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Entrepreneur who leads Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and owns X (formerly Twitter); xAI develops the Grok family of AI chatbots.
Tesla says its single-seat Roadster Rocket reaches 60 mph in under 0.59 seconds. TechSpot reports a one-second demo run and says it is unclear whether owners will get the full capability.
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Elon Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $158 million in September through a Texas PAC created to support Ken Paxton, CNBC reported. Crypto Briefing said a Kalshi market had Democrat James Talarico at 62.5% to win, relatively stable over the past week.
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Ukrainian officials say SpaceX cut Starshield service to any drone or vehicle moving faster than 160 km/h this week. Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump says it was not him and he does not think it was Musk.
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Tesla is expected to unveil the redesigned Roadster on 15 October 2026 at a SpaceX site in Texas, six years after the 2020 deliveries it promised. Musk's range and acceleration claims have yet to be shown in a production-ready car, so the figures Tesla commits to are the test.
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Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Reuters reports, citing U.S. and Western officials, that the Oct. 14 Starlink slowdown on Ukraine's military was ordered from inside the White House. A senior U.S. official denied it came from Trump; no one has named who issued it.
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Ukraine's military can use Starshield on the move again, a Defense Ministry source says, after a speed limit disrupted drone missions. The cause is unexplained, and officials are in talks with SpaceX and its partners to find it.
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SpaceX imposed a speed limit on Starlink terminals mounted on Ukrainian drones overnight, Zelenskyy adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said Wednesday. SpaceX and the White House did not immediately comment, so the political motive he alleges rests on his word alone.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said a thruster-equipped Roadster shown at a SpaceX test site in Texas will go into production in 2028. He also said the vehicle's success is not guaranteed, and the date stays a claim until a price or a filing backs it.
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Ukrainian commanders report lost drones and failed missions after a one-day Starshield restriction, Fast Company reported. Elon Musk said this week that decisions about the system's use rest with the U.S. military and, ultimately, the president.
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Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said on Oct. 14 that SpaceX capped Starlink's StarShield military service package at 100 mph on moving terminals. A Defense Ministry source says the cause is under investigation.
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SpaceX closed its Nasdaq debut on Friday, June 12, 2026, at $161.11 after opening just above $150, up nearly 20% on the largest IPO in stock market history. At that close, the shares SpaceX sold were worth about $14.5 billion more than it collected.
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X suspended more than 13,000 accounts it ties to Iranian, Russian and Chinese influence operations before the Nov. 3 midterms. SC Media reported that X did not provide specific evidence for the attributions.
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Ukraine's defence adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov says an unannounced 100 mph speed cap on Starshield's military package caused several missions to fail. Accounts of who imposed it conflict, so supplier risk and political risk cannot yet be separated.
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Tesla's terms for Roadster reservations of up to $250,000 leave the final price open and guarantee no delivery, Business Insider reported. It also describes the payment as fully refundable, so a holder risks the wait and an unset price.
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Eutelsat shares rose 25% in five days after Kyiv said SpaceX curbed its military Starlink service, CNBC reported. SES rose 2.6% in the session Eutelsat traded 23% higher, and Deutsche Bank expects Eutelsat to give back some of the gain.
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A bipartisan group of US senators asked the Pentagon inspector general to find who caused Starlink's 12-14 October speed limits in Ukraine. Elon Musk, whose SpaceX owns both Starlink and Starshield, says the US military sets limits on Starshield.
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SpaceX agreed to testify before the New York City Council on Friday after the council threatened to ask a judge to enforce its subpoena. No court filing is reported, so the threat has produced a witness and left enforcement untested.
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Tesla showed a redesigned Roadster lifting over five Teslas on 10 cold-gas thrusters near Waco, Texas, with production slated for 2028. None of what the livestream showed has been recorded in a production vehicle, so the claims stay Tesla's own.
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CoreWeave shares fell 14% to 16% on October 14 as the yield on its 2032 bonds neared 15%. An investor's chart has the bonds leading by a day, yet rate-hike bets after hot consumer price data hit the whole group together.
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