Theo Wayt
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Reporter @theinformation covering Tesla, xAI, SpaceX and Elon Musk. Email: theo @ https://t.co/gCWCdzOd1L Cell/Signal: 917 300 8909
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Elon Musk said on Joe Rogan's show today that Tesla might unveil a flying car before the end of 2025.
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The "trouble" with autonomous vehicle businesses is they all go through state and local regulators. Lots of work ahead for Tesla cybercab...
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Tesla’s Scaled Back Robotaxi Timeline Still Faces Obstacles Tesla’s hopes to expand its Robotaxi to Arizona and Nevada face regulatory hurdles. Read more from @theo_wayt 👇 https://t.co/aMt8E3t3qz
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Elon Musk has already dampened expectations for when Tesla will widely roll out its robotaxi service, which the CEO says is critical to the automaker’s future. But it’s questionable whether Tesla...
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The target Musk shared last week was already a big step down from a target he laid out in July, when he said Robotaxi would reach half the U.S. population by the end of 2025. Read the full story in @theinformation
https://t.co/CUgywVujFZ
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Elon Musk has already dampened expectations for when Tesla will widely roll out its robotaxi service, which the CEO says is critical to the automaker’s future. But it’s questionable whether Tesla...
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New 🤖🚖: Elon Musk told $TSLA investors last week that its Robotaxi service would be operating in 8 to 10 metro areas by the end of 2025, including in Nevada, Arizona and Florida. But Tesla has yet to complete the paperwork necessary to launch in NV and AZ, regulators say.
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As OpenAI grows, employees are getting concerned that it's starting to look too much like the social media giant Meta. Details incl: - a metafication survey - internal reactions to sora - the rise of ads w/ the dream team @KalleyHuang @erinkwoo
https://t.co/zLE98ftZrY
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This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many...
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Tesla gave an update on its Optimus robot today, saying that "first generation production lines for Optimus are being installed in anticipation of volume production." Not exactly the 5,000 robots this year that Elon Musk promised. Read our reporting on why Optimus is behind ⤵️
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Elon Musk continues to attack Sean Duffy over his leadership of NASA and criticism of SpaceX Coincidentally, Duffy also happens to be in charge of regulating another one of Musk’s companies: Tesla. https://t.co/izfh2HUshZ
Having a NASA Administrator who knows literally ZERO about rockets & spacecraft undermines the American space program and endangers our astronauts
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Job alert: join @theinformation’s award winning AI reporting team to cover *the* business story of the decade.
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scoop w/ @theo_wayt: CoreWeave has hired Jon Jones, the former head of Amazon Web Services’ global startups and venture capital business, as its first chief revenue officer. https://t.co/d4UtjaFp0e
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CoreWeave has hired Jon Jones, the former head of Amazon Web Services’ global startups and venture capital business, as its first chief revenue officer, the company confirmed Thursday. The Informat...
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New💸🤝: Elon Musk's xAI is building the world's biggest supercomputer and a power plant to run it. But xAI won't own most of the billions of dollars worth of Nvidia chips in Colossus, at least at first. It also won't control the plant. @MilesKruppa and I on xAI's unusual deals
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Today on The Information’s TITV: -@Microsoft’s CPO of AI for Work, @aparnacd, on their latest tools & strategy -Deals & debt behind xAI’s new datacenter | Reporters @theo_wayt & @MilesKruppa -Anthropic gears up for mass acquisitions | Tech M&A Reporter @PauValida -New startup
The Information | TITV | October 16, 2025
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For you robotics nerds out there, you may recall this rendering of Optimus in Mars, as shown by Musk earlier this year. @theo_wayt reports that isn't possible in this form. Optimus would need a special space suit to survive on Mars.
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“I was one of the only elected officials who didn’t immediately put out a statement in support of Elon Musk,” Pearson told @theinformation. By contrast, Cohen called the 2024 announcement of xAI’s first data center a “major victory” for Memphis https://t.co/Y2p54OzDl9
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One of xAI’s most outspoken opponents in Memphis, Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, announced today that he’s running for Congress against Rep. Steve Cohen I spoke to Pearson extensively for this story about xAI in Memphis
New🛢️👷: Over the past few years, Brent Mayo has gone from overseas oil rigs to working for SpaceX and xAI. Now, he's building gas-guzzling supercomputers in Memphis, where he's become an increasingly public figure as xAI faces off against activists concerned about air pollution.
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Today on The Information’s TITV: -OpenAI DevDay takeaways | @mattshumer_, CEO of @OthersideAI & @steph_palazzolo, The Information -Rethinking AI-generated copyright laws | @c_valenzuelab, Co-Founder & CEO of @runwayml -@WHOOP's Head of Healthcare Product, Alex Vannoni, on new
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Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (@theo_wayt / The Information) https://t.co/0VU5Wa1FIh
https://t.co/o3RlSrfjLC
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Theo Wayt / The Information: Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands
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