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Jul 11, 2020

Elon Musk becomes the seventh richest billionaire in the world

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Tesla CEO and tech mogul Elon Musk just swept past Warren Buffett on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index to become the world’s seventh wealthiest person. According to Bloomberg, Musk’s fortune on Friday increased by more than $6 billion, this came after Tesla’s stock which had been performing better than ever before in the past few weeks surged at the rate of 10.8% to an all-time high record of $1,544 per share. Its Market Capitalization value is standing at $286.5 billion which makes it the highest valued automotive company in the world.

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Jul 9, 2020

Neuralink progress update: what to know about Elon Musk’s major event

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The brain-computer linkup firm, Neuralink, is set to reveal more about its progress toward its goals.

Jul 9, 2020

Tesla ‘very close’ to level 5 autonomous driving technology, Musk says

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

SHANGHAI/BEIJING — U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input.

Musk added that he was confident Tesla would attain basic functionality of the technology this year, in remarks made via a video message at the opening of Shanghai’s annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

The California-based automaker currently builds cars with an autopilot driver assistance system.

Jul 8, 2020

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is hosting a competition to see who can dig tunnels faster than a snail

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Elon Musk is hell bent on finding a way to dig tunnels cheaper and more quickly in order to avoid his least favourite thing: traffic.

Jul 8, 2020

Elon Musk and other competitors rushed to support Rocket Lab after the startup’s founder apologized for losing 7 satellites in a launch failure

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When Peter Beck of Rocket Lab said he was “incredibly sorry” for losing his customers’ satellites, the company saw a surge of public support.

Jul 8, 2020

Young Sheldon — When Sheldon Outsmarted NASA

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Elon Musk is just a modern day Sheldon Cooper.

Jul 6, 2020

SpaceX on Facebook Watch

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“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

Elon musk from failures to success!

Jul 6, 2020

Study tests whether AI can convincingly answer existential questions

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, ethics, robotics/AI

A new study has explored whether AI can provide more attractive answers to humanity’s most profound questions than history’s most influential thinkers.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales first fed a series of moral questions to Salesforce’s CTRL system, a text generator trained on millions of documents and websites, including all of Wikipedia. They added its responses to a collection of reflections from the likes of Plato, Jesus Christ, and, err, Elon Musk.

The team then asked more than 1,000 people which musings they liked best — and whether they could identify the source of the quotes.

Jul 6, 2020

Tesla building ‘RNA microfactories’ with coronavirus vaccine maker: Elon Musk

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Elon Musk said Tesla is building “RNA microfactories” for CureVac and other coronavirus vaccine makers.

Jul 5, 2020

Elon’s SpaceX Tour — Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon

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Elon Musk giving SpaceX Tour — Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon #SpaceX #ElonMusk