A million listeners, a DDOS attack and Putin’s praise — the main thing about Elon Musk’s interview with Trump
Trump called a conversation with Musk one of the «largest interviews in history», and Elon expected at least 8 million listeners. However, everything went wrong from the start.
«I wanted peace, but this is war». Musk is suing advertisers who left X/Twitter — last year he publicly sent them away
Another day — another lawsuit from Elon Musk.
«Let’s give people superpowers»: Elon Musk talks about super-fast cyborgs with Neuralink chips in 10-15 years
Elon Musk, the owner of Neuralink, spoke about his hopes for the technology in the coming years. He says that people with chips will be able to do more than ordinary people: win games, store and load memory, etc.
Musk says he was caught on the «hook of a long-running scam» while creating OpenAI — and is thinking of suing Altman again
Elon Musk has seven Fridays in a week: in March, the billionaire filed a complaint against OpenAI, in June he changed his mind and canceled it, and now it seems he’s going to sue again.
Elon Musk published a deepfake of Kamala Harris’ video on X: it violates the platform’s rules
Elon Musk posted a fake campaign video of Kamala Harris on his social network X without noting that it was an altered video. This violates the rules of the social network.
Tesla Cybertruck has passed the raccoons’ test — they were left hungry
The popular forum «Cybertruck Owners Club», where users post news about Tesla electric pickups and owner experiences, talked about the reliability of the vehicle’s Vault.
Elon Musk wants to create «Iron Man» armor after Trump’s assassination attempt
The failed assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump has many people thinking about security. Elon Musk, who is often compared to «Iron Man» Tony Stark, decided to create his own armor.
Tesla autopilot works better if you are Elon Musk — routes are optimized for it
Tesla insiders claim that the company has optimized Full Self-Driving routes for Elon Musk personally. Also, the creators of FSD itself have the best experience of self-driving. Drivers in other regions of the United States have not such good impressions.
«Will it withstand 120-mm mine fragments?». The National Guard is interested in the Tesla Cybertruck crash test
Elon Musk published a video of an impromptu test of the Tesla Cybertruck’s body for strength. During the test, the pickup truck was hit with heavy tools, attempted to be set on fire, heavy objects were thrown at it, sawed and even shot at. All these attempts, including the last one, left minimal damage to the steel surface of the Cybertruck.
«Shot himself in the foot»: which billionaires Elon Musk clashed with in 2024
«Did I shoot myself in the leg several times? Yes. … I think I shouldn’t tweet after 3:00 a.m.,» Elon Musk said about his habit of abrupt social media posts in interview BBC in April 2023. The controversial billionaire is aware of his tendency to speak out, which sometimes leads to controversy. The history of Musk’s verbal…
Elon Musk’s haters have painted several Tesla Cybertrucks — in two words they wrote what they would like to do with them
Elon Musk’s haters have vandalized dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks waiting for delivery at a parking lot in Florida. Earlier, Tesla briefly has suspended deliveries of Cybertrucks due to a problem with wiper motor. This led to the company accumulating Cybertrucks in parking lots in many US cities.
Elon Musk explained why «sent» to the advertisers last year and tried to soften his position
Elon Musk on Wednesday tried to justify and soften his words «Go. F—. Yourself» to advertisers who left X Twitter after it was acquired by a billionaire and changed its policies. It turns out that he did not «send» everyone, but only those who wanted «censorship».
Pentagon extends Starlink deal with SpaceX for Ukraine — another 6 months for $14 million
The main contract is now valid until November 30 and is worth a total of $40 million.
X (formerly Twitter) is demanding $1500-$70,000 from fired employees — they say they were overpaid
Elon Musk’s X Corp (formerly Twitter) is demanding money from at least six Australians who were previously fired. The company claims that it accidentally overpaid them. Sydney Morning Herald newspaper saidX is threatening to sue some former Australian employees after they incorrectly converted currency from US dollars to Australian dollars.
Elon Musk asks to recognize Ukrainian website Texty.org.ua as a terrorist organization
Elon Musk has demanded that the Ukrainian edition of Texty.org.ua be added to the list of sanctioned terrorist organizations. The reason for his statement was an analytical publication on the website, which detailed US senators and other individuals who do not support or have ambiguous attitudes toward Ukraine.
SpaceX employees’ lawsuit against Elon Musk — sexual harassment, bullying, revenge
Eight dismissed SpaceX engineers have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has opened a case against the company.
Musk hints at launching smartphone X (Grok Phone) — alternatives to Apple devices with «spyware» OpenAI software
After statements about banning Apple devices in their companies in the case of «deep integration» ChatGPT, Musk also thought about creating his own alternative to the iPhone.
Elon Musk will ban Apple devices in his companies if there is something from OpenAI at the OS level — «They sell you for nothing»
Elon Musk said he would ban Apple devices in his companies if the iPhone manufacturer integrates OpenAI products at the operating system level. The billionaire said this wrote in a series of posts on X.
SpaceX completes Starfactory at the Boca Chica Cosmodrome to produce one Starship per day
The Starbase production site is getting an expansion called Starfactory, which should help SpaceX’s plans to produce at least one megastar per day.
Tesla CEO demands $56 billion for Musk because «Elon needs motivation»
Tesla CEO Robin Denholm calls on the company’s shareholders to approve a $56 billion payout to Elon Musk. On June 13, Tesla shareholders will decide the fate of the compensation package.
Elon Musk «moved» from Tesla to X and xAI 12 thousand NVIDIA H100 AI chips — shares fell, investors are unhappy
CEO Elon Musk has asked NVIDIA to send 12 thousand NVIDIA H100 artificial intelligence processors its companies X and xAI instead of Tesla. NVIDIA’s emails on the matter also indirectly suggest an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s purchases, as reported by CNBC.
A rainbow Tesla Cybertruck took part in the LGBTQ Pride Parade in Los Angeles — how about that, Elon Musk?
A Tesla Cybertruck painted in rainbow colors took part in the LGBTQ parade in Los Angeles. The truck in pride colors attracted a huge crowd that gathered for the festival and filmed and photographed the car.
X Twitter has officially allowed adult content — previously, the rules did not prohibit it, but did not explicitly allow it either
Social network X (formerly Twitter) has long had many active communities with explicit content (NSFW, not safe for work). Although the platform has previously unofficially allowed people to publish adult contentIts rules have never explicitly prohibited or permitted such content.
Donald Trump is considering Elon Musk as an advisor to the president — businessmen discussed this, elections and political issues
Elon Musk may become an advisor to the president if Donald Trump returns to the White House, if the former president returns to office. Both businessmen discussed this possibility, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Get ready, ChatGPT — xAI Elon Musk has raised $6 billion to challenge OpenAI
Currently, xAI is estimated at $24 billion (the previous estimate was $18 billion).
«Demo made me cringe»: Elon Musk reacts to OpenAI’s GPT-4o launch
Elon Musk is not impressed with the GPT-4o AI language model presented by OpenAI. The billionaire criticized the company’s demonstration of its new artificial intelligence model called GPT-4o, which, in his opinion, «drives into the cringe of». OpenAI unveiled the new model on Monday and demonstrated its improved voice and visual…
Kevin Durand says he copied Elon Musk’s mannerisms for the monkey villain in the movie «Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes»
Actor Kevin Durand plays Proximus Caesar, the villain in the newest film in the famous movie franchise, «Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes». Durand’s character may resemble the manners of someone world-famous, namely Elon Musk — and this is not without reason. In an interview for the Inside Total Film podcast, Kevin Durand admitted that…
Indians who paid $1,000 for a Tesla pre-order in 2016 never received a car — but it’s not so easy to get the money back
In April 2016, Tesla opened a pre-booking site for India, but it still does not sell electric cars in the country, which is the third largest car market in the world.
Musk advised J.K. Rowling to publish «interesting and positive» content on X/Twitter instead of posts about transgenderism
Both the billionaire and the writer have often been criticized for their views and statements on transgender issues.
A Korean woman fell in love with fake Elon Musk — he talked about gigafactories and took $50 thousand from her for «investment»
A South Korean resident says she met «Musk» on Instagram, where he allegedly selectively communicates with fans.
Tesla’s profits fell by 55% in the first months of 2024 — Musk says hybrids are to blame
Tesla’s long-term price-cutting strategy and several «unforeseen problems» reduced its profits — in the first quarter, the company earned $1.13 billion (55% less than last year).
Google has allocated 700 thousand euros to Ukraine to study the basics of artificial intelligence
In February, Google released Gemma open-source language models and at the same time launched a special educational fund worth 25 million euros to teach Europeans about this very artificial intelligence. And now the program has become available for Ukraine.
Elon Musk continues to fight bots: X\Twitter to introduce paid subscription for new accounts
Well political advertising on X/Twitter was not enoughand we really need the money, so previously announced Elon Musk «a small fee» for new users is introduced to the general public.
Tesla will lay off about 14 thousand employees — 10% of the total staff
At the beginning of the month, Tesla for the first time in four years reported about falling sales of electric vehicles, and now the market leader is preparing to lay off at least 14,000 employees, —10% of the total staff (140,473) by early 2024. About this write Electrek and Reuters, who received a copy of an internal letter of instruction sent…
20 times is not the limit. SpaceX updates Falcon 9 reusability record
Do you still remember the famous SpaceX skeptic meme «then we’ll talk»?
X is not Twitter for you. Musk’s site automatically changes the link from «Twitter.com» to «X.com»
Sometimes it’s easy to forget, but technically Twitter no longer exists.
Musk predicted the emergence of an AGI smarter than the smartest person in two years and called Chinese automakers «the most competitive»
At the end of 2023, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predictedthat artificial intelligence will be able to compete with humans in 5 years. And now Elon Musk, known for his «very accurate predictions» has shared his own assessment — the owner of Tesla and SpaceX expects a full-fledged AGIsmarter than the smartest person next year or by 2026 at the…
Like Neuralink, but less invasive. Synchron is looking for patients for «large-scale» brain implant trials
The startup has developed a secure interface for communication «by the power of thought», which is implanted into the brain through blood vessels.
Mark Zuckerberg became the third richest man in the world with $186.9 billion and surpassed Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Elon Musk to become the third richest person in the world. Back in early March, Musk was ranked first in the billionaire index Bloomberg, but dropped to fourth after the announcement of the cancellation (which Musk later denied). Earlier in the week, it was reported that Tesla’s fell over the past three months.
X/Twitter gives blue ticks to people who have more than 2.5 thousand «friends» with a Premium subscription
Yesterday, several journalists wrote to X that blue checks — marks that used to be displayed on verified profiles and are now available to those who have signed up for a premium subscription to the social network suddenly returned to their profiles.
Musk says Tesla Optimus robot should cost «half the price of a car» — and will soon support 5G
It’s been a little over two years since Elon Musk announced that Tesla was moving toward developing humanoid robots. The company has moved quickly enough showed the first prototypes (one assembled model that barely moved, and another that stood on a stand and waved to the audience), and later the second generation of robots that have received…
«Black» Starlink — terminals are sold in bulk illegally around the world [Bloomberg investigation]
Starlink advertises its high-speed Internet as «available almost anywhere in the world», but in practice its distribution officially ends in territories where the company does not yet have a permit to operate or in countries with repressive regimes. At the same time Bloomberg investigation has found numerous examples of Elon Musk’s…
Pay extra for tweets: Elon Musk launches new API subscription for developers at X (Twitter)
Social network X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday launched a new subscription service in its API for developers.
Paralyzed patient with Neuralink chip shows how to play chess on a computer «with the power of thought»
Noland Arbeau, 29, who was partially paralyzed after a diving accident 8 years ago, became the first person to have a Neuralink «chip implanted in his brain.
Elon Musk says that taking ketamine during periods of low mood is in the interests of investors
Last year, Musk admitted that he prescribed ketamine for treatment and stated that he takes the drug for «periods» — at times when he experiences «chemical hot flashes» that can cause depression.
Elon Musk «declassified» the source code of his chatbot Grok — without training data yet
From now on, developers and researchers will be able to use the architecture on which Grok operates in their own projects.
SpaceX is building a spy satellite network for the Pentagon — Reuters
SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a secret contract with the US intelligence agency, the agency reported Reuters five sources familiar with the program. The spy network is being built by SpaceX’s Starshield business unit under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Larry Ellison and Elon Musk team up to apply artificial intelligence to agriculture
Musk’s SpaceX and Ellison’s Oracle will create a new mapping program that will display the types and volumes of agricultural products in the United States, reports Business Insider
Starship reaches orbit for the first time, but fails to «land» in the ocean — SpaceX loses spacecraft on approach
Today’s third test flight of SpaceX’s super-heavy Starship booster (IFT-3 mission) ended in partial success (more than the previous ones) — in fact, the team managed to «go further than ever before». The launch was broadcast live on in the SpaceX account on X/Twitter.
Excerpts from the interview with showman Don Lemon that angered Elon Musk before breaking the deal with X seem down-to-earth
The show’s host, Don Lemon, said that Elon Musk suddenly canceled his partnership with X because the billionaire was «angry» at him over a recent «tense» interview.
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