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LIVE FROM THE EMPIRE · NOVEMBER 13, 2026
Bot takes the Mac. SpaceX commits $74B. Wealth ticks up.
Grok Bot on Mac can now use Messages, Mail, Notes, Calendar and more. SpaceX laid out more than $74 billion for two AI campuses. Musk wealth edged higher.
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GROK BOT
Mac
Messages, Mail, Notes, Calendar live.
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SPACEX
$74B
Two AI campuses. Texas + Arizona.
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WEALTH
+$3.6B
Still #1. Still climbing.
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MUSK WEALTH TRACKER
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FORBES REAL-TIME · NOV 13, 2026
$894B
+$3.6B today (+0.4%)
#1 in the world · below $1T
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~$713B |
79.7% |
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~$157B |
17.6% |
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~$5B |
0.6% |
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in SpaceX |
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~$19B |
2.1% |
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ACROSS THE EMPIRE
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Grok Bot opens the Mac
Grok Bot on Mac can now use Messages, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Location and Contacts. Elon amplified it with a simple “Grok Bot.” Maye Musk handed it 2,000 photos to sort. It finished in five minutes.
Why this matters: The agent is no longer stuck in a chat window. It can now act on the same machine the user already lives on.
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$74B for two AI campuses
SpaceX committed more than $74 billion to two supercompute sites. Roughly $24 billion at Starbase in Texas and about $50 billion in Cochise County, Arizona. Both projects come with their own power plans.
Why this matters: Training at frontier scale needs power and land that the public grid cannot supply on demand. SpaceX is building both.
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Ship 42 rolls to the pad
SpaceX posted that Ship 42 has moved to the Starbase pad ahead of launch. The vehicle is in position for the next flight test window.
Why this matters: Hardware on the pad is the only signal that counts. Paper progress is easy. Steel on the launch mount is not.
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$220M for local water
SpaceX committed $220 million to expand water and wastewater infrastructure for Brownsville and Cameron County. Forty million went into escrow up front, then six quarterly payments of $30 million. The plants it pays for stay with the city and the regional water authority.
Why this matters: Large industrial sites need water. Paying for public infrastructure early reduces friction and builds durable local support.
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Laborious tasks, five minutes
Maye Musk asked Grok Bot the best way to move 2,000 photos in Dropbox. The bot offered to do it. Five minutes later the folders were sorted. Elon replied: “Give Grok @Bot your most laborious tasks!”
Why this matters: The product is already useful for real chores. Adoption follows utility, not demos.
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THE MAIN EVENT
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FRIDAY
The agent left the chat window.
Grok Bot on Mac can now reach Messages, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Location and Contacts. That is not a list of features. It is permission to work on the same computer the user already uses every day. Maye Musk tested it on 2,000 photos. Five minutes later the job was done.
At the same time SpaceX put a price on the next layer of compute: more than $74 billion across Starbase and Arizona. Power and land first. Models second.
My take: The stack is closing. The agent can now touch the user’s real tools. The company is locking down the power and land required to train the next models. Both moves point the same direction.
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ELON ON X
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GROK BOT
“Grok Bot”
Two-word reply to the Mac access announcement. Messages, Mail, Notes, Calendar and more are now reachable on the same machine.
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TASKS
“Give Grok @Bot your most laborious tasks!”
Reply to Maye Musk after the bot sorted 2,000 photos in five minutes. The instruction is clear: hand it the work that drains time.
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JENSEN
“Jensen”
Single-word reply under a long a16z clip. High engagement. The respect is public and short.
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THE TROLL REPORT
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🧌 “Grok Bot is just a chat toy”
It reads and acts on Messages, Mail and Calendar on the user’s own Mac. Maye Musk handed over 2,000 photos and never opened a folder herself.
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🧌 “SpaceX is only rockets”
More than $74 billion is now earmarked for two AI campuses. The company is building the power and the land required for the next training runs.
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“Try Grok @Bot”
- Elon Musk
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Agents on the desktop. Compute on the ground.
Grok Bot reaches the Mac. SpaceX commits $74B. The stack tightens.
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Sources: Elon Musk on X · Grok Bot · SpaceX · Forbes Real-Time. Claims can evolve after publication.
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