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Rani Molla4/8/25

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has an electric vehicle company, making him even more like Tesla’s Elon Musk

For all their big ideas, American tech billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg spend a lot of time working on the same ideas.

To wit: TechCrunch just reported that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been secretly funding an electric vehicle company called Slate Auto, bringing him closer in league with his nemesis, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

In true comic book fashion, Bezos and Musk also have matching space companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX, respectively.

Both billionaires also have media companies: X, formerly Twitter, for Musk and The Washington Post for Bezos. And Amazon is reportedly making a last-minute play to buy TikTok, which would make Bezos and Musk both leaders of social media companies.

The odd man out here? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg, like the others, has a social media company. (Everyone’s company, of course, considers itself an AI company.) Earlier this year, to join the club, Zuckerberg began a foray into AI-powered humanoid robots, much like Tesla’s Optimus venture and the everyday robotics happening in Amazon warehouses.

Yet, it’s now apparent that Zuckerberg isn’t like the other guys: he doesn’t have an EV or a space company — yet.

Photo credits: Andrew Harnik (Musk), Taylor Hill (Bezos), and Drew Angerer (Zuckerberg) via Getty Images.

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On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post that AI is now writing 75% of new code at the company. This is up from 50% last fall. Pichai said all code is “approved by engineers.”

Google announced new TPU 8 chips today at its annual Cloud Next event. Pichai wrote:

“We’re now shifting to truly agentic workflows. Our engineers are orchestrating fully autonomous digital task forces, firing off agents and accomplishing incredible things.”

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Tesla just opened the door to 50,000 government buyers

Tesla signed a deal that lets more than 50,000 public agencies — including police departments and school districts — buy its vehicles without the usual slow bidding process, making it much easier to compete in a market long dominated by Ford and General Motors. The public sector currently represents less than 1% of Tesla’s sales.

The move doesn’t guarantee orders, but it removes a major barrier at a time when Tesla is looking for new demand to bolster its main source of revenues. Tesla’s Q1 deliveries fell short of analyst expectations and annual sales have declined for two years in a row. The public sector also represents a large pool of buyers who are beyond Elon Musk’s other companies.

Tesla reports earnings after the bell today.

Tesla is coming for Detroit's government fleet business

Tesla is coming for Detroit's government fleet business

The move doesn’t guarantee orders, but it removes a major barrier at a time when Tesla is looking for new demand to bolster its main source of revenues. Tesla’s Q1 deliveries fell short of analyst expectations and annual sales have declined for two years in a row. The public sector also represents a large pool of buyers who are beyond Elon Musk’s other companies.

Tesla reports earnings after the bell today.

Google TPU 8i chip

Google shares jump on new TPU 8 chips, enterprise agent platform, and partnership with Nvidia

The raft of announcements from Google’s Cloud Next ’26 event sent shares up in early trading.

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How Elon Musk has shifted SpaceX’s goals ahead of its IPO

The New York Times took a close look at how Elon Musk is reshaping SpaceX’s priorities ahead of its highly anticipated, potentially record-breaking IPO — and what that could mean for the company and its investors.

As the NYT’s Ryan Mac noted in the article, “Shifting aims before an I.P.O. would be unthinkable for most corporate leaders, who tend to focus on their core businesses and try to project steadiness to potential investors.”

But Musk, who is also the ever-unpredictable CEO of Tesla, doesn’t follow typical playbooks. Here’s a quick look at how SpaceX’s goals have changed:

Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O.

Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O.

But Musk, who is also the ever-unpredictable CEO of Tesla, doesn’t follow typical playbooks. Here’s a quick look at how SpaceX’s goals have changed:

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Rani Molla4/21/26

SpaceX seals right to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX said today that it’s “working closely together” with fast-growing coding startup Cursor “to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.” The post also said SpaceX would have the right to acquire Cursor later this year or make the startup “pay $10 billion for our work together.” The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, previously reported that the companies had agreed to an acquisition.

The news comes as SpaceX prepares for a blockbuster IPO and doubles down on AI, with a growing — if still fully aspirational — focus on space-based data infrastructure and computing.

Last month, when SpaceX hired two senior leaders from Cursor, CEO Elon Musk noted that xAI, which SpaceX acquired earlier this year, “was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up.”

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