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Business
Olympic shooter Kim Ye-ji named Tesla Korea’s 1st brand ambassador
Olympic silver medalist Kim Ye-ji, who went viral for her distinct style and calm demeanor at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has been appointed as...
Ryan General
Home
Elon Musk’s mom faces backlash over attack on Vietnamese American reporter
Maye Musk, mother of Elon Musk, faced accusations of racism over a controversial post on X regarding Vietnamese American reporter Ryan Mac o...
Musk’s SpaceX plans $1.5 billion investment in Vietnam
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is considering a $1.5 billion investment in Vietnam, a move that could finally bring its Starlink satellite interne...
Culture
Elon Musk praises former Singapore PM’s critique of ‘wokeness’
Elon Musk posted on his platform X a clip of former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s critique of “wokeness,” praising it a...
Carl Samson
Elon Musk responds to girl who found Tesla bug
A 7-year-old girl named Molly attracted the attention of Elon Musk after reporting a bug she found on the touchscreen display of their Tesla...
Bryan Ke
Crime
Korean woman loses $50,000 after falling for fake Elon Musk
A Korean fan of Elon Musk was duped into transferring thousands of dollars to a scammer who pretended to be the billionaire using artificial...
Feature
Google CEO slams AI diversity errors as ‘completely unacceptable’
In a leaked memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recent errors made by the company’s Gemini image generator, which some critics alleged...
China’s BYD snatches Tesla’s crown as world’s largest EV maker
Tesla has lost its position as the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer to Chinese rival BYD in the final months of 2023...
Michelle De Pacina
Education
Elon Musk on Asian teen rejected by 16 colleges: ‘The left hates Asians’
“The left hates Asians,” Musk writes ...
China
Taiwan fires back at Elon Musk, says its not part of China nor ‘for sale’
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly rejected Elon Musk’s assertion that Taiwan is “an integral part of China.” Musk’s comme...
Woman sues Tesla after her husband dies trapped in Model 3 after fiery crash
She asserted that the vehicle was “unreasonably dangerous for its designed and intended purposes” ...
Social Media
Mark Zuckerberg says Elon Musk ‘isn’t serious’ about fight, tells people to ‘move on’
Despite Elon Musk’s announcements about the location of his highly anticipated cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg, the latter recently declared...
‘I’m training like crazy’: Chinese ‘Elon Musk’ gears up for Mark Zuckerberg fight
Yilong Ma, Elon Musk’s viral Chinese doppelgänger, has been “training” for the world’s richest man’s unofficial fight against fellow tech bi...
Elon Musk says X will pay legal fees of users discriminated by employers for posting on the platform
X owner Elon Musk has offered to pay the legal bills of users who have been allegedly discriminated against by their employers due to their ...
Asian American History
Meet the world’s first pro gamer: He played ‘Quake’ against a teenaged Elon Musk and now uses AI to flag toxic players
Meet Dennis “Thresh” Fong, commonly regarded as the world’s first professional gamer. His beginnings: Fong was born in Hong Kong in 19...
Twitter takes @X handle from original user Gene X Hwang without warning after rebranding
“All’s well that ends well,” he wrote from his new handle @x12345678998765 ...
Tesla’s $1700 electric quad bike for kids sells out in China after US ban
Tesla’s launch of their electric quad bike for children in China is a hit — nearly a year after the bikes failed to meet U.S. safety r...
Chandler Treon
Tesla pledges to uphold ‘core socialist values’ in China
Elon Musk’s Tesla and 15 Chinese automakers have committed to enhancing China’s “core socialist values” as a response to Beijing’...
News
14-year-old college grad gets hired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX
A 14-year-old college graduate has received a job offer to be a software engineer at Elon Musk’s spaceflight company SpaceX. Key detai...
‘Brother Ma’: Elon Musk welcomed in China with 16-course feast, praise from Chinese fans
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was welcomed to China with a feast and praise from Chinese fans as he visited the country for the first time in three ye...
Events
Elon Musk look-alike at NYC event angers Chinese attendees who expected the real one
Several Chinese attendees who paid thousands of dollars to see Elon Musk at a magazine launch event in New York City were left disappointed ...
Tesla under investigation after steering wheels come off while driving
A brand new Tesla owner was shocked when his vehicle’s steering wheel snapped off while he was driving with his family. The malfunctio...
Ana Yoo
Chinese state media warns Elon Musk over ‘lab leak’ coronavirus tweets
The Global Times, a daily tabloid newspaper run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk for pushing the COVID-19 “l...
Issues & Racism
Elon Musk says media is ‘racist against whites and Asians’ amid ‘Dilbert’ creator backlash
Twitter CEO Elon Musk called the media “racist against whites and Asians” after author Scott Adams’ “Dilbert” comic strip ...
Nvidia CEO hails ChatGPT as ‘greatest thing’ to happen in computing
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently expressed high praise for ChatGPT, declaring it one of the greatest things ever created in t...
Elon Musk’s Chinese doppelgänger calms down after receiving Dogecoins in viral TikTok
Yilong Ma, the viral Chinese doppelgänger of Twitter CEO Elon Musk, has gone viral again, this time for a skit posted on TikTok about Dogeco...
Viral video shows woman asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla on California freeway
A driver encountered what appeared to be a woman sleeping behind the wheel of a Tesla that was traveling along a Southern California freeway...
Elon Musk says Tesla’s Chinese rivals ‘work hardest, smartest’
Elon Musk said that Tesla’s closest competitor is likely a Chinese company as they “work the hardest and the smartest.” On Tesla’s earnings ...
Tom Zhu: Tesla’s China chief is now the company’s most powerful executive after Elon Musk
Tesla’s China chief Tom Zhu is reportedly the second highest-profile executive of the billion-dollar electric vehicle (EV) company aft...
Videos of Teslas malfunctioning in below-freezing temperatures go viral
Before you read: Driver of Tesla blames company for deadly crash caught on video in China Multiple stories of Tesla vehicles experiencing ma...
‘Inventor of email’ asks Elon Musk how he can apply to be Twitter CEO
Indian American entrepreneur V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have “invented email,” has shown interest in becoming Twitter’...
Elon Musk responds to Ye’s ‘compliment’ that he’s a ‘half-Chinese genetic hybrid’
Ye, the American rapper formerly known as Kanye West, thinks Twitter CEO Elon Musk could be a half-Chinese "genetic hybrid.” In an In...
‘It’s Japan-centric’: Elon Musk names Japan as Twitter’s ideal market
Elon Musk reportedly told employees on Monday that Japan’s strong usage of Twitter is what the company should aim for “ideally in every cou...
Elon Musk welcomes Ye back to Twitter after also unbanning Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump had his Twitter account restored after Elon Musk, the new owner and CEO of the social media platform, posted ...
Art
Manga creator demands $1 billion from Elon Musk
“Magical Girl Site” manga creator Kentarō Satō is demanding a billion dollars from Elon Musk for posting his original character on Twitter ...
Elon Musk announces Twitter ban on impersonation accounts
Twitter accounts that impersonate others without indicating that they are parody accounts will be permanently suspended from the platform, ...
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