Elon Musk criticized Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after a judge ordered X to delete footage of a Sydney terrorist incident, arguing that the verdict could allow any nation to control the entire internet.
Tesla announced global workforce reductions of "more than 10%" in an internal email Monday to staff from CEO Elon Musk, according to electric-vehicles.com, a specialist outlet, in a report later covered by Reuters.Newsweek has not seen the original email and was unable to verify its content. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.The ContextThe reported layoffs come amid a tough start to the year for Elon Musk and his electric-vehicle company. Quarterly results released at the beginning...
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Love him or hate him, Elon Musk attracts as much attention as any CEO in memory. The latest example: this week’s Tesla earnings call, an obligatory event that at times seemed to be anticipated as a borderline cultural happening. Of course, a public company with a whopping market cap like Tesla’s will draw plenty of investor interest in its latest numbers. Of course, there were the usual...
To strengthen his artificial intelligence (AI) company, Elon Musk urged ambitious individuals to join his groundbreaking initiative, xAI. This wide-ranging project seeks engineers, designers, and staff for product development, data analysis, and infrastructure management."Join xAI," the tech tycoon wrote in a cross-post. Musk shared a link to his AI company's Careers page in the cross-post. Grok, an AI-powered chatbot launched in 2023, is at the forefront of this burgeoning enterprise. xAI is...
Australian court ruled X take down footage of violent stabbing in Sydney church
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Anthony Albanese's comments come amid a feud over X's reluctance to remove footage of a stabbing.
Elon Musk’s X banned a post that claimed noncitizens are registering and voting in U.S. elections on a wide scale, saying it was “hate speech” and violated the platform’s terms because it attacked a “protected group.”
A former NASA physicist warned that prominent constellations of low-cost satellites, like Elon Musk's Starlink, could disrupt Earth's magnetosphere, exposing all life on the planet to harmful cosmic radiation.A new study by Dr. Sierra Solter-Hunt uses new estimates suggesting that SpaceX, Elon Musk's company, burns over 2,755 pounds (1.3 tons) of debris from its wireless internet satellites into Earth's atmosphere each hour. This process is said to create a layer of conductive particles in...
X likely hopes to avoid liability with disclaimer that Grok "can make mistakes."
Twitter reportedly told Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes on Monday that it would not challenge his censorship demands.
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