Back in April, when Chris Leiter first got his Cybertruck, other drivers found it so distracting that they would almost hit him trying to take pictures. Most of that attention was admiring, but some was negative—the Cybertruck is closely associated with its controversial maker,

On a Saturday morning in December 2022, Elon Musk summoned finance executives at Twitter, which he had bought six weeks earlier, to a conference call. Then he drilled into a spreadsheet that contained the social media company’s expenditures.