The world’s richest man spent 30 minutes at Davos describing a future his companies keep failing to deliver
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Elon Musk has a problem with numbers.
Not the big, impressive ones. He’s great at those. $430 billion net worth. 9,000 satellites in orbit. 100 gigawatts of solar manufacturing capacity, coming soon, any day now… just you wait.
No, his problem is with the small, verifiable numbers. The ones that show up in federal investigations. The ones on factory safety reports. The ones that count how many people he’s fired while promising robots will make work “optional.”
At Davos 2026, sitting across from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Musk spent half an hour painting a picture of technological utopia. Robots outnumbering humans. Artificial general intelligence by Christmas. Self-driving, he declared, is “essentially a solved problem.”
I put his claims through the gauntlet.
Four were verifiably false. Three were misleading. Two can’t be checked until the future arrives (convenient, that). Only two held up.