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Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion

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Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion Mr. Musk, who founded xAI last year, has said the business “still has a lot of catching up to do” as it looks to compete with well-funded companies like OpenAI.

New York Times 357 2024-05-27

Tesla, Elon Musk And More Tesla In This Week’s News Roundup

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Tesla, Elon Musk And More Tesla In This Week’s News Roundup Body cam footage released Tuesday of a traffic stop in Chicago gone horrifically wrong is calling into question the official story told by police on the scene. Five plainclothed Chicago police swarmed 26-year-old Dexter Reed’s car on March 21, pumping 96 shots into his vehicle after Reed apparently fired at officers.… Read more…

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Elon Musk’s Twitter, one year later

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Elon Musk’s Twitter, one year later Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty ImagesIt’s been a year of personal grudges, harebrained rebrands, and jolting policy shifts. And those aren’t even the worst parts. Continue reading…

The Verge 892 2024-01-24

Elon Musk is stonewalling the SEC, and now he’s getting sued

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Elon Musk is stonewalling the SEC, and now he’s getting sued Illustration by Laura Normand / The VergeThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing Elon Musk over his refusal to testify in an investigation into Musk’s purchase of Twitter stock in 2022. According to the SEC’s complaint, Musk was scheduled to appear for testimony on September 15th after receiving a subpoena. However, “two days be…

The Verge 933 2023-11-28

Musk Turned Off Starlink In Crimea Before Ukraine Attack On Russia: Report

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Musk Turned Off Starlink In Crimea Before Ukraine Attack On Russia: Report News sites like the Washington Post and CNN reported last week on excerpts from a new Elon Musk biography that alleged Musk intentionally disabled Starlink satellites over the Crimean coast to scuttle a Ukrainian submarine drone attack on a fleet of Russian ships. Now, just a day before Walter Issaacson’s biography is… Read more…

Jalopnik 152 2023-09-30

Musk Deactivated Starlink To Scuttle Ukrainian Attack On Russia

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Musk Deactivated Starlink To Scuttle Ukrainian Attack On Russia Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, an upcoming biography about one of the most controversial figures of our time, has taken over the headlines ahead of its official release on Tuesday, and CNN has gained access to an exclusive excerpt: Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink’s satellite communications… Read more…

Jalopnik 180 2023-09-24

Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand CEO Pay

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Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand CEO Pay Elon Musk loves nothing more than hopping on the social network he’s working to destroy and posting weird, uninformed nonsense — the vaguer the better, lest he let slip too much and reveal that the emperor is in fact not only naked, but dumb as rocks. It’s a delicate tightrope performance, one that Musk is deeply bad… Read more…

Jalopnik 106 2023-09-18

Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter

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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter Twitter or “X” owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be “deleted as a feature” in the future, as it “makes no sense.” Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a reason to block someone instead of muting someone on the social network. Mute and block are two fundamentally di…

Mac Rumors 165 2023-08-19

Musk Doesn’t Want To Talk About Cybertruck Dates

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Musk Doesn’t Want To Talk About Cybertruck Dates Tesla is betting a lot on the Cybertruck bringing fresh interest in the brand, which hasn’t released a new vehicle since 2017. However, as yet another self-imposed deadline for the Cybertruck’s start of serious production and customer deliveries draws nearer, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not exactly forthcoming with… Read more…

Jalopnik 151 2023-08-10