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Company Profile
Tesla designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, energy generation and storage systems, and is expanding into autonomous driving and robotaxi services.
Founded 2003Austin, TexasTSLA
Tesla FAQ
- Is Tesla publicly traded?
- Yes. Tesla trades under the ticker TSLA.
Coverage Timeline
newest first- Aug 12, 2026BIG TECHNorway's Wealth Fund Reveals $1.2B SpaceX Stake After Record Profit$1.2B SpaceX stake→
- Aug 6, 2026FUNDINGThe Real AI Bottleneck This Week Was Power$18.8B combined→
- Aug 6, 2026BIG TECHTesla and SpaceX Commit $16.8B to Texas Chip Fab$16.8B first phase→
- Aug 6, 2026BIG TECHTesla, SpaceX to Build $16.8B Chip Factory$16.8B initial→
- Aug 4, 2026IPOTesla's China Business Is Its Cash Cow and Its Risk→
- Aug 3, 2026AIThe Humanoid Robot Production Race Just Got Real→
- Jul 31, 2026REGULATIONNHTSA's Deadline for Robotaxi Emergency-Scene Fixes Arrives→
- Jul 24, 2026IPOWhy AI Capex Is Now the IPO Market's Biggest Swing Factor→
- Jul 24, 2026BIG TECHTesla, Alphabet Selloff Spreads to Asia as Oil Tops $100Brent Crude Tops $100→
- Jul 23, 2026BIG TECHTesla Stock Craters 14.5% on Profit Miss, AI Capex Surge-14.5% Stock Drop→
- Jul 23, 2026BIG TECHAlphabet's Record $112B Profit Gets Punished Anyway$112.1B net profit→
- Jul 7, 2026AIWhat Tesla's Unsupervised Miami Robotaxi Really Tests5th city, first fully unsupervised outside Texas→
- Jul 2, 2026REGULATIONTesla Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges After FSD Crash Killed a Woman Inside Her Texas HomeManslaughter charges filed→
- Jul 2, 2026BIG TECHTesla Deliveries Jump 25% to a Record 480,126 Vehicles in Q2 2026480,126 vehicles delivered→
- Jun 22, 2026REGULATIONNHTSA Investigates Tesla After Autopilot Crash That Killed a Woman in Her HomeFederal probe→
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BIG TECH$1.2B SpaceX stake
Norway's Wealth Fund Reveals $1.2B SpaceX Stake After Record Profit
Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund posted a record $184.3 billion first-half profit and disclosed for the first time a $1.2 billion stake in SpaceX, on top of its existing Tesla stake.
DEEP DIVE
FUNDING
The Real AI Bottleneck This Week Was Power
FUNDING$18.8B combined
The Real AI Bottleneck This Week Was Power
Three separate US infrastructure rounds this week -- Valar Atomics' $1B nuclear raise, Base Power's $1B grid battery round, and Tesla-SpaceX's $16.8B chip fab -- show investors funding the physical layer beneath AI as heavily as the models themselves.
BY THE NUMBERS
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Tesla and SpaceX Commit $16.8B to Texas Chip Fab
BIG TECH$16.8B first phase
Tesla and SpaceX Commit $16.8B to Texas Chip Fab
Tesla and SpaceX will spend $16.8 billion on a first-phase chip plant in Grimes County, Texas, built to supply Optimus robots, robotaxis and orbital data centers rather than the Nvidia GPUs SpaceX still buys for AI training.
BRIEF
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Tesla, SpaceX to Build $16.8B Chip Factory
BIG TECH$16.8B initial
Tesla, SpaceX to Build $16.8B Chip Factory
Tesla and SpaceX will jointly build Terafab, a $16.8B initial-phase chip factory in Grimes County, Texas, to make chips for Optimus, Cybercabs and space-based data centers, with total spending potentially reaching $119B.
BRIEF
IPO
Tesla's China Business Is Its Cash Cow and Its Risk
IPO
Tesla's China Business Is Its Cash Cow and Its Risk
Ars Technica examines how much of Tesla's profitability still runs through China, and how quickly domestic Chinese EV makers are taking the share that funds it.
AI
The Humanoid Robot Production Race Just Got Real
AI
The Humanoid Robot Production Race Just Got Real
Figure AI has now built 1,000 Figure 03 units and deployed over 10,000 across partner warehouses including BMW Spartanburg, while Tesla's Optimus V3 begins a low-volume Fremont ramp -- physical AI is shifting from demos to a real manufacturing race.
REGULATION
NHTSA's Deadline for Robotaxi Emergency-Scene Fixes Arrives
REGULATION
NHTSA's Deadline for Robotaxi Emergency-Scene Fixes Arrives
Friday marks NHTSA's deadline for autonomous-vehicle operators including Waymo and Tesla to submit remediation plans addressing robotaxis that block ambulances, fire trucks and other first responders at active emergency scenes.
IPO
Why AI Capex Is Now the IPO Market's Biggest Swing Factor
IPO
Why AI Capex Is Now the IPO Market's Biggest Swing Factor
Value Add Pulse analysis: with Google posting negative free cash flow and Tesla's capex miss triggering a global selloff, AI capital spending discipline has become the single largest variable public investors price into any AI-adjacent IPO.
BIG TECH
Tesla, Alphabet Selloff Spreads to Asia as Oil Tops $100
BIG TECHBrent Crude Tops $100
Tesla, Alphabet Selloff Spreads to Asia as Oil Tops $100
Tesla's 14.5% crash and Alphabet's 7% capex-fear drop sent Wall Street to its worst session in months, and the rout spread into Asia as Brent crude topped $100 for the first time since May.
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Tesla Stock Craters 14.5% on Profit Miss, AI Capex Surge
BIG TECH-14.5% Stock Drop
Tesla Stock Craters 14.5% on Profit Miss, AI Capex Surge
Tesla posted record $28.2 billion revenue but missed profit estimates as capex surged 142% to fund Optimus and AI infrastructure, sending shares to an 11-month low.
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Alphabet's Record $112B Profit Gets Punished Anyway
BIG TECH$112.1B net profit
Alphabet's Record $112B Profit Gets Punished Anyway
Alphabet posted a record $112.1 billion quarterly profit, up 298% year-over-year and driven largely by gains on its SpaceX and Anthropic stakes, yet shares fell alongside Tesla on capex worries.
AI
What Tesla's Unsupervised Miami Robotaxi Really Tests
AI5th city, first fully unsupervised outside Texas
What Tesla's Unsupervised Miami Robotaxi Really Tests
Tesla's driverless Robotaxi launch in Miami, its first fully unsupervised deployment outside Texas, is testing camera-only self-driving against tropical rain and glare while NHTSA scrutiny of the program intensifies.
REGULATION
Tesla Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges After FSD Crash Killed a Woman Inside Her Texas Home
REGULATIONManslaughter charges filed
Tesla Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges After FSD Crash Killed a Woman Inside Her Texas Home
Michael Butler, 44, was arrested and charged with manslaughter after his Tesla Model 3, which he claimed was using Full Self-Driving, crashed through a home in Katy, Texas on June 19, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila inside. An arrest affidavit shows Butler's phone had multiple Google searches from May 2026 about FSD being 'not aggressive enough,' while Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy said on X the driver 'manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.'
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Tesla Deliveries Jump 25% to a Record 480,126 Vehicles in Q2 2026
BIG TECH480,126 vehicles delivered
Tesla Deliveries Jump 25% to a Record 480,126 Vehicles in Q2 2026
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, a company record and a 25% jump from a year earlier, beating even the most bullish Wall Street estimates of roughly 418,000-420,000 by more than 60,000 units, according to Ars Technica and.
REGULATION
NHTSA Investigates Tesla After Autopilot Crash That Killed a Woman in Her Home
REGULATIONFederal probe
NHTSA Investigates Tesla After Autopilot Crash That Killed a Woman in Her Home
Federal safety regulators at NHTSA have opened an investigation into Tesla after a vehicle allegedly operating on Autopilot crashed into a house and killed a woman inside. Tesla is publicly pushing back on the narrative, but the probe sharpens regulatory scrutiny of its driver-assistance systems just as the company leans harder into autonomy.