And it's Elon Musk's world who are just living in it.
The tech entrepreneur and CEO may need to take some time off for health reasons,
but not before he doubled down on his cage fight with me,
Ceo Mark Zuckerberg,
Zuckerberg for the latest on Elon.
We're bringing in new senior reporter Michelle Castillo
Michelle. I have to say, I'm very intrigued by this story. Lan says he needs surgery.
Tell me more about that. This story is wild hena.
So Elon Musk announced he is getting an MRI of his neck
upper back today and he may need to get surgery depending on the results.
So Musk was actually responding to a user comment on
a the platform formerly known as Twitter as to when the
exact date of this cage match you mentioned between meta CEO,
Mark Zuckerberg might take place.
Yeah, you heard that right? So it does seem that this isn't a joke.
There is going to be a fight between
Musk and Zuckerberg and it might actually happen.
Both executives have said they've been training for it
said he's been lifting weights in the office.
Uh Zuckerberg said he's going to continue
training even if this fight doesn't happen.
But over the weekend,
Zuckerberg had said on threads A K A the copycat
that he was ready for the Musk grudge match.
And when Musk had in,
when initially challenged Zuckerberg, he suggested the date of August 26.
Now back to Musk,
he did say over the weekend also that the fight will be live streamed on
with all proceeds going to charity for veterans. But
Zberg hasn't really confirmed the date with Musk and he added quote,
not holding my breath.
So if this surgery is going to happen, that Musk is hinting about,
it's probably going to delay the fight.
I would think so too.
So all fights aside, if Musk has surgery, let's talk about his companies.
How will it affect them?
Well, Musk is the owner or chief executive of quite a few tech ventures, Hannah.
So if he's out for surgery,
it may have an impact on the markets if he can't run them properly.
And some of these companies are having
backup executives that are leaving the company.
Let's take Tesla, for example, Chief Financial Officer Zaki
Horn stepped down on Friday and is marking the second CFO
that has left the company in the last four years.
So, let's remember in addition to
Musk owns or runs Tesla is the CEO,
as we mentioned, Space X, he's the CEO, the boring company.
He's the owner, Newlink, he's the owner of that and Xa I, he's the founder of that. So
A I, if you're not familiar with that, that's his latest venture.
It's focused on the field of artificial intelligence, particularly mathematics.
So Musk had been on the board of open A I,
the research lab responsible for image generator dolly and Chat G BT.
He tried to take over
A I in 2018 due to ethical safety concerns but failed in his bid.
So as a result, he stepped down from that company and vowed to start his own firm.
So Xa I was announced on July 12th of this year or 7,
12 23 which if you add it up together equals 42.
And for my hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy fans,
you know that 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life,
the universe and everything
very well said. So speaking of
Musk also said he will pay legal fees for any
person who gets in trouble at work for their tweets.
What does that mean? Well, he did say it. So Musk, who was very active on
over the weekend tweeted if you were unfairly treated by your
employer due to posting or liking something on this platform,
we will fund your legal bill.
He added that there was no limit.
Several people did share stories of what they believed was unfair treatment over
workplace tweets with Musk responding to several of them asking for more details,
but
just because he said it doesn't necessarily mean, it's actually going to happen.
Let's all remember back to when Musk said he
was gonna take Tesla private at $420 a share.
Well, that never materialized and now he's facing facing security fraud charges.