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Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late
Tesla's Charging PR team (or the lack thereof) had to issue a warning to its customers not to do the "wet towel" trick.
Elon Musk confirms the Tesla Robotaxi event has been delayed to October
Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that Tesla’s robotaxi event scheduled for August has been delayed to October. The CEO replied on X to a user’s post that he “requested what I think is an important design change to the front, and extra time allows us to show off a few other things.”
Elon Musk escapes paying $500 million to former Twitter employees
X Corp won a dismissal in a class-action lawsuit that sought $500 million in unpaid severance for thousands of former Twitter employees.
Tesla's year-over-year deliveries decreased for the second quarter in a row
Tesla's YOY distribution continues to decrease in 2024, compared to 2023.
Tesla’s Cybertruck has been recalled again
Tesla is once again recalling the Cybertruck. All told, nearly 12,000 vehicles are being recalled due to a faulty windshield wiper and trim.
Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live
A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam. It's only the latest in a series of these scams, which tell users to deposit their crypto in order to receive double in a giveaway.
Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk’s 'unfathomable' pay package
Tesla shareholders have again approved Elon Musk’s multi-billion dollar pay package several months after a Delaware court invalidated it.
Elon Musk sued for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by former SpaceX engineers
Eight former SpaceX engineers filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday, accusing the CEO of sexual harassment and retaliation. The same group of fired employees have also filed complaints with the NLRB about SpaceX’s alleged retaliation.
WSJ details Elon Musk's pattern of sexual involvement with SpaceX employees
Elon Musk had sexual relations with a SpaceX intern who was later hired onto his executive staff as a troubleshooter.
Musk withdraws his breach of contract lawsuit against OpenAI
Musk’s suit, which was filed in February, had accused OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of violating the company’s non-profit status and instead prioritizing profits over using AI to help humanity.
Hey Elon, go ahead and ban Apple devices
Following WWDC 2024, Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple's partnership with OpenAI goes through. So enough with the talk, let's see him actually do it.
Elon Musk is reportedly planning an xAI supercomputer to power a better version of Grok
Musk recently presented plans for a ‘gigafactory of compute’ to investors, The Information reports. This would power a future, smarter version of Grok and require at least 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
Russia can reportedly jam Ukraine’s access to Starlink at will
Russia has reportedly found new, more effective ways to knock out Ukraine’s Starlink service. The increased interference has disrupted communications at critical moments and is posing “a major threat to Ukraine.”
Another patient will get Neuralink’s brain implant
Neuralink will be able to surgically implant its device into another patient’s brain.
Twitter has officially moved to X.com
Twitter officially went through a rebranding almost a year ago, but most of its pages still used Twitter in their URL until now.
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
X now considers the term “cisgender” a slur. On Tuesday, the platform reportedly began posting an official warning that the LGBTQ-inclusive terms could result in a ban from the platform.
Nintendo is done paying Elon Musk for X integration
Nintendo has had enough of X’s (Twitter’s) API fees. The Mario maker said on Wednesday that starting on June 10, direct integration from the Switch’s album to Elon Musk’s Nazi-curious platform will no longer work.
X is using Grok to publish AI-generated news summaries
X is using Grok to publish AI-generated summaries of news and other topics that trend on the platform.
X is changing how the block button works
X is changing how blocks work on its platform, though it’s (for now) stopping short of Elon Musk’s wish of nuking the feature entirely.
The US Supreme Court rejects Elon Musk’s appeal in ‘funding secured’ tweet ruling
On Monday, the US Supreme Court dismissed Elon Musk’s appeal about a 2018 SEC settlement regarding a “funding secured” tweet. The conservative-majority court passed on Musk’s attempt to throw out the agreement.