Tesla’s board, which has already compensated CEO Elon Musk more than the company earned through its entire existence, is now offering a new pay package worth up to $1 trillion. Today, Tesla filed its proxy statement ahead of its shareholders’ meeting in November, and there’s a lot in there, but the headline-stealing item is a… Continue reading Tesla (TSLA) board fully loses its mind and offers Elon Musk a pay package worth up to $1 trillion
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Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic’s Headquarters
AI fever might have an iron grip on Fortune 500 CEOs, Wall Street traders, and government officials, but there are still some out their immune to the tech industry’s charms. For evidence, look no further than activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, who’s currently running on day three of a hunger strike on the front steps… Continue reading Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic’s Headquarters
Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants
Never to be outshone — literally, in this case — Chinese scientists have one-upped American researchers and their bioluminescent petunias with what they’re calling world’s first multi-colored glowing plants. As the journal Nature reports, this glow-in-the-dark succulent hails from the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou, where materials researchers have developed a technology that recharges… Continue reading Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants
Family Baffled By Waymo Robotaxis Constantly Hanging Out in Front of Their House
Waymo robotaxis are making their way to more American cities, but they’re not always winning the hearts and minds of the people who live there. The autonomous cars have been spotted blundering the wrong way down a street and causing traffic jams, and residents have quickly grown fed up with their obnoxious back-up noise. They’re… Continue reading Family Baffled By Waymo Robotaxis Constantly Hanging Out in Front of Their House
Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion
Tesla’s board has proposed an unprecedented pay package for its CEO Elon Musk: around $1 trillion worth of shares, Bloomberg reports. It’s a major escalation in the firm’s increasingly desperate attempts to encourage its highly divisive leader to stick around and stay attentive. That’s despite Tesla’s core business imploding over the past year, largely the… Continue reading Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion
Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities
If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about a terrible HR crisis unfolding on the white continent. In particular, the report found that sexual assault, sexual… Continue reading Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world will take the necessary measures… Continue reading The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner
The scene opens confusingly. The camera zooms too close to the president’s face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long. Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley’s most… Continue reading Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner
Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk’s AI startup xAI
Tesla shareholders will soon vote whether to let the electric vehicle maker invest in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, a proposal pitched as a way to strengthen Tesla’s ambitions in AI, robotics, and energy. Listed in Tesla’s proxy statement alongside a company-backed push to raise Musk’s 10-year pay package to $1 trillion, the proposal comes… Continue reading Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk’s AI startup xAI
Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T
Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker’s car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI. The company has tied the compensation to a number of benchmarks, one of which involves increasing… Continue reading Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T