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Archives for February 2023

Elon Musk’s ‘lab leak’ tweets could be an issue for Tesla’s plans in ChinaElon Musk’s ‘lab leak’ tweets could be an issue for Tesla’s plans in China
Robotaxis, cheap EVs, and a new master plan for the future: what to expect at Tesla’s Investor DayRobotaxis, cheap EVs, and a new master plan for the future: what to expect at Tesla’s Investor Day
Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
Tesla is heading to Mexico.

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tesla will build a plant in Monterrey — about 387 miles away from Tesla’s Austin, TX headquarters, and the company’s first factory south of the US border.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was reportedly touring three Mexican states in December. It was reported locally that the automaker plans an initial investment of $800 million to $1 billion.

Tesla is expected to announce the details of the new factory at its Investor Day event tomorrow.

Musk’s Tesla to Build New Electric Car Plant in Monterrey, Mexico, AMLO Says

[Bloomberg.com]

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Is this Twitter’s future CEO?

The Verge’s friends over at Platformer report that Steve Davis, CEO of The Boring Company, is becoming a key player in Elon Musk’s management of Twitter. Musk says Twitter should be ready for a new CEO by the end of 2023 after users voted for him to step down — perhaps Davis will take that spot.

In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO

[www.platformer.news]

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Elon Musk inserts himself into the Dilbert fiasco to proclaim that “The media is racist.”

The weekend tweet by the once-again world’s richest man reacted to the reaction to Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ YouTube rant about Black people — that video was deemed unacceptably racist enough that newspapers and his syndication partner cut ties with the cartoonist.

In response, Musk says that these days, The Media is actually “racist against whites & Asians.”

There’s another call for a Twitter ad boycott, while The Information reports Musk is seeking people to build a ChatGPT AI alternative that isn’t so “woke.”

Musk defends ‘Dilbert’ creator, says media is ‘racist against whites’

[Washington Post]

Elon Musk: remaining Twitter employees will soon receive ‘significant’ stock awardsElon Musk: remaining Twitter employees will soon receive ‘significant’ stock awards
Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at TwitterTwitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter
Alex Heath
Alex Heath
Elon Musk is laying off more Twitter employees, again.

It’s at least the fourth round of cuts since Musk said on November 21st that layoffs were over.

Affected employees started receiving notices by email on Saturday. I’m hearing that this round is hitting a bunch of departments, including ads and infrastructure engineering, and Twitter likely has fewer than 2,000 employees now. It had about 7,500 when Musk took over.

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Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
Meta braces for layoffsMeta braces for layoffs
Alex Heath
Tesla announces new engineering headquarters in CaliforniaTesla announces new engineering headquarters in California
Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were doneElon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done
Starlink’s testing a ‘Global Roaming’ internet service for $200 per monthStarlink’s testing a ‘Global Roaming’ internet service for $200 per month
Elon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of yearElon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of year
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Sometimes AI chatbot responses are clear, detailed, and wrong.

From last week’s Vergecast: there’s one small problem with this Bing AI response about The Verge’s history with Elon Musk and Elon Musk impersonators.

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