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Three robotaxi CEOs will sit across from federal regulators on Tuesday. One conspicuously prominent company will not be at that table. According to Reuters, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration holds its National AV Safety Forum on March 10 in Washington, D.C., a day-long session at USDOT Headquarters that will feature a fireside chat between…
The Cybercab gets the stage time. The Optimus robot gets the press releases. But a shipping-container-sized battery called the Tesla Megapack is quietly generating the cash flow that keeps the rest of Musk’s ambitions alive. That’s the core argument in “Tesla’s Secret Weapon Is a Giant Metal Box,” a new piece by Andrew Moseman published…
Tesla faces a $1 million negligence lawsuit after the March 1 Austin mass shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, was linked to a prior assault on a 65-year-old employee at Giga Texas. Learn about the evidence gap and Tesla’s safety record.
The vote Tuesday night wasn’t close enough to stop anything, and everyone in the chamber knew it. Nashville’s Metro Council passed a resolution expressing concerns about The Boring Company‘s Music City Loop tunnel project 20 to 15, with 2 abstaining. The resolution has no legal force. It cannot delay tunneling or alter the route. It…
Tesla still holds roughly $800 million worth of bitcoin on its balance sheet, based on the company’s disclosed BTC holdings and market prices at the time of writing. That number hasn’t moved much in the headlines lately, but it matters today because Elon Musk is actively pushing crypto enthusiasm for a different venture: X Money,…
Elon Musk took the witness stand Wednesday in San Francisco federal court — wearing a black suit and tie, not a Tesla hoodie — to defend himself in a class-action securities fraud trial brought by former Twitter shareholders. The case centers on one of the messiest corporate deals in recent memory: Musk’s on-again, off-again, $44…
Rivian officially launches the Rivian Adventure Department (RAD), a specialized skunkworks team of engineers and designers. Focused on pushing
The documents don’t lie. When the Justice Department released what it described as millions of pages from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation on January 30, 2026, Elon Musk was not a peripheral name. He was a frequent correspondent. So was his brother Kimbal Musk, who sits on Tesla’s board. What those emails show directly contradicts the…
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