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Snubbed by Tesla, Mexican govt pledges to create affordable electric car

Snubbed by Tesla, Mexico's new president pledged Friday to create a Mexican-made small, affordable electric car to compete with vehicles imported from China. President Claudia Sheinbaum said Teslas were too onerous, or expensive, for the Mexican market anyway. Tesla's cheapest car, the Model 3, costs about USD 30,000. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in July the company had paused plans for a plant in Mexico, citing Donald Trump's remarks about possible auto tariffs. Sheinbaum said her government will try to bring together Mexican companies and researchers to produce a compact, cheap electric car. The idea is to use Mexican companies and Mexican researchers' ingenuity, to bring them together to assemble this electric car, Sheinbaum said. The idea is to create production chains so that this entire electric car is made in our country. She cited electric vehicles from China and India some of which are already flooding into Mexico as examples. Small electric motorbikes from China have flood

Elon Musk reveals robotaxi: Will Tesla face the same challenges as China?

Elon Musk's Tesla robotaxi aims to revolutionise autonomous transport, but its Chinese competitors face mounting challenges in profitability and regulation

Mark Zuckerberg replaces Jeff Bezos as second richest person in the world

Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook (now rebranded as Meta) in 2004. Meta also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, two highly successful communication platforms

Tesla's China sales records best month in Aug, marks 37% jump from July

While an encouraging improvement, its performance lags major Chinese rivals by a wide margin

Musk shows support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models

California state lawmakers attempted to introduce 65 bills touching on AI this legislative season

Elon Musk's Grok could be a risky experiment in AI content moderation

Grok's images, powered by a small startup called Black Forest Labs, were deliberately unfiltered, but even Grok appears to have reined in some forms of content.

US elections: Will keep Musk in cabinet if elected as president, says Trump

Trump said that Musk can consult with the country and produce ideas, especially on AI

May end EV tax credit, open to naming Elon Musk as adviser: Donald Trump

Trump also said on Monday he would take steps to discourage exports of vehicles produced by the Detroit Three automakers and others from Mexico for US consumers by imposing new tariffs

Chechen prez invites Musk to Russia after he's seen driving armed truck

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Russia on Saturday after being filmed behind the wheel of one of the company's Cybertrucks mounted with a machine gun. In a clip posted on Kadyrov's Telegram channel, the self-styled strongman was seen taking the stainless steel-clad Cybertruck for a leisurely drive before standing astride the machine gun mounted in the truck bed, draped with belts of ammunition. In a gushing post, Kadyrov, who rules over Chechnya, a republic within the Russian Federation, described the vehicle as undoubtedly one of the best cars in the world. I literally fell in love. He also said he would donate the vehicle to Russian forces fighting in the invasion of Ukraine. It's not for nothing that they call this a cyberbeast, he said. I'm sure that this beast will bring plenty of benefits to our troops. Kadyrov, who was sanctioned by the US after being linked to numerous human rights violations, said he received the truck from Musk, although t

Trump-Musk interview: Mocking climate change to mass deportations. Details

In his interview with Tesla owner Elon Musk, former president Donald Trump unveiled a bold new proposal, announcing what he called the largest mass deportation effort in US history

Elon Musk stirs UK divisions, urges faster rollout of online safety laws

An Online Safety Bill was passed into law in October but has yet to be implemented

Musk sues OpenAI, says ChatGPT-makers prioritise profits over humanity

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, renewing claims that the ChatGPT-maker betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. The lawsuit, filed in a Northern California federal court, called Musk's case a textbook tale of altruism versus greed. Altman and others named in the suit intentionally courted and deceived Musk, preying on Musk's humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by artificial intelligence, according to the complaint. Musk was an early investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015 and co-chaired its board alongside Altman. In the lawsuit, he said he invested tens of millions of dollars and recruited top AI research scientists for OpenAI. Musk resigned from the board in early 2018 in a move that OpenAI said at the time would prevent conflicts of interest as he was recruiting AI talent to build self-driving technology at the electric car maker. T

Tesla recalls over 1.8 mn vehicles in US due to software failure risk

The recall applies to certain 2021-2024 Model 3, Model S, Model X, and 2020-2024 Model Y vehicles, the regulator said

Harris' AI doctored video shared by Musk raises concerns ahead of elections

A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away. The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday evening without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody. The video uses many of the same visuals as a real ad that Harris, the likely Democratic president nominee, released last week launching her campaign. But the video swaps out the voice-over audio with another voice that convincingly impersonates Harris. I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate, the voice says in the video. It claims Harris is a diversity hire because she is a woman and a person of colour, and it says she doesn't know the first thing about running the country. The video retains Harris for ...

Elon Musk launches poll on X asking if Tesla should invest $5 bn in xAI

Nearly 3 hours after the poll was posted, roughly 386,000 people had participated with 70% voting in favour of the investment.

My son is dead, says Elon Musk, pledges to kill 'woke mind virus'

Musk told DW interviewer, Dr Jordan Peterson, that he was tricked into giving consent to go on 'puberty blockers' for his son Xavier, who now goes by Vivian Jenna Wilson

Tesla to have humanoid robots for internal use by next year: Elon Musk

Musk had said in April that the Tesla robot, called Optimus, would be able to perform tasks in the factory by the end of this year and could be ready for sale as soon as the end of 2025

Indian states are inviting Tesla's component suppliers to lure the EV maker

States like Gujarat and Tamil Nadu are competing to attract Tesla's component suppliers, hoping that a robust local supply chain will convince the EV maker to establish operations in their regions

Elon Musk to move SpaceX, X headquarters to Texas from California

With these steps, the billionaire, will have relocated Tesla and most of the businesses he controls or heads to Texas

US prez polls: Musk donates to Trump, tapping fortune to swing 2024 race

The money injection from Musk comes at a time when Trump has overtaken his rival, President Joe Biden, in fundraising with the help of deep-pocketed Wall Street and corporate donors