“Tunnels are so underrated [@aakashgupta] The real story is the $25 million per mile price tag they’re betting on. Nashville’s own 2018 light rail plan priced at $200 million per mile. New York’s East Side Access cost $3.5 billion per mile. The LA Metro expansion is running $1 billion per mile. The Boring Company says”
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“Under Vegas in @boringcompany tunnel yesterday with my boys https://t.co/tLfOuiEdFm”
“Anyone want a free tunnel? [@boringcompany] Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge! Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we'll pick a winner, and build it…for free! Details: Criteria: -Usefulness (good bang for the bore) -Stakeholder Engagement (get… https://www.boringcompany.com/tunnelvision”
“Please consider working at The Boring Company! Our goal is to solve traffic, which plagues every major city on Earth.”
“Hyperloop pod run by team WARR https://t.co/ntaMsoxkZE”
“Much tunneling [@XFreeze] The Boring Company is officially tunneling in 3 states simultaneously today: Nevada, Texas, and Tennessee and doing it for ~99% less compared to traditional tunneling → Nevada: Scaling the massive Vegas EV Loop → Tennessee: Nashville Music City Loop just broke ground →”
“Forcing AI to read every demented corner of the Internet, like Clockwork Orange times a billion, is a sure path to madness [@BrianRoemmele] AI DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO! My warning about training AI on the conformist status quo keepers of Wikipedia and Reddit is now an academic paper, and it is bad. — Exposed: Deep Structural Flaws in Large Language Models: The Discovery of the False-Correction Loop and the”
“Tunneling speed is almost faster than a snail (big milestone, actually) [@MarioNawfal] PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits. It can start”
“I forgot to mention that Optimus was doing this while “blindfolded”. We haven’t yet made vision part of the control loop for uneven terrain. Optimus robots are regularly cruising around our workplace in Palo Alto where vision is used for static & dynamic object avoidance.”
“Major breakthrough by @BoringCompany! [@boringcompany] Big tunneling milestone! For the first time, TBC has continuously mined in a Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT) configuration. There is nobody in the machine (besides the videographer), which is simultaneously advancing forward and erecting a ring (i.e. building the tunnel). Each”
“This false nomenclature of “researcher” and “engineer”, which is a thinly-masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system, is being deleted from @xAI today. There are only engineers. Researcher is a relic term from academia. [@ag_i_2211] we at @xai are looking for researchers and engineers for scaling up our rl environments with user feedback and preference in the loop. apply here (or drop me a dm): https://x.com/i/jobs/1948556500206845952”
“Boring away [@boringcompany] Tunneling on a Sunday in Nashville. Great team. Great rock.”
“For sure [@XFreeze] Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop You can think of it like how 'computer' used to be a job that humans had. You would go and get a job as a computer where you would do calculations. They had entire… https://x.com/i/web/status/2019480054871285842”
“Excited to announce that a Dubai Loop will be built by The @BoringCompany! [@boringcompany] Announcing Dubai Loop. In partnership with the @rta_dubai, TBC is excited to announce Dubai Loop. @boringcompany would like to thank The Crown Prince of Dubai @HamdanMohammed and the Chairman of the RTA. )”
“One day, Prufrock will beat the snail [@boringcompany] On a rainy day in Bastrop, Prufrock-5 has left the factory. Will begin tunneling by December 1. Hoping for a step function increase in speed.”
“The real reason for Looper was to travel back in time & stop a terrible calamity — the premiere of Cats!”
“Tax reform is needed. Too many loopholes. [@MarioNawfal] ELON: WE NEED TO REFORM THE TAX CODE “A reform of the tax code would make sense because it's extremely complicated, and there are too many loopholes. I'm often pitched on these loopholes. That's how I know they exist. I'm like, that sounds pretty shady. I don't think we… )”
“Good work by @boringcompany! [@boringcompany] Prufrock-1 has emerged! This completes a 2.26 mile long Vegas Loop tunnel, connecting a property close to the Airport in the south to the Westgate Resort in the north. Along the way, there will be 8 new stations, including the Virgin Hotels and the Hughes Center.”
“Embrace tunnels!”
“Racing at 127mph in a tunnel under LA”
“The first tunnel is almost done”
“The Tesla cars operating in The Boring Company tunnels under Las Vegas will be driverless in a month or two [@boringcompany] Initial Full Self-Driving tests in Vegas Loop from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Encore Resort. Thanks to @Tesla @LVCVA @WynnLasVegas for being great partners.”
“Turns out joking about being a “rock” star because of digging tunnels (through, uh, rock — hello??) is deeply underappreciated”
“The Boring Company is so underrated lol [@boringcompany] Cowboy Christmas 2025 was amazing! Thanks to the 80,000+ cowboys and cowgirls for being awesome Vegas Loop passengers. @LVCVA”
“Correct [@ArthurMacwaters] Let me get this straight: > there's a loophole in the Constitutional definition of a census that counts *all residents* > this includes 15m+ illegal immigrants > therefore states and counties with large populations of illegal immigrants get greater representation in… https://x.com/i/web/status/2014012787610222592”
“Boring Company to build Dubai Loop! [@boringcompany] TBC and @rta_dubai have signed a contract to construct Dubai Loop. TBC would like to thank The Crown Prince of Dubai @HamdanMohammed and His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer and his team. The pilot system with 6.4 km of tunnel and 4 stations will begin construction in late 2026.… https://x.com/i/web/status/2018699942081277998”
“Build super safe, Earthquake-proof tunnels under cities to solve traffic”
“It only gets better from here [@signulll] the grok + tesla integration is actually super elegant. it’s the cleanest preview right now of how humans will move through the world with ai. i.e. llms for cognition + autonomy & self driving for locomotion. once thinking & motion collapse into one loop navigation sorta simply… https://x.com/i/web/status/2013118862078681336”
“Adjusting The Boring Company plan: all tunnels & Hyperloop will prioritize pedestrians & cyclists over cars”
“Lot of people stuck in a damn-that’s-crazy ChatGPT loop 🔁”
“@Rainmaker1973 Can I interest you in a tunnel, perhaps? @boringcompany”
“Tunnels under cities with self-driving electric cars will feel like warp drive First operational tunnel under Vegas almost done The @BoringCompany”
““Grindr, but for rocks” [@boringcompany] Prufrock-4 is our smartest, fastest and safest Tunnel Boring Machine. And the next iterations (5, 6, and 7) are already being built at The Boring Factory in Texas. Goal is Continuous Mining and Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT). We are hiring exceptional ME, EE, and SWEs - join us!”
“Boring Company completes 2nd Vegas tunnel”
“Have you hugged a tunnel today?”
“The Boring Company is building a watchtower in LA out of dirt bricks & we need a knight to yell insults at people in a French accent https://t.co/VChOVXXVaz https://www.boringcompany.com/jobs/”
“Btw, Grok 2 is still being used to explain 𝕏 posts. That will update to Grok 3 in a day or two. [@iamgingertrash] Final Verdict: Grok 3 > R1 > O1 pro > Sonnet 3.5 Have done tests all day today Grok and R1 can do in-context shape rotations with high dimensional tensors, while O1 and sonnet need for loops Xai and Deepseek have figured something out)”
“Better to think of government, which is a monopolistic corporation in the limit, in terms of its feedback loop for improvement (or lack thereof)”
“Teslas in Tunnels [@XFreeze] The Boring Company is quietly expanding the futuristic Vegas Loop underground Vegas Loop already feels like a cheat code: hop into a Tesla (or Cybertruck) underground and bypass the chaotic surface traffic As of December 2025: → 8 stations live (LVCC campus + Resorts World,… https://x.com/i/web/status/2000880481999708249”
“After 50k hats, we will start selling The Boring Company flamethrower”
“New Boring Company merch coming soon. Lifesize LEGO-like interlocking bricks made from tunneling rock that you can use to create sculptures & buildings. Rated for California seismic loads, so super strong, but bored in the middle, like an aircraft wing spar, so not heavy.”
“First 1000 Boring Company Flamethrowers being picked up today! https://t.co/hBMp5fGzAB”
“Grok 5 starts training in a few weeks [@arcprize] New SOTA on ARC-AGI - V1: 79.6%, $8.42/task - V2: 29.4%, $30.40/task Custom submissions by @jerber888 and @_eric_pang_ are now the best known solutions to ARC-AGI Both: * Are open source * Use Grok 4 * Implement program-synthesis outer loops with test-time adaptation”
“Walked full length of Boring Co tunnel under LA tonight. Disturbingly long. On track for opening party Dec 10. Will be very one-dimensional.”
“Congratulations @BoringCompany on completing the LA/Hawthorne tunnel! Cutting edge technology! https://t.co/80WbSQekCQ”
“Long discussion about Boring Company progress [@boringcompany] https://x.com/i/spaces/1DXxyWOYyrPGM”
“Tesla in @boringcompany tunnel with retractable wheel gear that turns a car into a rail-guided train & back again https://t.co/3a6i0NoSmi”
“Grok [@amXFreeze] xAI API just got a major upgrade It now supports agentic server-side tool calling Manages end-to-end reasoning and tool-execution loop, all on the server side Unlike traditional APIs, you don’t have to orchestrate every tool call yourself for more details official docs below”
“This will be super cool! [@HamdanMohammed] This is a journey we began together last year at the World Governments Summit @elonmusk. With the Dubai Loop, we look forward to continuing our partnership to usher a new era of mobility that improves the quality of life for the people of Dubai and the UAE.”
“Boring Company product launch on Dec 18. More than a tunnel opening. Will include modded but fully road legal autonomous transport cars & ground to tunnel car elevators.”
