In Reno, Nevada, Tesla has struggled to hit its solar energy goals at its Gigafactory, which Tesla’s Chief Technical Officer JB Straubel said would be a “zero emissions facility” at the time of its opening in 2016.

In New York, Tesla has received nearly $1 billion from the state to build a solar panel manufacturing facility that has failed to generate the number and quality of jobs the company had promised.

This governing arrangement was organized in part by Hernández, who served two terms as president of Honduras from 2014 until January 2022.

What sets Prospera apart from traditional tax havens is that it is directly governed by a US corporation, which has been allowed to write many of its own regulations.

The organization has received $120 million in investments, including from billionaires Thiel, Sam Altman, and Marc Andreessen.

Prospera, located on the Caribbean island of Roatan, Honduras, is a for-profit city-state that seeks to put libertarian economic and regulatory theories into practice.

It is, in other words, a gated community for the global elite to park capital with little government oversight and low taxes.

xAI’s facility in Tennessee has already been targeted by a “foreign national” with “Russian” ties, according to a new lawsuit obtained by Oligarch Watch.

The US government, meanwhile, has become increasingly reliant on xAI’s services.

xAI’s Colossus data facility, located in Tennessee and home to the largest AI supercomputer in the world, could be a valuable target for US adversaries due to the company’s work for the Pentagon.

The Department of War awarded xAI a contract worth up to $200 million in July.

Through its arrangements with Tencent and Ant Group, Shift4 is pursuing a significant push into the Chinese market, underscoring that Isaacman’s company has a financial interest in maintaining a positive relationship with China.

Shift4, a payment processing firm, recently added a pair of new strategic partners with ties to the Communist Party of China. Over the summer, Tencent and Ant Group, the two Chinese companies, invested a combined $88 million in Shift4.

But given his business interests, Isaacman, who is the executive chairman and top shareholder of Shift4 Payments, is a curious choice to direct Trump’s space race.

Musk’s significant investment in Kean, who serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, appears to have already paid off for the billionaire.

Musk’s financial backing helped the congressman secure a close reelection victory.

He now sits on the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, which has jurisdiction over satellite communications, a critical policy field for Starlink, SpaceX’s growing satellite internet subsidiary.

Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, and made these false claims on the number one podcast in the United States. Rogan did not push back on Musk’s claims and accepted Musk’s version of reality.

What went unmentioned, however, was the actual dispute at the heart of the shutdown: the expiration of subsidies that will dramatically increase health insurance costs for millions of Americans.

Musk also claimed that states like California and New York would be bankrupt without federal aid and that they depend on such funding to secure votes from undocumented immigrants.
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His favorite is Optimus, Tesla’s bipedal humanoid robot, which is still in early development. But despite Musk’s lofty claims, the future of Optimus remains highly uncertain.

With the company’s auto sales lagging this year amid intensifying competition, an aging lineup of vehicles, and backlash over Musk’s right-wing politics, Musk has taken to marketing more fantastical products.

Salesforce’s enthusiasm for Trump’s deportation regime is noteworthy, given that Benioff has spent the past decade using the company to launch headline-grabbing attacks against Republican policies.