Elon Musk spent Sunday and early Monday answering Grok Bot users who said their weekly allowance ran out days early, joking about Sam Altman and computer memory, cheering two Starlink rescues and weighing in on Tuesday’s Senate races in Texas and Michigan. This edition covers 7:13 a.m. PST Sunday, Nov. 1, to 7:13 a.m. PST Monday, Nov. 2. It quotes his posts with a link to each, follows Jacob and Isaac’s topic order, and pairs claims with other sources where the desk found them. Video follows at the end.

Highlights. He told a Grok Bot user asking for a usage reset that “The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue” (), then asked another whether the cost of a higher usage plan felt too high (). He mocked Altman’s DRAM remark with “The people deserve to have their RAM too!” (). And he wrote “Starlink saves lives” over two mountain rescues, one in Colorado last week and one in England from August (; ).

1. SpaceX and Starlink. He wrote “Starlink saves lives” over @cb_doge’s account of a 37-year-old hiker stranded in deep snow in Colorado, where “rescuers used Starlink to stay connected to their coordinator throughout the night” (; ). Crested Butte Search and Rescue’s account, as carried by Heart of the Rockies Radio and SnowBrains, dates the call to the night of Thursday, Oct. 29, and says the ground team hiked up “utilizing a Starlink satellite communication system” before a National Guard Black Hawk hoisted the woman out (Heart of the Rockies Radio; SnowBrains). He used the same words over a post about a walker who fell into a hornets’ nest in Cumbria (; ); Penrith Mountain Rescue Team says that ambulance call reached it “via Starlink in our control vehicle,” and it and the News & Star date the rescue to Aug. 9, 2026 (Penrith MRT; News & Star). He reposted @XFreeze’s claim that SpaceX delivered “approximately 2,330 TONNES of payload to orbit” in 2025 against 547 for the rest of the world (), which the desk did not check, and answered “It is” to a post calling becoming multiplanetary “a necessity” (). He also reposted a 2014 TED clip in which Google co-founder Larry Page calls Musk’s Mars goal “a worthy goal” ().

2. Tesla. The desk found no post centered on Tesla in this window. The nearest: “Interesting,” in reply to @KyleReidhead’s argument that “Tesla needs to merge with SpaceX” to get compute at cost (; ).

3. X. He reposted psychologist Gad Saad’s jab, “all of my progressive academic colleagues assured us that X would fail because Elon is mean, no?” () and tech commentator Robert Scoble’s “I keep checking out the others. They really suck” (). Both quoted posts that cite Similarweb’s September figures showing X ahead of other social sites in average visit duration.

4. Neuralink. He reposted a clip, first shared by @PairedWith_P7, captioned “Using only mind power to drive the wheelchair with my Neuralink N1 implant” (), in a post by @Teslaconomics saying ALS took away the user’s ability to use his joystick (). The desk did not confirm the user’s diagnosis.

5. AI compute and the RAM fight. Over a meme of the SS officer from the film Inglourious Basterds asking, “You are withholding DRAM from the cloud, are you not?”, he wrote, “The people deserve to have their RAM too!” (), and answered “Seriously” to a reply insulting Altman (). Tom’s Hardware quotes Altman in full: “From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time” (Tom’s Hardware). On compute he wrote, “The other supercompute projects are unable to reach their goals, but SpaceX is already achieving ours,” over @Rothmus’s claim that Colossus 2 holds “Roughly 1.11 million H100 equivalents” (; ), a figure the desk did not confirm. Monday morning he added, “Future super intelligence compute will obviously be overwhelmingly in space. By ‘overwhelmingly’, I mean that it will round up to 100%! You have to be an utter moron not to realize this.” (). He reposted a post on Google’s Project Suncatcher (); Google says its prototype satellite ran its Gemma 4 model on a TPU in orbit and sent back a haiku (Google; TechCrunch). Quoting @ns123abc’s post about a White House dinner, he also posted a line from a Colossus magazine profile: “Best way to sandbox an AI,” said Musk. “Put it on a Delta flight: No escape is possible.” (), then added “38,000 foot air gap!” (). Colossus writer Harry Lambert places the remark among the six tech leaders waiting to receive national medals at the White House summit on Oct. 8, where Musk also said OpenAI president Greg Brockman “at dinner was hounding me for compute” (Colossus); Musk posted a similar Delta joke on Sept. 30 after the airline picked Amazon’s Leo over Starlink, per Benzinga via Yahoo Finance (Yahoo Finance). He replied “Interesting” to investor Chamath Palihapitiya’s post that “Power is THE binding constraint in AI/SI” () and “True” to a post calling it negligence not to use AI in financial modeling ().

6. Grok Bot. The usage complaints drew most of his Grok Bot replies; see the deep dive below. He also quoted @venturetwins, who let her Grok Bot spend up to $100 from X Money on a surprise gift, writing, “Grok @Bot will research gifts that your friends and family would love and buy them” (; ). He reposted user posts praising the product: Brian Roemmele’s claim that Grok Bot “wins on all measures” among bot platforms (), a “Grok Jarvis” build pairing a Grok Bot with a live Page (), a live dashboard to “see exactly which bot is eating your usage” (), a post calling Grok Bot templates “a feature that doubles as a distribution mechanism” () and @XFreeze’s account of a flight Grok Bot booked, which says “before spending any money, it asks me to approve the final payment” ().

7. U.S. politics. Texas: over @america’s clip of Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico saying, “What would Jesus do if he visited the Texas legislature? I think he would tell us: 'Blessed are the trans children'…”, Musk wrote, “Talarico will vote to trans your kids” (; ), about 7.4 million views. The clip first appeared on X on July 1 from @LoneStar_PAC, a partisan account, captioned as Talarico defending “transgender surgeries for kids” (); the desk could not confirm when or where he made the remark, or that it concerned surgery. Snopes documents his 2021 Texas House speech against a school-sports bill, in which he said, “Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image” (Snopes). Musk reposted @CollinRugg’s summary of a New York Times report on Latino men’s “aversion” to Talarico () and @Rothmus’s claim that 53% of Talarico’s itemized money comes from outside Texas (); the desk read neither underlying report. Michigan: he reposted posts on Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens joining Republican Mike Rogers at a Detroit church and endorsing him over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed (; ; ). NBC News and CBS News confirm the Sunday endorsement; NBC says it followed El-Sayed’s campaign asking her to stop attending its campaign events, in a dispute over an outside ad she called antisemitic (NBC News; CBS News). He also reposted his own Saturday reply to @Grummz, “Most important of all” (). The desk found no response from Talarico or El-Sayed to Musk’s posts by Monday morning.

8. Europe and the world. He reposted @brivael’s long essay, which argues, “Western civilization is not one civilization among many,” and names communism and political Islam as the two forces it says have hacked the West ().

9. Media. To Spencer Pratt asking, “Is...is Saturday Night Live becoming...funny again?”, he wrote, “SNL does seem to be trending in the right direction” ().

10. Culture and jokes. Besides the Anakin image (), he reposted @Jason’s “AnakinCore keeps hitting” clip () and answered a fan’s “Reclaiming what is ours” with “🦾🔥” (). He wrote “Yes” over a clip of himself saying his grandfather fought in World War II “for almost six years” and that “the vast majority of the West fought and died to stop Nazism” (; ). He told a user who wrote that regret “usually turns out okay,” “Don’t worry, you won’t regret it” (), answered “True” to TED head Chris Anderson’s post that “AI Slopcore” lets non-artists create works of art () and to a post preferring “Cyberpsychosis” over “AI psychosis” (), and sent laughing emoji to a Darth Vader meme and other fan posts (; ).

Deep dive: Grok Bot’s weekly limits. At 7:52 a.m. PT Sunday, @DogecoinNorway wrote that “my Grok Bot usage is 100% and it’s 4 days till reset,” adding, “Normally I don’t even reach 100%” (); a few hours later the same account asked Musk for a reset (). At 12:34 p.m. PT Musk answered, “The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue” (). At 1:37 p.m. he asked @dvorahfr, who had written that she must “wait until Wednesday” to use her bots again, “Upgrade to higher usage plan cost increase is too high?” (; ). A minute later he answered “Just being sensible” to a post calling his reply “great comms but also RIP SpaceX investors tomorrow” (; ); Business Insider reads that reply as Musk calling reduced allowances, and telling users about them, sensible (Business Insider). IBTimes Australia and Digg report that Grok’s official account attributed the change to allocations adjusted for serving costs and described a separate, resolved billing and usage-dashboard problem that had “temporarily shown inaccurate high readings for many users without affecting actual metering,” in IBTimes Australia’s words (IBTimes Australia; Digg); the desk did not read that Grok post itself. The Next Web says Cursor reported the dashboard problem Sunday and that “It is not clear whether that problem caused the jumps,” and recalls SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell’s figure of 800,000 paid weekly users in early October (The Next Web). Outlets differ on plan prices: Business Insider describes tiers “ranging from free to $200 a month,” while IBTimes Australia says paid plans “start at $30 a month” (Business Insider; IBTimes Australia). IBTimes Australia reports that xAI has not said whether it will reset affected accounts or change the allowances, and The Verge wrote that Musk “appears to have throttled” the agent (The Verge). Musk’s own later pitch: “We land a few dozen fixes, features and sometimes powers to Bot 7 days a week and we look at your feedback to make Bot as perfect as possible” (), quoting a Japanese post by @shimabu_it that, in the desk’s reading, calls Cursor’s Grok Bot far ahead of Claude Code and Codex on experience while saying Grok’s model still trails Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 ().

Responses. Critical or worried: @DogecoinNorway and @dvorahfr on early lockouts, quoted above, and @mikepat711 on investors, also quoted above. Supportive: @stevenmarkryan, who wrote that everyone he told to try Grok Bot says “it's really THAT GOOD” (), and the posts in section 6.