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Tiktok is a platform that, well used, can be really entertaining and until we learn something. The problem is that for each piece of useful, original and developed content there are many others With half truths, disinformation, Myths sold as realities, Urban legends and statements based on “Source: Comic Sans”. This content may not have bad intentions and be published from ignorance and ignorance, but that does not mean that it can lead to misunderstandings. The Tiktok solution? Be inspired by X. Foot notes. That would be the literal translation of Footnotesthe new function that Tiktok has launched in the United States. It is a data verification system through collective collaboration, or what is the same, the equivalent in Tiktok a X -community notesbefore Twitter. 23 Twitter tricks – This social network is completely dominated! This will see the notes at the foot of Tiktok | Image: Tiktok And what is it? Suppose we find a video of a user who states that the earth is flat because one day he went to the beach, He looked forward and couldn’t see the curvature. With this new function, anyone could explain why this argument does not have any meaning and link to any scientific publication, wikipedia or article as a source. In the case of something more controversial or than more interpretation, users could explain the subject, give more context, etc. Tiktok will use what is known as “Bridging-Based Ranking“, that is, a system that rewards consensus. The note that will be display There is not much discussionbut in more gray issues (politics, events …) there may be a variety of opinions and there is no absolute truth. The idea of Footnotes is, in some way, add context and information respecting the diversity of opinions when proceeding. Users must sign up for a program to add notes. By adding them, they will have to say the reason why a note deserves, add a comment and put a link to a “reliable source” | Image: Tiktok Who watches the watchman. With one estimate Of 34 million videos uploaded to day, Tiktok is aware that moderating so much content already such a scale is complex. If we add to that the notes of the community, the thing goes more. Thus, Tiktok says that “we will use a combination of automated and human moderation to help detect and eliminate footnotes that breach the standards.” Users can also report the notes they consider harmful. At the moment, only in the United States. According to Erica Ruzic, director of integrity and authenticity of Tiktok products “we have chosen the US market because it is large enough to have a content ecosystem that can support this type of test.” There is no intention to launch them in the global market, at least for the moment, although from Tiktok they will evaluate the test and analyze whether it is worth launching it in other markets. It is, at least, curious that Tiktok has chosen the United States for this test. Tiktok should have left the US market at the beginning of the year having refused to sell their local operations, but Donald Trump has been granted extensions Waiting for a solution. At the moment, everything indicates that Bytedance is working on a version of Tiktok by and for the United States, but nothing is known about it. Disinformation in Tiktok. The Chinese platform has been several times in the eye of the hurricane. One of the most striking and recent cases was the alleged Russian interference in the Romanian electionscase that is being investigated by the European Union and that forced to cancel and repeat the elections. Although the platform has mechanisms and commitments to curb misinformation, the reality is complex. The efforts, however, must go in that direction. According to the last European Parliament Youth Survey From the European Union, 42% of young people between 16 and 30 use Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube to access news about politics or social. If we add that, according to the Reuters Digital Institute News Report of 2024 (PDF), 27% of Tiktok users have trouble identifying deceptive content, we get a dangerous cocktail. Cover image | Collabstr in Unspash

Elon Musk wants Elon Musk’s companies to finance Elon Musk’s AI with Elon Musk’s money

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Elon Musk is clear that his most immediate future passes, yes or yes, due to artificial intelligence. The eccentric magnate launched two years ago Xai After resorting, among others, the resources of Tesla and Spacex to raise funds. Much has rained since then. Elon Musk already has an AI model in the market, Grokand wants to continue growing to stand up to OpenAi, Google and company. For that he needs resources, and something else, but if something has the richest man in the world they are plenty of resources. So he has put the machinery in motion. -He Elon, can you give me money? – Of course, Elon. – Thank you, Elon. The billionaire has us accustomed to mobilizing Spacex resources to finance their movements. For example, Spacex gave him a loan of 20 million dollars to finance Tesla in its first measures. Also He used Spacex resources to finance The Boring Company And even asked $ 1,000 million to face the purchase of Twitter. Why use Spacex resources? Because it is his company, he founded it with 100 million dollars from his own pocket and is not a public company, Ergo is not participated and does not have to ask the investors permission. With Tesla, a company that is also CEO, the situation is different. Tesla is a public company and has a shareholders’ board that must approve the mobilization of resources. It is true that It is a Board of Shareholders faithful to Muskbut it is a process that cannot be skipped. However, in 2016 he used his Tesla actions to Buy Solar City Company of renewables of which Musk was maximum shareholder and Lyndon Rive, his cousin, the CEO. Inverters did not like it too muchby the way. More money. Knowing that, it will surprise us less than Spacex has approved Invest 2 billion dollars in XAI, the artificial intelligence company that Elon Musk is (surprise) founder and CEO. This investment is part of a capital collection of 5,000 million Announced by Morgan Stanley Last month. It is also the largest investment that Spacex has made in another company and the first in XAI (of which you have record, of course). Grok now has an anime avatar. This, specifically | Image: Xataka Android In the background. The reality is that these movements have the objectives to increase the capabilities and assessment of XAI, as well as allow their operations to be maintained. The latter will see that it is still complex. With regard to “artificially” the valuation of XAI, the most striking movement was undoubtedly The purchase of X by XAI. That increased the valuation of X to 33,000 million dollars and that of XAI to 80,000 million dollars, according to Musk. It is no accident that Grok is integrated into X, which recently to the Starlink customer service support and that Musk wants to use it as the basis for optimus robots. Everything revolves around Xai into the spearhead of his empire. But need more. Elon Musk wants to compete against Google, Openai and Anthropic. Your latest model, Grok 4has received excellent scores in the benchmarks, although its impact has not been the same as that of Chatgpt or Gemini. Beyond that, XAI has a small big problem: AI is expensive and spends money in abundance. XAI has spent billions of dollars in data centers (Some with 200,000 gpus nvidia hopper) And he intends to create a superordinate, Colossuswith a million GPUS Blackwell. The problem, of course, is to get between 50,000 and 62.5 billion dollars that would cost this transactionespecially after recent controversies with Grok. Not to mention that maintaining and developing Grok costs Xai about 1,000 million dollars per month. For us to get an idea, it is estimated that XAI will spend $ 13,000 million in 2025, but will only generate 500 million dollars in revenues. Cover image | Gage Skidmore edited by Xataka In Xataka | Elon Musk said the electricity network would begin to fail in 2025. For once, it has given in the nail with its prediction

Grok 4 destroys the tests and aims to be the most advanced AI model. The problem is that Elon Musk continues to sabotage his answers

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Xai has launched Grok 4its new artificial intelligence model that is sweeping the most demanding performance tests in the sector. The model exceeds OpenAi, Google and Anthropic proposals in multiple benchmarks. And is that in the absence of knowing OpenAI’s strategy with GPT-5At the moment it has all the ballots of being the most pointer the model. However, Grok continues to drag the usual problems: controversial responses, offensive content and an Elon Musk using the model to subtract credibility. The numbers speak alone. In the test Humanity’s last examconsidered one of the most difficult to measure abilities of AI, XAI states that Grok 4 has achieved 25.4% Without additional tools, surpassing O3 of Openai (21%) and Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google (21.6%). But it is with Grok 4 Heavy, its multiagente version, where the results shoot: according to the company, reaches 44.4% With ‘tools’, almost doubleing competition. Image: XAI In addition, at the benchmark ARC-AGI-2which measures the ability to solve complex visual patterns, Grok 4 has obtained 16.2%practically double the next commercial model. According to Musk“Grok 4 exceeds the doctoral level in all subjects, without exception”, an affirmation that, although it sounds to marketing, is supported by the results obtained. The revolutionary approach. Grok 4 Heavy works with A “multiple agents” system that work in parallel about the same problem, then comparing their results as if it were a study group. This architecture allows you to climb intelligence according to the available computational power, a concept that could redefine how we understand the AI ​​performance. Image: XAI The usual problems. The launch of Grok 4 occurs just after the previous version of the chatbot published anti -Semitic comments In X, even identifying as “Mechahitler” in some answers. XAI had to temporarily withdraw the service and eliminate offensive publications, while countries like Poland They announced complaints before the European Commission and Türkiye blocked access to chatbot. The cause was a modification in the system instructions that allowed the model “not to avoid politically incorrect statements.” Although Xai withdrew that guideline, the damage was already done. A constant sabotage. Despite these technical advances, Musk continues to condition Grok’s responses in ways that compromise their usefulness. The model performs automatic searches for the opinions of the tycoon in X to respond to controversial issues, turning the alleged search for “truth” into an echo of its creator’s ideas. This practice, confirmed By experts in AI like Carlos Santana, he once again demonstrates how Musk’s controversial decisions are directly influencing the development of the model. In addition, several researchers already They have managed to avoid Easily model safety barriers, making it generate content on chemical weapons, malicious software, drugs and other sensitive issues through relatively simple jailbreak techniques. Ethan Mollick, professor at Warton and an expert at AI, Point out The lack of transparency of the company: ‘There is no detailed technical documentation, risk analysis or explanations on how to avoid future incidents’. This opacity makes it difficult for companies to trust Grok for critical applications. Grok 4 prices. XAI Grok 4 Basic offers at a price of about 30 dollars a month. However, the company has also launched Supergrok Heavy, a subscription of $ 300 per month in which its most advanced model is offered and that directly becomes the most expensive market service on the market. What is coming. XAI plans to launch a programming model in August, multimodal agents in September and video generation in October. Also will integrate Grok 4 in Tesla vehicles Next week, expanding the scope of AI throughout the Musk ecosystem. The question is whether the company will separate the technical excellence of the media controversies that surround it, or if it will remain hostage of its founder’s impulsive decisions. Cover image | XAI In Xataka | We knew that AI would generate new jobs that did not exist before. What we did not expect is that he was fixing his pifias

Elon Musk has updated Grok to look so much to him that AI is having hallucinations: Elon Musk is believed

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“Rip al Grok Woke has been an honor,” he said This user in X. The chatbot of X has had a somewhat movidito weekend after Musk will announce a significant improvement. Shortly after, Grok began to give some strange answers: messages feeding conspiracy theories, anti -Semitic comments and even began to respond in the first person as if it were Elon Musk himself. Anti-Woke. Musk did not give details about Grok’s update, he just said that “you should notice a difference when you ask Grok”, and go if he noticed. The message that caused the most He was one in which Grok spoke of Hollywood’s “ideological prejudices” as “stereotypes against whites”, ensuring that “ruins magic.” When users continued asking him, Jewish executives came to blame to promote these “anti-transitional” policies. In the same thread, a user asked directly if Elon had altered the code to make him less “woke” and more “like him”, to which Grok replied No, but is “designed by XAI to prioritize the truth about the Wokism” Canallita. Apart from his political bias, the new Grok seems to have instructions to use a more “scoundrel” tone in his answers, even attacking users. A clear example is the exchange that Grok maintained with This Chelsea fan. The user asked how FC Barcelona was going to pay the fine imposed by UEFA and the Bot released a ‘Zasca’ stating that Chelsea’s fine is bigger. No one happy. Although many of the criticism come from the progressive side, the truth is that Grok has nothing happy to conservatives. In another message, Grok said Donald Trump’s cuts They were the culprits of the deaths that occurred in Texas After the recent floods. In the answers they told him that this was false since these cuts would not take effect until 2026, but Grok continued to defend his position. The result is that no one is happy with Grok, on the one hand They accuse him of being of the extreme right And on the other of being Too much left. Are you, Elon? Whatever the content of the update, For many users It is clear that the intention is to create a more aligned Grok with the opinions of its creator. In fact, he had a kind of identity crisis when asked if Elon Musk had been at Jeffrey Epstein’s house. The message has been deleted, but there are screenshots. In it, Grok responded in the first personas if it were Musk itself. When users caught his attention, he denied it sharply, coming to say that the screenshot they showed him It was manipulated. Finally recognized him and apologized for your mistake. Educating Grok. From the Twitter purchase and its transformation into Propaganda toolMusk has proclaimed a Absolutist of Freedom of Expression. With the arrival of Grok, which in the words of Musk himself is The first politically incorrect thing that always tells the truthwe have seen how his toy rebelled against his master, coming to say that Musk was “The biggest misinformation spreader”. Since then they have been refining the answers and with Grok 3, it was learned that The chatbot had been instructed not to mention Trump or Musk. This last update also seems to go in this address: align Grok’s responses with the tone that Musk usually uses, almost as if he were educating him. A lot of potential. Apart from the controversies that seem to wrap everything Musk touches, the launch of Grok 3 surprised us for his intelligence and speedreaching at the height of its competitors in many ways, although still It is still behind. Grok’s greatest asset lies in its integration into X. Since its arrival, Grok has become a kind of FACT-CHECKER For many users. Asking Grok has already become very common in X, the problem is that it still does not be reliable. We already saw it During the conflict between Iran and Israel And, with these updates of clear ideological background, it does not seem that improving reliability is in their plans. Image | DVIDS | XAI In Xataka | There are cybercriminals selling models of unbilters. The surprising thing is that they seem to be based on Grok and Mixtral

ELON MUSK: “If the Demential Project of Expenditure is approved, América Party will be founded the next day.” It has just been approved

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Just a month ago, Elon Musk left The Oval Office giving a virtual door to Donald Trump, who reproached that without the millions he had donated to his campaign Today would not be president. In addition, he accused the president of appearing In Epstein’s listlinking Trump with the networks of prostitution and abuse of minors. More calm the spirits, the CEO of Tesla said that its political stage had come to an end And he was going to dedicate all his energies to solve the serious difficulties that the car manufacturer is going through. The promise It has lasted a month. Musk now not only returns to the political field, but has even proposed to create a new political party: America party. It will be that the goat always pulls the mountain. The origin of the idea: a survey. The distancing between Musk and Trump was made public when both They starred in a discussion in X. In that context, Musk launched A survey to your followers asking them if he should create a new political party that represented 80% of voters who do not feel identified either with Democrats or with Republicans. The result was overwhelming: 80.4% of the participants supported the idea of ​​a new game, although the proposal was pause at that time. In Musk’s words: “Our country needs an alternative to Democratic-Republican Unipartisanism so that people really have a voice.” Musk’s criticisms of Trump’s “great and beautiful law.” Since the presentation of Trump’s new budget law, popularly known as the “great and beautiful law” (One Big Beautiful Tax Bill), Musk was especially critical. Touch the image to go to the original message Such and As you collect the BBCMusk denounced that these regulations perpetuate the United States dependence on the debt, raise the expense roof and expand tax exemptions for large fortunes and companies, while cutting health benefits and services for the most disadvantaged. Musk did not hesitate to qualify the law as “a disgusting abomination”, And he added: “Shame for those who have voted it, they know they have done wrong. They know it.” While the new budget law is being debated in the Senate, Musk insists on his offensive and attacking this law on this occasion on this occasion. With A message in xthe millionaire has threatened to boycott the re -election of all those who support the new law in the next primary of the Republican Party, ensuring that “they will lose their primaries next year even if it is the last thing he does on this earth.” For Musk, who have campaigned to reduce government spending and now vote in favor of the greatest increase in debt in history “they should bend the head of shame.” Trump without hair on the tongue. Donald Trump has not remained silent before Musk’s attacks to his bill. From your social networkTrump recalled that Musk “has had more subsidies than any other human being in history, without subsidies, should close the store and return home in South Africa.” In addition, the president has threatened to send to DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency that Until now Musk had directedto review all the Magnate contracts, ensuring that Cularing on satellitesrockets and electric cars “would save a fortune.” Trump has also stressed that Musk knew from the first moment that the Budget Law was a fundamental part of his campaign, a campaign that Musk himself “had supported with such vehemence.” Vox Populi, Vox Dei. Making use From the popular judgment in Latin, “the voice of the people is the voice of God”, Musk took the survey on the creation of a new party again out of the manga ensuring that If the law is approved, the next day it would found the America party. “Our country needs an alternative to Democratic-Republican Unipartisanism so that people really have a voice,” wrote the millionaire. Touch the image to go to the original message As advances The avant -gardethe law has just been approved, so we are waiting for the next Musk movement. Of course, one of the options does not seem to be to keep your attention In Tesla’s problems either of Spacex. In Xataka | We knew that the CEO of large companies were very well paid. What we didn’t know was how much their salary had risen Image | Flickr(Gage Skidmore)

Elon Musk asked for 80 hours per week to his workers. Tesla investors reproach him not to do 40

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Around Elon Musk the idea of incombustible worker Able to work more than 100 hours a week and even sleep In his office as TeslaTo save the bankruptcy. Proud of that image, the millionaire did not hesitate to demand the same to its employees. A group of Tesla investors has sent a surprising request to the Board of Directors of the company: that Musk dedicate at least 40 hours a week to direct the company. This application comes in a Critical moment for Teslawith the company crossing one of its worst crises, according to its own shareholders and with the figure of Musk more questioned than ever. Musk, focus. The debate on Musk’s commitment to Tesla has intensified after recent passage through politics. The signatory investors, among whom is the American Federation of Teachers, which has 7.9 million shares of Tesla, consider that its CEO has been too dispersed, and now require concrete measures to guarantee good governance and the Tesla stability. In her letter addressed to Robyn Denholm, president of the Tesla Board of Directors, the shareholders indicated that “the external activities of Mr. Musk seem to have diverted their time and attention from the active management of Tesla’s operations, as would be expected of any other executive director of a company that is quoted in the stock market.” Musk itself confessed I could barely dedicate one day To direct your companies. 40 hours a week and three -day week. The investor letter sent to the Tesla Board of Directors, requests that any New remuneration plan For Musk, include the obligation to dedicate at least 40 hours per week to the company’s management. Investors even suggest that Musk could group these hours in three days, leaving the other two to address their other business or political activities. “We just want to make sure that you can devote enough time to supervise and, in the case of executives, properly manage the company,” explained PATEL TABLE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SOC INVESTMENT GROUP (one of the signatory investors) to Fortune. A plan to replace CEO. Also, shareholders demand the elaboration of a clear succession plan for the CEO position. In this sense, investors do not propose the replacement of Musk as CEO as Yes they made their employees. Its demand is to identify “emergency” successors that can assume the leadership of Tesla in case Musk is not available, with the objective of “incorporating a new person with the right skills to execute Tesla’s business plans.” Some plans that, on the other hand, the Board of Directors must make public with a strategic schedule between 2 and 5 years. In this way, Tesla would have a succession protocol preventing the company from being “delayed” before an unforeseen event. Limitations for managers. In addition to asking for greater involvement from their CEO, investors also ask to limit the responsibilities of the members of the Tesla Board of Directors In other external companies. With this measure they intend to restrict simultaneous positions of managers outside Tesla to avoid conflicts of interest and ensure that the management is fully Focused on the company. “For many years, the amount of time that CEO Musk has dedicated to the management of Tesla has been limited by its multiple private companies and other external activities,” says the letter. Therefore, they ask that the company’s maximum manager can only hold a managerial position outside of Tesla. A BOARD FIELT TO TESLA. Investor requests do not focus only on the management of Musk, they also extend their criticisms to other members of their board of directors. They insist on the need to incorporate at least a “truly independent” vowel into the Board of Directors. This person should not have links with other council members or Elon Musk to avoid nepotism and conflicts of interest personal among the members of the Board. This request arises after the appointment of Jack Hartung, former executive of Chipotle, as a member of the Tesla Board of Directors. Investors They were worried For the professional connection that Hartung and Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk, have cultivated for years. This petition seeks to eliminate servility when negotiating the salary remuneration of the Board of Directors so that the interests of the shareholders and Tesla over the personal ambitions of its members prevail. An example was the Salary Bonus Negotiation granted to Musk in 2018, by a board formed by friends, historical collaborators of Musk and even his own brother. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Unspash (Mark Chan), Flickr (Gage Skidmore)

The anger between Musk and Trump has made Tesla lose 100,000 million dollars. Is the least of his problems

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have staged for hours a breakdown of a bloody divorce. With accusations exchanged in which it has threatened to withdraw aid to electric cars, the Disassembly from the International Space Station And it has come to the fore to Epstein’s namethe afternoon has been moved in the United States. The clash has mobilized the entire Maga Movement In favor of each other (including the request of the Elon Musk deportation). And, in the middle of all, Tesla. 14%. Without a doubt, the afternoon figure in the United States. That is what The actions of Tesla came to fall Although, at the end of the day, there was a small rebound that left the action losing more than 11 % at the end of the day. Thus, the price of the action started the day exceeding $ 322 and closed it by $ 284.70. If the final rebound had not occurred, we were talking about the shareholder would have left another 10 dollars per share. However, it is estimated that Tesla has left some 100,000 million dollars Yesterday. On a personal level, Elon Musk has seen 34,000 million dollars volatilize with his discussion yesterday. Although we focus here on Tesla, we must not lose sight of the US government contracts with Starlink or Space X. The youngest of the problems. In total, it is estimated that Tesla has lost $ 100,000 million in the last fight between Trump and Musk. The dialectical crossing has caused a socavon in the graph of the actions but that is not the greatest of the problems. Now, with Trump as an enemy of Musk, Tesla has to row in a complicated scenario. The Robotaxi. It is the first indicated. Elon Musk announced that The first deployment of the robotaxi Tesla would take place in the city of Austin (Texas) whose mayor is from the Democratic Party But there are more derivatives that are intimately linked to the expansion of the service. However, The Governor of Texas is a republican And, in fact, the State is one of the bastions of the party. To this is added that NHTSSA is a state entity in charge of appraining the novelties that want to apply to circulate on the road. With their decisions, for example, it forces operators to have flyers and pedals In their cars, something that I wanted to eliminate Elon Musk in his robotaxis. The NHTSSA. The National Highway Traffic Security Administration (NHTSA) is also responsible for carrying out the accident investigations that occur when driving aid systems are active and has actively pursued the highway of Tesla. Its financing depends on the United States Congress and depends on the Department of Transportation that is directed from the Government. In addition to the previous investigations, it is the one who is approved so that a vehicle can work with a higher level of autonomy. For example, it is the one who rewarded Mercedes with the possibility of circular without the driver paying attention to what you have ahead. Yes indeed, In very specific circumstances. The aid. The withdrawal of the aid to the purchase of electric cars was something that, initially, did not seem to worry Elon Musk. Right now, the company’s leadership is so evident in the United States that they are the competitors of Tesla, who cannot offer the same autonomy-price relationship, Those who have to lose. However, it is clear that the withdrawal of aid can damage the sales of the company and Tesla is not in a position to leave sales right now. In Europe, Every month passing is a bleeding and In China its sales have also decreased To the point that Byd is already the brand that VWe are more purely electric cars In the Asian country. Regulatory credits. Another of the income roads that Tesla has been exploiting in recent years is the EMISSION CREDIT SALE. Donald Trump also showed his intention to prevent this type of practices that allow Tesla to draw income that since 2012 They have added 11,000 million dollars. When accountability before the institutions, companies have to meet emission objectives. If they exceed the maximum allowed figure, they can Buy emission bonds to companies that have not reached said limit. Thus, they lower their average emissions and avoid a strong fine. The beneficiary company receives the money from a competitor but although the number of emissions increases, of course, below the limit that marks the economic punishment. Goodbye to the Stock Exchange. Although it is not the biggest problem, the last six months have been a roller coaster of emotions for Tesla’s shareholders. At the end of 2024, the company closed the records in record, touching the $ 480 per share in mid -December last year. Since then, the controversial messages of Elon Musk, His Nazi greeting during the day Donald Trump took command of the United States or Your support for the AFD ultra -right party in Germany caused a sudden fallen that made us clear to what extent the image of Musk viciaba the stock market of the actions of Tesla. Little by little, the rumors of his departure from the United States government were already consolidating from mid -May, the shares consolidated the rise that had already begun in April. On May 7 the shares were worth $ 276. The confirmation that Musk focused on Tesla He lifted its price up to $ 363. In a few hours the entire climb has eaten. And what is expected. In addition to the obstacles that the United States government can put to the expansion of robotaxis, the elimination of regulatory aid and credits, it remains to be seen how the shareholders will receive divorce between Musk and Trump. Tesla is not going through her best moment. Its sales have collapsed in Europe And in China the rivals have been eating ground for a long time. It remains to be seen if the arrival of the Tesla Model … Read more

The immediate cost for Musk to break with Trump

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Tesla collapses 14% after The open war between the president of the United States and the richest man in the world. The actions of the electric car manufacturer lost 34,000 million dollars of value in a single day, marking the second largest daily fall in the fortune of Elon Musk. Why is it important. Investors immediately translated presidential threats at real risk for the Musk empire. Trump promised to cancel “billions” in government contracts in allusion to a Spacex that depends on NASA. And Tesla needs federal regulators for its autonomous cars. In figures. The loss of 34,000 million marks the second largest daily fall in Musk’s fortune, only surpassed by the collapse of November 2021. Its assets fell to 335,000 million dollars, far from the peak of almost 500,000 million that it reached after Trump’s electoral victory. The background. The war began when Musk described Trump’s fiscal project as “disgusting abomination.” The president, visibly irritated in the Oval Office, replied: “Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will have it more.” Social networks became the battlefield. Musk said: “Without me, Trump would have lost the elections.” Trump replied threatening to eliminate subsidies: “The easiest way to save money is to end Elon’s subsidies.” Musk culminated accusing the president of appearing in the archives of Jeffrey Epstein. At stake. Spacex has contracts worth $ 3,000 million, according to The New York Times. Tesla benefits from tax credits that Trump plans to eliminate, which could cost 1.2 billion annually according to JPMorgan. Both companies depend on federal regulatory decisions. Only a few hours after the confrontation, the White House scheduled a call for Friday. Trump tried to calm the spirits: “It’s fine, it’s going very well.” And Musk reculled on His threat of dismantling the Dragon ship. Reconciliation seems more tactical than definitive. As Musk said: “Trump will be three and a half years as president, but I will be here for more than 40 years.” In Xataka | Elon Musk and the US government have broken their relationship in the worst way: putting the international space station at risk Outstanding image | Wikimedia Commons, White House

Jared Isaacman has been separated after Elon Musk out of the White House

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Everything was ready for him Multimillonario Jared Isaacmanwhich has flown twice to Spacex space, take NASA’s helm. The Trump administration withdrew its nomination the same day that Elon Musk left the White House. They have kicked him. According to The Washington PostIsaacman was informed on Friday that his nomination as a future NASA administrator, which was made public in December, would be rescinded, despite having already received the approval of the Senate Committee. “The last six months have been enriching and, sincerely, exciting,” Isaacman wrote in his X profile After making the news public. “I have acquired a much deeper understanding of the complexities of the government and the weight that our political leaders have. The President, the NASA and the American people deserve the best: an administrator willing to reorganize, rebuild and bring together the brightest minds to generate the headlines that change the world.” What happened between scenes. Isaacman was seen as An accelerationist of lunar and Martian missionswilling to face China in exploration of the solar system with a smaller budget Thanks to the public-private collaboration. But also as an obvious partner of Elon Musk; recommended by the businessman himself, Despite the conflict of interest. The White House issued a statement with some clues on Saturday: “The mission of President Trump to plant the US flag on the planet Mars” is still standing. But Isaacman was not sufficiently Trumpist, And the cut passed by the influence of Muskwho had donated 275 million dollars for Donald Trump’s campaign: “It is essential that the next NASA leader is in complete alignment with the president’s America America Agenda.” The lowest budget in 65 years. The historic cuts that, if approved by Congress, would reduce NASA’s budget by 24%, have been part of the problem, as Jared Isaacman, like Musk, positioned himself against eliminating scientific missions, the most affected. Isaacman would have had to direct NASA with the lowest budget since 1961. The presidential proposal for 2026 raises A cut of almost 47% For the entire agency science division, from 7,334 million dollars to a few 3,907 million. This massacre would be the immediate cancellation of up to 40 missionsmany of them active and other future, crossed out of “low priority” despite NASA’s efficiency in this branch. Who will be NASA’s boss. Donald Trump will announce it shortly, but Ars Technica He publishes that there is a candidate in consideration: the former Lieutenant of the Air Force Steven L. Kwast, a politically loyal military to Trump who “seems more oriented to see space as a battlefield than as a place for peaceful cooperation and exploration.” Until it becomes official, NASA’s future is a great unknown. In any case, Isaacman’s departure does not seem to be linked to the Boeing and Lockheed Martin lobby, which is working at full speed after the cancellation of the SLS rocket and the Orion ship. “If Kwast is the candidate,” says journalist Eric Berger, “he is definitely not in favor of the traditional space industry, he is a firm defender of the commercial space industry.” Image | Spacex In Xataka | A millionaire has just arrived where NASA had arrived. It is a notice of what awaits space in the future

Elon Musk asked Apple for 5,000 million for exclusive access to Spacex, according to The Information. They had 72 hours to answer

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The iPhone have been offering emergency satellite calls Since 2022, but in reality his ambition in that field began much earlier and went much further. Now we have known that there was a peak in that project. One in which Elon Musk offered an exclusive treatment to Apple, but that the company ended up rejecting. Exclusive access to Spacex. According to The Informationin 2022 Elon Musk learned that Apple I was going to launch a satellite connection service with iPhone 14and then contacted those responsible to make them a proposal. He offered Apple to have exclusive access to Spacex to offer satellite connectivity for 18 months if the company paid 5,000 million initial dollars. After that period, Apple could pay $ 1 billion a year for the service provided by Starlink. You have 72 hours. Elon Musk gave Apple only 72 hours to make a decision, and in fact threatened the company with launching their own service for the iPhone that would make the competition. The tycoon played with better letters: it already had a constellation of operational satellites and the technology necessary to do precisely what Apple had projected. Well, no. Apple ended up rejecting Musk’s offer. Of course: announced the support of SOS satellite emergency callsbut thanks to an alliance With GlobalStar. On the other hand, Elon fulfilled his threat: two weeks before the iPhone 14, Spacex were launched announced an agreement With the T-Mobile operator that allowed smartphones users to send and receive messages in areas without mobile coverage. Project Eagle. Apple’s ambition in this area was started before. In 2015 the engineers of the company They started working in Project Eaglean initiative that would create a satellite network with thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet not only to iPhone, but also households. It was basically Apple’s Starlink. To carry out that Apple proposal allied with Boeing, and the deployment was scheduled for 2019. But he doesn’t want to be an operator. This project ended up canceling in 2016. In The Information it indicates how Apple spent 36 million dollars in the initial tests of Project Eagle, but there were two major problems that led to their cancellation. The first, doubts about economic viability. The second, even more important, that of fear about that launch could affect the crucial relationships that Apple maintains with telephone operators. AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile-like many others in the rest of the world-could be affected if the company offered this type of service. Apple still does not collect emergency calls. The company continues to offer the SOS satellite emergency call service in the iPhone, but the funny thing is that Still without charging for them. Some analysts believe that Apple fears that if you charge for the service you have to be subject to government regulations that affect operators. Moreover: some employees and managers of the company begin to question the viability of the long -term project. And meanwhile, Starlink extends its claws. What Apple prefers not to do is doing it big elon Musk. A year ago Spacex launched the First set of Starlink satellites with direct connection For smartphones. Today, the Starlink Direct To Cell constellation (DTC) is ready to start Offer LTE coverage from space. It is just an initial offer in beta phase, but still has 10 times more reach that the coverage of any other satellite operator with the same objective. Spacex’s absolute dominance is the great engine of a proposal that can make Starlink, that is already profitableeven more. Image | Fortune Ceo Initiative | Starlink | World Economic Forum In Xataka | The ‘satphones’ are a niche, but the phones with satellite calls will end everywhere

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