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Riding off the high of an epic test flight, rocket billionaire Elon Musk revealed upcoming plans for Starship's enhanced reusability.

Jack Sweeney says that 38 of his jet tracking accounts have been suspended. | Illustration: The Verge Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and former US president Donald Tr...

Just how emotionally fragile is Elon Musk? Listen to the first episode of Elon Spies to hear about him accusing a man of molesting children because that man is an expert in cave diving and cave diving rescue who looked at Elon’s idea for a rescue and said it straight. Elon’s idea was dumb and […]

A still from Blade Runner 2049. | Warner Bros. Though it remains very unclear whether any of the self-driving vehicles demoed at Tesla’s We, Robot presentation will ever actually make it to market, one of the production companies behind Blade Runner 2049 thinks Elon Musk ripped off their copyright f...

X has truly become a garbage heap since Trump donor Elon Musk bought the site.

The billionaire is giving away $1 million a day to registered voters. The lottery is the next evolution of politics as entertainment in America.

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he’s been Trump-stumping, on Saturday. And he said he will continue to give that prize to one random voter per day until the Presiden...

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Musk's post on his X platform had been seen by close to 40 million people as of Oct. 14. Elon Musk faces serious backlash over 'bait and switch' offer to victims of Hurricane Helene: 'Meant to take advantage of people' first appeared on The Cool Down.

During a stopover for Trump in the pivotal swing state of Pennsylvania, Musk seemed to gesture at debunked conspiracy theories.

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages

Last year, for one quarter, Elon Musk seemingly conceded (somewhat) to what Full Self Driving (FSD) purchasers had been requesting for years, that their FSD package automatically transfer to a new Tesla when they bought a new Tesla. The vibe at the time it was announced was basically, Oh, fine, ... ...

X terms specify Northern District, where Judge Reed O'Connor is a Tesla investor.

In order to run cars that don’t have a steering wheel on US roads, automakers must secure permission from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It’s part of US auto safety rules. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed his long-awaited prototype robotaxi fleet and assured the very rece...

SpaceX's triumph is downstream of a dream and getting the cost structure necessary to make it happen; Elon Musk is trying the same approach for Tesla self-driving cars

“Musk’s Super PAC Offers $47 to Those Who Help It Find Trump Voters” — New York Times, 10/7/24 - - - Please help. My brain is like the Cybertruck nav system. I know something’s wrong there, but no one can figure it out. I’ve read all the psychology books, but none of them address desperately needing...

Buttigieg pushed back on Elon Musk spreading misinformation on the x platform, and ended up clarifying some misunderstandings.

Tesla share value is down nearly 9% to close the week. The “We, Robot” event late Thursday evening was a bust, according to many experts. With Hollywood watching — or trying to watch, as the streamed event started late — CEO Elon Musk was, at least, consistent. As someone who ... [continued] The pos...

I think this is what they call neuro-divergent. Daily Beast: Elon Musk’s X social media platform has reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could be harmful to the former president’s White House chances as part of a pattern of election interference that is unprecedent...

Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica: Last night, after a wait of roughly an hour after the official start time, Elon Musk spoke to a crowd of Tesla fans and some journalists on a film studio backlot in California to give us an update on the company’s much-talked-about pivot to robotics. […] […] After p...

X has claimed that a group of advertisers were illegally colluding against it by choosing not to advertise on the platform.

Musk’s battle with former Twitter execs intensifies as X value reaches new low.

It is conventional among Democrats to deplore Elon Musk’s refusal to change with the times and adopt the latest progressive dogma. And, indeed, despite Musk being objectively one of the world’s most accomplished people, the opinions that he expresses or retweets are conventional Republican points of...

Tesla dusted off some decade-old ideas about mobility as the future of robotics.

Much like flying cars, Musk's robotaxi seems to always be two years away.

The long-awaited Tesla Robotaxi event is scheduled to start at 10 PM EST, or 7 PM PST tonight. Much speculation has swirled around CEO Elon Musk and whether he will embark on another revolutionary innovation with self-driving and robotics — or disappoint with more far-fetched promises rather than ta...

Elon Musk is set to unveil Tesla's long-awaited fully-autonomous Robotaxi/Cybercab at the company's 'We, Robot' event in a matter of minutes. Watch the stream here, and we'll be updating this piece with news as it happens. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: Tesla, Tesla Motors, E...

Musk also claimed liberal states were "making crime legal" during an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Two photos from the event where Musk stumped for Trump became iconic fodder for the internet.

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Elon Musk merging Twitter into X didn't absolve X from child safety fine.

Parody video creator joined Musk in “war” to block California deepfake law.

John Gruber on the news that Starlink will offer free service to Hurricane Helene disaster areas: It’s hard to overstate how differently Elon Musk would be perceived if he weren’t a whackjob on political and cultural issues. If Elon had never bought Twitter, never tweeted even, he’d still be conside...

Five years ago, today: Look let's be honest, @realDonaldTrump's Twitter account should be suspended. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 1, 2019 In case the above is memory-holed, an image version: (Professor Saad corrected his typo (“FREE societies”) in a follow-up, so this also reminds me that...

Ever since Elon Musk “persuaded” Donald Trump to take it easy on his electric vehicle-bashing, the former president’s EV riffs have gotten pretty boring. Thank goodness, then, that there’s a new boogeyman in town: hydrogen cars. Never mind that there are only about 18,000 hydrogen cars on the roads ...

Until this week, the most recent data available about the moderation activities of the company formerly known as Twitter could be found in a report covering the last six months of 2021. Maybe you heard, but Elon Musk began his process for acquiring the company in April 2022, and it concluded in Octo...

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI describes its business structure as “a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm,” which has been a contributing factor in last year’s short-lived board coup against CEO Sam Altman and a recent lawsuit by cofounder El...

I’ve seen this claim countless times, and I understand where it’s coming from, but I don’t believe it. I normally brush past it, but given that a top computer scientist known as the “Godfather of AI” just said it, and also given the enormous controversy and confusion around Elon Musk ... [continued]...

Why are two billionaires yelling at each other on X?

Image: The Verge X will now make your posts visible to users you’ve blocked. In a reply on Monday, X owner Elon Musk said the “block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public post.” Currently, X displays a “You’re blocked” message when trying to view the profi...

X competitors such as Bluesky have seen millions of new users since Musk's platform got banned in Brazil.

Elon Musk, CEO of X, has acquiesced to his legal team’s advice and has agreed to comply with directives from Brazil’s Supreme Court. Originally, he had refused to obey what he perceived as illegal orders to censor anti-democratic voices on his social network. Pressure finally forced Musk to give in....

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Yesterday, when I wrote an article explaining what I think has happened with Elon Musk and Tesla in recent years that has led to the conundrum Tesla is in right now, or at least its latest “bet the company” move, I knew the reader comments would be great. As some ... [continued] The post Two Readers...

Some of this article is stuff that’s been widely discussed for months, but I think it goes a little deeper into how I think we got here. Maybe I’m wrong, but after covering Tesla and Elon Musk very closely for 12 years and having my assumptions and analysis affirmed by ... [continued] The post I Thi...

Speaking of “Leon” Musk, here’s Victor Tangermann, writing for The Byte: In March, the US government accused the founder of Moscow-based company Social Design Agency of orchestrating a “persistent foreign malign influence campaign” on behalf of the Kremlin. The propaganda operation, dubbed “Doppelga...