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Ex-Star Wars actor Gina Carano wants courts to force Lucasfilm to give her job back using Elon Musk’s money, praises Twitter as ‘one of the last glimmers of hope for free speech in the world’
Ex-Star Wars actor Gina Carano wants courts to force Lucasfilm to give her job back using Elon Musk’s money, praises Twitter as ‘one of the last glimmers of hope for free speech in the world’
Elon Musk’s lawyer accuses Microsoft of abusing its access to Twitter data
Elon Musk’s personal lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter on behalf of Twitter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that accuses Microsoft of violating Twitter’s developer agreement, as reported by The New York Times. In the Thursday letter (available in full below), Spiro claims that Microsoft may have been in violation of “multiple provisions” of Twitter’s developer agreement “for an extended period of time.”
Until recently, Microsoft had integrated Twitter’s APIs with some of its products — Twitter’s letter claims Microsoft operated “eight separate Twitter API apps” integrated with products like Xbox, Bing, and its ads platform. But it began pulling support for those APIs in April, including dropping clip sharing to Twitter from Xbox, likely due…
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Musk’s The Boring Company to expand Vegas Loop to 18 new stations
The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s project to build underground highways to alleviate traffic congestion, received approval Wednesday to expand its “Vegas Loop,” an underground tunnel system beneath Las Vegas that shuttles passengers via Tesla vehicles. The expansion, approved by Clark County, Nevada commissioners, will expand the network by 25 miles, allowing for 18 new stations […]
Musk’s The Boring Company to expand Vegas Loop to 18 new stations by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s Twitter Has Been More Compliant with Government Requests, Not Less
After castigating OG Twitter for its cooperation with government content requests, it turns out that Elon Musk’s version of the platform hasn’t been doing much better since he took over half a year ago. Not only has Musk Twitter™️ been responding to a variety of government requests—but it’s been doing so at a much…
Musk’s Tesla safety boasts could be deepfakes, his lawyers say
Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long warned about the potential dangers of AI.
In court filings reported by Reuters on Wednesday, Tesla’s lawyers echoed Musk’s warnings to claim that the billionaire’s own words could possibly be deepfakes. They argue that the mere possibility of digital alterations of Musk’s statements somehow overrides any need for him to testify about them in a legal setting.
Tesla is currently being sued by the family of Apple engineer Walter Huang, who was killed in a car crash while driving his Tesla Model X in 2018. According to his family, Huang’s death was the result of a malfunction with Tesla’s automated driving feature, Autopilot. Tesla has argued that Huang was playing video games, despite warnings from Tesla, right before the crash occurred.
Musk’s previous claims about Tesla’s safety have come up in the lawsuit. For example, in 2016, during an interview with tech journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, Musk claimed that the “Model S and Model X, at this point, can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person. Right now.”
The video of that particular interview, which was uploaded in June 2016 by the now-defunct Vox-owned tech website Recode, is still viewable on YouTube.
In order to argue that an interview with Musk about such claims, under oath, wasn’t needed, Tesla’s lawyers claimed that Musk could not recall saying such words and any purported evidence that he did could be a deepfake, or AI-generated manipulated media.
The judge wasn’t buying it.
“Their position is that because Mr. Musk is famous and might be more of a target for deep fakes, his public statements are immune,” said Judge Evette D. Pennypacker of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. “In other words, Mr. Musk, and others in his position, can simply say whatever they like in the public domain, then hide behind the potential for their recorded statements being a deep fake to avoid taking ownership of what they did actually say and do.”
Judge Pennypacker ordered that Musk be interviewed in a tentative 3-hour deposition. Although, some details could change. The trial is set to begin on July 31.