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De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump is donderdagavond openlijk aan het ruziën met Elon Musk. De topman van SpaceX en Tesla was een innig partner van de Amerikaanse regering, maar nu dreigt de president overheidscontracten van Musk op te zeggen.

Elon Musk on Saturday denied a report that he used ketamine and other drugs extensively last year on the 2024 campaign trail. The New York Times reported on Friday that the billionaire adviser to United States President Donald Trump used so much ketamine, a powerful anaesthetic, that he developed bladder problems. The newspaper said the world’s richest person also took ecstasy and mushrooms and travelled with a pill box last year, adding that it was not known whether Musk also took drugs while heading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Trump took power in January. In a post on Saturday on X, Musk said: “To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs! The New York Times was lying their ass off.” He added: “I tried ‘prescription’ ketamine a few years ago and said so on X, so this not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven’t taken it since then.” Musk first dodged a question about his drug use at a bizarre farewell appearance on Friday with Trump in the Oval Office in...

Elon Musk stated on May 28 that xAI had not signed an agreement with Telegram to distribute the Grok large language model, despite Telegram founder Pavel Duvov’s announcement earlier on the same day. Durov wrote that he and Musk “agreed to a one-year partnership” that would place Grok inside all Telegram applications and give the […] The post Musk says no deal signed with Telegram despite Grok integration announcement appeared first on CryptoSlate.

xAI’s Grok could soon be accessible in Telegram and will offer chats, text editing, chat and document summaries, inbox agents, group chat moderation and more. Update (May 28, 11:12 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add X posts from Elon Musk and Pavel Durov regarding the deal. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has “agreed in principle“ to integrate its AI chatbot Grok across Telegram, says the messaging platform’s CEO, Pavel Durov. Durov said in a May 28 X post that he and Musk agreed to a one-year partnership for Telegram to distribute Grok across Telegram and integrate it into its apps. Read more

Initial testing of the payment and banking app will be limited because "extreme care" must be taken when people's savings are involved, Elon Musk wrote on X. X Money, the payment and banking app tipped by Elon Musk in 2022 after he acquired Twitter, has started beta testing, Musk confirmed in an X post on May 25. Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, a fan X account focused on Elon Musk and Tesla, took to X on May 25 to report that Musk has confirmed that X is “launching X Money soon.” The billionaire businessman subsequently jumped on the X thread to confirm the news, writing that the test will be a “very limited access beta at first.” Read more

Elon Musk gaat meer tijd besteden aan zijn baan bij Tesla en zich minder bemoeien met zijn rol als hoofd van DOGE. Vraag is in hoeverre een stap terug van Musk bij DOGE helpt het imagoprobleem van Tesla op te lossen.

Musk, a Trump adviser who has been working to eliminate wasteful US public spending, spoke via video-link at a congress in Florence of Italy's right-wing, co-ruling League Party.

De samenvoeging vormt de jongste wending in de machtsconsolidatie van de techmiljardair. De deal kan Musk helpen om zijn AI-model, bekend als Grok, te trainen.

Zijn bod van $97,4 mrd op de stichting boven OpenAI is het nieuwste hoofdstuk in het langlopende conflict tussen hem en Sam Altman. Musk zou het bedrijf willen tegenwerken. 

Aankomend president Donald Trump van de Verenigde Staten steunt techbaas Elon Musk, die een werkvisum voor hooggeschoolde migranten wil handhaven. Musk is daarover in een verhit debat geraakt met Trumpaanhangers die tegen immigratie zijn en dat type visum juist willen beperken of zelfs afschaffen.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration. “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement. The announcement of Ramaswamy and particularly Musk, who leads companies with existing, lucrative government contracts, raises immediate questions about potential conflicts of interest. It is not immediately clear how the department – which Trump said would “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government” – would operate, and whether a Congress even fully controlled by Republicans would have the appetite to approve such a massive overhaul of government spending and operations. Trump had proposed the creation of a government efficiency commission as part of a slate of new economic plans that he unveiled in earl...

Miljardair en Trump-aanhanger Elon Musk heeft van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie een waarschuwing gekregen. Deze heeft betrekking op zijn initiatief waarbij Musk dagelijks een miljoen dollar weggeeft aan een geregistreerde kiezer.Volg alles over de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen in ons liveblog.

Elon Musk maakt er geen geheim van dat hij bij de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen op Donald Trump stemt. De twee voerden deze week zelfs een openbaar gesprek op X, het platform van Musk. Eerder scholden ze elkaar uit, nu hebben ze elkaar gevonden.

Musk has reportedly contributed to the America PAC. However, the South African-born entrepreneur was not listed on a Monday filing by the group, which shows that it has raised more than $8 million.

Musk has reportedly contributed to the America PAC. However, the South African-born entrepreneur was not listed on a Monday filing by the group, which shows that it has raised more than $8 million.

De ceo van Tesla mag tevens zijn bedrijf van Delaware naar Texas verhuizen. Musk sprak ook over zijn band met Donald Trump. 

The open sourcing of Grok is also clearly a helpful ideological stance for Musk in his lawsuit and general criticisms of OpenAI.

In de geopenbaarde e-mails, verstuurd in de jaren dat OpenAI nog naarstig op zoek was naar kapitaal, blijkt onder meer dat Musk zelf instemde met het plan om een commerciële weg in te slaan.

Vier voormalige topmanagers van Twitter eisen samen 128 miljoen dollar (118 miljoen euro) van Elon Musk, de huidige eigenaar van het socialemediaplatform. Musk betaalde in oktober 2022 44 miljard dollar voor de overname van Twitter en veranderde de naam van het platform later in X.

'Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension,' Musk wrote, after some of the word's largest companies suspended ads on the platform which has come under fire for platforming antisemitic and racist content