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☆ New Tesla video shows an early glimpse at how Elon Musk's robotaxi service could look
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWe're less than two months away from Tesla's Robotaxi unveiling, but we're already getting an early glimpse at the ride-hailing platform on which the autonomous vehicles are expected to operate. "Still pinching myself that I got to demo Tesla's ride-hailing platform!" The video shows Nathans requesting the service by pressing a black-and-white circle with the word "Summon" within an app. The video shows Nathans adjusting her preferred temperature before the car arrives. AdvertisementTesla's Full Self-Driving software, which is still in beta, is the underlying software technology that the company is working on to power a stand-alone Tesla Robotaxi service.

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☆ Steve Jobs built Apple using a simple piece of advice from his dad: ‘He loved doing things right’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' dad Paul taught him how to build a fence around their home in Mountain View, California. The process taught him how to be detail-oriented, a mindset he enforced at Apple, Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson told CBS's "60 Minutes" in 2011. As Jobs told Isaacson, "He loved doing things right." At Apple, Jobs made sure every detail was of the highest quality, Isaacson wrote in the "Steve Jobs" biography. "Give every f---ing ounce of effort you can; to give the best performance you can give," Johnson wrote in a 2017 Instagram post.

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☆ Elon Musk's pay package victory would be a 'great vote of confidence' in him, says Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk's pay package victory would be a 'great vote of confidence' in him, says Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, Perella Weinberg Partners advisory partner and 'Elon Musk' author, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the partner's reaction to Elon Musk's affirmed pay package, the dilution shareholders will experience, and more.

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☆ Elon Musk uses an unusual layoff strategy that sends all the wrong messages, HR expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tesla is rehiring some of the nearly 500 Supercharger staff members Musk fired in April as a cost-saving measure amid challenging times at the EV company, Bloomberg reported earlier this month. Advertisement"Desperate times call for desperate measures," Musk told CNBC's David Faber in May 2023. At Tesla, for example, Musk told his employees that he would personally approve all new hires, according to an email obtained by Business Insider. Musk is also known to have fired employees who disagreed with his decisions. Other former Twitter employees and executives have sued Musk, accusing him of unpaid severance pay.

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☆ Elon Musk runs successful companies. That doesn't mean he's doing it very well, HR experts say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Advertisement"Desperate times call for desperate measures," Musk told CNBC's David Faber in May 2023. On top of Tesla and X, Musk also runs SpaceX, Neuralink, AI startup xAI, and an underground tunnel company. AdvertisementAt Tesla, Musk told his employees that he would personally approve all new hires, according to an email obtained by Business Insider. Musk is also known to have fired employees who disagreed with his decisions. AdvertisementOther former Twitter employees and executives have sued Musk, accusing him of unpaid severance pay.

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☆ Fish oil supplements may cause harm, study finds. ‘Is it time to dump them?’ expert asks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

However, a new study finds regular use of fish oil supplements may increase, not reduce, the risk of first-time stroke and atrial fibrillation among people in good cardiovascular health. Nearly one-third of those people, who were followed for an average of 12 years, said they regularly used fish oil supplements. Over-the-counter fish oil suffers from a lack of purity and consistency, as well as the potential contaminants and heavy metals such as mercury that come with fish, Freeman said. “In addition, studies over the last 10 years have not been very positive for over-the-counter fish oil,” he added. “Fish oil was either having no benefit or in some cases it may harm, such as with stroke and AFib.

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☆ New York Times publishes fresh details on the alleged affair that Elon Musk and Nicole Shanahan both deny
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Three sources told the Times that Shanahan and Musk had an affair in December 2021 during a private party in Miami. Advertisement"Ms. Shanahan later told Mr. Brin that she had had sex with Mr. Musk, three of the people said. She also relayed the details to friends, family and advisers," the Times reported. Representatives for Shanahan, Musk, and Brin did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment ahead of publication. In response to questions from a The New York Times reporter, Shanahan said she was "shocked the NYT is letting you run something like this."

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☆ Signs of Alzheimer’s were everywhere. Then his brain improved
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but disappeared in a mere 14 months. “I don’t use the term ‘reverse.’ I don’t know what reverse means when it comes to the field of Alzheimer’s,” Isaacson said. ‘It was time to turn to my brain’Slowly, Nicholls’ heart condition began to improve, but the bad news didn’t end there. A brain scan found telltale signs of vascular damage in Nicholls’ brain, which occurs when the tiniest blood vessels are starved of oxygen. Not only was Nicholls blood negative for amyloid and tau, the test suggested that his brain amyloid might be normal, with no distinguishable signs of the disease.

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☆ Elon Musk is a homeowner again, despite his claims of couch surfing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Grace Kay | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

As recently as April 2022, the billionaire Tesla founder claimed in an interview that he was couch surfing and didn't "even own a place right now." In redacted court filings from December, Musk said he purchased the home in February 2022 and that he still lives there. In 2023, the Austin property was appraised at nearly $7 million, county tax records show. Less than a year later, in April 2022, Musk said again that he didn't own a home and rotated between friends' spare rooms. Eight weeks later, the LLC that purchased the Austin house was formed.

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☆ Elon Musk had a 'hilarious' way of asking if an ex-Twitter exec wanted to work for him
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk had a strange way of phrasing a job offer to a former Twitter exec. Beykpour said Musk asked if he wanted to "swipe right" and "hang out and work on the product." During one of their conversations, Musk asked if Beykpour would be interested in continuing to work on product at Twitter. Musk asked Beykpour to "swipe right on whether you want to be here," the Periscope cofounder said. He used the swipe right, swipe left Tinder metaphor and I thought that was kind of hilarious coming from him," Beykpour said.

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☆ South Africa’s democracy is turning 30 – but a silent crisis threatens its hard-fought gains
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( David Mckenzie | Sarah Dean | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Soweto, South Africa CNN —Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. Cars are used as roadblocks on June 21, 1976, during unrest in Soweto, South Africa, stemming from protests against the use of Afrikaans in schools. But as South Africans celebrate 30 years of democracy this week, many educators and activists believe that there is a crisis hollowing out the country’s education system – a crisis that threatens democracy’s hard-fought gains. Despite substantial education funding, South African students consistently rank among the lowest in global assessments of literacy and numeracy skills. South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world and many university graduates struggle to enter the workforce.

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☆ Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry. Now it's struggling to stay relevant
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

David Paul Morris | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe iPhone could have had an Intel chip inside. It would've made sense to use Intel chips, which ran on the best desktops at the time, including Apple's Macs. Braithwaite, who worked at Intel in the 1980s, said Intel's process engineers were the company's "crown jewels." Intel doesn't have a GPU competitor to Nvidia's AI accelerators, but it has an AI chip called Gaudi 3. For comparison, AMD expects about $2 billion in annual AI chip revenue.

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☆ Routine jobs raise the risk of cognitive decline by 66% and dementia by 37%, study says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Having a routine job with little mental stimulation during your 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s was linked to a 66% higher risk of mild cognitive impairment and a 37% greater risk of dementia after the age of 70, according to the study, when compared with having a job with high cognitive and interpersonal demands. Attending college, for example, reduced the impact of a repetitive job by about 60% but didn’t fully negate the risk. Routine jobs that were not classified as “cognitively protective” often involved repetitive manual and mental tasks, such as is typical of factory work and bookkeeping. “Most people in routine jobs in our sample included housekeepers, custodians, construction workers and mail carriers,” Edwin said. More cognitively demanding jobs were not based on routine tasks, even though repetition was required at times.

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☆ A deposition Elon Musk fought to keep confidential was released. Read the most interesting quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Elon Musk's deposition from a lawsuit alleging he falsely boosted a conspiracy theory was released. In the deposition, Musk said he might have financially impaired X more than helping it. AdvertisementA deposition that Elon Musk's lawyer fought to keep from the public eye was released on Monday. AdvertisementMusk said during his deposition that he'd used the alternate account for testing, but it was no longer in use. "I briefly used this as a test account," Musk said.

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☆ Walter Isaacson: The law says you can't use market dominance to then dominate an adjacent field
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWalter Isaacson: The law says you can't use market dominance to then dominate an adjacent fieldWalter Isaacson, Perella Weinberg advisory partner and ‘Elon Musk’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the EU's investigation into Big Tech, the comparison to Standard Oil, impact on markets, and more.

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TV ratings signal growth in college women’s basketballWhile Clark is enticing viewers, women’s college basketball is experiencing growth that can’t only be explained by “Clarkonomics”– as basketball analyst Debbie Antonelli called it – alone. The surge in women’s college basketball is also due to more investment in media coverage of women’s sports, said Lewis. NIL empowers players — and their sportsCollege women’s basketball players are among the biggest players in the market for Name, Image and Likeness sponsorships. College women’s basketball players are among the biggest players in the market for Name, Image and Likeness sponsorships. One factor driving the speculation that Clark might stay in college was that WNBA doesn’t have the same platform as women’s college basketball.

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☆ House Democrats probe SpaceX over alleged illegal export and use of Starlink by Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

House Democrats Robert Garcia, D-Calif. and Jamie Raskin, D-Md, sent a letter to SpaceX demanding transparency from the defense contractor following reports of potentially illegal purchases and use of Starlink satellite internet equipment by Russia in occupied territories of Ukraine. The congressmen also announced a probe of SpaceX by the Democratic House Committee into the company's safeguards and procedures for preventing illegal exports and use of its Starlink equipment and services. The Washington Post first reported on the probe and March 6 letter to SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell. In a statement on Thursday, the congressmen wrote, "Russia's use of Starlink satellite terminals would be in contravention of U.S. export controls that prohibit Russia from acquiring and utilizing U.S.-produced technology." The new probe by House Democrats follows news on Wednesday that a man in New Jersey was arrested on charges of allegedly trafficking 675 SpaceX Starlink terminals which were purchased with stolen credit card accounts or hacked Starlink billing accounts.

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☆ Former Twitter execs sue Musk and X for more than $128 million in severance
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former Twitter executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, head of legal Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett filed a new lawsuit against Elon Musk and X Corp. in federal court arguing that they are owed $128 million in unpaid severance. The ex-Twitter executives' lawyers argue, "These statements were not the mere rantings of a self-centered billionaire surrounded by enablers unwilling to confront him with the legal consequences of his own choices. Musk bragged to Isaacson specifically how he planned to cheat Twitter's executives out of their severance benefits in order to save himself $200 million." The suit, Agrawal et al v. Musk et al, was filed in California's Northern District and follows news that settlement talks between X Corp. and ex-Twitter managers broke down in a related case in Delaware, Woodfield v. Twitter Inc., where $500 million in unpaid severance to former Twitter managers and engineers is in dispute. Representatives for X Corp. and Elon Musk did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.

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☆ Former Twitter execs say Elon Musk still owes them $128 million in severance
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Four former Twitter execs, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, are suing Elon Musk over their severance. Musk has previously said he fired the execs for cause and doesn't owe severance. AdvertisementFour former Twitter lieutenants who were fired following Elon Musk's 2022 takeover are now suing him, claiming unpaid severance. They are collectively asking for $128 million, according to the federal lawsuit filed Monday in California obtained by Business Insider. This isn't the only severance-related suit Musk and X have faced.

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☆ Elon Musk wants OpenAI to break the Microsoft contract and be a nonprofit again: Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk wants OpenAI to break the Microsoft contract and be a nonprofit again: Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, Perella Weinberg Advisory partner and Elon Musk biographer, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Musk's motivations behind the suit, Elon Musk's relationship with Sam Altman, and more.

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☆ Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman began a year ago, says Musk biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman began a year ago, says Musk biographer Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, “Elon Musk” author and CNBC contributor, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss Elon Musk's motivations for suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, how far Isaacson expects the Tesla CEO to take the suit, and more.

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☆ Tesla's Optimus bot is looking a little steadier on its feet. Maybe the yoga stretches are paying off.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The clip appeared to show the Gen 2 version walking more smoothly than on previous occasions. AdvertisementElon Musk shared fresh footage of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, walking around a warehouse. AdvertisementGetting my daily steps in pic.twitter.com/cEE4RBNdfo — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) February 24, 2024The EV company unveiled the first Optimus prototype at the 2022 Tesla AI day. Since then, updates have shown the Tesla Optimus squatting, picking up an egg, and of course, the yoga stretches. Tesla ramped up hiring for its Tesla bot team at the end of 2023.

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☆ Giving Big, a California Couple Gets Gratitude and Scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Standing on the grand staircase of Lynda and Stewart Resnick's opulent Beverly Hills mansion at a party last fall — where Diane Keaton, Bob Iger and Brian Grazer were among the luminaries making small talk over crudités and Sazerac cocktails — the author Walter Isaacson took a moment to thank his hosts. Not only were the Resnicks giving the party to celebrate his new biography of Elon Musk, they had also been major supporters of his former professional home, the Aspen Institute, donating $36 million to the think tank over the years. Isaacson was not the only one in the room with reason to be grateful to them. Overall, the Resnicks — whose Wonderful Company business empire includes Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice, Wonderful Pistachios, Fiji Water, Halos mandarins and Teleflora, the flower-delivery service — have donated $1.9 billion of their estimated $13 billion fortune to academic institutions, climate change initiatives, cultural organizations and programs in California’s Central Valley. Their gifts have landed them on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the 50 biggest donors three times.

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

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

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☆ Tesla's design chief leads workouts in the company parking lot
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla's design chief, Franz von Holzhausen, conducts fitness sessions at the company's parking lot. Von Holzhausen leads a team of around 300 at a converted airplane hangar in Los Angeles. AdvertisementTesla's design chief Franz von Holzhausen isn't all work and no play — at least according to a new profile of the Cybertruck designer. Von Holzhausen, who has worked closely with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, likes to lead fitness training in the company parking lot, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Though, von Holzhausen told the publication the billionaire is still "very involved" and sometimes shares design ideas from social media.

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