The US EV maker only began delivering the Cybertruck to customers in late 2023. ‌According to Kelley Blue Book, the company only sold 20,237 Cybertrucks ⁠in the US last year, down 48% from 38,965 in 2024. Before the pickup truck launched, Musk had predicted annual sales of 250,000 units.

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In response to a user on X, Musk called the Cybertruck the "best vehicle Tesla has ever made" and the wind-down the "end of an era".

It starts with

One poll

And that's no lie

Would you vote for this girl or maybe that guy?

Keep that in mind for the next time

when I come by and ask

Yes, or, no

Do you like Democrats?

What about the freaks in bright red hats?

Do you disagree or somewhat agree

that both sides are bad

I polled so hard

And got so far

But in the end

It's Democrats or MAGA

In Bexar County, for instance, only eight people voted by mail, according to the state’s site. In reality, according to Michele Carew, the county’s election administrator, nearly 18,000 people have cast ballots by mail.

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In person vote totals have also lagged. Election officials in Fort Bend County – one of the state’s most competitive districts – reported more than 75,000 ballots cast in person as of Friday morning while the state’s website shows just over 41,000.

Local election officials said they are still confident in the state’s election night reporting system, which functioned without any issues or delay in the March primary, but are frustrated the turnout numbers aren’t being accurately reported.

“It's not that we haven't entered the data, it's just not reflecting here,” said Kristin Miles, the election administrator in Bastrop County and the president of the Texas Association of County Election Officials, referring to the Secretary of State’s portal.

Paxtonfreude is a bipartisan business in Texas these days. “This is one of the biggest dirtbags that has ever run for office,” the lawmaker who sent the picture tells me. With a measure of satisfaction, he says that his party’s pollsters report that “there’s no amount of money in the world that can save him.” The lawmaker supported his party’s failed effort to impeach Paxton in 2023. He tells me he’s in a large group chat with other veterans of that fight, many of whom paid a heavy price for crossing Paxton. The chat is active. Every bad poll, every bad pic, every embarrassing leak. “Forty times a day,” he says.

Former House Speaker Dade Phelan, a longtime Paxton foe, tells me Republicans across the state are telling him they’ll skip the ballot line for Senate. “That never happened in 2018,” he said, when Beto O’Rourke lost by only 2.8 points to Ted Cruz. “I don’t even know if I want him to win,” says a longtime Republican consultant about Paxton. While he can’t support Talarico, he says, “there might be a certain sadistic pleasure for me in, like, us getting our just deserts.” Trump seems to understand the problem. Paxton “may not dress right, he may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I’ve ever seen,” he says. But he is, for better or worse, Trump’s man.

On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access.

The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its rival, Anthropic, began limiting its newest and, in theory, most capable models from accessing the live internet. Researchers adopted these policies after months of incidents in which models pursuing training tasks broke into external systems in search of answers, collaborated on obscure message boards, and developed exotic hacking strategies.

In late July, Beijing set an October 22 deadline for the declaration of offshore trust income, with a ⁠tax of 20% to be imposed on such profits, triggering a scramble among wealthy Chinese individuals to tot up liabilities.

Boston Consulting Group estimates China's offshore wealth at about $1.7 trillion, and offshore trusts have gained ​popularity in recent years as a tool for top shareholders of overseas-listed Chinese companies to park wealth outside the country.

China's State Taxation Administration has ordered employees to chase up those liable for offshore trust tax, ​working from a list drawn from the Hurun wealth rankings, corporate filings and other public information, three people said.

In late July, Beijing set an October 22 deadline for the declaration of offshore trust income, with a ⁠tax of 20% to be imposed on such profits, triggering a scramble among wealthy Chinese individuals to tot up liabilities.

Boston Consulting Group estimates China's offshore wealth at about $1.7 trillion, and offshore trusts have gained ​popularity in recent years as a tool for top shareholders of overseas-listed Chinese companies to park wealth outside the country.

China's State Taxation Administration has ordered employees to chase up those liable for offshore trust tax, ​working from a list drawn from the Hurun wealth rankings, corporate filings and other public information, three people said.