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Oct 20, 2026 11 min

Elon Musk Ordered Last Week’s Starlink Slowdown

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P.M. Edition for Oct. 20. The Wall Street Journal is exclusively reporting that the decision to cap the Starlink speeds, rendering some of Ukraine’s drones useless, came from Musk. Plus, a new draft prospectus ahead of Anthropic’s IPO shows that the company has red-hot revenue growth. But WSJ tech reporter Anissa Gardizy tells us it also has high compute costs and a long list of risks. And a bipartisan group of former U.S. officials is urging Congress to pass an energy bill that they say is critical for countering China. We hear from WSJ reporter Benoit Morenne about why the midterms are teeing up a fight over the bill’s future. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter.

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