Elon Musk’s Thousands of Posts Reveal His Political Evolution

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A Journal analysis of Elon Musk’s exchanges on X over the last 5 ½ years shows his metamorphosis from a CEO who mainly focused on his businesses to a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. WSJ reporter Alexa Corse joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss. Plus, investors will be looking to Nvidia’s earnings to get a sense of how the artificial intelligence market is performing. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:17.0	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Wednesday, August 28th.
0:23.8	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:26.7	Chipmaker Invidia reports its second quarter earnings today.
0:30.8	We'll tell you what investors will be looking for. And then Elon Musk tweets a lot.
0:37.8	A new journal analysis shows how the content of his posts have shifted focus from his businesses to politics.
0:44.0	Our reporter, Alexa Course, will join us to explain what the posts reveal
0:48.0	about the political evolution of one of the world's richest men. We're starting with NVIDIA, which reports its earnings after the markets closed today.
1:05.0	The chipmaker has been one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence boom.
1:10.0	But some big questions hang over the company's future,
1:13.4	including when its next generation AI chips,
1:16.3	known as Blackwell, will launch.
1:18.6	The chipmaker told customers that Blackwell chips
1:21.2	will be delayed by several months according to a person familiar
1:24.4	with conversations between NVIDIA and Cloud companies.
1:27.4	NVIDIA said in a statement that the production of the chips is on track to ramp in the second half of the year.
1:34.0	Here to tell us more is our reporter, Aisa Fitch.
1:37.0	So Aisa, how important are Blackwell chips to NVIDIA's future?
1:41.0	So Blackwell is the next generation chip architecture that
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