Facebook CEO Says Fight With Tesla CEO Is Off Until Elon Musk Stops Being A Wuss We know you were all looking forward to the fight between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that was definitely going to happen 100 percent guaranteed, but sadly, we have some bad news. We regret to report that, actually, the fight has been postponed indefinitely. And trust us when we say we are… Read more…

Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘time to move on’ from the Elon Musk fight Image: The VergeMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post today that “it’s time to move on” from Elon Musk’s cage fight antics. “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious,” he wrote, adding that the refusal of the X (formerly Twitter) owner to confirm a date and his offer to “do a practice round in my backyard instead” shows how unserious he is….

Zuckerberg says he’s ready to fight and that Elon keeps making things up The VergeMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Threads that he’s “ready to fight” X owner Elon Musk but not to believe that there’s a scheduled date until he confirms it. Musk claimed Friday morning that the fight would be livestreamed on X and “Meta,” and that everything you’d see on camera “will be ancient Rome.” Italy’s culture minister promptly i…

Elon Musk’s new round of X Ads Revenue Sharing payments arrived, eventually The VergeThe Twitter Blue — pardon me — X Premium Ads Revenue Sharing payouts that were supposed to roll out last week have been delivered, as the @Support account tweeted the news Monday night. Asked about the delay, X employee Eric Farraro said the late Friday announcement of a delay came only once the company was sure payments would not go ou…

It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesThis is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about a wild weekend of backtracking at the company formerly known as Twitter — and how it should inform the way we cover Elon Musk and hi…

Elon Musk says he may need surgery Elon Musk said he may require surgery and is getting an MRI of his neck and upper back.

Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time Image: The VergeIn news that isn’t very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X, the company won’t be able to make some promised payments on time. The X Support account says that because its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is so popular, “We need a bit more time to review everything for the next…

Elon Musk Wants Apple to Lower Fees for ‘X’ Creators Twitter or “X” CEO Elon Musk today said that he plans to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook about lower App Store fees for creators who earn money through subscriptions on the Twitter/X social network. In a post on creator support, Musk said that he plans to ask Apple to collect 30 percent of the creator fee that Twitter keeps rather than 30 percent…

How Elon Musk took over Tesla using money, strong-arm tactics, and his own popularity Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk at the launch of the Tesla Roadster in 2008. | Image: GettyThe story of Tesla and Elon Musk can be traced back to the early 2000s, when Musk was ousted as CEO of his first company, PayPal. That incident taught Musk a crucial lesson about the importance of being in control, even when it wasn’t your o…

Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X Looks like Musk’s determined to make the same mistake twice. | Image: The VergeI understand the driving need to prove to people that you are right, which is why I am to some degree sympathetic to Elon Musk’s ill-advised plan to rename Twitter and turn it into his long-dreamed-of financial heavyweight. He wasn’t right when he tried to rename PayP…

Elon Musk’s extravagant ‘X’ sign atop the former Twitter HQ has been dismantled Workers prepare to dismantle a large X logo on the roof of X headquarters on July 31st, 2023, in San Francisco, California. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesWell, that was fast. Twitter, which is currently rebranding itself to X, is now removing the giant, garishly lit X logo that was placed on top of its San Francisco headquarters, as pr…

Elon Musk’s X Corp. seen taking down giant glowing sign in San Francisco City officials said in a complaint they were told by X, formerly known as Twitter, that the structure was a “temporary lighted sign for an event.”

Model 3 owners love their Teslas but increasingly not Elon Musk: survey Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesBloomberg’s latest survey of thousands of Model 3 owners presents a conflicted view of Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, suggesting that while owners are happy with their cars they’re souring on Musk himself. The survey, which asked 5,000 Model 3 owners a series of questions about their vehicles…

Elon Musk says Twitter will soon only offer dark mode because it’s “better in every way” Image: The VergeJust when you think Elon Musk can’t get any more divisive, he’s weighed in on the light mode versus dark mode debate — and Twitter, currently undergoing a rebranding to X, is apparently going all in on the latter. Early this morning, Musk posted that “this platform will soon only have ‘dark mode’. It is better in every way.” That…

Elon Musk’s Quixotic Quest to Turn X Into an ‘Everything App’ Mr. Musk, the owner of Twitter, is the latest Silicon Valley mogul to pursue an all-in-one app, the kind that has thrived in Asia but not elsewhere.

Elon Musk’s former Twitter lieutenant ‘surprised by his willingness to burn so much down’ Esther Crawford, the former Twitter Blue product manager, said that the billionaire lives in an echo chamber but expressed admiration for his skills.

For Elon Musk, X equals everything Image: The VergeElon Musk has wanted to build X.com into a super app for a very long time. As described by Walter Isaacson, who is writing a Musk biography, when Musk launched the online bank X.com in 1999, his original concept was to turn the website into a “one-stop everything-store for all financial needs.” That company would eventually be fo…

Twitter Blue’s former lead talks about Elon Musk, X, and sleeping on the floor Screenshot: Wes Davis / The VergeFormer Twitter Blue lead Esther Crawford just published a very long post on Twitter about her time at the company, working under Elon Musk, and that incident where a picture of her sleeping on the floor went viral. Crawford joined the company after it acquired her startup, Squad, in 2020 and was part of Musk’s Tw…

Can Elon Musk really use that X logo for Twitter? Illustration: The VergeNow that Elon Musk has officially replaced Twitter’s logo with an X, many of us are wondering: can he actually use it? The drastic rebranding doesn’t come as much of a surprise to Musk-watchers. Musk has long touted his idea of X as an “everything” app that offers audio, video, messaging, and support for digital payments. …

Elon Musk’s X rebrand reignites his goal to turn Twitter into an app like China’s WeChat Elon Musk officially changed Twitter’s famous bird logo to an “X” in his bid to make the service into “the everything app.”