2023-09-18 16:24:46
September 18, 2023 Today at 6:23 p.m.
The American billionaire met Turkish President Erdogan, then Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Many countries want to host the future Tesla factory.
Is this a business meeting or a diplomatic meeting? This Monday, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Silicon Valley without a stopover in Washington. In the absence of a visit to the White House – with which relations have become strained since the attempted controversial reform of Israeli justice – Netanyahu will meet the American billionaire Elon Musk in San Francisco.
The meeting will be broadcast on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk. According to the program communicated to the press, the Prime Minister will respond to criticism once morest his judicial reform project, which provoked huge demonstrations in Israel. Elon Musk, for his part, will address the conflict between him and l’Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish civil rights association which recently highlighted an increase in extremist content on according to the American billionaire.
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Beyond this double publicity stunt supposed to restore the image of the two interlocutors, there are of course economic issues. Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would take advantage of this meeting to ask Elon Musk to‘invest in the Israeli artificial intelligence industry. The billionaire, who co-founded the start-up in 2015 OpenAI before leaving it in 2018, announced last July the creation ofa new company specialized in the fieldbaptized xAI.
“President Erdogan called on Tesla to set up its seventh factory in Turkey.”
The other big subject of the meeting is the future new Tesla factory, the automobile group which Elon Musk also owns. He said in May that he would probably choose a location for the mega-factory by the end of the year. But Israel is far from being the only candidate country.
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Sunday, it was the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Elon Musk met in New York. “President Erdogan called on Tesla to install its seventh factory in Türkiye“, the Turkish presidency officially indicated the day following the meeting.
Meanwhile, another competitor has entered the competition: Saudi Arabia reportedly in talks with Tesla on the subject, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Riyadh would have offered the automobile group to finance a cobalt and copper extraction project of the Trafigura mining group, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in order to supply the future factory with the metals necessary for the construction of its electric cars.
In June, it was the French president Emmanuel Macron who rolled out the red carpet for Elon Musk in the Élysée Palace, in order to encourage him to open his factory in France. A meeting which did not result in no announcement from the billionaire, who seems to appreciate being courted in this way, but who had sparked controversy. Besides its management brutal once more highlighted this weekend by a new biographyElon Musk is accused of personally spreading extremist and conspiracy theories on
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