SpaceX's AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there's nobody left to ask them.
Universal's much-anticipated Elon Musk documentary may not have liftoff after all ... and it sounds like it could be grounded for good. There's no release date for "Musk" and there's a belief in Hollywood that Universal will ultimately decide…
TMZ•TMZ Staff17 SeptComcast's Universal is going ahead with plans to show a new Elon Musk documentary in theaters outside the US, the company says.
Universal is reportedly reconsidering its release of a revealing Elon Musk documentary, despite it receiving rave reviews at recent film festivals.
IGN•Tom Phillips17 Sept
GAO report shows how use paid administrative leave rose by 435% from 2023 to 2025 and incurred a sixfold cost The US government paid federal workers $9.5bn not to work in 2025 as part of the Trump administration ’s attempts to shrink the federal workforce. As part of efforts by the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), spearheaded by Elon Musk , federal agencies’ use of paid administrative leave rose 435% from 2023 to 2025 – costing six times what the government spent in 2023 – according to a new report released on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent watchdog. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Maya Yang16 SeptA conservative Trump appointee ordered Musk's firms to reveal deals with Apple after dropping antitrust claims. OpenAI remains in the lawsuit.
Elon Musk has sold most of his California real estate portfolio, but he's building a new one in Austin. See the homes he's owned, including a trailer.
X is turning Cashtags into a more direct bridge between market conversation and trade execution. U.S. users can now move from a stock or crypto ticker on the platform to a participating brokerage or exchange with a single tap. Coinbase, Kraken Join X Cashtags as U.S. Trading Links Go Live X is pushing deeper into […]
Bitcoin.com News•Emmanuel Musa16 Sept
Maye Musk, supermodel and mother to Elon Musk, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss her new memoir, "Timeless: The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age."
Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of “gambling with our lives”. The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Shakeel Hashim16 Sept
The stark reality is this: we don’t know how to maintain control of these systems. But there are actions we can take With Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic , we have reached the AI risk tipping point. Millions of people are finally coming to understand what experts have known for years: AI companies have been gambling with all of our lives, and the odds are not good. In response, the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, has introduced a proposal for “pacing the frontier”, endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Can we breathe a sigh of relief? Are we about to step back from the edge of extinction? Amodei envisions a slowdown of one to two years, resulting in “profound progress” on technical safety measures. But that’s not what humanity needs right now. What we need is a plan in which we’re confident AI isn’t going to kill us, and this isn’t it. Continue reading...
The Guardian•David Krueger16 Sept
Musk's unconventional living choice highlights his hands-on leadership style, potentially influencing corporate culture and innovation strategies.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team15 Sept
Musk says he is living at xAI’s Memphis data center site, continuing a longtime habit of sleeping where he works.
Elon Musk's company will also attempt to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites into its orbital internet constellation.
TechCrunch•Sean O'Kane15 Sept
Tesla will finally unveil its new Roadster on October 1, more than eight years after it first showed the car in 2017. And a teaser this weekend suggests the production version is getting Tesla’s “Cyber” design treatment. The teaser shows SpaceX cold gas thrusters firing out the back, and Elon Musk has promised “radical design changes.” But the Roadster never needed a redesign. It needed to ship. more…
Electrek•Fred Lambert15 Sept
A merger could redefine industry landscapes, raising antitrust concerns and reshaping market dynamics with significant regulatory scrutiny.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team15 Sept
Elon Musk, who has backed far-right groups in Europe, called Ilias Kasidiaris' continued incarceration "messed up" on X on July 17.
Elon Musk called for the leading AI labs to peer review each others' models before they're released to the public as a way to evaluate their safety.
Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP coin crashed 98% and he's now pleading with Elon Musk on X. Bitcoin tests $76.7K support ahead of Fed decision and CLARITY Act vote.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…
MIT Technology Review•Thomas Macaulay15 Sept