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Aug 6, 2023

The former Twitter exec who went viral for sleeping on the office floor said she had no choice but to do so because of Elon Musk’s ‘nearly impossible deadline’

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A former Twitter executive said she slept on the office floor because Elon Musk gave her a “nearly impossible deadline.”

Esther Crawford, the former director of product management at the social-media giant, which rebranded as X this week, retweeted a photo of her wrapped up in a sleeping bag on the floor of one of Twitter’s conference rooms in November. “When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork,” Crawford wrote in the caption.

The photo of her lying on the floor and wearing an eye mask went viral.

Aug 5, 2023

SpaceX’s private control of satellite internet concerns military leaders: report

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, military, satellites

A number of military leaders around the world have expressed concerns to US officials over the dominance and control of SpaceX founder Elon Musk over satellite internet, according to a new report.

Over the past decade Musk’s SpaceX has changed the launch industry with its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. The company has pressed this advantage to establish itself as the leading player in satellite internet through Starlink.

Aug 5, 2023

Elon Musk says X will keep ad revenue from content creators who don’t have a Blue premium subscription

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“The ad money will otherwise be kept by X if you are not an X Premium (Blue) subscriber,” Musk said in a post.

To be eligible for the program, creators also need to be at least 18 years old, have a minimum of 500 followers, and have 15 million or more “organic impressions” on posts within the last three months.

The price of an X premium subscription starts at $8 per month, or $84 a year, and it gives users access to extra features such as “Edit.”

Aug 5, 2023

The AI Alignment Debate: Can We Develop Truly Beneficial AI? George Hotz and Connor Leahy

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, mobile phones, robotics/AI

Introduction to george hotz and connor leahy.

The debate opens with introductions to the two featured guests — George Hotz and Connor Leahy. Hotz is described as a maverick hacker known for daring technical exploits like jailbreaking the iPhone. His hacker skills are likened to the technical finesse of Elon Musk combined with the wit of Tony Stark. Leahy is introduced as a steadfast defender of AI safety, determined to safeguard humanity from potential threats posed by artificial intelligence. His goal is to “break the damning prophecy and render us super saved.”

George hotz’s opening statement: intelligence and power.

Aug 4, 2023

Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads ‘Committed The Cardinal Sin’ Of Boring People To Death

Posted by in categories: electronics, Elon Musk

As Meta Platforms Inc.’s META latest social media platform, Threads’ daily active user count continues to drop, Elon Musk has accused Mark Zuckerberg’s forum of committing a “cardinal sin.”

What Happened: Meta’s Threads entered the social media arena with much fanfare, quickly attracting over 100 million sign-ups in just five days.

However, the initial hype didn’t translate into long-term user retention, as the daily active user count witnessed a staggering 82% decline since its peak at 44 million users on launch day, reported CNN, citing data from Sensor Tower.

Aug 4, 2023

AI.com once took you to ChatGPT. Now, it goes to Elon Musk’s xAI

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Will someone please tell us who the hell owns AI.com and what they’re doing with it?

The domain, which used to direct to ChatGPT, now redirects users to xAI, an AI company owned by Elon Musk. Separate from X Corp, xAI claims on its website that it “will work closely with X,” the social media company formerly known as Twitter — including using posts on X as training for its large language model.

The high-value AI.com domain name changed hands in 2021, sat idle for a while, and then suddenly started redirecting to ChatGPT in February. For ChatGPT users, it was a helpful shortcut if they didn’t have the site bookmarked and couldn’t quite remember the precise URL for the chatbot (chat.openai.com, for the record).

Aug 4, 2023

How Elon Musk took over Tesla using money, strong-arm tactics, and his own popularity

Posted by in categories: economics, Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Elon Musk took over control of the company at a crucial moment.

Aug 3, 2023

TweetDeck is now ‘XPro’ as the Twitter rebrand continues to spread

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TweetDeck has started to be rebranded as “XPro” as Elon Musk’s X app continues its takeover.

Aug 2, 2023

Elon Musk says Tesla is now working on ‘final piece of the FSD AI puzzle’

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

Elon Musk says Tesla is now working on the “final piece of the Full Self-Driving (FSD) AI puzzle,” and apparently that is “vehicle control.”

Despite his best efforts to stop making predictions about self-driving, the CEO has recently still predicted that Tesla would achieve full autonomy by the end of the year.

For many of us who use Tesla’s FSD Beta regularly, it is hard to imagine that Tesla can make the jump from the current state to a level 4 or 5 of autonomy where the automaker would take responsibility for the system and enable drivers to use it without monitoring in just a few months.

Aug 2, 2023

Elon Musk’s giant ‘X’ sign is going to cost his landlord fees for building without a permit

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It’s not yet clear how much the property owner will be billed over the sign.

X and Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Insider on Tuesday, nor did the reps for the landlord of the company’s headquarters, SRI Nine Market Square LLC, an affiliate of real estate investment firm Shorenstein.

Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media company now rebranded as X, had the huge “X” logo put on the roof of the company’s headquarters on Friday, prompting a slew of complaints from angry neighbors.

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