Elon's Epic Week: Tesla Tunnels, Trillion-Dollar Visions, and Political Whispers

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Elon Musk has been a nonstop headline generator the past few days. Topping the news, The Boring Company, Musk’s tunnel construction venture, announced with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee a privately funded plan for the Music City Loop, a 10-mile Tesla tunnel under Nashville that promises to connect downtown and the convention center to the airport in about eight minutes. The local hiring push began immediately. While the governor was effusive, Nashville’s mayor remained noncommittal and critics are already raising pointed questions about urban impact and the project’s feasibility according to Thunderbolt Newsroom and the Nashville Banner. The Boring Company is touting the loop as costing taxpayers nothing, but the project’s final form will hinge on regulatory review and city buy-in, evoking the company’s bumpy history abandoning other proposed cities.

Musk also made a significant public appearance as the surprise virtual headliner at the X Takeover 2025 event hosted by Tesla Owners Silicon Valley. There, he doubled down on audacious claims about the future—predicting Tesla could top 20 to 30 trillion dollars in valuation if ambitious AI and autonomous transport goals are met. He described major advances underway with Starship at SpaceX and teased that Optimus version 3, the humanoid robot, is finally the right design for mass production, calling it a near-total overhaul from previous iterations. As for X, the former Twitter, Musk detailed the rollout of XChat, a fully encrypted peer-to-peer audio and video calling system designed for maximum privacy, even boasting that it’s so secure he couldn’t access your messages under threat.

Tesla is also in the spotlight after Musk confirmed personal oversight of a new AI6 chip partnership with Samsung. On X, he said he’d walk Samsung’s factory lines himself to ensure technical and production standards, signaling not only a hands-on approach but also raising expectations with the South Korean partner, according to Teslarati. Industry analysts, like Ming-Chi Kuo, noted this could shake up the chip sector.

On the political and personal front, in new investment paperwork SpaceX quietly warned backers that Musk could return to politics, potentially as part of a new party he mused about recently on social media. This follows his public break with Trump and a July promise to “work 7 days a week and sleep in the office,” suggesting a pendulum swing back from political to business focus, as cited by the LA Times and his own X posts.

Meanwhile, Musk was humorously referenced on social channels after a 12-foot statue of him popped up at several national parks—including Mount Rainier—as part of an art protest reported by Fox13Seattle on Instagram.

In sum, Musk’s week is business heavy: launching new urban infrastructure, making sweeping tech predictions in public forums, and warning markets he may yet return to the political arena that so often courts his controversy.

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