President Trump just made it a lot more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers through the H-1B program. The White House announced Friday that Trump signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a hefty $ 100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, an enormous jump from the current $ 215 lottery registration fee. H-1B […]
Trump hits H-1B visas with $100,000 fee, targeting the program that launched Elon Musk and Instagram
President Trump just made it a lot more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers through the H-1B program. The White House announced Friday that Trump signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a hefty $ 100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, an enormous jump from the current $ 215 lottery registration fee. H-1B […]
Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T
Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $ 1 trillion even as the EV maker’s car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI. The company has tied the compensation to a number of benchmarks, one of which involves […]
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that […]
Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’
Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend reports that Tesla has disbanded the team working on its Dojo AI training supercomputer, just weeks after announcing he expected to have Tesla’s second cluster operating “at scale” in 2026. “Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some […]