Tesla reportedly turns back to affordable cars as growth slows

Tesla is developing a new, smaller and lower-cost electric sport utility vehicle, according to people familiar with the matter and the industry, marking a notable shift in strategy for CEO Elon Musk.

Elon Musk's Daughter Vivian Wilson Says Her Childhood Was 'Very Isolating'

Vivian Jenna Wilson is opening up about her “isolating” childhood. The 21-year-old estranged daughter of Elon Musk, who came out as transgender in 2020, chatted about being born into “extreme wealth” and why she decided to reject it. “It was a very strange ex…

Future of Marketing Briefing: The ad industry has an AI label problem

The question of where to draw the line is inseparable from the question of how much marketers are prepared to lose by answering honestly.

Trump’s Base Wants Accountability—So What Happened at Pam Bondi’s DOJ?

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor... Read More The post Trump’s Base Wants Accountability—So What Happened at Pam Bondi’s DOJ? appeared …

Anthropic and xAI Model Parameter Counts

Elon Musk says that Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model has 1 trillion parameters and Claude Opus has 5 trillion parameters. XAI’s Grok 4.20, which has 0.5 trillion parameters and there are seven larger models being trained at XAI. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1…

PR Roundup: McDonald’s CEO’s McNugget Meltdown, YouTube Dominates Influence and Nutella Goes to Space

PR Roundup features the McDonald's CEO who can't seem to catch a social media break a new report revealing which brands are most influential, and a jar of Nutella spread that accidentally became the most talked-about brand in the universe. The post PR Roundup…

The EFF is quitting X

The digital privacy non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation will no longer be posting on X as of Thursday, largely due to a sharp decline in views on the platform over the past several years. In a blog post announcing the departure, EFF's social media and v…

Trump official in legal hot water after murky $24 million stock sale

An official in President Donald Trump's Department of Defense could be in legal jeopardy after he disclosed the murky sale of stock that he held in Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm, according to a new report. The Guardian reported on Thursday that Emi…

Inside Pam Bondi's aggressive push to crack down on animal cruelty crimes

A politically connected nonprofit animal shelter helped steer Bondi on DOJ's approach on animal cruelty crimes and their prosecution.

CFO Anthony Armstrong leaves xAI, the Information reports

Anthony Armstrong, named xAI's CFO in October, has departed the company as ‌part of a broader wave of senior exits, ‌the Information reported on Thursday...

Tesla Is Reportedly Working on a Cheaper Electric SUV Model

The company previously scrapped efforts at a vehicle in the $25,000 range.

Anthropic says its own new model is too dangerous for the public — but not these Big Tech companies

Anthropic is sending out a warning that its artificial intelligence model is sophisticated enough to undo decades of research.The company operates Claude, the AI chatbot that has been ripped off and turned into a free, public model, and is hoping to get toget…

Elon Musk says Tesla only has 'a few hundred' Model S and X in stock as the vehicles near end of life cycle

The CEO said Tesla only has "a few hundred" units left of its flagship cars. It comes amid a move toward robotics and self-driving cars.

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. The Numbers Aren’t Working Out We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to te…

Ryanair Begs Passengers To Stop Wearing One Specific Item On Flights

“Looking at Ryanair's surroundings requires a filter, I’m afraid,” wrote one.

With Artemis 2 Flying Home, NASA Is Already Teasing Artemis 3

The agency is already formulating the next Artemis mission, which will test integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and one or both of NASA’s Moon landers.

Kevin O’ Leary Says if Elon Musk Pitched Tesla on Shark Tank, He’d Have Passed on It, ‘You’re Crazy’— But Now He’s a Fan, Because of His Son

Tesla is un-canceling its plan to build a smaller, cheaper EV: report

It looks like a smaller, cheaper Tesla is back on the menu. Today, Reuters is reporting that the electric automaker is calling around to suppliers about building an all-new - that is, not based on the Model 3 or the Model Y - electric SUV that would be more a…

60 Tesla Cybercabs in Outbound Lot –– Will Tesla Make 1000+ Cybercabs in April or May? Likely Out in Mid 2026

xAI’s Colossus 2 (MACROHARD) now has 7 models in training at once. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter model 1 variant of a 10-trillion-parameter model Space…

GOP in full retreat in swing state as Democrats lock in Supreme Court majority

The hotel ballroom in downtown Madison was packed with cheering supporters as Chris Taylor gave her victory speech Tuesday night after her huge, 20-point win over her conservative opponent Maria Lazar, cementing a 5-2 liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme…

Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will "launch in mid-2026." I'm going to assume that means proper commercial availability since the company already announced the start of an "enterprise pre…

Elon Musk Says AI Will Exceed Human Intelligence to a Degree That Is Impossible to Fully Understand

Musk, Bezos, Both Cry To Trump’s FCC In Bid To Dominate Satellite Broadband

Elon Musk is desperate to dominate the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband market. So is Jeff Bezos. And now the two billionaires are engaged in proxy fights at Trump’s FCC over who’ll get the honor. Amazon’s LEO offering, Project Leo, is significantly …

What Do SpaceX, xAI, And X Have In Common? Is It Tesla?

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 th…

A New Theory of Elon Musk

As the South African billionaire eyes a $2 trillion IPO for SpaceX, it’s worth considering how to make sense of a world that rewards ‘Muskism.’

The world's 20 richest people are $90 billion wealthier after the US-Iran ceasefire sparked a big stock rally

Mark Zuckerberg grew about $13 billion richer in one day as buzz over Meta's new AI model combined with the relief rally after the US-Iran ceasefire.

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Culture

China Watches Trump Blink

A blockade of Taiwan would hurt the global economy more than Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

A Ridiculous New Book Says We Don’t Love the Rich Enough

“Ye have the poor always with you,” says Jesus in Matthew 26:11, a statement that’s often said to express fatalism about the problem of poverty. Biblical scholars say that interpretation misses the point, but you can’t deny its predictive value: Two thousand …

Extreme wealth concentration — as strong as ever

A journalist from the Wall Street Journal wrote to me a week ago to ask what the numbers that I use in the opening pages of my book Limitarianism would look like today. In particular, she asked whether I could calculate for her the “lifetime equivalent hourly…

Musk sues to oust OpenAI CEO

Elon Musk wants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ousted in his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence firm, according to court filings Read Full Article at RT.com

Democrats fighting for Iowa Senate seat tussle over Chuck Schumer and super PACs

Two Democrats seeking to flip a Republican-held Senate seats spent Wednesday evening at a forum in Iowa, appealing to progressive activists and voters who could influence the June primary. But it was a Democrat from 1,100 miles away who emerged as a tension p…

Intel–Terafab collaboration highlights potential role for 18A in next-generation AI manufacturing

The collaboration between Intel and Elon Musk under the Terafab initiative is emerging as a potential catalyst for demand for Intel's most advanced manufacturing node, 18A, even as key details of the partnership remain undisclosed.

Man Accused Of Slaughtering Iryna Zarutska Reportedly Incompetent To Stand Trial

A North Carolina judge will have to decide if the man who allegedly stabbed a Ukrainian refugee to death on a Charlotte train can stand trial.

Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes

Elon Musk has said as much: Links in tweets are bad for engagement. Over the last few days, sparked by a post from Nate Silver, people have started arguing again about the relationships between links and engagement. But our new analysis of thousands of tweets…

JPMorgan Is Still Betting That Tesla Stock Will Plunge 60% from Here

Musk’s push into AI, robotics, and new vehicles may not offset declining EV market share.

The soft TACO theory of Trump

President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to accept a ceasefire in Iran — rather than following through on his threats to escalate the war further with massively destructive attacks harming Iranian civilians — is being greeted with what’s become a familiar re…

Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X

Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thi…

Democrats Sweep Elections in Crucial Swing State

Up north, Wisconsin Democrats increased their state Supreme Court majority to 5–2 and won a mayoral race in the typically Republican city of Waukesha. Down south, a Georgia Democrat narrowly lost a house district Donald Trump carried by 34 points in 2024.In a…

Democrats keep doing better in elections since Trump returned to office

With elections in Georgia and Wisconsin Tuesday, Democrats continued to overperform, which the party started in 2025 when it regularly improved on its margins compared to the presidential race in 2024.

Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter Vivian Doesn't Care About Their Connection

Vivian Wilson has made peace with her estranged relationship to dad Elon Musk. “There’s not much I can do about it, so who cares?” Wilson, 21, told Cosmopolitan in an interview published Wednesday, April 8, when asked about being known as Musk’s child. “It’s …

Splinter: This Is Who We Are to the World

Genocide has never been a red line for the American government, whether it benefits us or not has been the key question ever since the days of Manifest Destiny.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Self-Driving Saves 'A Lot Of Lives'—Laments FSD Lawsuits: 'Will Still Get Sued For...'

RON HART: Trump Drops Bunker Buster And F-Bombs On Iran — How Does It End?

It was a big week for America as we flexed our technological prowess in war and in space.

AI Companies Building A Trojan Horse To Get Public On Their Side

The Wall Street Journal, which famously floats trial balloons for corporate behemoths, is carrying water for the poor AI companies who are so, so disliked: OpenAI this week published a populist wish list of policy proposals that zero in on worries like job re…

Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America

Wisconsin voters effectively gave Democrats a supermajority on one of the most important state supreme courts in the country on Tuesday. The result was a blowout. Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeated Judge Maria Lazar by a twenty-point margin. Although Wiscons…

Artemis II and the value of human space travel

Are new Moon missions worth the astronomical cost?

Burchett claims alien 'machinery' could destroy us in 'a blink of an eye'

The loose-lipped Republican politician made fresh, wild assertions about classified government meetings, the alleged existence of alien programs, and secret forced breeding programs crossing aliens and humans.Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) continued his recent e…

Wisconsin Just Locked in a Stunning Liberal Supreme Court Majority

Chris Taylor, a former attorney and policy director for Planned Parenthood Wisconsin, has cemented the court’s 5-2 liberal majority through at least 2030.

Do people see robots as having race? New studies clash as humanoids enter the real world

As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the research is divided on whether those biases persist outside the lab and in real-world interactions

Intel Jumps On Board Elon Musk’s Terafab Chipmaking Project

The SpaceX-Tesla chip project central to Elon Musks robot and space catapult dreams now has Intel as a partner.

OpenAI faces leadership shakeup ahead of IPO and Musk lawsuit

As OpenAI prepares for a potential IPO this year, the company's leadership is undergoing a shake-up. Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Kate Rouch and OpenAI's head of AGI development, Fidji Simo, are both taking medical leave. The changes come at a pivotal time f…

Musk Changes OpenAI Lawsuit So that If He Wins the $134 Billion, OpenAI’s Nonprofit Gets It

Musk also wants Sam Altman out of OpenAI.

Starlink residential discounted to $49/100Mbps for select areas

Starlink residential service is now $49/mo at select locations until April 30, 2026. This $49/mo price is locked in for the first four months. The deal will allow you to bring satellite service to your home for an affordable price at 100Mbps. Moreover, the $4…

Elon Musk's $25 Billion Terafab Project Gets a Helping Hand From Intel

The US chipmaker signs on to help SpaceX, xAI and Tesla make hardware in Texas.

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board  —  Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from …

Anthropic Launches ‘Project Glasswing’ to Stealthily Spot Cybersecurity Issues for Rivals

The company previously warned that its newest model "presents unprecedented cybersecurity risks."

Sam Altman's OpenAI Urges California to Investigate Elon Musk for 'Anti-Competitive Behavior'

Sam Altman's OpenAI has formally requested that the attorneys general of California and Delaware investigate what it characterizes as "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk as a courtroom showdown between the AI moguls nears jury selection. The post Sam Alt…

April’s books feature a meditation on memory, a generational tale of gentrification and an interrogation of momfluencer culture

This month’s new releases include ‘Transcription’ by Ben Lerner, ‘Livonia Chow Mein’ by Abigail Savitch-Lew and ‘Like, Follow, Subscribe’ by Fortesa Latifi

Cramer Flags New Trade: Sell Some Tesla, Wait for SpaceX IPO?

CNBC host Jim Cramer is floating a provocative idea: Tesla Inc. investors could trim TSLA exposure now to save dry powder for the SpaceX IPO. Cramer's Bold...

'I wouldn't bet against Elon': Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins 'absolutely' wants to put data centers in space

Cisco execs are discussing what they need to send data centers to space, but we're a long way off that just yet.

JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures

"We advise investors cautiously approach this expectation within the context of both execution risk and the time value of money." The post JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures appeared first on Futurism.

SpaceX Starship V3 Engine Goes Up in Flames at Texas Site

The rocket company is preparing to launch the latest version of Starship for the first time in May.

How to love the moon mission without guilt

Problems down on Earth are serious. Spending some time looking up isn’t a waste or distraction

Intel Joins Elon Musk's "Terafab" Project for Innovative Semiconductor Manufacturing

Intel has officially announced its participation in Elon Musk's "Terafab" project, which aims to reimagine chip manufacturing. Specifically, Intel Foundry plans to join this ambitious initiative, leveraging its significant manufacturing capabilities as one of…

Intel Partners with Tesla and SpaceX on Terafab

Intel is now officially partnering with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI on the Terafab project. Terafab is their joint venture for a massive, vertically integrated semiconductor facility (primarily in Austin, Texas) that combines logic chips, memory (HBM), advanced pa…

Intel stock jumps after it joins Elon Musk's Terafab chip-building moonshot

The US chipmaker said on Tuesday it would join with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help build Elon Musk's Terafab.

America Is Diseased by Money in Politics — But We’re Not Dead Yet

America has been diseased by money in politics since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Jack Schlossberg argues that we're not dead yet.

What Broke the Beckhams?

After his lavish wedding to Nicola Peltz, the wayward Brooklyn Beckham disavowed his superstar family, including David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, for his billionaire in-laws, helmed by Nelson Peltz. He may never go back.

Elon Musk's Terafab is coming, and you're not ready

The announcement of Terafab was made at a decommissioned power plant, reflecting Elon Musk’s understanding of stagecraft: The ruined infrastructure of one era makes a convenient altar for the next. On March 21 and 22, 2026, at the Seaholm Power Plant in Austi…

A Retrospective on Bidenomics

Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal. The post A Retrospective on Bidenomics appeared first on The American Prospect.

Elon Musk makes a shocking demand of SpaceX IPO bankers

David Schwimmer Blasts Kanye West’s Apology, Urges Remaining Wireless Festival Sponsors to Exit

The actor thanked Pepsi, Paypal, and Diego for pulling their support from the fest, where West is scheduled to headline the three-day event

In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating ‘Attacks’ Against It

The letter to the attorneys general of Delaware and California asks for an investigation into Musk.

App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off

Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions, even as Apple continues to take issue with some of the ways these apps are built and behave. Here are the details. more…

Supreme Court Found An Easter Treat For Steve Bannon

It is setting the stage for him to get his contempt charge thrown out, Gut Yontif!

California, Washington Are Nation’s Biggest Tightwads When It Comes To Tipping

California and Washington state led the nation in lowest average tip rates at restaurants in the final quarter of 2025, according to a March report from Toast.

The AI Sector’s Crass Bid for Media Domination

David Futrelle When you’re a galactically rich tech mogul upset with adverse press coverage, you just buy yourself more flattering media outlets. The post The AI Sector’s Crass Bid for Media Domination appeared first on The Nation.

Musk's armed bodyguards allowed to roam federal buildings without training: report

Elon Musk's bodyguards were granted federal law enforcement authority without basic training or experience — a shocking breach of security protocols that allowed the world's wealthiest person's security detail to move through federal buildings with deputized …

Bernie Sanders’s New, Necessary, Bold Act: Taking on the AI Oligarchs

This time last year, Senator Bernie Sanders was giving speeches in front of thousands of people, decrying what he correctly describes as an “oligarchy” that dominates American business and politics. But this year, Sanders’s most noteworthy move was sitting in…

The Revenge Plot

Bondi was fired because she couldn’t arrest Trump’s enemies, even as the DoJ has been turned into his own political prosecution team. Todd Blanche is at the center of the battle to get the boss results. ‘It’s like a scene from Pyongyang or Moscow.’

Anthropic's head of growth says the company culture is so open that people 'just argue with Dario' on Slack

Anthropic's head of growth, Amol Avasare, said the AI lab has such an open culture that employees can give feedback to top leadership.

What NASA is looking for in the coming days as Artemis II loops around the moon

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined the most critical moments he expects in the coming days as Artemis II astronauts continue their journey around the far side of the moon.

Elon Musk pressures potential SpaceX investors to advertise on X

How To Attract More Money This Year (According To Your Zodiac Signs’s Natural Strengths)

Sometimes people are born into wealth. Other times they stumble backwards into it accidentally. But in many cases, wealth is more a matter of your attitude than anything else. The good news is that…

TMZ turning to Congress is a win for the GOP

Congress getting the tabloid treatment sounds good. But it's more both-sides coverage

Donald Trump: trouble in the heartlands

The president’s absence from the annual Conservative conference has caused dissent amongst Maga support base

Trump’s Bizarre Iran Speech Horrified the World

The nicest thing you could say about Trump’s address on the Iran war is that it was completely insane.

How to think different, *WHY* think different?

Think 3D How to think different, WHY think different 5Download So after a quick trip out of town, reading the new “book of Elon“, book on Elon Musk, great airplane read, and I suppose, some interesting thoughts:  First, after reading more stuff on Elon Musk,…

How to think different, WHY think different?

Think 3D So after a quick trip out of town, reading the new “book of Elon“, book on Elon Musk, great airplane read, and I suppose, some interesting thoughts:  First, after reading more stuff on Elon Musk, and reminder of how he almost faced death, economic d…

Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

The American EV brand’s sales rebounded in the first quarter, but a new problem is making its presence felt.

Maybe it’s time to give Elon Musk control of the sun

We’re sleepwalking into ecocide. Like it or not, Starlink may one day be our last resort