Elon Musk dominated headlines this week with Tesla's blockbuster Q1 earnings, where profits soared 16 percent year-over-year, beating Wall Street expectations per CFpublic reports, though he warned of massive ahead-of-the-curve spending—$25 billion this year alone on AI, chips, and manufacturing. During the earnings call, Musk confirmed Cybercab production has kicked off at Giga Texas, with drone footage spotting over 60 steeless units staged for rollout, Invezz and YouTube updates note, as Tesla eyes robotaxi expansion to a dozen states by year-end and volume ramp in 2026. He also dropped a bombshell on Optimus Gen 3, admitting the prior hand design flopped in real-world tests and unveiling a tendon-driven redesign—90 percent of its utility hinges on this, per recent Tesla announcements—pushing final prototypes toward a Q2 launch.
On X, Musk was a posting machine April 24, firing off 31 updates including Cybercab confirmation and six units hitting the highway, as tallied by YouTube trackers. SpaceX buzzed with a $10 billion collaboration for Cursor's AI coding tech, paired with Colossus supercomputing, Fortune reveals, with an option to snap up the startup for $60 billion later this year—Bloomberg-sourced whispers fuel merger talk with Tesla by 2027, echoed by Wedbush's Dan Ives.
His race-related posts, topping 850 in six months with frequent white genocide nods, per Washington Post analysis, stirred fanbase fractures as recently as April 20. No confirmed public appearances, but these moves cement Musk's AI empire pivot, with robotaxis and bots as biographical game-changers.
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