Business & Tech Elon Musk Is at War With the Brazilian Judiciary Now Brazilian politics are, like America's, in a volatile and divisive place. And Xitter is reportedly being weaponized in ways that violate Brazilian law — which does not have complete protections for free speech. So Elon Musk is basically threatening to shut down all operations in the country.
Business & Tech Judge Tells Musk His Lawsuit Against Hate-Speech Watchdog Group Is Just 'Punishment' For Their Speech Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk went after several nonprofit organizations last year for their speech last year. One of those lawsuits was just tossed out by a federal judge with a blistering, 52-page order.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Talks Ketamine With Don Lemon, Says Investors Should Want Him to 'Keep Taking It' The interview that apparently destroyed Don Lemon's relationship with Elon Musk, because it was not fawning enough for Musk's liking, or something, is now online, and in it, Musk discusses his use of prescription ketamine.
Business & Tech OpenAI Publishes Old Emails From Musk Showing He Approved For-Profit Venture In its first public response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI has published some emails with Musk showing that he signed off on the company's for-profit structure, and that he tried to claim "absolute control" of the company.
Business & Tech Fired Twitter Executives Suing Elon Musk for $128 Million in Unpaid Severance Four high-level Twitter executives whom Elon Musk immediately fired after taking over Twitter are suing for what they say is $128 million in unpaid severance, a lawsuit that claims Musk said he would “hunt” those executives “until the day they die.”
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Falling Out With Sam Altman Turns Into Lawsuit Against OpenAI Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
Business & Tech Why Did Musk's 'Free-Speech Absolutist' X Platform Take Down New Account From Alexei Navalny's Widow? It is hard to say where we are in the evolution/devolution of Xitter under the leadership of Elon Musk. But in the absence of a robust human team dealing with content moderation, odd contradictions in policy are bound to occur.
Business & Tech X’s SF Landlord Is Suing Over Unpaid Rent, Seeking $13.6 Million Ahead of X's trial with its Market Street office landlord over rent nonpayment, court filings reveal that the landlord is looking for $13.6 million to refill a line of credit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Did Musk Just Buy Twitter to Shut Down That Jet-Tracker Account? A new book suggests Elon Musk's primary motivation to buy Twitter was to shut down that ElonJet account; an Oakland police officer was arrested for DUI; and four people were found dead of possible overdoses in a South Lake Tahoe house.
Business & Tech The Kid Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet is Now Tracking Taylor Swift’s Jet, and Taylor is Seeing Red The young man who posted Elon Musk’s private jet coordinates has drawn the ire of Taylor Swift for tracking her private jet coordinates too (and posting her CO2 emissions), so Swift’s attorneys have handed him a pre-Super Bowl cease-and-desist letter.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims the First Human Subject Has Gotten a Neuralink Implant In Their Brain The first human patient has reportedly had the Neuralink computer chip implanted into their brain, according to a tweet from Elon Musk, marking either a milestone for people with neurodegenerative disorders, or one giant leap for oligarch mind control.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Probably Keep Mindlessly Casting Doubt on Mail-In Ballots and Election Integrity All Year on X Elon Musk has proven himself no better and no wiser than the many, many idiots who chatter about conspiracies and the "Deep State" on social media, the only difference being he's a billionaire who owns a social media platform who should know better.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Continues Apology Tour By Going to Auschwitz With Ben Shapiro Billionaire multi-CEO Elon Musk took a break from running his companies to take a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp Monday and attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA) in Krakow.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Wants More Compensation Out of Tesla to Move More Toward AI Elon Musk is in some sort of negotiation with the board of Tesla to regain greater voting control at the board level, and he's making this publicly known in a series of tweets, for some reason.
Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s Alleged Drug Use Creating Problems for Tesla, SpaceX Board Members After a Wall Street Journal report this weekend said Elon Musk has been using cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine, and magic mushrooms, Musk issued non-denials, but top executives of his companies remain worried about the fallout.
SF Politics Projection Pranksters Hit Ferry Building During New Year’s Fireworks, Mock Mayor Breed, Elon Musk, Trump Some “projection activists” did a number on the SF Ferry Building just before the clock struck midnight for the fireworks show Sunday night, briefly displaying “STFU Musk” and other messages hammering Donald Trump and London Breed.
Business & Tech Judge Rules That Musk's X Must Abide By California's Content Moderation Law In another blow to Elon Musk's quest for absolute free speech, a federal judge has rejected Musk and his attorneys' argument that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose their content-moderation policies and procedures.
Business & Tech Lawsuit Over Twitter/X Employees' Unpaid Bonuses Moves Forward After Judge's Ruling A lawsuit brought by one former Twitter exec who stayed on with company following the Fall 2022 purge by new owner Elon Musk, claiming that Musk reneged on a promise of bonuses for all those didn't resign, is moving to trial.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Laying Off Everyone Elon Musk's dreams of building a high-speed steel-tube transit network that would theoretically make train and short-haul airline travel obsolete appear to be dead. Hyperloop One, founded in 2014, is shutting down.
SF News Florida Man Arrested for Threatening 'Mass Casualty Attack' at Tesla Cybertruck Launch Event in Texas Authorities thwarted a tech-hating 28-year-old man who had apparently driven from Florida to Texas to try to attack the public launch event for Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertrucks.
Business & Tech Kara Swisher Slams Elon Musk's 'F U' to Advertisers as the 'Meltdown' of an 'Adult Toddler' Tech writer and podcaster Kara Swisher didn't mince words in condemning the behavior of Elon Musk Wednesday evening at the New York Times' DealBook Summit.
Business & Tech Elon Musk to Fleeing Advertisers: 'Go F**k Yourselves' Well, the countdown clock may be ticking to X CEO Linda Yaccarino's predictable departure from the platform formerly known as Twitter. Company owner and virtual CEO Elon Musk has just told skittish advertisers "Don't advertise."
Business & Tech Elon Musk Went to Israel to Show He's Not Antisemitic Musk decided to pay a visit Monday to Israel and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following a week and a half of negative attention about antisemitism on X/Twitter.
Business & Tech Musk's X Sues Media Matters Over Article Regarding Hate Speech and Ads Elon Musk is extremely mad at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that has been calling out hate speech on X/Twitter, and now he's filed a lawsuit against them.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Puts X/Twitter In Jeopardy Again With One Antisemitic Tweet Elon Musk can't help himself when it comes to tweeting, and his opinions on many matters are gross and/or deeply misguided, and thus him owning Twitter and taking all the guardrails off it has come back to bite him yet again.
