{
  "id": 528203,
  "title": "How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/how-a-clause-in-elon-musks-tesla-pay-package-worth-up-to-1t-could",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-11T02:15:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
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    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/business/see-how-a-tesla-spacex-merger-gives-musk-a-shortcut-to-his-1-trillion-payday-327bc491"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A critical clause in the CEO's Tesla stock award would wipe away lofty performance targets if a merger happened",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "SpaceX is spending $16.8 billion on a Texas chip fab Musk says will be '50 times the size of the Pentagon'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/spacex-is-spending-16-8-billion-on-a-texas-chip-fab-musk-says-will-be",
        "published": "2026-08-10T20:20:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}