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☆ Tesla tops list of most shorted stocks for third month in August - Hazeltree
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Nell Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla stock rallied over 5% on Monday after a Morgan Stanley (MS.N) note suggested the automaker's Dojo supercomputer could bolster Tesla's market value. Hazeltree, which tracks 12,000 equities globally, said the second and third most shorted stocks last month were Charter Communications (CHTR.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) respectively. Those included investors with funds taking long and short positions in stocks: Diamond Hill, Leuthold Funds and Forum Funds. "Taking out a short position against Tesla, as Gates did, results in the highest return only if a company goes bankrupt!" Hedge funds were net short consumer discretionary stocks, which would include Tesla, for the year ending Sept. 8, according to the Goldman note.

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☆ Elizabeth Warren calls for an investigation into Musk and Starlink in Ukraine after biography claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for a probe Tuesday following a claim that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk curbed a Ukrainian military operation aimed at Russia's Black Sea fleet last year by limiting access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, a report said. CNBC has reached out to Warren's office to confirm the statement. The call for an investigation stems from an excerpt released last week from biographer Walter Isaacson's book titled "Elon Musk," in which the author details how a Ukrainian drone sneak attack on the Russian fleet was disrupted by a disconnect from Starlink. In an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box," Isaacson further elaborated on the excerpt from the biography that triggered alarm bells in Washington, among NATO allies and the Ukrainian capital. Isaacson said developing a military-grade version of Starlink will help resolve concerns expressed by Tesla and Musk regarding the satellite networks' use in combat.

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☆ Elon Musk really was telling the truth by saying his father Errol never owned an emerald mine, biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's biographer set the record straight on whether Errol Musk ever owned an emerald mine. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: How Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes and spends his $19.2 billionWell, it turns out that Elon Musk was telling the truth. Walter Isaacson revealed in Elon Musk's biography, released this week, that Errol Musk never owned a mine. "Many people came to me with stolen parcels," Errol Musk told the writer. The biography also said Errol Musk's emerald business eventually caved in during the 1980s and that he subsequently lost his earnings from it.

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☆ Grimes was 'outraged' after learning that Elon Musk fathered twins with Shivon Zilis at the same time as the public, new biography reveals
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Grimes was reportedly upset to learn about Elon Musk's twins with Shivon Zilis at the same time as the public. The twins were born just weeks before he had his second child with Grimes. Musk's twins with Zilis were born weeks before Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child via surrogate in December of 2021. The news of Musk's twins was first reported by Insider in July of 2022. Musk and Grimes also share a son, X Æ A-Xii Musk , or X , and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who goes by Y .

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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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☆ Bill Gates thought Elon Musk became 'super mean' after finding out Gates shorted Tesla stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Musk shot down Gates' attempts to talk about giving to charity after Gates shorted Tesla stock. "He was super mean to me, but he's super mean to so many people, so you can't take it too personally," Gates said about Musk. Speaking about this incident to Isaacson, Gates told the writer he even apologized to Musk. "Once he heard I'd shorted the stock, he was super mean to me, but he's super mean to so many people, so you can't take it too personally," Gates told Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2022 alone, Gates contributed $5 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was the largest single donation that year.

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☆ Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his 'maniacal sense of urgency' at X, formerly Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Walter Isaacson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Musk wanted to save that money by moving the servers to one of X's other facilities, in Portland, Oregon. James Musk asked. "The dude is not very good at math," Musk told the musketeers. The lack of servers caused meltdowns, including when Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces for presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. And the Sacramento caper showed X employees that he was serious when he spoke about the need for a maniacal sense of urgency.

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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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☆ Grimes is squashing her beef with Shivon Zilis, saying communication about Elon Musk's secret twins 'wasn't handled super well' in the past
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Grimes and Shivon Zilis — both of whom have kids with Elon Musk— have buried the hatchet. Grimes wrote. "Communication about the twins wasn't handled super well in the past, but I now totally understand what happened and totally forgive the situation," Grimes wrote on X on September 10. AdvertisementAdvertisement"So glad we had such a wonderful talk, was insanely overdue," Zilis wrote, calling Grimes a "total badass." He shares three children with Grimes — X Æ A-Xii, or X; Exa Dark Sideræl, known as Y, and Tau.

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Shivon Zilis was pictured alongside Elon Musk and their twins for the first time on Wednesday. Insider first reported that Musk quietly fathered twins with Zilis, a director at Neuralink, in 2021. AdvertisementAdvertisementGrimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, said on X that communication about Zilis' twins "wasn't handled super well." Last week, in a since-deleted post on X Grimes accused Zilis of blocking her on social media. The Neuralink director has also taken to posting about her children in recent months.

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☆ Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' the original concept, according to the new Elon Musk biography
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Tesla engineers "hated" the look of the Cybertruck, design chief Franz von Holzhausen told Walter Isaacson. Certain engineers secretly worked on a alternate version, Isaacson wrote in his new book on Elon Musk. "A majority of the people in this studio hated it," von Holzhausen said of the futuristic design, according to the book. Musk, von Holzhausen, and a spokesperson for Tesla did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication. Those who have pre-ordered the vehicle with a $100 deposit have been nitpicking the final version of the Cybertruck.

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☆ Musk's college friend quit working with him at Zip2 after only 6 weeks: 'I knew I could either be working with him or be his friend, but not both'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Farooq came to work for Musk at his first company, Zip2, but quit just six weeks into the job. Farooq told biographer Walter Isaacson that he soon "found himself in fights with Musk." In 1995, Musk was in the midst of getting his first company, Zip2, off the ground with his brother, Kimbal. "We completely entered a zone for hours until we were exhausted," Farooq told Isaacson. But working under the notoriously intense Musk was too much for Farooq and he lasted just six weeks at Zip2 before quitting.

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☆ When working together at Zip2, Elon Musk had to go to the ER for stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother, Kimbal, once tore off a hunk of flesh from his hand
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Kimbal Musk bit Elon Musk and "tore off a hunk of flesh" off his hand during a fight in the 1990s. Elon Musk had to go to the emergency room for stitches and a tetanus jab. Kimbal Musk bit his brother because he thought Elon Musk was about to punch him in the face, the book said. "When we had intense stress, we just didn't notice anyone else," Kimbal Musk told Isaacson. Kimbal Musk, just over a year younger than Elon Musk, also moved in with Errol around four years later.

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☆ Bill Gates and Elon Musk: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new biography of Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Walter Isaacson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography "Elon Musk," publishing Sept. 12. "Hey, I'd love to come see you and talk about philanthropy and climate," Bill Gates said to Elon Musk when they happened to be at the same meeting in early 2022. In the rarefied fraternity of people who have held the title of richest person on Earth, Musk and Gates have some similarities. Gates had shorted Tesla stock, placing a big bet that it would go down in value. "How can someone say they are passionate about fighting climate change and then do something that reduced the overall investment in the company doing the most?"

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CNN —Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite systems are being used by Ukrainian forces on all front lines in the war with Russia, the country’s spy chief has said. You can say what you want about whether [Starlink systems] are good or bad, but facts are facts. Absolutely all front lines are using them,” Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate, said Saturday, according to Interfax Ukraine. The spy chief also gave a positive account of the difference Starlink is making in the war. “I can absolutely confirm that Starlink systems did not work for a certain period of time near Crimea.

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☆ There are different accounts of Elon Musk's role in the thwarting of Ukraine's surprise attack against Russia by cutting off SpaceX satellite access. Both show one billionaire's outsized influence on
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

One explosive claim is that Musk thwarted a surprise Ukrainian attack on Crimea. Allowing the use of Starlink for the attack, he concluded, could be a disaster for the world. He now says that the policy had been implemented earlier, but the Ukrainians did not know it, and that night he simply reaffirmed the policy," Isaacson said. There have been previous reports of Musk rejecting Ukraine's request to enable satellite access in Crimea. Musk responded to Isaacson's clarification on Saturday, claiming, "At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea.

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☆ AI for cars: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Walter Isaacson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The "neural network planner" that Shroff and others were working on took a different approach. Faced with a situation, the neural network chooses a path based on what humans have done in thousands of similar situations. By early 2023, the neural network planner project had analyzed 10 million clips of video collected from the cars of Tesla customers. By mid-April 2023, it was time for Musk to try the new neural network planner. "Oh, wow," he said, "even my human neural network failed here, but the car did the right thing."

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A new biography of Elon Musk portrays the billionaire entrepreneur as a complex, tortured figure whose brilliance is often overshadowed by his inability to relate on a human level to the people around him — his wives, his children and those on whom he relied to help build the space exploration and electric car businesses that made him the wealthiest man on Earth. Mr. Musk’s life so far — his difficult childhood in South Africa, his stormy romantic relationships, his success as a visionary who created SpaceX and Tesla, and his impetuous decision to buy Twitter — is detailed through scores of interviews with his family, friends, business associates and Mr. Musk himself. The book, which will be released on Tuesday, is by Walter Isaacson, the journalist whose previous works have chronicled the lives of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin. It opens with a quote from Mr. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, who once said, “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

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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 biographer moves to 'clarify' details about Ukraine and Starlink after backlash
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Author Walter Isaacson took to social media Friday night to try to "clarify" an excerpt from his upcoming book, "Elon Musk." The excerpt received swift backlash after it described how Musk thwarted a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships. Musk eventually soured on the arrangement and said "Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars," according to the book. "They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Isaacson's X post came after a top aide to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lashed out at Musk over the excerpt.

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☆ Elon Musk's biographer changed a major detail about how the SpaceX CEO stopped Ukraine sinking a chunk of the Russian navy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's biographer clarified a key detail from his upcoming book on the SpaceX CEO. It had said that Musk thwarted a Ukrainian offensive by turning off Starlink coverage near Crimea. His biographer clarified that "Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not." Musk had come under fire for reportedly foiling the Ukrainian plot to strike the Russian fleet in Sevastopol in occupied Crimea. The botched attack, which happened in 2022, required Musk's Starlink satellites, which have been active in parts of Ukraine almost from the outbreak of Russia's full-scale invasion.

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☆ Elon Musk scrambled to justify blocking a Ukrainian attack on the Russian navy using Starlink
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk defended his decision to block a Ukrainian attack that could have decimated Russia's navy. Per a new biography, he refused Ukraine use of his Starlink network to make the attack in 2022. Musk appears to believe that by blocking the attack he prevented a nuclear war. Musk argued repeatedly that he had avoided a nuclear war by thwarting the attack, believing that would have been Russia's response had it gone ahead. AdvertisementAdvertisement"The onus is meaningfully different if I refused to act upon a request from Ukraine vs. made a deliberate change to Starlink to thwart Ukraine," Musk wrote in another post.

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☆ New Elon Musk biography confirms he has 3rd child with Grimes named Techno Mechanicus
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A new biography of Elon Musk confirms he has a third child with Grimes named Techno Mechanicus. Musk and Grimes had previously tried to keep the existence of their third child private. The child, whose age has not been made public, is named Techno Mechanicus and goes by the nickname, Tau. Accounting for Techno Mechanicus, Musk now has 10 known biological kids with three different women. Their first was born in 2020 and named X Æ A-Xii, or X.

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☆ Zelenskyy advisor slams Elon Musk over report that the SpaceX founder blocked Ukraine's access to Starlink satellites: 'Why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted Elon Musk over a recent report. Musk reportedly thwarted a Ukrainian attack on a Russian naval fleet by shutting off his Starlink network. "Why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals," the Ukrainian advisor asked. "Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake," Zelenskyy advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter. "The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor," Musk continued.

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☆ Elon Musk resented being 'left out of the fray' during the AI boom despite cofounding OpenAI, biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk felt left out when generative AI started to gather steam, his biographer said. The excerpt from Walter Isaacson's upcoming biography of Musk was published in Time. In the excerpt, which was published in Time, Musk felt he'd been left out of the AI boom after OpenAI released GPT-4 to the public and Google launched its Bard chatbot. Despite this, Musk officially launched his own AI venture, xAI, in July this year. However, an August report in The New Yorker said, the Tesla CEO was building his own AI venture at a similar time.

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