Elon Musk is about to become a very busy boy!

To be honest, I thought Elon Musk would secretly file for SpaceX’s IPO on the 20th, not the 1st. But maybe that means it’s moved on to other numbers, and we all should Mark our calendars for June 7th As an IPO date just in case.

Based on the April 1 filing, and the overall SEC review period before the S-1 document becomes public, the earliest I expect a SpaceX IPO to take place is June. (At least, assuming there’s still anyone at the SEC who wants to do their job instead of just looking at the first page of the filing, saying, “That looks fine!” and then going out on a smoke break.) This process may take longer — For example, WeWork filed to go public in April 2019and it was S-1 It was released in August for us all to laugh at.

Elon Musk will be busy! Honestly, after last year’s DOGE bullshit, we all deserve a break from this guy, but we won’t get one. There are various announcements from Tesla to expect, an experiment in which Musk will talk about Sam Altman and OpenAI, and then of course the S-1. Will these events occur in this order? I sure hope so, otherwise I’ll collapse from exhaustion.

Tesla, which has She decided she didn’t like being a car company anymorehas set an April deadline to begin production of its Cybercabs. the Design that Austin American-Statesman Seen to the south by southwest It had no steering wheel, pedals or rear window. It is a two-seaterWhy would you go anywhere with your friends? Elon Musk doesn’t have any, and neither should you.

As you might expect, there are some problems with Cybercab. First and foremost, people keep leaving Tesla. Mark Luebke, who was the manufacturing guy for Cybercab at Giga Texas, has left… Cybercab’s third senior commander injures his ankle jointafter Victor Nicheta, who was the program manager, and Thomas Dmytryk, who built the backbone of the transport vehicles. the Talent drain from Tesla over the past two years It was great.

That’s just the staff. The robotaxi service itself is not very hot either! Although I was promised by many fools that self-driving would be safer than human driving, this robo-taxi software doesn’t seem to be the case. Electric He was Crash monitoringIt turns out that as of February, humans are four times safer than Tesla’s self-driving vehicles. Compared to Waymo, which looks like it might actually be safer than humans, this is terrible.

We may or may not also hear from Optimus, Tesla’s crack at The now buzzing ‘physical AI’, They were formerly known as robots. We were supposed We would hear about Optimus in the first quarter of this year, but would you believe it, Which was delayed. I think it’s improved more than that.”A man dressed as a robotBut I’m not convinced it’s ready for prime time, not least because I’m old enough to remember when Musk wanted one.Alien armored vehicle“Manufacturing Tesla cars, which ended up being An expensive failure That messed up the Model 3 timeline. (Several Model 3s were built instead in a tent in the parking lot of Tesla’s Fremont factory.) I understand that Silicon Valley hates human workers but the reality is that we Substantially cheaper From our competitors.

Finally, there’s the next-generation roadster, which was meant to be It was released on April 1st – but it was also mysteriously postponed. It may be revealed later this month, or never. It was Production was originally supposed to begin in 2020. Sure, delaying production is normal for Tesla, but six years is terrible.

how He is Tesla, the publicly traded company that Musk actually owns? In declineseemingly. The lineup is getting older, the Cybertruck is a failureand Musk’s far-right political activism It alienated a wide range of car buyers. It’s misleadingly called full self-driving He may be in danger of being recalled. At least things are looking up for Tesla’s energy business, Which will be a benefit in the UK It seems to be planning Expansion into India.

Anyway, I think we should now have a discussion Musk v. Altmanwhich is scheduled to begin a jury trial on April 27. You may remember that Musk co-founded the non-profit research organization OpenAI alongside Sam Altman and others back in the halcyon days of the 2000s, when He runs around telling us that we are living in a simulation And do engraving on Big bang theory. Altman and Musk were friends at the time contemporary Wired Reports must be believed. They were both screaming about the danger of Skynet before they decided that they would save us all from Skynet by simply building it themselves.

The problem with a company founded by two power-hungry monsters is that there can only be one king. By 2017, even Musk had agreed that OpenAI needed a for-profit arm To raise the funds the organization needs. Musk left angry that he would not become CEO, and cut off the money he had promised the nonprofit startup. This left OpenAI in a lurch – which ultimately led to its agreement with Microsoft.

Musk says OpenAI has betrayed its vision or something By seeking profit. OpenAI believes Musk is trying to eliminate the competition For xAI, the competing company he founded after his failure. xAI was later acquired by SpaceX and will go public soon, so one of the fun things about the timing of this trial is that anything it reveals about xAI could impact the IPO in its wake.

that it Everything is very messy And it’s likely to get messier, because so is Musk Especially eviland OpenAI’s lawyers are remarkably bad. Recently, there was Keeping fun on the agenda This suggests what we might have gotten in this case: Musk’s lawyers wanted him to use recreational drugs and Relations with the Trump administration have been ruled out From the trial. What’s even more interesting is the attached deposit piece, which has the catch on it He was asked if he knew what a “unicorn” was. And whether he attended Burning Man 2017. Among Other controversial issues: Whether Musk’s baby mama Shivon Zilis’ romantic relationship with Musk could be mentioned at trial — given she was also a member of OpenAI’s board of directors during the relationship, OpenAI claims. Zillis, the plaintiff in this case, is a mother of four children The well-known sons of Musk. The judge has not yet ruled on this particular mess.

Meanwhile, SpaceX will do just that Continue firing missiles. Clearly, lowering the cost of space hasn’t made people want to travel more, as SpaceX’s biggest customer appears to be SpaceX, and the spacecraft Starlink internet service is what keeps the company afloat. Perhaps we will see some movement in the various investigations and lawsuits surrounding it xAI’s custom child sexual abuse material generatorYour puppy. Maybe Musk will say something stupid about putting AI data centers in space, I don’t know.

What I do know is that we’re about to enter another heavy season of Elon Elonning, but this time there’s less goodwill toward it than ever before. I don’t think SpaceX’s IPO will completely flop, but stranger things have happened! I am single Looking forward to S-1. In the meantime, I’ll simply remind you that the gray market drug of choice for most productivity nerds is not ketamine. Do whatever you want with this information.