Two tech startup CEOs challenged Elon Musk's AI predictions with million-dollar bets. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is known for his ambitious forecasts about the future, some of which have come to fruition, while others have proven overly optimistic.Walter Isaacson, the author of Musk's biography, recently noted this tendency, highlighting the billionaire's underestimation of the time needed to achieve his goals. Seemingly confirming Isaacson's observation, Musk, during a live X interview with...
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he found millions of documents that showed collusion between the White House and Twitter employees to censor Americans. These became known as the Twitter files. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one American specifically targeted in those documents. “The government put pressure on a corporation to silence you. That is, by most legal standards, that would be a violation of the First Amendment,” Dave Rubin says. Rather than ignoring them, Musk then invited...
From Monday to Tuesday of this week, the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)—Elon Musk’s sanctum of free speech—briefly became a scammers’ paradise because of an executive decision to change the free speech of posts he didn’t like. Since the site’s rebrand in July, the team at what’s now X has been urging the media, the public, and the platform’s own users to retire “Twitter,” “Twitter.com,” “tweet,” “retweet,” and other words from their lexicon. But habits die hard when they involve...
Elon Musk said Friday (April 12) that charging users a “small fee” to become active on X may be necessary to reduce bots and spam on the social media platform. “Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” he wrote in a Monday […]
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has weighed in on the ongoing debate regarding the pricing of the company's Full Self-Driving feature. read more
Making users pay is only way to stop bots taking over platform
A big part of what has led to social media platform Twitter/X’s current popularity is the lack of fees for signing up. The “public square” role the platform has often claimed only works if the public can actually access it. But that’s been significantly changed since Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of the platform for $44
X (formerly Twitter) users reported an outage for a brief period on Thursday. Several users were having trouble accessing the site due to a technical issue. According to Downdetector, which detects and monitors online outages and difficulties, users reported being unable to use the platform. Soon after the outage, many netizens were left confused and took to the microblogging platform asking if X is not working.While a few asked if the platform is down, others took the route of hilarity and made...
As Tesla's stock slumped in 2024, Elon Musk has turned his focus to other ventures, most notably by taking a more active role in turning X back into Twitter.It is also no secret that Tesla's shine has dimmed in 2024. The Musk-owned automotive company faces declining demand for electric vehicles and intensifying challenges in the Chinese market. Even typically optimistic analysts like Wedbush's Dan Ives were harsh, calling Tesla's most recent quarter a "trainwreck."Mirroring Tesla's stock...
Want to join X (formerly Twitter) or create a new account? Well, it’s going to cost you. Elon Musk revealed Monday that new users on the site will have to begin paying a “small fee” annually in hopes of limiting bots on the site. Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the […]
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Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter), encountered a significant setback today as users encountered difficulties accessing the platform. Reports from Downdetector, a service dedicated to tracking and monitoring online outages and problems, revealed that a notable portion of users experienced issues accessing the site.Downdetector, which compiles status reports from various sources, including user feedback, highlighted the widespread nature of the problem. Users from across...