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Neuralink Telepathy livestream reactions show that people can still be optimistic (Op-ed)
It is no secret that Elon Musk’s ventures are ambitious. It is also no secret that they attract equal amounts of praise and criticism. Following Musk’s purchase of Twitter, which he has since renamed to X, the volume of negative coverage attracted by the Tesla CEO’s projects has been substantial. Anyone who’s followed Musk over the years knows that the CEO attracts a lot of vitriol today, and so do his companies.
This changed — at least to some degree — when Neuralink posted an update on Participant #1, its first human patient, yesterday. In a rather informal livestream, Neuralink’s Bliss Chapman and Neuralink patient Noland Arbaugh demonstrated how Telepathy, the company’s first device, worked. Arbaugh is a 29-year-old who was paralyzed from the shoulders down after a freak diving accident, and he received his Neuralink Telepathy in January.
https://t.co/OMIeGGjYtG— Neuralink (@neuralink) March 20, 2024
As noted by Arbaugh, the capability to move and engage with technology using Telepathy is nothing short of life-changing. So life-changing was his Neuralink implant that the 29-year-old admitted that the first thing he did with his Telepathy device was play Civilization VI all night. Elon Musk, in a response on X, lightly admitted that playing Civilization VI would be the first thing he would do as well under the same circumstances.
.@elonmusk’s @neuralink has shared a video of the company’s first human brain implant patient. pic.twitter.com/ou4Y3jBI9C— Last Call (@LastCallCNBC) March 21, 2024
Quite surprisingly, the media attention that Neuralink’s Telepathy demonstration has been notably positive. And while Musk’s involvement in the company did attract the usual criticisms from skeptics, even media outlets such as CNBC have admitted that with companies like Neuralink, it is actually a pretty amazing time to be alive. TMZ shared the same sentiments, with the media outlet’s hosts acknowledging the potential benefits of Neuralink for humanity.
Neuralink's first patient is able to play chess online using only his brain! @RyanTanaka3 came on TMZ Live to talk about the amazing progress Elon Musk's company is making. pic.twitter.com/g4KzWVgYdk— TMZ Live (@TMZLive) March 21, 2024
Peter Diamandis, the founder and executive chairman of XPrize, also praised the milestone. In an interview with CNBC, Diamandis noted that this is just the beginning. He also noted that “the speed of acceleration means in the next ten years, we’re going to see as much progress as we’ve seen in the last hundred years.” Such sentiments are not that farfetched. One simply needs to look at Tesla and SpaceX’s milestones over the past decade to show that Musk-led companies tend to grow and innovate quickly.
"This is just the beginning," says @PeterDiamandis on @elonmusk’s @neuralink. "The speed of acceleration means in the next 10 years we're going to see as much progress as we've seen in the last hundred years." pic.twitter.com/3NrXsiVOTu— Last Call (@LastCallCNBC) March 22, 2024
What is quite amazing is the fact that Neuralink is really just getting started. Telepathy has already demonstrated its potential to change lives, and the company’s next product, which Elon Musk noted would be called Blindsight, could help even more people. Yes, there will definitely be critics. A look at social media today would show as much. But at the same time, it’s also pretty encouraging to see a growing group of supporters cheering on Neuralink as it takes aim at its ambitious goals.
.@elonmusk's Neuralink has done the impossible. Seeing my grandfather try to communicate after suffering from strokes was like watching a man trapped in prison. I wish he had this tech because it will free so many like him. I just hope it never gets into the hands of bad actors. pic.twitter.com/W589KGroCw— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) March 21, 2024
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SpaceX’s biggest test yet arrives this week and it’s not a rocket launch
SpaceX will report second quarter results after the market closes on Tuesday, August 4, marking the first time the company has opened its books to the public since its record IPO in June. Management will host a live audio only webcast at 4:30 p.m. ET, streamed on X, with no dial in option.
The debut carries more weight than a typical first quarter as a public company. Two trading days after the release, on August 6, the first tranche of SpaceX’s lockup expires, freeing roughly 911.5 million insider and employee shares, worth well over $100 billion at current prices and the largest such release in Wall Street history. A second, larger tranche tied to the stock trading 30 percent above its $135 IPO price never triggered, since shares have spent most of July trading below that price.
Wall Street’s models point to revenue near $6.9 billion for the quarter, up sharply from the $4.69 billion SpaceX reported in the first quarter, with a narrower per share loss than the $1.27 posted three months earlier, according to estimates compiled by Motley Fool. Those numbers will be the first look at how SpaceX’s three segments, Starlink, launch and AI, are performing independently.
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Investors heading into the call have a specific list of questions. How many net new Starlink subscribers did SpaceX add after ending March with 10.3 million, and is average revenue per user holding up as the service expands into lower income markets. How much of the AI segment’s revenue reflects contract signings with Anthropic, Google and Reflection AI this year, deals that combined could annualize to nearly $28 billion if fully ramped. Whether capital expenditures, which nearly doubled in the AI segment alone between 2024 and 2025, are still accelerating or starting to plateau. And whether management offers any forward guidance at all, something SpaceX has never done publicly.
The report will also land days after Elon Musk publicly denied a Wall Street Journal report describing internal planning to separate Tesla’s China business ahead of a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger. Whether Musk or SpaceX executives address that speculation on the call, even indirectly, maybe something investors will be listening for on Tuesday.
As Teslarati reported after Musk’s own warning to short sellers last week, the CEO has made clear he expects skeptics to be proven wrong over time. Tuesday will be the first chance for the numbers themselves to make that case.
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SpaceX’s Starship just got filmed by its own cargo
SpaceX released new footage of Starship in space captured by the Starlink satellites it deployed.
SpaceX released a new video Friday evening showing Starship from an angle showcased by its own Starlink satellites, watching the rocket drift away in orbit.
The 65 second clip, posted on X, stitches together footage from four cameras mounted on a single Starlink V3 satellite. It opens with a close view of Starship’s 171 foot upper stage, still catching sunlight, then pulls back as the two spacecraft separate.
The footage comes from Starship’s 13th flight test, which launched July 24 from Starbase after a scrubbed attempt and an abort caused by an engine issue the week before. When Flight 13 finally flew, it carried the first batch of functional Starlink V3 satellites Starship has ever deployed, twenty of them, with six equipped with cameras meant to scan the ship’s heat shield during reentry.
View of Starship in space from a Starlink V3 satellite on Flight 13.
This composite is made of imagery from four separate cameras on a single satellite. Six of the satellites were equipped with cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to… pic.twitter.com/sNTHHz5vLr
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 31, 2026
Flight 13 checked most of its boxes. Starship deployed all 20 satellites, relit a Raptor engine in space, and splashed down softly in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. Musk’s longer term plan calls for a Starlink V3 constellation of 100,000 satellites, according to a recent FCC filing, with Starship as the only vehicle capable of launching them at the volume that requires. Each Starship flight is designed to carry up to 60 V3 satellites once the vehicle reaches routine service, well beyond what Falcon 9 can carry in a single mission.
Starship is next expected to fly with an attempt at catching the ship itself with the launch tower’s mechanical arms, a maneuver SpaceX has so far reserved for the Super Heavy booster.
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Tesla Model Y L’s new features flexed at unveiling event at Diner
Tesla flexed the new features of the Model Y L with a dedicated media event at the company’s Diner on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The Model Y L is the extended-wheelbase version of the all-electric crossover, which has been voted the best-selling car in the world on three occasions. The vehicle is already rolling off production lines at Gigafactory Texas, and first deliveries are slated to take place later this year.
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Teslarati was invited to the event, but due to some scheduling conflicts, we could not make it to Los Angeles. Instead, we will have our hands on a media unit sometime in August, so we’ll be able to spend some more extended time with the Model Y L.
However, plenty of those who made it to LA shared some cool features that set the Model Y L apart from the Model Y.
Multi-Row Climate Control
Tesla fitted the Model Y L with full climate control on all three rows on the front screen. It can be adjusted by selecting which row you’d like to modify on the right-hand side of the touch screen:
The Model Y L has a little row of icons on the right side of the climate screen so the front passenger can more quickly jump to whatever row they want to control. pic.twitter.com/uJS44mgCvk
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) July 30, 2026
Better Rear Window Visibility
One of the strangest things about the Model Y, especially the Juniper iteration, is the rear window has extremely limited visibility when looking into the rearview mirror.
Tesla has improved upon this with the Model Y L:
This is a drastic difference. https://t.co/wTdhitD5aA pic.twitter.com/z6hFs0Jkss
— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) July 30, 2026
PowerShare will be included
Model Y L will come with PowerShare in North America, with an 11.5kW output to your home. Tesla said it would require Powerwall 3 for operation.
Wireless Charging Pad
There has been some speculation that Tesla would upgrade the wireless charging pads in the United States, but this is not the case.
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Tesla confirmed that it does not come with the cooled pads as the Y L in China does. This is because North America has not adopted Qi charging yet.
Thermal Management Improvements
These improvements in the Model Y L were seen with thermal management:
- Up to 15% faster cabin cooling
- +23% thermal efficiency gained in hot weather, 7 miles of real-world range gained
- 8x more solar energy reflection off of glass roof
- 30% reduction in solar energy entering the cabin
Some of the thermal management improvements in the new Model Y L Premium:
• Up to 15% faster cabin cooling
• Up to 15 min faster cabin cooling in sunny conditions
• +23% thermal efficiency gained in hot weather +7 miles of real-world range gained
• +10 miles recovered after… pic.twitter.com/jZirFWFdtO— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) July 31, 2026
Demand
Tesla said the Model Y L is almost sold out in the U.S. It comes with
- 1 year of FSD Supervised
- 1 year of Supercharging
- 1 year of Premium Connectivity
- Free exterior paint color, interior, and wheel option at no additional cost

