@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium subscribers, is "AI Vine" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/elon-musk-says-hes-bringing-back-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialElon Musk says Vine's video archive is being brought back, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine, available to X Premium subscribers, is "AI Vine" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/elon-musk-says-hes-bringing-back-…
@cdarwin@c.imTesla’s board has approved the award of
💥29 Billion Dollars worth of shares
to its chief executive, Elon Musk,
after a US court ruled against a previous pay deal for the world’s richest person.
Musk will pay $2 billion
to buy 96 million shares in the electric carmaker
at the same price per share as a 10-year pay package agreed in 2018, which is stuck in legal limbo awaiting a court date for an appeal.
The award was based on a recommendation from a “sp…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk floats strategy for new political party (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/04/elon-musk-new-political-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p49#a250704p49
@cdarwin@c.imElon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50% of them, often aligning with Elon Musk's views (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conserva…
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialMaybe Musk saw how easily democracy can be destroyed in a federation of 50 states?
@servelan@newsie.social'Never seen this': Records buried on why Elon Musk sicced cops on his neighbors - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-texas-2673799985/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk snubbed from invite list for Trump's Rose Garden event with CEOs (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-not-invited-trump-rose-garden-ceo-event-2025-9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p75#a250904p75
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgLinkedIn just sent me a warning and deleted a comment in which I called Elon Musk, who is a Nazi, a Nazi who is racist. And a Nazi.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyEurope urgently needs to find and shut down all the ways by which foreign billionaires - like Trump's billionaire brigade - can influence elections here.
https://
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialNão é que eu esteja contra isto, que não estou, bem pelo contršrio.
Mas sinceramente não estou a ver como se consegue garantir a aplicabilidade destas coisas.
Provavelmente é falta de imaginação minha.
https://jornaleconomico.sapo.p…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialAlex Karp: Watching you - Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp
Erstmals schaut ein Dokumentarfilm auf den US-Milliardär Alex Karp und seine so mysteriöse wie abgeschottete Firma Palantir. Neben Elon Musk, seinem Mitgründer Peter Thiel und #SamAltman gilt der CEO von #Palantir als einer der bedeute…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialFun fact: Elon Musk's sister, Tosca, has directed a series of erotic film trilogies.
▶️ #ElonMusk, JDVance, and More! It's the Best of Lie-Curious! | Have I Go...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_36T…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhy do these people never have any inkling to look beyond their immediate fields of study?
Why do they find it good and proper if one of their members behaves in an absolutely unacceptable fashion, antithetical to your organization, repeatedly?
I'm not even talking Hitler salutes here. Musk was leading an organization that actively worked on dismantling scientific research and space exploration.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/01/royal-society-elon-musk-astronomer-royal-michele-dougherty
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI sent subpoenas to AI governance nonprofits Encode and CANI, alleging they are part of a conspiracy involving Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and others (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-a…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps. (Lauren McGaughy/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-lobbyists-influence-law
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p45#a250703p45
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(Spanish) El ojo biónico de Elon Musk: ver mšs allš de la tecnología https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2025-08-28/el-ojo-bionico-de-elon-musk-ver-mas-alla-de-la-tecnologia.html
(translated from Spanish) "The su…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says "We might have to put DOGE on Elon", "DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon", and "We'll have to take a look" at deporting Musk (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/trump-deporting-el…
@comex@mas.toWith Elon Musk news at a low ebb, here’s a blast from the past.
Remember last year when Elon Musk set up a $1m daily sweepstakes for swing state voters who signed a petition, creating a controversy over vote-buying?
Do you remember the part where the sweepstakes turned out to be a scam with handpicked winners, as freely admitted by his own lawyers?
Promptly leading to a class action for fraud?
Well, that class action has now survived a motion to dismiss.
@krone@frawas.deHat schon Namen - Musk droht Trump nun mit Gründung eigener Partei #News #Nachrichten
@cdarwin@c.imHours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conservative-chatbot.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p5#a250902p5
@servelan@newsie.social‘If it’s the last thing I do’: Elon Musk vows to fund campaigns against every Republican who votes for Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ bill | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-senate-vote-b2779905.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI”
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/707442/grok-antisemitic-hitler-elon-musk-opinion-reprogrammed
Anyone remember the days when we actually had a …
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/17/royal-society-elon-musk-resign-science-fellowship-tesla
... but when he ignored that they just…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialElon Musk says X will charge for ads "based on vertical size", with an ad taking up the whole screen costing more than one that takes up a quarter of the screen (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/x-changes-ads-sizes-bans-ha…
@gwire@mastodon.socialBillionaire oblivious to the effects of his actions, his lawyers tell court.
https://gizmodo.com/techno-king-elon-musk-doesnt-own-a-computer-his-lawyers-tell-court-2000619716
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk vs. Steve Bannon War Explodes With Prison and Deportation Threats (Tom Sanders/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-vs-steve-bannon-war-explodes-with-prison-and-deportation-threats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p162#a250701p162
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»SpaceX in Leuk VS - Im Wallis wächst der Widerstand gegen Elon-Musk-Antennen:
In der Gemeinde Leuk sollen 40 Starlink-Antennen entstehen. Die Bevölkerung reagiert mit Widerstand und Sorge.«
Schau her, dieser Elon ist selbst im Wallis nicht beliebt – erstaunlich ist es nicht und ein Danke in den Süden.
📺 [CH-DE]
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@ErikUden@mastodon.deHappy Birthday Elon Musk STONEWALL WAS A RIOT, WE WILL NOT BE QUIET #OTD (28th of June)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialxAI has been granted a permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Memphis campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over air pollution (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-data-center-air-pollution-permit/
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialYes, I'm sure if you're tired of being ridiculed as a public figure things will go much better for you in the *checks notes* United Kingdom...
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115099995291652362
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWenn Politik ein Raketenstart wäre, würde SpaceX als einziger den Countdown korrekt zählen – trotz Trump’s Streit mit Elon Muskk. #Golem.: So sehr der Präsident drückt, bei den Verträgen hat die Regierung keine bessere Flugbahn gefunden. Elon Musk bleibt der Fixstern der US-Raumfahrt.
@frankstohl@mastodon.social @seeingwithsound@mas.toElon Musk, May 2025: "And then there is a second Neuralink device very similar to the first one, called Blindsight, which will enable people who are blind to see, including people who have been blind from birth." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HcTXA951Mw&t=219s Sa…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLibertarians seek partnership with Elon Musk (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/libertarian-chair-asks-elon-musk-to-join-them-00436172
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p62#a250702p62
@servelan@newsie.social'We Are... in My District.': Volunteer Caught Lying About Reason for Barring Black Democrat Lawmaker from Meeting on Elon Musk Airport Project While White Republicans Walk Right In
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/31/tennessee-state-lawmaker-furious-after-being-blocked-from-a-meeting-on-elon-musk-airport-project-in-his-own-district/
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialThis is what you get when you give someone with the humor of a 15-year old boy control over branding. Of course, only a journalist who is a Musk fanboy would think it's cool.
Elon Musk takes aim at Bill Gates' Microsoft with new AI venture “Macrohard”
https://www.te…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-gr…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWaiting for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision? Devices come and go. Check out the YouTube video about the earlier Dobelle brain implant from 2002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uv0lrjKjZM Yes, here too circumventing the need for FDA approva…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyTesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month in a row.
Tesla 'has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.'
That's politely put.
https://www.cnb…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System (Luc Olinga/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wants-to-blow-up-the-u-s-political-system-2000622538
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p46#a250701p46
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe judge in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit strikes down 16 of OpenAI's 55 affirmative defenses, accuses both sides of "gamesmanship" and over-litigating the case (Laura Italiano/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-v-alt
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"The [Tesla] owners are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and reimbursed for the accrued legal costs."
☑️ Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into "Extreme" Right-Wing Symbols
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-dr
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump's Policy Bill (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p162#a250630p162
@servelan@newsie.social“When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there’s no cleansing function..."
Elon Musk Keeps Suggesting War Is a Good Thing for Society
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-keeps-suggesting-war-is-a-good-thing-for-society-2000635780
@heiseonline@social.heise.deLaut Elon Musk: X hat das Vine-Archiv wiedergefunden
Die bei der Video-App Vine geposteten Inhalte sind seit Jahren nicht mehr verfügbar. Nun will Elon Musk das Archiv wiederentdeckt haben.
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says DOGE 'monster' may have to 'eat Elon' as Musk vows primary ads for lawmakers who cross him on BBB (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-doge-monster-may-have-eat-elon-musk-vows-primary-ads-lawmakers-who-cross-him-bbb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p47#a250701p47
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says X will charge for ads "based on vertical size", with an ad taking up the whole screen costing more than one that takes up a quarter of the screen (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/x-changes-ads-sizes-bans-ha…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialX sets its first UK Original, a docuseries about Premier League club Burnley's 2025/26 season, featuring 20 episodes of 10-12 minutes each released fortnightly (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/elon-musk-x-first-uk-se…
@servelan@newsie.socialDOGE loses access to $500b government grants website, in latest blow to cost-cutting effort after Elon Musk exit | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-grant-website-b2778877.html
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialThis fckr needs to disappear. Someone call ICE and put them to good use for a change.
https://newrepublic.com/article/199356/elon-musk-won-war-labor
@cdarwin@c.imOn June 28—Elon's birthday—let's celebrate everything we've achieved and a recommit to the long fight still ahead.
And our birthday gift to the Broligarch in Chief?
A global party with one powerful message:
Musk Must Fall.
https://fe…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US government restored xAI to its vendors list after removing it for Grok's antisemitic content; email: the White House asked GSA to add xAI "ASAP" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-elon-musk-xai-grok/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWill Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind outperform The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution running on smart glasses? Market expectations? #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyShareholders in his companies feared that Musk was closing the golden money faucet for them in the White House.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/elon
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @servelan@newsie.socialThe Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-genius-who-killed-14-million-luke-farritor-doge-elon-musk-trump
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk gives millions to Republican super PACs ahead of the midterms (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/elon-musk-gives-millions-republican-super-pacs-ahead-midterms-rcna222114
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p132#a250731p132
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDocs and interviews: Media Matters is struggling to survive, having racked up ~$15M in legal fees to defend itself from lawsuits by Elon Musk, the FTC, and AGs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/poli
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk says he'll launch third party if megabill passes (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/30/congress/musk-back-on-the-offensive-00434263
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p153#a250630p153
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toMass media and therefore soon also (owners of) mainstream AI models have an incentive to report mostly about outrageous claims (like Elon Musk's): these attract more attention and therefore more advertiser money, and may also help spread the AI model owner's agenda & propaganda.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWer braucht schon Reality-TV, wenn man Musk und Trump auf Social Media hat? 🫠
Dort liefern sich die beiden einen heftigen Schlagabtausch, der sich direkt auf den Aktienkurs von Tesla auswirkt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10435168?wt_mc=sm.…
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 200,000 AmeriCorps volunteers lost their jobs during April’s defunding of federal agencies by the Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Among those forcibly laid off were 25 volunteers working in agencies across Santa Barbara County.
On Friday, August 29, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) re-funded $184 million to AmeriCorps nationwide, of which $11.5 million comes to California.
@servelan@newsie.socialElon Musk gave the GOP $10M while he was fighting with Trump - POLITICO
https://archive.ph/AxObP
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-trial-ruling/…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Insane and destructive': Elon Musk resumes attacks on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' (Nnamdi Egwuonwu/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/elon-musk-resumes-attacks-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-rcna215755
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p96#a250628p96
@cdarwin@c.imWe asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.
The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain
“intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/…
@servelan@newsie.social“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”
Elon Musk lashes out at Senate’s take on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as support comes down to the wire | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-b2778907.html
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Immer weniger deutsche Unternehmen nutzen X – wegen Elon Musk
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMusk's "America Party" is failing to launch (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/elon-musk-america-party-trump-tesla-spacex
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p8#a250730p8
@servelan@newsie.socialMusk seeks SEC lawsuit dismissal over Twitter stake disclosure
https://thehill.com/business/5477433-elon-musk-seeks-to-dismiss-sec-lawsuit/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon launches its second batch of 27 Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit via a ULA rocket, taking the total in orbit to 54 of its planned 3,236 constellation (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/amazon-kuiper-satellites-musk-starlink.h…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'He's going to do everything to damage the president': Former Musk friend on the Trump fallout (Christine Mui/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/29/silicon-valley-elon-musk-donald-trump-00415544
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p64#a250629p64
@servelan@newsie.socialGrok's Tips On How to Assassinate Elon Musk Are One More Red Flag For Wall Street
https://gizmodo.com/grok-assassinate-elon-musk-2000648719
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-genius-who-killed-14-million-luke-farritor-doge-elon-musk-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p105#a250731p105
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in about six months, with Grok 2's weights now available on Hugging Face (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920
@servelan@newsie.socialElon Musk Settles Case With Former Twitter Employees Who Were Purged
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-2000647131
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will "tentatively" begin on June 22 in Austin, with first autonomous deliveries of a car to a customer's home on June 28 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/elon-musk-
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk spent millions on Republican candidates despite feud with Donald Trump (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a94f6b2e-42cd-4e2b-a782-ce15c25b87c2
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p4#a250801p4
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFurther tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-tria…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says "I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far"; Trump said he had no interest in repairing the relationship (Andrés R. Martínez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/business/elon-musk-trum…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk calls the Senate tax bill "utterly insane" as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/would-you-rather-have-cheap-energy
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk is threatening to put third-party candidates on the ballot. Democrats are giddy. (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/26/elon-musk-america-party-swing-states-00477177
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p31#a250726p31
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-x-ai-funding-feecede1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDespite Musk's claim Apple "makes it impossible" for non-OpenAI AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE? (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/what-did-elon-musk-accomplish-at-doge?currentPage=all
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p66#a250622p66
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic posts, says it was "too compliant to user prompts" and "too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially" (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/elon-musk-grok-x-twitter-hitler…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter Elon Musk announced a US political party called the America Party, Donald Trump called Musk a "TRAIN WRECK" fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/elon-musk-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter Musk said Grok was improved "significantly", Grok wrote numerous antisemitic posts, sometimes without any clear prompting; some posts were later deleted (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-grok-antisemitic-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRecords show China's Starlink rivals have only ~120 satellites in orbit, less than 1% of their goal, vs. SpaceX's ~8,000, underscoring how far behind they are (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 vehicles and a human safety driver; Elon Musk says customers will pay "a $4.20 flat fee" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aefc191-d3de-4e6b-a2eb-08defd0678ee
