fredericlambert

You cant make this up. Elon: Wikipedia is so bad, I'm going to do a competitor. Elon proceeds to rip off Wikipedia word for word except where it doesn't align with him politically and culturally. Who could have predicted that?

2025-10-29 View on X

The Verge

Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist

xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. … On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life.

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Elon's last xAI CFO stayed 4 months quickly left to join OpenAI and then tweeted this. Now he is hiring one of his personal bankers as CFO. [Screenshot of a tweet by Mike Liberatore “The bigger they are.....the harder they fall"]

2025-10-08 View on X

Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk has appointed former Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong as CFO of xAI; Armstrong will also take over financial management for X

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Damn! The lawsuits are about to start pouring in. $TSLA

2025-08-02 View on X

Washington Post

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages

Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadl...

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Tesla recently settled two similar lawsuits, but it either couldn't or wouldn't settle this one. It's important to note that there are dozens of other crashes, many unfortunately fatal ones, that involved Tesla's Autopilot and FSD. Many of them have circumstances way worse for Tesla than this case.

2025-08-02 View on X

Washington Post

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages

Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadl...

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BREAKING: I'm hearing reports Waymo is shook by Tesla's Robotaxi launch. The company is panicking about the level of innovation and currently looking to copy Tesla by designing a kill switch in the passenger door button and adding Waymo supervisors in their rides. [image]

2025-06-24 View on X

Financial Times

Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee”

or want to know—about Tesla's robotaxi service David Pierce / The Verge : Tesla's robotaxi reality check Richard Brack / Austin American-Statesman : Tesla robotaxis begin rolling i...

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BREAKING: I'm hearing reports Waymo is shook by Tesla's Robotaxi launch. The company is panicking about the level of innovation and currently looking to copy Tesla by designing a kill switch in the passenger door button and adding Waymo supervisors in their rides. [image]

2025-06-24 View on X

Bloomberg

The NHTSA says it is investigating incidents of Tesla's robotaxis apparently violating traffic laws, like by entering opposite lanes, as seen on social media

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is aware of the incidents that were captured in videos posted on social media …

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BREAKING: I'm hearing reports Waymo is shook by Tesla's Robotaxi launch. The company is panicking about the level of innovation and currently looking to copy Tesla by designing a kill switch in the passenger door button and adding Waymo supervisors in their rides. [image]

2025-06-23 View on X

Financial Times

Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee”

Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked the future of his company debuts in Texas

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Well, this explains how X's bank valuation went so quickly from ~$12B in 2024 back to ~$44B last month. Musk had made the xAI offer, increasing the valuation. Between SolarCity, his Tesla CEO compensation plan, and this, Musk is a master of negotiating with himself.

2025-03-29 View on X

CNBC

Elon Musk says xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B; xAI was reportedly in talks to raise funds in February at a $75B valuation

Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with X, his social network, in an all-stock transaction that values …

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These automated halts are saving $DJT from being completely destroyed. [image]

2024-11-06 View on X

Financial Times

Elon Musk's gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius”

“A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.

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These automated halts are saving $DJT from being completely destroyed. [image]

2024-11-06 View on X

Bloomberg

Trump Media & Technology Group's stock jumps 10%+, hitting a $7B+ market cap, as Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris, despite losing $19M+ in Q3; TSLA rises 10%+

Veteran Investor Predicts US Economy Could ‘Take Off’ Craig Trudell / Bloomberg : Tesla Soars While EV Rivals Slump as Trump Win Upends Market Rohail Saleem / Wccftech : Trump's Ne...

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This is just scratching the surface. I've got bombarded with hate from Elon lemmings when I suggested Tesla is reaching the limits of HW3 earlier this year. A week ago, the same lemmings clung to Tesla VP Lars Moravy saying that “self-driving would come to HW3”. I told you that

2024-10-28 View on X

Electrek

Elon Musk says there's a “chance” that HW3, in millions of Teslas, “does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD” and floats free upgrades

Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.

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The Tesla cult is a fascinating creature. When we said that Tesla was reaching the limits of HW3. They laugh at us and called us haters and liars. When Tesla finally admitted that self-driving might not work on HW3, they said it doesn't matter because Tesla will do “free” (paid

2024-10-28 View on X

Electrek

Elon Musk says there's a “chance” that HW3, in millions of Teslas, “does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD” and floats free upgrades

Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.

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Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving. The best comment is “we don't actually know the answer”. That's the truth. Elon, nor anyone at Tesla, know exactly what it will take to get to self-driving, which makes nuts that they are selling

2024-10-28 View on X

Electrek

Elon Musk says there's a “chance” that HW3, in millions of Teslas, “does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD” and floats free upgrades

Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn't actually know what it will take.

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The Trump assassination attempt was a good test of the reporting on X vs traditional media. I followed the event through both, and I can say that I was way better informed by the media than X. Elon and co attacked the media for their cautious headlines, but that's what it was: [image]

2024-07-15 View on X

Business Insider

Tech leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg, condemned the July 13 Trump assassination attempt

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The Trump assassination attempt was a good test of the reporting on X vs traditional media. I followed the event through both, and I can say that I was way better informed by the media than X. Elon and co attacked the media for their cautious headlines, but that's what it was: [image]

2024-07-15 View on X

The Verge

X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around the assassination attempt on Donald Trump; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets

Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …

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I find this comment highly problematic from a conflict of interest standpoint. Can @elonmusk still be CEO of Tesla? He has repeatedly claimed recently that Tesla is an “AI/Robotics” company. Yet, he started a separate AI startup and now claims that he prefers building products... [image]

2024-01-16 View on X

Bloomberg

Elon Musk says he would rather build AI products outside of Tesla if he doesn't have ~25% voting control in the company; Musk currently owns 12%+ of Tesla

- CEO suggests he'll build products elsewhere without 25% stake — He sold almost $40 billion of shares in 2022 to buy Twitter

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Tesla is finally offering FSD owners to transfer the package on a new car, but only for the next 2 months. Better than nothing, but I don't like that @elonmusk made it sound like he was doing us a favor. Let's be clear, Tesla has never delivered the features it promised those...

2023-07-20 View on X

Engadget

On Tesla's Q2 earnings call, Elon Musk says the company may license its FSD software and hardware to carmakers and is “already in discussions with a major OEM”

One-Time “Amnesty” Offer Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Tesla in discussion to license Full Self-Driving software to another automaker Twitter: Tasha Keeney / @tashaark : Tesla is...

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The ADAS and self-driving space is so convoluted and it shows when automakers like Tesla put “full” in front of “self-driving” and now GM feels the need to put “true” in front of “hands-free driving”. It's self-driving or not and hands-free or not. https://electrek.co/...

2021-10-07 View on X

The Verge

GM unveils Ultra Cruise, a driver-assist system it says will cover 2M+ miles of US and Canadian roads at launch in 2023 and eventually 95% of driving scenarios

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :

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