Ars: Ten years ago you kind of made big bets on Starship and Starlink, and most people probably expected one or both of them to fail. Musk: Including me. Ars: Yeah. These were huge bets. Musk: I was interviewed in the early days of Starlink, and they were asking me what’s the goal of Starlink? … Read more
As artists fight to protect their works from being used to train AI models, Jack Dorsey wants to eliminate intellectual property (IP) laws altogether. Elon Musk agrees. On Friday, the cofounder of X (then Twitter) and Block (then Square) posted on X, “delete all IP law.” Elon Musk, the current leader of X, chimed in … Read more
Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) don’t have to turn over information related to their government cost-cutting operations, at least for now, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. A federal judge previously ruled that 14 states suing the federal government can serve written discovery requests on Musk and DOGE. Musk, DOGE, and … Read more
Congressman Tony Wied of DePere, representing the Eighth District, has introduced legislation that jeopardizes $55 million in federal funds to Wisconsin from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021. These funds are meant to help create Electric Vehicle (EV) fast charging stations as part of a planned statewide corridor system. As a state we are playing … Read more
In a previous post I contemplated what it would mean for (then) Twitter (now X) if Elon Musk bought it and turned it into a free speech utopia. A simpler time, in which I feared the creation of a ‘Two Twitter’-solution where the newly-acquired platform would look significantly different in the US than it would … Read more