"Five years from now and certainly 10 years from now... probably 90% of all distance driven will be driven by the AI in a self-driving car," The billionaire said this week at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv.
"So overwhelmingly, it'll be quite a niche thing in 10 years to actually be driving your own car," he added.
It's nice that Elon is taking time out from his usual white supremacy and racist fearmongering to lecture us on how beneficial he is to humanity though. He should clearly be above the law, as befits such a self declared supreme philosopher-god-king.
Elon apparently got Trump's attention on the long flights on AF1.
The Trump administration is currently working a “Golden Dome” space-based missile interceptor system, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Lockheed Martin awarded contracts to make the project a reality.
[ Kalshi and Polymarket currently giving Elon 30% odds. NYT is detached, but concludes: ]
Mr. Molo finished with an email that directly addressed the statute of limitations. Mr. Musk sent the email to Mr. Altman on Oct. 20, 2022 that included a link to a news story reporting that Microsoft was investing another $10 billion in OpenAI. That was the moment, he said. Musk realized that OpenAI has breached the charitable trust — well within the three-year legal statute.
But William Savitt, OpenAI’s lead lawyer, said the charity is still very much alive. And thanks to OpenAI’s growth, its assets are worth more than $200 billion.
“Mr. Musk looks at all of this and shouts: ‘They stole a charity,’” Mr. Savitt said. “That’s sort of all he does: Shouts.”
Ms. Eddy, the other OpenAI lawyer, continued to hammer the point that the fight for control of OpenAI years ago and the court fight today were about Mr. Musk’s pursuit of power. He was particularly focused, she said, on the creation of artificial general intelligence, a powerful type of A.I. that could be as intelligent as humans that OpenAI has been working on for years.
“He wanted dominion over A.G.I.,” she said. And when he died, Ms. Eddy added, Mr. Musk wanted to pass control of OpenAI’s technology to his children.
A star is born:
An anonymous user of the social platform X [posted] a plea into the ether in late 2024. “How do I reach 100 followers on X?” the account with the username XFreeze asked.
That post didn’t receive a single like, share or reply, but within months, XFreeze appears to have launched a strategy that propelled the account to become one of the platform’s most visible: Court the man in charge, Elon Musk.
XFreeze rose to become the account Musk engaged with more than any other on X in 2026, according to a Washington Post analysis, by tirelessly praising the billionaire owner of X and his other ventures, including Tesla and SpaceX.
Musk, who has around 240 million followers on X, replied to or shared XFreeze posts more than 400 times this year, The Post found, spreading the account’s laudatory claims about his achievements and using its posts to attack his opponents in the ongoing trial over his lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and company leaders including CEO Sam Altman.
Several XFreeze posts critical of Musk’s legal targets were among those shared or written by the billionaire last month that prompted the judge in the federal trial to ask him to pull back on posting about the case.
In an online milieu teeming with sycophants and reply guys, the rise of XFreeze from total unknown to the upper stratospheres of Musk fandom is a case study in how a savvy user can hack the incentive structure of X and the psychology of its billionaire owner. The account’s ascent shows how Musk can draw on boost obscure posts by his fans to shape public narratives around his business interests or legal battles, a symbiotic relationship that can bring those he elevates bigger payouts from X’s revenue sharing or subscription programs.
(alt link: https://archive.ph/yUlaY )
Securely paywalled, sigh. One little bit:
In a survey of more than 260,000 U.S. consumers and workers who use AI, the percent of respondents who said they paid for Grok remained mostly flat at 0.174% in the second quarter of 2026 versus 0.173% a year ago, according to research firm Recon Analytics. More than 6% of respondents said they paid for ChatGPT.
0.174% is probably considerably higher that the number paying for twitter though
Elon certainly got a stupendous return on his investment in Trump though. I so hope they end up together in Dante's innermost circle.
On X, where St. Clair has more than 1 million followers, she had become a legend: a young conservative woman fighting back against the perceived liberal excesses of “brain rot” feminism and the “‘woke’ agenda” — a reputation that swelled last year, when she revealed that she had secretly had a child with the platform’s multibillionaire owner, Elon Musk.
But in the past few months, St. Clair has become one of the right-wing internet’s most scathing and visible critics. Many of Trump’s top online cheerleaders are actually just mercenaries of the attention economy, she argues, working to turn political outrage and talking points coordinated with administration officials into paid promotional deals.
“There is no free thinking here,” she said in a TikTok video last month about the movement she joined when she was 19. “They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.”
Noted for headline only. I would paraphrase Henny Youngman here, but that would date me.
As a shareholder, I hope he's looking elsewhere.
Brockman described a particularly intense meeting in which Musk said he deserved a majority stake in OpenAI because of his business experience. Musk said he intended to use that stake to build a self-sustaining city on Mars, according to Brockman.
"He said he needed $80 billion to create a city" on Mars, Brockman said. "In the end, he needed full control." Brockman added that Musk said he would decide when to relinquish full control.
[ Elon would decide to relinquish full control somewhere around the 1st of never, which is also about the right timeline for his self-sustaining city on Mars. ]
Elon's head seems to be occupied by many rent-free livers. Ketamine may be the only escape available.
I think Elon vastly underestimates his own hateability here, and vastly overestimates his persuasiveness as a witness. All very true to Elon form though.
May 4 (Reuters) - Elon Musk contacted OpenAI President Greg Brockman to gauge interest in a settlement two days before their high-stakes trial got underway in Oakland federal court, according to a new court filing.
When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk allegedly said, "By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be," the filing, made on Sunday, stated.
After Musk on Thursday accused OpenAI’s lead attorney of asking a leading question, Gonzalez Rogers interrupted the billionaire and asked him to repeat four words after her: “I’m not a lawyer,” Musk said obediently, then added: “I did take law 101, technically.” Several members of the public sitting in court burst out laughing.
(from WaPo, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/02/musk-altman-openai-trial/ )
What is unfolding in the Oakland courtroom is less a trial about a nonprofit's mission and more an attempt at humiliation underwritten by the wealthiest man in the world, who is more chips than shoulder. He's somebody who knows the power of public perception. He's a lot like his old boss in the White House in that regard. Both men are keenly attuned to (and wield immense power over) digital and public media. Musk is one of the few people wealthy enough to casually throw this kind of money after a grievance.
Plus, there's a reason he's focusing his ire on Altman. OpenAl represents something that Musk has rarely had to contend with: a success story that outgrew him. Not only did the company continue after he left, but it flourished. Its flagship product, ChatGPT, has become shorthand for A.l. itself. It's the kind of cultural and commercial breakthrough that we haven't seen since the iPhone-and it happened largely without him. For a figure who is synonymous with the industries he touches-spaceflight, electric cars, social media-OpenAl's rise and dominance carry an uncomfortable implication: One of the most consequential technological shifts of our time can happen beyond his reach-and without his name and face attached to it. No wonder he's trying to hang on.
Elon now being cross examined, after what seems to have been a fairly dull direct, leading to some entertainment.
Musk has stepped back to the stand for cross-examination by OpenAI’s legal team.
The company’s lead counsel, William Savitt, began his questioning by showing Musk a social media post he made last month.
“Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI,” Musk had posted, referring to artificial general intelligence, or a machine that can do anything the human brain can.
Musk previously testified that Tesla, the electric vehicle maker he leads, was not pursuing A.G.I.
Savitt continued his line of questioning, raising questions about Musk’s trustworthiness. Musk said earlier today that he donated $38 million in total to OpenAI. Savitt pointed out that Musk said under oath in an earlier deposition that he had donated a total of $100 million. Musk has started to become combative.
Musk has grown increasingly annoyed at Savitt’s prodding. “You’re being misleading,” Musk said of Savitt’s questioning.
In another retort, Musk said: “The classic answer to a yes-or-no question is not so simple. For example, if you ask the question ‘Will you stop beating your wife?'” The judge cut him off. “No, we’re not gonna go there.” The entire gallery laughed.
The direct examination is a way of telling a story through questions; it’s important to make the narrative clear. For a suit that accuses Sam Altman of straying from OpenAI’s mission, Musk spent a weird amount of time talking about himself, recounting his biography, and hyping up the various ventures he’s undertaken that have nothing to do with OpenAI.
For instance, he told jurors that he worked between “80 to 100 hours a week,” which was how he got so much done. It is unclear to me whether his prolific posting habits count as part of the workweek. I hope the defense asks. ...
At another point, Musk was asked to explain who former OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis was. “Shivon was the, um, my chief of staff and, uh, you know,” Musk said. One person in the gallery — presumably familiar with the fact that Zilis is the mother of a few of Musk’s kids — burst out in loud laughter. But the jury looked puzzled.
Maybe because of all the court cases piling up. Demure but youthful. Still somewhat of a relief from the normal white supremacy and racist fearmongering though.
Lest we forget, we don't have to imagine what Elon did with his DOGE chainsaw when he got political power: