Elon Musk admitted on Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings call today that the company doesn’t have any Optimus robots doing useful work in its factories right now. This is a striking admission, given that Musk has spent the past two years claiming the opposite. What Musk said before Let’s take a walk through memory lane. June… Continue reading Musk admits no Optimus robots are doing ‘useful work’ at Tesla — after claiming otherwise
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Elon Musk kills Tesla Model S and Model X because of ‘autonomy’
Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X by the end of Q2 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced during the company’s Q4 2025 earnings call today. The decision marks the end of an era for Tesla’s flagship vehicles, the Model S launched in 2012 and the Model X in 2015. Musk’s reason: “Autonomy.” A… Continue reading Elon Musk kills Tesla Model S and Model X because of ‘autonomy’
Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF Robotaxis
Tesla has once again suggested that it has Robotaxis operating in the San Francisco Bay Area, despite the company cannot legally operate autonomous vehicles in the state of California. As part of today’s Q4/FY2026 earnings letter (see more coverage of Tesla’s earnings at our main earnings post here), Tesla once again released information about progress… Continue reading Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF Robotaxis
Clean Technica: Tesla’s First Ever Annual Revenue Drop Is Not The Concerning Part004338
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe.Or support our Kickstarter campaign! Tesla has now published its 4th quarter and full-year financial details and various updates on vehicle models, robots, factories, and its energy business. Steve Hanley is going to cover some of the vehicle and robot news, so I’m jumping into the… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla’s First Ever Annual Revenue Drop Is Not The Concerning Part004338
Clean Technica: Tesla Removed Autopilot. The Data Says Safety Wasn’t Lost004337
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe.Or support our Kickstarter campaign! Tesla’s decision to remove Autopilot and Autosteer as standard features in North America initially struck me as a step backward for safety, a cash grab for the Full Self Driving monthly subscription and as such an attempt to boost TSLA stock… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Removed Autopilot. The Data Says Safety Wasn’t Lost004337
The Worst People Alive Are Obsessed With Meta’s Video Recording Glasses
worst-people-alive-obsessed-smart-glasses There’s something about smart glasses that bring out the worst in people. It’s really no mystery, though: they’re powerful little surveillance devices that let wearers secretly record anyone they’re looking at, uniting tech bros and vapid influencers under the same, obnoxious umbrella. The popularity of wearables like Meta Ray-Bans are quickly reminding us why… Continue reading The Worst People Alive Are Obsessed With Meta’s Video Recording Glasses
Delivery Robot Gets Stuck on Train Tracks, Gets Obliterated by Locomotive
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Coco Robotics / Getty Images An autonomous delivery robot got completely atomized by a locomotive after it decided to take a breather on a stretch of train tracks in Miami, in yet another example of how self-driving machines can struggle to navigate urban environments. Footage of the incident,… Continue reading Delivery Robot Gets Stuck on Train Tracks, Gets Obliterated by Locomotive
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research found, is explicitly linked to gas projects that will power data centers—the equivalent of energy that would power tens of… Continue reading Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips from its public submission form, according to an inventory released Wednesday of all use cases the Department of Homeland Security had for AI in 2025. The AI Enhanced ICE Tip Processing service is intended to… Continue reading ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented immigrants and US citizens alike. The details, including the company behind the app, were published as part of DHS’s 2025 AI Use Case Inventory, which federal… Continue reading Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App