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Tesla Cybertruck: all the news about Elon Musk’s futuristic pickup truck

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Tesla Cybertruck: all the news about Elon Musk’s futuristic pickup truck Here’s everything you need to know about Tesla’s first pickup truck, which Elon Musk has called “heart-stopping” and his “personal favorite” of Tesla’s vehicles. Pickups have become more popular lately — their share of the US light vehicle market increased to 17.5 percent in 2019, from just under 13 percent in 2012. They’re also the

The Verge 1.0k 2025-02-20

Elon Musk Has No Authority Here

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Elon Musk Has No Authority Here Find out just how little power Tesla boss Elon Musk actually has in his new government role, Honda still wants Nissan, if Nissan axes its CEO, and more.

Jalopnik 1.2k 2025-02-19

Elon Musk’s Noxious Politics May Tank Tesla

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Elon Musk’s Noxious Politics May Tank Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk currently has way too much power and has effectively taken over the federal government, but he isn’t invincible. Tesla, the main source of his wealth, is so overvalued, he’s vulnerable if the stock tanks. We aren’t at that tipping point yet, but public sentiment has already soured, even among… Read more…

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Elon Musk Is Planning To Bring His Useless Underground Loop To Dubai

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Elon Musk Is Planning To Bring His Useless Underground Loop To Dubai In an announcement of things that will definitely, for sure someday happen, Musk and the UAE’s AI minister Omar Al Olama unveiled this week plans for a new underground tunnel built by the Boring Company underneath Dubai. I guess they saw the Vegas Loop serving as a completely useful piece of infrastructure and wanted… Read more…

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Elon Musk: agent of chaos

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Elon Musk: agent of chaos It’s hard to think of a time when a single figure has been so central to seemingly everything in the way that Elon Musk is right now. Musk is overseeing and overhauling the federal government, while bending it toward his own financial gain. He’s also ubiquitous in the artificial intelligence world, where this week he

The Verge 758 2025-02-15

FAA Space Regulators Are Right To Fear Elon Musk

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FAA Space Regulators Are Right To Fear Elon Musk Everyone knows that the Federal Aviation Administration regulates air travel, but fewer know about its Office of Commercial Space Transportation — an office that regulates commercial spaceflight, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Now that Musk and his posse of broccoli-haired children control the purse strings of the… Read more…

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Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion

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Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion In a dramatic escalation of Silicon Valley’s most heated AI rivalry, Elon Musk just announced that he’s leading a $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, according to The Wall Street Journal. The bid was reportedly delivered to the board Monday morning. The offer brings together a powerful coalition of backers, including Musk’s own

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Elon Musk’s computer coup

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Elon Musk’s computer coup Elon Musk and the team at the Department of Government Efficiency figured out one thing really fast: if you control the computers, you control everything. And so Musk and his merry band of engineers have spent the last week or so parading into various US government agencies and taking control of their systems. There’s so

The Verge 728 2025-02-08

What Elon Musk Wants

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What Elon Musk Wants The journalist Kara Swisher discusses Elon Musk’s goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters

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Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly infiltrated the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that collects and shares vital weather and climate information. Sources have told The Verge, as well as other news outlets, that they’re worried about drastic changes that co…

The Verge 640 2025-02-07

Elon Musk’s presidency is just getting started

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Elon Musk’s presidency is just getting started On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re discussing a very big problem with extremely far-reaching consequences: how dysfunctional has the federal government in the United States become, and how much of it has been handed to Elon Musk?  If you’ve even glanced at the news over the past week, you’ve likely come across some alarming headlines

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