Tesla Shareholders Upheld Elon Musk’s $48 Billion Pay Deal. Now What?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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After Tesla shareholders last week reapproved CEO Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package, valued at roughly $48 billion, Musk celebrated. But legal challenges and questions about the electric vehicle maker’s future remain. WSJ business columnist Tim Higgins joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss. Plus, we’ll tell you what it’s like to use an AI chatbot as a travel planner. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.4	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Monday, June 17th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.7	Going on a trip this summer, why not let an artificial intelligence chat bot be your
0:31.3	travel planner? We'll learn about the pros and cons of letting AI be your guide
0:36.5	from the W.S. J's off-duty contributor who tried this out. And then, celebrating the re-approval of his multi-billion dollar pay package by shareholders at Tesla,
0:47.0	CEO Elon Musk danced on stage, thanked his supporters, and shared his vision for driverless cars and humanoid robots.
0:54.4	We'll tell you what the vote means for Musk and the future of the electric
0:58.7	vehicle maker. But first, for a recent trip to Boston, our writer challenged two of the busiest AI
1:10.3	bots to produce an itinerary.
1:12.6	And Matthew Kronsberg is with us now to talk about how that went.
1:16.6	Matthew, you used Google's Gemini and Open AI's Chat GPT, and I'll note that News Corp, the owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing
1:25.2	partnership with Open AI.
1:27.2	But Matthew, why did you choose those two bots?
1:30.6	I chose those two in particular because they don't just find information and
1:36.4	reprocess it or analyze it for you. They're both capable of accessing real-time travel planning information.
1:46.2	That is, hotel bookings, flights, things like that.
1:50.4	And I wanted to find a more complete approach to doing it.
1:55.0	So how did they do when it came to flights?
1:57.8	They both do very well with flights.
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