Elon Musk’s America PAC and several other defendants, including the reelection campaign for Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican from California, are accused of violating California labor law in a class action lawsuit filed in Orange County on October 30, according to court documents obtained by WIRED. The named plaintiffs, Tamiko Anderson and Patricia Kelly, were […]
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, who supports Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump, gestures as he speaks about voting during an America PAC Town Hall in Folsom, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 17, 2024. Rachel Wisniewski | Reuters A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday returned to state court a lawsuit against billionaire Elon […]
Elon Musk is facing immigration problems for allegedly working in America without an employment visa and could arguably be deported, a legal expert told Newsweek. On October 26, The Washington Post alleged that Musk had worked illegally in the U.S, citing “former business associates, court records and company documents.” Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell […]
If Elon Musk joins the United States government following a Donald Trump victory in the presidential election, he will be the latest in a succession of billionaire businesspeople to hold public office. From the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and former President […]
These questions, says immigration lawyer Ira Kurzban, are asked to see whether an applicant obtained their residence validly, a prerequisite for citizenship. US immigration authorities have, he says, become “very exacting” on this point over the past 10 years. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service didn’t respond to an inquiry about whether forms used by […]
Starlink currently offers unlimited data with most of its plans, though there’s some fine print that comes along with that claim. Geosynchronous (GSO) satellite providers, like Viasat and Hughesnet are known for having some of the most restrictive data caps of any type of internet. When GSO satellite customers hit their data cap for the […]
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s Llama 4 AI models are training on the biggest GPU cluster in the industry. During Meta’s earnings call, he said the cluster is “bigger than 100,000 H100s.” Elon Musk has said xAI is using 100,000 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs to train chatbot Grok. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics […]
When Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, endorsed former President Donald Trump, financially supported his reelection campaign, and even attended rallies in swing states, he upended a lot of the politics around electric vehicles (EVs). It used to be quite an easy distinction to make: Climate-conscious Democrats would buy EVs and Democratic Party policies supported EV uptake, […]
Mittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon Web Services, a decision likely influenced by the former president’s view of the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos. It would not be hard for policymakers […]
Top economists and assorted financial experts have been sounding the alarm that Donald Trump’s plans for a second presidential administration would spike the federal deficit by trillions of dollars, worsen inflation, and, eventually, send the U.S. economy screaming toward a recession (if not an outright depression). Weirdly enough, it appears that Trump’s top campaign operative, […]