{"id":1546068,"date":"2022-07-09T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546068"},"modified":"2022-07-09T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:35:24","slug":"mars-birth-rates-but-no-twitter-elon-musk-captivates-sun-valley-moguls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mars-birth-rates-but-no-twitter-elon-musk-captivates-sun-valley-moguls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars, birth rates, but no Twitter: Elon Musk captivates Sun Valley moguls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmars-birth-rates-but-no-twitter-elon-musk-captivates-sun-valley-moguls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Dawn Chmielewski and Hyunjoo Jin<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -Elon Musk avoided discussing the collapsed Twitter deal as he addressed an audience of moguls on Saturday in Sun Valley, two sources who attended the conference told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-reaching interview, Musk spent most of his time talking about colonizing Mars and extolling the virtues of boosting birth rates on Earth, said the sources. Musk, chief executive of Tesla Inc and rocket company Space X, has long advocated establishing a civilization on the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>Musk earlier this week said he will do his best to help what he called \u201cthe underpopulation crisis,\u201d following a media report that said he had twins with a top executive at his brain-chip start-up Neuralink.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke about how birth rates are declining in wealthy countries, a subject he has explored extensively on Twitter.   <\/p>\n<p>The billionaire entrepreneur took the stage at the Allen &#038; Co Sun Valley Conference, an annual gathering of media and technology executives in Idaho, less than 24 hours after he announced he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was conducted by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded by Musk and several others.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s arrival at the Allen &#038; Co Sun Valley Conference delivered a jolt to the off-record event this week, where the headline-making typically happens beyond the prying eyes of the media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just seems like an absolute mess,\u201d said one senior media executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the interview. \u201cThe guy makes his own rules \u2026 I\u2019d hate to be Twitter, where you have to take this guy seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sun Valley is typically covered like an athleisure version of the Met Gala, with photographers capturing the arrivals of fleece-vested media moguls and reporters making note of power-lunches at the Konditorei cafe on the property.<\/p>\n<p>One Hollywood power-broker Friday expressed hope that the Musk interview would enliven the conference\u2019s staid, cerebral atmosphere this year. <\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Musk\u2019s attorneys delivered an eight-page letter to Twitter, saying he planned to call off the deal to acquire the social network. The document, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleged Twitter failed to respond to repeated requests for information over the past two months, or obtain his consent before taking actions that would impact its business, such as firing two key executives.<\/p>\n<p>Up until that point, conversations in media circles focused on Wall Street\u2019s reappraisal of the streaming business in the wake of Netflix Inc\u2019s subscriber losses.<\/p>\n<p>One digital media executive said Hollywood, which has typically been insulated from recessions, is suddenly worried about how a worsening economy will affect their multi-billion-dollar investments in streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, people are aware the economy does impact the entertainment business, because inflation does impact churn,\u201d the digital media executive said, referring to subscribers leaving a service. \u201cPeople are now saying, \u2018Wow, will people really pay for three of these things?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Musk\u2019s announcement, one chief executive noted the elephant in the room, Saturday\u2019s remarks might well be uncomfortable to two conference attendees: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal.<\/p>\n<p>One of Musk\u2019s last public messages to Agrawal came in the form of a tweet of a poop emoji in response to the Twitter CEO\u2019s defense of how the company accounts for spam bots.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles; editing by Kenneth Li, Franklin Paul and Chris Reese)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/mars-birth-rates-but\/file-photo-spacex-owner-and-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-speaks\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6807Y-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6807Y-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dawn Chmielewski and Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) -Elon Musk avoided discussing the collapsed Twitter deal as he addressed an audience of moguls on Saturday in Sun Valley, two sources who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}