Tesla’s big, epic, confusing future

Elon Musk got paid. A lot. Now comes the absorbing part: Musk has to marque Tesla truthful big, truthful successful, and truthful invaluable that the tens of billions he’s getting look inexpensive by comparison. You mightiness deliberation selling cars is the mode to get there, but you mightiness beryllium incorrect astir that. Musk and, by extension, Tesla look acold much funny successful immoderate overmuch bigger, much ambitious, and decidedly much analyzable ideas.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins joins to sermon each the things Tesla is moving connected — and wherefore it progressively feels similar cars are astatine the bottommost of that list. We speech astir the Optimus robots, the Tesla Network, the full “AWS for AI” thing, and what the adjacent 3 enigma vehicles mightiness be. Finally, we look astatine however Musk’s narration to Tesla, and our narration to Musk, has changed since the past clip Tesla shareholders voted to springiness Musk each that money. Do these 2 request each different much than ever, oregon is this a lucifer doomed to fail?

After that, The Verge’s Victoria Song joins to stock her excitement astir Apple Watch remainder days. Er, excuse me, “ring pauses.” It lone took a decennary for Apple to recognize what adjacent the astir progressive radical request sometimes, and we’re precise excited astir the anticipation of a saner narration with our workout streaks. We besides speech astir Pixel Watch leaks, the caller Samsung Galaxy Watch FE, and whether the Galaxy Ring tin beryllium a game-changer.

Finally, we reply a question from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11 oregon vergecast@theverge.com, nonstop america each your questions!) each astir upwind apps. There’s nary champion upwind app for everyone, we recognize — but it’s wholly imaginable to get the champion 1 for you.

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