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☆ The Tesla Cybertruck is impressive and worrying
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Then, in 2019, Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Cybertruck, a bare metal box on wheels. Even when I parked a rented Tesla Cybertruck next to a hot-pink McLaren supercar in a shopping center parking lot in California, the people in the McLaren couldn’t stop talking about the Cybertruck. Peter Valdes-Dapena/CNNThe Tesla Cybertruck looks like nothing else on the road. There’s a lot to like about the Cybertruck, but it also embodies a disturbing level of individual arrogance in hard, unforgiving steel. The Tesla Cybertruck's simple interior is nice enough but, with hardly any switches or knobs, this is the easy part.

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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s largest and most influential publishers, Simon & Schuster, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The list tells many stories, through the books selected, not selected, and the evolution of what has been highlighted. “A group of Simon & Schuster staffers took on the daunting challenge of selecting 100 titles from our history that are believed to best represent the breadth and depth of the company’s publishing program, across imprints,” the publisher announced Wednesday. “That book actually had an influence on the course of events.”Like many leading publishers, Simon & Schuster began as an independently owned company and vastly expanded after the 1960s. Along the way, Simon & Schuster acquired numerous other publishers, whose books are now part of the S&S catalog and its centennial list.

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☆ Elon Musk and Britain’s PM Rishi Sunak discuss AI’s risks and rewards
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“I’m glad to see at this point that people are taking AI seriously,” Musk said to Sunak on Thursday. Musk and world leadersMusk’s conversation with Sunak is one of numerous chats with world leaders the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has joined in the past few months. Musk met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in September, weeks before the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. Other big names that recently made time for Musk in their schedule include Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in June, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in September. Sunak and Musk discussed how digital super-intelligence could affect the public and require regulation the same way industries such as aviation and cars require regulation.

Persons: CNN — Elon, Rishi Sunak, ” Musk, Musk, Kamala Harris, Sam Altman, “ I’m, Sunak, Goldman Sachs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Narendra Modi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “, Communications Shlomo Karhi, ”, ” Karhi, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Walter Isaacson’s, Elon Musk, Isaacson, , Luke McGee, Ivana Kottasová, Sean Lyngaas Organizations: CNN, British, Safety, Lancaster House, Allied Forces codebreaking, US, Winchester College , Oxford, Stanford, European Union, SpaceX, Tesla, Israeli, Twitter, Defamation League, Italian, Indian, Communications, Hamas, US Democratic Rep, Russian Locations: London, Bletchley, Israel, United States, China, Gaza, Alexandria, Cortez, Crimean, Ukrainian, Sevastopol, Russia, Crimea, Korea, France

☆ Britney Spears’s Memoir Sells 1.1 Million Copies in U.S. in First Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A news release from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announcing the sales numbers quoted Spears as saying, “I poured my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and readers around the world for their unwavering support.”(Published figures put the price tag for Spears’s memoir between $12.5 million and $15 million.) The book is Spears’s first full account of her 13 years under a conservatorship, which her father, James P. Spears, was granted in 2008 amid a custody battle and Britney Spears’s series of public struggles. In the memoir, Spears describes an adulthood in which security personnel dispensed her medications and put parental controls on her iPhone. Kristen McLean, an industry analyst for Circana BookScan, which tracks book sales numbers, said on Wednesday that Spears’s memoir seemed as though it had a good chance of surpassing one million in print sales in the United States this year. Only one adult nonfiction title — Prince Harry’s “Spare” — has reached that height so far.

Persons: Simon, Simon & Schuster, Spears, Mickey, Justin Timberlake —, James P, Britney, Kristen McLean, Circana, Harry’s “, McLean, Walter Isaacson’s, Elon Musk, Michael Lewis’s, Sam Bankman, Jada Pinkett Organizations: Books, Simon &, Mickey Mouse Locations: Louisiana, Kentwood, United States

☆ Elon Musk has custody of son X despite mother Grimes' objections, court doc says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Jack Newsham | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

She told a Texas court that son X "is only absent from California over [her] objection." Grimes, the musician who has three children with Elon Musk , told a Texas court last week that their eldest son X Æ A-XII Musk isn't with her in California "over [her] objection." The artist, whose real name is Claire Boucher, asked a Texas court on October 6 to throw out Musk's child-custody case. Their oldest child, three-year-old son X, is "only absent from California over [Boucher's] objection," according to the document, obtained by Insider. In his biography on Musk, Walter Isaacson wrote that with X Musk had a "free-range" parenting style that was far from "doting."

Persons: Grimes, Elon Musk's, X, —, Elon Musk, Claire Boucher, Musk, Tesla, Tesla's, Walter Isaacson, X Musk, Walter Isaacson’s, Isaacson, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, We're, Grimes —, Shivon Zilis Organizations: Tesla, Service, Variety, SpaceX Locations: California, Texas, Hungary, Tesla's gigafactory, Turkey, New York

The filing Thursday in San Francisco federal court seeks a judge’s order requiring Musk to testify, alleging “blatant refusal to comply” with an earlier SEC subpoena. Musk testified twice as part of the SEC’s investigation in July 2022, according to the agency. The SEC served Musk with a subpoena to testify again in the matter in May 2023, according to the court filing. The current subpoena at issue seeks evidence and testimony from Musk that the SEC does not yet possess, the agency said. The SEC attempted to negotiate with Musk to find alternative dates later this fall, according to court documents.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, —, “, Alex Spiro, ”, Spiro, Walter Isaacson’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Twitter, SEC, Inc Locations: New York, San Francisco federal

☆ Opinion | You Can Win in Business Without Being Unhinged
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’ve read and watched many stories about the most heralded business leaders of the past few centuries. I’m not immune to the inherent drama of an arrogant rise, a spectacular fall or both. (For example, harassing job interviewees, firing people in front of crowds, attacking former employees of companies they purchased. Isaacson puts innovation first: This man might be a monster, but look at what he built! Whereas Mary Shelley, for instance, put innovation second: The man who built this is a monster!

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☆ Elon Musk’s Savior Complex - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

These are what one psychologist termed “eminent orphans.”It’s easy to put Elon Musk into that category. He had no friends and lived in a world in which you either bullied or were bullied. But Isaacson’s account suggests that this is not the only or even the main impetus behind Musk’s extreme ambition. In the midst of that bleak childhood, Musk dived into science fiction, computer games and comics, and in some sense never left. In that world, Musk seems to have been gripped by a story just as fervently as a religious person is gripped by a holy book.

Persons: Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow, Hamilton “, I’ve, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, ”, Walter Isaacson’s, Musk Organizations: Elon Locations: South Africa

CNN —Two Russian warships were damaged after Ukraine launched an extensive assault on a Russian ship repair base in Crimea early Wednesday morning, officials said, in what appears to be Kyiv’s most ambitious strike on the port since the war began. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Sergo Ordzhonikidze shipyard in Sevastopol, which Russia uses as a repair base for its Black Sea Fleet, with 10 cruise missiles and three unmanned boats. But Russian officials confirmed that the attack had damaged two Russian warships and left 24 people injured. An ambulance leaves the area next to the shipyard in Sevastopol, Crimea, on September 13, 2023. Stringer/ReutersAnother prominent Russian military blogger said the attack on the Sevastopol shipyard was carried out by the Ukrainian Air Force, which launched 10 Storm Shadow cruise missiles at the facility.

Persons: Vasily Bykov, Mikhail Razvozhaev, Razvozhaev, Don ”, Stringer, Rybar, ” Rybar, Andriy Yermak, ” Yermak, Mykola Oleshchuk, Volodymyr Zelensky, Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson’s Organizations: CNN, Russia’s Defense Ministry, Reuters, Ukrainian Air Force, Su, Storm, Ukrainian, Russian, SpaceX Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Crimea, Ukrainian, Sevastopol, Russia, Rostov, Minsk, ”, United Kingdom, France, Novorossiysk, Kerch, Crimean

☆ Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —“You’ll never be successful,” Errol Musk in 1989 told his 17-year-old son Elon, who was then preparing to fly from South Africa to Canada to find relatives and a college education. That’s one of the scenes Walter Isaacson paints in his 670-page biography of Elon Musk, who is now the richest person who ever lived. In a 2022 email sent to Elon Musk on Father’s Day, Errol Musk said he was freezing and lacking electricity, asking his son for money. Isaacson’s book revealed Musk had a third child (Techno Mechanicus) with the musician Grimes in 2022, and Musk confirmed the revelation Sunday. “Stop falling for weird s—.”Are robocars, an AI company and a robot called Optimus on tap?

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☆ An explosive Elon Musk biography is just hitting shelves. But the book’s acclaimed author is already walking back a major claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Walter Isaacson’s highly anticipated biography on Elon Musk is hitting shelves on Tuesday — and he is already walking back a major claim. Over the weekend, The Post updated the excerpt it had published and offered a correction to its readers. “After publication of this adaptation, the author learned that his book mischaracterized the attempted attack by Ukrainian drones on the Russian fleet in Crimea,” the correction stated. This version reflects that change.”CNN also updated its story on Monday, noting Isaacson had backpedaled his initial claims. “After this story published, Walter Isaacson clarified his explanation regarding Elon Musk restricting Ukrainian military access to Starlink, a critical satellite internet service,” an editor’s note said.

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☆ The origin of Elon Musk’s feud with Bill Gates, according to Musk’s new biography
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The meeting went sideways, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography, “Elon Musk,” which hits stores Tuesday. “Hey, I’d love to come see you and talk about philanthropy and climate,” Gates texted Musk in 2022, Isaacson wrote. “Most philanthropy was “bulls—,” Musk told Gates, estimating only 20 cents of each dollar made a difference that way. Gates could “do more good for climate change by investing in Tesla,” Musk said, according to Isaacson. When Gates sent documentation about his philanthropic work and followed up with a text to Musk, Musk asked if he was still holding a short bet against Tesla.

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☆ Elon Musk Wants to Save Humanity. The Only Problem: People.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | More About Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Isaacson describes Musk stalking the factory floor of Tesla, his electric car company, issuing orders on the fly. “If I don’t make decisions,” Musk explained, “we die.”By “we,” Musk presumably meant Tesla in that instance. But Musk likes to speak of his business interests in superhero terms, so it’s sometimes hard to be sure. At one point, Isaacson asks why Musk is so offended by anything he deems politically correct, and Musk, as usual, has to dial it up to 11. Isaacson has ably conveyed that Musk doesn’t truly like pushback.

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☆ Elon Musk Acknowledges Withholding Satellite Service to Thwart Ukrainian Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Victoria Kim | More About Victoria Kim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk has acknowledged that he denied satellite internet service in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian naval fleet last year, prompting an angry response from a Ukrainian official. The Starlink satellite internet service, which is operated by Mr. Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, has been a digital lifeline in Ukraine since the early days of the war for both civilians and soldiers in areas where digital infrastructure has been wiped out. On Thursday, CNN reported that an excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography, “Elon Musk” said the billionaire had ordered the deactivation of Starlink satellite service near the coast of Crimea last September to thwart the Ukrainian attack. The excerpt said that Mr. Musk had conversations with a Russian official that led him to worry that an attack on Crimea could spiral into a nuclear conflict. That was in effect an acknowledgment that he had made the decision to prevent a Ukrainian attack.

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☆ New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But the episode reveals the unique position Musk found himself in as the war in Ukraine unfolded. Even as cellular phone and internet networks had been destroyed, the Starlink terminals allowed Ukraine to fight and stay connected. But once Ukraine began to use Starlink terminals for offensive attacks against Russia, Musk started to second-guess that decision. “How am I in this war?” Musk asks Isaacson. SpaceX had spent tens of millions of its own money sending the satellite equipment to Ukraine, according to Musk.

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☆ Twitter Removes ‘Government-Funded’ Labels From Media Accounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Twitter has removed labels that described prominent news organizations as “government-funded” or “state-affiliated” after NPR and public broadcasters in several countries criticized the labels as misleading and suspended the use of their Twitter accounts. The removal of the labels was the latest shift that Twitter has made abruptly and without explanation under the leadership of its owner, Elon Musk. Twitter, which automatically responds to press inquiries via email with a poop emoji, did not immediately comment on Friday. NPR reported that Mr. Musk said in an email that Twitter had dropped all media labels and that “this was Walter Isaacson’s suggestion,” apparently referring to the author and former media executive who is working on a book about Mr. Musk. Mr. Isaacson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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