Billionaire Elon Musk surprised lots of people with his quick February merger between SpaceX and his artificial intelligence lab xAI. He is now in the process of adding up to $75 billion to the current estimated $2 trillion-plus SpaceX valuation, and, with the company’s initial public offering (IPO) nearly within … [continued]
Everything is wonderful and perfect and industry leading at Elon Musk companies … until it is not. We’ve seen it time and time again at Tesla, where we find out about insanely stupid decisions and distractions long after the company scrambled to fix them and went down a new route. … [continued]
Sales of Tesla Powerwall batteries are in danger of sputtering out, even as the company launches its own line of residential solar panels.
Well, things might be getting wild. When SolarCity was facing financial challenges, Tesla swallowed it up. Elon Musk was the Chairman of the Board at SolarCity, and his cousins were the cofounders, CEO, and CTO. The synergies were supposed to help both, but Tesla’s solar business has declined a great … [continued]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s compensation package is a done deal, and now we are immersed in the waiting game. Was it only two years ago in which Master Plan 3 was released, with its laser focus on sustainable energy? Not anymore. Now Musk is pushing agendas for AI, robots, and … [continued]
Last night I wrote the article “Tesla’s Hail Mary — Signs of Progress vs. Recent Sales Concerns,” but I wasn’t really happy with how I wrote it and the core points I wanted to make. Well, there’s a bit more news from Tesla on FSD (Full Self Driving), Optimus (Tesla’s … [continued]
Tesla saw its market share in the US fall below 40 percent in August, a decline that should worry the board of directors.
A new study published on July 28, 2025, in the journal Nature shows that the political antics of Elon Musk have done significant damage to the Tesla brand. People who identify as liberals are thoroughly turned off by his embrace of the MAGAsphere and are much less likely to buy … [continued]
Elon Musk was part of the Trump coterie who flew to meet with the Saudis this week. The planned series of forums and spectacles was a way for Musk, who runs his own artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, to position himself within fierce peer competition for funding from the Saudis. … [continued]
Is it OK for artificial intelligence to be powered by electricity from thermal generators? That is the question this week in Memphis.
