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    Amitabh Bachchan’s ROFL Tweet After Restored Blue Tick: “Tu Cheez Badi Hai Musk Musk”

    Bollywood veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan took to his inimitable style to thank Twitter chief Elon Musk for restoring the blue checkmark on his social media handle. The Musk-owned social media platform had earlier removed blue ticks from legacy accounts, which had not purchased its paid Blue service and several celebrities including Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat […] More

  • SpaceX Starship Explodes Minutes After Liftoff; Elon Musk Says ‘Learned a Lot’

    SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff in an uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Thursday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. The flight test was the first for Starship mounted atop the company’s new Super Heavy […] More

  • Elon Musk Threatens Lawsuit After Microsoft Removes Twitter From Ad Platform

    Twitter chief Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after the technology giant announced plans to drop his social media company from its advertising platform. “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,” Musk tweeted. The tech giant earlier in a notice said that its advertising platform “will no longer support Twitter” from April 25. […] More

  • Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Launch Full Self-Drive Technology in Its Cars This Year

    Elon Musk said on Wednesday that electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla likely will launch full self-drive technology this year and generate significant profits that offset some of the margin pressure it’s facing due to aggressive price cuts. “I hesitate to say this but I think we’ll do it this year,” said Tesla CEO Musk, speaking […] More

  • Elon Musk Modifies ‘Government Funded Media’ Label for CBC After Publisher Pauses Twitter Activity

    Elon Musk on Monday responded to Canada’s public broadcaster’s saying it will pause its activities on Twitter after being labelled as “government-funded media”. Replying to CBC’s threats, Elon Musk tweeted, “Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re ‘less than 70 percent government-funded, so we corrected the label.” Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re “less than 70% government-funded”, so we […] More

  • Elon Musk to Take on Google, Microsoft in AI Race; Will Create ‘Truth-Seeking’ AI

    Elon Musk to Take on Google, Microsoft in AI Race; Will Create 'Truth-Seeking' AI

    Elon Musk is out to counter Microsoft and Google artificial intelligence efforts with “truth-seeking AI” that shuns political correctness, he said during an interview aired late Monday. The billionaire boss of Twitter and Tesla voiced anew his concerns about the danger of AI, saying it has “the potential of civilizational destruction.” He said he was […] More

  • Twitter Launches User Content Subscriptions; Elon Musk Says Platform Won’t Take Cut for 12 Months

    Twitter Launches User Content Subscriptions; Elon Musk Says Platform Won’t Take Cut for 12 Months

    Twitter-owner Elon Musk said on Thursday users of the social media platform will be able to offer their followers subscriptions to content, including long-form text and hours-long video. Users offering the subscription, a feature they can access through the “Monetization” tab in settings, will get all the money subscribers pay apart from the charges platforms […] More

  • Elon Musk Says Unaware Why Twitter India Pulled Posts on BBC Documentary Critical of Modi

    Elon Musk said on Wednesday that he did not know “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were “quite strict” in India. In January, India ordered the blocking of a BBC documentary […] More

  • Twitter Will Finally Remove Legacy Blue Check Marks on April 20, Says Elon Musk

    Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company’s previous regime. “Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20,” tweeted billionaire owner of Twitter, Musk. This means that if you have a legacy verified account on Twitter with a blue mark, you will have […] More

  • Twitter Labels NPR, BBC ‘Government-Funded’ After Backlash; Elon Musk Says Description May Not Be Accurate

    Twitter has backtracked after an uproar for labelling the US radio network NPR as “state- affiliated media” and now calls it “government-funded.” Elon Musk’s social media network has also applied that new label to the BBC, which is funded predominantly by British households paying a license fee. Britain’s beloved national broadcaster has reached out to […] More

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