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Elon Musk not only wants to reach the Moon, he also wants to turn it into a factory for satellites launched with catapults

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What do they have in common ChinaSpaceX, Auriga Space and Electromagnetic Launch? Well, possibly several things, but one of them is that they have expressed interest in using mass cannons to launch from the Moon. Said to very roughlywant to use electromagnetic catapults loaded with satellites or construction materials to other points in space. Today, existing technologies are not optimized to launch large loads, but with so much power involved it would not be strange if it were finally achieved. The ethical implications would be many even if they only focused on science and communications. However, it could be even worse; Well, according to the analysis recently published by an expert, the arrival of the military applications It would only be a matter of time. From moon rocks to nuclear warheads. The idea of ​​the lunar mass cannon He initially proposed it a scientist named Gerard O’Neill in the 70s. His idea was to use them to extract minerals from the Moon and launch them into space to build space colonies with them. Over time, many space agencies, public and private, have become interested in its use. For this reason, the independent analyst specialized in cislunar security Andre Sonntag just published a report in which he recounts the risks that these catapults would entail. If the necessary technology is optimized to launch large payloads, they could be used to launch probes aimed at destroying satellites, inert projectiles and even ships loaded with nuclear warheads. Furthermore, if launches are made from the Moon they may be more difficult to detect by conventional early warning systems, so many attacks would go unnoticed. An ingenious design. Mass cannons are actually very interesting systems for space launch. They consist on a track in which one electromagnet is placed after another. A metal cart is circulated above and is attracted by said magnets. Each of these electromagnets is activated just when the car passes over it, giving it a new impulse, so that it accelerates more and more. The goal is to reach 2.4 kilometers per second, since this is the speed necessary to escape from the Moon. When this is achieved, the cargo on board the car is launched into space. In short, it is possible to catapult what is inside the car without having to consume propellant. Better on the Moon. This system has historically been proposed for use on the Moon for two reasons. To begin with, unlike what happens with a conventional rocketa very high speed is reached very quickly. If the process were done on Earth, the rocket would reach the atmosphere so quickly that it would catch fire due to friction when crossing it. On the other hand, there is no classical atmosphere on the Moon. On the other hand, since gravity on the Moon is much lower, a lower speed is needed than what would be needed to escape through this system on Earth. The case of Elon Musk. In his report, Sonntag has not mentioned any company or agency. However, it is well known that Elon Musk speak of the use of these mass cannons last February. He has been expressing his interest for a long time establish data centers in space and manufacture AI satellites directly on the Moon. This would avoid the energy, thermal management and launch logistics limitations that Earth poses for its ambitious plan. The vacuum of space would serve as a coolant and solar energy could be used to obtain electricity. The release waiting listIn addition, it would be much clearer than on Earth. In order not to have to carry large amounts of fuel to the Moon, their idea is to launch these satellites directly from our satellite. That is why he has already mentioned electromagnetic catapults on several occasions. There is legislation, but it is difficult to ensure. The United Nations Outer Space Treaty strictly prohibits the construction of military installations on celestial bodies. It also prohibits nuclear launches from space. However, Sonntag points out in his report that it would be quite difficult to verify. Therefore, he is concerned if these types of systems advance, given the interest of tycoons like Elon Musk. The payloads that could be launched with current technologies are minuscule. In fact, launching functional satellites directly with one of these cannons is science fiction. However, technology will advance. By then, we must be prepared, because those who have no scruples on Earth will not have them in space either. Image | SpaceX/xAI In Xataka | We knew there was water on the Moon, but not why some craters were empty. Finally we have the answer

what Elon Musk asks for it to work

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The scene took place relatively recently, when several Ukrainian naval drones were left temporarily unusable during an operation in the Black Sea following connectivity problems linked to Starlink. The episode left an uncomfortable conclusion For many Western strategists: some of the most modern weapons on the planet depend on a private network controlled by a single company. The “cheap” war that began to be expensive. The United States has been pursuing an obsessive idea for years: replacing part of its very expensive precision missiles with a copy of the Iranian and Russian weapon par excellence: swarms of kamikaze drones that are much cheaper, mass-produced and capable of saturating enemy defenses. He LUCAS drone was born precisely for that. Each unit costs just a fraction of a Tomahawk and can be launched in large quantities against distant targets. On paper it seemed like the perfect formula for modern warfare. The problem appeared when those drones began to used massively against Iran and Washington discovered something uncomfortable: the weapon does not depend only on the explosive or the fuselage, but of the satellite connection that guides her. And that connection has an owner. SpaceX then decided that the Pentagon was paying too little to use Starlink and Starshield in real combat operations. Elon Musk controls a critical piece. The dispute that has been revealed in Reuters exclusive reveals the extent to which the US military has become dependent on SpaceX. LUCAS drones use Starshield terminals to communicate, coordinate attacks and operate over enormous distances. Without that space network, much of the system’s advanced capabilities simply disappear. The Pentagon argued that drones only used the connection for minutes or hours and that paying $25,000 per terminal was absurd for a relatively cheap kamikaze device. SpaceX responded that actual military use was more like a premium aeronautical service than a conventional land connection. The result was surreal: the cost of connectivity almost doubled the operating price of some drones designed precisely to be cheap. The paradox of autonomous war. The case exposes a huge contradiction in the current military revolution. Armies want cheap, massive autonomous weapons, but those platforms increasingly depend on extremely complex and concentrated infrastructures in few private hands. New American drone swarms need to transmit data, share targets, coordinate and receive orders in real time over thousands of miles. This requires the use of gigantic orbital networks capable of maintaining permanent global coverage. Today no company offers anything comparable to Starlink. SpaceX controls more than 60% of all operational satellites on the planet and has become in a critical layer of Western military communications. The Pentagon is beginning to discover that the true strategic advantage is not just in making cheap drones, but in who owns the sky that connects those machines. Ukraine and danger. The Ukrainian War I had been warning for a long time about this problem. Starlink became there an essential element for Ukrainian and Russian operations, and also a constant source of political and military tensions. At times, restrictions imposed by SpaceX affected specific operations and made clear something uncomfortable for Washington: a private company could alter the operation of military systems in the middle of a war. Now the scenario is repeated with Iran, but in an even more delicate way because the Pentagon itself directly negotiate rates while developing weapons that depend entirely on that orbital infrastructure. Even US naval tests they were paralyzed previously following global Starlink blackouts that left maritime drones floating offline. The new military industry. They remembered on TWZ that, for decades, American military power depended mainly on classic defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing or Raytheon. SpaceX has completely changed that balance. The company not only launches rockets or manufactures satellites, it controls global communication networksorbital infrastructures, data systems and technologies that are beginning to be essential for autonomous warfare. This gives it an unprecedented position of strength vis-à-vis the US government. Unlike traditional contractors, SpaceX also has a huge independent commercial business and does not depend exclusively on the Pentagon. In fact, some analysts already describe the situation crudely: the United States has SpaceX “by the throat” because there is no comparable alternative today capable of offering similar global coverage at reasonable costs. War happens through space. The important thing is possibly that the discussion has only just begun. The LUCAS drones They are just an initial piece of a much deeper military transformation where autonomous swarms, orbital systems and artificial intelligence networks will function as a single connected ecosystem. The Pentagon wants future drones to be able to cooperate with each other, automatically adapt to combat and attack targets with minimal human supervision. But the more sophisticated those systems become, the more they will depend of permanent connections high capacity. And that makes the space the authentic center of gravity of modern warfare. The great irony is that the United States designed cheap drones to avoid spending millions on each missile and has ended up discovering that the most important strategic cost may not be in the weapon, but who gets paid for keeping her connected. Image | CENTCOM, Official SpaceX Photos In Xataka | The US has remembered what it did in World War II and has presented LUCAS: a copy of the most lethal Russian weapon In Xataka | Iran has been manufacturing the most effective and destructive kamikaze drones in the world for years. The US has plagiarized them to bomb him

Neither Robotaxi nor Cybercab. Elon Musk is having a hard time naming his autonomous taxi, and now it’s French sparkling water to blame

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It will soon be a year since Tesla’s first autonomous taxis began to roll And to this day the creature still does not have an official name. AND not because Elon Musk hasn’t tried. First it ran into the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and now it has been a French sparkling water company. rookie mistake. Tesla may have the technology of the future rolling on the streets, but when it held the ‘We, Robot’ event in 2024 in which it presented the Cybercab, it forgot a small detail: it announced the name without having officially registered the brand. This is where Unibev comes into play, a French beverage company, which saw the perfect opportunity to troll the richest man in the world. The patent troll. What Unibev did is a clear case of patent thief (or troll, as they would say in ‘Silicon Valley’). Taking advantage of Tesla’s oversight, six days after the announcement, the company registered the name Cybercab and it doesn’t seem like it’s because they want to call their sparkling water that way, but rather to simply be annoying. The company already had a history of trolling Musk and in addition to Cybercab they also registered Cybertaxi, Robocab Systems, XCab, Cyber ​​Diner, Teslaquila, Teslaquila Hard Seltzer and With a Touch of Musk. Some horny ones. The answer. The USPTO suspended Tesla’s application because Unibev had beaten them to it, but Tesla did not sit idly by and filed a lawsuit of more than 150 pages in which they accuse Unibev of bad faith and having acted as a patent thief. Having registered before is not synonymous with victory, since simply proving that Unibev does not manufacture vehicles the authority should rule in favor of Tesla. In their application, Unibev said they could use the name for “a car, a ship or a plane.” It seems easy enough to dismantle, the problem is that the litigation could extend until 2027. If Unibev wins the dispute, Tesla could be forced to negotiate the use of the name outside the US and even have to use another name in certain markets. And ‘robotaxi’?. Tesla too tried to register the trademark ‘Robotaxi’but the USPTO told them that nanai. The reason had nothing to do with any patent thief, but because it is “used to describe similar products and services of other companies. (…) This expression appears to be generic in the context of the applicant’s products and/or services.” The USTPO comes to say that it is too standard a name, it would be like registering the ‘taxi’ trademark. There is still more. The organizational chaos does not end with taxis, the same thing also happened with its autonomous minibus, presented with great fanfare as “Robovan.” The problem is that Tesla announced it without first having verified that the brand was already registered by an Estonian delivery company. Tesla has had to look for less attractive alternatives such as “Robobus”, “Robus” or “Cyberbus”. About launching autonomous vehicles with super-advanced technology, well, that’s all the paperwork. Image | tesla In Xataka | Tesla robotaxis are autonomous, except when driven by a man from Texas

Anthropic has just left behind Claude’s biggest burden. He has achieved this after sealing an alliance with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

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There are few things more frustrating than finding a tool that fits almost exactly what we need and discovering, just as we’re starting to get the most out of it, that we can’t keep using it at the same rate. Claude It has earned a prominent place among those who use artificial intelligence to program, analyze documents or work with demanding tasks, but it has also drawn a very specific complaint: its limits of use. We are not talking about a minor annoyance, but rather a friction capable of breaking the workflow. Anthropic has decided to attack the problem. The company led by Dario Amodei announced a rise of the limits of Claude Code and the Claude API, relying on a new alliance with SpaceXAI. The pact will give it access to Colossus 1, an infrastructure that Anthropic presents as a way to directly improve the experience of its most intensive users. The promise, for now, is clear: more room to use Claude without demand taking its toll so quickly. The tension with limits. The adjustment that helps understand this news came a few weeks earlier. Anthropic recently modified their time limits to better manage demand during peak hours. In practice, this meant that five-hour sessions could be consumed before those actual five hours had passed if the use occurred during peak periods. The change especially affected those who made more intense use of Claude. More room to use Claude. Anthropic specifies the improvement in three changes that, according to the company, take effect immediately. The first is the doubling of Claude Code’s five-hour limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans per seat. The second is the removal of the peak limit reduction for Claude Code on Pro and Max accounts. The third affects the API: Anthropic says it has considerably raised the usage limits for Claude Opus models, although the exact scope depends on the limits table published by the company itself. Colossus muscle 1. The agreement with SpaceXAI is the most striking piece of the announcement because Anthropic ensures that it will be able to use all the computing capacity of the Colossus 1 data center. According to the company, that means more than 300 megawatts of new capacity and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs that will be available within a month. SpaceXAI also details that the cluster includes deployments of H100, H200 and GB200 accelerators. The transformation continues. SpaceXAI does not appear in this agreement as simply a new label within the SpaceX ecosystem. The context, Elon Musk noted that “xAI will be dissolved as an independent company” and that its artificial intelligence products will be integrated under SpaceXAI. The phrase helps understand why Anthropic is talking about this brand when explaining its new access to computing power. Of course, to avoid confusion, what Anthropic announced is not a purchase or a merger, but rather an agreement to use AI infrastructure. It is not an isolated agreement. Anthropic also wanted to frame the alliance with SpaceXAI within a much broader capability strategy. The company recalls an agreement of up to 5 GW with Amazon, which includes almost 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026, and another 5 GW pact with Google and Broadcom that will begin to come into operation in 2027. To this it adds a strategic alliance with Microsoft and NVIDIA, with $30 billion of capacity in Azure, and an investment of $50 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States with Fluidstack. The most futuristic part. The agreement also includes a much more speculative derivative. Anthropic says that as part of the pact, it has expressed interest in collaborating with SpaceXAI to develop several gigawatts of orbital computing capacity. SpaceXAI presents it as a possible answer to the pressure that AI is putting on energy, land and cooling on the ground, but for now we are far from something tangible. Of course, this route would only make sense if important engineering challenges are overcome first. The real challenge. Anthropic has put on the table a direct answer to one of the big complaints surrounding Claude, although the most important part is still missing: checking how it feels in real use. SpaceXAI’s new limits and additional capacity seem to point in the right direction for those who work intensively with these services. The improvement, therefore, opens a new phase: that of checking if Claude can offer more margin without its users encountering the same wall again too soon. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | The “token economy” is broken: flat AI programming fees are mathematically unsustainable

Elon Musk’s AI does not have its own Claude Code, but they already have a solution for that: buy Cursor

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SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, Indian on Wednesday that he had reached an agreement with AI startup Cursor. According to this agreement, this company could be acquired for 60,000 million dollars. If everything is confirmed, xAI will finally have a programming AI agent with which to compete. Claude Code, Codex or Gemini AI. Restructuring. Elon Musk posted a message on X in March in which claimed that “xAI was not created the right way initially, so it’s rebuilding from the ground up.” The company’s trajectory has been erratic and most of its original founders ended up leaving the company in recent months, but for that restructuring Musk hired Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, two of the co-founders of Cursor. And that has been the trigger for this agreement. Cursor’s rating skyrocketed. By November 2025, Cursor was the undisputed leader in the programming AI agent segment, with $3.4 billion in funding and a fantastic reputation among developers. It had reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue in less than two years, a figure that few startups of its generation can aspire to. The Claude Code earthquake. The arrival of Claude Code changed everything thanks to his extraordinary behavior and its integration with Anthropic models, and while OpenAI also promoted Codex and the era of vibe-coding made all these tools gain more strength than ever. However, for Cursor these launches were problematic because its competitors could work directly with companies because they had something that Cursor did not: computing capacity. Cursor needed an ally. In the statement of the agreement, those responsible for Cursor they explain that the lack of access to computing power to train their own AI models had been a major bottleneck for its growth. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have access to several present and future GW of compute thanks to their agreements with hyperscalers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft). But no matter how good Cursor was, it was competing with giants with many more resources. The agreement with SpaceX gives it access to xAI’s AI supercomputer, which is precisely perfect for training LLMs and which according to its managers allows them to “drastically scale the intelligence of our models”: But xAI too. On the other side of the agreement there is also another winner. xAI have their Colossus supercomputing cluster, access to SpaceX resources (of which it is part) and a significant base of users (and their data) thanks to Grok. What it does not have is a product that competes with Claude Code or Codex, and attempts to develop it have been unsuccessful. Buying Cursor solves that problem at once: instead of working on building a product for years while its competitors continue to advance, xAI directly integrates the team that already had that product and also adds the users who were already using Cursor. Will it be enough? The question this agreement must answer is whether it is enough to put xAI on the real map of artificial intelligence. The company has a minor presence in this market despite the efforts of Elon Musk, and although it will now have a product respected and valued by users, it will be interesting if that is enough to compete with its rivals in this area. The IPO as a contextual framework. SpaceX has been preparing to go public for months, and it is expected that this will be one of the largest Public Sale Offers (IPO) of history. Acquiring Cursor before or after that deal has clear financial implications because SpaceX has two options. You can buy Cursor for $60 billion, or simply pay $10 billion for a close collaboration agreement that does not include the acquisition. SpaceX will make that decision before the end of the year, but this agreement seems to suit both it and Cursor very well. Image | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Elon Musk knows that TSMC is overwhelmed: Terafab is his idea to completely change the global chip industry

A bakery accepted an order for 2,000 cakes for Tesla. Elon Musk had to mediate to avoid bankruptcy

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Large companies are not only a pole of job creation or direct wealth for those who work in them, but, indirectly, they are also a driver of indirect development for other companies in the area. Sometimes, they can also be your downfall. In early 2024, a small artisan bakery in San Jose, California, nearly went bankrupt when it tried to fill a huge order for cakes for Tesla’s offices. A last-minute change of heart left the small business on the brink of bankruptcy and in debt. As and how they counted in The Guardian, Elon Musk had to intervene. Laura’s sweet request Voahangy Rasetarinera, owner of the Giving Pies bakery, was challenged to handle an order of 2,000 mini pies for a Tesla employee event. This request represented a great economic opportunity for small businessbut it also represented a significant logistical challenge given its magnitude and the bakery’s limited resources. Rasetarinera consulted his staff and they agreed to accept the order by sending the invoice to Tesla. Delivery dates would be Tuesday and Thursday of the following week. Elon Musk’s company diverted payment for the cakes to a third-party supplier called City Flavor, which did not respond to payment requests after delivering the first round of cakes. “I remained optimistic as I waited for the payment on Thursday. However, when it didn’t materialize, I became concerned.” That same day, Laura, Rasetarinera’s contact at Tesla, called the bakery to apologize for the delay in payment for the first round, citing the inexperience of the suppliers. On that same call, Laura requested to double the cake order. In total, the bill already amounted to $16,000 for 4,000 cupcakes that Giving Pies was to deliver. The bakery was forced to redouble its efforts paying overtime to staff, purchasing more ingredients that he had not yet charged for, and, most importantly, rejecting other orders to meet Tesla’s enormous demand. After consulting with the employees again, everyone agreed to go ahead, so Rasetarinera sent a new expanded invoice to Tesla with the new amount and they got into trouble with the new shipment, but not before sending a message to Laura, to demand payment for the first batch of cakes. “I’m sorry to bother you again, but I’m a small business. I don’t have the luxury of infinite resources, so I really need to get paid to insure my staff,” the businesswoman wrote to Tesla, as published the local media Kron4. Tap on the image to go to the original message However, the joy was short-lived. Just a week before the delivery date, Tesla canceled the order without notice. Just like Rasetarinera explained on the bakery’s Instagram account, “we received an email saying they were canceling the order. There was no explanation. Just a message saying, ‘Hey, I’m so sorry, I don’t think we’re going to need this order anymore.’” Unpaid bills and 2,000 cupcakes in the oven The cancellation of the order had serious consequences for Giving Pies. The pastry shop He had already invested in ingredients, increased his staff and rejected other orders in order to fulfill Tesla’s order. What was shaping up to be a great opportunity to work with a great company had turned into a nightmare of unpaid bills. Rasetarinera explained on his social networks that “we had to buy additional ingredients, hire extra staff and schedule overtime.” All of this represented a considerable expense for a small business. “I had invested time, resources and effort based on Tesla’s guarantees, only to be left in the lurch,” declared the owner to Guardian. The news spread quickly on social networks and local media that echoed the bad trick that Tesla had done to this small merchant, generating outrage among users due to Tesla’s lack of consideration for a local business. The word spread through social networks, even reaching the ears of Elon Musk himself. Elon Musk and the unexpected solution When Elon Musk found out about the situation, he decided to take matters into his own hands. From your X accountMusk apologized for what happened to the bakery and promised to resolve the problem. “I just found out about this. We are fixing it immediately,” the billionaire wrote. Tap on the image to go to the original message Musk’s solution was simple but effective: Tesla would buy all the pies Giving Pies could produce, and he also invited the owner on a tour of the factory. “People should always be able to count on Tesla to do its best,” Elon Musk wrote in his X message. A Tesla representative would later confirm to KGO-TV that there had been a communication problem and that Laura did not have the capacity to authorize payments. For Giving Pies, this experience ended up being positive. Not only did they overcome the financial hardship due to the investment made in the order, but they also gained publicity and support from the community. As shown on your websitetoday, Giving Pies sweetens the holidays for some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies. In Xataka | An Englishman named his restaurant “Tesla.” He was immediately left without a name and with a fine of 14,000 euros thanks to Musk In Xataka | Tesla has been suing buyers and journalists for criticizing its cars in China for some time. And he’s winning Image | DVIDS (Justin Pacheco), Giving Pie A version of this article was published in February 2025

with the help of Elon Musk

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There are few canals as strategic in the world as the Panama Canal: in 2025 alone, 13,404 ships passed through it, according to official data. And although it is coming out competition in Mexicohas a difficult time surpassing its numbers. The Panama Canal is essential for the logistics of the continent as it connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but it also part of the Central American country. So the mayor’s office has had an idea: take advantage an Elon Musk contest pedestrianize the canal so that people can cross it on foot or on foot. And the best thing: if their plan goes well, they won’t pay a single balboa. The Boring Company gives away a tunnel. A brief presentation: The Boring Company is Elon Musk’s tunnel construction company and its project portfolio includes the vegas loop either the Encoreboth in Las Vegas. On January 18, the company threw down the gauntlet: “Tunnel Vision Challenge“, an open call to any entity to propose where to build their next tunnel. If you win, you get it for free. The rules are simple but they significantly limit the applications: the tunnel cannot exceed one mile in length (1.6 kilometers), it must have an interior diameter of 12 feet (3.66 meters). The use is free: it can be for the passage of people, goods, supplies… of course, it must be well justified what problem it solves and its construction must be viable from a technical, economic and regulatory point of view. Panama’s proposal. The Panama América newspaper collects the Panamanian proposal from the hand of its mayor, Mayer Mizrachi: the first pedestrian crossing to cross the Canal, which until now can at most be crossed by car (soon, also by metro). The estimated length is around 600 – 900 meters, within the limit of conditions, and the diameter is sufficient for the passage of people and bicycles. According to his estimates, 45,000 people a day would pass through this future pedestrianization, new public areas will be built at the end, panels on its walls to tell the story and, ultimately, a tourist use of what is the most famous infrastructure in the country. Of the 487 proposals, Panama’s is among the 15 finalists, says the politician. Why is it important. Because the Panama Canal is not just a waterway: it is a barrier that divides the country and its capital. Panama City and its metropolitan area have been growing on both sides of the Canal for more than a century, depending on the car and facing heavy traffic at specific times. This step changes the mobility paradigm, favoring transportation in more sustainable means and life around the Canal, for example going for a run or a walk. A recovery of space for people. The Panama Canal was already providential for the country’s logistics and economy, but tourism has enormous potential: a tunnel with its museum component through which you can walk under the largest ships on the planet. Without that tunnel, It has already received a million visitors in 2025 alone. Context. The subsoil of the Canal is geologically complex, with volcanic materials and clays that have historically given stability problems (cockroach training) and challenges such as the point where the Continental Mountain Range intersects (Culebra Cut). However, Panama has experience in excavations, without going any further, with the subway lines and the relatively recent expansion of the Canal. But who would be in charge of the construction would be The Boring Company. Of course, before talking about costs and deadlines, an exhaustive geotechnical study would have to be carried out. That said, before its materialization and engineering challenges there is the institutional obstacle: the Panama Canal is administered by the Panama Canal Authority, an autonomous body of the State. That is, the mayor does not have the power to authorize the works. Before carrying out the work, it is an essential requirement that the Panamanian government and the ACP give approval. In fact, Mayer Mizrachi has already publicly requested the support of the president of the country. What’s going to happen now. The deadline for submitting proposals It concluded on February 23 and a month later, on March 23, the winner would theoretically be announced. The date has already passed and as we write this article, The Boring Company has not yet made a statement, which could mean three things: that the announcement has simply been delayed, that Musk’s company has opted to declare the winner void, or that they are in full negotiations before announcing the winner. If Panama wins, a three-way negotiation will begin between the city mayor, ACP and the central government for the granting of permits and other bureaucracy derived from a work of such magnitude, which includes the public use of the ends of the tunnel. Even if you didn’t win, it wouldn’t mean the end: reaching the final of a competition with almost 500 applications seeking innovative mobility and your idea could be the starting point to follow your own path. In Xataka | Mexico wants to build its “Panama Canal”: cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific in less than seven hours In Xataka | The drought in the Panama Canal is so extreme that desperate solutions are already being proposed. How to squeeze the clouds Cover | Pancanal and The Boring Company

Elon Musk often promises impossible things like Terafab. The problem is that sometimes he manages to turn them into reality.

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It was up to Elon Musk to revolutionize the automotive industry with Tesla and the electric car. Probably no one believed he could do it. Then he did the same with the aerospace industry with SpaceX, and that was more of the same: it seemed impossible. It may be many things, but the truth is that although Elon Musk promises many things and does not always fulfill them when he says (hello autonomous car), has achieved unimaginable things. That’s why when you talk about Terafab, maybe we should give it a chance. Because this seems almost as impossible as his other feats. Terafab and Musk’s master plan. On Saturday night, from a power plant that has not been used for a long time, Elon Musk advertisement the last of the components of its master plan: Terafab. The objective is to create a chip factory in which Tesla, SpaceX and xAI will collaborate. According to Musk, this plant will be capable of manufacturing between 100 and 200 GW of computing capacity per year on earth, but it will reach 1 TW in space. The problem, as always with Musk, is distinguishing what part of the plan is engineering and what part is theater and fireworks. He doesn’t do it just because. At that event, the magnate explained that semiconductor manufacturers do not produce enough chips for their AI and robotics needs. And since TSMC and the rest of the manufacturers cannot meet Musk’s demand, he has proposed manufacturing them directly. You need them for your robotaxis and your humanoid robots, Optimuswhich he hopes will end up multiplying by 10 or 100 the production rate of his cars. But it also needs chips so that xAI can compete in the field of AI, and SpaceX needs them for its satellites. That is, it actually needs a lot of chips. Many. Chips from space. At Terafab they intend to create two types of chips. On the one hand, there will be those intended for autonomous vehicles or Optimus robots. On the other, the chips that already have their own name, D3, and that will be designed specifically for space, with products that use them that work in low Earth orbit and are powered by solar energy. For Musk, the idea “becomes an obvious decision”: there will come a point where putting payload into orbit is so cheap that host data centers in space It is cheaper than doing it on land because solar energy is practically unlimited there. Too many unknowns. Everything was very nice and promising, but once the speech and promises were over, the questions began. Building a state-of-the-art semiconductor factory is a colossal challenge. It’s not just a matter of money: it’s that advanced chip manufacturing is in the hands of three companies around the world (TSMC, Samsung and Intel), and requires photolithography with UVE technology which is only manufactured by the well-known Dutch company ASML. And here’s the thing, that Musk: Did not announce any agreement with ASML It has not shown orders that demonstrate that it will have these equipment He has not named a technological partner for the project No estimated dates or calendar have been given. And he hasn’t talked about the budget either. It’s all a gigantic unknown. The most ambitious vertical integration in tech history. On several occasions Musk repeated how at Terafab they intend to cover the entire development, manufacturing, packagingtesting and improvement in the same facilities. If we fulfill that promise, we would be facing another unprecedented achievement, because the semiconductor industry has been doing just the opposite for decades: hyperspecialization by different suppliers: some design, others manufacture, others package… Musk wants to do it all, and if he succeeds he will become a direct rival for Samsung or TSMC, which a priori he would no longer need. Promises and realities. This project seems especially diffuse, but with Musk anything is possible, as we have said. In recent years, yes, we have seen how several of his ideas or they have failedor they have been delayed, or they have been left in no man’s land. The robotaxis still haven’t arrived, the Cybertruck arrived late and it’s not settingand companies like The Boring Company or products like Solar Roof have had less reach than they promised, at least for now. Terafab seems like another impossible project from Musk. We’ll see if it ends up not being so. Image | tesla In Xataka | 8 years ago Elon Musk launched a Tesla Roadster into space: it continues to orbit and was mistaken for an asteroid

Tesla’s enormous problem in Germany has an alarming figure and a clear person responsible: Elon Musk

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Three out of four potential buyers of an electric car reject the idea of ​​buying a Tesla. The study points to the German market, which is the first electric car market in Europe by sales volume, and explains an important part of Tesla’s failure in Europe during 2025. Three out of four. 75% of potential buyers of an electric car in Germany do not value the idea of ​​buying a Tesla car, according to a study by the German Institute of Economics in collaboration with the Technical University of Dresden. The figure, which in itself is bad, has even more meaning. And that 75% is made up of potential customers who believe it is unlikely to buy a Tesla (15%) and those who completely reject buying a vehicle from this brand (60%). The reason, as we could imagine, is not a question of competition or price. The disaster. Last year, 545,142 electric cars were sold in Germany. It was, by far, the strongest electric car market in Europe. The growth was 43.2% compared to 2024, the year in which just over 380,000 electric cars were sold. Its market share reached 19.1%, above the European average, according to ACEA. For Tesla, however, it was not a great year. In Europe, 150,504 electric vehicles from Elon Musk’s company were sold, 37.9% less than the previous year when 242,436 registrations were registered. The most problematic thing is that the company had achieved a market share of 2.3% (a good bite to eat on the electric car pie, which in 2024 was only 13.6% in the European Union. That is, almost two out of every 10 electric cars sold in Europe were from Tesla. The drop was even more pronounced in Germany. There, the drop was 48.4%, as recorded Reuters at the beginning of the year. And, with everything, It has not been its strongest percentage drop in European countries but the damage in volume is more than evident. The politics. The decision by which the Germans seem to completely reject Tesla is evident to the creators of the study: Elon Musk’s political positioning. According to the authors, political positioning influences the purchase of a car more than sociodemographic characteristics. They point out that young people, those with a higher level of education and those who live in urban areas are more inclined to purchase an electric car. In political terms, Green supporters are the most open to acquiring this technology and AfD (German far-right) voters are the least enthusiastic. On average, they say, the potential customer for an electric car has grown by over 40% and those who reject it outright have also fallen. But the problem for Tesla is that it is not attractive to either group. Among the Greens, only 10.8% value the purchase of a Tesla as their first option and the percentage grows among AfD followers to 15.2% but it must be taken into account that these voters are also less in favor of buying a car of this type. Just lose. The study concludes with a statement: Elon Musk has lost support for buying cars among progressive groups (those who buy the most electric cars or are willing to buy) and has not attracted enough conservative groups to alleviate this disadvantage. The result is a direct consequence of a year 2025 that began with Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute during Donald Trump’s takeover of the United States and which continued with a explicit support of the company’s head for AfD and other far-right parties in Europe. It must be taken into account that this type of political positioning in Germany is much more delicate than in other countries. In Germany the Nazi salute is a crime punished with a fine in minor cases but which can be grounds for imprisonment in more serious cases. Study on preferences when buying an electric car in Germany segmented by political parties. Source: German Institute of Economics The worst option almost always. The image above shows the predisposition of Germans to the type of electric car they want to buy, segmented by their origin and the political parties that these potential customers vote for. According to this data, Tesla is the last option in four of the six political parties studied, even behind Chinese cars as the first option. The latter always surpass him except among CDU and SPD voters (although in both cases a greater percentage considers it possible to buy a Chinese car over a Tesla if we add the second level of predisposition). Tesla reaps the worst results among the Greens and Linke (The Left) and the absolute rejection is greater among the supporters of the latter political party. Chinese cars are, in all cases, the second option chosen when considering those who are willing to buy an electric car and those who value it as a possible purchase. The Germans are the ones who obtain the most support and the first option in all cases, with the greatest support among Green voters and with the AfD as the party with the greatest reluctance to buy it. Photo | Elon Musk in X and German Institute of Economics In Xataka | Tesla is discovering in real time that the most difficult thing was not to build a car brand from scratch: it was to maintain it

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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AI is drowning Wikipedia. Not only has it been trained with its content, but the AI ​​responses It’s stealing a lot of your traffic. As if that were not enough, in October of last year a competitor appeared, Grokipedia, created entirely with AI (and copied from Wikipedia itself). We now know that Elon Musk’s invention is attracting a new audience: other AIs. Source: Grokipedia. A few days ago, some tests carried out by The Guardian revealed that ChatGPT was using Grokipedia as a source in various queries and it is not the only chatbot that is citing it. According to The Vergereferences are appearing in other AI services such as those of Google, which cites it in Google Gemini, in the AI ​​summaries and the search engine’s AI mode. It has also been cited by Microsoft Copilot and, to a lesser extent, Perplexity and Claude. Volume. Speaking to The Verge, Glen Allsopp, head of SEO at Ahrefs, revealed that they did a test with more than 13 million queries and the result was that ChatGPT mentioned Grokipedia in more than 263,000 responses. Wikipedia continues to appear much more, with almost 3 million references, but taking into account that Grokipedia was born in October 2025, the volume of citations is quite large. ChatGPT’s favorite. Analysts from other SEO tools such as Semrush and Profound told The Verge that they have detected significant increases in the number of citations to Grokipedia and the majority come from ChatGPT. In the case of the rest of the chatbots, according to Ahrefs tests, Google cited Grokipedia in 6,800 Gemini responses and 567 AI summaries. Copilot named it in 7,700 responses and Perplexity only two. From the creator of MechaHitler. Wikipedia is collaboratively and transparently edited by humans, but Grokipedia is run by Grok, an AI that has had hallucinations in which I thought it was Elon Musk himselfhas published antisemitic messages, “MechaHitler” was proclaimed and recently it was in the news for help “undress” millions of women. As if that were not enough, an investigation revealed that in Grokipedia there are articles whose sources are directly neo-Nazi forums and conspiracy theory websites. The researchers warned that Grok was making his own editorial decisions, altering the focus on certain topics. That chatbots are using it as a reference is problematic, to say the least. OpenAI responds. Speaking to The Verge, an OpenAI spokesperson said that ChatGPT searches a “wide range of sources and points of view” and that users can judge their reliability for themselves. It also highlighted that they implement security filters to prevent links to potentially harmful content from appearing. In Xataka | AI is breaking one of the oldest economic paradigms in history: that cheap equals “bad” Image | Amparo Babiloni, with Wikipedia and Grokipedia logos

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