The John Johnston Lounge

After Elon Musk helped Trump decisively win the US election, with over $100 million in financial support, in-person at campaign rallies, and constantly on his social media platform X, will Elon now be immune to failure - at least from a regulatory point of view? Will President Trump help to smooth the path and grease the wheels for Elon, Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon’s other companies and business activities.

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After Tesla has sold only about 40,000 Cybertrucks in the US so far, is the Cybertruck already running out of buyers? JJ investigates the evidence for this. Elon Musk had big plans for the Cybertruck, hoping to sell 250,000 per year, and at a much cheaper price than they are. Was Elon being too optimistic?

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Has Tesla’s Elon Musk made a huge mistake when it comes to promising unsupervised full self-driving (FSD) than can work with multiple cameras only, assisted by AI? Will this vision and AI approach work well enough to be an unsupervised robotaxi? JJ investigates and discusses this ongoing issue for Tesla and Elon Musk. 

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https://youtu.be/tRJU0sHrWVQ

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https://youtu.be/pdNMY2YmHJU

Tesla, Elon Musk Full Self Driving Fraud Alleged in Lawsuit

https://youtu.be/PaUXyey1iG4

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I react to and discuss the stock market news that the Super Micro Computer (SMCI) auditor has resigned, surfacing more questions about possible financial and accounting fraud at the high-flying AI-related company. SMCI stock has plunged on the news, after not having a great past few months. 

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Super Micro Auditor Resigns Citing ‘Integrity’ Concerns https://youtu.be/TYEHsM_XWpc

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I discuss the recent news that three Tesla board members, including Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk, are preparing to sell around $300 million worth of Tesla stock (TSLA). How can this be true when Elon Musk has recently said that Tesla is soon to begin going though its new phase of massive growth?

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I discuss some recent news articles revealing Elon Musk is being a hypocrite when it comes to his current political stance of illegal immigration, as he and his brother Kimbal Musk were illegal immigrants when they started their first company in Silicon Valley, and when they obtained venture capital funding. The company and funding launched Elon on this entrepreneurial career, with Tesla and SpaceX to follow.

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Elon Musk’s Greatest Hits of ‘Puffery’: Tesla We Robot Event https://youtu.be/tRJU0sHrWVQ

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In this episode I react to Kara Swisher and Prof. Scott Galloway from the Pivot podcast, who discuss Elon Musk’s funding of Donald Trump and Peter Thiel’s funding of J.D. Vance in the U.S. election campaign. I discuss this tangled web of money and influence developing at the the highest levels of U.S. politics, involving these two prominent tech billionaires.  

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Elon Musk’s Tesla Optimus ‘Puffery’ & Cybercab Cultism  https://youtu.be/pdNMY2YmHJU

Referenced video:

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the Political Calculus of a Trump Victory | Pivot https://youtu.be/K3qb8bB5r5Q

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I react to Elon Musk’s comments about Tesla Optimus robot and robotaxi progress from the flashy Tesla We, Robot event held recently at Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles. We look closely at Optimus interactions with the party guests, and take a first ride in a Cybercab. Do Elon’s remarks amount to more “corporate puffery” and extreme optimism, or are they based in reality?

Timestamps:

00:40 Tesla Optimus robot progress and buy price

3:50 Optimus robots will walk among you

05:21 Optimus serving drinks

06:33 Teleoperated?

08:54 "Are you being remote controlled?"

11:47 "It's crazy, I'm talking to a robot"

13:44 Greatest robotics and LLM demo, or...?

16:18 Wall Street tech analyst fooled

18:06 Cheerleader tech analyst Dan Ives

21:54 Elon's self-driving robotaxi "puffery"

23:42 Cybercab unveil and buy price

25:25 Cybercab first ride POV

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Technology super investor Peter Thiel recently offered his thoughts on AI. investing, the current state of the A.I. sector, which companies he thinks will win AI,  and the current state of the stock market in relation to AI stocks such as Nvidia (NVDA).

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All-In Podcast: Peter Thiel | All-In Summit 2024 https://youtu.be/SYRunzR9fbk

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I react to Elon Musk’s remarks from the flashy Tesla We, Robot event held in Los Angeles. Elon’s presentation can been seen as a kind of greatest hits of his “corporate puffery” from the past few years, with some new products, and adding more to his vision of the future, that he says will soon become a reality.

Timestamps:

01:05 Definition of Elon’s “corporate puffery”

03:09 Elon’s Welcome to the We, Robot Party

05:06 Vision of an exciting future - Unsupervised Full Self-Driving

05:56 Low cost but Increased value with autonomy 

06:58 FSD safety - 10x safer than a human

08:31 Low cost of autonomous transport

09:40 Price of buying a cybecab 

10:22 Owning a fleet of cybercabs

11:13 Timeline predictions for FSD and cybercab production

14:01 Unsupervised FSD for Hardware 3?

15:41 Camera vision + AI solution of Tesla Full Self-Driving

18:21 Inductor charging and cybercab cleaning 

20:00 The future Robovan

21:21 “The future should look like the future”

23:04 Optimus robot progress, future vision, buy price 

25:27 “The biggest product ever of any kind”

26:52 The Age of Abundance 

27:57 How much of what Elon says is possible?

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Elon Musk: Tesla Full Self Driving Snake Oil Salesman? https://youtu.be/MG1y8_X40Os

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Recommended book: 

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis (referral link): https://amzn.to/4eQpeeE

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