Weekly Thread - Week of January 04, 2026

Tesla’s Elon Musk: 10 billion miles needed for safe Unsupervised FSD

Tesla’s patent for “variable EV transmission”

Xpeng to begin public road tests of robotaxis powered by VLA 2.0 software

The Robot Cars Have Come for the Kids — New York Times

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains difference between Tesla FSD and Alpamayo

Best Tech 2026: Believe It, Tesla FSD (Supervised) Is the Best Driver Assistance System on the Market

Tesla’s Cybercab Trademark Suspended Following Earlier Filing by French Beverage Company

xAI Raises $20B Series E

Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M | TechCrunch

Hyundai's Chung warns tough year ahead for auto industry

Elon Musk posts his take on when Tesla will see serious FSD competition

Nio flags potential cost pressures from memory chips

I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried

Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot is now a product and heading to factories in 2028

Tesla makes minor updates to Model Y in China, prices unchanged

Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture | TechCrunch

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to 'think like a human' | TechCrunch

CES 2026: China's Hesai will double production as lidar sensor industry shakes out

More Cybercab out testing - CA and TX

Elon getting involved with midterm elections

Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16%

Tesla dethroned as the world's largest EV maker

China's BYD posts weakest sales growth in five years on headwinds at home

Cash on Hand as a metric of good health.