
Digital Music News - 3 hours 54 min ago
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and its SONGS Foundation tossed another splashy golf gala this week at The Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles this week. And it was exactly the kind of country-clubbing, cigar-chomping, golf-playing ‘gala’ the lawyers at Elon Musk’s X warned you about. Hit songwriters were advised to leave their mean […]...

Tech Meme - 4 hours 55 min ago
Nicola M White / Bloomberg : In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 — Elon Musk and the US Securities Exchange Commission told a judge they are heading toward a trial over the regulator's allegations …...

BBC - 7 hours 9 min ago
The company's public stock debut is set to be one of the most valuable in history, and could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.

Vox - 8 hours 36 min ago
Editor's Note, April 1, 5:00 pm ET: The interview in this piece was conducted when NASA first revealed the crew for Artemis II in 2023. With the launch now taking place, Vox is republishing the piece. The crew taking part in the Artemis II launch includes two historic firsts: the first woman, Christina Koch, and the first person of color, Victor Glover, to go on a lunar mission. Hailed by NASA spokespeople as "pioneers" and "explorers," they have been greeted with fanfare befitting...

The Next Web - 8 hours 56 min ago
Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland's finance minister and the country's former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an anonymous user to generate a torrent of sexist and vulgar remarks about her on X. The complaint, filed on 20 March with the Bern public prosecutor's office, […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 9 hours 16 min ago
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration, setting the stage for what would be the largest initial public offering in history and almost certainly making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. The offering, internally code-named Project Apex, […] This story continues at The Next Web...

Fortune - 9 hours 25 min ago
The SpaceX IPO filing move brings billionaire Elon Musk's rocket, satellite and AI company closer to delivering the biggest-ever listing.

Attack of the Fanboy - 10 hours 45 min ago
What does Elon have to do with it?...

Electrek - 11 hours 27 min ago
Elon Musk confirmed today that Tesla has stopped producing the Model S and Model X. Custom orders are no longer accepted, and only about 600 vehicles remain in inventory worldwide. The CEO shared a throwback photo from the original Model S production launch at the Fremont factory in June 2012, writing on X: "Custom orders of the Tesla Model S & X have come to an end. All that's left are some in inventory. We will have an official ceremony to mark the ending of an era. I love those cars."...

New York Times - 12 hours 3 min ago
SpaceX's Starship rocket in Cameron County, Texas, in 2024.

The Guardian - 12 hours 36 min ago
Elon Musk's rocket company could go public as early as June, Bloomberg reports SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering on the US stock market, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal . The IPO is set to be one of the most closely watched and highly valued listings in market history. Elon Musk's company, which has become a dominant power in both space travel and satellite communications, could potentially seek a valuation upwards of $1.75tn....

CNBC - 13 hours 37 min ago
Elon Musk's SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation of around $1.75 trillion in its forthcoming IPO.

NY Post - 13 hours 55 min ago
An IPO at a potential valuation of more than $1.75 trillion would signal that space exploration has moved from speculative venture to a mainstream investment theme.

Electrek - 15 hours 48 min ago
Elon Musk announced today that Tesla "Full Self-Driving" v14.3 is currently in employee beta testing and will "probably go to wide release end of week." Musk has described v14.3 as the version that will make your car "feel like it is sentient." If that sounds familiar, it should. Musk has promised that the "next update" will be the transformative one for about a decade now and the most recent v14.2 updates have actually been degrading in key areas. more...

Fortune - 17 hours 53 min ago
Between lawsuits and demand letters, Elon Musk's various companies are being scrutinized even in cities where they were once welcome.

The Boy Genius Report - 19 hours 40 min ago
With his post, Musk is alluding to what could be Tesla's figurative and literal biggest product to date. Many commenters have had their say on what it might be.

The Guardian - 19 hours 44 min ago
We need a 5% wealth tax on America's 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers Never before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. One person, Elon Musk, worth $805bn, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households. And that inequality is getting worse. Last year alone, after receiving the one of the largest tax breaks in history from Donald...

Newser - 22 hours 20 min ago
SpaceX's path to the public markets now has a code name and a crowd. The Elon Musk-led company has tapped at least 21 banks to work on its planned initial public offering , one of the biggest underwriting squads assembled in recent years, sources tell Reuters . The IPO, internally dubbed "Project...

Digital Music News - 23 hours 33 sec ago
Last week, the US Supreme Court handed a decisive defeat to major label conglomerates and a billion-dollar victory to Cox Communications. But this decision is likely to go far beyond Cox and ISPs harboring piracy, with the ripple effects already becoming glaringly apparent. Actually, forget about ‘ripple effects’ is the music industry now […]...