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☆ Jack Dorsey encouraged the student who tracks Elon Musk's jet to keep posting on Bluesky after his Twitter ban
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Jack Dorsey encouraged the college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet to keep on posting. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has doubled down on his explicit and implicit criticism of Elon Musk, encouraging the college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet to keep posting on rival apps Bluesky and Nostr. Dorsey, who has given money to both platforms and sits on Bluesky's board, got into a brief exchange on Bluesky with college student Jack Sweeney Saturday about the jet-tracking account. the college student asked Dorsey. Sweeney created the original @ElonJet account in 2020, using public flight data to monitor the whereabouts the of billionaire's private jet.
☆ Elon Musk earned a spot at the Museum of Failure, which listed 14 reasons including the strange names he gave 2 of his kids
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk earned a spot at the Museum of Failure in Brooklyn, which listed 14 reasons. According to the Museum of Failure, there's no such thing as innovation without a few bumps along the way. That's something Elon Musk is familiar with, and has earned him a spot at the museum for 14 reasons, which include the unusual names he gave two of his kids: X AE A-XII and Exa Dark Sideræl, who also now goes by Y. The museum aims to stimulate productive discussion about failure and inspire us to take meaningful risks," it says on its website. The museum is in Brooklyn until June 18 and has previously been on display in cities including Calgary, Canada and Taipei, Taiwan.
☆ Elon Musk tells Bill Maher he's a 'moderate' who has championed sustainable energy, which is 'not exactly far-right'
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The Tesla chief said he'd spent a "massive amount" of his life developing sustainable energy. "I spent a massive amount of my life energy building sustainable energy, you know, electric vehicles, and batteries, and solar. Musk wants to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy with electric vehicles as well as renewable energy generation and storage. He's also put free speech at the forefront of why he bought the social media platform. Musk told Maher: "Free speech used to be a left or liberal value, and yet we see from the quote 'left' a desire to actually censor, and that seems crazy."
☆ Mark Cuban says he's losing nearly 1,000 Twitter followers a day—and paying $8 for a blue check hasn't helped
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
And his experiment to fix the problem — paying for Twitter Blue, which costs $8 per month, to give his account the blue checkmark it used to sport for free — isn't working. Last month, he asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk in a tweet for suggestions on how to "retain or grow" his follower count. In December, Musk tweeted Twitter was "working on a software update" where users would be able to see if their accounts were shadow-banned or not. "We're rapidly improving transparency & fairness on this platform, but there is still a lot of work to do," Musk tweeted on Monday. The act damaged the blue checks' value by making them both less exclusive and less credible, Cuban suggested.
☆ Elon Musk may have shared his alternative account on Twitter where he appears to tweet as his 2-year-old son: 'I will finally turn 3'
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk may have shared on Monday his alternative account on Twitter. Elon Musk may have shared his alternative account on Twitter where he appeared to tweet as his two-year-old son. Elon Musk's Twitter profile, showing his alternative account. Screengrab of Elon Musk's Twitter profile. Musk didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider about his alternative account.
☆ Tesla investors call for 'distracted' Elon Musk to be reined in as they worry he's 'overcommitted'
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Grace Kay | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tesla investors called for Elon Musk to be reined in an open letter, citing the CEO's many commitments. A group of Tesla investors is calling for Elon Musk to be reined in, saying the CEO has been distracted by commitments to his other companies like Twitter. "The Board allowed the CEO to be overcommitted at a time when the company faces critical challenges," the letter stated. Tesla and Musk didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider ahead of publication. Gerber's name is not listed on the open letter.
☆ Elon Musk now says he wants to create a ChatGPT competitor to avoid 'A.I. dystopia'—he's calling it 'TruthGPT'
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
"I'm going to start something which I call TruthGPT," Musk told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Monday, adding that he'd want his AI chatbot to be a "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe." He didn't provide evidence for those claims, or detail exactly what a "truth-seeking AI" might entail. "A path to AI dystopia is to train AI to be deceptive," Musk said. "It could cause harm," Pichai told CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Twitter — which intends to pursue generative AI, Musk told the BBC last week — is a for-profit company.
☆ Maye Musk said being awarded an honorary doctorate is the 'best thing that's ever happened to me'
  + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk congratulated his mother after she was awarded an honorary doctorate. Maye Musk received the honor in dietetics from the University of the Free State in South Africa. Elon Musk congratulated his mother after she was honored by the University of the Free State in South Africa for her contribution to nutrition research. "This was so unexpected," Maye Musk said after receiving an honorary doctorate in dietetics. Maye Musk didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
☆ Elon Musk says the 'constant attack' from the media about him being a 'horrible person' has been hurtful, but it's better than no free speech
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk told the BBC that reports about him being a "horrible person" have been "hurtful." Musk went on to speak about the importance of free speech and holding power to account. Musk didn't refer to any specific reports, but his management style has come under scrutiny several times. Tuesday's interview also saw Musk clash with the BBC's technology correspondent, James Clayton, in a discussion about free speech and misinformation. But Musk also spoke about having a "love/hate relationship" with the press, speaking to the importance of free speech and holding power to account.
☆ Elon Musk says he's 'dumb way more often than I'd like to be' in Twitter debate about his management style
  + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk reacted to Twitter users discussing his management style. That prompted one of the billionaire's fans to respond: "To think you're smarter than Elon Musk." In June last year, Musk told Tesla executives to come into the office and stop "phoning it in," or quit. At the time, Whole Mars Catalog asked Musk how he would respond to those who consider in-person work "antiquated." Twitter and Musk didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.
☆ The world's richest 25 people lost $200 billion last year—Jeff Bezos' net worth fell the most
  + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
The richest 25 people in the world lost a collective $200 billion in net worth in 2022, according to Forbes' 2023 World Billionaires List released this week. While 254 people lost their billionaire status last year, the remaining 2,640 billionaires lost a combined $500 billion. That title goes to Jeff Bezos, whose net worth dropped $57 billion due to a 38% drop in Amazon's stock price as of March 10. 1 spot after adding $53 billion to his net worth in 2022, launching him to the top of the richest list for the first time. Here are the 10 richest people in the world as of March 2023, according to Forbes.
☆ Sam Altman didn't take any equity in OpenAI, report says
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, pauses during the New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Altman didn't take an equity stake in the company when it added the for-profit OpenAI LP entity in 2019, Semafor reported Friday. OpenAI launched as a non-profit model in 2015 with backing from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who committed $1 billion to OpenAI, Semafor reported. But Musk was unhappy with OpenAI's growth, which he assessed as "fatally behind" Google 's work in AI, Semafor reported. 2019, OpenAI took a $1 billion investment from Microsoft , which has since embedded the company's technologies into its products.
☆ Elon Musk reportedly left OpenAI's board in 2018 after Sam Altman and other cofounders rejected his plan to run the company
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk tried to take over OpenAI in 2018 but walked away after Sam Altman and other founders rejected the idea, Semafor reported. Musk was a founder and board member of OpenAI before he left in 2018, citing a conflict of interest with Tesla. Upon Musk's departure in February 2018, OpenAI said he'd continue to provide funding and advice to the organization. Since leaving OpenAI, Musk has become an outspoken critic of the company. On a Twitter thread posted by Altman, Musk commented, "ChatGPT is scary good.
☆ Tesla's first CEO says Elon Musk never replied to a congratulatory note he sent — and hasn't spoken to him in 14 years
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Martin Eberhard said he sent Elon Musk a note after SpaceX's first rocket launched into orbit. The Tesla cofounder said he never heard back from Musk and hasn't spoken to him in about 14 years. "I actually sent him a congratulatory note when his first rocket successfully made it to space, but I got no reply." The Tesla cofounder has said Musk forced him out of the company and had Tesla's board vote him out as CEO behind his back in 2007. About two years later, after Musk started calling himself a Tesla founder, Eberhard sued Musk, alleging libel and slander.
☆ See the second car Tesla made: an orange-striped Roadster with 'Mr. Tesla' plates that may be worth more than $200,000
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard owns three Teslas, including a Roadster he drives every day. Eberhard said he owns the second Tesla Roadster ever made. "I've been driving my Roadster continuously since I bought it," Eberhard told Insider in an interview. He also sent another Tesla Roadster into space on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The Tesla cofounder said he occasionally takes the Roadster out for car shows, including the annual Roadster Rally.
☆ Ex-Tesla CEO says the company's culture might be 'nicer' if he had stuck around: 'I'm not into random firings'
  + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard said the carmaker's company culture might be "nicer" if he'd stayed. He said he's not into "random firings," a practice Musk has denied engaging in in the past. "I'm a believer of treating employees with respect and I'm not into random firings and things like that," Eberhard told Insider in an interview. Eberhard previously told Insider that Musk and Tesla's board had met behind his back and had voted to replace him as CEO. Musk became Tesla's CEO in 2008 and has become virtually synonymous with the brand's image in recent years.
☆ Elon Musk used to scream if he wasn't mentioned in an article about Tesla, the company's first CEO says
  + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard said Elon Musk used to "scream" if he was not cited in Tesla stories. Musk didn't return requests for comment. In an interview with Insider, Eberhard said he and Musk were "congenial" until his last few months at the company. "His behavior changed dramatically as soon as we started having press about Tesla," Eberhard told Insider in an interview. He previously told Insider that Musk and Tesla's board met behind his back and voted to replace him as CEO.
☆ Tesla cofounder calls Autopilot and FSD software 'crap' that could risk the carmaker's future
  + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard said he's "not a big fan" of autonomous cars. The Tesla cofounder said it's a "mistake to think of a car as a software platform." The Lotus Elise was a two-seater convertible that the British car company Lotus Cars first sold in 1996. The Tesla cofounder said that while he appreciates "safety-oriented systems" like driver-assist features, he's "not a big fan" of autonomous driving. Last year, the billionaire said the carmaker's self-driving software is the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and Tesla being worth almost nothing.
☆ Tesla fires dozens of employees in retaliation for organizing, complaint from labor group alleges
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Annie Palmer Lora Kolodny | Annie Palmer | Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Dozens of employees at a Tesla factory in upstate New York have been fired just days after launching a union campaign, organizers alleged Thursday. In a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, Workers United said Tesla fired more than 30 workers from its Autopilot unit at a Buffalo plant as a retaliatory measure and to discourage union activity. Employees at the Buffalo facility on Tuesday launched organizing efforts under the union Tesla Workers United. Workers received an email Wednesday evening laying out a new policy that prohibits them from recording workplace meetings without the permission of all participants, Tesla Workers United said in a release Thursday. In 2017, Tesla fired a union activist named Richard Ortiz, and in 2018, Musk tweeted a comment found to have violated federal labor laws.
☆ Elon Musk gets a kick out of seeing information from the 'Twitter Files' released onto the platform, Matt Taibbi says
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Matt Taibbi says Elon Musk gets a kick out of seeing information released via the "Twitter Files." "He gets a kick out of seeing all this stuff come out on Twitter," Taibbi said on the podcast, referring to Musk. Taibbi is one of the journalists who released the "Twitter Files," which came about after Musk acquired the platform. As part of the Twitter Files, Taibbi has posted lengthy threads containing leaked internal emails, messages, and other information he found. Later that month, Musk accused "corporate journalism" of failing to side with the people over the "Twitter Files."
☆ Elon Musk apologizes for tweeting a baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk has apologized for posting a baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi. Musk's apology came a day after bodycam footage of the attack on Pelosi was released. On Saturday, after receiving a question on Twitter about whether or not he should apologize to the Pelosis, Musk said: "I apologize." Musk's apology came after bodycam footage of the assault was released Friday. The bodycam footage shows police arriving at Pelosi's home and Pelosi and his attacker struggling over control of the hammer.
☆ Elon Musk increased security for his 76-year-old father Errol amid kidnapping fears, report says
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk has escalated security for his father in South Africa over kidnapping fears, per The Sun. Errol Musk told the newspaper the upgrade was needed following four break-ins last year. His 76-year-old father, Errol, told The US Sun that his son increased his own security with more armed guards following "recent threats". Errol Musk told The Sun said he feared for his son's safety despite him being protected by "100 security guards." Elon and Errol Musk didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.
☆ Elon Musk says Twitter now has 2,300 'active, working employees' – and just 10 are from his other companies
  + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk disputed a tweet and said Twitter now has 2,300 "active, working employees". Some staff from other Musk companies such as Tesla and SpaceX were brought in when he took over. "There are ~2300 active, working employees at Twitter," he wrote. "There are still hundreds of employees working on trust & safety, along with several thousand contractors." Musk also took issue with that figure, tweeting that "less than 10 people from my other companies are working at Twitter."
☆ Elon Musk says he isn't at Davos because it's 'boring af.' Organizers say they haven't invited him since 2015.
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos are pushing back on Elon Musk's claim that he declined an invitation because it's "boring af." A WEF spokesperson told the AP that Musk was last invited in 2015 to the yearly gathering of business execs and world leaders. The organizers of the WEF, however, beg to differ: They say the Twitter CEO hasn't been invited in nearly a decade. Musk never registered or attended on the handful of occasions he was invited to the conference in the 2010s, Zopf told the AP. Meanwhile, Musk wrote in a tweet last month, "I was invited to WEF, but declined."
☆ Richard Branson says Elon Musk made a surprise visit in the middle of the night with his 2-year-old son hours before his first space flight
  + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Richard Branson told The Sunday Times that Elon Musk made a surprise visit to his New Mexico home. A barefoot Musk wanted to wish Branson luck on the flight and brought his 2-year-old son along too. "I think it was about 2:30 a.m.," Branson told The Sunday Times, recalling the morning of July 11, 2022, ahead of his flight to space. "Elon had decided to surprise us" to wish his friend luck on his debut flight, Branson told the newspaper. The SpaceX CEO also went to the launch site to watch the flight and later told Branson: "Congratulations, beautiful flight."
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