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Elon Musk has promised to stay in Tesla at least until 2030: "unless he dies, of course"

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Elon Musk has once again been the center of attention after confirming that he will continue to lead Tesla during at least the next five years and that will dedicate “much less time” to political campaigns in the future. Its decision comes at a key moment for the company, which is going through economic difficulties and a strong media pressure. Musk has defended his role in front of Doge, ensuring that he did “what had to be done” and that he does not regret his decisions. The announcement, made during Your intervention In the Catar Economic Forum, it has been received with relief by the markets, which feared for a possible exit from the Millionaire from the company’s management. Until 2030 “unless he dies.” In an intervention by video call in the Economic Forum of Catar, Elon Musk made clear that his priority for the next five years will be Tesla. The businessman recognized that, although his political participation has been controversial, Now he wants to focus in the management and future of the company. Given the insistence of the moderator to confirm his commitment to Tesla, Musk joked adding: “Yes, unless he dies.” The tycoon also took the opportunity to Define rumors about its possible substitution as CEO. Musk said that, despite the speculation of the American press, he has no intention of leaving his position as CEO of Tesla. In Xataka Elon Musk put Tesla on autopilot. He has promised to take the steering wheel for the good of his fortune Musk faces Tesla’s challenges. Tesla’s economic situation has been especially delicate in what we have been in 2025, where the reputational crisis generated by Musk’s political role in front of Doge joined a context of global sales fall and the renewal of his best -selling model: the model and. In the first quarter of 2025, the company reported a reduction in its net profit of 71%, remaining at 409 million dollars. In addition, the income from the sale of cars descended 20% compared to the same period of the previous year, standing at 13,967 million dollars. The hardest blow came from Europe, where the brand recorded its values minimums in sales In the last two years. Musk wanted to take iron from the current company situation ensuring that his sales situation “has already taken a turn”, although he has recognized that Europe is the weakest region As for the company’s sales. “We are strong in the rest of the world. Our sales are going well at this time and we do not foresee a significant fall of sales,” the company’s CEO justified. Less political visibility. The Millionaire took advantage of his intervention to announce that he will significantly reduce his expenditure on political campaigns and acts moving away from political focus to concentrate on the management of your companies. This decision seeks to calm investors and improve the image of Tesla after months of controversy that have put Tesla as a goal of political interests, although Musk questioned the reputational damage that his political adventure has caused the brand. “Yes, maybe We have lost some sales On the left side, but we have won them on the right side. Sales figures are at this time solid and we don’t see demand problems, “Musk explained in his speech. {“Videid”: “x8ldfb3”, “Autoplay”: fals, “Title”: “How ELON MUSK WINS If many of its companies are not profitable”, “Tag”: “Webedia-Prod”, “Duration”: “797”} Positive Investor Reaction. The news about the return of a 100% Musk concentrated in solving Tesla’s problems was received as a sign of stability for the manufacturer. Tesla’s shares experienced a rebound up to 3.6% after the announcement, unmarked from the general bearish trend of the market. However, subsequently the price ended up yielding to the global fall, although Musk’s stability and commitment message has been positively valued by shareholders. Tesla’s shares have fallen by 14% so far this year with respect to their maximum registration in December 2024. In Xataka | Elon Musk asked for calm and endure the actions of Tesla. Its president did otherwise and has won 230 million dollars In Xataka | Elon Musk dismissed the security experts of autonomous vehicles: they were the same ones that should regulate Tesla cars Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore), Unspash (Dmitry Novikov) (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Elon Musk has promised to stay in Tesla at least until 2030: “Unless he dies, of course” It was originally posted in Xataka by Rubén Andrés .

Elon Musk asked for calm and endure the actions of Tesla. Its president did otherwise and has won 230 million dollars

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While Tesla is going through one of the more complicated moments Of recent years due to a drastic fall in its sales, Robyn Denholm, president of the company’s board of directors has starred in a series of movements that have caught the attention of investors and analysts. In the middle of the Financial storm and of A reputational crisis That whips the manufacturer, Denholm has sold a significant part of his Tesla shares, obtaining about 230 million dollars, while Elon Musk asked his investors to maintain his shares. The paradox that Denholm raises is evident: while the company struggles to recover the market and customer confidencethe most responsible for the Council unchanges the fate that Employees can run and Tesla shareholders. Millionaire sales in full crisis. According to He informed Associated PressRobyn Denholm has sold more than 230 million dollars in Tesla shares since Elon Musk He expressed his support for Donald Trump After his attack. More than half of this amount was obtained in the first four months of 2025, just before the value of Tesla’s actions lost a good part of its value And that its benefits They will collapse 71%. Little attachment for actions. One of the reasons why the directors and members of the Board of Directors of the companies receive a good part of your salary in shares is to link its economic benefit with The prosperity of the company They represent. Therefore, when a manager sells shares during a crisis, investors perceive that something very bad happens. According to published by The New York Timessince Denholm assumed the presidency of the Tesla Board of Directors at the end of 2018, he has sold titles worth $ 530 million, undoing more than 1.4 million shares. That represents more than half of your participation in the company. According to the regulations of the US stock and values ​​commission (SEC), most of these sales were made under Pre -established sales plans presented as of July 2024, coinciding with the Elon Musk’s political implication And the beginning of Turbulences for Tesla. Contradictions with Musk’s speech. Although the operation of shares by Denholm is completely legal, the chosen moment has generated doubts about his confidence in the future of Tesla. His mass sale of shares contrasts with the message that Elon Musk directed its employees Last March, when he explicitly asked them to “hold on to their actions” and not sell them, trusting in the “brilliant and exciting” future for the company, although the price of their shares did not stop falling. While Musk I tried to calm down To the workforce and the small investors with a categorical “what I am saying is that they keep their shares,” Denholm opted to liquidate part of their assets in the company, sending a signal opposite to the market and minority shareholders. Controversies in its management. Denholm’s management at the head of the Board of Directors of Tesla had already been subject to controversy before its massive sale of shares. Both Denholm and other council members were accused in court for not properly protecting the interests of shareholders, especially during the approval process of the Elon Musk’s salary package. Reuters It echoed In July 2023 that Denholm and other executives of Tesla had reached an agreement to return 735 million dollars, after being accused of having granted excessive compensation taking advantage of their position in the company, reinforcing the image of a more focused management on their own benefit than on the collective interest of the shareholders. On May 1, 2025, Tesla canceled the rights on Packages of Actions of Actions of Denholm and other executives of Tesla as payment of that sanction. In Xataka | The Tesla employees letter requested by Elon Musk’s cessation has generated layoffs. It has not been that of his CEO Image | Wikimedia Commons (Cebit Australia), Tesla

Bill Gates has revealed how he will spend all his fortune. He has also made a very serious accusation about Elon Musk

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The Gates Foundation This week has celebrated its 25th anniversary. Founded in 2000 when Melinda French Gates was 35 years old and Bill Gates 44 (and was the richest man in the world), she quickly became one of the most important philanthropic organizations in history. Therefore, and because talking to Gates is always a “song”, The New York Times and The Financial Times They have had access to an extensive interview. He has rarely left such powerful headlines. Gates goes against Elon Musk and announces the plan to liquidate a fortune of 200 billion dollars. A transcendental decision. Yes, at 25 years of its foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation He has announced that he will definitely close its doors on December 31, 2045, after having allocated more than 100,000 million dollars to improve global health and human development and with the commitment to double that figure in the next 20 years. Gates, who will allocate almost all of his personal fortune to this final stage, argues that current scientific tools, including advances in AI, offer A unique opportunity to achieve radical changes that make its institutional continuity unnecessary. This strategy responds not only to an impulse of efficacy and urgency, but also to the finding of a worrying setback in international cooperation, aggravated by the dismantling of programs like Usaid Under the administration of Donald Trump, whose decisions They could be translated into millions of additional children’s deaths in the coming decades. Gates, although still optimistic, admits that global philanthropy is going through its most delicate moment since the beginning of the century. Elon Musk and moral terrain. The struggle between two of the most influential figures in the contemporary world, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, It was knownbut now it has reached a new and sour dimension with the very hard statements of the founder of Microsoft. Gates accused in the Financial Times Musk of being responsible, although indirectly, of “killing the poorest children in the world” after the dismantling of the USAID, a measure promoted by Doge, the entity created by Musk and backed by the US government. Not just that. Gates denounced that this decision, taken (according to him) since ignorance, has paralyzed the Distribution of essential medicines and food in vulnerable areas, in addition to putting fundamental programs for public health in countries such as Mozambique, where a hospital that avoided the transmission of HIV from mothers to children was affected by cuts that Musk He erroneously justified When confusing the African province of Gaza With the Palestinian region of the same name. An ideological and long enmity. As we said, the confrontation between Gates and Musk is not new. In 2012, both initially coincided in the GIVING PLEDGEa commitment to donate much of his fortune to philanthropic causes, but Musk soon described traditional philanthropy of “garbage”defending commercial solutions such as Tesla electric vehicles as more effective tools against challenges such as climate change. His distancing was aggravated in 2022, when Musk knew that Gates had Around short Against Tesla’s actions, which unleashed his anger and caused a public response out of tone in social networks. According to the biography written by Walter Isaacson, this revelation marked A point of no return between them. A moral and financial setback. Therefore, Gates’s announcement comes in the midst of unprecedented divestment in foreign aid. The drastic 80 % reduction In the USAID budget, cuts to key programs like Pepfar And the decline in international cooperation in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France, illustrate what Gates Describe in the Times as a dangerous collective withdrawal of commitment to the poorest. The paradox, As explainedIt is that while science and health innovation offer viable solutions to eradicate diseases such as HIV, malaria or tuberculosis, moral and political impulse to finance these solutions seems to be disappearing. It emphasizes that instead of consolidating the achievements of the last two decades, the world is on the verge of reversenot due to lack of resources, but for a weakening of the “humanitarian impulse” that, until recently, defined rich democracies. A finite legacy. Gates He argues thatby establishing a closing date and not trying to perpetuate the legacy of its foundation, you can allocate many more resources immediately and decisively. This approach, which describes how A “BOLUS DOSE” philanthropic (a great power injection), will allow the annual expenditure of the foundation for about 9,000 million dollars and concentrate on key areas such as maternal child health, the eradication of infectious diseases and the fight against structural poverty. Gates believes that, thanks to innovation accumulated in recent years, it is possible achieve ambitious objectives How to half reduce infant mortality, eliminate endemic diseases in Africa and double agricultural productivity in the continent. All this while driving the use of AI in local contexts (from medical diagnoses to agronomist in regional dialects) as a motor to close historical gaps. Between optimism and urgency. In both talks, although he acknowledges that pandemic and debt crisis in the poorest countries have stopped decades of progress, insists that the panorama It is not irreversible. See in technology, in collaboration with new philanthropic actors and in the example of a foundation with expiration date, A realistic route to return strength to the global movement for equity. He also states that he does not want to build a monument to his fortune, but return it to the service of humanity at the time you can have more impact. In front of a new generation of more billionaires centered on space exploration Or in individual interests, the man claims the urgency of acting now to avoid millions of avoidable deaths and definitively transform the living conditions of the most disadvantaged. In his own words, if it is not achieved now, what alternative would he have? Give your money on ships? The answer, according to Gates, is morally obvious. Image | World Economic, Ted Conference In Xataka | Bill Gates and the autistic spectrum: a family revelation … Read more

When Spacex suffered his worst incident, Elon Musk blamed a sniper of the competition. The FBI had to intervene

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On the morning of September 1, 2016, Spacex suffered one of the most cautious and controversial incidents in its history. A Falcon 9 rocket that was vertical on the launch platform Suddenly exploded With the Israeli satellite A Amos-6 aboard. Elon Musk accused the competition. A violent explosion. It was one of the first times that Spacex operated the Falcon 9 rocket with cryogenic propelants, a technique that consists in superfrging the fuel and oxidant to maximize its performance. Before the launch, Spacex had planned a static ignition test, a routine procedure in which engines are tested with the rocket anchored to the platform, but everything was twisted eight minutes before ignition. A violent explosion transformed what was a rocket into a huge fireball. The payload was shot. Mark Zuckerberg’s anger. The AMOS-6 satellite was not any load. With a cost of 200 million dollars, he had a powerful customer: Mark Zuckerberg. Goal, then Facebook, had reached an agreement to provide Free Internet Access in Africa Thanks to the satellite. After the explosion, Zuck He publicly expressed A “deep disappointment” for the rocket explosion, comments that did not sit well in Spacex, where morality was on the ground. According to Ars Techcnicathis incident was one of the points of origin of the bad relationship between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, which years later would lead the first to eliminate Spacex and Tesla’s Facebook pages. The theory of the sniper. The most trospid of the incident was, however, the theory promoted by Elon Musk about the possible intervention of a sniper. Theory in which Spacex insisted throughout the official investigation of the incident, According to documentation that has just become public. Although Spacex engineers shuffled hundreds of hypotheses, Elon Musk promoted the idea of ​​an external sabotage: the shot of a sniper. It sounds crazy, but Musk saw the two main indications convincing: the break began about 60 meters high, on the side of the rocket that looked towards a building leased by its main competitor, United Launch Alliance. An alleged ULA shot. The ULA building, a joint business of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, was a kilometer and a half of the Spacex launch platform, a reasonable distance for a sniper. Put to believe, even seemed to see a flash on the roof of the building, coinciding with the time it would take a projectile to reach the rocket. The rivalry between SpaceX and ULA had then reached its peak. Ul still dominated the market of military and government launches, the most lucrative, but Spacex had just won a battle in the courts to compete for these contracts. However, accusing a sabotage competitor without evidence was a serious accusation. The FBI came to intervene. Azuzados by Musk, Spacex engineers thoroughly investigated the sniper theory. They tried to access the ULA roof and performed shooting against pressurized helium tanks to see if they exploited similarly to Falcon 9. The insistence was such that the Federal Aviation Administration had to intervene with a letter that denied the involvement of third parties. There was no sniper, although, as the documentation of the journalist Eric Berger has revealed For your book Recentryeven the FBI investigated the case. The federal agents reviewed the Spacex analysis and the video material, but they concluded that “there were no indications that suggested that sabotage or any other criminal activity played a role in the explosion of Falcon 9”. With this, FAA considered the closed matter. What happened then. The real cause of the rocket explosion and, with it, of the AMOS-6 satellite, was the process of loading propellents. In its eagerness to accelerate the refueling process with super -refrained liquid oxygen, the Spacex equipment filled the helium tanks too fast, heating the aluminum coating of the rocket and causing its deformation and rupture. Spacex would put the hair of Punta to the NASA security office for its procedure “Load and Go”, which proposed to raise astronauts to the rocket before loading fuel. Over time, not only would demonstrate the reliability of Falcon 9 (Last year he completed 137 launches against the five of ULA), but would become the main supplier of NASA manned releases to the International Space Station. Images | And combinator, Uslaunchreport, CNN Money (YouTube) In Xataka | Texas has a new city. Until a few days ago, it was only Spacex’s base in Boca Chica

Altman’s plan to attract private investment to OpenAI has stayed halfway. It’s a victory for Elon Musk

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Openai has conquered a place at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) with products such as Chatgpt and GPT-4O. But there is a detail that escapes in many conversations: It is still a startup. It is several times smaller than Microsoft or Google and faces an existential challenge that does not have so much to do with its products, but with money. That challenge has its own name: its peculiar organizational structure. The openai part that generates income, directed by Sam Altmanis controlled by a non -profit organization. This unconventional model has aroused doubts among investors. Altman proposed to restructure the company to attract more private capital and accelerate the path to a General Artificial Intelligence (AGI). The problem is that this plan has just received a blow. A difficult governance to sell. The Board of Directors has decided to maintain control from the non -profit entity, after opening conversations with the general prosecutors of California and Delaware. These authorities monitor the legal status of organizations of this type and could have blocked change. The announcement has made it public Bret Taylor, president of the Board, In an official statement from OpenAI. A victory for Musk. Elon Musk had sued Openai for that attempt at reorganization. He assured that the company had diverted from its initial purpose of developing a safe and oriented the good of humanity. The decision to preserve the original supervision partially reinforces its argument: the structure remains, at least for the moment. New model, but with the same control. Despite the other way around, Openai maintains another important change. It is expected that its commercial organization will operate as a public benefit corporation (PBC). The difference is that, instead of separating itself from the non -profit organization, it will continue to have the last word. Now they are negotiating how that supervision will be articulated, but everything indicates that it will be the non -profit organization that designates the members of the Board of the New PBC. This could hinder future financing rounds. Because in this OpenAi, which has not managed to transform completely, interest is not measured only into dividends, as investors would like. Outstanding image | Sam Altman (X) + Photoshop | Ted Conference In Xataka | Silicon Valley has an obsession with “Todismo”: they begin by dominating a sector and then wanting to dominate them all

Two workers from Elon Musk in Doge agreed to a private network. The US keeps the secrets of your nuclear arsenal there

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In February, one of the most rocambolesque stories was known around Doge, the Government Efficiency Department led by Elon Musk to essence, cut where he can in the administration of the United States Government. Apparently, they fired 350 officials who had to Readmit rapidly. The reason: they were the specialists in the assembly of nuclear eyelets. The story has now taken a more dangerous turn. The access they should never have. I told it a few hours ago exclusively NPR through confidential information access. Apparently, it was revealed that two young employees of that government efficiency department (Doge) created under the orders of Elon Musk, obtained accounts in classified networks With nuclear information highly sensitive. What’s doubt, the news has unleashed a political storm and national security in the United States. Luke Farritor, a former 23 -year -old Spacex fellow, and Adam Ramada, a Angel Investor Without previous experience in armament or intelligence, they appeared for at least two weeks in the directories of the reserved systems of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and the Department of Defense, according to sources with direct access to the networks. From denial to confirmation. The media counted that, although the energy department first denied any link, later admitted that the accounts Yes they were createdalthough they insisted that never They were activated nor used. So, the medium NPR remembers that the mere existence of these accounts, in maximum security environments that normally require a “Q” accreditation (The highest level of authorization of the DOE), has aroused alarm among experts, who interpret it as a sign of the growing and worrying doge penetration in critical areas of the state apparatus. All nuclear information. To understand the importance of the network to which they have had access, let’s think that the systems accessed by these employees are not mere confidential data repositories: these are networks that store and transmit plans for nuclear weapons design, special materials for their manufacture and strategic communications between laboratories, production centers and the pentagon. The first one, the NNSA Enterprise Secure Networkserves to share Restricted data between key actors of nuclear arsenal. The second, Siprnetallows the flow of information classified between the Department of Energy and Defense, including operations that could compromise national security if they were disclosed. Although it appears in the access directories does not equals to directly see classified documents (by the policy of “Need To Know”), experts Consulted by NPR They emphasize that it is the technical “head” that could provide future applications or expand the scope of influence within those platforms. Shadows on transparency. Plus: the incident adds to a series of controversial episodes starred By Doge In other federal agencies. As we count in February, a purge in the NSA directed by Doge (reviring only partially after public pressure) caused the dismissal of dozens of nuclear area employees. Shortly after, an informant denounced that Doge members had accessed internal systems of the National Board of Labor Relations (NLRB), requesting that They will not register their activities and deactivating monitoring tools, in addition to delete access traces. Not just that. One of the income attempts was made from an IP address located in Russia Using credentials created by Doge, which unleashed new suspicions and ignited cybersecurity alerts in several sectors of the government. These movements, added to the recent scandal by the use of signal application On the part of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to discuss sensitive military operations, they delineate a dangerous informality pattern and reckless management of critical information of the nation. The Doge experiment. Thus, the very existence of Doge, an entity born to “modernize the State” under the tutelage of Musk, begins to be questioned even between related sectorsgiven its opaque growth and the lack of accountability. His model (which combines entrepreneurs, technologists and actors outside the public administration) was sold as a response to the traditional bureaucracy, but it is generating fissures in institutional security and control systems. The case of Farritor and Ramadapeople without experience in intelligence or defense, shows the risks of introducing private operators in the ultrasecreta spheres of the State without proper safeguards. While the Department of Energy avoids giving explanations about why these accounts were created, analysts such as Hans Kristensen, of the Nuclear Information Projectthey warn that even unlacified budgets require delicate technical referencesand that any “ajar door” can have unpredictable consequences. A parallel state. The truth is that, far from being an isolated incident, Doge insertion into nuclear networks reveals a broader and more dangerous trend: the emergence of a administrative power not electedwith access to privileged information, but without clear legal mandate or sufficient democratic supervision. If you want also, it implies that the logic of “technocratic” access overlaps institutional logic, and in that scenario the state becomes a testing ground for Operators with own agendas. The consequences of this reconfiguration are still in development (even overlaps Musk’s output), but the scandal leaves a warning meridianly clear: when the obsession with efficiency eliminates controls, which is gained at speed can cost very expensive, at least, In security. Image | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Elon Musk fired hundreds of employees and now he has to hire them again: they were experts in nuclear weapons In Xataka | Elon Musk fired 6,000 employees two weeks ago. Now the US faces the massive entry of invasive species

The White House will try to reduce NASA’s scientific budget by 50%. It is so devastating that Elon Musk has separated

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The White House has presented a preliminary proposal of its budgets by 2026. If the United States Congress approved them, NASA would see 20% less money next year, but with an especially controversial turn, because they would be cuts centered on science. A devastating loss. NASA is the largest and most influential space agency in the world. Its direction of scientific missions finances some of the most important research for the advancement of astrophysics, planetary science, terrestrial science and heliophysics. Studies in which international entities such as the European Space Agency often participate. The White House budget in half reduces the resources of the Directorate of Scientific Missions. It would go from 7.5 billion dollars in the fiscal year from 2025 to 3.9 billion in 2026. The consequences are so devastating for the scientific community that Elon Musk has described it as “worrying” and It has come out to clarify that has not had anything to do: “I am very in favor of science, but unfortunately I cannot participate in the discussions about NASA’s budget because Spacex is an important NASA contractor.” Affected missions. While the proposal maintains the financing of HUBBLE observatories and James Webb, explicitly cancels other space telescopes, including the Nancy Grace Romanwhich is already completely assembled waiting for its launch. The two most important planetary missions that would not continue with the White House Budgets are, on the one hand, Mars Sample Returnthe recovery of Martian soil samples that has been collecting the Rover Perseverance, and the Davinci mission to explore Venus. Both milestones would be in the hands of China, which It has similar missions in your scientific roadmap. Goodbye to the Goddard? According to Ars Technicathe cuts seem designed to force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center, the NASA headquarters in Maryland, which uses 10,000 officials and contractors, and from where iconic cosmological, land and sun observation missions are operated. Astrophysics: it would reduce its budget by two thirds, leaving 487 million dollars. Heliophysics: it would reduce its budget by more than two thirds, leaving 455 million dollars. Terrestrial science: would reduce its budget in more than half, remaining at 1,033 million dollars. Planetary Science: would reduce its budget by one third, being at 1,929 million dollars NOAA is even worse stop. Donald Trump’s administration also seeks Complaint the magazine Science. Like NASA, NOAA is one of the world’s main scientific agencies, but in the weather, climate and space climate. The cuts would close the Ocean and Atmospheric Research Office (OAR), and would leave hundreds of scientists who study global warming. Waiting for Congress. NASA has a period of 72 hours to appeal these figures before they are incorporated into the final budgets. Ultimately, it will be the United States Congress who approves them. It is likely that the cuts are with strong opposition in Congress, Very sensitized With the idea of ​​losing ground in front of China. “This would tithe the American leadership in space and inflict great damage to NASA centers throughout the country,” Congressman George Whitesides, from the Science Committee, told Ars Technica. It would be like an “extinction event.” Image | POT In Xataka | 12 years after making fun of Spacex and his idea of ​​landing rockets, Arianegroup is creating a European mini-falcon 9

After matching his space bet, Jeff Bezos has invested in the other great Elon Musk project: electric cars

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Jeff Bezos is financing under a startup of electric vehicles called Slate Auto, which works since 2022 in a Pickup Compact and affordable with an expected price of $ 25,000, as it has revealed Techcrunch. Why is it important. This investment is a very different approach to the one followed by the majority of electric startups, which have opted for luxury models with high margins. Slate Auto changes the usual strategy when directing directly to the mass market, that of the general public. And just at a time when the growth of some brands has slowed down. In the case of Tesla, has collapsed. Between bambalins. The company was born as part of Re Manufacturing, another company supported by Bezos and co -founded by Jeff Wilke, former CEO of Amazon Consumer. Since then, he has attracted several executives from Ford, GM, Stellantis and Harley-Davidson, in addition to several former Amazon ex-employed. The figures. Slate raised at least 111 million dollars in a series A round in 2023, and according to documents from the state of Delaware mentioned by Motorpasionhas authorized about 500 million preferential shares for a series B $ 2.37 per share. That is, almost 1.2 billion dollars. In addition to Bezos, the company has the investment of Mark Walter, majority owner of the Dodgers, a baseball team, and Thomas Tull, main re manufacturing investor. The strategy. The Pickup of two Slate places follow a minimalist philosophy inspired by the Ford Model T and the Volkswagen Beetle. The company’s plan is to compensate for the low margins of the vehicle with an accessories line for customization, similar to the Harley-Davidson business model or division Mopar of Stellantis. And now what. Slate plans to start production at the end of 2026 in an installation in Indiana. During these days a prototype of the car in Los Angeles has been sighted and photographed, showing a simple and functional design, published in Reddit and collected by Carscoops. Far away from the futuristic lines of a possible rival like the Cybertruck of Tesla. Expected that, after the exclusive Techcrunch And the first photo of the prototype, the company is encouraged to share some more information than until now, where it has been cryptic in its communications. Outstanding image | Reddit In Xataka | The problem of US cars in Europe is not tariffs: they are not interested in the least

NASA breathes relieved, Jared Isaacman is not an Elon Musk puppet

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He has never worked at NASA. It does not have Background scientist, or university studies. None of that matters. He has flown twice to the space in missions he financed. He is a bold and billionaire entrepreneur; The values ​​that conquered Donald Trumppossibly under Elon Musk’s advice. Now Jared Isaacman It is one step away from being confirmed as the youngest administrator that NASA has ever had. The priority is to get to Mars. At his audience to the United States Senate, which will confirm his choice as NASA’s head, Isaacman has not diverted from the slogan of Trump, who appointed the conquest of Mars as the “manifest destination” of the United States In his inaugural speech. “As the president declared, we will prioritize the sending of American astronauts to Mars,” said the businessman before the Senatorial Committee for Commerce, Science and Transportation. In the public there were also the four crew of the future Artemis II mission to the moon. But Elon Musk is separated. The richest man in the world surprised NASA at the beginning of the year saying that “the moon was a distraction”, and that Spacex would focus on the conquest of Mars. Taking into account that Spacex is a key contractor in NASA’s return to the satellite, the industry took it as a sign that the Artemis missions They could cancel, leaving in the hands of China the opportunity to send to the first woman To the moon. During his audience, Isaacman was inquired in multiple occasions about the flights manned to the moon. Senator Tammy Duckworth asked him if he agreed to maintain the Lunar Objectives of NASA in the long term. “I think it is imperative that we do both,” Isaacman said. “I think we can get to the moon, Mars and beyond.” Ted Cruz was more direct: he asked if he promised to bring American astronauts to the moon surface before Trump ceased to be president. Isaacman defended the idea of ​​the springboard: “I want us to return to the moon while we also move towards Mars.” Cruz reformulated the question: “If China advances us in the conquest of the Moon, what consequences could the United States face?” “Certainly, we can’t lose,” Isaacman said. “The space is the maximum advantage; we cannot afford to give it up.” Another point where Isaacman separated from Musk was in his idea of destroy the International Space Station Before time. “Are you in favor of maintaining a sustained presence in the low land orbit?” They asked him. “Yes, reuse is a sustainable way to send US astronauts to orbit, I would like to understand the reasons that Elon Musk has to exorbit the international space station before 2030,” he said. It does not maintain contact with Musk. The fear of losing symbolic battles against China, such as sending the first woman to the moon or maintaining the presence in the low land orbit was a constant throughout the audience. But the most tense moments occurred when Isaacman had to answer questions about his relationship with Elon Musk. After all, there is a direct relationship between the nominee to direct NASA and Spacex, a company with which it was associated for the missions Inspiration4 and Polaris. Isaacman denied having been in contact with Elon Musk to talk about NASA, and noted that the businessman does not owe loyalty but to the United States. But when Senator Ed Markey insistently asked if Elon Musk was at the meeting that Isaacman had with Trump for his nomination, Isaacman was not honest. He always replied with the same phrase: “Senator, my meeting was with the president of the United States.” He did not deny or confirm that Musk was in the room (implying that, obviously, he was). There is money to do everything. It does not seem that Isaacman will complain about the cuts that Doge Government Efficiency Department Directed by Elon Musk, it is applying to NASA. The young entrepreneur believes that there is enough money to quickly get to the moon while advancing in the plans to conquer Mars as soon as possible. The speed is the key in Isaacman’s plans, which wants to revitalize the “Mission First” culture of the Apollo program: Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon just eight years after Alan Shepard became The first American to fly to spacethe name recalled to direct NASA. Instead, it does not seem that he is very excited about the idea of ​​launching the Lunar Gateway station or building a lunar base, as China looks for. He did not expressly said it, but commented that “we will have to determine the scientific, economic and national security benefits to maintain a presence on the lunar surface.” As for the SLS and the Orion ship. Boeing can breathe calm, at least for a few months. It seems that Isaacman is willing to respect the current architecture of Artemis missions, however expensive and inefficient it isat least for the moment, while an alternative architecture develops. “It’s the current plan. I think it’s the best and faster way to achieve it,” said Isaacman. But then he added that this architecture is not the way to follow for high frequency flights to the moon, a clear nod to the New Space launch options: The Spacex Starship and the ship Blue Moon from Blue Originwhich will be launched aboard the new Glenn rocket. Images | POT In Xataka | Elon Musk has said that Mars will be part of the United States. It is an unusual affront to the outdoor space treaty

Elon Musk attacks the ideologist of US Tariff Policy

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The global economy faces one of the most tense moments in its history, after the implementation of the new US tariff policies that it has given by amortized World free trade. The reciprocal tariffs have not only rekindled the fears of a world recessionbut they have also hit some of the world’s most innovative companies hard. Among the main affected: Elon Musk, whose companies will receive a hard blow for the commercial war that the US has started with China and Europe. Elon Musk doesn’t like tariffs. Elon Musk has expressed clearly its opposition to the new tariffs driven by Donald Trump. During the weekend he proposed a Commercial Agreement of “Zero Tariffs” between the United States and Europe. In addition, Musk shared in x A video by economist Milton Friedman highlighting the benefits of free trade and criticized Peter NavarroTrump’s commercial advisor and main ideologist of Trump’s tariff policies, ensuring that: “Navarro is darker than a sack of bricks.” According to published The Washington Postthe confrontation between Musk and Navarro has been climbing. Musk has publicly denounced that these policies are harmful, not only for their companies, but also for the American economy in general. These statements show the distancing between Musk and Trump’s government. Tesla is more than an assembler. The origin of the crossroads between Musk and Navarro were A few statements in which the Economic Advisor of the White House assured that Tesla was little more than a pieces. Tesla is among the companies most affected by tariff policies. According to Nikkei Asiabetween 20% and 25% of the components used in the manufacture of Tesla cars are imported, while 40% of materials related to Electric batteries They come from Chinese suppliers, although these batteries and their cars are manufactured in the US gigafactories. However, the main stumbling block is not the extra cost of its supply chain for tariffs, but the voltage generated with Chinawhere the brand enjoys A privileged position And Musk had been acting as a mediator bridge. If the Chinese government intensifies its offensive against US commercial interests, the competitiveness of Tesla in front of byd or other manufacturers. “It is important to note that Tesla has not been unscathed from this problem. The impact of tariffs on Tesla remains significant,” public Musk a few days ago. Space tariffs: its effect in Spacex. Spacex has also felt the coup of tariffs in their meats. Export restrictions from China and Tariffs to China They are being a serious obstacle in the Company’s supply chain. “Tariffs are generating challenges in various facets of Spacex operations, including the costs of the supply chain, international contracts and the regulatory environment,” He pointed outto Forbes Maxime Puteaux, main advisor of the space consultant Novaspace. This problem could have long -term consequences. On the one hand, they affect Spacex’s ability to comply with international contracts, including those of the Satellite display For Starlink. On the other hand, these increases could slow down and even put development at risk of projects such as Starship, a key piece for future missions to Mars. Musk has warned that this type of commercial policies endangers American technological leadership in strategic sectors such as aerospace. “There are certain components or elements that are used in the construction of high -tech products such as Spacex that do not have many alternative suppliers, so the risk of concentration is aggravated when costs increase exponentially,” declared to Forbes James Gellert, Executive President of the Raphydrification Supply Chain Analysis Firm The AI ​​is not fought. The AI ​​does not get rid of the scourge of tariffs, so Xai, the growing company Musk’s artificial intelligence, also faces some problems for tariffs on key components, such as electrical equipment and servers for Your data centers. This increase in expenses not only affects the competitiveness of the company, but could limit its ability to face international rivals in the field of artificial intelligence, a Sector where China and Europe are advancing quickly. Collateral damage of tariffs in x. In the commercial war caused by tariff that economists predict. One of the main sources of X income is advertising. The economic difficulties of companies can make the company suffer much more for The lack of advertisers. In addition, the social network of X is much more exposed to indirect reprisals of the affected countries, which could harden their policies for privacy and data protection, matter that already is being investigated x In Europe, as he published The New York Times. In Xataka | The great fortunes are bleeding with the collapse of the bag. Warren Buffett has hit his old recipe again Image | Flickr (The White House)

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