Reusable rockets broke the cost curve, and when the price of orbit collapses, we're going to open an entire economy above your head. Welcome to [soon] to space.

Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.

Falcon Heavy rolled out to the launch pad at 39A for @NASA’s Roman Space Telescope mission early this morning

Matching the payload capacity of ONE Starship V3 flight would take 200+ Falcon 1 launches That’s hundreds of rockets, hundreds of separate launches and an enormous amount of time just to move what one Starship is designed to carry Orbital AI at serious scale needs a vehicle like Starship And SpaceX now has exactly that Starship V3 is designed to carry 100+ tons to orbit per flight with full reusability That means: • Huge batches of compute satellites launched at once • Massive power and networking hardware deployed in a single mission • Starlink connectivity + laser links for moving massive amounts of high-bandwidth data across the orbital network and back to Earth • Rapid reuse for continuous scaling • Direct access to enormous amounts of solar energy in orbit • Orbital infrastructure expanding launch after launch This is where Starship changes everything Orbital AI stops being limited by how little mass we can get to space and starts becoming infrastructure humanity can build at enormous scale And it’s happening much sooner than most people realize

East Germany failed to “guarantee” a car for every citizen, but it succeeded in (1) proving central planners can’t innovate and (2) replicating the breadline model to everything they touch. Because steel was never available for private citizens, the “Trabant” automobile was made out of Duroplast pressed over cotton waste and scrap. >same timeless design for 30 years >super innovative 23-horsepower two-stroke engine >no oil pump so people had to mix oil into the tank by hand at every fill up because labor itself is a worthy end And people still had to wait 10-13 years on a waitlist. 40 years by the late 1980s. So the government did in fact “guarantee” a car for every citizen. Just not that it wouldn’t be shit. Or that they’d ever get one.

Full duration 33-engine static fire with the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 14

MSNBC contributor reluctantly admits 𝕏 Community Notes actually works, even though it physically pains her to say so. Rolling Stone called @ElonMusk and 𝕏 "the biggest purveyors of online misinformation." Now liberals like Molly Jong-Fast are admitting that false information and missing context get kept in check "pretty well" by Community Notes. MAHER: "In this current atmosphere we live in, I never believe anything I read just from that one thing I read." JONG-FAST: "X has community notes, and I think community notes — I don't want to compliment X here, but community notes works pretty well." MAHER: "Well, then compliment them. Why can't you?" JONG-FAST: "I'm doing it! I'm doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, but I don't want to."

Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Equatorial Guinea! 🛰️🇬🇶❤️ → starlink.com/equatorialguine…

a surprise I think is coming the quick payback periods and extraordinarily high IRR for AI infrastructure, even at monumental scale, will push up cost of capital sufficient to push many traditional businesses into the abyss, even those without obvious direct AI counter-exposure

Full duration 33-engine static fire with the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 14

Ask Grok: "Create a Magic: The Gathering creature card of me based on my post history." I love the spider wasps! And the nuance in the abilities is also impressive. In Magic, Ward is an ability that taxes your opponent whenever they try to target the card. Seems like this related to being hard to "cancel." The automatic Enchantment counter unless the opponent pays is pretty sweet. And the ability to exile Illusions (debunk nonsense) is on point!

Cursor has been a trusted partner of Anthropic since Sonnet 3.5. We’ll continue to increase compute to support Claude models in Cursor and are excited for what comes next with them at SpaceX.

This is very very problematic.

Giving Grok Bot my corporate card and telling it to “maximize shareholder value”

BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order establishing a new federal academy, THE UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY. 🚀🇺🇸

Grok Bot can now purchase anywhere with @link. (If you haven't tried Grok Bot, you should. It's very good.)

You can now share templates of your Bots with others.

Costco protects the integrity of its institution by asking people to show proof of membership before entering the facility. Elections should run on the same logic.

BREAKING: Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI is now available in Microsoft Foundry Models. Build with Grok 4.6 on Foundry, where organizations can compare frontier AI models, run workload-specific tests, deploy managed endpoints, and operate with enterprise security and governance controls.