The city has approved Boring Company’s plan to extend its network of underground tunnels to 68 miles and 81 stations: 21 within Las Vegas city limits and 60 in Clark County.
In May, the “Vegas Loop” plan included 65 miles of the claustrophobic single-lane tubes that funnel passenger-loaded Tesla cars. Clark County said yes to it.
Nine months after taking over the company that was once known as Twitter, Elon Musk has sued and been sued a lot. Add AFP to the long list of plaintiffs. The French press agency has filed a copyright lawsuit accusing X of ignoring its obligations stemming from the national copyright law.
France requires platforms such as X to enter discussions with publishers seeking remuneration for distributing news. Google previously refused to comply but was forced to pay €500 million in 2021 by the French competition authority. Musk has called it “bizarre” to “pay *them* for traffic to their site where they make advertising revenue and we don’t”.
I’m going to assume the answer is no, but Semafor reports that the company is “seeking a financial-data giant to build a trading hub inside the app.” Should this come to fruition, it could be just one of many pieces of Elon Musk’s vision to make X an “everything app.”
...that is, if the company is working on some kind of stock trading platform at all. “No work is being done on this to the best of my knowledge,” according to Musk.
[www.semafor.com]
If you want to buy Blue, but don’t want to advertise that you’re a paying user on Elon Musk’s social network / attempt at an everything app, you might have the option to do both now.
