Category: Elon Musk – Page 96
After floating a peace plan to end the Ukraine war Elon Musk has of late been talking about the possibility of a looming nuclear war. Reasonable…
Musk was inspired by Alexander and Napolean, says his father.
Elon Musk is a combination of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and John D. Rockefeller, according to Dolly Singh, a former SpaceX executive who worked with Musk between 2008 and 2013.
Daniel Oberhaus/ Wikimedia Commons.
The Elon Musk Show is a three-part documentary, available only in the U.K., that looks to unravel the making of Elon Musk through interviews with family, friends, former employees as well as Musk’s adversaries. The first episode aired last week, while Singh made the comments in the second episode, which Business Insider has previewed.
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Many observers were disappointed with the recent demo of the AI-enabled “Optimus” robot at Tesla’s AI Day. One reviewer cleverly titled his article “Sub-Optimus.” However, these views actually miss the point. Whatever else may be said of Elon Musk, he is a genius at sensing timing and opportunity, applying technology and providing the necessary resources.
The quality and enthusiasm of the engineering team suggest Optimus could succeed, even if it takes longer than the estimate of 3 to 5 years for full production. If successful, Optimus could bring personal robots into the mainstream within a decade.
When will this ongoing saga end?
Elon Musk is under federal investigation over his takeover deal for Twitter, yahoo!
The focus of the investigation remains unclear
This would seem rather odd as at the beginning of the month, Musk agreed to finally purchase Twitter at his original offer of $54.20 a share, leading to a $44 billion deal.
Fast forward a couple of months and hell of a lot of drama later, and at least one of the investors in Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter has cold feet.
With a fresh comment, Elon Musk, the brains behind Tesla and SpaceX, has ignited Twitter once again. “Please purchase my perfume, so I can buy Twitter,” reads his most recent tweet. For those who are unaware, Elon Musk agreed to buy the social networking site Twitter in April 2022.
Twitter said in October 2022 that it had spoken with Elon Musk and that he had verified his willingness to pay the $44 billion sum in question. Musk now plans to make some money by offering perfume for sale online.
In the beginning, Musk bought a 9.2 percent share on Twitter. Musk, however, made the decision to fully acquire Twitter owing to several differences and a desire to promote “Free Speech” on the social networking platform. In April 2022, a settlement was reached between the two sides, and $54.20 per share in cash was agreed upon.
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The surprising benefits of curiosity:
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_surprising…_curiosity.
A path towards autonomous machine intelligence, Yann LeCun.
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf.
The AI is GPT-3, which you can access via OpenAI. If you ask it similar questions, you’ll usually get similar answers (with some variation based on settings and prior conversation).
The human-like avatar is from Synthesia (we created the Tesla robot avatar).
Though available only to select customers, this reaffirms faith in the blockchain method of payments.
Technology major Google has teamed up with cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase as it looks to allow cryptocurrency payments for its cloud services. According to a press release, the two entities will leverage their strengths towards building the next iteration of the internet, dubbed Web3.
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Web3 is the vision for the world wide web, where the ownership of platforms is also decentralized. This is expected to happen through the use of blockchain technology, the one that also powers cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Tech leaders such as Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have been claiming that the advent of this version of the internet is inevitable, and Google’s recent move may be a sign of Big Tech companies warming up to the idea.
“All bets are off if the nukes start flying,” Musk recently tweeted.
Elon Musk reportedly rejected a request from within Ukraine to extend SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet coverage to Crimea, according to a newsletter from political analyst Ian Bremmer.
However, Musk has taken to Twitter after those reports were published and has cast doubt on their veracity by claiming that “nobody should trust Bremmer”.
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According to the newsletter, first reported by Vice, Musk also directly spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the potential for nuclear escalation in relation to Crimea.