Françoise Bettencourt Meyers was already the richest woman in the world, but on Thursday, she hit a new milestone—the first female to accumulate a staggering fortune of over $100 billion ($100.2 billion, to be exact), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of L’Oreal founder Eugène Schueller, is the vice-chair of L’Oréal’s … Read more
Prominent electric vehicle maker Tesla’s plans to set up a plant in India will be made public in January during the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in the presence of its CEO Elon Musk, a report said on Thursday. The Ahmedabad Mirror reported that Gujarat fits in well with Tesla’s export-oriented approach which will cater to both … Read more
Following in the footsteps of its arch-rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI has adopted a for-profit benefit corporate structure in Nevada, as per a report by The Information. A late November filing with Nevada suggests this unusual corporate structure will enable xAI to focus more on having a positive impact … Read more
Masculinity has been the overarching theme in automobile designs for centuries. Recently, however, as more electric car models emerge, macho designs have been at their peak. Since Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, came under fire for launching the masculine ‘Tesla’s Cybertruck’, designers have noted that electric cars are clearly being marketed towards … Read more
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year. When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate … Read more
Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) has been catching flak lately for failing to pay its employees the bonuses that the company allegedly promised them verbally. Last week, a federal judge allowed a lawsuit against X to move ahead. It is worth noting that the lawsuit was originally filed in June by X’s former head of … Read more
Tesla not being invited to the White House EV Summit in 2021 still irks its CEO, Elon Musk. On Christmas Eve, he took to X (earlier Twitter) to lash out at US President Joe Biden for excluding Tesla from the summit. He wrote: “Let’s not forget the White House giving Tesla the cold shoulder, excluding … Read more
Image: Kevork Djansezian (Getty Images) Being pulled over by the cops sucks. Depending on who you are, it can be an easy or harrowing experience. No matter who you are though, one of the most annoying aspects of being pulled over is the police asking you, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” Luckily, … Read more
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Tolga Akmen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla faces a growing revolt in Scandinavia after Danish dockworkers joined a sympathy strike with Swedish … Read more
Tesla has released the first promotional video for the Cybertruck since delivering the pickup to the first buyers at a special event at Gigafactory Texas in Austin, on Thursday. The video (below), shared on YouTube and social media, runs with the tagline: “More utility than a truck, faster than a sports car.” The footage begins … Read more
