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Tesla’s Nordic Shareholders Seek to Promote Workers’ Rights in Vote

Tesla mechanics in Sweden have been striking for six months with little movement from their employer. Nordic shareholders hope to change that.

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A Tesla facility in Stockholm last year. The auto maker’s shareholders will vote on a measure, inspired by a strike by Tesla workers in Sweden, urging the company to engage in collective bargaining.

Elon Musk Withdraws His Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

The Tesla chief executive had claimed that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of benefiting humanity.

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Mr. Musk founded his own artificial intelligence company last year called xAI, and has repeatedly claimed that OpenAI was not focused enough on the dangers of the technology.

ScarJo vs. ChatGPT, Neuralink’s First Patient Opens Up, and Microsoft’s A.I. PCs

“Did you ever think we would have a literal Avenger fighting back against the relentless march of A.I.? Because that’s sort of what this story is about.”

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Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service

Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.

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Members of the Achilles Drone battalion of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They depend on Starlink service for communications and to conduct drone strikes.

Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service

Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.

© Sasha Maslov for The New York Times

Members of the Achilles Drone battalion of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They depend on Starlink service for communications and to conduct drone strikes.

Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers

The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.

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Tesla’s change of direction is likely to delay construction of fast chargers, which are concentrated on the two coasts and in parts of Texas.

Tesla Fires Charger Team Amid Hundreds of Layoffs

The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.

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Tesla agreed last year to open up its network of Supercharger stations to electric cars made by other automakers.

U.S. Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot

The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Tesla’s recall of its Autopilot system.

Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns

The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.

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The second quarter “will be a lot better,” Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said on a conference call to discuss the company’s first-quarter results.
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