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Tesla Cybertruck production ends around the middle of 2027. Elon Musk said so himself on Friday, in a post on X that gave the stainless-steel pickup about eight more months on the line. The truck will have spent just three and a half years on sale by the time the factory moves on. “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production,” Musk wrote, according to Reuters and The Verge. No exact stop date. No new home for the truck. Just a sentence, and the end of one of the strangest vehicles ever sold in America. ...

Democrats swept key races on November 3 on promises of tougher data-center rules, with Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa pledging an immediate moratorium and an end to tax breaks for the sector — a shift that rattled AI stocks and put the heart of America’s AI buildout under new scrutiny. Full story in slides above — Sources: Agence France-Presse via GMA News, CNBC via Unite.AI, November 4, 2026.

Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs, with deliveries expected in the first and second quarters of 2027. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters, CoinDesk, BusinessToday, SiliconANGLE, October 25-26, 2026.

SpaceX reported $14.6B in Q3 revenue and a $4.4B net profit — a turnaround from a $1B loss a year ago — with its Super Intelligence AI unit now generating 52% of income. Meanwhile Elon Musk said merging SpaceX and Tesla, at a combined $3.5T value, would be “a good idea.” Sources: TechCrunch, Reuters, October 20-21, 2026.

Elon Musk said on Monday he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year, “the first of many” such gifts, a day after AI lab Anthropic announced it will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund. Sources: USA Today, AP, Reuters, Financial Times — October 19, 2026.

Elon Musk wants to put a SpaceX share in every kid’s pocket. In an early-morning post on X on Monday, the SpaceX founder wrote: “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America.” He added three words that have followed many of his announcements before: “This will be the first of many.” The math is staggering. SpaceX shares closed Friday at $146.03, and the U.S. Census Bureau counts roughly 73 million people under the age of 18. One share per kid works out to about $10.5 billion, which would make this one of the largest individual stock giveaways ever announced. ...

Elon Musk has put a date on the space data center. Reacting Thursday to a podcast clip of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Musk wrote on X that the Star Mind computer, the space-grade AI system SpaceX is co-engineering with Nvidia, “is far better than almost anyone expects and will reach volume production next year.” That’s 2027. Musk didn’t say what volume means, and nobody should mistake a Musk target for a schedule. But the exchange was the clearest signal yet that the orbital-compute project, first teased in August, is moving from concept toward an industrial plan. ...

Walk through Tesla’s European websites this weekend and you won’t find “Full Self-Driving” anymore. In Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and at least six other countries, the driver-assistance software Elon Musk has sold for years now answers to a blander name: “Tesla Assisted Driving.” The US store still lists “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).” Same software, different label — and the gap between those two pages says a lot about who Tesla is trying to please. ...

The AI industry’s biggest bottleneck is no longer money — it’s compute. Anthropic, Google and others are now renting GPU capacity from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after demand from Claude Code and other models outstripped their own data centers, per the Wall Street Journal. Full story in slides above — sources: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TheStreet, October 2026.

SpaceX is buying the airwaves it needs to become a real phone company. On Thursday, the company reached a definitive agreement with Grain Management to acquire a nationwide portfolio of 800 MHz low-band spectrum licenses for Starlink Mobile, its satellite-to-phone service. It covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum and still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The price tag explains the reaction. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that SpaceX will pay about $8 billion in cash. Neither SpaceX nor Grain confirmed the figure. ...

President Trump will honor Elon Musk and five other tech leaders with the nation’s highest awards for science and technology at today’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, per the White House. Full story in slides above — sources: USA Today, AFP via Malay Mail, October 8, 2026.

SpaceX is in talks to raise $40 billion in loans and debt to buy Nvidia AI chips, in one of the biggest AI infrastructure financings ever reported. Full story in slides above — Sources: Financial Times via Reuters, Bloomberg (October 6–7, 2026).

SpaceX wants to borrow $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia. The Financial Times broke the story late Tuesday, and Bloomberg confirmed the talks with its own sources Wednesday morning, in what would rank among the biggest debt financings of the entire AI buildout. The proposed structure is straightforward, if not modest: roughly $10 billion in bank loans plus $30 billion in investment-grade debt, all to pay for one enormous Nvidia chip order. Apollo Global Management is expected to lead the financing and place the debt with a broad group of investors, with bond giant Pimco among the lenders in discussions. The FT put the expected closing in 2027. ...

The AI boom powered tech billionaires to a record $845 billion in gains through September 2026, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — while billionaires outside tech lost a combined $62 billion. Full story in slides above — Sources: Bloomberg via Economic Times, The WealthAdvisor, The Edge Singapore, October 5, 2026.

Elon Musk just put the world’s biggest chipmaker in play for his biggest hardware bet. On Saturday, Oct. 3, Musk confirmed on X that TSMC and his Terafab semiconductor project are in discussions about a chipmaking collaboration. “Just discussions, but something may come of it,” he wrote. Short post, enormous stakes: a Terafab–TSMC deal would put the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing expertise behind the Tesla and SpaceX chief’s $16.8 billion Texas megafab. ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump doesn’t want Washington to regulate artificial intelligence. He wants the companies building it to regulate themselves, and on Tuesday, he got the heads of six of the biggest ones to sign their names to the idea. The president gathered the CEOs of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and X at the White House and signed what he called a “morally binding” one-page Trump AI accord. It’s not a law. It’s not an executive order. It’s a public promise that the companies will build internal safety controls, open themselves to outside auditors, and let independent board committees review what those auditors find. ...

President Trump signed a “morally binding” AI self-regulation agreement with top tech executives at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, per Reuters. The voluntary pact commits companies to internal risk controls and external audits — while Trump ruled out new federal AI regulations and announced AI will be renamed “super intelligence” in government documents. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press via New Indian Express, September 29, 2026. ...

At 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, President Donald Trump will take the stage at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington to unveil America.gov, an AI-powered federal platform billed as the new “front door” to the U.S. government. The America.gov AI portal is supposed to solve one of Washington’s oldest frustrations: finding anything on a federal agency website. Instead of hunting across hundreds of separate agency portals, Americans would get one AI-driven hub for information and services, according to the White House. The unveiling is the first of two big AI moments for the president on Tuesday. Just two and a half hours later, at 12:30 p.m., Trump sits down at the White House with the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir for a closed-press luncheon on what the schedule calls “Super Intelligence,” with the attendee list reported by CNN and NBC News. ...

SpaceX is targeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2026 for Starship Flight 14 — the first planned orbital flight of the 408-foot rocket, launching from Starbase in South Texas with a 75-minute window opening at 8:15 a.m. ET. Full story in slides above — Sources: USA Today, Florida Today, TeslaNorth, IBTimes, September 27, 2026.

Tesla officially launched high-volume production of its Semi electric truck at its dedicated factory in Sparks, Nevada, on September 24, 2026, and began handing keys to customers including PepsiCo, DHL and US Foods. Per Reuters, executives said deliveries to a first set of customers started this week, nearly nine years after Elon Musk unveiled the big rig. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters via ETAuto and WIXX, TechSpot, DriveTesla, Shacknews, September 24–26, 2026. ...