OpenAI’s leaders among the few who got an invite to Trump-China state dinner: report Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are also expected to attend The Independent UK · Sep 22
Judge hands win to Elon Musk over controversial Texas wildlife refuge land swap IN FULL The Independent UK · Sep 22
Tesla’s Delivery Warning Barely Moved the Stock—Here’s What Investors Care About Goldman Sachs cut its Tesla delivery estimates for the third and fourth quarters, but shares held near recent highs as investors focus on Tesla's robotaxi and AI ambitions instead. MarketBeat · Sep 22
In 2014, Robyn Denholm bought a Tesla Model S and met a board member; 4 years later, the chance encounter led her to become Tesla’s board chair in 2018 Robyn Denholm did not enter Tesla through a traditional route to the boardroom. In 2014, she was waiting for a Tesla Model S and happened to meet Brad Buss, then a Tesla director and an associate of Elon Musk. Their conversation eventually turned to something much bigger. Buss asked whether… The Economic Times · Sep 22
Why Cathie Wood Says SpaceX Stock Could Be a Deep-Value Buy Wood sees SpaceX as a potential deep-value buy, with Starship’s ambitious growth plans opening the door to a $10 trillion revenue opportunity. Barchart · Sep 22
Elon Musk Warns 'Don't Mess With X' After Platform Lawsuit Targeted Users Over Alleged Engagement Fraud X has sued individuals and accounts it alleges manipulated engagement to secure creator payments, while Elon Musk warned users not to 'mess with X' as the platform changes its rewards system. International Business Times UK · Sep 22
SpaceX prepares Starship for first ever orbital launch Elon Musk hopes to send the world’s biggest rocket around the planet six times in its most ambitious test yet The Independent UK · Sep 22
Black Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trial Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in California The Guardian - US · Sep 21
Tesla Wants $50,000 Deposits For A Roadster Nobody Has Seen Yet Tesla reopened reservations for the Roadster. A place in line will cost you $50,000—two weeks before even seeing it. InsideEVs · Sep 21
Elon Musk is keeping his spending in Texas Senate race low-profile, and Republicans want him to keep it that way Democrats wants Elon to bring it on. We Got This Covered · Sep 21
‘They must be doing it for ulterior reasons’: Jensen Huang says AI leaders are ‘irresponsible’ for scaring the public with ‘doomsday narratives’ The Nvidia CEO says “there is a 0% chance” of AI doomsday—and the AI pioneers may have their own motives for pushing AI slowdown. Fortune · Sep 21
Elon Musk Stuns Fans by Declaring Berkshire Hathaway Is 'High on Coke' Over Massive Dividend Windfall Elon Musk joked about Berkshire Hathaway's Coca-Cola investment after its 400 million shares generated roughly £526 million in 2022, with annual dividend income projected to rise further. International Business Times UK · Sep 21
The shock move set to make an already-brilliant Volvo even better DRIVESMART: In the latest DriveSmart newsletter, Steve Fowler dissects why Klaus Zellmer’s sudden switch from Skoda to Volvo is one of the smartest leadership moves in the car industry right now The Independent UK · Sep 21
Documentary Makers Just Labelled Elon Musk a 'Free Speech Absolutist' Over an Intense Legal Threat Elon Musk's legal team has warned the makers of Alex Gibney's documentary that its presentation could falsely imply Starlink influenced the 2024 US election. The filmmakers dispute the accusation. International Business Times UK · Sep 21
International Business Times · Sep 21 Musk Pitches 'Hyperloop' Tunnel To Massively Reduce Commuting Times Between Two Texan Cities. Musk's tunneling startup the Boring Company wants to reduce the average journey time between San Antonio and Austin from hours to minutes.
International Business Times UK · Sep 21 Trump Calls AI Fears a 'Hoax' as Family Deepens Investments Across AI Economy Donald Trump has rejected warnings about catastrophic AI risks as reporting examines his family's investments and businesses linked to artificial intelligence, data centres and energy infrastructure.
The Guardian - US · Sep 21 We’re not in a new Gilded Age in America: inequality is now far worse Today’s wealth gap is much bigger, and the country’s richest have much more power than they once did. It’s an Age of Oligarchy
The Economic Times · Sep 21 Elon Musk Moon city: World’s richest man plans self-growing city within 10 years, but scientists warn of a major problem that could hamper his plans Elon Musk is planning a self-growing city on the Moon that could eventually house millions of people. But a new study has raised a major concern: there may not be enough water on the Moon to support such a large population for long.
Motor1 · Sep 21 Tesla Is Taking $50,000 Roadster Deposits Again. Only Nine Years Later Tesla Roadster deposits return with a $50,000 deposit that raises questions about pricing and real production timing.
Fortune · Sep 21 Elon Musk's mom isn't fussy about where she sleeps either—Maye Musk stays in a garage when she visits the Tesla CEO in Texas "I can sleep there, or 45 minutes to go in a suite in a hotel. No, I'll sleep in the garage."
International Business Times UK · Sep 21 AI Companies Are Buying Millions of Books, Chopping Off Their Spines, and Destroying Them to Train Chatbots Court records reveal Anthropic's Project Panama: millions of books were bought, cut apart, and scanned to train AI models, amid copyright disputes.
Fortune · Sep 21 The midterms are a stress test for American media Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
Newslaundry · Sep 21 The men building AI want us to fear it. We should – but not for the reasons they give Is AI going to run wild and kill us all – or are the concerns lately voiced by the bosses of the AI titans just some kind of convenient business ploy on their part? Those bosses include Dario Amodei of Anthropic, which owns Claude; his rival Sam Altman of OpenAI,…
Latin Times · Sep 20 Why Four Subscribers Are Suing Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI Over an Alleged Pact to Slow AI Down Four subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI, alleging a safety pledge to slow AI was really an illegal pact to hold products back.
The Independent UK · Sep 20 Katie Miller concerned about legal bills if Democrats launch investigations into Trump inner circle ‘After the first Trump administration, my family spent money we did not have on lawyers,’ the wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller says