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PILLOW TALK Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg offered huge Pillow Fight Championship bout by CEO to finally end bad blood between rivals

ELON Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been offered a novel solution to finally get into the ring – a pillow fight.

Steve Williams, the CEO of the Pillow Fight Championship, has staked his claim to stage the highly-anticipated superfight between the two rival billionaires.

Mark Zuckerberg has been training hard for a superfightCredit: Twitter / Israel Adesanya
Elon Musk may need surgery before he can get into the ringCredit: Getty

Williams believes that a professional pillow fight bout could be the only means to get the tech titans into the ring after Zuckerberg recently announced that “it’s time to move on” from the proposed fight, claiming Musk “isn’t serious.”

“This Musk-Zuckerberg fight…that’s ridiculous. You can see that it’s really not going to happen and they are trying to weasel out of it, which they should,” Williams told The U.S. Sun.

“But they could have easily done a pillow fight and that would have absolutely made sense, no one would have got hurt.

“And you would probably have just as many people watching it.

“Dana White is going to lose this fight and if I was him I would be thinking, ‘You know what, we need to get these guys into the ring somehow. How can I get them in the ring?’

“And we are the answer. There is no other answer.

“They are not going to do another MMA fight and they shouldn’t.”

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/sport/8848251/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-offered-pillow-fight-championship-bout/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

The Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg beef has reached a new level of absurdity

Image: The Verge

Now that the proposed cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk isn’t going to happen, Musk is saying he will show up unannounced at Zuckerberg’s home to fight.

“For the Tesla FSD test drive in Palo Alto tonight, I will ask the car to drive to @finkd’s house,” Musk posted today on X, or the service formerly called Twitter. “If we get lucky and Zuck my 👅 actually answers the door, the fight is on!”

Musk, who once compared a user broadcasting his jet’s location to sharing “assassination coordinates,” says he’ll livestream the “adventure” on X.

Zuckerberg, it turns out, is having none of it.

“Mark is traveling right now and isn’t in Palo Alto,” a spokesperson for Zuckerberg at Meta, Iska Saric, tells The Verge. “Also, Mark takes this sport seriously and isn’t going to fight someone who randomly shows up at his house.”

Zuckerberg recently threw in the towel after weeks of Musk not confirming a date for their cage match, then suggesting he may need surgery and that the fight will take place in Rome without the UFC’s involvement. The Italian government quickly denied that it would take place in Rome, and Zuckerberg, who has been training regularly and competing in jiujitsu tournaments, has been adamant that the fight be professionally organized.

Source : https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831915/the-musk-versus-zuckerberg-beef-has-reached-a-new-level-of-absurdity

Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg: The stupidest story of the summer appears over

Looks like the proposed cage fight between the two billionaires won’t happen after all

Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Elon Musk. Nothing more to see here folks, move along… AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The stupidest story of the summer may be over. Finally, mercifully.

Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire and chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. META, -1.34%, on Sunday appeared to pull the grown-up card — or at least the less-immature card — to scuttle a cage fight with Elon Musk, the even richer billionaire, Tesla Inc. TSLA, -1.10% CEO and X owner.

From the start, it was a story that appeared to live mostly in Musk’s imagination. Yet it still sparked a media frenzy, as the prospect of two emotionally stunted billionaires publicly pummeling each other was not without some appeal.

But the proposed MMA-style fight apparently met its demise the same way it was born — through a lot of online bluster.

Weeks after proposing the fight, then resorting to multiple delaying tactics while noting how out of shape and unprepared he was, Musk apparently reached out to Zuckerberg over the weekend asking for a “practice bout” first.

Author and journalist Walter Isaacson — who is currently writing a biography of Musk — tweeted a text exchange Sunday that he said Musk had sent him.

“Wanna do a practice bout at your house next week?” a text apparently from Musk reads. The reply, purportedly from Zuckerberg: “If you still want to do a real MMA fight, then you should train on your own and let me know when you’re ready to compete. I don’t want to keep hyping something that will never happen, so you should either decide you’re going to do this and do it soon, or we should move on.”

Zuckerberg later posted a more public burn on Meta’s Threads — the Twitter/X rival that sparked this whole thing to begin with — saying: “I think we can all agree that Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on…If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-vs-mark-zuckerberg-the-stupidest-story-of-the-summer-appears-over-44022704

Elon Musk is now floating the idea of having a ‘noble’ debate with Mark Zuckerberg instead of a tech bro cage fight

Elon Musk. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images
  • Elon Musk now wants a “noble” debate with Zuckerberg.
  • Musk said Sunday he might need to undergo surgery before his proposed cage match versus Zuck.

It looks as if Elon Musk is trying really hard to get out of his cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg.

On Sunday, the billionaire said his fight with Zuckerberg — if it happens — would be live-streamed on his platform, X. But the same day, Musk said he needed to get his neck and upper back examined before fixing a date.

“May require surgery before the fight can happen. Will know this week,” Musk tweeted.

And now Musk is floating the idea of having a “noble” debate with Zuckerberg instead of throwing hands. The TED curator Chris Anderson proposed having a “cage match DEBATE” between the two billionaires, and Musk seemed game for it.

“Here’s a better idea: a cage match DEBATE ‘How to Build an Amazing Future,'” Anderson tweeted on Tuesday.

“This is really fighting as (I believe) a noble sport,” Musk replied. “We also hope, with humility, to express our admiration for those who have fought before for noble causes.”

Anderson’s proposed alternative is similar to what Musk’s mother previously suggested he do. Maye Musk tweeted in June that her son and Zuckerberg should “fight with words only” instead of beating each other up.

“A verbal fight only. Three questions each. The funniest answers win. Who agrees?” Maye Musk tweeted in June.

Musk may not have taken his mother’s advice then, but he seems to be warming up to the idea now and for a good reason. Musk’s chances of beating Zuckerberg in the ring are slim, considering the latter’s MMA training and jiu-jitsu medals.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/elon-musk-is-now-floating-the-idea-of-having-a-noble-debate-with-mark-zuckerberg-instead-of-a-tech-bro-cage-fight/articleshow/102597892.cms

Bloke who tracked Elon Musk’s jet continues operation on Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter rival

Despite threats of legal action from the richest man in the world, the guy behind an account giving live updates on the location of Elon Musk has simply hopped over to new kid on the block, Threads

Jack Sweeney is taking the fight to a new frontier (Image: CNN)

The bloke who tracked Elon Musk’s private jet and got banned from Twitter, is setting up again on the new competitor Threads.

Jack Sweeney posted on the new rival platform from Mark Zuckerberg: “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!”

Going by the name @ElonMusksJet, he picked up 15,000 followers in the first 24 hours alone.

Some 30million people are thought to have joined the platform since it was opened on July 6.

Speaking to Insider, Sweeney said: “I would like to post on Threads just as I do on Instagram.”

Meta hasn’t yet created an auto-publication feature, but Sweeney hoped he would be able to take advantage of this one day as he will have to work manually until then.

Elon Musk’s jet has been tracked since 2020 (Image: elonmusksjet)

He first started tacking the private jet of the Twitter owner in 2020 with his @ElonJet account racking up some half a million subscribers.

He’s also managed to track celebrities like former US President Donald Trump, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian – and he even did one on Zuckerberg himself.

Musk weighed in on the conversation at the time, saying: “Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation.

Source : https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/bloke-who-tracked-elon-musks-30420631

Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

In its earlier round of cuts, Meta slashed 11,000 workers in what was its first-ever major layoff

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Reuters Photo

Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.

The world’s largest social networking company is eliminating more jobs, on top of a 13 per cent reduction in November, in a bid to become a more efficient organisation. In its earlier round of cuts, Meta slashed 11,000 workers in what was its first-ever major layoff. The company has also been working to flatten its organization, giving buyout packages to managers and cutting whole teams it deems nonessential, Bloomberg News reported in February, a move that is still being finalized and could affect thousands of staffers.

The imminent round of cuts is being driven by financial targets and is separate from the “flattening,” said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. Meta, which has seen a slowdown in advertising revenue and has shifted focus to a virtual-reality platform called the metaverse, has been asking directors and vice presidents to make lists of employees that can be let go, the people said. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the plans on Monday.

Source : https://www.deccanherald.com/business/business-news/meta-plans-thousands-more-layoffs-as-soon-as-this-week-1197910.html

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