https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4727477/fbi-agent-pushed-criminal-investigation-elon-musk-doge/

FBI agent pushed to open criminal investigation into Elon Musk over DOGE

4 days ago - An FBI agent sought to open a criminal investigation into SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in February last year after federal employees were asked, thanks to the Department of Government Efficiency, to list “five things” they accomplished during the previous week, according to records Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) obtained from the bureau released []

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Musk’s X and Apple settle antitrust lawsuit over alleged OpenAI favoring

5 days ago - The antitrust lawsuit brought on by Elon Musk’s X Corp. and SpaceX companies against Apple was settled in Texas federal court on Monday after Musk alleged the iPhone maker had disadvantaged his Grok artificial intelligence. The settlement brings the legal battle that began last year to a close. According to the motion filed Monday, Musk []

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https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gas-turbine-shortage-sends-ai-developers-back-boilers-and-steam

Gas Turbine Shortage Sends AI Developers Back To Boilers And Steam

5 days ago - Gas Turbine Shortage Sends AI Developers Back To Boilers And Steam Elon Musk recently warned that “turbines are sold out through 2030,” saying SpaceX and Tesla would probably need to make turbine blades and vanes internally. ELON MUSK: “Turbines are sold out through 2030. In order to bring enough power online, SpaceX and Tesla will probably have to make the turbine blades and vanes internally. There are only three casting companies in the world that make these, and they’re massively backlogged.” pic.twitter...

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Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger

4 days ago - This video features a conversation on the All-In Podcast (0:00) with SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell and Elon Musk. The discussion covers the evolution of SpaceX, its current focus on AI and computing, and the companys future ambitions. Key Highlights: The SpaceX Story: Gwynne Shotwell shares the history of SpaceX, explaining how the company overcame early skepticism and entrenched industry competitors by focusing on rapid launch capabilities, especially following 9/11 (3:50). Modern SpaceX Operati...

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SpaceXs Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team honored with Purdues 2026 Neil Armstrong Space Prize [9:44]

Yesterday - The Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team at SpaceX has been awarded the 2026 Neil Armstrong Space Prize in the Innovation category for proving that rockets could be recovered, refurbished and reused - a feat much of the industry once considered impossible. This video traces how that breakthrough happened, from early NASA and Air Force reusability research to the moment engineers watched a booster descend out of the darkness and land perfectly upright.Team members, including Jon Edwards, Yoshiaki Kuwata, Lars Black...

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Elon Musk Trains His Political Chaos Machine on the U.K.

3 days ago - Using his social-media megaphone to roil the waters, the tech entrepreneur is promoting a new anti-immigration party; civil war is inevitable LONDON-On the eve of becoming the worlds first trillionaire, Elon Musk was fixated on political turmoil an ocean away from SpaceX headquarters.In one X post, he called the mayor of Belfast a "betrayer of her people." In another, he called a British political leader "a scumbag and a traitor." And a post from a once-obscure politician named Rupert Lowe-whose nascent far...

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Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slowing Down A.I. Development

6 days ago - Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, just days after one of the companys employees quit over concerns about the safety of the technology. Top executives of other major A.I. companies quickly signed on to the effort. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI; Elon Musk, whose SpaceX rocket company has been ramping up spending on A.I.; and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind, wrote in soc...

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