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Celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro, a long-time Musk legal representative, led the conversations about the job cuts, according to the report. Twitter had over 7,000 employees at the end of 2021, according to a regulatory filing and a quarter of the headcount amounts to nearly 2,000 employees. Twitter, which has been acquired by billionaire Elon Musk, plans to let go of a quarter of its workforce as part of what is expected to be a first round of layoffs, the Washington Post reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. [Extracted from the article]

Elon Musk has surpassed Jeff Bezos once again to become the world's second richest man, with a net worth of $205.6 billion. This increase in wealth is due to a surge in stocks, resulting in a $14.5 billion increase for Musk. Bezos, on the other hand, has a net worth of $198.9 billion after a $1.3 billion increase. However, both businessmen are still behind Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH, who is currently the richest man with a net worth of $210.1 billion. Musk's wealth primarily comes from his shares in Tesla, and his recent successful trip to China has contributed to Tesla's stock surge. [Extracted from the article]

Tesla has announced plans to introduce a new line of affordable cars by 2025, deviating from their previous plan to produce a new model priced at $25,000. This announcement comes as Tesla's quarterly reports show a 55% decrease in profits compared to the previous year. In addition to financial challenges, several top executives are leaving the company, and Tesla has announced a 10% reduction in global staff. The company attributes these difficulties to broader challenges in the electric vehicle industry and incidents like the arson attack at their Berlin plant. However, Tesla remains optimistic about their future and aims to dominate the electric vehicle market. [Extracted from the article]

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claiming that the company has strayed from its original non-profit mission and is now focused on profiting from generative AI technology. Musk argues that OpenAI's latest version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT-4, is an artificial general intelligence (A.G.I.) system, which he believes poses a potential threat to humanity. OpenAI denies these claims and portrays Musk as a spurned suitor who tried to gain control of the company. The outcome of the lawsuit is uncertain, as experts have differing opinions on whether ChatGPT-4 truly exhibits A.G.I. capabilities. [Extracted from the article]

OpenAI, the generative AI company co-founded by Elon Musk, is facing a lawsuit filed by Musk alleging a breach of its founding mission. OpenAI argues that Musk's desire to take control of the company and merge it with Tesla is at the heart of the dispute. The company maintains that it is still committed to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity, despite being financed by Microsoft. Musk's lawsuit aims to disrupt the ties between OpenAI and Microsoft, and seeks to determine whether certain AI models developed by OpenAI constitute AGI. [Extracted from the article]

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company has breached its founding mission. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI has kept the internal engine of its ChatGPT model, GPT-4, a secret, which goes against the founding agreement that stated the artificial general intelligence (AGI) developed by OpenAI would be open source. Musk's suit also alleges that Altman, after being ousted, joined forces with Microsoft to remove board members who wanted to adhere to the founding agreement. The lawsuit seeks to determine whether GPT-4 and other models constitute AGI and are outside the scope of OpenAI's license to Microsoft. [Extracted from the article]

The article highlights the challenges journalists face on Twitter after Elon Musk's acquisition, citing detrimental changes to the platform, such as the removal of blue check marks for verified reporters and the elimination of headlines from shared stories. Despite these issues, the piece suggests ways to improve the Twitter experience, emphasizing the need for journalists to reconsider the platform's significance, given its declining impact on web traffic for some news organizations.

Elon Musk suggested that popular YouTuber MrBeast upload his videos to a struggling social media platform called X. However, this idea was met with criticism due to X's poor monetization methods. MrBeast explained that his videos cost millions to make and even if they received a billion views on X, it wouldn't generate enough funds. Despite this, MrBeast expressed interest in testing the platform once monetization improves. Musk had previously proposed the same idea in June 2023, stating that earnings per view on X should be competitive with YouTube. [Extracted from the article]

Elon Musk, CEO and co-founder of Tesla, expressed his desire for more control over the company in order to advance its position in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology. Musk currently holds a 13% share in Tesla, but feels that this is not enough to have significant voting control. He suggested that if he does not get his way, he may take Tesla's AI and robotics development elsewhere. Musk's comments have sparked controversy and debate among industry watchers, with some supporting his desire for more control and others viewing it as a power grab. [Extracted from the article]

According to a recent report, Tesla car insurance registrations in China increased by about 30% in the week ending November 5, reaching a total of 14,000 registrations. This rise in registrations coincided with the increased deliveries of the updated Model 3 and the anticipation of price increases for all Model Y car trims in China. However, despite these positive developments, Tesla's insurance registrations in China are still below the levels seen in the third quarter. Additionally, Tesla sold 72,115 cars built in China in October, a slight increase from the previous year but a decrease from September. Some Tesla salesmen in China have also confirmed that the costs of lower-end Model Y trims will soon rise. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that Elon Musk’s space team at SpaceX aims to surpass its annual flight record before the second half of 2017. SpaceX aims to send a flock of 10 Iridium birds into polar orbit from California’s Vandenberg AFB and launch the BulgariaSat1 communications satellite. Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of build and flight reliability, says that they have picked up the rate significantly.

The article offers information on the plan of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) to make some of its payload set to be launched in the International Space Station (ISS) in June 1, 2017. It mentions insight from Tom Mueller, cofounder of SpaceX with Elon Musk, regarding the plan of the company to promote low-cost launch in the outerspace under its commercial cargo mission that features its Dragon freighter.

The article discusses Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (SpaceX's) aspirations in the market for launching satellites. The company's successful launch of Falcon 9 rockets in December 2013 and January 2014 have given the firm credibility and positioned it to compete against more established satellite-launching firms such as Boeing Co. Commentary on SpaceX's ambitions is provided by chief executive Elon Musk.

The article announces the winners of the 52nd Annual Laureate Awards including SpaceX chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk, AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes, and General Dynamics Chairman and CEO Nicholas D. Chabraja.

The article announces several individuals honored by the publication's editors for their achievement in aviation and aerospace, including Mark T. Bottenfield of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Space Exploration Technologies, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Assistant Commissioner Michael C. Kostelnik.

The chatbot, which has been christened Grok AI, wasdeveloped by xAI - a generative AI venture launched byMusk in July to make an AI model understand the truenature of the universe in order to make it safer. AI safety continues to be a major concern Musk's decision to launch xAI and subsequently Grok AIcould be seen by many to be contradictory to hisprevious remarks. Elon Musk has revealed a new generative AI model-basedchatbot that will take on several large language modelsincluding OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's PaLM 2, andAnthropic's Claude 2. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the decline in print book sales in mid-September 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. It discusses that adult nonfiction experiencing the smallest decline and business magnate and investor Elon Musk's biography being the top seller. Topics include the sales performance across different book categories; formats and comparisons to the previous year; and emphasizing the notable decline in juvenile fiction sales.

The article reports that journalists use Twitter often than Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube combined while going-to social media site for work. Topics include civilized corner of the platform the valuable real estate for journalists and thought leaders; and two-factor authentication with an extra layer of protection beyond the password that prevents hackers from easily gaining access to the account.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has launched a newgenerative AI venture, dubbed xAI, to take on the likes ofOpenAI -- the maker of ChatGPT. News The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,the company said on its official website. [Extracted from the article]

An interview with USC digital studies professor Jonathan Taplin is presented who discusses his perspective on Big Tech billionaires selling a false future, focusing on their harm to customers. Topics include the need for SEC regulation over crypto, the dangers of transhumanism and technological escape, and the threat posed by Elon Musk, who Taplin believes is weaponizing Twitter and advocating for an accelerationist agenda.

Last Friday, advertising leaders who are close to Yaccarino said that Musk's blasé reveal of a major industry shakeup with a tweet shows exactly why he needs Yaccarino. Musk has overseen an advertising mess since he bought Twitter, but Yaccarino has been a consistent voice arguing for the industry to give Musk a chance. Can Linda Yaccarino restore brand trust in Twitter?. [Extracted from the article]

Musk cited the need for revenue and tackling bots as the driving force behind Twitter's shift to paid verification. Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk has said that the legacy blue checkmarks would be removed from Twitter accounts verified under the company's previous regime, with an April 20 deadline set for the enforcement. [Extracted from the article]

Since soccer's World Cup in December, Twitter has offered to match advertisers' ad spend, up to $250,000, according to advertising leaders, meaning the brands would get double the views. Brands are still finalizing their ad strategies for Super Bowl 2023 but Twitter, which historically has been at the center of real-time conversations during the Big Game, is not in everyone's lineup, according to ad leaders. [Extracted from the article]

The article report about the Elon Musk acquiring Twitter in October and not getting SpaceVerse. It mentions that the service's Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Dr. Lisa Costa talks about the plans to develop a virtual training and collaboration environment for the service's guardians and company's t trademark.

Few stories in 2022 have captivated the public's attention like Elon Musk buying Twitter. Dec. 2 Musk promotes the first "Twitter files", which would become popular fodder on the platform after Musk disclosed internal communications from before he bought Twitter. Elon Musk's 2022 Twitter brand tumult - explained for advertisers in tweets: A look back at a turbulent couple of months through the perspective of Musk's tweeting about brands and policies. [Extracted from the article]

A Twitter account that tracked flights of Elon Musk's private jet was grounded on Wednesday despite the billionaire's talk of free speech. "Well it appears ElonJet is suspended", creator Jack Sweeney tweeted from his personal JxckSweeney account. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on surviving in the smart machine age which approach to solving problems and making decisions. Topics include algorithmic leaders on having a different approach to evaluating problems; Elon Musk, chief executive officer at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) on setting out his first rocket for taking people on mars; and computational thinking which takes a problem and breaking down into a series of smaller and more manageable problem.

The article evaluates the construction of tunnels for the loop that will be opened in Los Angeles, California, by the Boring company created by Elon Musk and mentions the prototype electric skate that will be used to travel the tunnel.

Leaving that aside, Twitter still needs to make money, sobesides cutting vital staffers and making the rest of themmiserable, Musk's Twitter is also refusing to pay itsbills. Musk's first attempt to make Twitter profitable by othermeans was a Twitter Blue rebranding that gave any userwho'd pony up $8 per month any name they wanted. [Extracted from the article]

After the announcements, those Twitter users with blue checks started making fun of the new boss by impersonating Musk on Twitter, which led Musk to suspend their accounts. Brands were being impersonated left and right on Twitter last week because of one of Musk's first business decisions since buying Twitter last month. That was not really Nintendo posting a picture of Mario flipping off Twitter. [Extracted from the article]

In the wake of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, tens of thousands of users have reportedly migrated to another social media app called Mas-todon. Similarly, Mastodon's setup limits the ceiling for virality - often seen as the holy grail for brands existing on social media platforms, especially Twitter. [Extracted from the article]

'A few months ago SpaceX approached NASA with the idea for a study of how a commercial crew could help boost our Hubble spacecraft into a higher orbit, that would extend its observational lifetime'. Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to fund a study with NASA to examine ways to use the space company's Dragon capsule to raise the Hubble Space Telescope's orbital altitude, which would extend its useful life. NASA officials emphasized that the agreement with SpaceX is only for a SpaceX-funded study, and does not represent agency plans to service the telescope later on. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the plans of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk as a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company based in Hawthorne, California, on the launching of its Falcon Heavy rocket in Mars. It aims to develop technology and resources suitable for human colonisation on Mars.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he was unhappy with employee performance, so he was going to change the performance metrics mid-year and force out the bottom performers. That's where employee metrics come in; the ability to survey and get a bead on employees is critical to potentially reversing a bad decision before the outcome is unrecoverable. [Extracted from the article]

Musk said there were also questions about Twitter's debt and whether shareholders will vote for the deal. Business magnate Elon Musk said that his $44 billion move to take over Twitter remained held up by "very significant" questions about the number of fake users on the social network. [Extracted from the article]

Musk sent a follow-up email on Thursday telling executives to "pause all hiring worldwide" and said he plans to cull 10% of Tesla's workforce, according to Reuters, which first obtained a copy of the message. After emailing top managers in his company last week to demand that all employees return to the office, Tesla CEO Elon Musk signaled he wants to cut 10% of his workforce in anticipation of a bad recession. [Extracted from the article]

News Analysis Companies with unfavorable workplace policies riskcompetitors poaching their best talent Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk this weekdelivered an ultimatum to the two companies' white-collarworkers: get back in the corporate office or face firing. Ultimately, Musk will regret his strategy, Lewis said,because he's betting his employees and their prioritieswill be vastly different from those in otherorganizations, "for the simple fact that their desire towork for Tesla outweighs their desire for better worklife balance." Is Elon Musk's "return to office" mandate genius or corporate suicide?. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that the space transport firm Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has failed to gain certification for U.S. government launches and demonstration of reusability of first stage of Falcon 9 rocket. Topics discussed include slow progress in SpaceX's mission to expand from low-risk carriage to International Space Station, views of U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James on completion of certification task, and criticism made by SpaceX founder Elon Musk on certification.

News New billionaire owner for Twitter could mean big changes,but much is still unclear for business users Tesla founder and mining heir Elon Musk has entered into anagreement to purchase Twitter in a $44 billion deal that willturn the social media network into a privately held company, withpotentially large-scale ramifications ahead for the platform. Yet in the immediate aftermath of the Monday announcement, it'sdifficult to say precisely how a Musk-led Twitter will differfrom its shareholder-owned iteration. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the battery as still the wild card for future electric vehicles. Experts were asked by "Design News" magazine to describe the state of electric cars in 2025. One of them is Thilo Koslowski, an analyst for Gartner Inc., who believes that the battery is still the wild card. Tesla Motors chief executive officer Elon Musk sees the author industry reaching the tipping point anytime soon. A research reveals that about one percent of new cars would be fully electric by 2020.

The article focuses on the Hyperloop transportation concept proposed by inventor Elon Musk. Rod Diridon Sr. executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute, mentions that with the help of Musk, Hyperloop can transform from a technological pipe dream to a viable tube reality. Musk states that it would be great to have an alternative to flying or driving. However, it says that the estimates of Musk for the Hyperloop concept has been widely questioned by conservatives.

The article announces that SpaceX chief executive officer and chief designer Elon Musk has received the 2013 Technology Leader of the Year award from the journal.

A correction is presented to a column in the Washington Outlook May 14, 2017 issues which should have stated that SpaceX declined to comment on Doug Derwin's reported $2 million campaign against CEO Elon Musk.

The article discusses plan of Elon Musk of SpaceX launch-services company to shift to Falcon 9 spacecrafts by 2018. Topics include strategy to cut the cost of space launch, plan of company to offer a discount to customers willing to entrust their payloads, and integration of side-mounted boosters for the first flight of the upcoming Falcon Heavy.

The article offers information on the plans of Elon Musk, chief executive officer of SpaceX launch services company, to launch its reusable Falcon 9 rocket ensuring cost effectiveness of the launch. It mentions the use of solar electric propulsion for stationkeeping which is backed up by a chemical propulsion system for initial orbit raising. It also mentions the efforts of the company to develop design for sending hardware into space and bringing it back to the surface.