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Elon Musk offers $1 million a day to entice swing state voters to sign petition
Elon Musk said he will give away $1 million daily until Election Day to registered voters in swing states who sign his America PAC petition.Business - CNBC - October 21 -
Elon Musk Is Giving Away $1 Million a Day in Bid to be the 'Secretary of Cost-Cutting'
Four days spent barnstorming Pennsylvania for Donald Trump highlighted support for the tech titan leading a new government efficiency effort.Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 21 -
Elon Musk ratchets up bid to re-elect Trump with series of stunts and appearances
Elon Musk has forcefully ramped up his efforts to help re-elect former President Donald Trump, raising eyebrows across the political world.Top stories - NBC News - October 21 -
Elon Musk’s xAI launches API, letting third-party developers build atop Grok
Attention, developers: you can now get your hands on Elon Musk's Grok 2 multimodal language model through his startup xAI's new API.Tech - VentureBeat - October 21 -
Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion
The producer of the "Blade Runner" sequel called Elon Musk "problematic." The Tesla boss is backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election.Business - CNBC - October 21 -
'Blade Runner 2049' producer sues Elon Musk, Warner Bros. Discovery over Tesla Cybercab launch
'Blade Runner 2049' production company Alcon Entertainment sued Tesla, Elon Musk and Warner Bros. Discovery for copyright infringement. Here's why.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - October 21 -
Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion
Elon Musk, his car company Tesla and Warner Brothers Discovery were sued Monday over their alleged artificial intelligence-fueled copyright infringement of images from the film “Blade Runner 2049” ...Top stories - NBC News - October 21 -
Elon Musk could face ‘legal liability’ for his $1 million giveaway, says election law expert
NBC News Election Law Analyst Nate Persily discusses the legal questions surrounding billionaire tech founder Elon Musk’s latest election effort to support former President Trump ahead of the ...Politics - NBC News - October 21 -
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is making an all-out push to reelect Trump
Elon Musk has donated more than $70 million to the pro-Trump political action committee he created in order to help reelect Trump in the 2024 presidential election.Top stories - CBS News - October 21 -
How Trump ally Elon Musk is using social media to prime voter mistrust
CBS News analysis finds tech billionaire and Trump supporter Elon Musk has amassed billions of views in posts on X about election fraud conspiracies.Top stories - CBS News - October 21 -
WSJ Tech Live: Executives, Investors and Artists Debate AI's Potential
Andreessen Horowitz’s Martin Casado says tech policy is in a ‘dangerous place.’Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 23 -
Qatar Airways partners with Elon Musk’s Starlink for high-speed Wi-Fi milestone
Qatar Airways launched Tuesday its inaugural Boeing 777 flight equipped with Elon Musk's Starlink internet, paving the way for a new era of in-flight connectivity across its entire fleet by next year.Business - CNBC - October 22 -
Elon Musk is trying to buy the US election for Donald Trump. What does he want in return? | Arwa Mahdawi
Billionaire funding is flooding into the ex-president’s campaign. If he wins, will we see prisons on Mars and Taylor Swift shot into space?. Welcome to The Maga Millions: a thrilling new contest in ...World - The Guardian - October 22 -
Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one | Marina Hyde
The great and good of US media and politics can’t decide if the lavish giveaway is unethical or illegal. I’m no expert, but it seems off to me. For a guy who has spent his entire life making “I am ...World - The Guardian - October 22 -
'Blade Runner 2049' producers sue Elon Musk and Tesla over AI image at robotaxi event
A film production company that helped make “Blade Runner 2049” has sued Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for using an AI-generated image resembling a scene from the science fiction movie to market ...Entertainment - ABC News - October 22 -
Elon Musk's $1 million voter petition lottery falls in a legal gray area, experts say
Elon Musk’s daily $1 million lottery for registered swing state voters who sign his super PAC’s petition falls into a legal gray area and could potentially violate election law, three experts told ...Top stories - NBC News - October 21 -
Mark Cuban says he proposed Elon Musk meet Harris, but her team declined
Businessman Mark Cuban told ABC News that with two weeks until Election Day, the vice president has momentum on her side, but that she can improve as a salesperson.Top stories - ABC News - October 22 -
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump Pac pouring millions into Facebook ads instead of X
America Pac is targeting users interested in the Boy Scouts of America, Kelsey Grammer, Kid Rock and Joe Rogan. Elon Musk’s Pac is spending far more on ads on Facebook and YouTube than on X, Musk’s ...World - The Guardian - October 22 -
DOJ warns Elon Musk his $1M giveaway to registered voters may violate federal law
The Justice Department has warned Elon Musk's America PAC that his $1 million giveaway to swing-state registered voters may violate federal law, a source says.Top stories - ABC News - October 23 -
Election officials, worried about misinformation, confront Elon Musk on his own turf
Local election officials have been taking to X to refute owner Elon Musk's false election claims -- but their reach pales in comparison to Musk's 200 million followers.Top stories - ABC News - October 24 -
DOJ warns Elon Musk pro-Trump PAC that $1 million voter contest may be illegal
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the world's richest man and one of the biggest backers of Donald Trump's White House bid against Kamala Harris.Business - CNBC - October 23 -
DOJ warns Elon Musk's America PAC that $1M voter giveaways could be illegal
Elon Musk's America PAC has been giving away $1 million daily, an effort it debuted in conjunction with Musk's push to register swing-state voters.Top stories - NBC News - October 23 -
Tesla shares jump, Elon Musk predicts at least 20% vehicle growth next year
Tesla reported third-quarter earnings Wednesday that topped analysts’ estimates even as revenue came in just shy of expectations.Top stories - NBC News - October 24 -
Ben Jennings on Elon Musk’s offer to give $1m to one US voter a day – cartoon
Continue reading...World - The Guardian - October 24 -
Elon Musk is $26 billion richer after Tesla's best day on the stock market since 2013
Tesla shares soared 22% on Thursday, lifting the world's richest person's net worth by roughly $26 billion.Business - CNBC - October 24 -
Anti-hate group vows to continue work after Elon Musk’s declaration of ‘war’
X owner renews hostilities with Center for Countering Digital Hate after it is linked to US election interference row. UK politics live – latest updates . A UK-founded anti-hate speech ...World - The Guardian - October 25