Elon Musk

The company’s legal response to Musk’s lawsuit was just made public and, as we expected, OpenAI refutes the crux of Musk’s argument: that it violated a founding contract with him when it became a commercial entity.

They are discussing options that may make the debt less risky to hold. After the events of 2022, when Musk bought Twitter, it was difficult for these banks to offload the debt; they’ve agreed — for now anyway — to coordinate a sale together when X is “on firmer financial footing.”

Chief strategy officer Jason Kwon said in a staff memo regarding Elon Musk’s lawsuit that Musk has “regrets about not being involved with the company today,” according to several reports.

“oh it’s a rare friday money stuff, i wonder who could have brought that about,” Levine wrote on Twitter.

Elon Musk isn’t great with timelines so take his latest proclamations about a 2024 reveal for the second generation Roadster announced in 2017 with appropriate skepticism, especially since he already missed the 2020, 2022, and 2023 dates.

Workers suffered chemical burns while digging a tunnel in Las Vegas for Elon Musk’s Boring Company, according to a state OSHA investigation. “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’” one worker told Bloomberg Businessweek.

Dittmann has found media attention before due to sounding almost identical to the Tesla CEO, but after appearing on Alex Jones’s Infowars podcast, people now suspect that he may actually be Musk masquerading under a false name.

Nitter, the open-source, tracker-free Twitter front end, joins the other great third-party apps in the API afterlife.

Last week, Musk said he wanted to move Tesla’s incorporation to Texas after a Delaware judge struck down his $55 billion pay package, but as Bloomberg notes, that would take a shareholder vote. There’s no such restriction on Neuralink.

This week marks the launch of Decoder’s second episode, which will explain big topics in the news with Verge reporters, experts, and other friends of the show. (The other Decoder you know and love, featuring big interviews with CEOs and others, now publishes every Monday.)

The Daily Beast says it identified the site’s lead blogger through a filing in a Florida court — after he had an affair with a woman that’s led to “dueling legal complaints and accusations of abusive behavior.” When the blogger sought a restraining order, he revealed enough details about himself to be identifiable.

The California Civil Rights Department is investigating complaints by seven workers that SpaceX execs “discriminated against women, joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns,” reports Bloomberg and Reuters.

Not very, according to The Wall Street Journal’s examination, published last night.

Tesla was being sued by 25 California DAs for dumping hazardous automotive components and waste like metal car panel welding spatter in the trash instead of handling it appropriately.

Elon Musk’s other other company, the brain-machine interface startup Neuralink, has apparently put an implant in a human, who is recovering well and seeing “promising neuron spike detection.”

The AI company is also discussing an eye-watering valuation of between $15 billion and $20 billion, Bloomberg reports. (AI companies have been seeking huge valuations as of late.) xAI had raised $137.4 million toward that $1 billion goal as of early December.

The Tesla CEO and X CTO / owner writes that “I am uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI & robotics without having ~25% voting control,” and proposed building products (like Grok?) outside of Tesla instead.

X CEO and former award-winning DEI executive Linda Yaccarino is promoting the company’s 2024 plans for AI and Grok, as well as the “video first” experience that included so many unauthorized Super Mario Bros. Movie streams.

At least according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal that claims that SpaceX and Tesla executives and board members are concerned about how Musk’s drug use could affect his health — and his businesses.

Fidelity, an investor that put over $300 million into Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now believes the company is worth 71.5 percent less than the $44 billion paid for it, Axios reports. That implies a total valuation of between $12 and $13 billion and includes a drop of 10.7 percent in the month of November alone when Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves.

In this entry into the list of lawsuits over unpaid Twitter bills, Courthouse News reports Mark Schobinger’s class action lawsuit is over unpaid 2022 annual bonuses. Schobinger, notably, is Twitter’s former senior director of compensation.

It’s about Elon Musk bragging to the banks that backed his Twitter takeover that he never lost money for his investors.