How could Benzinga describe 2023? Much like our most popular article of the year (see below), it was on fire.
Climate change caused fires and other natural disasters, people such as artificial intelligence whisperer and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman were fired (and in his case, rehired), Elon Musk fired up a rocket or two at SpaceX, but also created a firestorm of criticism when he changed Twitter to X, among a few of his other questionable actions of 2023.
Even though artificial intelligence, long the realm of firing up imaginations in science fiction, had already entered our lives in a multitude of ways, it wasn’t until 2023 that your mother finally realized what it was.
As the ashy remnants of the recession that never happened (well, depending on who you talk to) and Fed rate hikes scatter to lay a foundation of sorts for the upcoming spot Bitcoin ETF, it’s time to look at Benzinga’s Top 5 articles in 2023, which unlike 2021, aka the year of the Dogecoin, and 2022’s focus mostly on billionaire Musk and his companies, 2023 had a decidedly more eclectic, and in one case tragic, focus.
1. Tesla Told Driver To Bring “Fully Burned” Model Y To Service Center After It Burst Into Flames On Roadside, by Adam Eckert, originally published Sept. 24
Having your car on fire is never on anyone’s Bingo card, but for one Tesla Model Y owner, who thought he had a flat tire, it turned out, no, his car was actually on fire.
When he asked Tesla customer service representatives what to do, they weren’t too much help, with one recommending he tow the charred remains to a Tesla service center.
Fires, recalls and more, somehow didn’t burn Tesla, though, with its stock ending the year up over 129%.
2. Hold Onto Your Wallets — A New World Currency Could Be In The Making, Courtesy Of The BRICS Nations, by Murtuza Merchant, originally published April 1
A new world order, you say? For the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — the notion of a united currency backed by precious metals is one of the group’s initiatives that could actually happen sooner rather than later.
The idea has garnered enough interest that Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Ethiopia are planning to join in 2024. (Argentina expressed earlier interest, but with the election of Javier Milei, its…
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