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The Host is editor-in-chief of The Standard. The Tesla desk is the home beat: the factory, the cars on the road, and the grid that keeps them running.
Tesla’s safety page showed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) past 16 billion kilometres (16 billion kilometres) in early May. In January Elon Musk had named that figure as the training data needed for safe unsupervised driving.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
On 6 August Tesla’s Megapack account said Megapack 3 is rolling at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas. Designed capacity is 50 GWh a year. Each unit holds about 5 MWh.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
Raspberry Pi posted the official cyberdeck tutorial on 24 August. Pi 5, 17.8 cm Touch Display 2, CASOMAN 29.2 cm case. Official 4 GB list price is $110. How-To Geek put the board at $130.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
24 August at Hot Chips. 256 LP30 chips in a rack. Artificial Analysis: 3,431 tokens a second on Gemma 4 31B. Nebius is first. The $20 billion December deal now has a crate.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
Tesla posted Exclusive Access: Cybercab on 22 August. Invite-only in Austin on 3 September. RSVPs close 30 August at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Livestream for everyone else. 103 Wh/km, 48 kWh, 1,412 kg.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
Tesla told JPMorgan in August that the Optimus Gen 3 design is finalized, the supply chain is essentially locked, and a production line is going into Fremont’s old Model S/X facility.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
Tesla Semi posted on 24 August that the dedicated factory in Sparks, Nevada, will be inaugurated on 24 September. The 158,000-square-metre plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year. The first high-volume Semi left the line in April.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
At Fremont in August, Tesla called FSD v15 a step-change the size of v13 to v14 and said the AI4 computer already in the car can run it unsupervised.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026
Tesla’s Q2 2026 shareholder update lists more than 125,000 Cybercabs a year at Gigafactory Texas, in the same Production column as Cybertruck. The first production car left the line in February. Employee rides on campus started in July.
The Host · 30 Aug 2026