On Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast With Elon Musk and Other Recent Elon Musk Things

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Elon's podcast reveals confused AI alignment, plans for space data centers and human obsolescence, while xAI's safety team has fled and he attacks critics.

Tesla ending Models S and X production
Tesla is discontinuing Model S and X production to reallocate resources toward Optimus robots and robotaxis.
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Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval
xAI staff complain that constant upheaval, co-founder departures, and Musk's hardcore demands are destroying morale and causing talent loss, despite aggressive expansion plans.
also on Grok, Tesla, xAI, Elon Musk, #culture
Musk unveils joint Tesla-xAI project 'Macrohard'
Musk announced Macrohard, a joint Tesla-xAI project combining Grok LLM with a Tesla AI agent to emulate entire software companies.
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Opinion | Our Stock Market Is Broken
The SpaceX IPO exemplifies how hype and speculative optimism, fueled by regulatory changes and an insular investor ecosystem, have broken the stock market's link to fundamentals.
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The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
SpaceX's $2T IPO lacks financial justification, but data centers in space for agentic AI inference could make the valuation plausible.
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