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☆ Elon Musk is interviewing Trump tonight. He wasn't always so political.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk used to try and stay out of politics, but that's all changed this election. He posts about politics on X significantly more now than he did just a few years ago. Musk formed the America PAC, which is supporting Trump and mobilizing swing state voters. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementIn 2015, Elon Musk said that he gets "involved in politics as little as possible."

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, —, Donald Trump Organizations: America PAC, Trump, Service, Tesla, SpaceX, Washington Post, Business

☆ Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shortly after 8:20 p.m., Musk, the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, blamed a cyberattack for the freezing screens. As the evening went on and the platform struggled to resolve the technical issue, Musk said that the interview would proceed at 8:30 E.T. "This massive attack illustrates there's a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say, but I'm honored to have this conversation," Musk said. In response to CNBC's request for comment about the technical delay, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung pointed to Musk's X post blaming a potential cyberattack. The glitch was reminiscent of X's technical disaster in 2023 that botched Florida Gov.

Persons: Elon Musk's, Donald Trump, Tesla, Musk, X, Trump, Steven Cheung, Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden Organizations: SpaceX, Florida Gov Locations: Florida

☆ Californians are buying fewer Teslas. That could be a bad sign for Elon Musk.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewTesla has a California problem — its residents aren't buying as many of Elon Musk's electric cars as they used to. And California isn't the only place where Tesla's chokehold on the EV market is beginning to slip. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has attributed lackluster sales to high interest rates and economic uncertainty in the US. But, while Tesla's sales are dropping, the EV market as a whole is expanding, including in California. Similarly, data from CNCDA shows that EV sales in California hit their second-highest quarter on record in July.

Persons: —, Tesla, Elon, Elon Musk, Gavin Newsom, Newsom, Noam Galai, Musk, Donald Trump, wouldn't, Ivan Drury, Edmunds, California there's, Brian Moody, Moody Organizations: Service, Golden State, Car Dealers, US, Business, Cox Automotive, California, Forbes, Experian Automotive, SpaceX, Democratic Party, Auto Locations: California

☆ Elon Musk's battle with Mark Zuckerberg is looking like a lost cause
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewElon Musk might just be losing any hopes he had of one-upping his arch nemesis, Mark Zuckerberg. A lost battleElon Musk is facing a tougher battle with Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire. Beata Zawrzel/Getty ImagesOne of Musk's biggest challenges in turning X into a legitimate rival to Zuckerberg's social media platforms is generating revenue. In Musk's own words, it's a declaration of "war" with the very people he needs to boost falling revenue at X. But none of this helps Musk in its effort to outdo Zuckerberg at his own social media game and widen X's appeal.

Persons: —, Elon, Mark Zuckerberg, wakeboarding —, reputationally, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Mark, Beata Zawrzel, Musk's, Musk, Linda Yaccarino, X, it's, Lara O'Reilly, GARM, Tommy Robinson, Robinson, Stephen Yaxley, Lennon —, 4W5ZOssbEY, Josh Self, Kier Starmer, it'll Organizations: Service, SpaceX, Business, Twitter, Musk's, The New York Times, Meta, Global Alliance, Responsible Media, Center, Britain, Financial Times Locations: San Francisco, Meta's, Texas, Southport, Liverpool, Falkland, Britain

☆ New fossils could reveal origin of ancient ‘hobbit’ humans
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

More bones followed, and at first, archaeologist Thomas Sutikna and his team thought they had uncovered the ancient fossils of a child. And the newly studied fossils represent an earlier hobbit who was 2.4 inches (6.1 centimeters) shorter than the first specimen. Homo erectus was the first ancient human to migrate out of Africa about 1.9 million years ago. Together, the Homo floresiensis fossils paint a portrait of a hardy species able to adapt and thrive despite the presence of hulking Komodo dragons. Defying gravityAstronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have long outstayed a planned eight days in low-Earth orbit after traveling to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June.

Persons: Bua, Thomas Sutikna, floresiensis, Homo floresiensis, erectus, Homo erectus, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, SpaceX’s, Williams, David Brunetti, Pharaoh Djoser, NASA's, squaretail groupers, China’s Chang’e, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, International Space, NASA, Sutton, Exploration Rover, Rover, CNN Space, Science Locations: Indonesian, Flores, Africa, African, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England, Sutton, Turkey, China, India’s

☆ China rocket launch creates cloud of space debris in low-Earth orbit
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —One of China’s Long March 6A rockets has broken apart in low-Earth orbit and created a debris cloud consisting of hundreds of pieces, according to multiple space debris-tracking entities. And the reason for the rocket breakup remains unknown. Everything in low-Earth orbit travels at 17,500 miles per hour, Crassidis said. It’s the second time one of these rocket bodies has experienced a significant breakup event in low-Earth orbit, according to Victoria Heath, associate director of marketing and communications for LeoLabs. “Events like this highlight the importance of adherence to existing space debris mitigation guidelines to reduce the creation of new space debris and underscore the need for robust space domain awareness capabilities to rapidly detect, track, and catalog newly-launched space objects so they can be screened for potential conjunctions.”

Persons: China’s, SpaceX’s, “ USSPACECOM, ”, Rob Margetta, LeoLabs, John L, Crassidis, “, It’s, Victoria Heath, Audrey Schaffer Organizations: CNN, Taiyuan Satellite, Shanghai Spacecom, Satellite Technology, Space Command, US Department of Defense, NASA, International, Network, University, Buffalo’s School of Engineering, Applied Sciences, LeoLabs, Aerospace Locations: Taiyuan, Shanghai, Victoria

☆ Boeing Starliner: What life is like for two astronauts in limbo in space
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

They’re not part of Expedition 71, the international crew of seven astronauts serving as the space station’s official staff. Crew-9 — a routine trip to the space station to replenish expedition staff — is currently slated to fly with four astronauts: NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Nick Hague and Stephanie Wilson, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are greeted by the crew of the International Space Station on June 6, 2024. In 2012, during an earlier trip to the International Space Station, she became the first person to finish a triathlon in space. Without a suitcaseFlying to the space station without the suitcases they had packed for their mission perhaps complicated the comfort of the Starliner astronauts’ extended stay.

Persons: Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, —, They’ve, Williams, They’re, ” Dana Weigel, “ Butch, Suni, ” Weigel, “, Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Wilmore, they’ve, Sunita Williams, Frank Rubio, yearlong, ’, ”, Bill Spetch, Spetch, they’re, Ken Bowersox Organizations: CNN, Space, NASA, SpaceX, International Space Station, Boeing, SpaceX’s, International, Station, AP, Boston Marathon, Space Station, Northrop Grumman, Space Operations, “ Locations: Russian

☆ Boeing's new outsider CEO Ortberg takes the helm, this time from the factory floor
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Aerospace veteran Robert “Kelly” Ortberg becomes Boeing’s new CEO on Thursday with a singular mission: restoring the reputation of a U.S. manufacturing icon. Boeing's new CEO, Robert "Kelly" Ortberg. Ortberg’s Day 1 activity is walking the floor of Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington, where it builds its bestselling but problematic 737 Max. The airline’s CEO hinted at the big feat Ortberg has ahead of him. “We look forward to working with Kelly Ortberg in his efforts to return Boeing to its place as the leading American aerospace company,” CEO Bob Jordan said in a written statement.

Persons: Robert “ Kelly ” Ortberg, Robert " Kelly, Ortberg, ”, Rockwell Collins, Richard Aboulafia, ” Ortberg, Boeing’s, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Ron Epstein, “, isn’t, ” Jon Holden, Dave Calhoun, Calhoun, Dennis Muilenburg, Max, Chicago —, Kelly Ortberg, Bob Jordan, —, Michael Sheetz Organizations: Boeing, AFP, Getty, Ortberg’s, National Transportation, Air Force One, NASA, SpaceX, International Space, Airbus, Bank of America, International Association of Machinists, Aerospace Workers, Arlington , Virginia —, ”, Southwest Airlines Locations: U.S, Renton , Washington, Portland , Oregon, “, Washington state, Oregon, Arlington , Virginia, Chicago, Seattle, American

Based on Trump's social media commentary, more about their relationship may be coming soon. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday that the two will be speaking together publicly next week. Trump wrote. 'I have no choice'Since gaining Musk's support, Trump has returned the praise. On the day of Trump's speech in Nashville, Musk wrote "Save our kids!"

Persons: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Evan Vucci, Donald Trump's, Trump, he'd, Elon, He's, Musk, What's, podcaster Jordan Peterson, they've, Kamala Harris, he's, it's, Joe Biden, Steven Cheung, Biden, Tesla wasn't, Tesla, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, David Sacks, Trump's, CNBC's Joe Kernen, they're, Harris, Mark Fields, —, Fields, CNBC's Brian Sullivan, Giorgia Meloni, Javier Milei, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kevin Mohatt, Kamala, Mike Moritz, Moritz, Brian Schwartz, Christina Wilkie Organizations: SpaceX, White, AP NASHVILLE, Bitcoin Conference, Elon, Music City Center, Trump, Republican, PAC, North Carolina Attorney General's, America PAC, ELON, Biden, General Motors, Ford, Musk, Tesla, Bitcoin, Italian, Indian, Capitol, Air Force, Joint Base Andrews, Financial Locations: Washington, Tenn, —, Nashville, Memphis , Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Michigan, tamp, Florida, Lago, China, U.S, Atlanta, Gaza, Wisconsin, Joint Base Andrews , Maryland, West Palm Beach , Florida, Silicon Valley

NASA is considering keeping the two astronauts who flew Boeing's capsule to the International Space Station there until February as a result of issues the spaceship encountered midflight. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams before boarding Boeing's Starliner capsule at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., on May 6. The thruster issues cropped up as Starliner was nearing the space station in June, forcing delays during the docking process. Mission managers also conducted two “hot fire tests” in space, firing the capsule’s thrusters in short bursts while it remained docked at the space station. SpaceX has been transporting astronauts to the International Space Station since 2020.

Persons: Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Butch, Suni, ” Steve Stich, ” Wilmore, Williams, Stich, John Raoux, Ken Bowersox, ” Bowersox, Starliner, ” Stich Organizations: NASA, International, SpaceX, Boeing, Cape Canaveral Space Force, ”, Engineers, International Space Locations: Fla, New Mexico

☆ Trump says he will be interviewed by Elon Musk on Monday
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Dan Mangan | Dan Mangan Is A Reporter Covering Politics For Cnbc.Com. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he will be interviewed on Monday night by Elon Musk, the billionaire who runs Tesla, SpaceX and social media site X. “ON MONDAY NIGHT I’LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK — Details to follow!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Musk is also the owner of the social media company X, which was previously known as Twitter when the company was publicly owned. Despite that, Trump uses Truth Social for his social media messages. The company is owned by Trump Media, a publicly traded company whose majority shareholder is the former president.

Persons: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Musk, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, I’LL, ” Trump, Trump Organizations: SpaceX, Democratic, Minnesota Gov, Trump, ELON, Social, CNBC, North Carolina Board, Elections, America PAC, North Carolina Attorney General’s, U.S, Capitol, Trump Media

☆ Boeing Starliner: NASA says it needs more time to plan astronaut return
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The space agency said the move “allows more time for mission managers to finalize return planning” for the Starliner and its crew, according to a written update from the space agency. NASA will host a news conference on the change Wednesday at 12:30 pm ET. The brief NASA update lands as rumors swirl about the fate of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which has remained attached to the space station for roughly seven weeks longer than expected, leaving its two crewmembers — veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — in limbo aboard the orbiting laboratory. It also makes clear that the Starliner crewed test flight and SpaceX Crew-9 missions will not play out exactly as officials publicly mapped out in late July. That’s when NASA said SpaceX could launch its Crew-9 mission as soon as August 18 — likely after Williams and Wilmore returned to Earth aboard Starliner.

Persons: Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, —, Williams, Wilmore Organizations: CNN, SpaceX’s, International, NASA, Boeing, SpaceX

☆ Elon Musk will interview Trump on Monday night, Republican presidential nominee says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The former president's planned talk with Musk comes on the heels of Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris selecting Minnesota Gov. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he will be interviewed Monday night by Elon Musk , the billionaire who runs Tesla and SpaceX . Musk is also the owner of the social media company X, which was previously known as Twitter when the company was publicly owned. Despite that, Trump uses Truth Social for his social media messages. The company is owned by Trump Media, a publicly traded company whose majority shareholder is the former president.

Persons: Trump, Musk, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, —, CNBC's Lora Kolodny Organizations: ELON, Democratic, Minnesota Gov, Trump, Republican, SpaceX, CNBC, North Carolina Board, Elections, America PAC, North Carolina Attorney General's, U.S, Capitol, Trump Media

☆ China launches its rival to Elon Musk's Starlink internet satellites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Chang'e 6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket combination sit atop the launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province, China May 3, 2024. China on Tuesday launched its first batch of internet satellites that will form part of a constellation it hopes will rival SpaceX's Starlink. Known as "Thousand Sails," the constellation is a low-Earth orbit set of more than 15,000 satellites that China has said will create global internet coverage. A Long March 6A carrier rocket took off from the Taiyuan launch center in the northern Shanxi province of China to deliver the initial 18 satellites into space, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which called the mission a complete success. By 2025, China is aiming to deploy 648 satellites in the first phase of the constellation's buildout, in order to create an internet network with global coverage, according to state media CCTV.

Persons: SpaceX's Starlink Organizations: Tuesday, Chinese Academy of Sciences Locations: Hainan province, China, Taiyuan, Shanxi

☆ Secretaries of State say X's AI shared false election information
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Five secretaries of state on Monday urged Elon Musk to fix his social media platform X’s artificial intelligence search assistant after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 presidential election. “In all nine states the opposite is true,” said the letter, which was first reported by The Washington Post. In Monday’s letter, the secretaries of state wrote that Grok’s false claim was “shared on multiple social media platforms” within hours of Biden’s announcement. But “the false information about ballot deadlines has been captured and shared repeatedly in multiple posts — reaching millions of people,” the officials wrote. “Furthermore, Grok continued to repeat this false information for more than a week until it was corrected on July 31, 2024,” the letter alleged.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, chatbot Grok, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris, ‘, Steve Simon, “, ”, Simon, Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania, Simon Steve Hobbs, Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson, Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Schmidt, Grok, X, OpenAI’s Organizations: Monday, SpaceX, Democratic, The Washington Post, Republican, CNBC, Trump, Republicans, America PAC Locations: Pennsylvania , Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Alabama , Indiana , Ohio , Texas, Washington, United States

☆ Elon Musk revives lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman in federal court
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | Arjun Kharpal Is A Senior Correspondent For Cnbc In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has revived a lawsuit against Sam Altman in federal court, alleging that the Tesla boss was manipulated into co-founding OpenAI, according to a court filing published Monday. The claims in the new lawsuit are similar to another lawsuit filed by Musk against OpenAI and Altman in California this year, which the Tesla and SpaceX boss ultimately dropped. But as it turns out, this was all hot-air philanthropy—the hook for Altman’s long con,” the lawsuit claims. CNBC has reached out to Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft for comment. “Over the course of the next few years and continuing to today, Microsoft methodically entrenched itself further into OpenAI,” the lawsuit alleges.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Tesla, “, ”, Altman, Greg Brockman, Musk, Brockman, ” “ Altman, Microsoft “, Satya Nadella Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, CNBC, Inc Locations: California, Northern California, OpenAI

☆ North Carolina AG office eyes Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC after voter data complaint
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The America PAC is supporting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the 2024 election against Vice President Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic nominee. Wheeler alleged America PAC has broken state laws, according to a copy of the complaint reviewed by CNBC. "The America PAC is pretending to be running an online voter registration drive," Wheeler wrote. Representatives for the North Carolina State Board of Elections did not return requests for comment on Wheeler's complaint against America PAC. America PAC has spent over $100,000 on digital advertisements targeting voters in Pennsylvania since early July, according to AdImpact.

Persons: Elon Musk, Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Musk, Josh Stein, Stein, Jocelyn Benson, Benson's, CNBC's, David Wheeler, Wheeler, Madison Cawthorn, Lauren Boebert, Al Schmidt Organizations: Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, North Carolina Attorney General's, CNBC, Musk's America PAC, The America PAC, Democratic, SpaceX, PAC, North Carolina, Michigan, Sunday, America PAC, America, North Carolina Board, American, Republican, Rep, Colorado . Representatives, North Carolina State Board, Department Locations: Washington , U.S, America, North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, Colorado, Pennsylvania

☆ Elon Musk's X AI shared false election information after Biden dropped out, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Five secretaries of state on Monday urged Elon Musk to fix his social media platform X's artificial intelligence search assistant after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 presidential election . Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, had endorsed Republican presidential nominee Trump before Biden quit the race and backed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. "In all nine states the opposite is true," said the letter, which was first reported by The Washington Post. Musk has previously said that he created and is donating to a political action committee that is supporting Trump and Republicans. That group, America PAC, is being investigated by Benson's office over its efforts to collect voter data in key swing states.

Persons: Musk, chatbot Grok, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris, Steve Simon, Simon, Al Schmidt, Steve Hobbs, Jocelyn Benson of, Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Schmidt Organizations: Monday, SpaceX, Democratic, The Washington Post, Pennsylvania, Republican, CNBC, Trump, Republicans, America PAC Locations: Pennsylvania , Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Alabama , Indiana , Ohio , Texas, Washington, United States, Jocelyn Benson of Michigan

☆ Elon Musk revives lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman in federal court
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has revived a lawsuit against Sam Altman in a federal court, alleging that the Tesla boss was manipulated into co-founding OpenAI, according to a court filing published on Monday. The claims in the new lawsuit are similar to another lawsuit filed by Musk against OpenAI and Altman in California this year, which the Tesla and SpaceX boss ultimately dropped. But as it turns out, this was all hot-air philanthropy—the hook for Altman's long con," the lawsuit claims. CNBC has reached out to Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft for comment. "While Musk expressed a liking for Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella ... the values of the company and OpenAI, Inc. did not align," the lawsuit claims.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Tesla, Altman, Greg Brockman, Musk, Brockman, Satya Nadella, CNBC's Jordan Novet Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, CNBC, Inc Locations: Ankara, Turkiye, California, Northern California, OpenAI

☆ Elon Musk PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state for potential violations
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A political action committee backed by billionaire Elon Musk is being investigated by the Michigan secretary of state's office amid efforts to collect voter data. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has said he created and helped fund the America PAC, which is supporting former President Donald Trump. After clicking on the "register to vote" tab on America PAC's website, users in states like Michigan can submit a ZIP code, address and phone number. Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, is Michigan's secretary of state and the lead election official in the state. The Republican National Committee has sued Benson and other Michigan Democrats at least twice this year, according to legal records.

Persons: Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Musk, Jocelyn Benson, Benson Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, U.S, Capitol, America PAC, Forbes, CNBC, Michigan Attorney, Federal, Commission, Democrat, The Republican National Committee, Michigan Democrats Locations: Washington , U.S, Michigan

☆ Chinese scientists claim Star Wars-like laser submarines can blast US satellites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewChinese scientists claim that it's possible to destroy satellites — including SpaceX's Starlink system — using lasers mounted on submarines. Chinese researchers envision the solution as flotillas of mass-produced laser subs that could be dispatched to oceans around the world. They would wait for tracking data from other non-submarine platforms to determine when a target satellite is overhead. In addition to destroying satellites, these subs could also blast aircraft or land targets such as radars and oil refineries. Laser subs could also shield China's ballistic missile submarines from detection.

Persons: —, Chris Carlson, Carlson, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, navy's Submarine Academy, Business, China Morning, US Navy, Defense Intelligence Agency, Communications, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: China, Hong, Russia, Ukraine, Forbes

☆ NASA weighs Boeing vs. SpaceX choice in bringing back Starliner astronauts
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Michael Sheetz | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

NASA this week has been discussing the possibility of returning Starliner empty and instead using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to return its astronauts. The Boeing crew flight was initially planned to last a minimum of nine days. NASA previously noted that SpaceX serves as a backup but has sought to deemphasize that possibility, calling Boeing’s spacecraft the “primary option” for return. Already, Boeing’s Starliner losses total more than $1.5 billion due to repeated setbacks and years of delays in developing the spacecraft. If NASA backs Boeing and returns Wilmore and Williams on Starliner, the agency is accepting a currently unquantifiable amount of risk.

Persons: Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, —, ”, Williams, Mark Nappi, “ We’re, ” Nappi, Steve Stich, Starliner Organizations: NASA, SpaceX, International Space Station, CNBC, Boeing, Ars Technica, Boeing’s, Space, Commercial, Starliner Locations: Starliner

☆ Chevron says it’s moving its headquarters from the Bay Area to Houston
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Chevron is moving its headquarters out of California, the company announced Friday. The oil giant said it would be relocating its corporate offices from San Ramon, where they have been since 2002, to Houston. This will be the first time Chevron will be headquartered outside of California since its founding more than a century ago. Chevron chairman and CEO Mike Wirth and vice chairman Mark Nelson will move to Houston by the end of 2024, while other corporate operations will slowly relocate over the next five years. Chevron’s exodus from the Bay Area comes on the heels of Elon Musk’s announcement last month that SpaceX and X, formerly known as Twitter, would be relocating to Texas, as well.

Persons: Mike Wirth, Mark Nelson, Elon Musk’s, Musk, Gavin Newsom, ” Musk, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, Chevron, San, SpaceX, Twitter, CNN Locations: New York, California, San Ramon, Houston, Chevron, Bay, Texas, Hawthorne , California, Starbase , Texas, Austin , Texas

☆ How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The ad then displays a website for a group called America PAC. "I have created a PAC, or a super PAC ... the America PAC," Musk said in a recent interview. But what is unique about America PAC's project is who is backing it and the timing of its creation. He recently said on X that he is "making some donations to America PAC," but did not say how much. Musk on X mirrors Musk PAC

Persons: Elon Musk, The Beverly Hilton, David Swanson, Donald Trump, Trump, they'll, Kamala Harris, Musk, Brendan Fischer, Fischer, Phil Cox, Generra Peck, Dave Rexrode, Doug Leone, Cameron, Tyler Winklevoss, Joe Lonsdale, Lonsdale Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, The Beverly, Reuters, Google, America PAC, Republican, Democratic, Forbes, PAC, Facebook, YouTube, America, Trump, The New York Times, FEC Locations: Beverly Hills , California, U.S, Michigan, California, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona , Michigan, North Carolina , Nevada , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

☆ Elon Musk Blasts Venezuela’s Maduro in an Escalating War of Words
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Ryan Mac | Simon Romero | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over the last four days, Elon Musk has spoken out more than 50 times about President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela — and the comments have been far from flattering. “Shame on Dictator Maduro,” Mr. Musk wrote on X on Sunday, as results came in from Venezuela’s presidential election, which has been criticized as deeply flawed. Mr. Musk, the 53-year-old chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, has often criticized heads of state, including President Biden, on X. But the attacks against Mr. Maduro, who is one of the prominent symbols of the left in Latin America, stood out for their sudden volume and aggression. They were part of a pattern by Mr. Musk of denouncing leftist ideals and socialism.

Persons: Elon Musk, Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela —, Maduro, Mr, Musk, Tesla, Biden, Donald J, Trump Organizations: SpaceX, U.S, Democratic Party Locations: Venezuela, Venezuela’s, ”, Latin America, United States

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