Faiz Siddiqui

Hello bskyers, My upcoming book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk, is up for pre-order. It delves into the playbook Musk is using today, providing the definitive look at the 6 yrs that transformed his reputation. Out May 6! Use PREORDER25 at B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hubris-max...

🚨 Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow.

NEW: The 19-year-old Elon Musk surrogate known as “Big Balls” has a State Dept. email address and is listed as a “Senior Advisor” Role gives Edward Coristine, reported to have been fired from a prev. job for leaking info, broad visibility into State Dept data www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: The first excerpt from my book HUBRIS MAXIMUS details how Elon Musk raged over a Tesla death investigation in a 27-minute phone call, threatening to sue, eventually hanging up on the chairman of the NTSB. When the line went dead, investigators were stunned: "He hung up on us.” wapo.st/4jdONIx

Elon Musk emailed Jeffrey Epstein on consecutive Christmases 2012: "Do you have any parties planned? ... I really want to ... let loose." 2013: "When should we head to your island on the 2nd?" My piece looking at his fraught effort to position himself as a voice for victims now wapo.st/4b9kYWV

not that we have AGI but this guy may have been onto something

Apropos of nothing, remembering the time a government made direct demands of a powerful “free speech”-oriented Elon Musk company, which faced the risk of being shut down there, and he blinked

Elon Musk on Forbes when it covered Tesla's plummeting stock: dying, desperate for attention Elon Musk when Forbes named him America's greatest innovator: thank you Forbes, very cool

This story, shared here four hours ago, was written with the inimitable and utterly irreplaceable @nitasha.bsky.social who was laid off yesterday, the same day our piece ran on the front page of the newspaper. Hard to fathom.

What happened at the Post today is simply devastating -- deep and hard-won trust and sourcing, mountains of expertise and a combined centuries' worth of institutional knowledge gone up in an instant. It's a collective loss but please consider donating to support those who've had their lives upended:

"Make it more 'based.'": How Elon Musk's bet turned Grok into a porn generator. Workers got waivers asking them to work w/ sexual content, Musk started sleeping at xAI, job candidates were screened for comfort w/ NSFW material, red flags went ignored. Grok surged — at a massive cost wapo.st/45DcMMI

NEW: Inside Elon Musk's push to hook Grok users by leaning into NSFW content. Workers were told they'd be working with sexual material, were advised to gauge job candidates' comfort with doing so. Soon they were training Grok on lewd conversations & depictions of sexual violence wapo.st/45DcMMI

Elon Musk's full comment on the Epstein files release, just posted on X:

Elon Musk, September 2025: “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED”