Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and humanity. Earlier this month, Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled the fourth iteration of its GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) AI…
Parts of the source code which underpins multi-billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform have been leaked online, Twitter says. It says the code was posted on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned service where software developers share code. It has now been taken down after Twitter requested its removal. Separately, Mr Musk has reportedly signalled to Twitter workers…
Twitter chief executive Elon Musk has apologised over an exchange he had on the platform with an employee. It came after worker Halli Thorleifsson tweeted to Mr Musk saying: “Your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am employed or not”. Mr Musk responded by asking: “What work have you been doing?”…
Tesla founder Elon Musk regained his title as the world’s richest person on Monday. This was reported by Bloomberg. In December 2022 he was dethroned by Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault, but the rise in value of Tesla shares brought him back to the top of the rankings. As reported on MARCA, Musk’s net worth…
Elon Musk has reclaimed the title of the richest person in the world, per Bloomberg’s tally. As reported on CNN, the Tesla CEO was unseated from the top spot by Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury brand LVMH (LVMHF), in December of last year, making Musk No. 2 on the list for more than two…
For the moment at least, Elon Musk is working at Tesla for free. Depending on how you look at it.Musk still has the potential to continue pulling in staggering sums of money, thanks to Tesla, but not in the way that his regular workers make their money. That’s because the CEO hasn’t taken any kind…
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says he donated around $1.95bn (£1.6bn) worth of shares in his electric carmaker to charity last year. As reported on BBC, the donation of 11.6 million shares was described in a filing with US regulators as “a bona fide gift”. The filing did not name the recipient, or recipients, of…
As potential buyers for Manchester United continue to line up, a certain eccentric billionaire is reportedly kicking the tires on the historic European soccer club. As reported on Front Office Sports, Elon Musk is “believed to be monitoring the situation closely” and weighing putting in a bid for the club ahead of Friday’s deadline, per…
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has been cleared of wrongdoing for a tweet in which he said he had “funding secured” to take the electric carmaker back into private ownership. Shareholders argued he misled them with his posts in August 2018, and they had lost billions of dollars because of them. The proposed $72bn (£60bn) buyout…
An auction for hundreds of items at Twitter’s San Francisco HQ has just ended. A statue of the platform’s famous bird logo has claimed the most expensive item sold, coming in at $100,000 (£81,000). Viewers online noted that some of the used items were no bargain, as they were selling for more than retail. The…
While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he did not. As reported by Aljazeera, long before Musk purchased Twitter for $44bn in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the electric automaker where he continues to…
Elon Musk was the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of more than $200 billion, breaching that threshold in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos. The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer has now achieved a first of his own: becoming the only person in history to erase $200 billion from their net worth….
Twitter owner Elon Musk has confirmed that he will step down as the company’s CEO, but only when he identifies a successor, directly addressing for the first time a Twitter poll he created this week in which millions of users voted for his ouster. In a tweet, Musk said he would resign “as soon as…
Is Elon Musk resigning as “chief Twit” or not? That’s the question remaining to be answered this Monday evening, more than 12 hours after an unscientific poll posted by the Twitter CEO resulted in 57.5% of participants voting that he should step down as head of the beleaguered social media company. The move came after…
Twitter’s owner Elon Musk is asking users of the social media platform to vote on his future as its chief executive. In a poll to his 122 million followers, he tweeted: “Should I step down as head… I will abide by the results.” The technology tycoon, who also runs Tesla and Space X, has faced…
New Twitter owner Elon Musk offered several of the journalists he banned from the social media website earlier this week the ability to return to the platform if they deleted the tweets he falsely claimed shared his “exact real-time” location. The move from Musk came after he posted an unscientific poll on his personal Twitter…
Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has sold another 22 million shares, worth around $3.58bn (£2.9bn), in the electric car maker Tesla. The shares were sold on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, according to a filing with a US financial regulator. It brings the total of Tesla stocks sold by Musk over the past year to…
Elon Musk has officially lost his spot as the world’s richest person to Bernard Arnault, the Chairman and CEO of French luxury conglomerate, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton as reported by The Whistler. According to the Forbes real-time billionaires list, Bernard Arnault and family are now worth $191 billion while Musk is worth $174.9 billion….
Elon Musk joined Dave Chappelle on stage Sunday in San Francisco, home of Twitter’s headquarters where the world’s richest person recently laid off many of its employees. It went about as well as you’d expect. As reported by the CNN, the crowd at the Chase Center loudly booed Musk, who had spent much of the…
Elon Musk doesn’t miss an opportunity to take a pop at the President of the United States, Joe Biden, doing so every time he alludes to the electrification of the American automotive industry. As reported by MARCA, this time, Tesla’s CEO has chosen his new ‘toy’, Twitter, to respond to a message from the American…
Kanye West has been banned from Twitter again and accused of “inciting violence” over offensive tweets – a month after his account was reinstated. As reported by the BBC, the US rapper, who now goes by the name Ye, posted a series of erratic tweets – one of which appeared to show a symbol combining…
Elon Musk has said Apple has halted most of its advertising on Twitter and accused the company of threatening to remove the platform from its app store. As reported by the BBC, the feud comes as many companies have halted spending on Twitter amid concerns about Mr Musk’s content moderation plans for the site. Apple…
Black Twitter is mourning the possible end of the influential community they found on Twitter more than a decade ago, but users are split between finding a new app or staying put. “I’m not ready to go because I feel like that’s the case with a lot of things. Black people bring culture, community and…
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, firings were the talk of the town. Contractors were laid off in mass with minimal notice. However now, it seems like the tables have turned. Owing to Musk’s “extremely hardcore” environment, hundreds of Twitter employees have put down their papers. JUST IN: Hundreds of Twitter employees resign following Elon…
Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that they must commit to working “long hours at high intensity” or else leave the company, according to reports. In an email to staff, the social media firm’s new owner said workers should agree to the pledge if they wanted to stay, the Washington Post reported. Those who do…
Just days after Twitter laid off thousands of employees, a number of top executives from teams working on privacy and security at the platform have reportedly resigned. As reported by CNN, Twitter’s chief information security officer announced their resignation on Thursday, vacating one of the company’s most critical roles just as scrutiny is mounting over…
Twitter has fired nearly all its staff in Ghana, which was home to its only office in Africa. As reported by the BBC, the firm “is re-organising its operations as a result of a need to reduce costs,” read Twitter’s email. The layoffs were part of a global staff cull introduced by new boss Elon…
Tesla boss Elon Musk has sold another 19.5 million shares of the electric car maker worth $3.95bn (£3.4bn), filings with the US financial watchdog show. As reported by the BBC, the news comes less than two weeks after the world’s richest man completed his $44bn takeover of Twitter. Tesla’s share price has fallen by more…
Twitter has launched an updated version of its iOS app that promises to allow users to pay a monthly subscription to receive a blue checkmark on their profiles, a feature that Elon Musk, the company’s new owner, has proposed as a way to fight spam on the platform. As reported by CNN, the app’s latest…
The three top Twitter executives whom Elon Musk fired Thursday will walk out the door with about $187 million of Musk’s money. As reported by CNN, former CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal and former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde were ousted after Musk took control of the company late Thursday, according to a…
Elon Musk has taken ownership of Twitter Inc with brutal efficiency, firing top executives but providing little clarity over how he will achieve the ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform, as reported by Reuters. “The bird is freed,” he tweeted after he completed his $44 billion acquisition on Thursday, referencing Twitter’s…
Elon Musk’s on-again off-again plan to buy Twitter is on track to culminate in the billionaire taking control of the company this week. As reported by TechCrunch, Musk is expected to close the deal by Friday, October 28, putting him officially in charge of one of the most prominent social networks in the world. Musk…
The White House has said that Elon Musk’s recent deals, including his takeover of Twitter and operations of Starlink internet in Ukraine, are not under national security review. As reported by Gizmodo, while that would seem like a denial of the original reports from last week by Bloomberg News about the deals, there’s seemingly still…
The $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc. by Elon Musk is the subject of a federal inquiry, the social media firm revealed in a court document made available on Thursday. As reported b Marca, Twitter claimed that it had been requesting Musk’s attorneys to reveal their correspondence with federal authorities for months but they had…
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk through one of his companies “The Boring Company” has sold nothing less than 10,000 bottles of his newly launched fragrance, the Burnt hair perfume, at $100 each making $1million in the process. The billionaire had in September hinted that the Boring Company, an American infrastructure and tunnel construction services…
The countdown is now on for Elon Musk and Twitter to close their $44 billion acquisition deal by October 28 or be forced to again prepare for a trial after a judge agreed on Thursday pause the legal proceedings. As reported by CNN, what everyone is now waiting on: Musk needs to actually have the…
It was beginning to feel like Elon Musk and Twitter were locked in an eternal dance. As reported by BBC, it suddenly came to an abrupt end – for now at least – with a short, succinct letter from Musk’s lawyers to Twitter’s, which announced that he intended to buy the firm after all, and…
A Delaware judge ruled Wednesday that American billionaire Elon Musk can include claims made by Twitter whistleblower, Peiter Zatko in his countersuit justifying his withdrawal from his $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. As reported by Forbes, the court, however, denied Musk’s request to move back the high-profile trial between Musk and…
Twitter’s former Had of Security, Peiter Zatko has become a whistleblower after he accused the company of having major security problems, as reported by Marca. Interestingly, this has become the single most important finding for American billionaire, Elon Musk’s legal team that was attempting to get their client out of buying the company. Recall that…
American billionaire and businessman, Elon Musk tweeted earlier this week where he said, “I’m not buying any sports teams”, referring to the viral post about him purchasing Manchester United a joke. The world’s richest man has a habit of posting provocative statements on Twitter for fun and Musk was at it again when he told…
During the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a cyber-security researcher from Belgium, Lennert Wouters managed to hack Elon Musk’s Starlink internet system for the first time ever by using just a $25 dollar device he made at home. Starlink operates using user terminals or satellite dishes located at homes and businesses, and this…
American businessman and Tesla boss, Elon Musk has sold another 7.92 million shares in the electric car maker, worth around $6.88bn (£5.7bn), as reported by BBC. The sales took place after the firm’s annual shareholder meeting last week, regulatory filings show. Musk says he needs the money in case he is forced to buy Twitter…
American businessman and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder, Sergey Brin. Musk’s comments comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that his friendship with Brin had ended over the alleged affair. Shortly after a link to the story was posted on Twitter, Musk dropped…
Social media giant, Twitter has revealed that it spent $33m (£27m) on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237m – but it reported a net loss of $270m, which was worse than expected. It would be…
Barely a year after Tesla announced a major investment in Bitcoin, the company has now sold off most of its holdings of the cryptocurrency. At the end of 2021, Tesla offloaded 75% of its Bitcoin, which was worth about $2bn (£1.7bn) at the time. This saw the electric car company backing away as the value…
A judge in the United State has ordered that the lawsuit between social media giant, Twitter and American billionaire and businessman Elon Musk go to trial in October 2022. This comes as a blow to Musk who had earlier asked for a postponement in the commencement of the trial with his team citing complexities. Twitter…
American billionaire and businessman, Elon Musk’s chances of winning the lawsuit filed against him by Twitter appears to have taken a precarious position with the appointment of the judge in the trial, a legal expert has submitted. Kathaleen McCormick has appointed herself to oversee Twitter’s lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court, which followed Musk’s decision…
American billionaire and businessman, Elon Musk has officially been sued by Twitter after the tech mogul announced they he is backing down from his $44bn offer to buy the platform, as reported by Marca. Last week, Musk sent the Twitter board a letter where he revealed that the reason he was backing down was down…
Twitter shares have suffered a drop after Elon Musk announced his decision to pull out of a $44 billion (£36bn) deal to buy the social media platform. Twitter’s share price stood at about $32.64 as Monday trading closed – falling further below the $54.20-a-share takeover price agreed by Mr Musk and Twitter’s board in April….
Billionaire businessman, Elon Musk has responded to Twitter’s move to file a lawsuit against him by tweeting out a meme of him laughing shortly after Twitter reportedly instituted a move to sue him for dropping his $44 billion takeover bid of the company. The post has a series of four photos of the Telsa founder…
