The Tesla CEO’s month was quite eventful. Plus: The untold story of how a single line of code crashed the world. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b886fe92997aa2df18d9977/master/pass/ElonMusk-855377274.jpg
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Pro-‘Dota 2’ Players Fend off Elon Musk’s AI Bots—for Now
Algorithms have conquered backgammon, chess, and Go, but they fall short against the best humans in a complex, multiplayer strategy game. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b7dc49081d2b91bf5081d41/master/pass/Doto2-Biz-AP_18233573883427.jpg
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Planning a Tunnel to Dodger Stadium
The proposed 3.6-mile route would take fans from the metro to the parking lot, saving them from hellish Los Angeles traffic. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b7477e3745c1501afe5b30b/master/pass/DodgerStadium_20171024_960.jpg
“A huge outlier”: Musk’s Tesla buyout tweet could get him in legal trouble
Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich) Elon Musk left traders scratching their heads last week after tweeting that he was thinking about taking Tesla private for $ 420 per share—and had “funding secured” to do so. Musk finally cleared up some of the confusion on Monday, publishing a blog post saying that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund […]
Elon Musk’s Tesla Tweets Could Spark a Fight With the SEC
A fight the CEO would have trouble winning, according to experts. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b71cb6251297c21002b4554/master/pass/ElonMusk-974773054.jpg
‘It was, at best, hasty and naive, and, at worst, manipulative’: Experts slam Elon Musk’s confusing defense of why he tweeted ‘funding secured’ (TSLA)
Rebecca Cook / Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk released a statement on Monday in which he shed light on some of the questions raised last week by his statements about taking the company private. But Musk’s explanation is incomplete and raises new questions, experts say. Musk’s new statement doesn’t back up his claim last week […]
There’s a big problem with Elon Musk’s plan to take Tesla private
Enlarge / Elon Musk. (credit: Chris Saucedo/Getty Images for SXSW) When I asked University of Arizona legal scholar William Sjostrom about the way Elon Musk announced his plan to take Tesla private, he was scathing. “A securities attorney would say ‘what the hell are you doing?’” Sjostrom told me on Wendesday. When making a big, market-moving announcement, […]
Employee email explains Elon Musk’s plan to take Tesla private
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2015. (credit: Lee Hutchinson) Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sent out an email to employees explaining his plan—first disclosed in a cryptic tweet—to turn Tesla into a privately held company. “As a public company, we are subject to wild swings in our stock price that can be a major distraction […]
In Musk’s Own Words: The Case for a Private Tesla
After igniting a blaze of speculation via Twitter and halting the trading of Tesla stock, CEO Elon Musk made public an internal email sent to employees. In it, he lays out his reasoning for taking the publicly traded automaker private. While there’s no mention of the secured funding mentioned in his earlier tweets, the desired […]
The Engineering Behind Elon Musk’s Bid to Save Thailand’s Cave Boys
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO’s work to help the rescue operation captivated the internet and reinforced the most flattering image of Musk, as a brilliant engineer with a nose for unexpected solutions to pressing problems. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b452bc49bc3f356f4059475/master/pass/Cave_AP_18176408805848.jpg
