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Elon Musk fires Tesla’s entire supercharger team
Electric-car maker’s public policy unit also being disbanded as chief ann
七張圖表解析X在馬斯克接手後的動盪一年
馬斯克一年前收購Twitter時，他承諾要把這個社交媒體平台打造成一個「超級應用」，然而，一年過去了，馬斯克的宏願仍大多沒有着落。
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馬斯克將台灣比作中國的夏威夷，遭台方抨擊
台灣外交部暗示這位特斯拉首席執行官已把自己賣給了中國政府，並提到北京方面對社交平台X的審查制度。
Walter Isaacson’s biography portrays a driven, talented entrepreneur who has become increasingly unstable and petty even as his influence over global affairs has grown
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FT Walter Isaacson’s long-awaited, much-hyped biography of Elon Musk is here, tracking why the man that many people feel is the world’s greatest entrepreneur is also a libertarian narcissist prone to meddling in democracy and geopolitics.
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Counseling the Ukrainians to “seek peace” sounds especially rich coming from someone who is “energized,” Isaacson says, by “dire threats.” But then the overall sense you get from this biography is that for all of Musk’s talk about the world-changing magic of “the algorithm,” he ultimately does what he wants. He will order his companies to scrimp fanatically on some things while insisting that they spend lavishly on others. At Tesla, Musk’s obsession with the minutiae of automotive design inflated costs and drained the company of cash. At SpaceX, instead of spending $1,500 for the kind of latch used by NASA, an engineer figured out how to modify a $30 latch intended for a bathroom stall. When Musk acquired Twitter last year, he eliminated 75 percent of the staff.
Since Musk’s acquisition, hate speech on the platform has proliferated while ad sales have plunged. Reading this book, one begins to wonder if the old bird-site will be Musk’s Waterloo. “He thought of it as a technology company,” Isaacson writes, “when in fact it was an advertising medium based on human emotions and relationships.” Isaacson believes that Musk wanted to buy Twitter because he had been so bullied as a kid and “now he could own the playground.” It’s an awkward metaphor, but that’s also what makes it perfect. Owning a playground won’t stop you from getting bullied. If you think about it, owning a playground won’t get you much of anything at all.
Elon Musk Wants to Save Humanity. The Only Problem: People.
Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.
Elon Musk Refused to Enable Ukraine Drone Attack on Russian Fleet
The U.S. and Ukraine raised concerns over Mr. Musk’s outsized influence in the war after he acknowledged foiling an attack against Russia last year.
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