prizes include:
Autonomy Track Grand Prize: 6-Months Use of a Tesla Model 3 or Model Y with Supervised FSD!
Tesla Experience Voucher: All participants in the Autonomy Track will receive a voucher to experience a Tesla for 48 hours!
Excellence Prize (Tesla AI Awards): 1st Place: $2,000 2nd Place: $1,000 3rd Place: $1,000
- Better make way... Tesla Semi rolling through.
- Tesla has reverted back to its original pricing on the Foundation Series Cybertrucks in Canada. Prices are now back $137,990 for the AWD and $165,990 for Cyberbeast. H/T Drive Tesla Canada (@DriveTeslaca).
- Tesla is hiring engineers to begin production of Optimus at the Fremont Factory. The roles vary from Manufacturing Engineer to Process Supervisor to Quality Engineer. So it begins. Per Tesla's Karissa Thein, "My team is turning Tesla Bot into a reality! We're building Tesla Bot in our Fremont Factory in California and we're looking for engineers up for the challenge of getting this product ramped up for high volume production."
- Tesla has opened a Popup store in Osaka Tenbi, Japan.
- The Tesla Showroom in Bucharest, Romania. Pics by photographer Bogdan Mosorescu.
- Per Tesla's Itai Shapira, you can book a self-service test drives at the Supercharger in Glilot; a junction area located between the cities of Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Ramat Hasharon in Israel. "This is a contactless location – simply sign up on the website for a test drive, gain access via the Tesla app, and hit the road!"
FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 6th of February, '25.
■ SPACEX:
- The Mural alongside the parking garage at Starbase is undergoing rework from wind damage. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages). Subscribe to Carlos!
- The Polaris Dawn Mission has been selected to receive the 2025 John L. ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation. Polaris Dawn was selected due to the number of major technical milestones achieved including: reaching the highest Earth orbit ever flown with a peak apogee of 1,408.1 kilometers above Earth, completing the first-ever commercial extravehicular activity (EVA) with SpaceX-designed EVA spacesuits, conducting scientific research designed to advance both human health on Earth and our understanding of human health during long-duration spaceflights, and testing laser-based communications in space with Starlink. The award will be presented at Space Foundation’s 40th annual Space Symposium, on April 7th - 10th, at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.
- At Pad A, SpaceX conducted a nitrogen purge of the Booster Quick Disconnect and Raptor Quick Disconnects. The pad is close to being ready for static fire testing of Booster 15.
- Shonnel Malani, Managing Partner of Advent/Maxar, at SpaceX in Cape Canaveral for the Maxar WorldView Legions 5 & 6 launch. "Enormous milestone for Maxar Technologies! Legions 5 & 6 were successfully launched by our friends at SpaceX from the fabled pad 39A at Cape Canaveral last night! Amazing job Maxar and SpaceX teams – thank you for all of the hard work. This completes the new and advanced 6-satellite constellation of Worldview Legion, securing Maxar’s future. This new constellation brings capabilities that gear shift Maxar into bringing some incredible new products and insights to our customers. My colleague James Brocklebank and I were humbled to be there for this seminal moment."
- This is the latest view of the SpaceX Facility of Roberts Road in Cape Canaveral, Florida. You can see the clearing and groundwork for the Giga Bay. Pic is by Julia Bergeron (@julia_bergeron) for @NASASpaceflight.
- Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders (@KathyLueders) in partnership with Cameron County helped begin the Andy Bowie County Park improvements. "This will keep us all enjoying this South Padre Island jewel for many years!"
Countdown to 180 (16 - Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 1 - Starship):
Launch 18! Friday, 7th of February, at 1:50 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-9 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Launch 19! Saturday, 8th of February, at 4:25 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-10 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.
Launch 20! Tuesday, 11th of February, at 12:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-18 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Launch 21! Friday, 14th of February, at 12:26 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-8 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Launch 22! Wednesday, 26th of February, at 7:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Nova-C IM-2 & Lunar Trailblazer will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The booster will land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer.
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■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- This image posted by TomNTex (@TomNTex1) shows an aerial view of the second Vegas LOOP Encore Tunnel. Boring has started. Image is from the 29th of January.
■ NEURALINK:
- Neuralink posted a new blog titled "A Year of Telepathy". It focuses on the achievements and challenges since the first implant in Noland Arbaugh (@ModdedQuad). The post also introduces Alex, who uses the implant to play video games like Counter-Strike 2 and design 3D objects, and Brad, who used the Link to watch his son win a regional robotics competition, chat with neighbors at the park, and give a talk with a live Q&A session to the youth at his local church. Neuralink's goals include improving the bit rate, expanding device functionality beyond basic cursor control to include text entry, while addressing regulatory, manufacturing, and safety concerns like potential brain inflammation or signal degradation. Pics are of Alex and Brad. Blog linkin the sources section.
Per Noland, "This is an amazing technology that will change more lives than 3. I think I speak for each of us when I say thank you to Neuralink, DJ Seo, Elon, and all the amazing people who have worked on this project or contributed in some way. And pay no mind how much I use the device."
- "In light of our 1 year Telepathy milestone, here’s a video of me and the very talented team of engineers moments before we publicly announced that the PRIME Study was open to recruitment 
. Sept 19 2023. I’m so excited for the year ahead and the work that we are doing
" Follow Neuralink's amazing Romina Nejad!
■ STARLINK:
- John Deere's JDLink connecting farming equipment via Starlink. Video by Henrique Menezes, John Deere Field Service Manager in the Southern Plateau, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
- SpaceX is preparing to launch Starlink in Pakistan by early June. According to officials, 90% of the registration process is complete. SpaceX must complete its registration with the Pakistan Space Regulatory Board (PSRB), and then the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) will issue the necessary license.
- Pic by Bryan Moore, Executive Director of Marketing and Aerial Production Terrible Herbst Motorsports. "Another happy customer prepped and ready for KOH. Utilizing our H125 TTAERO HP Starlink Kit mounted to Airfilm v2 pole. They will be live-streaming the race tomorrow. Changing the game 1 helicopter at a time!"
■ X:
- X CEO Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) received the Samizdat Prize from RealClearPolitics (@RCPolitics). The Samizdat Prize is an award recognizing efforts in preserving free speech. Per Linda, "I'm honored to have received the Samizdat Prize on behalf of everyone here at X, alongside Jonathan Turley and Abigail Shrier... Our commitment to preserving free speech around the world will never waver."
- AJ (@alojoh) puts things into perspective nicely here. Per AJ, "Elon really knows how to turn around and run a business. Despite the revenue hit from the anti-X campaign Elon's measures vastly improved cash flow (EBITDA is a proxy for cash flow). I am not surprised that investors were keen on buying X's debt held by some banks. Nice yield. These buyers not only get the coupon but likely get back the par value (they bought at discount) or sell the debt later on as it trades up." This data is based on a post by Elon. Subscribe to AJ for invaluable financial analytics.
- German patriots are marching the streets demanding free speech and access to X.
■ xAI:
- Palantir (@PalantirTech) announced the integration of Grok into their Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). This is a big and significant partnership for xAI. It extends their capabilities to enterprise use. And with Palantir's history in intelligence augmentation, Grok will only enhance it. This integration is effective today, the 6th of February. I would expect to see Palantir's AIP use Grok in sectors like defense, healthcare, and finance. I'm interested to see how much Grok will accelerate things for them.
- Per Memphis, Light, Gas, and Water (@MLGW), "President McGowen understands concerns with xAI projects. Yesterday Council heard the presentation for a grey water plant. We share the desire to reduce the amount of drinking water used for coolant." They also commented on concerns that xAI was not paying their bills. "In terms of payments, XAI is treated like every other customer when it comes to their utility bill. If they do not pay they will be cut off. They have paid in full and we collected late fees."
■ DOGE:
- DOGE and NASA leadership have verified that $500k in Politico subscriptions have been canceled.
■ ELON NEWS:
- Tennessee state Sen. Jeff Yarbro (D-Nashville) and state Rep. Jason Powell (D-Nashville) have introduced the Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power & Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act or... The STOP ELON Act. So this bill would create criminal penalties and a private right of civil action against any individual who obstructs or denies access to federal, state, or local government benefits, including Social Security payments, Medicare benefits, grants, and other financial distributions.
Per Yarbro, "If Elon Musk illegally hurts Tennesseans, he should go to jail regardless of being a trillionaire or whatever and regardless of whether he’s got a permission slip from the president. Whether through malice or incompetence, if he unlawfully blocks our citizens from getting their Social Security checks or reimbursement from Medicaid or Medicare, his vast wealth should be on the table to compensate the people who get hurt."
Per Powell, "Tennesseans who work hard and play by the rules should never have to worry about a billionaire meddling in their financial security. People like Elon Musk need to understand that they are not invincible and the STOP ELON Act makes it crystal clear — no one is above the law. If you interfere with a person’s rightful benefits, you will be held accountable."
The reply from House Majority Leader Rep. William Lamberth (R-Portland) was reposting Elon's meme above.
- A vandal defaced the mural in Brownsville of Elon by writing "deny, defend, depose" across his face. This is same phrase found etched on the bullet casings used in the murder of UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione. The mural is roughly 24 miles west of Starbase, Texas... Yesterday, the mural's artist, Alexandro Gonzalez-Hernandez painted over the words and added a name tag saying "Hello, my name is Luigi M". He claims Elon personally requested that he add the "Luigi" name tag after the vandalism. Per Alexandro, "Elon Musk called me (wonderful people) he told me to add 'Hello, my name is Luigi M.’ He loved the mural."
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■ SOURCES:
FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYvTsKuG5Vs
Tesla:
Neuralink:
Starlink:
Elon News:
