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Thierry Breton, France's European Union commissioner for internal market and consumer protection, industry, research and energy. Billed as an unscripted conversation by Musk, the Spaces session will be one of the few campaign events Trump does this week. Breton warned Musk that the EU was prepared to "make full use of our toolbox" to protect EU citizens from "serious harm." Getty Images | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSince then, Musk has made a series of incendiary comments about the situation in the U.K. on X. Riot police officers push back anti-migration protesters outside on Aug. 4, 2024 in Rotherham, U.K. Christopher Furlong | Getty Images

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Apu Gomes, Linda Yaccarino, Thierry Breton, Yaccarino, Donald Trump, Musk, Kamala Harris, Keir Starmer, Ashlea Simon, Peter Kyle, Christopher Furlong Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Getty, European, X Corp, Union, Trump, Republican, Democratic, EU's Digital Services, Digital Services, Riot, British, Britain, Times Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Europe, United Kingdom, EU, Breton, Southport , England, Southport, England, Northern Ireland, Falkland Islands, Rotherham, U.K

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to make lofty promises about his company's future in autonomous driving and robotics, investors keep watching profit margins deteriorate. It's the fourth straight quarter of shrinkage. The company reported just $1.48 billion in net income on revenue of $25.5 billion, which included $890 million in regulatory credits. "Affordability remains top of mind for customers," said Vaibhav Taneja, Tesla's chief accounting officer, on the company's earnings call. Tesla began offering a five-year, zero interest loan offer to spur sales of its EVs in China in April.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Vaibhav Taneja Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Nasdaq Locations: Beverly Hills , California, China, CnEVPost, Shanghai, Germany

☆ Super Micro, Dell shares jump as Elon Musk calls them suppliers to xAI supercomputer project
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Shares of Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer jumped Thursday after Elon Musk revealed that the two hardware makers will provide servers to help his artificial intelligence startup xAI develop a supercomputer. "Dell is assembling half of the racks that are going into the supercomputer that xAI is building," Musk said in an X post, adding that Super Micro will also be involved. Dell shares climbed more than 3% in premarket trading, while Super Micro popped roughly 5%. The technology would potentially help Tesla develop the computer vision and large language models needed for robots and autonomous vehicles. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, said Wednesday in an X post that his firm is building a "Dell AI factory" with Nvidia to power Musk's AI bot Grok.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk, Michael Dell Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Dell Technologies, Micro Computer, Dell, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Buffalo , New York, Austin , Texas

☆ Tesla pops 6% in premarket after Elon Musk says he is set for victory in $56 billion pay vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of Tesla popped in premarket trading, after Elon Musk said shareholders are set to approve his controversial $56 billion pay package and a resolution to move the electric car maker's incorporation to Texas. Tesla shareholders have been voting on two resolutions and can have their say up to the company's annual meeting on Thursday. The first measure under consideration is whether to green light a $56 billion pay package that shareholders originally approved in 2018, before being voided by a Delaware judge in January. Musk now said that both of these resolutions are currently passing by "wide margins," without disclosing specifics or his sourcing. Critics of the pay deal argue that Musk is distracted by his other endeavors, and that the package, the largest in U.S. corporate history, is excessive.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, CNBC, Twitter Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Texas, Delaware

☆ Norway wealth fund to vote against Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Norway's $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday it will vote against ratifying Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, which is up for a shareholder vote next week, after a Delaware judge invalidated it earlier this year. The fund said it appreciated "the significant value generated under Mr. Musk's leadership since the grant date in 2018". In 2018, the fund had voted against the package. The fund, which holds a 0.98% stake worth $7.7 billion according to fund data, has been critical of excessive CEO pay. Last year it voted against more than half of U.S. CEO pay packages above $20 million, warning they did not align with long-term value creation for shareholders.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon Musk's, NBIM Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Tesla, Norges Bank Investment Management Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Delaware, America

☆ Elon Musk’s X app ran ads on #whitepower and other hateful hashtags
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( David Ingram | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

X bans the promotion or glorification of violence and has previously applied the policy to racist and antisemitic content. Before Wednesday, X appeared to have blocked at least three antisemitic hashtags, according to searches of the platform. After NBC News contacted X about the hashtags, 12 of 50 hashtags appeared to be blocked. Of the 50 reviewed hashtags, searches on X for 45 of them returned recent racist or antisemitic posts. On TikTok, 10 of the 50 hashtags returned racist or antisemitic posts, with the rest either blocked or producing other content.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon, Musk, X, hashtags, Adolf Hitler, Anika Collier Navaroli, TikTok, Instagram, Meta, Darren Linvill, Linvill, Megan Squire, it's Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, NBC News, Twitter, NBC, Tow Center, Digital Journalism, Columbia University, Musk, Disney, Hyundai, Social, Tech, Meta, Clemson University's, Hitler, Nazi, Southern Poverty Law Center Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Europe

☆ Australia drops case against Elon Musk's social media platform X over church stabbing footage
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Australia on Wednesday announced it had dropped its legal battle against Elon Musk's X to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from the social media platform. The dispute was widely seen as a test case for the Australian government's ability to enforce its online safety standards on the social media giants. Julie Inman-Grant, Commissioner of Australia's online safety regulator, said in a statement that after weighing "multiple considerations," she decided that discontinuing the proceedings would "likely achieve the most positive outcome for the online safety of all Australians, especially children." I stand by my investigators and the decisions eSafety made," Inman-Grant said, referencing Australia's independent regulator for online safety. Last month, the Musk-owned social media platform won a reprieve in Australia when a court refused to extend a temporary order blocking videos of a Sydney church stabbing globally.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon Musk's, Julie Inman, eSafety, Inman, Grant, Musk, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, Australia's Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Wednesday, Grant, X's Global Government Affairs Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Australia, Sydney, Australian

☆ Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he favors 'no tariffs' on Chinese EVs
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. PARIS, France — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that he doesn't support President Biden's recent announcement of a tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. "Neither Tesla nor I asked for these tariffs," Musk said during a question and answer session at the VivaTech conference Wednesday in Paris. "Tesla competes quite well in the market in China with no tariffs and no deferential support," Musk said Thursday. It's a change of tune for Musk, who suggested earlier this year that Chinese EV companies will crush competitors elsewhere in the absence of trade restrictions.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Biden's, Musk, Biden Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Revenue Locations: Beverly Hills , California, PARIS, France, Paris, China, Europe

☆ Elon Musk has lost his focus, former Tesla board member says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. Tesla could use more of high-profile CEO Elon Musk's divided focus at a critical juncture for the electric vehicle industry, former board member Steve Westly said Thursday. And it appears now that Mr Musk's focus is in too many areas," Westly told CNBC at the annual VivaTech conference in Paris. Tesla could use more of it," said Westly, who is managing director of venture capital firm The Westly Group and an early Tesla investor. Just how much of a liability Musk is for Tesla, however, Westly said was "for the board to decide."

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Elon Musk's, Steve Westly, Westly, Jensen Huang —, he's Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, CNBC Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Paris

☆ Tesla accused by NLRB of creating policies to chill workers' unionizing efforts in Buffalo
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla is being accused of taking steps to keep employees in Buffalo, New York, from unionizing, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board. The policy restricted Tesla workers from "recording, unauthorized solicitating [sic] or promoting," and "creating channels and distribution lists," among other things, the complaint said. The Tesla Buffalo plant was supposed to manufacture solar panels, but has been used more recently to assemble electric vehicle charging equipment, and to house a team of AI software data labelers. Last month, the Buffalo plant was home to a number of job cuts put in place as part of a broader restructuring at the electric vehicle company. Tesla has also faced workers' rights challenges in Europe.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Linda Leslie, Musk Organizations: SpaceX, X Holdings Corp, Milken Institute's Global, Beverly Hilton Hotel, National Labor Relations, Buffalo, Union, Workers United, CNBC, NLRB, National Labor Relations Act, Twitter, Tesla Locations: Beverly Hills , California, Buffalo , New York, unionizing, Tesla Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Europe, Sweden

☆ Fidelity marks down value of Twitter stake again
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

May 30 (Reuters) - A Fidelity fund has marked down the value of its stake in Twitter for the third time since Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social media platform in October, a monthly disclosure by the investment firm showed on Sunday. Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund's stake in Twitter, which now exists under Musk's X Holdings Corp, was valued at nearly $6.55 million as of April 28, compared with $7.8 million as of Jan. 31 and almost $8.63 million at November-end. Earlier this month, Musk named former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO as the company struggles to reverse a slump in advertising revenue and navigate an overhaul that included mass layoffs. Reporting by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Jaiveer Singh, Devika Organizations: Twitter, Elon Musk's, Fidelity, X Holdings Corp, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

☆ Short investor Hindenburg erases fifth of Icahn empire’s value
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In a report published on Tuesday, Hindenburg accused IEP of overvaluing its holdings and relying on a “Ponzi-like” structure to pay dividends. The subsequent plunge in IEP shares wiped $2.9 billion off Icahn’s net worth, leaving him with an estimated $14.7 billion, according to Forbes. NAV is a key gauge of a fund’s performance, measuring the market value of securities held by the fund. Driving the frothiness in IEP’s stock, Hindenburg argued, is its dividend yield of 15.8%, the highest of any US large cap company by far. Hindenburg also offered examples it said showed IEP itself was valuing its holdings way above their market value.

In a report published on Tuesday, Hindenburg accused IEP of overvaluing its holdings and relying on a "Ponzi-like" structure to pay dividends. The subsequent plunge in IEP shares wiped $2.9 billion off Icahn's net worth, leaving him with an estimated $14.7 billion, according to Forbes. NAV is a key gauge of a fund's performance, measuring the market value of securities held by the fund. Driving the frothiness in IEP's stock, Hindenburg argued, is its dividend yield of 15.8%, the highest of any U.S. large cap company by far. Hindenburg also offered examples it said showed IEP itself was valuing its holdings way above their market value.

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