Amidst the chaos in the U.S. banking sector, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of Twitter, has been critical of the country’s central bank. Musk insists that the U.S. Federal Reserve is operating with “way too much latency in their data,” and he insists that the central bank needs to drop the federal...
Elon Musk “Open to the Idea” of Buying Silicon Valley Bank Elon Musk may buy SIVB to become a digital bank. SIVB has been put under the control of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). FDIC is to liquidate the bank’s assets and figure out how to refund customers. Unusual Whales, the popular crypto...
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk speaks onstage during a delivery event for Tesla China-made Model 3 cars at its factory in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo (Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has exercised options to acquire 10,500 shares of the electric-vehicle maker, U.S....
Elon Musk has made no secret of his desire to colonise Mars, but seemingly not before he’s had a go at running his own community here on Earth. The SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter owner wants to build a “utopia” called Snailbrook for his workers to live in Texas, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). It...
Twitter boss Elon Musk has backpedalled after publicly mocking an employee on the social media platform. Twitter worker Haraldur Thorleifsson wasn’t sure whether he had been sacked by the company after finding himself locked out of his work computer, along with 200 others. Unable to get a clear answer as to whether he was still...
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge If the constant deluge of news about Elon Musk hasn’t been enough for you, there’s good news: a new documentary about him is in the works from filmmaker Alex Gibney, who’s directed movies like Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Zero Days, and The Inventor: Out for...
Amongst a ton of product changes to make Twitter a more attractive platform, Elon Musk has mentioned multiple times his desire to make direct messages better and more secure. So much so that he wants DMs to “superset Signal” — the encrypted messaging app. Over the weekend, Musk said that the end-to-end encrypted DM feature...
Where are the money birds? | Illustration: Laura Normand / The Verge On February 3rd, Elon Musk made a big announcement. “Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads,” he said, later adding that you’d have to be subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified to get your...
The big, giant message Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other execs tried to impart during its four-hour Tesla Investor Day was how the company would be a driver of a global shift to clean energy. Investors, at least those active after the market closed, weren’t impressed perhaps because it lacked that big product announcement, specific...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk revealed the third part of Tesla’s “Master Plan,” in which the company will lead the global effort to eliminate fossil fuels and convert the world to sustainable energy. The plan was outlined during an investor event Wednesday held at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. Master...