ELON CHRON: Your 24hr Musk Companies Update (Patreon)
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5th of June, 2025
"Without me, Trump would have lost the election..." - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
■ TESLA $TSLA ($284.70, -14.26%):
- Tesla AI's Dojo supercomputer, with 8850 nodes across 25 D1 chips (each with 354 nodes and 1.25 Mbyte SRAM), uses differential fuzzing to detect silent data corruptions by initially distributing a random 1 Mbyte payload to all nodes for execution and comparison, taking under a second but limited by Host-Tile bandwidth; an improved method pre-loads 8850 unique 0.5 Mbyte payloads, enabling nodes to iterate and execute 4.4Gb of instructions within the Tile in seconds, successfully identifying defective nodes.
Per Elon, "Tesla Dojo AI training computer making progress. We start bringing Dojo 2 online later this year. It takes three major iterations for a new technology to be great. Dojo 2 is good, but Dojo 3 will be great."
- So far this year in Singapore, the Model 3 is the best-selling sedan in the country. In Q2 they have increased Model 3 deliveries by over +40% YoY. And they have increased overall vehicle deliveries by over +23% YoY.
Tesla China's Tom Zhu (@tomzhu_nz) posted, "Thanks to our team in Singapore for your hard work and dedication! Thanks to our owners in Singapore for helping accelerate the transition to a sustainable future!"
- Tesla had a Model 3 and Y on display for InsureTech Connect (ITC) Asia 2025 in Singapore at Sands Expo & Convention Centre. Today was the last day.
- For May, Tesla Hong Kong was the top brand for private vehicle registrations at 1,319, +114% YoY. That is 30% of all vehicle registrations. 40.3% of all EV registrations. Per Tom Zhu, "Congrats Tesla HK team! Thanks to our owners in HK for your support!"
- In Malaysia, Tesla increased new Model 3 and Y registrations during May by +145% YoY. New Mode Y registrations in May increased by +403% YoY. Year-to-date Model Y orders are up +37% YoY.
- Tesla Korea ranked No. 1 in imported car brand sales for the first time since entering the South Korean market. The Model Y claimed the title of best-selling imported car in May.
- Tesla China has started a new referral incentive. From the 5th - 30th of June, customers purchasing vehicle will get an RMB 8,000 ($1,110) discount on paid paint options when using a referral. Referrers earn points worth RMB 800 for each successful referral.
- The Model 3 rear-wheel drive has obtained a China EV Fire Safety Index and Automobile Fire Safety "Double 5-Star" certification.
- Software update 2025.20, released to employees and is rolling out to a small batch of owners. It introduces Supercharging Live Activity for iPhone and Apple Watch (requires Tesla app 4.45.0+ and iOS 17.2+). This allows users to monitor charging sessions; enables unlatching the charge cable by pulling and holding the rear left door handle for 3 seconds when the vehicle is unlocked or a key is nearby; and includes unspecified security fixes and improvements.
FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):
Fremont Factory: MetGod, 5th of June, '25.
Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 5th of June, '25.
■ SPACEX:
- Yesterday evening, launch 71 of Falcon 9 Starlink 11-22 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 26th flight for first stage booster B1063. It previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, NROL-113, NROL-167, NROL-149, and 17 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 27 Starlinks were deployed. This was the 500th orbital launch!
- Per SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell), "Happy 15th Birthday Falcon 9!"
- We finally got to see Crew Dragon C213, the fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft built by SpaceX. Her maiden flight will be the Axiom 4 (Ax4) mission where she will take crew to the ISS. Launch is currently scheduled for the 10th of June, at 8:22 a.m. ET. She will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- Super Heavy Booster 16 loaded propellent today, but ended up detanking. So no a static fire today!
- SpaceX has officially started the foundation pier work and sheet pillings for the Giga Bay at Starbase.
- Linde, the global industrial gas supplier and parent company of Praxair, is building an air-separation plant at 7245 Industrial Circle, Lot 6, on a 72-acre lot at the North Brownsville Industrial Park. They have announced they will serve as a top supplier of liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid methane for Starbase. Many were anticipating SpaceX to build their own plant, but that is not to be. This project will yield significant savings by sourcing from Brownsville instead of Houston, cutting turnaround time by ~10 hours and ~700 miles per load.
- The new Flacon 9 Booster B1096 has performed a Static Fire at the McGregor Texas Test facility.
- Concrete pour on the back side of Pad B. Pic by SIGNAL:noise (@BocasBrain).
Countdown to 180 (67 - Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 3 - Starship):
Launch 72! Friday, 6th of June, 11:19 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Sirius SXM-10 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. SXM-10 is the 11th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. It has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles.
Launch 73! Sunday, 8th of June, at 6:34 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 15-8 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 74! Tuesday, 10th of June, at 8:22 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Axiom Space Mission 4 (Ax4) will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This will be the maiden flight of Crew Dragon C213, the fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft built by SpaceX. The booster B1094 will return to site, and land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Crew consists of Commander Peggy Whitson (United States of America), Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla (India), Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański (Poland), and Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu (Hungary).
Launch 75! Thursday, 10th of June, at 9:03 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-24 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 76! Thursday, 12th of June, at 6:46 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 15-6 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.
■ THE BORING COMPANY: N/A... boring.
■ NEURALINK: N/A...
■ STARLINK:
- From the 28th of May to the 1st of June, EXPLORA Production utilized Starlink to cover the Alpes Isère Tour in Isère, France. Starlink enabled live coverage of each stage with bike cameras, fixed finish-line cameras, a mobile control room, and live broadcasts on YouTube 1. SPORT, Télégrenoble, and Vélo Plus TV (Fédération Française de Cyclisme).
- Lightspeed Pacific, an authorized Starlink reseller in Fiji, connected three additional rural schools to Starlink. The upgrade increased internet speeds from 8Mbps to 300Mbps overnight. The installations, completed in three days, align with Fiji’s Ministry of Education and global efforts to connect all schools to high-speed internet by 2030.
- SpaceX is selling a $200 Advanced Power Supply for Starlink, supporting both AC and DC power inputs, compatible with the $349 standard Starlink dish and the $1,999 Performance model. It allows simultaneous AC and DC connections for battery backup and includes a microcontroller for stats like power inputs/outputs, Ethernet metrics, grid brownout, and connector water detection.
■ X:
- Monique Pintarelli (@MoniquePintarel), X's Head of the Americas, spoke at IAB México’s Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Conecta event in Mexico City. She presented on how AI and Grok are transforming X and reimagining advertising. IAB is a non-profit promoting digital advertising since 2005.
- Yesterday, X Corp filed a lawsuit in the U.S. federal court in the Northern District of Texas against eight Vietnamese individuals in Hanoi; Do Minh Thang, Phan Ngoc Tuan, Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Le Dinh Chung, Nguyen Nhu Duc, Nguyen Viet Kieu, Do Viet Khanh, and Do Xuan Long. They are accused of exploiting the Creator Revenue Sharing Program. They allegedly used automation tools to post inauthentic content and fake engagement metrics, unfairly boosting earnings on X and other social platforms. The defendants also committed trademark infringement by misusing X’s logos in YouTube instructional videos, violating platform policies.
- Starting today, X is testing a new tool that highlights posts liked by users with opposing views. A subset of Community Notes contributors will occasionally see a new callout in the product, triggered by early Like signals on a post. Contributors can rate and provide feedback to help develop an open-source algorithm that identifies posts liked across different perspectives. This feature is built publicly through a small pilot program to uncover broad ideas and opinions.
- Today, the X API was awarded the 2025 Postman API Network Award for Best API. It was recognized for its developer experience among over 100,000 APIs. Congrats @XDevelopers! Pic by X's Taylor Caldwell (@taycaldwell).
- "Tomorrow, something will happen at X Japan!" This quote and the above pic was posted by the X Japan account. X Japan CEO Ayumu Matsuyama (@ayumu_matsuyama) also posted, "What's that???" Any ideas?
■ xAI:
- Angelo Gordon of the global private equity firm Texas Pacific Group (TPG), is an anchor investor in the Morgan Stanley $5 billion debt package for xAI. The firm is investing in a loan as part of the debt offering aimed at supporting xAI’s operations and Colossus.
■ DOGE:
Estimated Savings: $180 Billion
Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $1,118.01
- Today, DOGE announced that the Office of Personnel Management has fully transitioned to a digital retirement system as of June 2. This replaced the 65-year-old paper-based process that delayed benefits by 3-5 months. Per Elon, "Great work turning a lengthy paperwork retirement process into a simple digital one!"
■ ELON NEWS:
Per President Trump, "I would have won Pennsylvania regardless of Elon…I’m very disappointed with Elon. He knew this bill better than anyone and he only developed a problem when he found out I would cut the EV mandate… When he left he said the most beautiful things about me, he hasn’t said anything bad yet but I’m sure that will be next…I’ve helped Elon a lot… Elon worked hard at DOGE and I think he misses the place…I think he got out there and he’s no longer in this beautiful Oval Office…it’s not just Elon, I think when some people leave they miss it so badly they develop a type of TDS…some embrace it and some become hostile."
- Everything below was posted by Elon due to Trump's above statements and Elon's frustration with the Big Debt Increasing Bill, "False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!
Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude.
Keep the EV/solar incentives cuts in the bill, also cut all the crazy spending increases in the Big Ugly Bill so that America doesn’t go bankrupt!"
Elon posted this poll on X:
Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
Yes
82.3%
No
17.7%
"Oh and some food for thought as they ponder this question: Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years..."
"This just gets better and better 🤣 Go ahead, make my day…"
And the coup de grâce.
"Time to drop the really big bomb: Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT! Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out."
I think we all, at some point, knew this was coming, but WOW...
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Have a great day!
■ SOURCES:
FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: MetGod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VFDG8LHYuI
Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_N_y_3i2s
Tesla:
SpaceX:
Starlink Mission 11-22
Starlink:
X:
https://transparency.x.com/assets/legal/x-corp-v-do-minh-thang.pdf
https://communitynotes.x.com/guide/en/beyond-notes/got-likes
xAI:
Elon News:
