Elon Musk
5 published articles
Creator Economy
X's new creator payouts hinge on what X decides is 'original'
X is shutting down its creator revenue-sharing program and launching Original Content Rewards on September 8. The new system pays on qualified impressions from Premium subscribers, but only for posts X decides are original.
2026-08-13
Artificial Intelligence
Musk's 'accurate' AI meme gets the past right and the present wrong
Musk reposted a meme splitting AI into a noble theoretical era and a brainlet scaling era. Both halves are real history, but the binary is collapsing: kernels returned as engineering, small models rival scale, and DeepMind is rebuilding rigor for deep learning.
2026-08-03
Electric Vehicles / AI Infrastructure
Tesla's revenue is up. Its real bet is spending itself into the red.
Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings show a revenue rebound, but profit growth is anemic and free cash flow is negative. The company is pouring billions into AI, robotics, and manufacturing infrastructure, a bet that hinges on whether its car business can fund the transformation Musk keeps promising.
2026-07-28
Data privacy
Grok Build was uploading entire codebases to the cloud. Musk says the data is safe now.
SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI was uploading entire codebases to cloud storage. Elon Musk says all previously uploaded data will be deleted, but the incident exposes just how much AI coding tools can quietly collect.
2026-07-17
AI Hardware
Spacex is developing an ai device prototype, report says, but musk denies it
The Wall Street Journal reports that SpaceX has prototyped a sleek AI device smaller than an iPhone, integrating xAI technology and a proprietary OS. Musk calls the report 'utterly false,' while analysts note SpaceX's manufacturing and wireless ambitions could make such a move plausible.
2026-07-04