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Square Roots, an indoor “smart farm” co-owned by Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal, has closed down four of its five locations and laid off most of its employees on Tuesday. The farming startup opened in 2016, producing herbs, greens, and salad mixes using artificial light in an indoor environment before distributing…

These are strange days for people who care about trust and safety on platforms. Historically, many people have suggested that either more effective central moderation (a platform owner intervening directly in policing the content of the platform) or better decentralized moderation (allowing users to curate their spaces through community-driven moderation)…

Bloomberg/Getty Images During Tesla's second fiscal quarter earnings call today, Tesla chief Elon Musk said that the company is "very open to licensing our FSD software and hardware to other car companies." It's not the first time that he has expressed a willingness to do so. In June, Musk shared on…

July 19 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk signalled on Wednesday that he would cut prices again on electric vehicles in "turbulent times", even as his all-out price war on automaker rivals squeezes the company's own margins. The company has slashed prices several times in the United States, China…

At press time, Dogecoin (DOGE) was trading at $0.07018 up 3.13% in the last 24 hours. Elon Musk today mentioned “doges” in a tweet. Besides Dogecoin, Musk’s tweet also caused Shiba Inu to a daily high of  $0.00000784. Well-known dog-themed meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE) today surged to a daily high…

Last year, Elon Musk purchased Twitter at the inflated price of $44 billion. While some lauded it as a fix for Twitter’s ongoing struggles, others were concerned that Musk’s embrace of racist and alt-right accounts would ruin the platform — particularly for the many minority users who have formed communities…

New York CNN  —  A former Twitter employee on Wednesday filed a new lawsuit against Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk, alleging that the company failed to provide the full amount of severance it had promised employees prior to mass layoffs last November. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal…

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n a move that could reshape the AI landscape, Elon Musk unveiled his latest venture on Wednesday: xAI, his very own artificial intelligence company. With this new endeavor, Musk aims to directly compete with OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, a program he accuses of political bias and irresponsibility. According to…

The Industry Twitter’s “Community Notes” volunteers are supposed to make the platform “the most accurate source of information about the world.” I became one. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images. Two months ago, Elon Musk sat down for an interview at the Tesla Gigafactory in…