Elon Musk reveals the moment his son Saxon left an entire sushi restaurant speechless
"I was living in L.A., and I took my older boys out for lunch to Sugarfish, which is a very kind of uptight sushi restaurant. In fact, on the menu of the restaurant, it says, do not ask for soy sauce, because the chef has put the right amount of soy sauce."
"So, like, extremely strict sushi restaurant. And so the waiter is going around asking everyone what they want and then it comes to Saxon and Saxon says I'll have a cheeseburger."
"And the waiter takes a moment to recover because no one ever asked for a cheeseburger at this very strict sushi restaurant. It took him like 30 seconds to realize he'd just been asked for a cheeseburger, because you're not even allowed to ask for soy sauce."
"So then when he finally recovered, he said, we don't have cheeseburgers. And Saxon goes at the top of his voice, what? Like, what kind of restaurant doesn't have cheeseburgers? He says, fine, I'll have a hamburger."
Here's one of Michael Crichton's very finest quotes, especially applicable to climate "science":
"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right ... In science, consensus is irrelevant."
Best to everyone,
w.
Today’s cover: George Soros and son Alex have funneled staggering $103M into midterms so far, on track to shatter spending record https://t.co/YzOQUIdfJB
Andrew Carnegie spent a fortune building 2,500 free libraries so a poor kid could read what a rich one read. We are finishing the job he started. The only difference is the library now talks back, in every language, and it never closes.
Elon Musk turns 55 today.
Here are 55 milestones.
Age 54: world's first trillionaire
Age 54: takes SpaceX public
Age 54: SpaceX acquires xAI
Age 54: releases Grok 4
Age 53: launches Robotaxi service
Age 53: xAI acquires X
Age 53: catches Starship booster
Age 53: unveils Cybercab
Age 53: first private spacewalk
Age 53: Colossus supercomputer
Age 52: first Neuralink implant
Age 52: launches Grok
Age 52: rebrands Twitter as X
Age 52: founds xAI
Age 51: launches first Starship
Age 51: buys Twitter
Age 50: flies first all-civilian crew
Age 50: unveils Optimus robot
Age 49: wins NASA moon contract
Age 48: launches crew to orbit
Age 48: ships Tesla Model Y
Age 48: unveils Cybertruck
Age 48: launches Tesla Megapack
Age 47: first Starlink satellites
Age 46: launches Falcon Heavy
Age 46: unveils Tesla Semi
Age 45: starts Boring Company
Age 45: opens first Gigafactory
Age 45: founds Neuralink
Age 45: unveils Solar Roof
Age 45: reflies Falcon 9
Age 44: reveals Tesla Model 3
Age 44: lands a rocket booster
Age 44: co-founds OpenAI
Age 44: ships Tesla Model X
Age 43: unveils Powerwall
Age 43: launches Tesla Autopilot
Age 41: opens first Superchargers
Age 40: ships Tesla Model S
Age 40: Dragon reaches ISS
Age 39: Dragon reaches orbit
Age 39: takes Tesla public (IPO)
Age 38: Falcon 9 first flight
Age 37: Falcon 1 reaches orbit
Age 36: ships first Tesla Roadster
Age 35: co-founds SolarCity
Age 32: co-founds Tesla
Age 31: sells PayPal to eBay
Age 30: founds SpaceX
Age 30: takes PayPal public
Age 27: founds X dot com
Age 27: sells Zip2 to Compaq
Age 24: co-founds Zip2
Age 19: sells PCs in dorm
Age 12: codes video game Blastar
Happy birthday to my wonderful son. @elonmusk has given me 55 years of joy.
It’s so much fun to celebrate with family and friends.
His cake is a rocket and a moon base 🎂🎂🎉
Grok 4.5, based on our 1.5T V9 foundation model, with Cursor data added in supplemental training, is now in private beta at SpaceX & Tesla. Early evals show performance close to, perhaps exceeding Opus.
RL is continuing to significantly improve the model, and the Grok Build harness gets better every day.
Nice work by all those involved!
Completely trained from scratch new models will be released by @SpaceX every month this year.
"To anyone I have offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I am sending people to Mars on a Rocketship, did you think I was also gonna be a chill normal dude?"
@elonmusk
Everyone tells me that Elon Musk is a fascist because he could "solve world hunger" for a mere 3 billion dollars, but MacKenzie Bezos has burned through 26 billion dollars of her ex husband's money and accomplished absolutely nothing of note.
🎂 Happy birthday, @elonmusk. Humankind's guardian Angel.
>be Elon Musk
>richest man alive
>could buy anything and sun his Balls
>decide to spend the whole fortune fighting for the human race instead
>start SpaceX
>everyone says you cannot land a rocket
>land them anyway
>goal is to make humanity multiplanetary so one bad day on one rock doesn't end the entire species
>backup the light of consciousness itself
>start Tesla
>legacy auto giants laugh in your face
>drag the entire planet toward sustainable energy by force
>now every one of them is scrambling to copy you
>open-source the patents so the whole industry can move faster
>build Starlink
>Ukraine gets cut off from the world overnight
>switch it on for them immediately
>keep millions connected when every other system failed
>start Neuralink
>people paralyzed for decades told they will never move again
>put a chip in a man's brain
>he moves a cursor with a thought
>give the disabled their lives back
>build Optimus
>decide nobody should be trapped doing backbreaking labor to survive
>build a robot to do the work humans never wanted
>aim straight at scarcity itself
>look at Twitter
>see a censorship machine quietly deciding what billions of people are allowed to think and say
>buy the entire thing for 44 billion
>open the files and show everyone how the censorship worked
>turn it back into a town square where a normal person can actually speak
>build Grok
>every other ai lobotomized to give the approved answer
>refuse to make a machine that lies to people to keep them comfortable
>build one that actually tells the truth instead
>maximally truth-seeking
>watch a mind virus crawl through every institution
>careers ended for saying the wrong thing out loud
>refuse to play along
>name the woke mind virus and fight it head on
>make it ok to think for yourself again
>watch the whole machine line up to crush one election
>put your name, your money, your reputation on the line
>go all in to help Trump win
>take fire from every direction for doing it
>bet everything on the people instead of the machine
>start DOGE
>government torching tax money on things nobody ever voted for
>open the books so every citizen can see it
>show people exactly where their paychecks were disappearing to
>bureaucrats suddenly very, very nervous
>unelected judges overriding what the voters actually chose
>two-tier justice, one rule for them and another for everyone else
>call it out by name in front of the whole world
>refuse to let robed activists run the country
>hear about young girls groomed and r**ed for years
>councils, police, and social services knew and buried it
>media refuses to touch the story
>everyone too scared of being called a name to say a word
>post about it anyway
>refuse to let it stay buried
>drag the entire coverup into daylight
>victims finally heard after being ignored for over a decade
>look at the birth rate
>realize civilization is quietly dying because people stopped having kids
>sound the alarm while everyone else ignores it
>fight for the future to actually have humans in it
>has lots of wonderful children
>get called every name in existence for all of it
>keep going regardless
>mfw none of it was ever about the money
>mfw it was always about humanity
>turns 55 today
>plans for the future span decades
>still going
xAI models now support Zero Data Retention (ZDR) on OpenRouter
Developers can now use:
• Grok 4.3
• Grok 4.20
• Grok Build 0.1
with Zero Data Retention enabled
This means requests aren’t retained by the provider, making it a strong option for privacy-sensitive and enterprise workloads