Grok: Grok anything
Also Grok: Tesla good, competing EV company bad, recent poll that supports Elon's immigration politics

Sawyer Merritt Ethan was going to join OpenAI, so it was either xAI or them.

They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases.

Musk’s xAI is Poaching Engineers From Tesla

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On a quote plaque above Blue Origin's Florida lobby: “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”

Nick Wingfield and I look at the literal and figurative signs that Jeff Bezos is ready to catch up to SpaceX:

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Also, rockets are cool. Here Becky Peterson and I try to pretend like we're not very excited to be on the launchpad that Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket will launch from later this year.

In an interview from a Miami Cuban restaurant, Jeff Bezos talks to The Information about his new job and BlueOrigin's upcoming launch. Great piece from Nick Wingfield Becky Peterson

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Exclusive: Medical lab-testing and data company Tempus has hired Morgan Stanley to run an IPO process.

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By Becky Peterson & Cory Weinberg

New from me: Elon Musk agreed to pay Morgan Stanley $42.0 million to advise on his 2022 Twitter acquisition—one chunk of more than $150 million in fees the bank estimated it could get from the deal. theinformation.com/articles/morga…

The Tesla 85: How former employees of Elon Musk 's car company have come to dominate nearly every aspect of the EV and battery industries. The Electric. theinformation.com/articles/the-e…

lindsay dodgson🍓 Becky Peterson I'm told 1 Hollywood movie deal is equivalent to roughly 4.5 Max Tani newsletter mentions

Scoop: Two Tesla veterans launch a CT scan venture to detect defects in electric vehicle batteries during production and before they hit the road. The Electric. theinformation.com/articles/exclu…

two weeks ago, i published an investigation into allegations of mismanagement and misrepresentation at Life House, a hospitality startup that raised $100M+ in venture capital to reinvent the hotel industry

today, the CEO resigned

Scoop: Meta is trying to make its forthcoming large language model, Llama 3, more open to difficult questions after leaders at the company deemed some of Llama 2's responses too 'safe'.
W/ Kalley Huang :

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tiktok's nyc office had a bed bug (scoop!)

after finding a bed bug in dec. and multiple floors testing positive this month, employees are asking tiktok to temporarily close the office, reimburse bed bug expenses and pay for meals at home (no to all three)
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'The owner of a San Jose small business says she's taken a big hit after Tesla placed an order worth thousands of dollars, then canceled unexpectedly.' abc7news.com/sj-the-giving-…