Tag: musk
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Tesla says the SEC has investigated the company’s claims about Model 3 production (TSLA)
Rashid Umar Abbasi / Reuters Tesla said in a regulatory filing published on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has subpoenaed the automaker about remarks it created in 2017 about the creation of this Model 3 sedan. “The SEC has issued subpoenas to Tesla in connection with (a) Mr. Musk’s prior statement that…
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Elon Musk said he ‘probably’ wouldn’t take money from Saudi Arabia after Jamal Khashoggi’s death (TSLA)
Max Whittaker / Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a meeting using Recode printed on Friday that he”probably” wouldn’t take an investment in Saudi Arabia in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death. Saudi Arabia’s government has been under intense scrutiny because Khashoggi, a journalist who had written critically about the Saudi government…
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Tesla Tidbits: Musk Speaks, Model Y Approved for Production, Larry Ellison Reveals His Investment
There's no lull from the Tesla news, much after a week's epochal quarter to the business. Tesla managed to log in 20 percent gross profit about the Model 3 and generate over $300 million in GAAP net income following selling a total of 83,500 vehicles — which makes it the nation's first and only rewarding…
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The Future Is Accelerating – Will Humans Fit In?
From Deepak Chopra, MD and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS The star inventor, thinker, and entrepreneur has joined other voices who fear of a future dominated by supercomputers and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In a widely publicized podcast, Musk announced that Neuralink, a company he cofounded, plans to declare in a couple of months that a brain-machine…
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Elon Musk is telling customers to use an unusual loophole if they want to take a Tesla car for a three-day ‘test drive’ (TSLA)
Maurizio Pesce / Wikimedia Commons Tesla CEO Elon Musk touted on Twitter a way customers can essentially get a three-day test drive of one of the company’s electric cars. Customers who purchase a car can return it within that period for a refund. Musk was responding to a tweet by CoverGirl model James Charles, who…
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Elon Musk has tried to help fix these 7 humanitarian crises — here’s how he’s doing so far
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Paradoxically, Elon Musk. The eccentric billionaire and real-life Tony Stark has courted controversy and made headlines for all of the wrong reasons recently, but he has also had some notable success in developing world-changing technology. For all his bluster, attacks on journalists, and odd behaviorhe can seem real in his offer…
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Musk Settles Fraud Suit With SEC, Steps Down as Tesla Chairman
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted which funding has been secured for a $70 billion go-private attempt, it appeared he might have only pulled off a massive coup — or could be facing an SEC investigation. It was be the latter. Musk chose to repay with the Securities Exchange Commission on Saturday, based on reports. He'll…
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One Expensive Tweet: SEC Sues Musk for Securities Fraud
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Greater days. Our era of Unicorn valuations, swashbuckling Silicon Valley CEOs and ethos of rsquo & gravity doesn;t apply when you’re bold and on magazine covers appears to have claimed another victim. Nonot Elon Musk. I’m talking about his employees. Yesthis latest news is about as poor as it gets…
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Friday Wake-Up Call: The SEC goes after Elon Musk, and prosecutors probe media-buying
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, promotion, media and electronic information. You can find an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Look for”Ad Age” below”Skills” from the Alexa app. What folks are talking Elon Musk’s Twitter habit might be his undoing. Following the Tesla CEO tweeted that…
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How much money a woman earns in her lifetime depends partially on how sexist people are in the state where she’s born
Mikhail Goldenkov/Strelka Institute/Flickr If a woman is born in a country with more sexist perspectives, she is more likely to possess a greater gender pay gap throughout adulthood. She could be more inclined to get married and have her first kid earlier in life. That’s according to a new study with a group of researchers…