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  • Elon Musk responds after Tesla Cybertruck crashes into Beverly Hills Hotel sign

    Elon Musk responds after Tesla Cybertruck crashes into Beverly Hills Hotel sign

    A Tesla Cybertruck crashed into the sign marking the entrance to the fabled Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday night, prompting Elon Musk to post about the incident on X, formerly Twitter.

    The massive, stainless steel behemoth bonked into the sign around 11:45 p.m. Sunday after it was involved in a collision with another vehicle, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department.

    “Cyberbeast is faster than a Porsche 911, but looks like a truck, so perhaps the valet wasn’t expecting so much acceleration,” Tesla founder Musk joked on X, the social media site he owns.

    Musk was responding to a claim that went viral, suggesting that a Beverly Hills Hotel valet crashed the truck, which later turned out to be a joke by an X user.

    The Beverly Hills Police Department did not have information Monday afternoon about injuries or damage resulting from the accident.

    Video posted online showed the truck sustained significant damage to its front left wheel. The truck also damaged the poles holding up the sign as well as the pink sidewalk wall in front of it, according to images from the scene.

    “There was not an employee or member of our valet team involved in the accident,” said Brittany Williams, the director of communications for the Dorchester Collection, which operates the hotel.

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  • Elon Musk’s X apocalyptic moment

    Elon Musk’s X apocalyptic moment

    Is this the beginning of the end for X, the social-media site previously known as Twitter?

    In the last two days, major advertisers, ranging from IBM Corp. IBM, Apple Inc. AAPL, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. LGF.A, Walt Disney Co. DIS, even the European Union, have pulled their ads from X, after Elon Musk appeared to endorse antisemitic conspiracy theories and because these big spenders weren’t thrilled with the algorithm’s product placement nestled alongside pro-Nazi posts.

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  • America may now be in a youth-cession: Consumers over age 60 are propping up the economy

    America may now be in a youth-cession: Consumers over age 60 are propping up the economy

    Is America going into a recession or not? That depends on who you ask—and how old they are.

    Consumer households from their 20s to their 50s are now spending sharply less on their credit and debit cards than they were a year ago reports Bank of America, after crunching the numbers on its customers.

    At this point it’s mostly those over 60, and…

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  • SpaceX scrubs Starship test launch minutes before blastoff

    SpaceX scrubs Starship test launch minutes before blastoff

    SpaceX scrubbed the eagerly anticipated test launch of its giant Starship rocket minutes before blastoff Monday.

    The launch from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, would have been the first flight test to integrate SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy rockets. The largest rocket ever built, Starship is designed to play a key role in returning humans to the Moon, as well as in future Mars exploration.

    SpaceX scrubbed the uncrewed launch attempt about nine minutes before blastoff, apparently because of an issue related to its stage 1 rocket.

    “A pressurant valve appears to be frozen, so unless it starts operating soon, no launch today,” tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

    Related: Elon Musk’s SpaceX pulls another $1.7 billion in funding

    “Standing down from today’s flight test attempt; team is working towards next available opportunity,” SpaceX tweeted.

    When it scrubbed the launch, SpaceX transitioned to a “wet dress rehearsal,” continuing to load propellant. SpaceX also continued its countdown to T-minus 40 seconds.

    “Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days,” tweeted Musk.

    “Unfortunately, due to needing to recycle the propellant, we’re looking at a minimum of 48 hours until we are able to attempt this flight test again,” said Kate Tice, SpaceX’s quality systems engineering manager, during the launch livestream.

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