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☆ This French aerospace company is trying to lure US SpaceX workers after Elon Musk said he would relocate the company from California to Texas — and it may be working
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA French aerospace company is trying to convince disgruntled American SpaceX employees to leave the US for Europe after billionaire Elon Musk announced he would relocate his rocket company from California to Texas. Stanislas Maximin, CEO of Latitude, jumped at the opportunity to poach any unhappy SpaceX employees suddenly staring down an interstate move. Maximin told CNBC that his LinkedIn post garnered some 200 messages and helped him increase his connections on the site by a third. "We have done it multiple times over," Maximin told CNBC of hiring foreigners. Musk has made the Lonestar State his home base in recent years, moving Tesla headquarters to Texas from California during the pandemic.

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Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at a campaign rally on July 20, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vance defended his loyalty to the US, after Vice President Kamala Harris said he “will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”“There’s some bad news actually, Vice President Kamala Harris, she doesn’t like me,” Vance said in remarks about two hours before Trump took the stage. “Kamala Harris said something to the effect that … I have no loyalty to this country,” he continued. “Well, I don’t know, Kamala, I did serve in the United States Marine Corps and build a business. The only unity we saw today was between Donald Trump, JD Vance, and their Project 2025 agenda,” Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

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That person, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, was one of several people urging Trump in the final moments to select Ohio Sen. JD Vance. Only moments earlier, Trump had shared the information with Vance himself, according to multiple people familiar with the call. Trump spent the final 24 hours waffling over his pick, multiple sources told CNN, leaving even those in his inner circle guessing about his ultimate choice. Several Republican donors argued for Youngkin as Trump’s pick in recent days as it became clear that Rubio and Burgum may not make the cut. “I can’t stomach Trump,” Vance said in an interview with NPR at the time.

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☆ Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and David Sacks personally lobbied Trump to pick Vance: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewTesla billionaire Elon Musk, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and venture capitalist David Sacks personally lobbied Donald Trump to select JD Vance as his running mate, according to Axios. Axios said that a secret lobbying campaign continued into Monday morning, led by key figures such as Musk, Carlson, and Sacks. Tucker Carlson praised JD Vance after he was announced as Trump's VP nominee. Advertisement"When the Twin Towers came down, JD Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps, gung-ho to exact justice on America's enemies," Sacks wrote on X. Representatives for Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and David Sacks did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a legal challenge from DISH Network (DISH.MX) New Tab , opens new tab and an environmental group composed of amateur astronomers and dark-sky enthusiasts. The court in 2022 rejected a separate challenge to SpaceX's plan to deploy satellites at a lower Earth orbit than planned. In late 2022, the FCC approved SpaceX's request to deploy up to 7,500 satellites after the commission in 2018 approved SpaceX plans to deploy up to 4,425 first-generation satellites. The three-judge panel said the FCC "decision to license SpaceX’s Gen2 Starlink satellites was lawful and reasonable." New Tab , opens new tab

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☆ Elon Musk sure wants people to know he was the one to name OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Billionaire Elon Musk spoke to WPP CEO Mark Read in an interview at Cannes Lions on Wednesday. On the topic of the future of AI, Musk reminded the audience he cofounded OpenAI as a nonprofit. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk reminded the audience at Cannes Lions on Wednesday that he was the person to name OpenAI as he made a jab at the direction the company has taken since then. Musk took to the festival stage as a guest speaker in an interview with WPP CEO Mark Read, where he discussed technical innovation.

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☆ Trump in liberal San Francisco for high-dollar tech fundraiser
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

(Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will attend a fundraiser hosted by two tech venture capitalists in San Francisco on Thursday, a high-dollar event expected to draw Silicon Valley investors turned off by the Biden administration's policies. Trevor Traina, a San Francisco-based tech executive and former Trump ambassador to Austria, said business regulations implemented during Biden's presidency had alienated some people in the tech industry. Trump's campaign raked in record amounts after the guilty verdict last week, and the San Francisco event will add to his coffers. Vance, a potential running mate for Trump who previously lived in San Francisco and worked in venture capital, will attend the event, according to a source familiar with his plans. San Francisco remains a fertile fundraising ground for Democrats.

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☆ Argentina’s 'anarcho capitalist' Milei meets with Sam Altman, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai in a bid to spur investment
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Argentina's President Javier Milei waves during the commemoration of the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution that led to the independence from Spain, at Plaza San Martin in Cordoba, Argentina, on May 25, 2024. On his seventh overseas trip since taking office late last year, Argentina's Milei traveled to San Francisco late Monday and has since met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google's Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook. The right-wing leader, and self-described "anarcho capitalist," is scheduled to meet with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg before departing from the U.S. on Friday. On a separate trip to the U.S. last month, Milei met with tech billionaire Elon Musk at a Tesla electric car factory in Austin, Texas. The growth of AI data centres will also require significant energy and water resources, of which Argentina has in abundance."

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☆ Should Elon Musk be paid $56 billion? Tesla shareholders get to vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( David Ingram | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Several investors released a joint letter this month urging fellow shareholders to vote down the package as excessive. Tesla shareholders approved the pay package in 2018, with compensation tied to Tesla's performance including its market value. And he still has time to meet goals he hasn't reached, including on revenue, because the pay package had a 10-year term. In the 440-page proxy statement explaining the vote, a committee of the Tesla board noted the "novel circumstances." Some people began sharing screenshots of their votes in April, shortly after the Tesla board announced the vote, and the deadline to vote online is June 12.

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☆ Musk launches SpaceX’s Starlink internet services in Indonesia, says more investments could come
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Sheila Chiang | In Sheilachiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Musk launched on May 19 his Starlink service on Indonesia's resort island of Bali as the country aims to extend internet to its remote areas. Millions of people in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, are not currently hooked up to reliable internet services. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP) (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images)Elon Musk has launched SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet services in Indonesia as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to boost internet connectivity in remote areas. SpaceX, which manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, is also a developer of Starlink satellites which provide internet connectivity to remote locations. Communication and Informatics Minister Budi Arie Setiadi previously said Starlink would help Indonesia extend internet access to regions not covered by local internet providers, according to Indonesian news agency Antara.

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☆ Elon Musk is serving up some Bali swag
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was in Bali, Indonesia, this Sunday. The billionaire was there to launch his company's Starlink satellite internet service. AdvertisementBillionaire Elon Musk was in Bali this Sunday, and boy, was he serving up some serious tropical swag. The SpaceX CEO headed to Indonesia on May 19 where he launched his company's Starlink satellite internet service. As part of his visit, Musk visited a community health center where he was seen wearing a Javanese batik shirt.

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☆ Elon Musk says the match he had with a sumo wrestler was 'a few minutes of glory' that became '8 years of neck pain'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Billionaire Elon Musk once fought a sumo wrestler, and says he's still paying the price for it. "Had a few minutes of glory and 8 years of neck pain," Musk wrote on Sunday. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk is still talking about that sumo fight he once had, and it sure sounds like battling a trained wrestler did land Musk in a world of hurt. "Had a few minutes of glory and 8 years of neck pain," Musk wrote.

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☆ Musk's Starlink satellites disrupted by major solar storm
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk's SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a "degraded service" as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades. Starlink owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet. Musk said earlier in a post on X that Starlink satellites were under a lot of pressure due to the geomagnetic storm, but were holding up so far. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said the storm is the biggest since October 2003 and likely to persist over the weekend, posing risks to navigation systems, power grids, and satellite navigation, among other services. The thousands of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit use inter-satellite laser links to pass data between one another in space at the speed of light, allowing the network to offer internet coverage around the world.

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☆ India’s economy and elections: Is the hype around Narendra Modi’s vision justified?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Diksha Madhok | Rachel Wilson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New Delhi/London CNN —In just a few days, India will commence the world’s largest democratic election. So, is the hype around Modi’s India, which remains a largely impoverished country, justified? The world’s largest biometric database has also helped the government save millions by reducing corruption in welfare initiatives. Domestic investors, both retail and institutional, have been driving India’s stock market to unprecedented peaks. Still, India’s economy, much like its democracy, is far from perfect.

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☆ CEOs bet up to $10 million to prove Elon Musk's AI prediction wrong
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gary Marcus, the founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning AI startup acquired by Uber in 2016, doesn't agree with Musk's AI predictions. AdvertisementDear @elonmusk,$1 million says your latest prediction – that AI will be smarter than any individual human by the end of 2025 – is wrong. "We should want the world to find better, more trustworthy ways to build AI," Marcus said. "I was actually quite supportive of Musk," Marcus said. Marcus told BI he believes AI could help humanity, but he's much less optimistic about AI being trustworthy in the near future.

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☆ Elon Musk says he used to vote '100% Dem,' but now thinks the US needs a 'red wave' to save it
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk says he's done voting for the Democratic Party. Musk has been an outspoken critic of Joe Biden though he hasn't endorsed his rival, Donald Trump. AdvertisementBillionaire Elon Musk says the US is finished unless the GOP prevails in this year's elections. Now, I think we need a red wave or America is toast," Musk wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday. Musk has been an outspoken critic of President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

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☆ MrBeast says he sleeps in an office-bedroom so he can be closer to work — take a look
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Howie Mandel Does Stuff"Sometimes when my girlfriend's in town, I'll go to a house. Howie Mandel Does Stuff"If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader. It's unclear if Donaldson may have taken inspiration from Musk in his decision to sleep at the office.

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Outside of his MAGA movement, though, the social media site is struggling to find a wider audience. It’s a critical milestone for the social media site as well as for Trump, providing a path for the former real estate tycoon’s return to Wall Street. Some conservatives, looking for an alternative to mainstream social media sites seen as hostile to their point of view, initially seemed eager to embrace Truth Social. Truth Social’s hot.”Many Republican politicians and conservative have not joined Truth Social or they post infrequently. “It’s safe to say that Truth Social has not broken into the mainstream,” said Joshua Tucker, co-director of the New York University Center for Social Media and Politics.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show" on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode. X announced in January a “new content partnership” with Lemon for the show, saying it would post 30 minute episodes three times a week on subjects including politics, culture, sports and entertainment. That deal was part of the struggling platform's efforts to bolster its content offerings and attract advertisers. X also announced shows hosted by former member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard and sports radio host Jim Rome. Photos You Should See View All 60 ImagesLemon was fired by CNN last year after a 17-year run with the network.

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☆ TikTok ban: Tech VC Keith Rabois threatens Republicans with funding halt ahead of House vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Will never fund any Republican candidates or leadership PACs (or the NRSC) run by Republicans who vote against the TikTok legislation," venture capitalist Keith Rabois wrote on X. "Support for the TikTok bill is an IQ test" for members of Congress, Rabois wrote in an email to CNBC. In February, Rabois gave $500,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a political action committee that backs House Republican candidates, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. A managing director at Khosla Ventures, Rabois gave just over $41,000 combined last year to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Rabois said that whether or not he continues to support the NRCC will be partly tied to how Republican leadership handles the upcoming vote.

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☆ Trump just couldn't resist spending his Sunday night hate posting about the 'really bad politically correct' Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"A really bad politically correct show tonight," Trump said in a Truth Social post. "A really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years — Disjointed, boring, and very unfair," Trump said of the Oscars in a Truth Social post on Sunday. Besides dunking on the awards, Trump also took pot shots at this year's host, Jimmy Kimmel. "Thank you President Trump. ALSO, BRING BACK A GREAT HOST," Trump said.

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☆ Elon Musk makes it clear: He's not going to donate to Trump's campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says he's not going to donate to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden. The New York Times reported that Trump met with Musk while looking for cash for his campaign. AdvertisementThe billionaire Elon Musk wrote on Wednesday morning that he wouldn't be donating "to either candidate" for president, a declaration that came after The New York Times reported that Musk huddled with Donald Trump in Florida. "Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President," Musk wrote on X.Musk's refusal isn't all that surprising. "I would not vote for Biden," Musk told the journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at a New York Times event.

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Without ever clicking a mouse or touching a screen, Mark selected this command on his computer simply using signals from his brain. “I figured I had two choices: I could wallow in self-pity, or I could pick myself up by the bootstraps and do what I could to help,” Mark said. Synchron’s brain implant, the one Mark has, is called a Stentrode and consists of a stent with electrode sensors that can detect electrical brain activity. That external transmitter sits right above the internal transmitter and carries the signal from Mark’s brain to the computer almost instantaneously. Earlier this month, Musk also said Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain.

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☆ Why can’t we stop calling X, Twitter?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Saira Mueller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

While some people (mainly fans of Musk) have embraced the X brand, most have not. Many people, both online and in person, still call the platform Twitter, and refer to posts as tweets. WHY ARE WE STILL CALLING THIS PLATFORM TWITTER. Even when you do see X, it's framed as "X, formerly Twitter". So the brand is what they say it is… it’s not that customers can’t stop calling it Twitter, it’s that they won’t.”

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☆ Sergey Brin's ex-wife was the primary funder of an RFK Jr.-supporting Super Bowl ad panned by some in the Kennedy family
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -supporting Super Bowl ad that shook up the Kennedy family was backed by a tech-connected figure. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Advertisement"She's a very strong supporter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," Tony Lyons, a co-chairman of American Values 2024, told Business Insider on Tuesday. Kennedy, as Business Insider has previously reported, has made numerous false claims about vaccines and vaccine safety. Shanahan played a part in putting together the archival footage for the Kennedy ad.

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