DOVER, Del.—Twitter has set Sept. 13 as the date for its shareholders to vote on the company’s pending buyout by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it is recommending shareholders vote for the $44 billion deal to be completed. The date is ahead of the yet-to-be specified…
Elon Musk Asks Judge to Start Twitter Trial on Oct. 17
WILMINGTON, Del—Elon Musk asked a judge to schedule a five-day trial beginning Oct. 17, not Oct. 10 as requested by Twitter Inc., to resolve his bid to walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media platform, according to a court filing on Tuesday. A lawyer for Musk, the world’s richest person,…
The Four Potential Outcomes of Twitter vs. Musk Trial
News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. Musk decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots. He alleges that the company is misrepresenting…
The Four Potential Outcomes of Twitter Versus Musk Trial
News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots, alleging that the company…
The 4 Potential Outcomes of Twitter Versus Musk Trial
News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots, alleging that the company…
4 Potential Outcomes of the Twitter Versus Musk Trial
News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots, alleging that the company…
Elon Musk Responds to Report of Alleged Affair With Google Co-Founder’s Wife
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is contesting the veracity of a recent “exclusive” report alleging that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, calling it “total bs” and denying that claims that he and Brin are no longer friends. Musk took to Twitter on Sunday evening to dispute the report by the Wall Street Journal, which…
Elon Musk Calls WSJ ‘Way Sub Tabloid’ for Article on Alleged Affair With Google Co-founder’s Wife
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is contesting a recent “exclusive” report alleging that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, calling it “total bs” and denying that claims that he and Brin are no longer friends. Musk took to Twitter on Sunday evening to dispute the report by the Wall Street Journal, which alleged that the…
Elon Musk Says WSJ ‘Way Sub Tabloid,’ Denying Alleged Affair With Google Co-Founder’s Wife
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is contesting the veracity of a recent “exclusive” report alleging that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, calling it “total bs” and denying that claims that he and Brin are no longer friends. Musk took to Twitter on Sunday evening to dispute the report by the Wall Street Journal, which…
Google Fires Engineer Who Warned Company’s AI Bot Is ‘Sentient’ and Hired an Attorney
Google recently confirmed that it has fired the engineer who claimed the firm’s LaMDA artificial intelligence had become sentient. In a statement on July 22, Google confirmed it terminated engineer Blake Lemoine after he told the Washington Post in June that LaMDA—short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications—had the cognitive ability of a 7- or 8-year-old…
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