Elon Musk
Musk’s xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis
The Grok logo is being displayed on a smartphone with Xai visible in the background in this photo illustration on April 1, 2024. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI attained an official permit to power its supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee, using natural gas-burning turbines, according to public records shared by the […]
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Elon Musk’s X is down for some users
The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load […]
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Tesla reports 14% decline in vehicle deliveries, marking second straight year-over-year drop
Tesla Model Y electric vehicles are collected from the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg by a car transporter. Patrick Pleul | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Tesla reported over 384,000 vehicle deliveries in the second quarter, a 14% decline from a year ago, and the second straight quarterly drop. Shares rose 5%. The electric vehicle maker reported 443,956 […]
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Jeff Bezos sells $737 million worth of Amazon shares
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leaves Aman Venice hotel, on the second day of the wedding festivities of Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 27, 2025. Yara Nardi | Reuters Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unloaded more than 3.3 million shares of his company in a sale valued at roughly $736.7 million, according to […]
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U.S. judge blocks Trump administration move to overhaul health agencies
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on as he attends a press conference to discuss health insurance reform, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 23, 2025. Kevin Mohatt | Reuters A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward […]
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched […]
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Musk shreds Trump’s tax bill as ‘DEBT SLAVERY,’ vows to unseat Republicans who back it
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters He may have stopped openly feuding with President Donald Trump, but Elon Musk isn’t backing off his bid to kill Trump’s signature megabill. The Tesla and […]
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Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Obama called the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.” […]
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Tesla’s IPO was 15 years ago. The stock is up almost 300-fold since then
CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk waves after ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ market in celebration of his company’s initial public offering in New York June 29, 2010. Brendan McDermid | Reuters At the time of Tesla’s IPO 15 years ago, the company had generated roughly $150 million in revenue in its lifetime. […]
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France is betting Eutelsat can become Europe’s answer to Starlink — but experts aren’t convinced
France views Eutelsat as a strategic asset in the EU’s push for technological sovereignty. Benoit Tessier | AFP via Getty Images For years, France’s Eutelsat has been trying to build a European alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service. The company merged with British satellite venture OneWeb in 2023, consolidating the region’s satellite communications […]
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