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Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’

Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’: Tesla's board chair is defending a proposed 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk. Read More

Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan: Rainmaker wants to use flares to seed clouds — the airline pilots' union says it won't be safe. Read More

xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team: Elon Musk's AI startup says it's shifting focus from generalist AI tutors to specialists. Read More

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