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Elon Musk to expand Tesla gigafactory rocked by Left-wing protests – The Telegraph

Elon Musk’s Tesla has been given the green light to expand its Berlin gigafactory despite environmental activists taking part in huge protests at the plant last week.
The local council in Gruenheide, the Brandenburg municipality where the Berlin factory is based, voted 11 to six to allow the company to expand the facility, Tesla’s only European plant.
The decision comes three months after local residents voted to block the expansion, which prompted Tesla to submit a scaled-down plan.
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Elon Musk to expand Tesla gigafactory rocked by Left-wing protests – The Telegraph

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'Twitter' finally dead as Elon Musk moves site to X.com | The Independent

Change comes more than two years after Musk offered to buy Twitter
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“Twitter” as a website is now finally, entirely dead, according to Elon Musk.
The billionaire announced that the site had finally moved its systems to X.com, marking the end of the site’s rebrand to X.
It comes more than two years after Mr Musk started his plan to buy what was then called Twitter, in April 2022. In October of that year, he finally […]
'Twitter' finally dead as Elon Musk moves site to X.com | The Independent

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Elon Musk's Neuralink accepting applications for second brain implant participant

Elon Musk’s startup company Neuralink livestreamed on March 20 its first patient implanted with a brain-chip using his mind to play chess on a computer. (Credit: Reuters)
Elon Musk announced Friday that his startup, Neuralink, is accepting applications for a second person to get a cybernetic brain implant as part of an ongoing trial. 
"This is our Telepathy cybernetic brain implant that allows you to control your phone and computer just by thinking," Musk posted on X alongside a […]
Elon Musk's Neuralink accepting applications for second brain implant participant

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Elon Musk Compares The Fed's Money Printer To A Game Of Monopoly As Goldman Warns …

Elon Musk had another post go viral on his platform, X, with this one eliciting more laughs than controversy.
Taking a screenshot from the rule page of the game of Monopoly, about how "the bank never goes bankrupt" as the "banker may also issue ‘new' money," Elon Musk reposted it with the added caption "how the Federal Reserve works."
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Elon Musk confirms Twitter's transformation is complete. It's now X.com. – CBS News

The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said Friday.
The billionaire head of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and announced the rebrand to X last July.
Although the logo and branding were changed to “X,” the domain name remained Twitter.com until Friday.
“All core systems are now on X.com,” Musk wrote on X, posting an image of a logo of a white X on a blue circle.
All core systems are now […]
Elon Musk confirms Twitter's transformation is complete. It's now X.com. – CBS News

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X.com: Twitter's domain is now officially x.com, Elon Musk 'tweets' – The Economic Times

— elonmusk (@elonmusk) X in August 2023 said its app would definitively be called X going forward. In marketing copy, the company declared, “The X app is the trusted digital town square for everyone.” The app has a new slogan, too: “Blaze your glory!” (Twitter’s previous tag lines included “Let’s talk” and “It’s what’s happening.”)The Associated Press, esteemed by many as the pinnacle of journalistic standards, revised its stylebook to acknowledge the name alteration. It recommended that […]
X.com: Twitter's domain is now officially x.com, Elon Musk 'tweets' – The Economic Times

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Elon Musk deepfake crypto scam highlights risks to Hong Kong as AI-related fraud rises

‘It’s scary’: Asian cryptocurrency scams bilk tens of thousands of ‘brainwashed’ victims
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Elon Musk deepfake crypto scam highlights risks to Hong Kong as AI-related fraud rises

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Forbes Daily: Why A Top Tesla Investor Says Elon Musk Is A 'Tyrant CEO'

Plus: As Forbes releases its list of the 50 highest-paid athletes in the world, it’s notable that there are no women on the list. Despite an income gap, stars like Caitlin Clark are making progress.
As firms bring workers back into the office, it’s not just junior-level employees who are pushing back.
A survey of 3,500 employees from HR consulting and research firm Gartner found that 33% of executives who’d been given a return-to-office mandate said they would leave their current employer […]
Forbes Daily: Why A Top Tesla Investor Says Elon Musk Is A 'Tyrant CEO'

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Elon Musk set to launch Starlink in Indonesia – Teslarati

Elon Musk is expected to visit Indonesia over the weekend to launch SpaceX’s Starlink internet service. 
According to two cabinet ministers in Indonesia, Starlink’s internet services will launch by Sunday, May 19. Indonesia approved a permit for Starlink internet services earlier this month. Starlink will collaborate with local network access providers and provide internet services to remote areas in Indonesia.
Communications Minister Audi Arie Setaidi stated that Elon Musk is set to […]
Elon Musk set to launch Starlink in Indonesia – Teslarati

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Elon Musk reportedly abruptly fired entire Tesla Supercharger team for this reason

In a brutal year for tech layoffs, Tesla may have set the record for worst reason to lay people off.
At least, that’s the implication in a new report from Reuters detailing what led to 500 employees from Tesla’s Supercharger team being cut earlier in May. According to Reuters, Musk met privately with charging executive Rebecca Tinucci in what was expected by Tinucci to be a meeting about the future expansion of the charging network.
However, Musk was reportedly unsatisfied when Tinucci’s […]
Elon Musk reportedly abruptly fired entire Tesla Supercharger team for this reason