Tag: Elon Musk
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MrBeast’s Video Experiment on X Made More Than $260K in Revenue As Elon Musk Tries to Take on YouTube – But There is a Catch…
The numbers are in, and the test video Jimmy Donaldson — also known as MrBeast on YouTube — uploaded on X pulled in $263,655 in revenue. “My first X video made over $250,000!” Donaldson wrote in an X post on Monday. The content creator acknowledged that the buzz around the original post likely gave the…
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MrBeast Tests Posting Videos on X As Elon Musk Tries To Take On YouTube and Twitch
It looks like MrBeast is playing ball with Elon Musk after all. Earlier this week, Jimmy Donaldson — better known as MrBeast, one of YouTube’s most popular personalities — posted a 16-minute video on X called “$1 Car vs $100,000,000 Car!” “I’m curious how much ad revenue a video on X would make so I’m…
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SpaceX Projected to Hit $15 Billion in Revenue on Expected Surge in Starlink Internet Business
SpaceX is expecting healthy revenue growth next year thanks in large part to the widening availability and interest in its Starlink remote internet business. Elon Musk’s space venture is on track to generate revenue of $9 billion this year, with that figure growing by 67% to $15 billion in 2024, according to Bloomberg, citing unnamed…
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Elon Musk’s New Artificial Intelligence Called XAI Launches Tomorrow
Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence startup, XAI, will launch tomorrow for a select user group. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced XAI in July and said that the model’s goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Musk also owns X, formerly Twitter. XAI’s website said the startup is separate from X,…
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Elon Musk Reportedly Wants His X App To Replace Your Bank Account
Elon Musk has big plans for the X app, formerly Twitter. In an all-hands call last week, Musk talked about new features aimed at making X your financial hub are expected to launch by the end of 2024. An audio recording of the meeting was obtained by The Verge. “When I say payments, I actually…
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T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Satellite-Cellular Partnership May Be Grounded For Now
A little more than a year ago, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came together to unveil a partnership to offer a hybrid service that utilized satellites to boost the coverage and range of cellphones, with a promises of expanding coverage and eliminating dead zones for customers. Fast forward to today, and…
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Elon Musk’s Start-Up Neuralink Is Looking for People To Join Its Brain-Implant Trial
Elon Musk’s Neuralink said it has received approval to start human clinical trials for its wireless brain-computer interface, or BCI. The Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface study, or Prime Study, intends to examine the safety and functionality of the implant for paralysis patients. A surgical robot will place the BCI in the part of the…
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Elon Musk Says He Will Start Charging All X (Twitter) Users “A Few Dollars” a Month
X, formerly Twitter, may soon be more expensive to use, if an Elon Musk teases is to be believed. Musk raised the idea of charging all users of X in the middle of a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bloomberg reporter Dave Lee first tweeted on Monday (You can see the full conversation,…
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Starlink Reportedly Has 1.5 Million Customers, Far Short of its Goal of 20 Million by 2022
When SpaceX launched Starlink, the company anticipated reaching 20 million users by 2022. However, by the end of last year, the satellite internet provider fell short of that goal, nabbing only 1 million customers. Its current base now stands at 1.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Starlink’s revenue last year totaled $1.4 billion,…
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You Have to See This Tesla Drive-In Movie Supercharger
A diner and drive-in movie theater where you can charge your electric car sounds like something concocted in the mind of Doc Brown, but Tesla plans to make it a reality in Los Angeles. The electric car company nabbed a permit for Diner and Drive-In Movie Supercharger, according to Teslarati. The restaurant-movie theater charger station…