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Elon Musk Got 72% in Tesla Shareholder Vote on Pay

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By: Jason Karaian and Jack Ewing
14 June 2024 at 16:31
About 72 percent of shares in the balloting affirmed the chief executive’s lucrative stock award. The company hopes to get a court to reinstate it.

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Tesla’s decisive shareholder vote affirming Elon Musk’s stock award was a vote of confidence in his leadership of the electric car company.

Musk’s Friends and Fans Applaud Shareholder Vote on His Payday

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By: Eli Tan
13 June 2024 at 20:05
On the social media platform X, which Mr. Musk owns, reactions to a vote that reaffirmed Mr. Musk’s $45 billion package were buoyant.

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Tesla shareholders reaffirmed a compensation package of more than $45 billion for Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino Touts Advertiser Return After Musk Takeover

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By: Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
13 June 2024 at 18:40
Still, Elon Musk, who owns the platform, and his chief executive Linda Yaccarino, have work to do to grow the business, leaders told employees.

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Linda Yaccarino told X employees that 65 percent of advertisers had returned to the platform since January, while admitting that the business continues to face advertising headwinds.

Tesla Shareholders Approve C.E.O. Elon Musk’s Pay Package

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By: Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
13 June 2024 at 19:42
The vote was seen as a referendum on his management of the electric car maker and on the limits of executive pay.

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Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, which is seeking to reverse a court decision blocking a lucrative stock award.

Tesla’s Nordic Shareholders Seek to Promote Workers’ Rights in Vote

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By: Melissa Eddy
13 June 2024 at 00:00
Tesla mechanics in Sweden have been striking for six months with little movement from their employer. Nordic shareholders hope to change that.

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A Tesla facility in Stockholm last year. The auto maker’s shareholders will vote on a measure, inspired by a strike by Tesla workers in Sweden, urging the company to engage in collective bargaining.

Elon Musk Withdraws His Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

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By: Cade Metz
11 June 2024 at 19:32
The Tesla chief executive had claimed that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of benefiting humanity.

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Mr. Musk founded his own artificial intelligence company last year called xAI, and has repeatedly claimed that OpenAI was not focused enough on the dangers of the technology.

SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Successfully Completes 1st Return From Space

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By: Kenneth Chang
6 June 2024 at 12:50
The company achieved a key set of ambitious goals on the fourth test flight of a vehicle that is central to Elon Musk’s vision of sending people to Mars.

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The SpaceX Starship launching on its fourth flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on June 6, 2024.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People

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By: Jack Nicas and Victor Moriyama
2 June 2024 at 00:01
Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.

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A Starlink satellite internet antenna in the Manakieaway village of the Marubo Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon.

Elon Musk Lobbies on X for His $46.5 Billion Tesla Pay Package

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By: Kate Conger and Jack Ewing
31 May 2024 at 22:02
The Tesla chief executive is taking to his social media company to press shareholders to vote for a critical pay package on June 13.

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Elon Musk has posted at least a dozen times on X in recent weeks in support of a proposed $46.5 billion pay package from Tesla.

Elon Musk’s X to Host Election Town Hall With Donald Trump

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By: Kate Conger
30 May 2024 at 18:34
The social media platform will produce video town halls with Mr. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., extending its push into politics.

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Elon Musk has used X to express his keen disapproval of President Joseph Biden, although he has stopped short of endorsing Mr. Trump.

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion

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By: Jason Karaian
27 May 2024 at 14:11
Elon Musk, who founded xAI last year, has said the business “still has a lot of catching up to do” as it looks to compete with well-funded companies like OpenAI.

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Elon Musk in New York last month.

Elon Musk is Criticizing Biden On X More Ahead of 2024 Election

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By: Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
24 May 2024 at 05:03
The billionaire owner of X has increasingly been using his social media platform to criticize President Biden for his health and immigration policies, according to a New York Times analysis.

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Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service

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By: Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano
25 May 2024 at 13:42
Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.

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Members of the Achilles Drone battalion of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They depend on Starlink service for communications and to conduct drone strikes.

Inside the Life of Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s Running Mate

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By: Kirsten Grind
22 May 2024 at 17:50
Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer who was married to Sergey Brin, a Google founder, led a rarefied and sometimes turbulent life in Silicon Valley, according to a Times examination.

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Nicole Shanahan, a philanthropist, has recently stepped into the spotlight as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vice-presidential candidate.

Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers

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By: Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
4 May 2024 at 05:04
The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.

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Tesla’s change of direction is likely to delay construction of fast chargers, which are concentrated on the two coasts and in parts of Texas.

Tesla Fires Charger Team Amid Hundreds of Layoffs

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By: Jack Ewing
30 April 2024 at 20:07
The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.

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Tesla agreed last year to open up its network of Supercharger stations to electric cars made by other automakers.

U.S. Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot

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By: J. Edward Moreno
26 April 2024 at 16:03
The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Tesla’s recall of its Autopilot system.
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