The pressure against Tesla is really starting to mount in northern Europe. After unions stopped unloading Tesla vehicles from ships in Sweden last month over a labor disagreement with the Elon Musk-led company, the Swedish Transport Workers' union announced today that it will stop collecting waste at Tesla workshops on Christmas Eve to turn up the pressure unless, of course, the EV maker signs a collective agreement in Sweden. And it's not just Sweden many neighboring countries are now also looking to take action in solidarity Continue reading →

December 14, 2023 @ 11:45 AM Netflix has resumed advertising on X following a suspension by the streamer and other brands after Elon Musk was met with intense backlash for promoting and agreeing with a post that glorified anantisemitic conspiracy theory, TheWrap has learned. The New York Times reported last month that Netflix halted nearly $3 million worth of ads, citing X estimates. But TheWrap has come across posts by Netflix advertising its films Maestro and May December Continue reading →

"We are not Twitter any longer and not measuring ourselves by old Twitter metrics." FKA Twitter The site formerly known as Twitter continues to lose ad revenue hand over fist under Elon Musk's ownership, making the differences between "X" and "Twitter" all the more apparent. "We are not Twitter any longer and not measuring ourselves by old Twitter metrics both in revenue and user metrics," Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations, toldBloomberg when asked about the massive, continuing ad revenue drop since Musk took over Continue reading →

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribunes daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas transplant Elon Musk is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for one of his charities first reported by Bloomberg News. The charity, called The Foundation, plans to use a $100 million gift from Musk to create and launch a primary and secondary school in Austin focused on teaching science, technology, engineering and math. Continue reading →

Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly truth-seeking artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built by Musks xAI artificial intelligence company, was made available to Premium+ X users last Friday. Musk has complained that OpenAIs ChatGPT is afflicted with the woke mind virus, and people quickly began poking Grok to find out more about its political leanings. Continue reading →

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Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. Continue reading →