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Apr 23, 2022

Elon Musk accuses Bill Gates of shorting Tesla on Twitter, then mocks him

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Apr 23, 2022

Elon Musk confirmed leaked texts show him turning down a philanthropic opportunity with Bill Gates after asking the Microsoft founder if he was shorting Tesla

Posted by in categories: climatology, Elon Musk, sustainability

“I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla,” Musk told Gates, per the texts.

Apr 23, 2022

Elon Musk says Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robot ‘will be worth more than the car business’

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

Tesla first announced the robot last summer, and says the first models will arrive next year.

Apr 22, 2022

Elon Musk Says He Could Make “Catgirl” Sex Robots If He Wanted To

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To SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the future is teeming with humanoid robots.

During a lengthy and freewheeling conversation with TED’s Chris Anderson last week, Musk expanded on his vision of what it could look like to share everyday life with automatons doing our bidding.

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Apr 22, 2022

Elon Musk scores $23 billion in Tesla compensation goal package

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Musk’s latest compensation windfall, which must be certified by Tesla’s board, comes days after he offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion, with analysts suggesting he could sell Tesla shares to help finance the deal.

Musk already is the world’s richest person, according to Forbes.

Tesla reported quarterly revenue of $18.76 billion and so-called adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $5.02 billion. Combined with the previous three quarters’ results, that surpasses milestones that trigger the vesting of the ninth through 11th of 12 tranches of options granted to Musk in his 2018 pay package.

Apr 21, 2022

Robotic Rat Climbs, Crawls, and Turns on a Dime

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel

Alan DeRossettPutin propaganda is dividing opinions on Elon Musk for helping Ukraine and standing up to the Fossil fuel industry.

Walter LynsdaleI’m all for people making billions through technical advancement (teslas, space X rockets, the dojo chip are all pretty cool), but he comes out with a fair amount of double speak:

“people aren’t having enough babies” vs “we can make a humanoid robot”… See more.

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Apr 20, 2022

Elon Musk says Netflix is losing subscribers because ‘the woke mind virus’ is making it ’unwatchable‘

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk

Design also poised to save space, retain memory in event of power loss. A new spin on one of the 20th century’s smallest but grandest inventions, the transistor, could help feed the world’s ever-growing appetite for digital memory while slicing up to 5% of the energy from its power-hungry diet.

Apr 20, 2022

Tesla has now more than 100,000 people in its Full Self-Driving Beta program — is an accelerated rate of improvement coming?

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the automaker has now more than 100,000 people in its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta program.

Does it mean that we are going to start seeing an accelerated rate of improvement?

FSD Beta has been a “two steps forward, one step back” type of program.

Apr 20, 2022

Elon Musk’s new bid for Twitter includes $0 salary for board members

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“Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year (roughly Rs. 22 crore) saved right there,” Musk tweeted while replying to a user’s post criticising the Twitter board.

Apr 20, 2022

Elon Musk defended his billionaire status and said he doesn’t own a home, a yacht, or take vacations weeks after Grimes faced huge backlash for saying he lives “below the poverty line”

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, habitats

It would be very problematic if I was consuming billions of dollars a year in personal consumption, but that is not the case. In fact, I don’t even own a home right now. I’m literally staying at friends’ places.