Elon Sells More $TSLA Pending Twitter Deal

As Elon Musk waits to close his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, the Tesla CEO just sold a whopping $8.5 billion worth of Tesla stock. 💰 💰

Musk sold 9.6 million shares of $TSLA stock, selling each share within the ranges of $822.68/share to $999.13/share. Analysts say the giant sale implies that Musk is trying to come up with more cash for the Twitter deal. Here’s a great graphic from the WSJ’s coverage of the story showing Elon’s financing for the $44 billion deal:

After selling the block of shares, Musk retains a 16% stake in Tesla. Yesterday, the world’s richest man tweeted that he didn’t plan on selling any more $TSLA stock: “No further TSLA sales planned after today.” 

$TSLA closed down 12% today, the stock’s worst day since September 2020.

March Madness Continues At NYCB

When regular people talk about March Madness, they’re referring to college basketball. But when traders and investors talk about March Madness, they’re referring to a regional bank stock imploding.

We’re about a year out from three regional banks failing and/or being rescued, and now the sharks are circling New York Community Bancorp. The long story short, until today, is that the regional lender has too much commercial real estate exposure, weak internal controls over financial reporting, and a new CEO trying to right the ship. 🗞️

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$LUNR Reaches A “Tipping Point”

One of the top stories in the market over the last 24 hours has been Intuitive Machines’, which trades under the ticker symbol $LUNR. 📻

The space exploration company’s Nova-C cargo moon lander known as “Odysseus” became the first privately developed spacecraft to land on the lunar surface. It was also the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on the moon in over 50 years. 🌝

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Apple Drains EV Resources For AI

After ten years of research and development, Tim Apple is finally pulling the plug on Apple’s electric vehicle (EV) project. Because as we all know, EVs have lost their luster and given way to the business world’s new savior…artificial intelligence (AI). 😇

Bloomberg broke the news today, saying the tech giant disclosed the strategy shift internally and surprised the nearly 2,000 employees working on the project. Executives told staffers the project would begin winding down and that many of the car team’s employees would be shifted to its artificial intelligence division, focused on generative AI. 

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AI’s Copyright Crisis Begins

We all knew copyright law would be a key issue at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, but we didn’t know when. Well, the time has come. ⌛

Today, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing them of infringing copyright and abusing the newspaper’s intellectual property. In its court filing, the publisher said it looks to hold the two companies accountable for the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works,” claiming billions in statutory and actual damages.

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