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Thoughts going mind-to-mind via the BCI… this will be mind-blowing

Tesla VP of AI Software Ashok Elluswamy and CEO Elon Musk publicly disputed reports tying a fatal Texas crash to the company's driver-assistance software, saying the car's own data shows the driver overrode the system.

A Tesla Model 3 left a residential road in Katy, Texas on Friday night and tore through the brick wall of a home, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila, who was inside. The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler, told Harris County deputies the car was on Autopilot at the time.

Ashok Elluswamy commented: “This blatantly irresponsible reporting does more harm to people than they realize. Using Tesla self-driving is far safer than manual driving, and this was measured over 10B miles. Planting such FUD in the minds of general public, who might not know the all the facts, might prevent them from using this technology that makes them safer.”

🇺🇸 Tesla took the top two spots on Cars.com's 2026 American-Made Index, with the Model 3 at No. 1 and the Model Y at No. 2, the sixth year running that Tesla has led the ranking:

This one should end up making 10 million Optimus bots per year.

Looks like Tesla mapping out why interventions happen and where based on the Tesla owner inputs is turning into actual change, as Elon comments:

🇫🇮 Finland may approve Tesla's FSD Supervised ahead of the EU-wide decision expected in October, the Finnish transport regulator Traficom said on Tuesday.

Traficom is still working through a few specifics first: how quickly drivers can retake control, overtaking in low-visibility conditions on Finnish roads, and the speed-offset feature that Sweden and Norway have raised concerns over.

🇪🇸 Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised fleet in Spain has driven 275,471 km (171,170 miles) of public-road testing without a single serious incident reported.

The figures come from Spain's Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT), the national road authority, which publishes safety data for every automated-vehicle test in the country. Tesla's 30-car fleet has been running since November 2025 and is by far the most active tester on that list.

🇦🇪 Tesla has posted a job opening in Dubai, a role built around testing and collecting real-world data for its Full Self-Driving system across the UAE.

🇳🇿 The Tesla Cybercab has turned up in New Zealand, around 12,000 km (7,500 miles) from where they are built in Texas.

The two-seat robotaxis were filmed riding a car transporter, and they are widely tipped to be heading for the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds (SHPG), a site automakers use for cold-weather testing.

🇺🇸 Looks like Tesla has received the necessary permits to start ride-hailing service at San Francisco International Airport.

🇺🇸 A feel-good one to end on: Tesla shared the story of an owner in a video, who suffered a massive heart attack at highway speed. Barely conscious, he called his son, an authorized driver on the account, who remotely rerouted the car through the Tesla app while FSD Supervised kept it safely on the road.

The Model Y took the next exit and drove to the hospital entrance, where staff were waiting. Doctors said he likely would not have survived otherwise.

🇺🇸 David Moss has reached a 10,000-mile FSD streak. In case you didn’t know, Tesla is now throwing some confetti on the screen with FSD streak milestones, such as 100, 250, 1,000.

Tesla launched Charge Stats 2, an upgrade/update of its Charging Passport program — you can now see your road trips on a map, celebrate your charging milestones & visit iconic Superchargers to earn badges

Check it out through Tesla App > Charging > Charge Stats & Badges

Also, Tesla’s 2026 Free Supercharging Competition started, “on January 2027, Tesla will celebrate nine outstanding Supercharger users from 2026 by awarding them free Supercharging for their Tesla vehicle for as long as they own it. Winners are determined by their use of the Supercharger network throughout the 2026 calendar year. Three winners will be selected in each of three regions, for a total of nine winners worldwide."

🇦🇺 Tesla has opened its 1,000th Supercharger stall in Australia, and the company picked a fitting spot to mark it: the surf town of Byron Bay, New South Wales.

In its announcement on X, the official Tesla Australia & New Zealand account noted that the site puts 10,000 km (6,214 miles) of major Australian corridors within reach of the Supercharger network.

🇺🇸 EV Auto, an independent used-EV dealership chain in the US, is rolling out hundreds of its own branded Tesla Superchargers. The first chargers will go in at its own dealership locations, with a site in Brentwood, Tennessee, shown in a video (note that it is not open just yet).

EV Auto co-founder and CEO Alex Lawrence says more than 20 locations are already in development across five states, comprising over 100 posts. Plans are underway to grow this to 50 locations by the end of 2026. Long-term, the goal is to establish 1,000 posts nationwide, in about 125-150 locations.

🇺🇸 Suncoast Charging has revealed a new set of charger designs for its Tesla Supercharger for Business site in Wesley Chapel, Florida. Each of the stalls features a different threatened Florida species.

The four designs feature the gopher tortoise, the Florida scrub jay, the eastern indigo snake, and the longleaf pine, each stamped with a "Preserve and Protect" seal. Samantha Penrod of Suncoast Charging shared the look on LinkedIn, calling it "an immersive experience connecting you to the natural world around you."

NatPower and Tesla sign a strategic agreement for more than 25 GWh of Battery Energy Storage Systems in Europe, and also just in:

Tesla, Sunrun and Renew Home have announced a partnership to create the largest distributed power plant in the U.S. by providing more than 16 GW of flexible power capacity to utilities and hyperscale data centers.

SpaceX debuted Starfall, a disc-shaped reentry capsule that flew its first demo on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday. SpaceX says it is a new vehicle “that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for scientific research and in-space manufacturing.”

About 3 meters across and built to bring up to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of cargo back from orbit, it drops the crew and the complexity of Dragon and aims squarely at microgravity manufacturing.

Another deal for compute use: SpaceX signed a $6.3 billion deal to rent Nvidia GB300 capacity at its Colossus data center to Reflection AI, joining Anthropic and Google as tenants at $150 million a month from July.

And Elon has also just confirmed the name of the next step that was seen trademarked: Starmind, which a planned constellation of up to a million AI satellites that would run compute in orbit. Prototypes are slated for early 2027.

Oh, and SpaceX just disclosed in a filing that it had $100.8 billion in cash as of June 19th.

Also on Stalrink, United Airlines dropped this, saying Starlink is now on board of their first 777-200:

🇺🇸 The UNLV Board of Regents approved a Vegas Loop station on the university campus, wiring students straight into the tunnel network. The Boring Company is covering construction and will hand the station to UNLV once it is built, with students riding at a 25% discount and staff at 10%. The Loop is inching toward its planned 104-station, 68-mile build-out.

Grok had a busy week. xAI pushed Grok Imagine Video 1.5 live, a jump in image-to-video quality that briefly topped the AI-video leaderboards, then followed it with a /goal command in Grok Build that lets the model chew on long-running tasks on its own.