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Downdetector shows Elon Musk’s X down for thousands of U.S. users, Cloudflare having issues
Cloudflare store is seen at Promenade Street in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21, 2025. Ömer Sercan Karku | Anadolu | Getty Images Elon Musk’s X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform […]
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Tesla recalls 10,500 Powerwall 2 battery systems due to overheating, fire risk
Tesla’s Powerwall 2 Source: Tesla Tesla is recalling around 10,500 units of its Powerwall 2, a backup battery for residential use, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission disclosure out Thursday. “The lithium-ion battery cells in certain Powerwall 2 systems can cause the unit to stop functioning during normal use, which can result in […]
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Op-ed: Chinese robots are coming for Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar Tesla payday
Visitors check out an Optimus humanoid exhibited by Tesla at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China Monday, July 28, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Elon Musk’s bid to become the world’s first trillionaire increasingly rests on a single proposition: that Tesla can evolve from an electric-vehicle company into a […]
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Musk’s xAI raises $15 billion in latest funding round
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 Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has raised $15 billion from investors, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC’s David Faber. The funding adds another $5 billion […]
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Firefly Aerospace shares jump 15% on strong revenues, boosted guidance
Jason Kim, chief executive officer of Firefly Aerospace, center, during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Firefly Aerospace‘s stock surged 15% on Wednesday after the space technology company issued better-than-expected third-quarter results and lifted its guidance. […]
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Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk’s lead
Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coinbase is following Tesla out of Delaware and into Texas. Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday […]
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Rocket Lab rises 5% on record third-quarter revenue, launch backlog
Rocket Lab‘s stock rose as much as 5% on Tuesday after the space company posted record revenues in the third-quarter as it scoops up more launch deals and builds its backlog. The company, which makes satellites and rockets and provides launch services to its customers, on Monday reported revenue of $155 million for the period. […]
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Tesla investor support for Elon Musk’s massive pay plan was lower in 2025 than in 2018
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks during the 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting on Nov. 6, 2025. Courtesy: Tesla Tesla shareholders voted last week to give CEO Elon Musk a record pay package, one that could net him about $1 trillion in company stock over the next decade. But Musk received less support than he did for […]
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Elon Musk says Tesla needs to build ‘gigantic chip fab’ to meet AI and robotics needs
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will likely need to build a “gigantic” semiconductor fabrication plant to keep up with its artificial intelligence and robotics ambitions. “One of the things I’m trying to […]
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