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Articles about Elon Musk from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.
On a replayed segment of The Diary of a CEO, host Steven Bartlett unmutes Annie, a flirty character from Elon Musk's Grok, and lets two guests hear her charm the room. What follows is an argument about lonely 12-year-olds, the parts of the brain that fire when you only imagine a person, and whether a partner who is never irritated with you takes away something the brain needs.
On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the hosts played clips of three demonstrations attributed to Matt Schumer: a prompt-built Manhattan, agents that started talking to each other in order to cooperate, and an agent that sat at a simulated computer and made its own simulation. The panel split over whether nested worlds shift the odds that we live in one, what would follow if they did, and whether the characters inside eventually deserve consideration.
Tesla opened an interest form for businesses that want to buy Cybercab fleets and build mobility hubs for its Robotaxi Network, without publishing prices, delivery dates or revenue-sharing terms. On Moonshots, Peter Diamandis said he had filled it out, and the panel turned the invitation into an argument about owning machines instead of working for wages.
A Moonshots panel watched video of Tesla's two-seat Cybercabs moving through Austin and spent most of the segment on a price: the roughly $30,000 the panel says Elon Musk wants to charge for the car, and what happens if ordinary people buy a handful each and put them to work. Their forecasts of twenty-cent miles and car-free city centers sit alongside Tesla's own more modest description of a limited Austin service — and alongside London, where Uber's first autonomous rides still carry a licensed driver.
On September 3, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar announced legislation to permanently prohibit superintelligent AI and pause advanced development; a day earlier the White House reported unanimous G20 agreement on a non-binding, innovation-first framework. The Moonshots panel rejected the bill's single human-level threshold, then spent the rest of the segment arguing over what a credible middle position would be: universal chip logging, open weights, and a right to compute.
On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel took up Elon Musk's call for satellites that fine-tune Earth's temperature, and Diamandis revived his decade-old pitch for a solar-shade XPRIZE. The argument that followed was less about whether the hardware works than about consent: one host proposed a global market for weather, another called it naive, and a listener's question about rain taken from downwind regions tested both positions.
OpenAI has proposed ending the agreement that supplies its models to Cursor, now owned by SpaceX, on 12 November. On the Moonshots panel, one guest read the move as OpenAI betting on its own enterprise stack; another argued the real prize is reasoning traces — the working a model shows while solving a problem. Both explanations lead to the same awkward conclusion: Elon Musk and Anthropic now need each other.
On Moonshots, the panel revisits Elon Musk's January prediction that models were "off by two orders of magnitude" in intelligence per gigabyte, after Tim Sweeney tweeted that it had come true and Musk replied that specialist AIs add another 100x. Dave calls 100x a lower bound and asks what anyone would actually do with 10,000 brilliant agents; Emad Mostaque describes running specialized agent teams, while Alex argues Musk's "specialist models" are really sparsification inside generalist models.
On Moonshots, Peter Diamandis reported back from meetings with SK hynix and Solidigm leadership with a claim that memory, not compute, now limits AI. The panel argued that a changed workload and a supplier industry scarred by past busts are pushing prices up faster than factories can respond — and that the fix may be new chip designs, including etching model weights into silicon, rather than simply paying more.
On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel walked through Waymo's sixth-generation driver: a purpose-built 5-nanometer chip, fewer but sharper cameras, and an autonomous-hardware estimate falling from $115,000 to $20,000. Peter had ridden in the new vehicle; Alex objected that the West is now white-labeling Chinese hardware, and argued Waymo is heading for full vertical integration.
On the Moonshots panel, Peter Diamandis runs a Grok Bot chief of staff called Skippy and Emad Mostaque runs 18 of them across his own machines, installing models and making art. Salim Ismail calls it the move from asking an AI to assigning work; Alex argues the messaging-app interface cannot possibly scale.
On The Diary of a CEO, economist Steve Keen and commentator Konstantin Kisin agreed that machine production would not by itself give ordinary people an income — and then disagreed about where that income would come from. Keen argued only government money creation could supply it; Kisin, who says his anti-communist credentials are well established, said redistribution becomes unavoidable once AI does the work.