Elon Musk

2023 - 3 - 20

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How Elon Musk knocked Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' off course (The Washington Post)

Elon Musk had a pet project before Twitter: He wanted to make Tesla cars drive themselves.

After taking the helm in October, he diverted dozens of engineers — including on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — to work there with him, further setting back Tesla, according to former employees and documents reviewed by The Post. [compared](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/tesla-phantom-braking/?itid=lk_inline_manual_58) to only 34 in the preceding 22 months. Ross Gerber, a Tesla investor who is running for a seat on the company’s board over concerns about its perceived inaction on Musk’s dueling role as head of Twitter, said Full Self-Driving heralds a bright future for Tesla. The latest example came to light this month as the agency confirmed it was investigating a February fatal crash involving a Tesla and a firetruck. So Tesla engineers built invisible barriers into the software — akin to bumpers in a bowling alley — to help the cars stay on the road, Bernal said. Radar originally played a major role in the design of the Tesla vehicles and software, supplementing the cameras by offering a reality check of what was around, particularly if vision might be obscured. [footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il4asorQEhU) of the software struggling to navigate San Francisco’s famously winding Lombard Street in a video that garnered tens of thousands of views. While this has the potential to speed the process, it boils down to essentially a trial and error method of training. The cars rely on a combination of hardware and software to do so. Tesla has chosen to effectively allow the software to learn on its own, developing sensibilities akin to a brain via technology dubbed “neural nets” with fewer rules, the former employees said. The result, according to interviews with nearly a dozen former employees and test drivers, safety officials and other experts, was an uptick in crashes, near misses and other embarrassing mistakes by Tesla vehicles suddenly deprived of a critical sensor. Some Tesla engineers were aghast, said former employees with knowledge of his reaction, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

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'Just exceeded 8 billion user-minutes per day,' Elon Musk on ... (Business Today)

Musk also announced a series of significant improvements that the popular microblogging platform will undergo in the near future.

Twitter has just recently introduced a new feature that allows iOS users to see the number of times their tweets have been bookmarked by other users. Musk also disclosed that the platform will soon prioritize responses from followers, verified accounts, and unverified accounts in the coming weeks. One of the most notable announcements made by Musk was that Twitter would be open-sourcing all the code used to recommend tweets.

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Elon Musk announces Twitter updates - open source all codes to ... (The Hindu BusinessLine)

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced a slew of improvements that the microblogging platform will undergo. He said that Twitter is growing faster and crossed ...

That’ll also be open source,” he said in a tweet thread. We’re developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it’s still a work in progress. Musk revealed that Twitter would open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31, 2023.

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Elon Musk sets automatic poop emoji response for all press requests (New York Post)

An email inquiry from The Post Sunday morning was immediately responded to with a poop emoji -- and nothing else.

[the Post’s exposé](https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/fbi-reached-out-to-twitter-before-post-broke-hunter-biden-laptop-story/). [ban the accounts](https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/elon-musks-twitter-appears-to-ban-some-journalists/) of some scribes who had reported on how to track the location of his private jet. [presented the tweet ](https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/elon-musk-explains-poop-emoji-tweet-cited-in-twitter-lawsuit/)as part of a lawsuit that argued Musk had “violated his obligations” under the merger deal that was penned when he agreed to take it over.

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Elon Musk Sends Automated Poop Emoji To All Reporters Emailing ... (Forbes)

If you're a reporter reaching out to Twitter's PR department, you'll now be greeted with an automated response in the form of a poop emoji.

[step down](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/twitter-poll-closes-majority-of-users-vote-for-musk-to-step-down-as-ceo) as the head of the company, a poll that he lost by a landslide. Musk is notoriously hostile to journalists over what he believes is a bias against his companies and completely got rid of Tesla’s press department back in 2020. But when a company lacks a press team, it can allow bad information to flourish in an environment where social media rumors and innuendo are commonplace. Musk is the boss and can obviously run Twitter however he likes. If Twitter had a press team, they could’ve fielded basic questions about the timing of the rollout and how much money creators would’ve received. Twitter CEO Elon Musk proudly announced the change in a tweet on the social media site Sunday morning and I confirmed it was true by seeking comment over email.

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Elon Musk's satellites are muddling UFO sighting statistics ... (CTV News)

Former Canadian defence minister Harjit Sajjan was briefed on a much-anticipated U.S. intelligence report 02:13. CTV National News: The search for UFOs in ...

Many companies that emerged to manufacture and procure PPE in the early days of the pandemic have gone bust. The parents of young Ontario hockey player Ben Teague have been searching for answers since he died while at a team retreat in 2019. Fury of the Gods' felt the fury of the marketplace in its theatrical debut this weekend. A voluntary recall has been issued for one sku of Nestle Good Start Soothe Infant Formula due to a potential bacteria contamination. president -- and the world is very different. Canadians' satisfaction with our country continues to decline, especially when it comes to perceptions of our political institutions, according to a new national survey by Nanos Research. Some affectionally call Machala the 'Banana Capital of the World.' This port community on Ecuador's Pacific coast is home to about a quarter million people and normally bustles with commercial activity. [2022 study reported that ](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940409)Starlink satellites, which currently make up the largest low-Earth orbit constellation, had created 5,301 streaks across archival images scientists had taken of the night sky. It's both a reference to the trash going uncollected with Paris sanitation workers on strike — and to what many French people think about their leader. The company has denied all allegations and said she was ‘the author of her own misfortune.' Starlink is aiming to hit 10,000 satellites by 2027. Being mistaken for UFOs isn’t the only way they're impacting our view of the night sky.

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Elon Musk says Twitter will open source the code it uses to ... (Fox Business)

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Greg Steube slams Democrats for trying to discredit journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger during the 'Twitter ...

That’ll be open source." [the platform’s](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/twitter) algorithm as "overly complex" and "not fully understood internally." [Elon Musk](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/elon-musk) on Friday said he will make tweet recommendation codes open source by the end of March.

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Elon Musk Shows Respect For George Soros (TheStreet)

The serial entrepreneur believes that the legendary investor chooses his political donations well.

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Elon Musk Sets This Emoji Response On Twitter For All Press ... (NDTV)

Elon Musk on Sunday announced that journalists that contact Twitter's press department will be greeted with a single poop emoji.

"Just sent a test email to [email protected] and got a message with [emoji] in the subject line. Elon Musk took over Twitter in October last year, following a $44 billion deal. "I hope to see that in every article going forward, 'we reached out to Twitter for comment, who gave the statement '[emoji]'," wrote one user.

Elon Musk Says Priority Ranking for Tweet Replies from Twitter Blue ... (Social Media Today)

Get ready for the next phase of Elon Musk's 'Twitter 2.0' plan, with Musk revealing over the weekend that Twitter Blue subscribers will get priority ranking ...

With that in mind, and as Twitter tries to drive up Twitter Blue subscriptions, it seems within the realm of possibility that it could look to apply more broad-reaching reach restrictions on non-paying accounts in future. But Twitter’s still pushing ahead with its Twitter Blue plan, in the hopes that it can get enough paying subscribers to reduce its reliance on ad revenue, and free it, in Twitter doesn’t appear to be moving in that direction as yet – though Platformer did also note that among the accounts being restricted was the US Department of Health and Human Services. [Platformer](https://www.platformer.news/p/tiktok-nears-the-endgame?r=8of9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) indicated that Twitter has deliberately restricted the reach of accounts of competitor social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and more. That equates to 0.18% of Twitter’s [253 million total active users](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/Musk-Outlines-Vision-for-Twitter-at-Morgan-Stanley-Conference/644417/) In general, I don’t know that it will have a massive impact on overall tweet interaction, because Twitter Blue take-up is so low. It’s not there yet, but as Musk says ‘you get what you pay for’. [big declines in overall tweet engagement](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/Twitter-Works-to-Address-Issues-with-Tweet-Reach/641388/). Insider reports from Twitter HQ then revealed that Twitter’s engineering team was having trouble implementing new code changes, because of the way that the current system has been patched together over time. Which doesn’t sound entirely optimistic – but still, Musk and Co. But it will have some effect in tilting the discussion in the app – while brands may also now have more reason to consider signing up to Twitter Blue, in order to get their replies more exposure and presence. [small percentage of Twitter users produce the majority of tweets](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-study-shows-that-25-of-twitter-users-produce-97-of-all-tweets/610146/), that could have a bigger than expected impact on overall tweet discourse

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After firing communications team, Elon Musk sets automated poop ... (India Today)

On Sunday, the billionaire said that he has set a poop emoji as an automated response to all press queries.

However, Musk did clarify that even though he wants to step down from the position of Twitter CEO, he will continue to have most of the power in his hands. In one of his old tweets, Musk clarified that even after stepping down as Twitter CEO he will continue to handle software and server teams. In fact, Musk has fired so many engineers that on various occasions he asked for coding help from the remaining employees. Since the acquisition, Musk has fired thousands of employees globally, including many engineers, product managers, HRs, communication personnel, and more. On Sunday, the billionaire said that he has set a poop emoji as an automated response to all press queries. The move comes after Musk fired the entire communications team, including employees who were working out of India.

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Elon Musk says Twitter will open source the code it uses to ... (Yahoo Finance)

Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week once again signaled that the social media giant would be making its algorithm for recommending tweets open source code.

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Elon Musk tweets about Taylor Swift's 'limbic resonance skill', angers ... (Livemint)

Elon Musk's tweet reply as Taylor Swift begins her The Eras Tour in the United States has some fans in confusion, some angered, and some finding it funny.

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Elon Musk roasted for bizarre social media posts about Taylor Swift ... (The Independent)

'Her limbic resonance skill is exceptional,' wrote the 51-year-old Tesla CEO.

The fans I speak to say the concert feels like ‘coming home’.” He replied with a “crying laughing” emoji. Each chapter marks a specific shift in her artistry. Costumes are emblazoned with hand-painted lyrics; faces are bright with glitter; hands are covered in Swift’s lucky number 13. The 51-year-old billionaire responded to the collage with a “cigarette” emoji, seemingly implying that he thought Swift was “smoking”. “Limbic resonance” refers to the notion that a person’s capacity for sharing deep emotional states stems from the brain’s limbic system.

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Elon Musk's Twitter now responds to all journalist requests with a ... (Fortune)

Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced a new police for journalists trying to get in touch with the social media platform.

[received no response](https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/elon-musk-starlink-global-roaming-service-prices-revealed/). [Sign up today](https://mynewsletters.fortune.com/well-adjusted?utm_source=plea&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=wa). [Musk’s influence](https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/17389388/elon-musk-twitter-pravda). Responding to the former [PayPal](https://fortune.com/company/paypal-holdings/) boss’s 2018 tweet about the launch of Pravda, one user wrote: “He’s not kidding folks. Journalists have sought comment or background information on topics of huge importance not only to the public but to [Musk’s staff themselves](https://fortune.com/2022/10/27/elon-musk-closes-twitter-acquisition-ceo-planning-to-leave/). This has [apparently included the communications team](https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/nov/04/twitter-sued-layoffs-sizewell-nuclear-plant-uk-recession-us-jobs-business-live), alongside teams that cover human rights, machine learning ethics and accessibility.

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Taylor Swift fans tell Elon Musk to “stay away” after he sent bizarre ... (NME.com)

Fans of Taylor Swift have told Elon Musk to leave the pop star alone after the Twitter CEO sent a series of bizarre tweets about her.

“I don’t know what a limbic resonance skill is but I’m gonna work on mine as soon as I find out,” one person wrote. Another said that it was “interesting” to learn about the notion that Musk tweeted out. He replied with a crying laughing emoji. [March 18, 2023] See you 🔜 Glendale, Erazona☺️ He responded with a cigarette emoji.

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Got a question for Twitter's press team? The answer will be a poop ... (NPR)

Twitter's communications email went dark after mass layoffs late last year. CEO Elon Musk announced this weekend (and NPR confirmed) that it now responds to ...

A jury [cleared him](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1154420431/elon-musk-tesla-tweets-jury-verdict) of wrongdoing in February. Securities and Exchange Commission [sued Musk for securities fraud](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149410747/elon-musk-tesla-tweet-trial) over a series of 2018 tweets teasing a Tesla buyout that never happened. [share of controversies](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1387172830094233601?s=20) in the years since. [took to Twitter](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1547335571168604160?s=20) to clarify what he had meant: "Other companies spend money on advertising & manipulating public opinion, Tesla focuses on the product," he wrote. [lengthy thread](https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1526237578843672576?s=20) using "data, facts and context" to detail the company's efforts to combat spam — and Musk responded with a [poop emoji](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526246899606601730?s=20). tabloid Metro, in a comment that's gotten more than 1,600 likes. [responded to tweets](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1387172830094233601?s=20) from journalists asking him to reconsider. [protecting expression](https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094671225/elon-musk-bought-twitter-plans). [criticize him](https://twitter.com/odannyboy/status/1637485891198263296?s=20) and the new policy. [via tweet](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1637420728743088130?s=20), of course — on Sunday. [layoffs and mass resignations](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134263184/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk) themselves to major changes to the [user experience ](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1139619598/twitter-blue-relaunch)to a series of [controversies involving Musk](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1143796992/twitter-lifts-suspensions-on-several-journalists-amid-rift-between-the-site-and-) and [his announcement](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144182209/twitter-elon-musk-resigns) that he will eventually step down.

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Elon Musk sets Twitter mail auto-response to poop emoji (CNBCTV18)

Hundreds of users immediately checked the system and posted screenshots that confirmed that a poop emoji is the only reply that they are receiving.

[Market Coverage](https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/), [Business News](https://www.cnbctv18.com/business/)& get real-time [Stock Market](https://www.cnbctv18.com/market-live/)Updates on CNBC-TV18. The billionaire had completely gotten rid of electric car maker Tesla’s PR and communications department in 2020. After Musk took over the social media platform in October for a $44 billion deal, the company’s press handle has not responded to any messages or questions. Appropriate,” wrote one user. “I hope to see that in every article going forward. Many Twitter users found the entire affair highly amusing.

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Is Elon Musk a Scientist? (Discover Magazine)

Most know Musk as the founder of Tesla, cofounder of PayPal, and the CEO of SpaceX. And while he's done quite a bit in his lifetime in the field of science, ...

[ The Boring Company](https://www.boringcompany.com), he's seeking to use underground tunnels to solve traffic congestion by finding another place for cars and freight to go. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area, and then you reason up from there." [Musk](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk) has a physics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and he enrolled in a graduate program in physics at Stanford University before dropping out early on. While he might not have a degree in engineering, he oversaw the development of the all-electric Tesla Roadster and Model S sedan. And while he's done quite a bit in his lifetime in the field of science, some may ask the question if he is truly a scientist by trade? "Almost all my time, like 80 percent of it, is spent on engineering and design […] developing next-generation product," he said to Y Combinator founder Sam Altman.

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Elon Musk Sets Poop Emoji as an Autoreply to Twitter's Press Email (Gizmodo)

Twitter CEO Elon Musk once again made his disdain for the media clear over the weekend when he announced via tweet that messages to the company's press ...

Casey Newton, the founder of Platformer who authored the piece Musk attempted to discredit, said [Musk’s explanations were the ones that were incorrect](https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1626616839160889345). [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-orders-removal-twitter-suicide-prevention-feature-sources-say-2022-12-23/) article published in December that stated Twitter had taken down a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines. [20% off](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-13-inch-256GB-Storage/dp/B08N5LNQCX?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-poop-emoji-autoreply-press-email-1850243014&asc_source=&imprToken=12c257d2-8c51-dde2-56e&ots=1&slotNum=0&tag=kinjagizmodopromo-20) [are idiots](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1624438288898744328). Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, later told the outlet that the feature had been taken down only temporarily while the company “fixed and revamped” it. The move is largely in line with the communications strategy at his other companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, which rarely respond to the press.

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Twitter Responds To All Email Inquiries From The Press With A ... (Deadline)

All inquiries from members of the press directed to Twitter's official press email now receive the same automatic reply: a poop emoji.

Around this same time, the Tesla and SpaceX chief decided to release the so-called “Twitter Files,” a tranche of internal documents. Last December, the accounts of journalist Aaron Rupar, commentator Keith Olbermann, staffers at CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and a range of others went dark. [press](https://deadline.com/tag/press/) directed to [Elon Musk](https://deadline.com/tag/elon-musk/), who bought the social media company for $44 billion last year, relayed the update on his own Twitter feed over the weekend.

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Twitter's press email is automatically "pooping" on the media under ... (CBS News)

Elon Musk is a fan of the poop emoji, once memorably tweeting a to then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal while he was in negotiations to buy the social media ...

By contrast, another user [asked](https://twitter.com/odannyboy/status/1637485891198263296?cxt=HHwWgICx2cCvwrktAAAA), "Are you 12." Musk, who is known to communicate more brusquely and directly than most CEOs, has long had a strained relationship with the media. Now, the Twitter CEO and Tesla founder is conveying a similar message to one of his favorite targets: the media: Emails sent to [email protected] receive a poop emoji as an auto-reply.

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Calls for ban on light-polluting mass satellite groups like Elon Musk's ... (The Guardian)

Astronomers urge people to stand up to 'big light' industry amid unchecked brightening of night sky.

“An example with distinct and potentially severe social consequences is the detection of near-Earth objects that represent a high risk of colliding with our planet,” they write. On the contrary, we believe that the impacts and risks are too high for this possibility to be ruled out,” they write. [Pollution](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution) Science and Technology Institute in Italy, and co-authors in a comment piece. [According to an accompanying perspective piece](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01904-2), megaconstellations have more than doubled the number of functional satellites in low Earth orbit since early 2019, with a vast number of launches planned in the coming years. [with one team of experts calling for scientists](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01864-z) to stand up to “big light” as they have to other fields, such as big tobacco and big oil, and bring in regulation. [Elon Musk’s Starlink](https://www.starlink.com/) – should be considered, astronomers have said, in an effort to reduce light pollution and preserve our ability to study the skies.

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Elon Musk's Global Empire Has Made Him a Burning Problem for ... (Bloomberg)

Between Twitter, Starlink, SpaceX and Tesla, the CEO's clout — and unilateral decision making — has made him a big headache for Biden.

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Need to contact Twitter's press team? Elon Musk has an epic ... (Marketing Interactive)

MARKETING-INTERACTIVE tested Musk's claims and found it to be true as a poop emoji slid smoothly into our inboxes upon clicking send.

This happened shortly after Twitter asked its staff members in the Since it's layoffs, emails to the company's press team have gone unanswered for months. According to Twitter, the answer is that it all simply goes to poop.

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NEW: Elon Musk's Business Empire Extends from China and the ... (LatestLY)

The latest Tweet by Bloomberg states, 'NEW: Elon Musk's business empire extends from China and the Middle East to Texas. It's made him extremely powerful ...

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