Browsing: Elon Musk
Coverage of Elon Musk and the companies he runs, spanning Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI, with the announcements weighed against the track record.
Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force address ordered a new four-star command for drones and autonomy, a 20% cut to generals and admirals by January 2027, and a future-warfare review led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. The diagnosis is sound. The execution is the problem.
The world’s richest man says he is living in an Airstream trailer parked at xAI’s Memphis site so he can sleep steps from the servers. The trailer is the charming part. The 2 gigawatt facility it sits beside is the story.
Elon Musk disliked Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey enough to fund a rival version made entirely with AI, on the grounds that it would be more accurate. The winning entry has a three-eyed Cyclops and Greek soldiers in Roman armor.
SpaceX is putting a $100 billion Starship spaceport on 125,000 acres of Louisiana marsh, with ten launch pads and a first flight targeted for 2029. The laws that shield the project from public records requests passed three months before the announcement.
A new PNAS study tracked what X actually served 715 Americans and found the For You algorithm learns most from replies, the rarest form of engagement. Here is why arguing with a bad post keeps making your feed worse.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
The Government Accountability Office reviewed DOGE’s Wall of Receipts and found 2,503 contracts listed as terminated that were never cancelled, plus 96% of grant savings it could not verify at all. Here is what the audit actually found and why the dashboard was the problem.
Elon Musk stated that every chip he can buy today only covers about 2% of what his companies actually need.…
Released Epstein emails show Musk discussed island visits in 2012 and 2013. Here is what the records show and what Musk has said about them.