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NEWS: Elon Musk rejects the far right label in an exchange with The Economist "I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely." He challenged the interviewer to say what is extreme about 3 positions. "Here are the principles and tell me which of these sound terrible. That we should have secure borders, that we should have safe cities, that we should have sensible spending. Which of those three are far right fringe?" Elon then turned on the framing itself. "I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense." He asked that the exchange survive the edit. "Please keep this part in." Elon said the same speeches get judged by who delivered them, describing a habit of reading Obama and Clinton speeches to people and telling them Trump said it. He named Rupert Lowe as an example of who he means by normal people. (Source: The Economist, July 2026)
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WATCH: Affirm's Max Levchin says Elon Musk is "just a normal dude." Max Levchin, CEO of Affirm and a PayPal co-founder, talked about knowing Elon Musk and the rest of the "PayPal Mafia" in the early days. "We knew the true version of that person," Levchin said. "The ultra philosophical Peter Thiel, the go all in every time Elon Musk, the these days gubernatorial David Sacks." He said he saw the real Elon Musk, not the public image. "I've seen him sweaty and tired and grumpy at the company kitchen a thousand times." His takeaway is simple. These founders are not superhuman. "They're not gods, they're humans," Levchin said. "If that guy who's just a normal dude... he's going for this big of an idea, I should strive too." Source: Affirm CEO Max Levchin (Max Levchin), via a16z (a16z)
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JUST IN: Elon Musk on AI acceleration "If you can't beat them, join them." 👀 Elon says every attempt he made to slow AI ended up speeding it up "The only thing we can try to do is minimize the probability of the bad outcome." He declined to work on AI for years, then founded OpenAI as a counterweight to Google when Google had close to a monopoly on the field. Anthropic later spun out of OpenAI. "These actions have actually resulted in knock-on effects that accelerated AI, which wasn't really my intention." His conclusion is that all roads lead to acceleration, leaving 2 options. Be sad about it or join the club. (Source: The Economist, July 2026)
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NEWS: Billionaire investor Ron Baron has placed a $1 billion order for SpaceX IPO shares and says he is not selling in his lifetime. Baron, the founder and CEO of Baron Capital, laid out his case on a client call. His firm has put about $2 billion into SpaceX across 27 employee tender rounds since 2017, a position now worth roughly $15 billion after compounding at 54% per year. He believes SpaceX, coming public at under $2 trillion, will reach $10 trillion to $30 trillion within 10 to 15 years and become the largest, most profitable company on the planet. People inside the company tell him he is lowballing it. On Starlink alone, Baron projects 300 million subscribers and about $1 trillion in annual revenue within a decade, making it worth around $14 trillion on its own.
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🚨NEWS: BlackRock CEO praises Tesla’s long term returns He said since Tesla went public, Elon delivered a 43% yearly compounded return. BlackRock delivered 21% in the same period He added pension funds and investors who backed Tesla early saw “spectacular” growth He said few companies at Tesla’s size have ever produced returns like this
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![NEWS: Slovenia's Deputy Prime Minister praised Tesla's Full Self-Driving saying "The system works and this is the future" Jernej Vrtovec, Slovenia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Energy, tried FSD Supervised and shared his take. He said the car handled intersections, lane changes and other maneuvers on its own, while the driver kept oversight the whole time. "[FSD Supervised] is safe, efficient, and above all, an exciting glimpse into the future of mobility. It doesn't get tired, doesn't fall asleep, and can significantly contribute to safer driving." Source: Jernej Vrtovec, Slovenia's Deputy PM Video Translated using 11Labs.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2099752287128457229/amplify_video_thumb/2099752052222291968/img/99oaUQY5aVftO3tD.jpg)
NEWS: Slovenia's Deputy Prime Minister praised Tesla's Full Self-Driving saying "The system works and this is the future" Jernej Vrtovec, Slovenia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Energy, tried FSD Supervised and shared his take. He said the car handled intersections, lane changes and other maneuvers on its own, while the driver kept oversight the whole time. "[FSD Supervised] is safe, efficient, and above all, an exciting glimpse into the future of mobility. It doesn't get tired, doesn't fall asleep, and can significantly contribute to safer driving." Source: Jernej Vrtovec, Slovenia's Deputy PM Video Translated using 11Labs.
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JUST IN: Elon Musk lays out why SpaceX is going public, in a live conversation with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon
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WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg says he keeps coming to X for the community. In a new interview, Zuckerberg was asked why he is posting on X again. He said he goes where people are. He admitted a big part of that community sits on X. "There's a lot of AI folks are on X." He added that this is the whole point. "Some of the community is on X and we want to be able to engage where people are."
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🚨NEWS: Tesla’s VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy tells U.S. Senate no one has ever taken control of a Tesla He explained Tesla’s driving controls sit in a core embedded layer that cannot be accessed from outside, firmware needs a “two-person key” approval to install, and Tesla actively pays hackers to try to break into its cars to stay ahead on cybersecurity.
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NEWS: Slovenia approved Tesla's FSD (Supervised). The rollout will begin soon. It is another step in Tesla's push to bring FSD across Europe, alongside recent moves in Sweden and France. Now FSD available in 6 European countries: • Netherlands (first in Europe, April 2026) • Lithuania • Estonia • Denmark • Belgium • Slovenia Source: Tesla Europe, Sept 7 2026
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NEWS: A Tesla Model Y driver having a heart attack survived because his son remotely rerouted the car to a hospital using FSD Supervised. The driver felt chest pain mid-drive and called his son. His son guided the car through the Tesla app to the nearest hospital. He also called the hospital so ER staff were waiting on arrival. Doctors later said the quick reroute likely saved his life. Tesla shared the story on its official North America account. FSD Supervised drives the car while requiring the human driver to stay attentive.
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JUST IN: AI will exceed the sum of human intelligence in around 5 years, Elon Musk says Musk gave the timeline in a new interview with The Economist and said the most likely outcome is an age of amazing abundance where anyone can have anything they can think of. "There really won't be anything that AI can't do better than humans." He put down a marker for people to check against. 2026 now, see where things stand in 2036. The main thing he named that could derail it is a global war. (Source: The Economist, July 2026)
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NEWS: Anthropic is paying SpaceX about $15 billion a year for AI compute, longtime SpaceX backer Ron Baron told CNBC. That's $1.25 billion every month through May 2029. Anthropic uses SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer near Memphis. The deal was first disclosed in SpaceX's IPO filing in May. It could bring SpaceX over $40 billion in total revenue. SpaceX booked $18.7 billion in revenue in all of 2025.
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