i almost forgot about the boring company but holy shit has elon been cooking building the tunnel’s concrete walls just became fully autonomous in august! their machine assembles each section in < 1 minute while it keeps digging forward. they've already demonstrated this with nobody inside the tunnel. doing both at once removes the repeated stops that slow tunneling down. so now the target is 1 mile of tunnel/week for under $5 million. and they've just raised $3 billion to keep…

boringcompany@boringcompany12h ago

The Boring Company is pleased to announce our Series D funding round of $3 billion, led by the United Arab Emirates. The financing now values The Boring Company at $23 billion. Other key investors in the round include Human Capital, Vy Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, A16Z, Temasek, Shamal Holding, and Baron Capital, in addition to other valued existing and new investors. Full details here: https://t.co/YArv2XllUL