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Elon Musk starts and owns lots of companies. Maybe he’s going to change that, a bit: The world’s richest man is reportedly working on a plan to merge two of his most valuable companies into one megacompany.Musk, Reuters reports, wants to merge xAI — his very valuable AI company that…
Elon Musk has long insisted Tesla isn’t a car company. After its latest earnings, it looks less like one than ever.The billionaire told investors that Tesla would scrap its Model S and X EVs and convert their production lines to build the company’s Optimus humanoid robot, as it continues to…
Elon Musk is going scorched-earth with Vinod Khosla after the billionaire VC founder accused the Tesla CEO of promoting racism and made an open call to Musk’s employees to quit.On Monday evening, Khosla said on X that Musk frames racism as a “great and desirable paradigm,” responding to a September…
Elon Musk might have just walked straight into a trap.Ryanair’s marketing team and CEO Michael O’Leary have spent years courting controversy as a promotional strategy. Provoking the world’s richest person might win them the most attention yet.What started as a critique of Musk’s Starlink has proliferated into a weeklong war…
Elon Musk is bracing for another round of production hell.The Tesla CEO said on Tuesday that the ramp-up of the company’s Cybercab robotaxi and Optimus robot, both set to enter production this year, would be “agonizingly slow.””The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportionate to how many new parts…
Feel like X’s algorithm needs work? Elon Musk agrees.Musk isn’t a fan of X’s algorithm, and he’s documenting the company’s efforts to improve the technology that decides what you see in the platform’s “For You” feed.Musk said he is overhauling the recommendation system that decides which user-generated posts and advertisements…
Dangling a free Cybertruck in front of an employee is one way to get results.Elon Musk made the unusual offer when xAI’s engineers were setting up new GPU racks, according to then-technical staff member Sulaiman Ghori.”Elon’s like, ‘OK, you can get a Cybertruck tonight if you can get a training…
Europe’s biggest airline won’t be installing Starlink on its planes anytime soon, and senior SpaceX staff like Elon Musk aren’t best pleased.Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary isn’t convinced by Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet provider, which is becoming more popular among airlines.For example, Lufthansa — the German flag carrier which runs the…
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Elon Musk joined Donald Trump for dinner during a packed weekend for the president, who was hosting meetings at Mar-a-Lago as his administration announced a US military operation in Venezuela.Trump said on Saturday that the US had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, a move that drew swift…
