Toyota’s first-half operating income rose 9.2% to ¥2.191 trillion, the first H1 gain in three years, and full-year operating guidance was raised to ¥3.9 trillion.

Japan and China EV news this week: Japan registered 12,733 BEVs in October, Tesla China shipped 67,829, China NEV wholesale hit a 1.81 million record, and Japan plans to certify robotaxis with no steering wheel.

Zoox CEO Aicha Evans told WSJ Tech Live that Japan, Korea, London and other EU cities are targets for data-collection fleets before purpose-built robotaxis. No timeline was given.

China’s foreign-investment security review barred SoftBank from buying ABB Robotics in China. SoftBank and ABB say the $5.375 billion deal is still under discussion elsewhere.

Elon Musk said Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 for more Cybercab output, after U.S. stickers rose again and Dual Motor orders paused.

Toyota’s first-half operating income rose 9.2% to ¥2.191 trillion, the first H1 gain in three years, and full-year operating guidance was raised to ¥3.9 trillion.

SpaceX's new Starfall page pitches weeks of microgravity on Starship with 1,000 kg of payload and a live Starlink link. Who's booked, what's missing, and what it means for Japan's ElevationSpace.

Musk says Gun Range will hold 220,000 Nvidia GB300s for training by the end of November, and Spam, a former Hormel warehouse, about 200,000 for inference in December, on the way to roughly 1.2 million Blackwells at Colossus 2.

SpaceX picked Qualcomm Dragonwing (QRU100, QDU100, Layer 1) for Starlink Mobile's U.S. terrestrial 5G network. Multi-year deal, tens of thousands of sites from 2027, 64T64R Massive MIMO — Qualcomm's biggest 5G deal yet.

SpaceX's new Starfall page pitches weeks of microgravity on Starship with 1,000 kg of payload and a live Starlink link. Who's booked, what's missing, and what it means for Japan's ElevationSpace.

Musk says Gun Range will hold 220,000 Nvidia GB300s for training by the end of November, and Spam, a former Hormel warehouse, about 200,000 for inference in December, on the way to roughly 1.2 million Blackwells at Colossus 2.

SpaceX says Ship 42 finished a full six-engine static fire and a single-engine deorbit-burn test, so both Flight 15 stages are done on the stand ahead of a two-stage catch attempt. Florida, meanwhile, pauses Falcon 9 for six weeks to get Pad 39A ready for Starship.

SpaceX told the FAA it expects to fly 10,000 launches a year on its own and that outdated airspace rules are the bottleneck. Musk says that number is just Starbase Louisiana, which is designed for about 30 launches and reentries a day.