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They were always based on a blind cult of Elon Musk

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Is Elon Musk the most important living person? This It is the question that was read In some forums just a five years ago. The defense was its relevant role when lifting Space X, Starlink, Neurolink and, of course, Tesla. If the electric car company has overcome its own death valley After 10 years, throwing losses has been, among other things, for the cult of the figure of Elon Musk and his promises. To say that it has been exclusively for the latter would be too simplistic. The company showed that an electric car for day to day and practical on trips was possible. He moved with cunning When he went through difficult times but he has also chained promises that have not been fulfilledthey have arrived late or alone half. That Tesla lost money for a long time but, at the same time, maintained the support of the shareholders is very blamed by Elon Musk. The product was almost revolutionary, with an interior that had not been seen until then in a car and everything A “Tesla Club” around the vehicle. Get “electric car” to be synonymous with “tesla” was built based on a own infrastructureof a vehicle that had no comparison in the market and a base of followers who blindly believed in the product. All this caused Elon Musk to rise at the height of a pseudomesies that has remained so far. In 2010, Time It already included Musk among the 100 most relevant people of the year. In 2014, The confidential I already raised him to first place. In 2018, the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, a reputed disseminator in the United States, compared his figure with Steve Jobs or Bill Gates and said he was “Inventing the future”. In 2021, Time yes he pointed to Musk as the most important person of the year In a short time, the screws have changed and now Tesla’s actions have collapsed. Or is it something that was already counted? The most powerful man “not voted” With those words they described in The Guardian To Elon Musk. 2024 had been the year in which the tycoon had managed to rise as one of the people who has the most power in the United States. By Donald Trump, Musk does not have a political position in itself but directs an agency to which powers have been given to fire thousands of public officials if, simply, They do not respond an email. The Tesla CEO is applying the same dynamic in the structures of the State as already launched in its own companies, including layoffs that you have had to reverse subsequently. A way of acting that has been accompanied by Nazi greeting During the power of Donald Trump, the Support for ultra -right -wing games as AFD in Germany or propose the dismantling of the International Space Stationamong other gestures and propositions. The entire row of gestures, comments and decisions has caused the foreseeable citizen rejection. In Canada hundreds of thousands of signatures have been collected asking that The State withdraw the citizenship to Musk (He is the son of a Canadian citizen). In the United Kingdom, posters were hit against Tesla and its CEO with a clear “From 0 to 1939 in three seconds” referring to Musk’s Nazi greeting and the acceleration of their cars. In Germany it has been called the boycott projecting an image in Tesla gigafactoría of Berlin. In the United States they have been carried out Protests against dealerships And some owners have put an explained “Buy this before Elon went crazy”. Musk’s image has plummeted, of course, for many of those who trusted that the company came to mark a before and after in the automobile industry. It is also easy to understand that it has improved among the voters of matches that They deny climate change or that, directly, They begin to disassemble the electric car recharge network. But is there a direct correlation between the public image of Elon Musk and the fall in Tesla’s stock market? The truth is that it is a difficult answer and we will have to wait several months to be able to give a conclusion more successful. It has also pointed out that The low sales of the company They punish Musk’s political positions but Tesla’s offer is at a key moment, replacing her Tesla Model and, The best -selling electric car in the world (and One of the best selling Adding all types of technologies), by an update that adds a more modern design. Change, announced for monthsit is very likely that you have made potential buyers wait to know the new model. And to that we must add that, since it was announced, the new units will not begin to add in the sales list to the second quarter, when they begin to enroll. It will be then when you can see the real scope of the entire context in which we live now. It is possible that part of the readjustment in The price of Tesla’s action (which started the year in $ 370 and already quotes at $ 280) has something to do with some numbers in 2024 that did not meet expectations but it is very likely that it has much more to do with an adjustment that had to arrive at some point. There has always been talk of Tesla as Cult stock. This term refers to the actions that are based on the promises of the company or its leaders but do not have an economic basis that supports them. It is the perfect definition of how the company has maintained the blind confidence of investors for years despite its continued losses. But to this we must add that the company’s actions They shot in 2020 and, later, last summer. Then analysts not justified, in the words of Bloomberg collected by Five daysthe reasons behind an excessive growth. Its price reached 90 times the value of its future benefits. … Read more

Elon Musk is a citizen of Canada since 1989. Now 230,000 Canadians have claimed to remove it

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As Trump Special Advisor Elon Musk is part of a government that it seems to threaten Canadian sovereignty, especially after Trump repeatedly hinted that Canada should become The 51st State of the United States. Canadians have responded with the bureaucratic tools they have, and now it is time to decide the government, bound by the law itself. Hundreds of thousands of signatures. Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship, awarded in 1989 Thanks to his mother, Maye Muskoriginally from Saskatchewan, is located in the center of a growing political controversy in Canada. The reason? More than 200,000 citizens have signed A parliamentary request requesting that citizens be revoked due to its proximity to Donald Trump and their alleged involvement in activities contrary to the national interests of Canada. The requestpresented on February 20 at the Chamber of the Commons in Canada by the writer Qualia Reed and sponsored by the parliamentarian Charlie Angus, of the new Democratic Party (NDP), He has won traction Very fast. His main argument: that Musk, acting as a Trump advisor, has backed a foreign government that threatens Canadian sovereignty. In particular, they point out the aggressive rhetoric of the president, who has threatened Impose severe tariffs to Canadian products and has even suggested that more than unlikely Annexation of Canada as the 51 state of the nation. Reasons of the petition and reactions. As we said, the discontent of the signatories lies in Musk’s attitude Faced with American politics, as well as in its total support for Trump and its economic policies. Musk has promoted, for example, initiatives to reduce federal spending in the United States under the new administration, which has led to Mass cuts in agencies such as the Department of Venaries’ Affairs, the Department of Defense and the National Parks Service. The conflict between Musk and Trudeau. There is more, of course. Its use of social network X, acquired in 2022, has been key in the controversy. Musk mocked the Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau, after his announcement of resignation as the leader of the Liberal Party, praising instead of the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, in what was seen as an interference in Canadian politics. Besides, Trump’s threats Towards Canada have intensified public outrage. In a recent speech, the president referred again to Trudeau as a simple “governor”, minimizing the independence of the country. The conflict climbed when Trump and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the nation should become partly in the United Statesto which Trudeau responded bluntly In X: “There is no possibility in the hell that Canada becomes part of the United States. Workers and communities in both countries benefit from being the largest commercial and mutual security partners.” The economic factor and commercial tensions. Beyond the political debate, Trump’s position and Musk towards Canada has also generated concern in the economic field. Trump has threatened impose 25% tariffs to Canadian imports, a measure that would have had significant consequences for the country’s economy. Be that as it may, these tariffs have been delayed until March 4, after Trump declared that the Canada government had taken measures to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking in cooperation with the United States. Is it possible to revoke citizens? It is the big question. According to the Canadian law, citizenship It can be revoked In cases of fraud, false information in the application for immigration or threat to national security, but there are no precedents of a revocation for political reasons or ideological alignments. It is also allowed Voluntary renunciation of citizenssomething that Musk has not indicated that he would consider. That said, the petition has overcome the threshold of 500 signatures required to be formally presented to Parliament. After its presentation, it will be the government who decides if it progresses or rejects it. Meanwhile, the House of Commons will resume sessions on March 24, although a possible call for general elections before that date could also affect the progress of the petition. An unknown scenario. Despite the magnitude of the petition, experts agree that the possibility of revoking the citizenship of Musk It is low. Irene Bloemraad, immigration and citizenship specialist at British Columbia University, explained to Washington Post That “although the petition reaches millions of signatures, the government cannot simply revoke the citizenship of a person.” Also, Gideon Christian, Professor of Law at the University of Calgary, He stressed that Any attempt at revocation should “follow the legal procedures established for all Canadian citizens.” In the distant scenario on which the revocation was approved and executed, Musk would have to wait 10 years to request the Canadian citizenship again. The businessman would continue to keep his American and South African citizenships, of course, but losing his Canadian passport could affect his investments and commercial relations in the country. Image | Duncan.hull, Open Grid Sche In Xataka | Mark Zuckerberg wanted to get on Elon Musk’s wake to improve his image: public opinion continues to hate him the same In Xataka | Tesla has sued customers and journalists for criticizing their cars in China: the surprising thing is that you are winning those judgments

A bakery accepted a 4,000 cakes for Tesla. Elon Musk had to mediate to avoid bankruptcy

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Large companies are not only a pole of Employment creation Or direct wealth for those who work on them, but, indirectly, they are also an indirect development engine for other companies in the area. Sometimes, they can also be their ruin. In 2024, a small artisan pastry from San José (California) was about to bankrupt when he tried to satisfy a huge request for cakes for the Tesla offices. A last minute change of opinion left the small business on the verge of bankruptcy and debts. Such and as they counted in The Guardian, Elon Musk had to take action on the matter. Laura’s sweet request Voahangy Rasetarinera, owner of the Giving Fourth pastry, received the challenge of facing a request for 2,000 mini cakes for a Tesla employee event. This request represented a Great economic opportunity for the small businessbut also supposed an important logistics challenge given its magnitude and the scarce resources of the pastry. Rasetarinera consulted their staff and agreed to accept the order by sending the invoice to Tesla. The delivery dates would be Tuesday and Thursday the following week. Elon Musk’s company diverted the payment of the cakes to an external supplier called City Flavor, which did not respond to payment requests after delivering the first round of cakes. “I was still optimistic while waiting for the payment on Thursday. However, when he did not materialize, I worried.” That same day, Laura, the contact of Rasetarinera in Tesla, called the pastry maker to apologize for the delay in the payment of the first round alleging the inexperience of the suppliers. On that same call, Laura requested to duplicate the Cake request. In total, the invoice already amounted to $ 16,000 for 4,000 cupcakes that Giving FEET had to deliver, of which he had already delivered half and had not charged anything. The pastry shop was forced to redouble their efforts paying extra hours To the staff, buying more ingredients that had not yet charged and, more importantly, rejecting other orders to meet the enormous demand of Tesla. After re -consulting the employees, they all agreed to move forward, so Rasetarinera sent a new invoice extended to Tesla with the new amount and got into flour with the new remittance, but not before sending a message to Laura, to claim the Payment of the first pitch of cakes that had already been delivered. “I regret to bother you again, but I am a small business. I have no luxury of having infinite resources, so I really need them to pay me to ensure my staff,” the businesswoman wrote to Tesla, Tesla, As published The local medium Kron4. Touch the image to go to the original message However, joy lasted little. Just a week before the delivery date, Tesla canceled the order without prior notice. As Rasetarinera explained In the Instagram account of the bakery, “we received an email saying that they canceled the order. There was no explanation. Only a message that said: ‘Hey, I am very sorry, I think we are no longer going to need this order.” Invoices without paying and 2,000 cupcakes in the oven The cancellation of the order had serious consequences for giving feet. The pastry He had already invested in ingredients and increased his staff to be able to comply with the assignment of Tesla. What was outlined as a great opportunity to work with a great company, had become an impeded bill of invoices. Rasetarinera explained on their social networks that “we had to buy additional ingredients, hire extra staff and program extra hours.” All this represented a considerable expense for a small business. “I had invested time, resources and effort based on Tesla’s guarantees, just to stay in the stake,” The owner declared to The Guardian. The news spread rapidly on social networks and local media That they echoed the bad pass that Tesla had made to this little merchant, generating outrage among users for the lack of consideration of Tesla towards a local business. The voice ran through social networks, even arriving at the ears of Elon Musk himself. Elon Musk and the unexpected solution When Elon Musk learned about the situation, he decided to take action on the matter personally. From Your X accountMusk apologized for what happened with the bakery and promised to solve the problem. “I just found out about this. We are solving it immediately,” the billionaire wrote. Touch the image to go to the original message Musk’s solution was simple but effective: Tesla would buy all the cakes that Giving Fourth could produce. In addition, the company promised to distribute these cakes between local beneficial organizations. “People should always be able to tell that Tesla will do their best,” Elon Musk wrote in his X message. For giving feet, this experience It ended up being positive. Not only did they exceed the bad financial drink for the investment made in the order, but also gain advertising and the support of the community. As shown On its websitecurrently, Giving Foot sweetens the parties of some of Silicon Valley’s most important technological companies. In Xataka | An English called his restaurant “Tesla”. Then he was released and with a fine of 14,000 euros thanks to Musk In Xataka | Tesla has been demanding buyers and journalists for some time for criticizing their cars in China. And he is winning Image | Dvids (Justin Pacheco), Giving Pie

The hidden key behind the entire spinal encounter between Javier Milei and Elon Musk: Lithium

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The most popular news today is the bizarre gift from Milei to Musk: a chainsaw, how could it be otherwise. However, like any media show, a background related to energy resources and possible commercial opening with the United States is being hidden. In situation. Yesterday, February 20, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the Republican party is celebrating near Washington, where Musk and Milei were. There, the president of Argentina gave a chainsaw to the owner of Tesla, who called her as The “Bureaucracy chainsaw”. First of all this show, the question is: What is Milei doing? On the one hand, after controversial support for cryptocurrency $ librathe Argentine president has chosen to get away from all that storm and travel to his place on Earth: United States. On the other hand, Javier Milei He has gathered With Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), To discuss the economic situation from Argentina. In addition, the United States Chamber of Commerce in Argentina The nation has announced for the environment that Argentina has “serious possibilities” of accessing a free trade agreement with the United States. Milei and Musk’s relationship. This friendship between Javier and Elon is not new, and unites a very important and necessary energy resource for the second: lithium. Argentina has historically been very rich in natural resources and has become a fundamental actor for the new technology, especially because it shares the “Lithium triangle” next to Chile and Bolivia. In that aspect, Milei has undertaken A reformist agenda that seeks to eliminate all environmental and social regulation to attract foreign investors, and lithium has become an essential pillar in its economic strategic. Hence his relationship with the tycoon of Tesla, who has shown great interest in the exploitation of lithium. An example of this boom is The Centennial Mouse projectlocated in the province of Salta, where lithium is being extracted. Operated by the French company ERAMET, this site is expected to produce 24,000 tons of lithium lithium carbonate battery, sufficient to supply 600,000 electric vehicles a year. Opening with the United States. “Who wants something, something costs him,” but sometimes this phrase must be rethink and ask: but what cost? The fact is that while Musk approaches Milei, he is finding out how to get one more loan for Argentina. The Argentine president not only went to take refuge to the American country and feel the heat of his “friends”, but also to talk to the IMF and discuss a new financial agreement within the framework of his economic adjustment plan. During the meeting, Georgieva The country’s “progress” has highlightedincluding deficit reduction, low inflation and economic growth. However, one thing is the numbers and another reality: everything has been achieved based on a severe tax adjustment, eliminating subsidies and reducing ministrieswhich has generated a strong social impact and discontent in broad sectors of the population. In addition, economists have explained to the CNN That Georgieva’s subsequent statement was not “very constructive”, since he did not offer concrete details about additional financial support or changes in the exchange scheme. Despite the praise, the new agreement has not yet been specified, and doubts persist about the amounts and conditions that the IMF could demand. Commercial Opening. While Donald Trump has begun to put tariffs on all countries it seems that he will make an exception with Argentina. In fact, the United States Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (Amcham) He has affirmed that the country has “serious possibilities” of accessing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, with Uruguay and Ecuador as the countries of the region with the most likely to achieve this agreement. According to Amcham, Argentina is key in sectors such as critical minerals and energy, which reinforces its position in negotiations. In addition, they stressed that a recent FTA between the United States and South Korea took place in just 11 months, suggesting that Argentina could follow a similar path. However, they warned that factors such as the lack of designations in key positions of the US government and internal differences could delay the implementation of these measures in the short term. In this context. The Economic Community and the Argentine Society remain expectant to advances in the negotiations and implications they will have in the country’s economy and social welfare. Everything remains to be seen in country with great reservations of minerals and oil. Image | President’s office Xataka | “Ponzidente”: How $ Libra and the cryptocurrency macroestaf

Elon Musk has been cutting the US government for weeks. Yesterday Milei gave him a chainsier to celebrate it

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Javier Milei is not going through the best of his political moments after the second accusation of fraud with cryptocurrencies of his career, for the controversial public support of the president of Argentina to The cryptocurrency $ libra. Milei has chosen to get away from all that controversy and travel to the US to personally give Elon Musk the Symbol of cuts In his legislature: a chainsaw. For his speech, in addition to the chainsaw, Elon Musk wore large sunglasses, gold chains around his neck and a black magician cap, alluding to The Musk Meme generated by AI that have circulated through their social network since the Doge project was known. Sunglasses and chainsaw in a political scenario Elon Musk was not planned to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that the Republican party is celebrating near Washington, but finally, an effusive Elon Musk took the stage for Rob Schmitt, a Newsmax presenter, to do an interview of which The Verge has published a transcription. The millionaire took the stage dressed in a shirt in which you could read “I am not postponing anything, I am doing secondary missions”, a thick gold chain, black magician cap and huge sunglasses that hid their eyes during the entire interview . Musk He entered greeting to an audience delivered and effusively raising their arms, although without Make Roman threats In your celebrations. After the initial greetings, Musk exclaimed: “President Milei has a gift for me”, just before Javier Milei entered the scene giving the magnate a chain that Musk did not hesitate to fly euphoric exclaiming: “This is the chainsaw of the bureaucracy!”. An interview that raised suspicions After the delivery, the Argentine president was completely ignored by both Elon Musk and the presenter, so he went to the back of the stage resisting to abandon him without saying goodbye to the millionaire, who continued to stir the chainsaw from one end to the other of the stage. Completed the “Performance” of the chainsaw, Elon Musk and the presenter set out to start an interview. Musk broke the ice confessing: “I have become a meme” and “My mind is a storm.” Faced with the journalist’s questions, Musk answered babbling and with certain difficulties in articulating complete phrases, forcing the presenter to guide Musk’s answers during his interview. This behavior did not go unnoticed to the audience, which immediately shared it into a wave of messages, turning the word “Ketamine“In tendency in X during his speech.” Elon can barely form a prayer at this time, ” wrote The journalist Aaron Rupar in his X account. The legal analyst Ken White, too He showed his surprise Given Musk’s difficulties to maintain a fluid conversation. The comedian Gabe Sanchez went a little further pointing to the origin of the problem: “POV: you just took a ton of ketamine and went on stage,” wrote on his X profile. It is not very common to see Elon Musk doing an interview with sunglasses. Previously, Musk had received Javier Milei in one of the private rooms of the Convention Center where the Republican event is celebrated. In a Video of that meeting Published by Javier Milei, it can be seen how the Argentine President enters the stay. Elon Musk does not have the glasses on that time but, before greeting Milei, Musk puts the sunglasses when he warns that they are recording him. Touch the image to go to the original message Elon Musk has already recognized in the past being a ketamine consumer by medical prescription To treat depression. Although an investigation of the WSJ revealed that the erratic behavior that the millionaire has sometimes shown could be due to the cocktail formed For this substance with stressthe insomnia, the Asperger syndrome and the bipolar disorder suffered by Musk. Beyond the medical use of ketamine, Elon Musk has been in favor of the Use of microdosis of hallucinogenic substances. A very widespread practice In the high venture spheres of Silicon Valley. In Xataka | A judge blocked Elon Musk’s Millmillonario salary bonus complying with a law: Musk’s lawyers want to change that law In Xataka | “It was not a common drug addict”: when Hitler was cocaine sinusitis and met Mussolini placed Image | Grok

Elon Musk cult

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Elon Musk’s startup, XAI, yesterday presented its new family of artificial intelligence models, called Grok 3. He presumed that these models surpassed their competitors, but it does not seem that we have a specially striking qualitative leap here. And that is a problem, because Musk wants us to pay for using Grok 3. To start, Grok 3. In that family the first prominent are Grok 3 Beta and Grok 3 Mini, the two initial versions that directly compete with generative AI models such as GPT-4O, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Deepseek V3 or Gemini 2.0 Pro. According to the benchmarks used in XAI, Grok 3 surpasses them all, and that good performance seems to be endorsed by independent entities as LMarena. There is “reasoning” mode. Curiously, Grok 3 does not have a separate version to “reason”, but the model itself is able to activate that mode of reasoning to compete with Deepseek R1 or with O1. Once again XAI reveals that benchmarks in this area seem to place Grok 3 as the one that best behaves. But reason in silence. Grok 3’s reasoning mode, yes, does not show what you are thinking, something that other reasoning models do. According to XAI, that design decision allows you to prevent competence models from using these data to distill and reuse them in their own developments. It is a zancadilla to the competition, without more. Deepsearch, the other great protagonist. One of the most striking functions of Grok 3 is Deepsearch, which is nothing more than the response to research tools such as Deep Research, from Openai. Experts like Andrej Karpathy They have tried it And it seems to behave well, but it is actually on horseback among the models of reasoning and de -presence, which is more advanced. Xai is updated, and that has merit. If a few weeks ago we warned that Grok 3 did not arrive and Xai was staying behindthings have just changed. If we listen to those first demos and internal tests, Grok 3 is a model of the good or better than its current competitors. That is an achievement for Xai, which It was created In April 2023 and has managed to recover all the land that its competitors had already traveled. It will have a voice. At the moment Grok 3 does not offer the ability to talk through the voice as they do competitors such as Openai or Google models, but Musk indicated that they are working on it. “The voice mode is still a bit irregular,” commented in x“so it probably launches within a week, but it is impressive.” Grok 3 is not free. Another surprise. After the arrival of Deepseekcompetition does not stop offering advanced options and even reasoning models free of charge. To use Grok 3 of the former you will have to pay the premium+subscription, which costs $ 50 per month. In XAI they have created a new plan called Supergrok that according to rumors will cost $ 30 per month and will also use this model later. Grok 3 will not be initially available in Europe. And neither do they open source. Although Musk already published the initial version of Grok as Open Sourcehe does not seem willing to do the same immediately with Grok 3. Nor did he do it with Grok 2, although just during the launch of Grok 3 announced that he would soon license that second version as Open Source. As with the decision to hide “how” Grok 3 thinks in its mode of reasoning, Musk seems clear that he prefers not to share too much about his AI models to prevent competition from taking advantage of his progress. A complicated business model. Precisely the fact of offering it only as part of a payment subscription complicates things to make Grok 3 popularize. A priori it does not seem to be a model of AI that represents a qualitative leap important enough to justify that someone pays for him when there are free alternatives, so, why should we do it? Musk cult. XAI’s strategy and Elon Musk attracts attention because he seems to force us to choose Grok 3 more for our ideology – Musk’s fans or not – than for a practical and rational issue – which his model is really better and more useful. Benchmarks seem to point to this model behaving something better than competition, but the jump, we repeat, does not seem notable and some independent tests show that Grok 3 is far from perfect, for example When programming. It already happens with Tesla. It is something similar to what is happening with Tesla and its actions: in recent years the value of the company has shot in the stock market. Its market assessment (1.14 billion dollars) is exceptionally high. As much as to be equivalent to that of the following 16 companies that manufacture cars. Among them are Toyota, Byd, Ferrari, GM, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Ford, BMW, Honda, Hyundai or Stellantis. There is no rational or logical economic reason here: only the popular belief that Tesla “has to be worth more.” It is the cult of Musk made investment (or bet). Grok 3 will have much to demonstrate. Grok 3 may end up being available for the standard accounts of X. It is what ended up occurring with Grok 2, a model that demonstrated, for example, being especially striking by Not having censorship. However, with Grok 3, the arguments to pay do not seem to be clear, and the demos that were shown in the presentation were basically “one of the same.” And with that it will be difficult for Xai and Musk to convince us that using their AI is the best option. Image | DVIDS | XAI In Xataka | Elon Musk lights the “most powerful the world’s cluster.” One with 100,000 gpus nvidia h100

Elon Musk launches an unexpected offer to acquire OpenAI for almost 100,000 million dollars

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He already did it in April 2022 When he offered to buy 100% Twittermovement that ended up specifying In October of that same year after several ideas and coming. Elon Musk gets back in the center of the scene, this time with an unexpected Acquisition offer directed towards OpenAIone of the most important artificial intelligence (AI) companies. As the Wall Street Journal collectsthe businessman leads an investor consortium to buy the organization behind Chatgpt for 97.4 billion dollars. The proposal, which has a hostile nature because it comes without prior negotiation between both parties, has been presented this Monday before the Board of Directors of the company led by Sam Altman. “It’s time for Openai to force the open source And focused on the security that once was, ”said Musk in a statement released by his lawyer Marc Uberooff. The Tesla CEO, which was co -founder of OpenAi, retired from the startup in 2018 and Last year he sued her By, according to him, to have betrayed its foundational principles by moving away from its open approach. In development. Images: Ted Conference In Xataka | OpenAi wants to make the leap to the general public. That is why 14 million dollars have been spent to advertise in the Super Bowl

Europe’s anger with Elon Musk grows like foam. Tesla pays the consequences with sales falls of up to 75%

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Tesla has made its presentation of sales results And the news has not been what they expected: the sales of their electric cars They have plummeted during the last quarter, especially in Europe. Some investors have not been able to associate this fall to the political activism of the CEO of Tesla, and see in this fall the reaction of the markets to the Elon Musk support to the ultra -right parties of Germany and the United Kingdom. The Batacazo of Germany. According to data From the Federal Carriage Transport Authority of Germany (KBA), during the month of January 2025, Tesla only enrolled 1,277 electric cars in the largest car market in Europe. That represents a 59.5% drop with respect to sales of the previous year. The fall in sales of Tesla in Germany contrasts with the number of enrollments of battery electric vehicles (BEV) in that country, which amounted to 34,498 units enrolled, increasing the figure by 53.5% compared to the previous year. That is, the Germans They have bought more electric carsbut these cars were not from Tesla. The decrease in sales in the withdrawal of incentives for the purchase of electric cars can be attributed, but this theory would be ruled out because that would impact all electric cars. However, the Chinese manufacturer Byd has been the great beneficiary of the Tesla stumbling, increasing its sales by 69.1% during the same period. It is not an isolated case. Such a pronounced fall in a single market can be attributed to certain economic factors. However, when the situation is replicated with generalized falls in the main European markets, the diagnosis also changes. According to published data By Electrek, Tesla’s sales fell 75.4% in Spain, a 63.4% in France46% in Sweden, 42.5% in the Netherlands, 40.9% in Denmark or 40.2% in Norway, a market in which the 90% of cars that are sold They are electric. In general terms, Tesla’s total sales fell 47.7% in Europe and a 7.78% in the United Kingdom. It is striking that, in California, a state where Tesla usually got good sales figures, Model 3 sales have also fallen 3. Everything points to a person in charge: politics. One of the reasons that different responsible for the European car industry have argued as an explanation for the decrease in sales of the brand is the political role of Elon Musk in the US government and Your explicit support to extreme right formations in Germany and the United Kingdom. The French medium France24 collected the statements Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Automotive Research Center in Germany, ensuring that the behavior of the Tesla CEO was being “extremely harmful” for the manufacturer in that country. “Nobody wants to be associated with this. Tesla and Musk are almost inextricably linked.” Tesla pays Musk’s invoices. The electric car manufacturer has become the objective of protests of different types in different countries in Europe. Behind him controversial greeting the public After Trump’s investiture, some activists projected The word “Heil” on the main facade of Tesla’s gigafactoría in Berlin. The Everyone Hates Elon Group has been marking the London Tesla with adhesives in which it reads: “Don’s Buy to Swasticar“(Do not buy a car-esvastic) and disseminating it In your social networks. Investors begin to worry. During the last quarter, the manufacturer has registered a decrease in its revenues of operations with 1.6 billion dollars, compared to the 2.1 billion dollars declared in the same quarter of 2023. Before this fall, investors were worried about the political facet by Elon Musk and its negative effect on the brand, as well as the time that your Doge in front paper. After all, Tesla pays Musk’s salary, not the US government. CNBC collected Some of those investor questions: “How long does Elon Musk do to grow Tesla, solve products and generate value for shareholders compared to their public commitments with Trump, Doge and political activities?” Asked one of the Retail investors present. Other investors asked if Tesla had “lost sales due to Elon’s political activities” and wondered how the company was going to “respond to Musk’s Nazi infamous greeting and how the negative impacts of Elon Musk’s public opinions and public activities are being addressed ” None of them received a response from the directive. 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 (Andreas Rasmussen), Dvidshub (Joshua Armstrong)

Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies

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Elon Musk did not receive Not a single vote in the elections from the US, neither a dollar from the US government receives. However, many consider him the most powerful person in the country, and has declared war on bureaucracy. Not two weeks ago that Donald Trump was invested as 47th President of the United States, but Elon Musk has had plenty of time to put An army of twenty -year -old engineers Even the kitchen of the US administration. That a private citizen, without an official charge and without obligation to account for anyone, can access classified information has lit all alarms in the country. Elon Musk’s “demon” mode. The “modus operandi” that has shown Doge during its first weeks of operation carries the Elon Musk personal stamp. Just observe minimally what happened when Elon Musk He took Twitter controleliminating functions and dismissing your staff, to find the same pattern in the “control” of Donald Trump that He has executed Doge In the last two weeks. The Millionaire has used this system of harassment and demolition of the structure established in all its companies or projects. Your biographer defined This scenario as “demon mode”, in which Elon Musk orders to stop everything and eliminate all the unnecessary or superfluousregardless of whether some norms or regulations are breached in the process. As he quotes in his biography, Elon Musk considers these operations as “giving things to things and purging all the shit of the interior of the system.” Work in “Extremely Hardcore” mode. When Elon Musk enters that “demon mode” demands a Extreme work commitmentliterally describing it as “Extremely Hardcore”. Again, something we already saw in the landing of Musk on Twitter. Now, Doge’s team is also applying that extreme work discipline and has even mounted sleeping beds in the offices of the Blanca to the White House that became its headquarters, According to sources of The New York Times. As published by Musk, they are working Even weekends. The US is not a company. Elon Musk applied that optimization exercise in Space X when he developed his First Merlin engineswith the Starlink satellites and with the Starship rocket. Tesla also suffered Musk’s “demon mode” when he faced the company bankruptcy If the Production rhythm of your Model 3. Elon Musk even He slept under the table of his office while I found formulas To optimize the assembly line. The millionaire has applied these optimizations in all its companies using a policy of Challenge to regulationswhich left them exposed to sanctions. However, they are private companies and, as such, they must be aware of the risk of incurring these infractions and assuming the consequences. However, what Many wonder in the US It is whether the government of a country can afford that luxury. Doge and officials. One of Doge’s first battles has been against officials, which began when the president He repealed the measures that protected career officials, those who carry out their work in the administration regardless of who governs. Following the same pattern as on Twitter of 2022, it was sent An email more than two million officials under the matter “Fork in the Road” (bifurcation on the road). In that email, They were invited to give up just by responding to the mail in exchange for receiving the equivalent of your salary until September as compensation for dismissal. In 2022, mail trick It did not fullysince the company had to pay compensation to its ex -employed. In this case, it has not been too successful and the measure has been taken before the courts. Some twenty -year -old engineers. Another aspect of Doge’s “control” has been the Young entourage, twenty -year -old They had been doing practices In Elon Musk companies. These “black men” of Doge entered the databases More sensitive from the administration without even showing a government employee credential, since Doge is an external consulting body, not a government agency. In fact, in many cases they refuse reveal their names. To the officials who refused for a group of intruders They had access to the data that the Treasury Department has of millions of citizens, They were withdrawn from service. Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, He had to order To officials that allow access to the Musk team, since, remember, they are not government officials officially. Trump triggered. Doge’s “control” has raised controversy both for its intimidating methods and for the legality of its actions. The recent one Total closure From the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by Doge has made alarms jump of those who consider that neither Doge nor Donald Trump have the power of Close government agencies. According to him Article 1 of the Constitution That is a prerogative that It must be given from the Congresssomething that has not occurred. Therefore, not only are they being questioned that “the black men” anonymous of Doge act in an opaque way by accessing the most sensitive databases of the government, but also put on the table if the own Trump would be overreach in their functions passing Above Congress’ competences. Citizen Musk. In the midst of all this storm: Elon Musk. A private citizen who does not pay accounts for his acts and only responds to the president, who has given him free way to access all areas of the federal government. Will it cut the funds of NASA, from the SEC or FAA with the same lightness that you have used with USAID? It is difficult to define where the public service of the millionaire actions begins and where its private interests. SPACE X receives huge amounts of NASA money and the increase in missions with the American space agency points to an upward trend in that financing route. In addition, Elon Musk has in his hand the survival of regulation agencies such as FAA that regulates precisely the spacex scope, so it becomes a judge and part, giving rise to a conflict of interest more than evident. Trump He … Read more

Elon Musk made his nth promise on autonomous driving and Tesla will pay him expensive (already stockings)

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If something has characterized the direction of Elon Musk in front of Tesla, they have been his grandiloquent phrases and his promises of doubtful credibility. One of them is a classic that can now cost Caro: all its cars can be updated to their most advanced autonomous driving system for free. Musk already admits that they will have to take a hard cost. A key business. Autonomous driving is, for Tesla, one of its key businesses for the future. The company already said in 2023 that it could make money exclusively with the software of its cars and that they could make their cars profitable without winning a single euro with the vehicle itself. Since then, Elon Musk has been selling the benefits of its autonomous driving systems. Similarly, the company has been sliding that it is In conversations with third parties to act as suppliers of your driving aid systems. And to this we must add the promise that from next year we will see the Tesla Robotaxis in the streets. The FSD. That autonomous driving has a name and surname within Tesla. Full Self Driving (FSD). A driving aid system that, for the moment, continues to force the driver to be at all times aware of what happens around him in case he has to intervene. The name has been a reason for controversy, DECEÑIOUS ADVERTISING FACKING Because he implies that he has more capacities than he really offers. In fact, Ford with Bluecruisewhich allows you to remove your hands from the steering wheel although keeping your attention, and Mercedes, which does not force you to maintain attention In very specific circumstancesThey seem to have come further. In the specific case of Tesla, their cars are sold with Three well -differentiated packages. Basic assists includes adaptive cruise control and lane change. The improved autopilot package adds functions such as automatic lane or parking (and exit) without human intervention. Finally, the FSD or “Total Autonomous Driving”, as Tesla sells in Spain, adds the stops and torn in the traffic lights and, “in the future, self -admitted in urban areas. The eternal promise. The FSD has been one of Tesla’s great promises in recent years. The price of buying a car with active FSD or “total autonomous driving”, as sold in Spain, adds 7,500 euros to the price of the car. Another option is to activate it in the coming years when we consider it appropriate from our website. That future option is what seems to be complicating Tesla. On its website the following is read in the frequently asked questions section: As of April 2019, all new Tesla vehicles come standard with the autopilot*, which includes cruise control adapted to traffic and autogyro. Some exceptions can be applied. For vehicles without the autopilot software, but equipped with the necessary hardware, you can buy the autopilot, the improved autopilot or the total autonomous driving capacity at any time through its Tesla account; The necessary autopilot software will be added to your car.A necessary update . Since 2016, Tesla has been promising that all their cars would have the necessary hardware to support the functions of total autonomous driving, including those of“Level 5” . That is, the car can move without human intervention, as if it were a robotaxi. In 2019, however, the company had to confirm that the autonomous driving system would require greater computer power. SoThey presented the HW3 a computer designed to allow these functions. Given the promise that cars sold since 2016 could have these functions, cars already sold for free to interested drivers were updated. In 2023, again Tesla has to expand the computer capabilities of its cars with a new hardware. The long -awaited HW4 arrives That now, yes (it is supposed) it will allow a completely autonomous driving. But from the company the message is launched that drivers whose cars use the HW3 should not worry because the new software will refine to make it compatible with their vehicles.They are not valid . A year later, in October 2024, Elon Musk begins to slide the idea that cars with HW3 will not be able to count on the latest advances in autonomous driving and, therefore, they will not be able to enjoy their FSD program. We are not 100% safe. HW4 has HW3’s capacity several times. It is easier to make things work in HW4 and a lot of effort is needed to put that in HW3. There is the possibility that HW3 does not reach the level of security that allows non -supervised FSD. Words pick them upElectrek where, in addition, they explain the difficulties that the company would have to update its cars at the technical level. According to the medium, it is almost impossible due to the limitations of the hardware The Tesla Model and should be the change of paradigm in Europe. It has been destroyed as a best selling car by Dacia SanderoFree . At that time, Elon Musk already warned that if the company did not find a way to make the HW3 compatible with the total autonomous driving would launch a free update campaign of the hardware of the vehicle for all those who had acquired the car with these functions. Months after these first statements, Elon Musk has confirmed that all cars that were bought with the FSD package already active will be updated for free. “We will have to replace all HW3 computers in vehicles where FSD was bought,” Musk said At the last meeting with shareholders.Half fulfilling . In his statements, Musk made it clear that they would only be the cars that acquired the FSD package when buying it the cars that will receive this update for free. This leaves out, therefore, those who did not do first and chose to subscribe to the functions of driving aid. Therefore, Tesla would be halfway. In their day they promised that all cars bought from 2016 would be completely autonomous. This is only possible, … Read more

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