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Tesla to streamline its AI chip design work, Musk says Tesla will streamline its AI chip research to focus on its development of inference chips used to run AI models and make real-time decisions, CEO Elon Musk said, after a media report he had ordered the closure of the in-house Dojo supercomputer team.

🚨 Tesla scraps its in-house Dojo AI chip team to focus on inference-focused AI5 & AI6 chips via Samsung & TSMC.
Musk’s move shows ruthless efficiency, but at what cost?

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'With the United States turning inward – a process that predates Trump – China has now an opportunity to fill a vacuum, creating with others a multipolar world’.

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The cover image of Jeffrey Wasserstrom's Virgil with a yellow five-petal Bauhinia blakeana flower - the symbol of Hongkong with one petal falling out.

From post-war boom to David-versus-Goliath protests - Jeffrey Wasserstrom's VIRGIL tells Hong Kong’s heroic struggle for autonomy. A riveting and essential read by China specialist Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

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Exclusive: Trump administration formally axes Elon Musk's 'five things' email The Trump administration on Tuesday formally axed a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk requiring federal employees to summarize their five workplace achievements from the prior week, as first reported by Reuters.

🔥 Musk’s “5 things” email demanding weekly work reports rattled federal agencies. Now, Trump allies at the FBI, State, and Defence push back. A power struggle like no other.

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Elon Musk doesn’t follow the script — he rewrites it mid-sentence. From flying to Mars to midnight tweets, his impulsiveness isn’t a bug. It’s the brand.

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Once hailed as a "real-life Iron Man," Elon Musk has been shunned by both the left and the right. Yet he’s far from out of the game.

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Tesla approves share award worth $29 billion to CEO Elon Musk Tesla has granted CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares worth about $29 billion, a move aimed at keeping the billionaire entrepreneur at the helm as he fights a court ruling that voided his original pay deal for being unfair to shareholders.

🚨 Elon Musk just secured a $29B Tesla payday — one of the largest in history.

Visionary? Power grab? Or something darker?

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Nashville Is a ‘Tough Place to Tunnel.’ Musk Is Digging Anyway.

🚨 Elon Musk’s Boring Company is heading to Nashville to dig a new tunnel.
From rockets to underground roads — what’s his next move? 🚀🛣️

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Elon Musk is nothing if not impulsive. When South Australia faced a power crisis, he promised, via a few tweets, to build a battery system in 100 days or it’d be free.

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Dark Star Rising - How did the world’s richest man become the face of America’s reactionary revolution?

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Elon Musk says Tesla and Samsung have signed a $16.5 billion chip deal | CNN Business Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the U.S. automaker had signed a $16.5 billion deal to source chips from Samsung Electronics, a move expected to bolster the South Korean tech giant’s loss-making contract manu...

Amid the 2008 Great Recession, Musk risked it all to save both Tesla and SpaceX—and it paid off.

Now, with more at stake in the game, will his next big gamble pay off too?

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In 2021, TIME hailed Elon Musk as the man who would “save our planet and get us a new one.”

In 2025, headlines called him “a threat to democracy.”

Now THAT's a turnaround!

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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

U.S. law bans Russia from using Starlink, but enforcement is tough. The front line shifts, devices get captured, and private users complicate things.

Is this why Musk shut it down?

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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

Feb 2022, as Russia invaded, Ukraine’s VP asked Musk for help. He replied, “Starlink is now active. More terminals en route.”

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