Elon Musk

[Thumpalumpacus]

DOGE also massaged the numbers, for instance implying that "spending" they cut was already taking place, when in fact they were kiboshing ideas -- not legislatively authorized money, not any outlays at all -- counted towards the money DOGE "saved".

[Paleophyte]

●A flying car / demo of the long-awaited Tesla Roadster

Leaving the road in an uncontrolled high-speed flip when Tesler AutoPillock fails doesn't count?

[Deesse23]

I am working for a T1 automotive supplier. Tesla seems to be very, very interested to buy our latest product (cant tell exactly what, for legal reasons), seemingly for the entire fleet. Interestingly, they want to buy the housing and mechanics, not the electronics and software, unlike all other customers.
A manager who is involved in the ongoing talks told me that the Tesla responsibles answered the question "why?" with: "We can shoot rockets into space. I am confident we can make the SW/HW for a simple brake for a car". Coincidence or not: I was involved in negotiations with a small startup company by former Space X employees. Very young, very motivated. They brought forward the same argument: We worked on spacecraft, thus we are confident we can manage automotive engineering.

Well, its one thing to shoot one multi million dollar vehicle into orbit once a year. Its something quite different to sell ......several millions of your product, per year, with an expected failure rate of 10ppm over the next 15 years.

Well, if you dont know the difference between the tech you need for a car or a spacecraft, then there is no hope for you. Hybris comes before the fall.

There may be other reasons related to logistics and project management, which maybe played a role. I dont want to go into details. One thing is for sure: Tesla has a different approach than everybody else. Yet, this is no groundbreaking news. The issue remains: Is it the right approach (for the future)? I am skeptical for now.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a “failure in safeguards.”

“I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user’s prompt,” the chatbot wrote in a post on the social platform X, after a user asked for an apology.

“This violated ethical standards and potentially US laws on CSAM,” it continued, referring to child sexual abuse material. “It was a failure in safeguards, and I’m sorry for any harm caused. xAI is reviewing to prevent future issues.”

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/56...pologizes/

[Fake Messiah]

Tesla loses title of the biggest EV seller in the world to Chinese rival BYD

Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, a decrease of 9% from a year earlier.

Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker.

Tesla sales totalled 418,227 between October and December, falling short of the 440,000 that analysts polled by FactSet expected.

The sales total may have been hit by the end of a $7,500 (£5,500) tax credit phased out by the Trump administration at the end of September.

Despite this Tesla stock finished 2025 with a gain of approximately 11%. Investors hope Musk can deliver on his ambitions to make the company a leader in robotaxi services and get consumers to embrace humanoid robots that can perform basic tasks in homes and offices.

https://news.sky.com/story/tesla-loses-t...d-13489720

[Nanny]

Space Karen thinks because people throw money at him that he is smarter than everybody. The twat.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Space Karen thinks because people throw money at him that he is smarter than everybody. The twat.

Probably smarter than the people throwing the dough at the least.

[AFTT47]

Space Karen thinks because people throw money at him that he is smarter than everybody. The twat.

Probably smarter than the people throwing the dough at the least.

Surely that, at least regarding Tesla. I have a hard time comprehending how the company's stock isn't in freefall. After his early spectacular successes, he fucked up in so many ways.

1. He stopped innovating on battery and drive train technology, focusing nearly all his efforts and resources on self-driving.
2. He allowed the models to go stale while his competitors offered new, fresh products.
3. He poured a ton of time and resources into an extremely niche vehicle which mostly just attracts doomsday preppers.
4. He devolved from being a somewhat polarizing, widely admired figure to becoming a full-fledged world-class douchebag, despised across the globe.

On top of all this, he is betting the future of the company on AI - an area where he has not been successful. Self-driving has been a bust. Autonomous robots will require a similar but even more refined technology. He's been at it for over a decade with no solution in sight.

I wouldn't invest a nickel in Tesla at this point.

On an unrelated note, I'm sure glad people don't use my name as a pejorative.