A standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court judge opened an inquiry into the billionaire after Musk said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk, the owner of X and a self-declared free speech absolutist, has challenged a decision by Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordering the blocking of certain accounts. He has said X, formerly known as Twitter, would lift all the restrictions because they were...
Billionaire Elon Musk on April 9 claimed that the Brazilian employees of his social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), are being threatened with arrest. The tech mogul further added that all details he has on Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes will be shared after his employees are safe.“We need to get our employees in Brazil to a safe place or otherwise not in a position of responsibility, then we will do a full data dump. They have been told they will be arrested,” he...
Elon Musk's Xitter is trying to stall DOJ investigations again.
Tesla stock is priced for a mainstream, autonomous future, but the company faces strategic uncertainty, leadership troubles, and hardening competition.
The government has invited the founders of spacetech startups such as Agnikul Cosmos, Bellatrix Aerospace, Skyroot Aerospace, Dhruva Space, Pixxel, SatSure and Digantara to meet Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk in New Delhi on Monday.A group of startup executives and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials visited SpaceX’s facilities in Hawthorne, California, last month as a part of the US Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Programme.Startups like Pixxel and...
Elon Musk’s recent presentation on SpaceX’s ambitions for making life multiplanetary provided an expansive overview of the company’s current projects and its future aspirations. Musk’s vision, deeply rooted in the existential perspective that humankind must become a multiplanetary species to ensure the long-term survival of consciousness, continues to drive SpaceX’s innovative advancements in space technology. […]
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...
SAO PAULO >> Headline-grabbing billionaire Elon Musk is clashing with a Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X, the social media platform Musk bought when it was Twitter.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Big tech and the Brazilian court system are “colliding” in South America. Brazil’s supreme court says it’s launching a probe into billionaire Elon Musk and his social media platform “X” – after Musk said he would lift restrictions on certain accounts that were ordered to be blocked. Musk called the move “unconstitutional” and appears to […]
Elon Musk revealed Friday that Tesla will pull back the curtain on a robotaxi this summer, news that comes as the adoption of self-driving vehicles hits speed bumps over safety concerns.The billionaire boss of the electric car maker did not provide details, saying only in his post on X that the Tesla Robotaxi unveil will come on August 8.Tesla shares rose more than three percent in after-market trades following the post, after finishing the day down.Musk has long boasted of work Tesla is doing...
The deal, if approved by shareholders and judges, would be the largest in corporate America.
A non-permanent fee for new users could soon be Elon Musk's X's only way to stop bots. New users on X could soon be met with a small fee before they can post, as Elon Musk unveils it is the "only way" to help stop bots from plaguing the platform.