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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about “government by machines” and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
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Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?
For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple’s App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live in countries under censorship. Apple later […]
Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.
Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
xAI’s Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, apparently hasn’t been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. “As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months,” Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in […]
Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product
The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the “24/7 job” of overseeing X.
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we’re calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings statement […]
Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call
Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company’s first call.
Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla’s car business.
Tesla reportedly might sell its China business ahead of a SpaceX merger
Tesla had already reportedly prepped for the idea in the event that Beijing invades Taiwan.