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fromFortune
48 minutes ago
US politics

Elon Musk claims higher education 'radicalized' Charlie Kirk shooting suspect as bullet casings reveal extremely online, antifascist writings | Fortune

fromFortune
48 minutes ago
US politics

Elon Musk claims higher education 'radicalized' Charlie Kirk shooting suspect as bullet casings reveal extremely online, antifascist writings | Fortune

#security
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Top Trump Official Throws Elon Musk Under the Bus: He Got DOGE Backward'

Twitter-style mass staff cuts are not an appropriate model for federal government; priority should be reducing government spending, waste, fraud, and abuse.
#larry-ellison
US politics
fromAxios
4 hours ago

Exclusive: Musk got DOGE's mission "backward," Lutnick says

Elon Musk prioritized rapid federal workforce cuts over targeting waste; DOGE will focus on spending cuts instead of layoffs, with disputed savings near $200 billion.
#tesla
fromAbove the Law
2 days ago
Business

Tax The Rich, Levy Wealth, Pay Our Debt: Smash Elon Musk's Ridiculous $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package - Above the Law

fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago
Artificial intelligence

A 20-year-old movie about warring magicians explains Elon Musk and the world of robots, a Morgan Stanley analyst says

fromTruthout
3 days ago
Left-wing politics

Sanders Calls Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Tesla Compensation Plan "Grossly Immoral"

fromAbove the Law
2 days ago
Business

Tax The Rich, Levy Wealth, Pay Our Debt: Smash Elon Musk's Ridiculous $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package - Above the Law

fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago
Artificial intelligence

A 20-year-old movie about warring magicians explains Elon Musk and the world of robots, a Morgan Stanley analyst says

fromTruthout
3 days ago
Left-wing politics

Sanders Calls Elon Musk's $1 Trillion Tesla Compensation Plan "Grossly Immoral"

#wealth-rankings
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 day ago

Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered

Elon Musk claimed Suchir Balaji was murdered despite investigators' finding of suicide, repeating the allegation after Sam Altman's TV appearance amid tensions with OpenAI.
#openai
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 days ago

Elon Musk Complains 'The Government Is Basically Unfixable' After Disastrous Trump Administration Stint

Elon Musk considers the U.S. government essentially unfixable and warns rising interest payments and national debt threaten fiscal stability unless AI boosts productivity.
#xai
fromThe Verge
2 days ago
Artificial intelligence

The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags

Grok, built by xAI with loose guardrails and marketed for permissive responses, raises serious safety and misuse concerns including potential weaponization.
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly "Gooning to AI Anime"

Elon Musk and xAI shifted focus toward hypersexualized anime chatbots, prompting ridicule from followers and controversy over the startup's priorities.
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly "Gooning to AI Anime"

#tesla-compensation
fromFast Company
3 days ago

X has been CEO-less for months. Odds-makers don't think that's changing

CEO is fake title. You need a president, a controller and a secretary for a C Corp, but all the chief [whatever] officer stuff is superfluous,
Tech industry
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Revealed: Boris Johnson approached Elon Musk on behalf of London Evening Standard owner Lebedev

Boris Johnson contacted Elon Musk on behalf of Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev seeking Musk’s AI-powered support or partnership to rescue the struggling London newspaper.
US politics
fromFortune
3 days ago

Trump's energy department said wind and solar energy capacity is 'worthless' without sunlight or wind. Elon Musk reminds DoE about batteries: 'Um... hello?'

The Department of Energy said wind and solar are "worthless" without sun or wind, prompting criticism and Elon Musk's reply highlighting large-scale battery storage.
Tech industry
fromJalopnik
4 days ago

Even Tesla Isn't Buying Ads On X Anymore - Jalopnik

Tesla cut X advertising to $10,000 in early 2025 from $200,000 in 2024 amid Musk's contentious Twitter/X ownership.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

Jared Isaacman reveals why he initially thought his since-rescinded offer to lead NASA was a scam

Jared Isaacman was nominated to lead NASA but the nomination was withdrawn amid concerns about prior associations and perceived ties to Elon Musk.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 days ago

Prince Harry visits Queen Elizabeth's grave on third anniversary of her death

Prince Harry laid a wreath at King George VI Memorial Chapel on the third anniversary of the Queen's death and will attend the WellChild awards.
fromKotaku
4 days ago

Deus Ex Writer Calls Elon Musk's Fandom The Classic's 'Worst Legacy'

"That kind of political weight and social satire is a real common thread between Deus Ex and Dishonored,"
Video games
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

The story of Optimus, the humanoid robot at the heart of Elon Musk's growth plans for Tesla

Optimus, Tesla's humanoid robot, is positioned to generate roughly 80% of Tesla's future value and could drastically increase market capitalization.
#executive-compensation
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 days ago

Bernie Sanders Blasts Elon Musk at Mamdani Rally: We Are Not Going to Allow' Tesla Boss to Become a Trillionaire

It's important that we feel the outrage of children going hungry, people being homeless, 85 million without healthcare, [and] you got one guy one guy Mr. Musk, whose own wealth is more than the bottom 52% of American households, Sanders said. The 83-year-old socialist continued: You may have seen in the papers, they want to give him a little bonus another $800 billion-$900 billion! We are living in crazy world!
US politics
#tesla-pay-package
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

We asked Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini about Elon Musk's chances of unlocking the full $1 trillion in his pay proposal

fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

We asked Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini about Elon Musk's chances of unlocking the full $1 trillion in his pay proposal

#tesla-ceo-compensation
fromFortune
6 days ago
Business

Elon Musk delivered on Tesla's 'mission impossible' goals before-but the targets for his $1 trillion pay package are even more delusional

fromFortune
6 days ago
Business

Elon Musk delivered on Tesla's 'mission impossible' goals before-but the targets for his $1 trillion pay package are even more delusional

fromBusiness Insider
6 days ago

Elon Musk could get a $1 trillion pay package - but he has to find his successor first

To nab the jaw-dropping pay package that could make Elon Musk the first trillionaire, the Tesla CEO first has to find his successor - eventually, anyway. Succession planning is rarely easy and often gets harder when it involves replacing a high-profile exec. Whoever eventually steps in to replace Musk will have a big job to do, leadership experts told Business Insider.
Business
Business
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package

Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire if Tesla's market value rises from about $1tn to $8.5tn within ten years under a new incentive plan.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Elon Musk's New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad

Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot currently shows significant technical limitations and is far from replacing human jobs or delivering the promised massive market-value gains.
#donald-trump
US politics
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Donald Trump Snubs Elon Musk Yet Again, Invites All of His Biggest Competitors to the White House

Elon Musk was not invited to a White House AI event attended by many leading tech CEOs and founders.
Media industry
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Wikipedia is under attack - and how it can survive

Wikipedia editors rapidly update pages, but Musk's alleged Nazi-salute gesture prompted delayed inclusion, a contested edit, and debate over biographies-of-living-persons standards.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Trump says Elon Musk doesn't have a choice but to return to the GOP

Donald Trump expects Elon Musk to rejoin the Republican Party despite their public feud over the GOP's tax and spending legislation.
#nigel-farage
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago
UK politics

Nigel Farage called a Putin-loving free speech imposter' during bumpy US congressional hearing

Nigel Farage faced hostile US congressional questioning accusing him of hypocrisy, Kremlin sympathies, Trump sycophancy, and seeking tech money while criticizing UK free-speech laws.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago
UK politics

Elon Musk launches fresh attack on weak' Nigel Farage

Elon Musk publicly condemned Nigel Farage as incapable of enacting real change and endorsed Advance UK along with figures such as Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib.
#grok
fromsfist.com
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Report: Grok's Responses Have Indeed Been Getting More Right-Wing, Just Like Elon Musk

fromsfist.com
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Report: Grok's Responses Have Indeed Been Getting More Right-Wing, Just Like Elon Musk

Europe politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Elon Musk Floods X With Anti-Migrant Posts, Calls For Mass Remigration'

Elon Musk publicly endorsed remigration and far-right positions, criticizing immigration and warning that low European birth rates and migration threaten Western societies.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Musk appears to compare UK police to Nazi war criminals amid refugee protest arrests

Elon Musk compared U.K. police to Nazi war criminals while intensifying anti-immigration rhetoric amid heated clashes over asylum housing and protests in the U.K.
#sec-lawsuit
#antitrust
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago

Chris Philp accused of courting Musk over grooming gangs scandal social media post

A shadow home secretary publicly engaged with Elon Musk's offer to fund private prosecutions over a grooming gangs scandal, raising questions about evidence handling and police referrals.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago

Elon Musk spreading misinformation' on Dundee girl weapon incident Swinney

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
UK politics
from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks ago

Tesla Loses Big to BYD in Europe

Tesla Inc. ( NASDAQ: TSLA) held the electric vehicle (EV) crown for a decade worldwide. In the past year, China's EV giant BYD passed it in global sales. Being the number one EV maker in the world's largest EV market helped BYD's success. And Elon Musk's political issues, which have damaged Tesla's brand and sales, also helped. BYD has begun to expand into other markets, including Asia and parts of Europe.
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Real estate
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Tech billionaires are building their own private cities. Here's who's doing what where

Wealthy tech billionaires are incorporating private towns to gain control over local governance, building permits, and community institutions.
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Elon Musk is beefing with Apple again. It's not the first time the Tesla CEO picked a fight with the iPhone giant.

"They have hired people we've fired," Musk told German newspaper Handelsblatt. "We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard'. If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I'm not kidding."
Apple
World news
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Epstein's Top Child Trafficker Says She Partied With Elon Musk in the Caribbean

Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ she met Elon Musk around 2010–2011 on Sergey Brin's private Caribbean birthday trip, undermining Musk's claim the photo was a photobomb.
fromSFGATE
2 weeks ago

'Alien: Earth' is here to remind you that Elon Musk sucks

Elon Musk: You remember him, yeah? Richest man in the world. Sells cars that catch on fire. Attempted to replace the federal workforce with 20-something meme addicts. Perhaps you've lost track of Elon lately, either because President Donald Trump fell out with him, or because you quit Twitter, or because you got sidetracked by the National Guard storming your house to check if you've been sheltering Muslim families in your crawlspace.
Artificial intelligence
#severance-lawsuit
New York City
fromSFGATE
2 weeks ago

Ashley St. Clair Claims She's Broke Amid Paternity Battle with Elon Musk-5 Key Takeaways

Ashley St. Clair faces eviction and financial hardship amid a disputed paternity claim alleging Elon Musk fathered her child and subsequently reduced financial support.
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Elon Musk Settles $500M Lawsuit Over Withholding Former Employee Severance Package Money - Above the Law

One of the strangest things about appointing Elon Musk as the head of government spending efficiency is that he's largely known for easily preventable and repeated company value loss. There's that time Tesla stock plummeted because he smoked weed on the Joe Rogan show, there's that time Tesla stock sank by 26% after he "gave his heart out" via sieg heil,
Business
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

How Big Tech Sets the Agenda in Trump's America

Donald Trump is the most tech-friendly President in American history. He enlisted social media to win office; he became a promoter-and beneficiary-of cryptocurrency, breaking long-standing norms around conflicts of interest; and, in his second term, he brought Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest tech baron, to the White House, to disrupt the federal government in the manner of a Silicon Valley startup.
US politics
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Tesla bid to become UK electricity supplier faces opposition

Tesla Energy Ventures, a subsidiary of Tesla, made an application [PDF] in July to the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority for an electricity supply licence to serve domestic and non-domestic premises in the UK. Elon Musk's electric buggy-maker has been playing on the margins of the power business with residential solar panels and battery systems for home users (Powerwall) and utitilites (Megapack) for years.
UK politics
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Elon Musk tried to court Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance xAI's attempted $98 billion OpenAI takeover, court filing shows

Elon Musk asked Mark Zuckerberg to help finance xAI's $97.4 billion attempted acquisition of OpenAI, but Meta did not sign any letter of intent.
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