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Tesla's Flying Roadster Is Really About SpaceX

October 19, 2026 · 25 min

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Tesla finally unveiled the new Roadster, and it drove upside down on a ramp, flipped through the air and landed using SpaceX-developed thrusters. It's also the clearest look yet at what a Tesla–SpaceX merger could build, and Barclays says that merger could be announced before December.

Today we break down the three tricks behind the flying Roadster, why Elon is really building it, and the rest of the week in AI: Anthropic's slowing growth ahead of its IPO, Meta open-sourcing Muse Spark, and Google's Gemini 4 Argon.

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Timestamps

0:00 Tesla's Flying Roadster
1:19 Watching the Flip
2:12 Trick 1: Fan Suction
3:30 Trick 2: SpaceX Thrusters
6:04 Trick 3: Track Mode Wings
8:01 Price and Trims
8:40 The Real Reason: A Merger
10:35 How the Deal Could Work
11:07 The Critics vs. Elon
12:58 Anthropic's IPO Slowdown
16:10 AI That Improves Itself
17:49 Meta's Open-Source Comeback
21:12 Google's Gemini 4 Argon
24:12 Final Thoughts

#tesla #spacex #elonmusk #roadster #ai

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