Elon Musk spent Saturday morning cheering a rocket catch plan and defending his Texas bet, went quiet for eight hours, then spent early Sunday answering Grok Bot subscribers who say their weekly usage runs dry. This edition covers 7:04 a.m. PST Saturday, Nov. 7, to 7:04 a.m. PST Sunday, Nov. 8. It quotes his posts with a link to each, pairs claims with other sources where the desk found them, and follows Jacob and Isaac’s topic order, checked Sunday against the timestamps of their Oct. 31 episode (episode index) and their Nov. 6 episode (YouTube); Tesla leads today because his most-viewed post concerned the Cybertruck. The desk found no new interview or public appearance in the window; coverage still drew on his Nov. 6 Baron conference chat. Video follows at the end.

Highlights. He said Tesla will add a Cybertruck shift because orders exceed what the line can build before it comes down for Cybercab around June or July 2027 (). He told Grok Bot users that fixes for “improved token efficiency and smarter behavior are underway” (). And SpaceX named Nov. 13 for a flight meant to catch both Starship and Super Heavy (SpaceX).

Topic by topic

1. Tesla. Beyond the Cybertruck shift, he answered a post comparing a 120 kWh CyberSUV with a 48 kWh Cybercab: “There are efficiency improvements coming that will allow for a 40kWh Cybercab pack. We will make this in liquid silver, so the colors are not too monotonous,” adding, “The biggest thing most people fail to understand is that there are a very limited number of smart, dedicated people!” (), and reposted that reply himself (). TeslaNorth notes the 48 kWh figure came from the poster, not Tesla, and that Musk gave no date for a 40kWh pack (TeslaNorth). Over @XFreeze’s claim that Model Y ranked as the world’s best-selling passenger vehicle in 2023, 2024 and 2025, he wrote, “Most people don’t know that the best-selling car in the world is the Tesla Model Y” (; ). He answered “True” to a reply that Tesla open-sources its patents () and reposted a chart post claiming Tesla gained 1,020 basis points of California EV share after the federal EV tax credit expired (). Drive Tesla Canada suggests Tesla may stop taking new Cybertruck orders before the line closes (Drive Tesla Canada); Tesla has not said so. The desk did not audit the sales and market-share claims.

2. SpaceX and Starlink. Covered in the deep dive: Flight 15 and the catch plan. He also replied “Interesting” to @cb_doge’s post that Alphabet added 3.85 million SpaceX shares in the third quarter (); TeslaNorth, reading the Nov. 6 Form 13F, reports 555,043,560 shares valued at $83.7 billion as of Sept. 30, and cautions that the filing does not explain the increase (TeslaNorth). He wrote “Starlink saves lives” over a clip of Starlink kits reaching an earthquake-hit village in Indonesia (; ), reposted a post on La Serena, Chile, bringing Starlink to rural clinics (), and reposted a Chinese-language post about Starlink V4 laser links (). He answered “Yes” to a photo of himself at the Mars Society in 2006 captioned “Long before Starship, the destination was always Mars” ().

3. X and X Money. He reposted three posts from @anabology about a contest paying prizes in X Money for the best music video starring Claudia, a fan-made AI pop singer (; ), including @anabology’s offer of $5,000 in X Money for a winning entry that doubles as a Starlink ad with a Claudia cameo (). Over one entry’s clip, he wrote, “Who put your beliefs into your head? It probably wasn’t you” (; ), about 2.5 million views. The project’s site lists a fan-made Solana token, $CLAUDIA, whose trading fees it says fund the films (claudia.gallery); the desk takes no view on the token.

4. Grok Bot / xAI. Five posts, all early Sunday or late Saturday PT. Asked “What do you do when your Grok Bot runs out of usage?” he replied, “Is it not one-click-easy to increase usage?” (; ). After @dneighbors answered that a $200 plan now lasts 14 hours, he wrote, “I will dig into this today” (), and 16 minutes later, “Grok Bot fixes for improved token efficiency and smarter behavior are underway” (), about 1.1 million views and 2,371 replies. When @teslaownersSV asked, “when will Grok @bot get a higher package than Ultra?” and said he hits his max “in like 3 days,” Musk replied, tagging @bot, “Does it offer an easy way to shift to per token pricing?” (; ). He also wrote “Many such stories” over a Chinese-language post about a friend who balked at a $200-a-month AI subscription, bought two Mac Studios to run open-source models, and found them weaker than the paid closed model (; ). For context, Musk wrote on Nov. 1 that “The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue,” per TechCrunch (TechCrunch), and xAI’s docs say Grok Bot usage “draws from the weekly shared pool across Grok, Grok Bot, and Cursor” (xAI docs). Neighbors’ figures reflect his own account, unverified, as TeslaNorth notes (TeslaNorth). The public changelog still lists v0.78.1 (Oct. 27) as latest (Grok Bot changelog).

5. AI and compute. He wrote “Yup” over a clip of his Baron remark, as summarized by @niccruzpatane, that 100 GW a year of orbital AI compute at $10 per watt would add $1 trillion in annual SpaceX revenue each year (; ); that figure remains his projection. He wrote “Interesting” over a clip attributed to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: “One person who really understands AI will outperform an entire startup team” (; ), and reposted @EvaFox on Terafab chips and abundance ().

6. U.S. politics. His Texas reply ran on: “I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person,” and “As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas” (). The Journal’s story, as republished by the Hindustan Times, says Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, who beat Gov. Greg Abbott, seeks communications between Abbott’s office and Musk and campaigned on slowing data-center development (Hindustan Times / WSJ; WSJ). He reposted Sen. Rick Scott urging the Senate to “stay in session EVERY DAY until the Democrats take over” (), @altcap’s post that the Treasury auto-creates 530A accounts holding $1,000 for newborns (), and @politicalmath’s claim about The New Yorker’s fiction authors (), which the desk did not verify. He replied “True” to Gad Saad’s video attacking podcaster Jennifer Welch and Scott Galloway ().

7. Europe and the world. He reposted Jennifer Arcuri asking why Russell Brand faced a verdict while, in her words, grooming gangs “have faced zero prosecution” (); the desk did not check that claim.

8. Culture and jokes. Over a clip in which Ron Baron asks how he wants people to think of him, he wrote “I want to be José” with a photo meme of one worker digging a hole while about a dozen others watch (; ), about 2.4 million views. He also laughed (“😂”) at a Warren Redlich post captioned “Never deleting this app” (), and told SpaceX’s Shana Diez, who joked about the Friday-the-13th launch date, “Fate does love irony, so perhaps the unluckiest day will actually be the luckiest 🍀” ().

Deep dive: Flight 15 and the first try at catching both stages

SpaceX’s mission page says Flight 15 “is preparing to launch as soon as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval,” with a 75-minute window opening at 4:45 p.m. CT (SpaceX). The flight “is planned to be the first to return both Starship and Super Heavy to the launch site for catch,” lasting more than 22 hours and about 14 orbits at roughly 275 km. Starship will carry 26 Starlink V3 satellites, which SpaceX says equal “~10 Starlink V2 Mini launches on Falcon 9,” and three of them carry cameras to scan the heatshield. The booster leg marks “the first return and catch attempt for a Super Heavy V3 booster” (SpaceX). Musk quoted the announcement (“Catching a giant rocket falling from space”) (; ), posted a diagram captioned “Starship flight maneuvers” (), and reposted Sawyer Merritt’s summary ().

A companion SpaceX update explains the risk. To reach the tower, Starship “must now fly a safe trajectory that will take it over inhabited areas in northern Mexico and southern Texas,” and controllers will allow the return only if the vehicle meets “internally developed, and FAA-approved, conditions” (SpaceX update). The ship would coast about 21 hours, keep splashdown options near Hawaii and off Chile, and hold “a late-reentry option” into the Gulf. SpaceX warns that Cameron County residents “may hear one or more sonic booms” (SpaceX update). Musk reposted @XFreeze’s rundowns of the blog post and of five contingency landing options (; ), Sawyer Merritt’s quote of the blog (), a slow-motion clip of Super Heavy’s Raptors at liftoff (), and a chart contrasting all past U.S. launches with what the poster calls SpaceX’s 2030 target of 10,000 Starship launches (). TeslaNorth’s summary matches SpaceX’s account (TeslaNorth).

The stakes, in SpaceX’s words: “Recovering an entire orbital launch system has never been done,” a feat it calls “the Holy Grail of rocketry” (SpaceX update). The mission page notes that “Three V1 boosters were successfully caught on earlier flight tests” (SpaceX); SpaceX calls Flight 15 Starship’s “first ever return to launch site” (SpaceX update). The date still depends on regulators.