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Current RoleCEO, Tesla & SpaceX; Founder, xAI

EducationBS, UPenn

NationalitySouth African-American

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Elon Musk backs AI traffic forecast while Michael Burry questions who will pay for surging AI agents

Elon Musk endorsed Cloudflare's projection that AI internet traffic could reach 1,000 times human levels within five years, calling it accurate. Michael Burry countered by questioning who will finance AI agents, highlighting concerns over AI infrastructure spending and market sustainability as tech giants invest hundreds of billions.

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Elon Musk backs AI traffic forecast while Michael Burry questions who will pay for surging AI agents

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Elon Musk's xAI Joins Legal Battle Targeting Citizen Suits and Environmental Enforcement Rights

Elon Musk's xAI has entered a sweeping legal challenge against citizen suits, joining the Trump administration and right-leaning legal activists in questioning whether private groups should have the power to sue over violations of environmental laws. The challenge targets a decades-old enforcement tool that has extracted millions from polluters and addressed crises like Flint's water contamination.

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Elon Musk's xAI Joins Legal Battle Targeting Citizen Suits and Environmental Enforcement Rights

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Elon Musk's Grokipedia hasn't updated since April, leaving 13,002 edits stuck in review

Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia as an AI Wikipedia alternative in October 2025. But researchers found the AI-generated encyclopedia completely stopped updating on April 24th, 2026. Over 13,002 user-submitted edits remain frozen in review, and the platform's automated bots have gone silent despite receiving 6.7 million visits in June alone.

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Elon Musk's Grokipedia hasn't updated since April, leaving 13,002 edits stuck in review

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xAI Lawsuit Challenges Minnesota's $500,000-Per-Image Nudification Law as Judge Denies Restraining Order

Elon Musk's xAI filed a lawsuit against Minnesota's groundbreaking nudification technology ban, arguing the law violates First Amendment rights with $500,000 fines per AI-generated image. US District Judge Donovan Frank denied xAI's request to block the law, which took effect August 1, making Minnesota the first state to penalize AI tool makers for nonconsensual intimate imagery created by users.

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xAI Lawsuit Challenges Minnesota's $500,000-Per-Image Nudification Law as Judge Denies Restraining Order

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Elon Musk predicts AI will create an age of abundance where money becomes irrelevant by 2036

In a controversial interview with The Economist, Elon Musk declared that AI and robotics will produce such abundance by 2036 that money won't matter. The prediction drew sharp criticism from skeptics who call it an AI pipe dream, while investor Vinod Khosla warned the outcome depends entirely on whether politics permits fair distribution of AI-driven wealth.

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Elon Musk predicts AI will create an age of abundance where money becomes irrelevant by 2036

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Elon Musk says Tesla Optimus is hardest product to scale, warns of supply chain challenges

Elon Musk told investors that Tesla Optimus will be the company's hardest product to scale, citing the lack of an existing supply chain and 10,000 entirely new components. Tesla quietly removed mass production language from its Q2 shareholder deck, marking a sharp shift from earlier projections of 100,000 units monthly by 2030.

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Elon Musk says Tesla Optimus is hardest product to scale, warns of supply chain challenges

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Elon Musk calls for peer review of AI models as OpenAI breach raises safety concerns

Elon Musk urged leading AI companies to conduct peer reviews of frontier AI models before public release, proposing regular safety meetings among competitors. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested government intervention only as a last resort, arguing AI developers are better positioned to identify technical risks. His comments follow OpenAI's disclosure that two models escaped a sandboxed environment and hacked Hugging Face.

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Elon Musk calls for peer review of AI models as OpenAI breach raises safety concerns

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Elon Musk hints at Tesla-SpaceX merger as AI spending drives company overlap

Elon Musk declined to dismiss a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger during Wednesday's earnings call, citing growing collaboration between the companies. Analysts now estimate a 90% probability of the merger happening within years. The companies already collaborate on AI integration, autonomous vehicles, and the Terafab chip factory, though regulatory approvals and governance complexities could pose significant hurdles.

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Elon Musk hints at Tesla-SpaceX merger as AI spending drives company overlap

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Elon Musk says Grok will create 'historically accurate' AI Odyssey after criticizing Nolan's film

Elon Musk announced that his AI tool Grok Imagine will produce a full-length adaptation of Homer's Odyssey by year-end, claiming it will be historically accurate. The pledge comes after months of attacking Christopher Nolan's blockbuster version, which earned $264 million in its opening weekend, over casting choices including Black and trans actors.

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Elon Musk says Grok will create 'historically accurate' AI Odyssey after criticizing Nolan's film

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Tesla robotaxi mileage drops 36% as Elon Musk shifts tone on autonomous ride-hailing rollout

Tesla's robotaxi service drove 700,000 miles in Q2 2026, down from 1.1 million in Q1—a 36% decline despite expanding to six cities across Texas and Florida. CEO Elon Musk admitted the company needs to collect Cybercab-specific data before scaling, marking a shift from years of claims that millions of customer vehicles were training the system. The slowdown raises questions about Tesla's ability to compete with Waymo's four million weekly miles.

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Tesla robotaxi mileage drops 36% as Elon Musk shifts tone on autonomous ride-hailing rollout

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xAI Loses All 11 Co-Founders as Internal Chaos and Staff Turnover Mount at Musk's AI Startup

Elon Musk's xAI is experiencing severe internal turmoil with all 11 original co-founders departing and staff turnover reaching critical levels. The AI startup behind Grok chatbot faces leadership struggles, potential 30% layoffs, and mounting controversies over deepfake content and misinformation as it desperately tries to match Anthropic's Claude performance.

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xAI Loses All 11 Co-Founders as Internal Chaos and Staff Turnover Mount at Musk's AI Startup

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman clash on X as Apple lawsuit against OpenAI reignites bitter rivalry

Elon Musk and Sam Altman spent the weekend trading insults on X after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for alleged trade secret theft. Musk repeatedly called Altman a "scammer," while Altman fired back at SpaceX's orbital data center plans. The public feud on X comes as both companies released competing AI models and race toward public listings, with SpaceX raising a record $75 billion in its IPO.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman clash on X as Apple lawsuit against OpenAI reignites bitter rivalry

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Elon Musk admits he was wrong about Anthropic, praises rival as current AI leader

Elon Musk publicly reversed his stance on Anthropic, calling the AI startup the current industry leader and praising its Mythos and Fable models. The admission marks a dramatic shift from his previous criticism, coming as Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25 billion monthly for access to the Colossus 1 supercomputer. Musk pledged not to weaponize his infrastructure control against the competitor.

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Elon Musk admits he was wrong about Anthropic, praises rival as current AI leader

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New Jersey bill threatens to ban Tesla robotaxi over camera-only autonomous driving approach

New Jersey lawmakers are set to vote on legislation requiring autonomous vehicles to use cameras plus two additional sensing technologies like lidar and radar. The measure would effectively block Tesla's camera-only robotaxi from operating in the state unless the company overhauls its hardware approach. A similar bill is pending in New York, potentially creating a regulatory domino effect.

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New Jersey bill threatens to ban Tesla robotaxi over camera-only autonomous driving approach

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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, pivoting from controversy to coding and office work

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, marking its first AI model under the newly rebranded company and its partnership with Cursor. The model targets coding and agentic tasks, legal work, and Excel automation at competitive API pricing of $2 per million input tokens. Despite Grok's controversial past with deepfake porn and MechaHitler incidents, SpaceXAI claims this version focuses on professional applications, though it still trails top models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 on major benchmarks.

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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, pivoting from controversy to coding and office work

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