Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter (2 Viewers)

[St. Widge]

Stupid thing is, my bookmark is still twitter, and it never forwards - my browser says twitter.com the whole time. Elon is a moron.

My bookmark still says Twitter and it says Twitter in the URL, but it has the X logo. The entire concept of buying something that is more or less only a brand name and then changing the name, and doing a poor job of it, is dumb. Not to mention naming it a name that would only have been cool in the mid-to-late 80s.

 

[superchuck500]

lol - if this gets approved again, Tesla is hopeless as a functioning company

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

lol - if this gets approved again, Tesla is hopeless as a functioning company

K so DA went 2-15 last year and we tried to give him a raise from Pelicans revenue but that got nixed so players are going to pony up some of their money for his salary
We’re also installing donation boxes at the entrance to all gates at the Dome
Fans don’t hhaaaaavvvvveee to contribute, but if you don’t your sears will face away from the field

It makes the same amount of sense

 

[efil4stnias]

Fans don’t hhaaaaavvvvveee to contribute, but if you don’t your sears will face away from the field

that may happen regardless this season. ( for those who actually show up )

 

[St. Widge]

 

[nolaspe]

 

[Tapxe]

Elon Musk reportedly abruptly fired entire Tesla Supercharger team for this reason

But some of them are coming back.

mashable.com

If this interaction between Musk and Tinucci happened precisely as reported by Reuters, it would only add to a years-in-the-making tapestry of reports about the volatile work environment at Tesla. Whether it's an unusually high rate of workplace injuries or repeated accusations of racism on the factory floor, Tesla has generated plenty of headlines over the years that paint it as a pretty bleak place to work

 

[Goatman Saint]

Elon Musk reportedly abruptly fired entire Tesla Supercharger team for this reason

But some of them are coming back.

mashable.com

There have been enough rumors and enough smoke around this topic over the years there has to be a pretty big kernel of truth somewhere. My kids know people who have worked for SpaceX and Tesla and none of them have much good to say about the place in general, or Musk in particular.

 

[superchuck500]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to-ship-ai-chips-reserved-for-tesla-to-x-xai.html

So this appears to be a clear violation of Musk's fiduciary duty to the TSLA shareholders. How can the board continue to do nothing about this kind of conduct?

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to-ship-ai-chips-reserved-for-tesla-to-x-xai.html

So this appears to be a clear violation of Musk's fiduciary duty to the TSLA shareholders. How can the board continue to do nothing about this kind of conduct?

Oy vey.. and to think that not so long ago, i thought my TSLA stock would be a ticket to early retirement.. what a loon this guy is.. and i have a buddy who’s trying to convince me to vote to uphold Elon’s compensation package .. he still has many diehard fanboys.. this will not end well for him or for the company .

 

[SWJJ]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to-ship-ai-chips-reserved-for-tesla-to-x-xai.html

So this appears to be a clear violation of Musk's fiduciary duty to the TSLA shareholders. How can the board continue to do nothing about this kind of conduct?

Not necessarily, Telsa has moved into building their own in-house processing chips called Dojo, which is a wafer style chip that stacks 25 high powered processors that acts like a single processor and is expected to be a powerful solution for AI training, eliminating Telsa's need to buy and run NVidia chips.

Tesla's wafer-sized Dojo processor is in production — 25 chips combined into one

Wafer-scale processors gain traction.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

he still has many diehard fanboys..

I think this is something we need to wrap our brains around
There seems to be a seething mass of (faux) Chad outrage and troll bots that has an outsized influence on so, so many facets of our lives
It is illogical and spasmodic
Any attempt to make sense of it will both be fruitless and also feed it energy

 

[efil4stnias]

Not necessarily, Telsa has moved into building their own in-house processing chips called Dojo, which is a wafer style chip that stacks 25 high powered processors that acts like a single processor and is expected to be a powerful solution for AI training, eliminating Telsa's need to buy and run NVidia chips.

Tesla's wafer-sized Dojo processor is in production — 25 chips combined into one

Wafer-scale processors gain traction.

www.tomshardware.com

NVIDIA is now moving on from H100 chips to Blackwell which will be much more powerful and roughly 30% faster than the H100 ( from what i have read )

Currently, the Dojo Wafer runs about 25% of H100 capacity and requires liquid cooling. Thats not enough for his Dojo Supercomputer which will be used exclusively for AI training

And when i read about the AI training and think of what it will have to be able to do....i dont know that he pulls this off. This Dojo SC will be responsible for spitting out the data that will be used in autonomous vehicles. ( self driving )

The magnitude of this endeavor is really hard for me to wrap my brain around.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

NVIDIA is now moving on from H100 chips to Blackwell which will be much more powerful and roughly 30% faster than the H100 ( from what i have read )

Currently, the Dojo Wafer runs about 25% of H100 capacity and requires liquid cooling. Thats not enough for his Dojo Supercomputer which will be used exclusively for AI training

And when i read about the AI training and think of what it will have to be able to do....i dont know that he pulls this off. This Dojo SC will be responsible for spitting out the data that will be used in autonomous vehicles. ( self driving )

The magnitude of this endeavor is really hard for me to wrap my brain around.

I think you made up 22% of those words

 

[superchuck500]

Not necessarily, Telsa has moved into building their own in-house processing chips called Dojo, which is a wafer style chip that stacks 25 high powered processors that acts like a single processor and is expected to be a powerful solution for AI training, eliminating Telsa's need to buy and run NVidia chips.

Tesla's wafer-sized Dojo processor is in production — 25 chips combined into one

Wafer-scale processors gain traction.

www.tomshardware.com

If the answer is that "because Tesla didn't need them anymore" I would agree that it's not a conflict of interest for Musk - but I think there is strong evidence that is not the case, as the article indicates.

First, in TSLA's Q1 earnings call just a handful of weeks ago (on April 23), Musk proclaimed that Tesla was increasing its acquisition of Nvidia H-100 chips by about 140% over the course of 2024. It seems unlikely that this is could be consistent with Tesla being able to cancel chip orders with Nvidia due to increased in-house production. Second, based in-part on review of internal emails at Nvidia appears to show that Musk requested the allocation of H-100 chips be prioritized to X. The article uses the word "diverted" from Tesla to X, per Musk's request.

I think there is pretty good reason to reject the "Tesla didn't need them anymore" idea.