Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter)

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk’s Grok Will Get All Its News From X

AI-generated news summaries on X will combine breaking news and social commentary, but not news articles.

gizmodo.com

Elon Musk says Grok’s real-time news feature, which is going about as well as you’d expect so far, will get information purely from “summarizing what people say on X,” in an email to the Big Technology newsletter Friday.

No wonder it's been vomiting actual fake news some times.

 

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[blueharvest]

The Growing List of Global VIPs Who Detest Elon Musk

The billionaire tech tycoon has made some formidable enemies in recent months.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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[Sithborg]

Sounds like Musk may actuall be going for 20% staff cuts at Tesla after all.

 

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[Mani-Man]

Guess they have no choice right?
Like, they cant sack him and all.
So you gotta do everything to please the guy and hope for the best, brace for impact and pray.

 

[Teelie]

He's wrecking the company, laying off people left and right so their answer it to give into him instead of finding someone more competent and less erratic?

 

[Lily Adler]

Threads is the winner for Twitter alternative.

 

[blueharvest]

Threads is the winner for Twitter alternative.

True. Threads. Mastodon. They're all better than Twitter at the moment.

 

[Lily Adler]

True. Threads. Mastodon. They're all better than Twitter at the moment.

Mark Zuckerberg after his victory toast:

 

[Lily Adler]

Elon Musk Woes Continue: Meta Threads Poised to Overtake X

Meta's Threads challenges X (formerly Twitter) in the US with a positive user experience focus but faces an uphill battle against X's 550M users.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

An update on how Threads is doing.

The app now has 150 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday during Meta’s earnings call. There were almost 100 million monthly Threads users in October. The metric I’d really like to see, however, is daily users. Meta is juicing the visibility of Threads posts in the Instagram...

www.theverge.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Feds Reportedly Investigating Tesla for Fraud Related to Self-Driving Claims

Elon Musk continues to rack up investigations by government agencies.

gizmodo.com

Tesla Cybertruck Door Leaves a Gash in Owner's Leg

The Cybertruck has injured another owner, this time with the bottom edge of one of the truck’s doors.

gizmodo.com

Hertz Charges Tesla Model 3 Renter $277 Fee for Gas, Won’t Back Down

A loyal Hertz customer was hit with a nasty surcharge to "fill up the gas tank" of a Tesla Model 3—and the company's not budging.

www.thedrive.com

Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings

It sure looks like Tesla has a hiring freeze after weeks of "hardcore" layoffs.

gizmodo.com

 

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Tesla Temporarily Shuts Factory Down as Environmentalists Call the Company a Sham

Tesla has temporarily shuttered its doors as climate activists camped in the forest outside its gigafactory are ramping up their protests over the company's impact on the environment.

www.wired.com

And here's the article without a paywall:

https://archive.ph/wcr18

 

[Mani-Man]

He's wrecking the company, laying off people left and right so their answer it to give into him instead of finding someone more competent and less erratic?

Well they have little options i think...doesnt he have the most shares or so?
I guess their only option here is to brace for impact and save as much money as they can.

Elon Musk Woes Continue: Meta Threads Poised to Overtake X

Meta's Threads challenges X (formerly Twitter) in the US with a positive user experience focus but faces an uphill battle against X's 550M users.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

An update on how Threads is doing.

The app now has 150 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday during Meta’s earnings call. There were almost 100 million monthly Threads users in October. The metric I’d really like to see, however, is daily users. Meta is juicing the visibility of Threads posts in the Instagram...

www.theverge.com

Isnt Threads only problem that it has to be connected to Instagram or so?
As i keep saying, have a somewhat competent alternative and invest some money to get a few big influencers etc to join and promote...and Twitter is history pretty much.
People just wait for the moment they can jump ship.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

'Planet of the Apes' actor studied Elon Musk to play bonobo villain

'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' star Kevin Durand says that he studied Tesla CEO Elon Musk when preparing to play the villainous bonobo Proximus Caesar in the new sci-fi adventure.

ew.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Well they have little options i think...doesnt he have the most shares or so?
I guess their only option here is to brace for impact and save as much money as they can.

Isnt Threads only problem that it has to be connected to Instagram or so?
As i keep saying, have a somewhat competent alternative and invest some money to get a few big influencers etc to join and promote...and Twitter is history pretty much.
People just wait for the moment they can jump ship.

Yep. You still need an Instagram account to use it.

 

[blueharvest]

Departing Tesla Exec Can’t ‘See The Long Game’ As Layoffs Hit Morale, Stock Price

Plus President Joe Biden is set to unveil strict Chinese EV tariffs and the feds are investigating Ford’s handling of a fuel leak recall.

jalopnik.com

 

[Lily Adler]

I've been seeing people posting Musk is considering changing it back to Twitter? I don't think so.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Lawsuit dismissed: Elon Musk's X corp loses case against Israeli data-scraping company

A US judge dismisses X Corp's lawsuit against Bright Data, ruling that scraping public web information isn't inherently fraudulent and upholding data access rights.

m.jpost.com

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.

www.engadget.com

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australian-regulator-says-musks-x-should-not-set-limits-internet-law-2024-05-10/

Tesla executive says he's resigned as recent layoffs hurt morale and throw the company 'out of balance'

Tesla's former head of product launches, Rich Otto, said layoffs are "rocking the company and its morale."

www.businessinsider.com

 

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[Mani-Man]

Considering how few Cyber Trucks have been sold, i feel like not even 5% of them work.
Like, the amount of broken Cyber Trucks i have seen is wild considering around 3800 have been delivered so far.

 

[3rdstone]

Swedish union slams Tesla for bringing in foreign strike breakers

Tesla is allegedly bringing in workers from countries such as the UK, Ireland and Portugal to fill the gaps left by striking employees in Sweden.

www.thelocal.se

 

[blueharvest]

Tesla now spends ad money to influence shareholders approval of Elon Musk's $55B payday

Tesla has now disclosed that it is spending money to promote its shareholders vote to approve of Elon Musk’s $55...

electrek.co

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Musk Faces Lawsuit for Drug Use, X Posts Under the Influence

Elon Musk’s use of illicit drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, and LSD threatens Tesla Inc.'s business, including by apparently influencing his sometimes erratic behavior online, according to a newly unsealed court filing.

news.bloomberglaw.com