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Musk and the tech elite are backing a pro- Trump group
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to social media to deny reports that said that he’s giving up to $65 million to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Reacting to a meme shared by him on the social media site X, Musk wrote, “This is who I want by Trump’s side: an American patriot.” He added that…
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There is an in-flight failure of the Falcon 9 rockets
Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) while it investigates the failure of the upper stage engine in Thursday’s launch. The Falcon 9 rocket had launched 20 Starlink satellites. SpaceX said that it had made contact with ten satellites of the 20 that had been onboard…
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EU says X’s blue checkmarks are deceptive
The European Union has said that Elon Musk-led X has infringed the Digital Services Act (DSA) with its blue checkmark verification system. “It negatively affects users’ ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts,” it added. If Musk doesn’t settle the matter, the EU could fine X up to 6%…
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The blue checkmarks of X are deceptive
The European Union (EU) has accused Twitter of violating the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) by allowing users to buy a blue tick for verification of their accounts. If X fails to reach a resolution with the EU, Elon Musk will be fined up to 6% of X’s global turnover. X has a chance to…
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VW and EV joint venture will have $5 billion invested in Rivian
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday tweeted that the company has a partnership with Volkswagen, which will bring its zonal architecture for electric vehicles to a “broader” market. “We are looking forward to introducing Rivian’s new zonal architecture to many new customers,” he added. Volkswagen invested $5 billion in US-based Rivian in April this year…
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The race is on to fill the power gap as questions swirl around the Supercharging stations
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s prediction of slow Supercharger installation has led to 500 employees being fired from Tesla’s Supercharger division, E&E News reported. The company had announced in January that it was firing all 500 employees from the Supercharger business, including the division’s top executive Rebecca Tinucci. Earlier, Tesla said it will lay off one-quarter…
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The New York Times wrote about how theTesla Cybertruck was all of Elon Musk’s Flaws
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a statement that he was not going to give much information about the details of the company’s plan to make more affordable EVs. Tesla said its next generation models, which will utilise aspects of the next generation platform, will be able to be produced on the same manufacturing lines…
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Dozens of deaths were linked to hundreds of crashes and the use of self- driving by the company
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said, “If you’ve got, atscale, a statistically significant amount of data that shows conclusively that the autonomous car has, let’s say, half the accident rate of a human-driven car, I think that’s difficult to ignore”. He added, “Because at that point, stopping autonomy means killing people.” Fourteen people have been…
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has opened an investigation of Musk
The Brazilian government has opened an investigation into Tesla CEO Elon Musk over a potential obstruction of justice after he said he reactivated accounts on the social media platform X after a judge had ordered it to block them. Brazil’s Supreme Court Judge Justice Ricardo de Moraes had said each blocked account would fetch a…
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The electric vehicle manufacturer scrapped plans to make a less expensive vehicle
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the electric automaker will unveil its new self-driving cars on August 8. “We are focused on bringing the next-gen platform to market as quickly as we can, with the plan to start production at Gigafactory Texas,” he added. In 2019, Musk said Tesla would have “over a million Tesla…
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Musk says that the vehicle will be revealed on August 8th
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would manufacture a million self-driving cars next year. He added that its self-driving cars would be so reliable the driver could ‘go to sleep’. In 2020, Musk said Tesla could produce 20 million self-driving vehicles in a year, or roughly twice the current production of Toyota, GM, or…
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There is a large rocket that is going to launch again
Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched its Starship rocket, its third successful launch attempt in five years. The first Starship mission was aborted after multiple engines in the first stage of the rocket gave out. The second Starship mission was also cancelled due to engine failure, which caused Starship’s re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Sam has been accepted to the Board of OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Alya Sutskever had informed Elon Musk in a December 2018 email that the AI startup needs a $1 billion funding commitment, as per a report. “I think we should say that we’re starting with a $1B funding commitment. I’ll cover whatever anyone else doesn’t provide,” Musk wrote. Sutskever had then forwarded arguments in…
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Europe has a tech Crackdown and a month with the Vision Pro
Talking about the US’ Digital Markets Act (DMA), former Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that it’s a good thing to encourage innovation. “It’s time to step back and say,…this thing that came out that had all this attention…what is it actually being used for?” he said. “Things I actually thought I’d take up are not…
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Musk sued OpenAI for abandoning its mission to benefit humanity
Billionaire investor and Openai Co-founder Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against the startup claiming that its GPT-4 model is “better at reasoning than average humans”. The lawsuit also claims that GPT-4 is a fully open source model and doesn’t render it truly artificial intelligence. Musk had founded OpenAI in 2016 after leaving the firm’s…
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The fight is in the C-suite
A US judge on Wednesday banned smoking guns at Xerox’s global offices, including in India. The order was issued in response to the company’s firing of eight employees who had circulated a letter urging Xerox to distance itself from Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s social media posts. Xerox said it will fire 15 percent of its…
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Alex Jones is allowed back on X by Mr. Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has restored conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account on Twitter after it was restored following a poll. “It’s a major turnaround for Musk, who previously said he wouldn’t let Jones back on the platform despite repeated calls to do so,” he wrote. Jones had said that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting…
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The cyber truck has changed a lot since 2019
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the company’s investors day in Austin that the automaker’s Cyberbeast model can achieve a top speed of 130 kmph while towing another Porsche 911. The Cyberbeast will be able to go from 0-100 kmph in 2.5 seconds, reach a top speed of 217 kmph and reach a top speed…
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The Cybertruck must be large in order to dig the grave of Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the company will make 25,000 Cybertrucks per year by 2024. The Cybertruck will go from zero to 60 kmph in 6.5 seconds, with a top speed of 130 kmph. It will be capable of travelling up to 13,000 km on a single charge and can go from 0-100…
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The starting price for the electric cybertruck is $60,990 and it will have up to 340 miles of range
Elon Musk said Tesla’s Cybertruck, which can run on a single charge, is on pace to be rolled out of mass production in 18 months. “I want to normalise expectations for how fast production could ramp up and that it could be 18 months before Cybertruck contributes cash,” he added. Tesla’s Cybertruck has six seats…
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There is a mystery at the heart of the chaos
Elon Musk has shared an anonymous letter purportedly written by former employees at AI startup OpenAI. The letter claimed that OpenAI Co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were obsessive about achieving artificial general intelligence (AI). The letter further stated that it witnessed a disturbing pattern of manipulation by Altman and Brockman, driven by their obsessive…
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The lawsuit by Musk will have a chilling effect
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to defend his firm’s ‘Truth and Power of Nature’ campaign against antisemitism, racism, and white supremacy. “You have said the actual truth,” he wrote in response to a user who called Jews “racist Jews”. Earlier, Musk had replied to a user who said Jews hate white people, and…
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What will be the next step for the mega-rocket?
Elon Musk-led SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship rocket to space, the first test flight of which failed to carry NASA’s Crew Dragon astronauts. The rocket exploded after it separated from the spacecraft. During the April test flight, six of the 33 engines had failed. Earlier, NASA had given SpaceX contracts worth $4 billion to…
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Linda Yaccarino stayed the course even as advertisers fled
Elon Musk-led digital ad company X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has said that some advertisers paused investments “temporarily paused because of a misleading and manipulated article”, which allegedly showed ads on pro-Nazi content. “The data will tell the real story,” she added. Earlier, Musk had shared a screenshot of an article that showed ads on pro-Nazi…
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What happens with the future of OpenAI when Sam Altman is fired
Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has ousted its CEO Sam Altman, two months after he was diagnosed with cancer. OpenAI’s board of directors, led by Musk and Altman, decided to fire him over disagreements with existing board members over the role of existing board members in choosing new members. Altman, who has served as…