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Musk will train if Las Vegas martial arts cage match takes hold

25Jun

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Musk will train if Las Vegas martial arts cage match takes hold

[ad_1] Elon Musk said on Saturday he will start training if the mixed martial arts cage fight he has provoked with fellow billionaire media mogul Mark Zuckerberg takes shape.Twitter owner Musk tweeted on Tuesday he was up for a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu. "I haven't started training yet. So if this does happen, I will," Musk said in a talk on Twitter with Ashlee Vance, the author of a book on Musk and the space race. The match "might actually happen" said Musk while attending a birthday party in Europe, adding it was possible that it could go badly if Zuckerberg takes the match seriously.Musk also said SpaceX investments in the rocket Starship, the debut flight of which exploded over the Gulf of Mexico in April rais...

Twitter video app for Smart TVs is coming, says Elon Musk

19Jun

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Twitter video app for Smart TVs is coming, says Elon Musk

[ad_1] Twitter seems interested in launching a Twitter video app for smart TVs as owner Elon Musk said "It's coming." Responding to a tweet suggesting that a Twitter video app is needed, Musk replied "It's coming". On Twitter, a user with an account name S-M Robinson said, "We really need a Twitter video app for Smart TVs. I'm not watching an hour-long video on Twitter." To which Musk replied, "It's coming." After which the user tweeted, "Appreciate it. I can see a day where I can cancel my subscription to YouTube, and never look at it again." Elon Musk is making several changes on Twitter and one of them is where social media is likely to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships, New York Post reported, citing Reuters. Earlier, Musk said that Twitter will soon start paying c...

Elon Musk wants to build a digital town square; But his debut for DeSantis had a tech failure

25May

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Elon Musk wants to build a digital town square; But his debut for DeSantis had a tech failure

[ad_1] Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a “digital town square,” but his much-publicized Twitter Spaces kickoff event, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing his run for president, struggled with technical glitches and a near half-hour delay Tuesday.The billionaire Twitter owner said the problems were due to “straining” servers because so many people were trying to listen to the audio-only event. But even at their highest, the number of listeners listed topped out at around 420,000, far from the millions of viewers that televised presidential announcements attract. “There's so many people,” said host David Sacks amid the disruptions. “We've got so many people here that we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign.” After it concluded without further disruptions, Musk,...

Tesla ‘serious’ on establishing India production, innovation base, minister says

19May

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Tesla ‘serious’ on establishing India production, innovation base, minister says

[ad_1] Tesla Inc is "serious" about its plans to establish a manufacturing base in India, the country's deputy minister for technology told Reuters in an interview on Friday, a day after meeting senior executives of the electric vehicle maker. The Elon Musk led U.S. automaker held talks with Indian officials this week on various topics including incentives for car and battery manufacturing, Reuters reported on Thursday, as Tesla looks anew at entering the Indian market. "They are very seriously looking at India as a production and innovation base," Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in the first public comment by an Indian government official on the talks. "We have signalled to them that the government of India is working together (and) will certainly make whatever ambitions they have or inves...

14May

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Why Tesla keeps changing its prices

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. has done seemingly nonstop tinkering with its prices this year, moving them lower in dramatic fashion only to occasionally bump them back up. What gives? Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has said he's willing to prioritize growth over profits, a stance that has made some investors wary and irked more than a few customers who bought before the discounts. There are a number of factors at play here, and a lack of consensus as to whether it all amounts to disruption or desperation. Here's what you need to know: Tesla has a floating-price strategyFor years, Tesla's cheapest car closely tracked the average amount US consumers were paying for new vehicles. Only $300 or so separated the starting price of the Model 3 and the industry's average transaction price. When the sed...

Man who tracks Elon Musk’s jet on Twitter gets Jack Dorsey boost, joins rival Bluesky

8May

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Man who tracks Elon Musk’s jet on Twitter gets Jack Dorsey boost, joins rival Bluesky

[ad_1] Banned Twitter user Jack Sweeney, who became famous for tracking Elon Musk's private jet publicly, has now become a member of Jack Dorsey's two new social media platforms – Bluesky and Nostr. This comes after Twitter's permanent ban on all of Jack Sweeney's accounts, despite the billionaire's promise not to do so back in December 2022. According to a report by Business Insider, on April 30th, Sweeney became a member of Dorsey's Bluesky using the same handle he had on Twitter.After his controversial suspension from Twitter, Sweeney reached out to Dorsey and asked about his take on "@elonjet". In a short conversation, Dorsey seem to have replied in the affirmative to Sweeney's post by stating "Keep on keepin on," and requested Sweeney to provide updates both on Bluesky and Nostr. S...

It’s Not Just About You, Elon. It’s the $8 Fee.

30Apr

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It’s Not Just About You, Elon. It’s the $8 Fee.

[ad_1] An interesting and revealing thing happened on Twitter in recent weeks. The infamous blue check mark, once a status symbol among people in media and others who spend time too much time online, took on a negative connotation. There are even hashtags shaming subscribers to the new fee-based “Twitter Blue.” On its face it's not clear why; There should be no shame in paying for a better Twitter experience — especially if you spend many hours consuming it. The drama revealed many of our behavioral biases and why they pose a challenge for an economy in transition. The tech economy bet on a business strategy that offered free services as a lure to build a network that they could one day monetize. That day has arrived, and it turns out networks may not be able to convert to a profitable ...

Musk defends paid Twitter as blue tick ultimatum looms

2Apr

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Musk defends paid Twitter as blue tick ultimatum looms

[ad_1] Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots.Musk made his prediction on the eve of Twitter's April 1 ultimatum that verified accounts with the cherished blue tick that had not forked over cash would lose it. "The fundamental challenge here is that it's (easy) to create literally 10,000 or 100,000 fake Twitter accounts using just one computer at home and with modern AI (artificial intelligence)," Musk told a question and answer session on Twitter. "That's the reason for really pressing hard on verified where the verified requires a number from a reputable phone carrier and a credit card," Musk said."My prediction is that any so-called social me...

Elon Musk’s Tesla hype machine breaks down

12Jan

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Elon Musk’s Tesla hype machine breaks down

[ad_1] The market is having trouble squaring the CEO’s narrative with the carmaker’s results. For years, Elon Musk paid zero dollars for traditional advertising while almost singlehandedly keeping Tesla — and himself — front and center. With a never-ending stream of tweets, television and podcast appearances and livestreamed product events, the electric-vehicle maker and its billionaire CEO dominated news cycles and occasionally went viral. Musk was a veritable hype machine, and his knack for breaking through meant that when Tesla managed to execute, its valuation soared to a stratosphere no automaker had ever come close to reaching. Last year, Musk was in the news like never before, albeit for problematic reasons: his offer to buy Twitter, his attempt to back out, and his sowing...

Musk Has to Add Twitter Moderators in Europe, Commissioner Says

19Nov

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Musk Has to Add Twitter Moderators in Europe, Commissioner Says

[ad_1] Elon Musk will have to increase the number of Twitter moderators in Europe, according to Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market commissioner. Elon Musk will have to increase the number of Twitter moderators in Europe, according to Thierry Breton, the EU's internal market commissioner.“He is in the process of reducing a certain number of moderators, but he will have to increase them in Europe,” Breton told Franceinfo in an interview. “He will have to open his algorithms. We will have control, we will have access, people will no longer be able to say rubbish.” Breton earlier warned that Twitter would have to “fly by our rules,” shortly after Musk closed his $44 billion takeover last month. Breton said he had proposed establishing a “working relationship” with Musk to discuss Eu...