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Elon Musk’s $1tn Tesla pay deal to be rejected by huge Norway wealth fund
Carmaker’s seventh biggest single investor will vote against package at annual shareholder meeting Business live – latest updates Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has said it will vote against a $1tn (£765bn) pay package for the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk. The fund, which is the biggest national wealth fund in the world, said that while…
Elon Musk’s $1tn Tesla pay deal to be rejected by huge Norway wealth fund
Carmaker’s seventh biggest single investor will vote against package at annual shareholder meeting Business live – latest updates Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has said it will vote against a $1tn (£765bn) pay package for the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk. The fund, which is the biggest national wealth fund in the world, said that while…
In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia
From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history…
Elon Musk launches encyclopedia ‘fact-checked’ by AI and aligning with rightwing views
Grokipedia’s entries hew closely to conservative talking points, with some journalists already saying it contains inaccurate information Elon Musk has launched an online encyclopedia named Grokipedia that he said relied on artificial intelligence and would align more with his rightwing views than Wikipedia, though many of its articles say they are based on Wikipedia itself.…
Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles
Carmaker exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with more than $26bn in revenue, but saw a 37% drop in profits Despite record vehicle sales, Tesla saw a precipitous drop in profit in its most recent quarter. A rush to buy electric vehicles before a US tax credit for them disappears had boosted Tesla’s flagging sales, leading to…
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’ Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be…
‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in kids’ show
Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptions Elon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of…
Elon Musk becomes first person with net worth of $500bn
Tesla owner’s wealth temporarily crosses half-trillion-dollar mark before retreating to $499bn Business live – latest updates Elon Musk has become the first person to reach a net worth of $500bn, bringing the Tesla chief executive halfway to trillionaire status. Musk’s wealth temporarily crossed the half-trillion mark on Wednesday before retreating to $499bn, according to the…
Anti-Defamation League takes down extremism research after Musk leads rightwing backlash
Prominent US Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organization removed over a thousand pages of research The Anti-Defamation League, one of the most prominent Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organizations in the US, removed over a thousand pages of extremism research from its site on Tuesday night following online backlash from rightwing influencers and Elon Musk. The ADL’s…
Musk’s Grok AI bot falsely suggests police misrepresented footage of far-right rally in London
Met forced to rebut misinformation amplified by X users as Musk accused of inciting violence with protest comments The Metropolitan police has had to counter false suggestions by the artificial intelligence on Elon Musk’s X platform that the force passed off footage from 2020 as being from Saturday’s far-right rally in the city. The claim…