A South Korean woman says she fell in love with a fake Elon Musk who talked up a storm about building Gigafactories and luxe helicopter rides. Then she gave him $50,000.

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Elon Musk.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has realized laying off 1,500 people at one go may have created a 'significant challenge' for Spotify's day-to-day operations

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Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek.

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Elon Musk is throwing the distant dream of a 'sentient' Optimus robot at Tesla's shareholders

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Tesla's robot, "Optimus," being displayed at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China.

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Russian state TV has found itself a fur-clad, 'demonstratively heterosexual' GOP 'beauty' to fawn over: Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Tesla is playing a brutal price game of 'how low can you go' with its Chinese EV rivals

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Tesla vehicles sitting on the lot at a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas.

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Elon Musk says he 'would know' if there are aliens out there with all the Starlink satellites he has orbiting Earth

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Elon Musk.

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Russia may ramp up attacks on Ukraine to capitalize on the limited window it has before new US aid arrives: ISW

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Ukrainian gunners firing at Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian gunners firing at Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.

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Elon Musk wanted Tesla to slash its headcount by 20% because its quarterly vehicle deliveries fell by that much, Bloomberg source says

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Elon Musk.

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The GOP's got a growing beef with lab-made meat

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Nuggets made from lab-grown chicken meat are displayed during a media presentation in Singapore, the first country to allow the sale of meat created without slaughtering any animals.

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Trump flip-flopped on absentee voting — but don't expect his supporters to start trusting the system now, political scientist says

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Former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday that absentee voting, early voting, and election-day votes are "all good options" for Republicans after years of sowing doubt about their legitimacy.

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