DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ We asked Elon Musk's dad what he thought about the new book out on his son. He had a lot to say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Errol Musk told Insider he isn't happy with what he's heard about the new biography on his son. AdvertisementAdvertisementErrol Musk isn't happy with Walter Isaacson's recent biography about his son, Elon Musk. Isaacson's biography on Elon Musk is filled with accounts of incidents where the Tesla CEO and other family members claim Errol Musk bullied and demeaned Elon. In the book, Isaacson wrote that Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk have cut off communication with their father — an assertion Errol Musk denies. Isaacson, Elon Musk, and Kimbal Musk did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.

Persons: Errol Musk, he's, Elon Musk's, —, Errol Musk isn't, Walter Isaacson's, Elon Musk, demeaned Elon, Isaacson, Errol, Vader, Elon's Luke Skywalker, Elon, Errol Musk's, Cyrus McCrimmon, doesn't, he'd, Pip, Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, Dr, Jekyll, Hyde, it's, Stone, Jana Bezuidenhout, I'm, Kimbal, –, we'd, Joel Saget, Chris Saucedo, " Isaacson, Kimbal Musk, Bill Gates, Elon wouldn't Organizations: Service, Elon, Denver, AFP, Microsoft Locations: South Africa, Florida

☆ Elon Musk might be the internet's worst boyfriend. At least that's what it seems like in his new biography.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Elon and I were used to having big arguments in public," Musk's first wife, Justine Wilson, told Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisementWilson told Isaacson, the book's author, that Musk sometimes resorted to calling her "an idiot" or "moron" in arguments. Variety/Getty ImagesMeanwhile, Grimes told Isaacson that she feels the billionaire "associates love with being mean or abusive." "It was Elon's Asperger's coming out in full," Grimes told Isaacson. Musk's second wife, Talulah Riley, told Isaacson that when her close friend died, he flew to England to be with her.

Persons: Elon, it's, Grimes, Walter Isaacson's, Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk's, Justine Wilson, Isaacson, Wilson, Marie Claire, Musk, Claire Boucher, Amber Heard, Asperger's, I'd, he's, Talulah Riley, Mike Blake, Shivon, Zilis, X, Riley, Heard Organizations: Service, SpaceX, Variety, PayPal Locations: Wall, Silicon, Texas, Grimes, England

☆ Elon Musk's X has added 'formerly Twitter' to its App Store description as users continue to struggle with its rebrand
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

X changes its app store tagline after users complain about confusing new name and logo. The social media platform has seen downloads fall since Elon Musk got rid of the iconic bird logo. The decision to rebrand the site was criticized by ex-Twitter employees, with one calling it "corporate seppuku." The app has changed its description on the app store from "Blaze your glory" to "Formerly Twitter," after the chaotic rebrand of the social media platform saw downloads of newly-christened X fall dramatically. Marketing experts slammed the rebrand as "completely irrational" and warned that it could wipe billions off the value of the social media platform.

Persons: Elon Musk, Eric Seufert, Seufert, tweeting, adieu, Walter Isaacson, Musk Organizations: Elon, Twitter, Service Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ 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

☆ Elon Musk crashed Grimes' voice-recording session for 'Cyberpunk 2077' with a 200-year-old musket and 'insisted' on a cameo
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Grimes voiced a character for "Cyberpunk 2077" while she was dating Elon Musk. While she was recording, Musk entered the studio with a 200-year-old gun and asked for his own cameo. A new story about him showing up during a "Cyberpunk 2077" recording session is one of those times. Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend, Grimes, a musician whose real name is Claire Boucher, voiced a character in the video game "Cyberpunk 2077." Back in 2019, Elon Musk alluded to a collaboration between him and "Cyberpunk 2077" in 2019.

Persons: Grimes, Elon Musk, Musk, Walter Isaacson's, Elon, Elon Musk's, Claire Boucher, Lizzy Wizzy, Isaacson, Musk's, Tesla Organizations: Elon Musk, Service, CNBC, Robb Elementary School Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Elon Musk told Tucker Carlson he 'voted for Biden.' Turns out, he apparently didn't vote at all.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Haley Tenore | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

According to Walter Isaacson's new biography on Musk, he didn't actually vote on election day. "I didn't vote for Donald Trump. I actually voted for Biden," Musk told Tucker Carlson in an April interview on Fox News. "Then how could you vote Republican?" The comedian later told Isaacson that Musk's negative posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, about the Democratic Party were "sticking in my craw."

Persons: Elon Musk, Biden, Walter Isaacson's, Musk, didn't, Rather, Walter Isaacson, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Isaacson, wasn't, Trump, Carlson, California's, Elizabeth Warren, Ron DeSantis, Tesla, MAGA, Larry David, David ", David Organizations: Service, Fox News, Biden, Trump, GM, Ford, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Fox, Democratic, Republican, Presidency, Twitter, Republicans, CNN, Democratic Party Locations: California, Wall, Silicon, San Francisco, Texas, Uvalde , Texas

☆ Comedian Larry David confronted Elon Musk at a wedding about voting Republican: 'Do you just want to murder kids in schools?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Larry David had harsh words for Elon Musk for supporting the Republican Party, a new biography said. The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator asked Musk: "Do you want to just murder kids in schools?" David made the comments at a wedding that took place days after the Uvalde school shooting. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson wrote that Musk was "baffled and annoyed" by the question, and said he's "anti-kid murder." "Then how could you vote Republican?"

Persons: Larry David, Elon Musk, David, Walter Isaacson's, Isaacson, Musk, Ari Emanuel, Uvalde, Emanuel, Tucker Carlson, Biden, didn't, Ron DeSantis, Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump, Page, Emanuel's, —, Ari Gold Organizations: Republican Party, Service, Endeavor, Democratic Party, Republican, Twitter, Republican Gov, Harvard, HBO, Tesla Locations: Wall, Silicon, Uvalde , Texas, California, Florida, Saint

☆ Grimes would set Shivon Zilis up on dates before she was blindsided by news the Neuralink director had twins with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Grimes was friends with Shivon Zilis before she had twins with Elon Musk, according to a new book. Isaacson wrote that the Neuralink director decided to have children after Musk spoke to her about his population doomsday fears. Later, when Grimes learned of Musk's children with Zilis, Isaacson said she was "outraged." Grimes wrote the post in response to a photo Isaacson posted on X of Zilis and Musk with their two children. "So glad we had such a wonderful talk, was insanely overdue," Zilis wrote.

Persons: Grimes, Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk, Zilis, Walter Isaacson's, Isaacson, Musk, Grimes —, Claire Boucher — Organizations: Service Locations: Wall, Silicon, Austin

☆ Michael Wolff’s juicy book on Fox News is set to hit shelves. Here’s why readers should be cautious when diving into it
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In the forthcoming book, a copy of which CNN obtained in advance of its release, Wolff makes a number of shocking and explosive claims. Suzanne Scott feared she would lose her job as chief executive of Fox News amid the Dominion lawsuit, he reports. And Fox sources tell me that Wolff made no attempt to fact check his book with either Fox News or its parent company, Fox Corporation. With Fox News, where an author might be basing major claims using less-than-reliable sources, the risks are more pronounced, making such reporting efforts even more paramount. Fox News, for its part, is choosing not to respond to the specific claims Wolff makes in the book.

Persons: Michael Wolff, Murdoch, ”, Wolff, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Suzanne Scott, Critics, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, Musk, Bret Baier, Jesse Watters, “, ” Wolff, Murdoch’s, ‘ Organizations: CNN, Fox News, Dominion, Elon, Eastern, Musk, Washington Post, Fox Corporation Locations: Manhattan’s Greenwich, Russian, Crimea

☆ Elon Musk's biographer says 'nothing hurt him more' than his relationship with Amber Heard
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's biographer says the most painful thing in the billionaire's life was his relationship with Amber Heard. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyAdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk's biographer said the billionaire's relationship with actress Amber Heard hurt him the most — even more than Musk's fraught relationship with his father. In the biography, Heard said she loves Musk "very much" but that "Elon loves fire and sometimes it burns him." "There is a combative element to him," she told Isaacson. "When you're from a dysfunctional background or have a brain wired like his," Wilson told Isaacson, "intensity takes the place of intimacy."

Persons: Elon Musk's, Amber Heard, Walter Isaacson, Kara Swisher's, Isaacson, Kara Swisher, Amber, Heard, Musk, Heard's, Elon, Grimes, Musk's, Errol Musk, Rolling Stone, Justine Wilson, Wilson Organizations: Service, Twitter, SpaceX Locations: Wall, Silicon, Canadian

☆ Elon Musk mocked Ukraine's summer counteroffensive in a stinging post on X: 'So much death for so little'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk expressed his disappointment in Ukraine's summer counteroffensive in an X post on Sunday. "So much death for so little," Musk wrote in his post. "So much death for so little," Musk wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday. Musk, for his part, has weighed in many times on the war in Ukraine. Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Elon, —, David Sacks, Sacks, Andrii Melnyk, Anton Gerashchenko, Walter Isaacson, Jan Kallberg Organizations: Service, Sunday, NATO, SpaceX, Musk, Foreign Relations, Center for Locations: Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Crimea, Russia

☆ 'Elon Musk' author Walter Isaacson talks reports of a Saudi Arabia Tesla factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email'Elon Musk' author Walter Isaacson talks reports of a Saudi Arabia Tesla factoryWalter Isaacson, “Elon Musk” Author, Parella Weinberg Advisory Partner, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk a recent report that Tesla is in talks with Saudi Arabia, a possible subscription fee for X and more.

Persons: Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, Saudi Arabia Tesla, “ Elon Musk, Parella, Tesla Locations: Saudi Arabia

☆ Elon Musk worried his father was 'uncomfortably attentive' to his stepdaughter when she was 15, biographer says. His father later had 2 kids with her.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk worried about the attention Errol Musk was giving his stepdaughter when she was 15, according to a new book. Errol Musk told Insider the claims were "balderdash" and said he was equally attentive to his kids. Over a decade later, Errol Musk fathered two children with the same stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout. Elon Musk invited his father to live near himIsaacson wrote in the biography that Elon Musk convinced his father to move with his then-wife and stepchildren from South Africa to Los Angeles in 2002. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I tried threats, rewards, and arguments to change my father for the better," Elon Musk told Isaacson in the book.

Persons: Elon Musk, Errol Musk, Errol, Jana Bezuidenhout, Walter Isaacson, Elon, Jana, Isaacson, Elon Musk's, Grimes, Musk, Heide Bezuidenhout, Rose, Heide, Kimbal, Kimbal Musk, Stone, Elon Musk —, —, didn't Organizations: Service, Elon, Rover, Sunday Times, Facebook Locations: Wall, Silicon, South Africa, Los Angeles, Malibu

☆ Opinion: Musk, McCarthy and Romney are three kinds of leaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. A vain and ambitious cigar-smoking bully who wore riding breeches, a polished helmet and boots and carried ivory-handled revolvers, he led troops on successful lightning strikes through German-held territory near the end of World War II. Musk has repeatedly been criticized for enabling and boosting antisemitic content on the platform.”“Isaacson tries to square these two Musks. During Trump’s first impeachment, Romney became the first senator in US history to vote to remove a president of his own party from office. He has been willing to do what he believes to be right — consequences be damned.”The differences between Romney and Trump were many.

Persons: CNN — “ Troy, Hadrian, …, ”, George S, Patton, “, Stephen D, Clay Jones, Elon Musks, Elon, Nicole Hemmer’s, Walter Isaacson, Musk “, Musk, ” “ Isaacson, Isaacson, ” Hemmer, Walt Handelsman, Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump, McCarthy, Joe Biden, “ Trump, impeaching Biden, Norman Eisen, Trump, ” Eisen, Biden, James Antle III, ’, Hunter, McCarthy “, John Avlon, Dennis Aftergut, Lindsey Graham wasn’t, Michelle Lujan Grisham, she’s, Hunter Biden, Robert J, Spitzer, It’s, ” Vladimir, Kim, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong, Frida Ghitis, Putin, vaingloriously, Peter the Great, Sébastien Roblin, Don’t, Romney Francis Chung, AP Sen, Mitt Romney, Romney, Sen, John McCain, Trump’s, Lanhee J, Chen, Lisa Benson, Kate Bahn, ’ I’m, —, Dana Peterson, Erik Lundh, ” Dana Summers, Kunis Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Jill Filipovic, “ Kutcher, Kunis, Kutcher, Masterson, Danilo Cavalcante, Arick, Scott Stantis, Jeff Yang, Jets Phil Hands, Julian Zelizer, Aaron Rodgers ’, ” Don’t, Nick Anderson, Tess Taylor, Tommy Tuberville, Mahnaz, Roxanne Jones, Coco Gauff, Amanda Tyler, Lara Setrakian, Paul Hockenos, Don Lincoln, Sophia Nelson, Tim Scott, Kenneth Branagh, Agatha Christie’s, Hercule Poirot, Noah Berlatsky, Poirot, Branagh, Sara Stewart, Winona Ryder Organizations: CNN, US, Marine Corps, Third Army, Vostochny, Twitter, Defamation League, Agency, Caucus, Republicans, Democrats, White, North, Putin, AP, Senate, Hollywood, Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Dodge, Peugeot, United Auto Workers, UAW, “, Federal Reserve, Conference Board, Ninth, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, REUTERS, Reuters, Apple, European Union, Jets, Boston Red Sox, The Chicago Cubs, The New York Jets, New York Jets, MetLife, Tribune, Studios Locations: China, Washington, New Mexico, Detroit, Russia’s, South Africa, Hunter Biden’s, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, Russia, Ukraine, ”, Los Angeles , California, U.S, Aude, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Cupertino , California, Iran, New Texas, Venice

☆ SpaceX engineer risked drunk driving rather than ignore an Elon Musk order: book
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Polly Thompson | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Musk's management style allows him to "move faster, take more risks, break rules, and question requirements", Isaacson writes in his biography published this week. AdvertisementAdvertisementOne engineer, Kiko Dontchev, described how having just returned home to his wife after working three days straight, he was told Musk wanted him back at the hangar. In several cases the brutal management style and intense expectations of the SpaceX CEO prompted employees to quit. But sometimes, tools get worn down and [Musk] feels he can just replace that tool," Hughes told Isaacson. It cares about whether you got the rocket right," he told Isaacson.

Persons: Elon, Walter Isaacson's, Musk, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, He's, Kiko Dontchev, PHILIP PACHECO Lucas Hughes, Hughes, It's, Tom Mueller Organizations: SpaceX, Service, Elon, Wall Street, Employees, Crew Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"We watched like maybe one play, because we were so engaged in talking about building a launch vehicle," Mueller told Isaacson. Musk agreed, but Isaacson writes that this meant Musk considered "Mueller an employee, rather than a cofounder, of SpaceX." "You cannot ask for two years of salary in escrow and consider yourself a cofounder" Musk told Isaacson. Elon Musk with a SpaceX rocket in March 2004 in El Segundo, Los Angeles. "I am very proud of what we have achieved at SpaceX," Mueller told the University of Idaho in 2018.

Persons: Tom Mueller, Elon Musk, Mueller, Musk, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, here's, Los Angeles Mueller, Isaacson, who'd, Chris Thompson, Musk Mueller, There's, Elon, Paul Harris, It's, Mueller's, Peter Thiel Organizations: SpaceX, Service, University of Idaho, TRW, Reaction Research Society, PayPal, Ebay, Super, Exploration Technologies Corporation, Merlin, Pathfinder Locations: Idaho, Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles, Canada, Saint Maries, El Segundo , Los Angeles

☆ Elon Musk is 'a jerk' and 'not caring' – but shares some traits with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, his biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk is a "jerk," his biographer Walter Isaacson told Quartz. He also drew comparisons between Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos' "hardcore" leadership styles. Isaacson told Quartz that "caring and emotional" executives could hold back a company because "they aren't going to fire people, they aren't going to be tough, they aren't going to be rough." The author compared Musk with Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and said they'd also taken a "hardcore" approach to running Microsoft and Amazon. The biographer, who followed Musk for two years, told CNBC in July he " does not have a fingertip feel" for emotions.

Persons: Elon, Walter Isaacson, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, it's, Isaacson, they'd, Gates, Rishi Sunak, didn't, Musk, Elon Musk didn't Organizations: Service, Microsoft, CNBC, Financial, Twitter, Elon Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Elon Musk learned social cues from reading books because he had no friends as a child
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk was bad at understanding social cues as a child because he had no friends in school. As a result, he picked up social cues from reading books, according to his new biography. As a teenager, Elon Musk followed his sister around to clubs and parties so he didn't have to be lonely. Maye Musk told Isaacson that Elon Musk "became so lonely and sad," when he started going to school. Musk walked "behind her and her friends," Isaacson wrote, "carrying a book to read whenever they went into a club or party."

Persons: Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, Isaacson, Elon, Maye Musk, Kimbal, Tosca, Tosca Musk, Musk Organizations: Service Locations: Wall, Silicon, Toronto

Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Is Google allowed to spend billions of dollars to make its search product the default browser? That is the question at the center of U.S. et al. v. Google — the most important tech trial of the modern internet era — and Kevin and Casey disagree on the answer. Then, a conversation with the journalist who spent the last two years shadowing Elon Musk.

Persons: Kevin, Casey, Elon Musk Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Google

☆ Elon Musk inadvertently started beef with Ice Cube after a seemingly innocuous meme, which led the rapper to compare Twitter to a flaming dumpster
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk posted an apparently innocent meme joking about Ice Cube's name. X has dealt with mounting difficulties since Musk took over the platform. The X owner shared a seemingly innocuous image on his platform, captioned: "Remember Ice Cube? Since Musk took over Twitter last November, the company has faced mounting difficulties. Ice Cube previously provoked controversy on Twitter in 2020 after sharing a number of anti-Semitic images and conspiracy theories.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Elon, didn't, Walter Isaacson's, Isaacson Organizations: NWA, Twitter, Service, Fidelity Locations: Wall, Silicon, Sacramento, Portland , Oregon

☆ Mr Nice guy: Elon Musk was originally going to be named after the French city where he was conceived, biography says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk was almost called Nice, a new book by Walter Isaacson said. The name was a reference to the city in France where the billionaire was conceived, the book said. It is based on the two years the biographer spent shadowing the Tesla CEO, along with multiple interviews he conducted with associates, exes, and relatives, among others. In 2021, Elon Musk said he was selling his possessions and wanted as much capital as possible to fund a Mars colony. Representatives for Elon Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, Tesla, Walter Isaacson's, Errol Musk, Musk, Elon, Maye, Reeve, Isaacson, Wernher von Braun Organizations: Elon, Service, SpaceX Locations: Nice, France, Wall, Silicon, Mars

In the book, author Walter Isaacson wrote that a Ukrainian drone submarine attack on Russian warships was disrupted by a disconnect from Starlink, ordered by Musk. Excerpts from the book raised alarm bells in Washington, among NATO allies and in the Ukrainian capital. Musk also argued, as he has in the past, that Ukraine should strike a "truce" with Russia. Musk's "peace plan" argument was shouted down by Ukraine officials, politicians and Putin experts. Earlier in the week, Sen. Warren called for a Congressional probe of Musk and SpaceX.

Persons: Elon Musk, Democratic Sens, Jeanne Shaheen of, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tammy Duckworth, Lloyd Austin, Musk, Tesla, Walter Isaacson, Isaacson, CNBC's, Putin, Jeff Jurgensen, Sen, Warren Organizations: WASHINGTON —, Democratic, Armed Services, Pentagon, SpaceX, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Illinois, Twitter, NATO, CNBC, U.S . Department of Defense, Department of Defense, Congressional, Bloomberg Locations: Ukraine, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, U.S, Ukrainian, Washington, Crimea, Russia

☆ Elon Musk refused to answer when asked if he is responsible for dead Ukrainians after blocking an attack on Russia's navy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He was asked whether his "ego and ignorance" had cost Ukrainian lives. A new biography revealed that Musk stopped a Ukrainian attack on Russia by not activating Starlink satellites. Musk refused to answer when asked if his "ego and ignorance" had cost Ukrainian lives, or when asked to comment about Russian President Vladimir Putin's description of him as "outstanding." Has your ego and ignorance, sir, cost Ukrainian lives? Musk refused to activate Starlink satellites being used to guide Ukrainian drones to their targets, Isaacson has said, correcting his initial account in which he said Musk had turned them off.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, James Matthews, Vladimir Putin's, Vladimir Putin, Matthews, Walter Isaacson, Isaacson, hadn't, Mykhailo Podolyak, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Putin Organizations: Sky, Service, SpaceX, Sky News, Federal Aviation Authority Locations: Russia, Wall, Silicon, Washington ,, Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine

☆ Elon Musk said that he had to take 'random drug tests for a couple of years' after smoking weed on the Joe Rogan podcast: 'Fortunately, I really don't like doing illegal drugs'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk told his biographer that he "really" doesn't like taking illegal drugs. Musk famously smoked weed with Joe Rogan in 2018, and says he was subjected to random drug tests afterwards. "SpaceX was a NASA contractor, and they are big believers in the law," Musk told Isaacson. Musk told Isaacson that he had believed he'd done nothing wrong and only agreed to settle to stop Tesla from going bankrupt. "I was forced to concede to the SEC unlawfully," Musk told Isaacson.

Persons: Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Musk, Joe Rogan's, Rogan, Walter Isaacson, Isaacson, Tesla, there'd, didn't Organizations: Wall Street, Service, Street, SpaceX, NASA, New York Times, Times, Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, The New York Times Locations: Wall, Silicon, California

☆ Errol Musk denies berating his son after an attack at school put Elon Musk in hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

His father, Errol Musk, disputed this account in a statement to Insider. The story was recounted in Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk, who's now the world's richest person . The Musk brothers said Errol Musk lashed out at his son. "No, I did not berate Elon," Errol Musk told Insider in an email. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsaacson wrote that Errol Musk moved Elon Musk from a public school to a private academy, Pretoria Boys High School, after the attack.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Walter Isaacson's, Errol Musk, who's, Isaacson, Kimbal Musk, Elon, Stone, Kimbal, Maye, Grimes, Justine Wilson Organizations: Service, Elon, Pretoria Boys High School, Kimbal, Harper's Locations: Wall, Silicon, Pretoria

Search resuls for: "Walter Isaacson"

25 mentions found