Musk clips his Mars settlement ambition
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Elon Musk responded to a post on X about government contracts and subsidies tied to his companies, highlighting the value of Tesla and SpaceX.
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As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in which he revealed that SpaceX is pivoting from the settlement of Mars to building a “self-growing” city on the Moon.
Recruiting for SpaceX in South Texas is particularly difficult, he said: “It’s like a technology monastery thing, remote and mostly dudes.”
The rocket company ran a Super Bowl ad for Starlink, the first time any of Elon Musk's companies have run an ad at the showpiece event.
X gave $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.
Musk, the richest man in the world wrote on X, the platform he owns that "money can't buy happiness," followed by a sad face emoji.
Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year
"We just need enough time to build the AI and robots to not go bankrupt before then."