The Visible Why

@manitobahydro Would you be able to share what caused it?

STEINBACH: crews are working on an outage affecting about 810 customers. #MBoutage

SpaceX released some epic high-quality footage today of Starship’s splashdown in the ocean during Flight 12. Starship 39 did this despite being down one engine. Pretty incredible. Seeing the @SpaceX team go crazy after a launch never gets old. Very well deserved.

@DriveTeslaca @Starlink I saw the same ad in Steinbach Manitoba

SpaceX is advertising @Starlink on billboards in rural British Columbia. This one was somewhere in between Barrière and Clearwater.

Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency. x.ai/news/grok-4-5

@farzyness @NousResearch @Teknium Using it in hermes right now - simple enough to set up

Hey @NousResearch @Teknium Grok 4.5 in Hermes please thank you <3

Just connected Grok 4.5 to my Hermes agent. Excited to see how it goes! @NousResearch

@elonmusk @SpaceXAI let's go

Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow. It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.

@HermesAgentTips GPT 5.5 and GLM 5.2. Significant difference to other models

what should be the right hermes agent orchestrator model? - Deepseek V4 Flash - Opus 4.8 - Kimi K2.6 - Fable 5 - GPT-5.5 (xhigh)

@ryanzip Would lightning be an issue?

Zipline delivers in torrential rain

I love optimizing machines It’s like a beautiful puzzle That also achieves true usefulness

Grok 4.5, based on our 1.5T V9 foundation model, with Cursor data added in supplemental training, is now in private beta at SpaceX & Tesla. Early evals show performance close to, perhaps exceeding Opus. RL is continuing to significantly improve the model, and the Grok Build harness gets better every day. Nice work by all those involved! Completely trained from scratch new models will be released by @SpaceX every month this year.

I’m really looking forward to these upcoming Tesla FSD updates: • FSD V14 “Lite” for HW3 owners: Can’t wait to try it, even as a daily HW4 user. It’s expected to release at the end of this month and include the same features as HW4 V14. • Pothole Avoidance: This will be very welcome, especially for Teslas with lower-profile tires. It will be a game changer for me. • FSD Remembering Your Parking Preferences: Elon Musk says future FSD releases will remember your parking preferences when arriving at a destination. Great for garages, work spots, etc. • Grok Voice Commands for FSD: Elon Musk says the ability to prompt FSD with language is coming within ~3 months. You’ll be able to use your voice to tell the car what to do or where to go. This will be incredibly cool. CANT WAIT.

A Model Y driver started experiencing a medical emergency with chest pain mid-drive & called his son. His son then remotely rerouted the car – which had FSD Supervised enabled – to the nearest hospital & let them know the vehicle was en route. ER staff were standing by on arrival. Doctors later confirmed the quick reroute likely saved his life.

This idea from some people that the government should heavily tax @elonmusk - the world's best capital allocator - and transfer a significant portion of that wealth to the government, one of the worst capital allocators, makes little sense, especially since much of his earned wealth exists because the companies he built have become far more valuable by creating products and services people value and are willingly to pay for. Elon may have a high net worth, but virtually all of it is tied up in company stock. He doesn't have tens of billions of dollars in cash. Taxing his wealth would likely force him to sell significant amounts of that stock, putting downward pressure on the share price and negatively affecting millions of people who themselves own shares in those companies directly or through ETFs, mutual funds, pension funds, and 401(k)s. I think I saw somewhere that Elon's companies have paid over $100 billion in salaries. Those salaries are taxed. Beyond that, his companies have already generated enormous economic value for America and the other regions that his companies operate in. You want Elon Musk to do good for the world? Great, he already is: • Tesla: Accelerating the transition to sustainable energy and developing safety technologies like FSD that saves lives. • SpaceX: Expanding internet access through Starlink in underserved and low-income regions, saving the U.S. government $40 billion (according to the Pentagon), and restored America's ability to launch astronauts from American soil again. • Neuralink: Giving paralyzed individuals new levels of independence with brain chips. Next, they aim to give blind people the ability to literally see. Taking capital away from someone who has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to turn it into productive businesses, jobs, innovation, and economic growth, and handing it to a government with a far less effective track record of capital allocation - doesn't strike me as a good trade. Elon's wealth isn't a bug in our system, it's a feature of living in a country where entrepreneurs have the opportunity to build companies that create enormous value for society.

I can't believe how fun building a company is right now is. The weird part is it doesn't feel like work anymore. New AI models/tools/repos keep coming out making the impossible possible. My ONLY anxiety is making sure I don't waste this precious moment and keeping up with the updates of all the new tools/AI models. AI is creating the greatest platform shift of all time. And, I've learned to never let a good platform shift go to waste. I was living in Silicon Valley around for the mobile era. I remember the feeling of "you can just build an app and put it in the store and people find it." That lasted maybe 4 years before the gold rush ended and distribution got hard. I'm getting that same feeling right now but bigger. The difference is I'm older, I know what a window looks like, and I know they close. I love building right now. Maybe you do too. Trying not to take it for granted. I'm excited for Monday. Can't wait. My partners and I are up at midnight most nights now sending each other screenshots saying "look what this can do." Nobody asks anyone to do this. We just can't stop. Something drops, someone builds something with it in 2 hours, and the group chat goes off. It feels like we're getting away with something. Some of the greatest companies of the next decade will be started in 2026. I'm sure of it. And it'll be fun. I feel like a kid again. Genuinely giddy.

@StarbaseTX It's already been a year!?

Happy 1st Birthday, Starbase. One year ago today, Starbase officially became a city. In that time, we’ve hosted multiple Starship flight tests, grown our community of people building the future of spaceflight, and worked to protect our beaches and natural resources for generations to come. Next year will be even bigger. More launches. More progress. And we’re just getting started! Thank you to everyone who has been part of Starbase’s first year as a city.

Solar punk

@SawyerMerritt To be honest, this thing is kinda sick

Mercedes has officially announced pricing for its all-electric AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV. • GT 55 starting price: $180,000 • GT 63 starting price: $228,000 • Fully loaded GT 63: $250,000+ • Range: Up to ~315 miles (EPA) • Up to 1,153 hp • 0-60 mph: 2.0s • Peak charging speed: 600kW • 106 kWh battery • 10-80% state of charge as low as 11 mins. Can add 244 miles of range in 10 mins. • Formula 1-based 800-volt battery • Fake V8 engine noises & gear shift sounds (shown below) • Mercedes said it’s using 1,600 audio files to “sonically interpret” different driving situations. The car makes “exhaust burbles and pops" like as gas car. • 2660 cylindrical cells, arrayed in 18 modules, nine to a side. Nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum chemistry. Energy density of 298 Wh/kg. • Active aerodynamics • Top speed: 186-mph • Double sunroof with illuminated AMG logos over both driver and passenger seats • Triple-screen layout. 10.2" digital instrument cluster alongside a pair of 14" screens. Infotainment display is slightly tilted toward the driver. • Optional 5 seat layout U.S. deliveries start in late 2026