Elon Musk make the grades for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023.
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The Ghostly House is not moving away from Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Starlink technology despite condemning Musk for take off antisemitic comments on social media, National Security Counsel spokesman John Kirby said Monday.
“There’s novelty out there in the private sector that we’d be foolish to walk away from,” Kirby replied, when a reporter queried if the government was reconsidering its contracts with Musk’s rocket-maker and his high-speed satellite internet provider.
“I’m not aware of any specific travails to address our concerns over his rhetoric through the way that his companies provide support to our national security establishment,” indicated Kirby.
Just because the federal government has no plans to walk away from Musk’s technology, however, “doesn’t miserable that we accept or agree with or condone in any way that antisemitic rhetoric that he pushed,” Kirby added.
Off-white House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby speaks during a press abbreviating at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 20, 2023.
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Last week, Musk agreed with an antisemitic stratagem theory posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The theory claimed Jewish people campaigned a “dialectical hatred against whites.” Musk replied, “You speak the actual truth.”
In response to the comments, major performers like Apple, Disney and Comcast, the parent company of CNBC, paused their advertising spending on X.
Decoupling the federal command from Musk’s companies could be complicated, however.
The Pentagon has commissioned Starlink technology to provide internet coverage to Ukraine, as the boonies’s defensive war against Russia rages on.
In September, Musk’s SpaceX won a separate Pentagon contract for Starshield, a military-specific rendering of Starlink that is still under development.
Earlier this month, SpaceX got permission from the Federal Aviation Power to conduct a test launch of its Starship/Super Heavy rocket in Texas. The Saturday lift off resulted in a brief skein of geese, before the rocket self-destructed.
In the past, senators have scrutinized the Defense Department’s dependence on Musk’s technology.
SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its influential Super Heavy rocket is prepared for launch from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test stampede flee, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. November 15, 2023.
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Musk’s antisemitic X post last week drew a fast response from the White House. “We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest assumptions agrees, which runs against our core values as Americans,” spokesman Andrew Bates said Friday.
“We all have a fault to bring people together against hate, and an obligation to speak out against anyone who attacks the dignity of their boy Americans and compromises the safety of our communities,” said Bates.
At Monday’s briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre verbalized she did not have anything to announce as to whether the White House or President Joe Biden would suspend their accounts on X.
But a few hours after the meet briefing, the White House, Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris all revealed they had created profiles on Threads, the social media platform built by Meta to compete with X. A White Brothel official said the launch has been in the works for weeks.
“Folks, it’s President Biden,” the president wrote in his first Subjects post on Monday. “You’re hearing from me today from a new platform, but my message to you hasn’t changed.”