The EU is taking Musk to court over his blue checks and ads
The European Commission is looking into whether Elon Musk-led platform X has done enough to combat hate speech. The commission said that X’s ‘blue check’ system negatively affects users’ ability to make free decisions about authenticity of accounts and the content they interact with. It may face fines of up to 6% of its global revenue if it doesn’t address EU’s three grievances.
Silicon Valley is Wavering on Biden
David Sacks, the Venture Capitalist and friend of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has said that the Silicon Valley has become a “blue wall” of Republican support for President Donald Trump. “Last time, they voted for Trump…this time, they voted for Trump again,” he added. “The voters have experienced four years of Trump and four years of Biden,” Sacks further said.
The race to fill the powergap is on as questions swirl around the Superchargers
Elon Musk-led Tesla has fired hundreds of workers from its superchargers and electric vehicle policy and charging units, a company official said. The firings came after the company rejected $17 million in federal grants to help build its Supercharger network. However, the official added that the terminations were not related to Tesla’s electric vehicle policy or charging units.
Brazil is beefing over X
Brazilian Attorney General Jorge Messias has asked people to take advantage of virtual private networks as a “preventive action” against billionaire businessman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s social media platform ‘X’ which was taken down by Brazil. This comes after Brazil’s attorney general Xem Moraes issued a warning against violating Brazilian constitution’s right to speech and said each blocked account will have a 1 lakh fine.
It’s time to go for it on robotaxis
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has said that if there aren’t trade barriers, “most other car companies will be destroyed”. “If Tesla wants to roll out robotaxi service everywhere its cars are sold, its plans will be even more ambitious than these competitors’, who have been working on the problem of autonomy for years,” he added.
Musk says he will reveal his car on August 8th
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his book ‘The Tesla Master Plan’ said the electric vehicle (EV) would be “irrelevant” if there was a fully automated vehicle. He described the so-called ‘Tesla Network’ as a network of shared vehicles. “It’ll allow people to share their cars when they’re not at work, when they’re on vacation, or when they’re away from home,” Musk wrote.
The patient is using a brain implant to play chess
Noland Arbaugh, a 51-year-old paralysed man from the waist down, was able to play online chess and Civilization with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant. Arbaugh, who received the implant last month, also said he had been able to play Civilization for eight hours straight. He added that he is in good health and expects to have the implant removed in the next few days.
Here’s what you can expect when the giant rocket launches again
Elon Musk-led SpaceX has launched its Starship rocket, the biggest rocket ever built, for the third time. The Starship is developed to be the world’s largest rocket with 33 Raptor engines, designed to carry astronauts to Moon’s surface and back. While Starship’s first two flights were aborted due to safety issues, SpaceX has successfully launched Starship three times before.
The fear that led to the creation of OpenAI is what inspired it
Elon Musk-led AI startup OpenAI said that it has received $1 billion funding commitment for its “deeply artificial intelligence (DIA) research”. This comes after Co-founder Aaron Altman was ousted from OpenAI’s board for his alleged conflict of interest and involvement in a dispute with another board member. Altman has also apologised for thinking that a former board member was harming OpenAI.
The legal case against OpenAI is so bad that it is hilarious
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against AI startup OpenAI, which was founded in 2015, accuses the firm of violating its founding principles. The lawsuit states that OpenAI President Greg Brockman breached the company’s founding principles by abandoning the principles over the years. The lawsuit further says that Brockman had approached Musk in 2015 out of shared concerns over the risks of AI.