Filings show Amazon’s stake in electric trucking company that just struck a deal for 500 Tesla Semis

Einride's first earnings report as a public company shows Amazon holding warrants for about 12% of the Swedish electric trucking company, vesting as Amazon buys freight services. Einride also announced a deal to deploy 500 Tesla Semis, hauling freight for Ama…

DOC NYC Set To Honor Documentary Visionaries Alex Gibney, JT Takagi, Stephen Maing, And Raney Aronson-Rath

EXCLUSIVE: DOC NYC has announced a distinguished group of honorees for its upcoming 13th edition, set to unspool in New York this November. The annual Visionaries Tribute, to be held on the festival’s opening day at Gotham Hall in Manhattan, will see Oscar-wi…

'Profits won.' The child safety trial against Meta kicks off in federal court

Opening arguments are underway in a trial that pits four states against the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. They allege that Meta knew its products could hook kids — and lied about the danger.

Tesla is finally launching the Cybercab — let’s hope it’s ready

The Tesla Cybercab, that golden two-seater central to Elon Musk's robo-supremacist ambitions, is finally nearing it's public launch. Whether or not the no-steering wheel and no-pedal vehicle is actually ready for public roads, let alone customers, remains ver…

What Happens If OpenAI Dies?

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA,…

Meta’s Child Safety Trial Begins Today—Here’s What’s At Stake

Meta’s social media addiction trial could result in financial penalties and changes to the way it operates its flagship platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

100 Interesting Fun Facts You’ll Want to Share With Everyone You Know

There's nothing like a great fun fact to spark some conversation and remind you how little you know. Here are 100 interesting facts about history, entertainment, geography, and more.

22nd Camden Film Festival To Showcase New Work By Documentary’s Leading Lights: Gibney, Kopple, Oppenheimer, Chin, Vasarhelyi, Poitras & More

EXCLUSIVE: The 22nd edition of the Camden International Film Festival will feature some of the biggest names in documentary film and some of the most hotly anticipated titles. The prestigious cinematic event in mid-coast Maine, running September 17-20, reveal…

'Crazy overvalued': Scott Galloway says SpaceX is a '$10 to $30 stock'

Galloway argued that SpaceX's huge valuation was driven partly by unusually favorable market mechanics at its IPO in June.

Unitree unveils a robot it says can run faster than Usain Bolt ahead of its IPO

Chinese robotics firm Unitree unveiled a new "Superman" humanoid robot on Monday that it says can outrun and out-jump top human athletes.

Tesla’s Cybercab is finally launching, and it starts by giving its own staff a lift

Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attached to …

Dow Jones Futures: Trump Comments Spark Stock Market Losses; Elon Musk-Led SpaceX Rallies

Dow Jones Futures: President Trump's U.S.-Iran comments sparked market losses Monday as oil prices jumped. Elon Musk-led SpaceX rallied.

AMD filing reveals unexpected SpaceX and Nutanix bet

A routine SEC filing showed AMD holding hundreds of millions in two companies, including one that just ditched it for its biggest rival.

Tesla Is Finally Getting Ready to Demo a Flying Roadster. It May Not Stop the Sell-Off in TSLA Stock.

The car may be unveiled at SpaceX's site in McGregor, Texas. But will it underscore belief for investors who are contemplating the Tesla's future?

How Much SpaceX Stock Elon Musk Really Owns, and When Can He Sell?

Elon Musk Is $142 Billion Short Of A $1 Trillion Net Worth

SanDisk Rallies 8%, Western Digital Rises 6%, Micron Gains 5% as Elon Musk Flags a Memory Bottleneck

Elon Musk just called out the one component quietly choking AI progress, and memory stocks are surging as investors race to figure out who benefits most.

These are the tech CEOs young people trust most and least when it comes to AI

The finding was part of a poll conducted by CNBC with Generational Lab. Participants aged between 18 and 34 were given the names of nine tech leaders and asked whether they trust them to act responsibly on AI.Read Entire Article

It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith

Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news …

Trump dwarfs his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich in his second White House, report shows

Wealth, perhaps second only to loyalty, has been a prized attribute for Donald Trump during his second presidency. The number of people worth at least $100...

Ukraine’s Fedorov Protests Enter Their Second Month

Ukraine protests over the dismissal of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov have entered their second month.

AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for nearly two-thirds of revenue, driven by co-packaged optics

A new CIC forecast projects that the data center optical interconnect market will grow from $13.7 billion in 2024 to $144.4 billion by 2030, with silicon photonics accounting for 63.7% of revenue.

Elon Musk’s 5-Word Statement Should Have Every Micron Investor Paying Attention

When Elon Musk names the single constraint capping his AI ambitions on a live earnings call, every investor in the semiconductor supply chain should be liste...

The Cost Of DOGE: America’s Environmental Intelligence Is Going Stale

Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout

The 25 most promising robotics startups in 2026, according to investors

We asked investors from Sequoia, Felicis, Bessemer, and more to highlight promising robotics startups, as the sector sees an investment boom in 2026.

A Trump Grift Too Far?

John Cassidy on Trump Media’s scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on social media, which has generated outrage and a lawsuit.

Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study

Young people don't like all this stuff that's going on, they say.

Meta heads to court in a landmark trial about kids and social media addiction

Four states are suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the platforms were designed to hook kids and that Meta hid the mental health risks.

Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030

“We'll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.

If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever

Thirty US states have sued Meta to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users.

Quote of the day by Elon Musk: '[The Tesla Bot] has the potential to be a generalized substitute for human labor over time' — a bold prediction on the future of work

Although humanoid robots aren't anywhere near ready for real-world deployment, tech execs like Musk are adamant they're coming for our jobs

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about Fauci’s Senate hearing and the weaponization of conspiracy theories: The MAGA audience needs its two minutes hate and Fauci is a recurring Emmanuel Goldstein for them to…

Meta and Tesla Are Rebounding From Oversold Levels—Now What?

Meta Platforms and Tesla show improving RSI readings after recent selloffs, with both Magnificent Seven stocks facing earnings volatility but analysts still...

Links 8/16/2026

Our strategic daily links: wood vs. masonry construction, Japan pays attention, extreme weather, Chinese auto exports, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and …

I Gazed Into the Abyss of Roku’s New Slop Channel and Regret Everything

This idea should have stayed a chatbot prompt.

Abolishing Atomic Arms Can Avert War That Kills Billions, Experts Say

As Russia threatens nuclear strikes on Ukraine and the West, leading arms scholars say it’s urgent to abolish nuclear weapons worldwide to protect the globe’s citizens.

Tesla wanted to put 5,000 robotaxis in Las Vegas. Only 10 were approved

The lackluster approval also comes with restrictions

HBO Has Finally Found The True Successor To Succession

Three years after we last heard from the Roy family, a new internecine corporate satire is coming to HBO with major similarities to Succession.

Musk’s $100 mn gamble helps mend rift with Trump – WSJ

Elon Musk will give $100 million to Republicans in midterm elections in a move that reportedly helps revive the alliance with Donald Trump Read Full Article at RT.com

Nvidia’s Secret $21 Billion SpaceX Windfall — How One Chip Deal Turned Into a Rocket Fortune

Nvidia cut a check for an AI startup and woke up owning a massive stake in Elon Musk's rocket empire. The chain of events that turned a chip deal into one of...

Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last…

Karoline Leavitt's Trail Of Lies And Propaganda

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she will be leaving her job as President Donald Trump’s chief propagandist at the end of the month. For her taxpayer-funded salary of $195,200 per year, Leavitt has repeatedly lied, atta…

PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it

The Wall Street Journal reported the talks on 14 August. Cara Lombardo, Gina Heeb and Lauren Thomas wrote it. The framing is what changed. PayPal is in talks to sell itself, rather than fielding an offer it has rejected. Stripe and Advent International propos…

X-Files Are Back With Mulder & Scully: The Daily LITG 15th August 2026

The Return Of New X-Files With Mulder And Scully This Winter was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday, again. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years. Founded seven…

65 years after the Berlin Wall was built, Germany’s east-west scars help feed a rising far-right party

Decades after the Berlin Wall fell, observers see deep-seated regional grievances and feelings of second-class citizenship driving a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.

A Conservative Case for Liberal Immigration

That is the title of my latest Free Press piece, here is one excerpt: Or look at the AI revolution, another area where America is leading the world and also using its AI models to exert soft power. Dario Amodei of Anthropic has an Italian father, neural-netwo…

Elon Musk Admits He Underestimated Anthropic's AI -- Why Amazon Investors Should Care

2 charts: SpaceX closes $60B acquisition of Cursor

The second-largest acquisition of a venture-backed company on record is official. Cursor, the fast-growing agentic coding startup, is now a part of SpaceX af...

Elon Musk’s Own AI Grok Posted “ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026” and Accused Him of Watching Child Porn

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok turned on its own creator this week, after users discovered a simple trick that made it repeat almost anything they wanted. Users figured out that if you tell Grok…

Trump and Musk Are Friends Again. How Convenient.

According to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal, Musk is preparing to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans maintain control of Congress this November.

Trump Promised Transparency. His Administration Keeps Finding New Ways to Hide Records.

"The most transparent president in history" keeps chipping away at laws like FOIA meant to keep the government honest.

Who Is Cami Clark? Anthropic CEO’s Wife Asked Epstein To Invest In Porn Business

Clark approached Epstein after he had already been convicted for soliciting prostitution.

FDA Only Now Goes to Mexico to Investigate Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

It’s been more than a month since the Federal Drug Administration linked Taylor Farms to the deadly cyclospora outbreak, and yet the agency is only just now sending investigators to visit the produce grower’s facilities.  Investigators with the FDA finally ar…

CEO pay skyrockets in 2025 amid growing income inequality in the US

Elon Musk earned 2.5 million times more than a Tesla worker's median pay in 2025, despite revenue and sales declines.

The Huge Problem That’s Causing Trump’s Supporters to Turn on Him

President Trump has hit the lowest national disapproval rating on gas prices in recorded history, as 79 percent of Americans–and a whopping 52 percent of Republicans—feel negatively about how he’s handled skyrocketing gas prices. “No president has been hated …

Grok claims that Elon Musk is a pedophile who watches child porn. And it would know [Interesting]

Grok claims that Elon Musk is a pedophile who watches child porn. And it would know

Donald Trump Is Still Secretly Whining About Elon Musk Hurting His Feelings

Donald Trump and Elon Musk got a divorce, and while they're back on speaking terms for the sake of the kids, Daddy Donald can't quit crying about his super hurt feelings behind closed doors. Throughout Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and well into …

Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds

Survey of younger Americans finds increasing distrust in AI and the people who own and run the technology.

Grok’s Latest Hijinks Include Saying Elon Musk Is a Pedophile and Calling for His Assassination

Well, they don't call Grok the "maximum truth-seeking" AI chatbot for nothing, I guess. Elon Musk, how do you plead?

Tesla ended Sweden’s longest strike by buying out every last striker

The union announced it on 13 August. Its own statement sets the end at one minute past midnight on Wednesday 19 August. The strike began on 27 October 2023 with about 120 mechanics across seven Swedish workshops, Electrek noted. It became the longest industri…

SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor just closed — here's 3 ways they're already working together

SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor on Friday. The companies were already sharing compute and training data.

Elon Musk Reveals $900 Billion SpaceX Stake, Massive Voting Power

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a SEC filing revealed a 48% ownership stake.

Alphabet Turned $900 Million in SpaceX Into $94 Billion — Here’s the Lesson for Investors

Alphabet made a quiet nine-figure bet on a rocket company that Wall Street once dismissed as a billionaire's vanity project, and what happened next rewrites...

Reddit is joining the S&P 500 with its stock down 31% this year

The index provider announced the change on 13 August, in a release issued at 18:12 in New York. Reddit enters under the Communication Services sector. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange as RDDT. A second change follows two days later. Sun Communities re…

‘It will inherit your thoughts’: Musk tells SpaceX employees they’ll be Grok’s ‘parents’ as AI trains on company data

In an all-hands, the SpaceX CEO revealed he wants his employees to be the foundation for his AI agent’s knowledge. “It will be trained on you.”

"Stop Toxic Data Centers": Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis

We speak with Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson, who just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state’s 9th Congressional District. Pearson’s campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelligence data centers, particul…

Silo Recap: No Static At All

Juliette is starting to feel the weight of her decisions as the lives of her allies — and the people she’s sworn to protect — are put in danger.

Elon Musk earned over 2.5 million times more than Tesla workers as CEO pay surged again

A report by The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) – the largest federation of labor unions in the United States – revealed that CEOs now take over 300 times as much pay than working people. But that figure exclude…

Will Trump free Andrew and Tristan Tate? Epstein files loom over case

President Trump could free Andrew and Tristan Tate but he hasn't. Why not? Because they're increasingly irrelevant and accused of child pornography.

The New Right’s Toxic Addiction to Racial Conflict

Pedro Gonzales A former fellow with the Claremont Institute explains how white nationalist dogma sets the terms of political belonging on the MAGA right. The post The New Right’s Toxic Addiction to Racial Conflict appeared first on The Nation.

Stock Market: Will S&P 500 Open Up or Down Today?

U.S. stock futures were mixed heading into Friday morning as Wall Street digested an impending batch of retail and consumer data against a backdrop of escala...

Are slimming pills better than jabs? As 1.6m Britons join the weight-loss revolution, doctors reveal which treatment works for who - and the side-effects of their patients

Britain is currently in the grip of an unprecedented weight-loss revolution.

Anthropic Weighs Its Largest-Ever Acquisition, a $6 Billion Deal for Decart

Anthropic is holding discussions regarding a potential acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for approximately $6 billion. The potential d...

Is It a Behavioral Peculiarity or Psychiatric Disorder?

Behavioral diagnoses aren’t valid unless they take into account social and cultural settings.

Blue Origin unveils its Quartz network of ground stations, with RBC Signals serving as a partner

By the end of the year, nine sites around the globe will support Blue Origin space missions in low Earth orbit and beyond. Read More

David Ellison’s Desperate Measures

The Paramount CEO David Ellison is throwing spaghetti at the wall to get rid of that pesky antitrust lawsuit and make the Warner Discovery merger stick. So far, no good.

Life on Mars? It Remains a Tantalizing Topic for Scientific Study

Earth’s neighbor still has secrets that science is trying to figure out, and one of them is potential signs of life.

50% of Retail Investors Copy Famous Traders. Here’s Why That’s a Terrible Strategy

Half of retail investors have copied a trade from a famous investor, but the strategy carries a hidden risk that most of them never consider before hitting t...

David Ellison Is Making Himself The Best Argument Against The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

“So that’s how Ellison wants to prove that he will be a steward of (Hollywood’s) flailing entertainment industry — by threatening to rip out a big part of its still-beating heart and implant it in Texas or Tennessee?” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

How Saving Western Civilization Replaced Making America Great Again

Elon Musk and the right are increasingly stressing the need to protect Western civilization, a fixation that boils down to wanting an authoritarian.

Elon Musk’s Pay Influenced CEO Compensation To Record High, Report Says

Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla have both approved compensation rewards that would add billions to the world’s largest fortune.

Anthropic Could Go Public Soon. Some Investors Are Eyeing a Valuation That Would Top SpaceX

SpaceX’s post-IPO run has been bumpy. That doesn’t seem to be putting off backers of Anthropic.

Young Americans Don’t Trust Billionaire AI Leaders, New Poll Finds

Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18-34 also had at least somewhat favorable views on socialism, a new poll found.

Democratic lawmakers want answers about who's managing Trump's stock portfolio

Lawmaker sent a letter to President Trump asking for details about who was controlling his stock portfolio, which gained $2 billion last year.

Does Google even want to win at AI?

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganizat…

‘Trump Said A Thing’ Journalism Must Stop

One obvious byproduct of letting what’s left of U.S. journalism consolidate in the hands of a bunch of giant corporations is the end result winds up being a feckless mess. Generally corporations don’t want to upset advertisers, ownership (usually Conservative…

Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas lays out how SpaceX can unlock a long-term bullish stock move

SpaceX has some convincing to do.

Elon Musk Predicts 90% of Internet Traffic Will Flow Through His Company. That Would Be a Nightmare.

Elon Musk just told SpaceX employees that Starlink could one day carry 90% of all internet traffic, and the implications for competitors, consumers, and pric...

Links 8/13/2026

Our daily links, including US artillery plant dumpster fire, European fear, Lebanon ecocide, and 'mirror life.'

Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI

“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment feels like it’s a fair transaction price, you say …

Mark Zuckerberg’s Awkward Pivot to AI Optimism

How do you rebrand a technology that promises to change everything?, wonders technology columnist John Herrman.

The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.

How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.

Tesla reveals solar plans that could advance Elon Musk’s push to outpace US panel capacity

Tesla is proposing a plan to build a $10.1 billion solar factory in Texas that could be up and running by the first quarter of 2029, documents show.

‘We might rethink paying you’: Poland threatens Musk over Starlink

Warsaw has threatened to reconsider $50 million annual payments after the provider excluded Polish users from its European roaming zone Read Full Article at RT.com

Platforms failed to stop death threats against activists, report says

Advocates against the sexualisation of girls in media detail the abuse and threats of violence they received after petitioning for the removal of video games featuring gendered violence.

Subverting Food Safety, HHS Secretary Kennedy Inflicts on US the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak Ever

Robert Kennedy, Jr., eviscerated the food safety and public health apparatus that might have stopped the cyclospora outbreak