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Elon Musk is the CEO and founder of electric vehicle (EV) car maker Tesla and private space technology major SpaceX. He is the richest men in the world, after Tesla stock zoomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Musk's personal net worth reached more than $188.5 billion, past Amazon.com Inc.’s top boss Jeff Bezos in January, Bloomberg News reported. He has a 20 percent stake in the carmaker and about $42 billion of unrealized paper gains on vested stock options. Musk, who co-founded and sold Internet payments company PayPal Holdings Inc., now leads some of the most futuristic companies in the world. Besides Tesla, he heads SpaceX and Neuralink, a startup that is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect the human brain to computers. He set up the Boring Company to make affordable tunnels below busy city streets for an all-electric public transportation system to avoid the nasty traffic jams in US cities. Another of Musk's pet ventures is Starlink. In August, Elon Musk announced SpaceX has shipped 1 lakh Starlink terminals so far. Starlink plans to deploy thousands of low-orbit satellites to provide high-speed internet to isolated and poorly connected areas. The billionaire entrepreneur is also known for his crypto endorsements. He reiterated holdings in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin, and closely watches the cryptocurrency space and tweets his observations regularly. More

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  • Elon Musk shares Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's 'no task is beneath me' video: 'This is the way'

    The clip shows Jensen Huang recounting his early years working as a busboy, waiter, dishwasher and toilet cleaner. 'To me, no task is beneath me because, remember, I used to be a dishwasher [and] I used to clean toilets…' he said.

  • 49-year-old man credits Elon Musk’s Grok AI for saving his life after doctors fail to diagnose life threatening condition

    A 49-year-old man says Elon Musk’s Grok AI helped save his life by spotting signs of appendicitis after doctors missed it, prompting him to demand a CT scan that revealed a near-ruptured appendix.

  • Elon Musk is hiring at xAI: How to apply for Android engineer jobs and what the company wants

    Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is hiring Android engineers. Here’s how to apply, what skills are needed, job locations, and what candidates should expect.

  • SpaceX’s record IPO plan pushes obscure fund into spotlight

    The ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (ticker XOVR) has taken in more than $470 million since December 8 — more than half its total assets

  • Elon Musk’s X adds home and lock screen widgets for iOS, five years after teasing them

    Elon Musk-owned social media platform, X, has finally introduced widgets for the iOS app, allowing users to access news, shortcuts, and notifications on their home and lock screens. The feature comes more than five years after it was first teased.

  • Elon Musk’s fortune soars above $600 billion on new SpaceX valuation

    The world’s richest person is worth almost $638 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after SpaceX hit a valuation of about $800 billion in an insider share sale — a deal that makes the Starbase, Texas-based rocket maker the world’s most valuable private company.

  • Here’s what Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI is really trying to achieve

    New filings show that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI is less about Grok’s App Store visibility and more about trying to shift iOS in favour of X’s long-standing super app ambitions.

  • 'If you have a womb, you are a woman': Elon Musk's post sparks gender debate

    Elon Musk sparked online controversy after stating that womanhood is defined by having a womb, drawing praise from supporters and criticism from others who argue gender identity extends beyond biology.

  • Jemima Goldsmith makes 'personal plea' to Elon Musk to restore posts on Imran Khan

    Jemima Goldsmith accuses Elon Musk’s X of suppressing her posts on Imran Khan’s treatment, as his family raises alarm over his isolation, restricted access and alleged unlawful detention amid growing international concern.

  • ‘Your daughter hates you’: Trans rights clash with Newsom turns ugly, Musk fires back with ‘woke mind virus’ charge

    The exchange quickly spread across the platform as users debated Newsom’s remark and Musk’s rebuttal.

  • SpaceX $1.5 trillion value target hinges on Starlink — and Elon

    SpaceX is planning an initial public offering that may be the world’s biggest ever.

  • Elon Musk’s fortune would more than double on $1.5 trillion SpaceX

    Elon Musk's total fortune would be $952 billion, up about $491 billion from its current level, according to the calculations, which use a $1.5 trillion pre-money valuation for its estimate.

  • Scindia, Starlink official hold talks on expanding satellite-based last-mile internet in India

    Starlink, the satellite internet venture led by Elon Musk, has signed a deal with Maharashtra for rural connectivity

  • Trai rejects DoT view to hike satcom spectrum charge to 5%, keeps Rs 500 fee for urban users

    Trai has said that if DoT's views are adopted to encourage satellite connections in border and tough terrains, then a lot of people in rural areas will be left behind in accessing satellite connectivity

  • Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg turn into 'billionaire robot dogs' worth Rs 90 lakh. They 'poop' prints

    The robot dogs' creator, Beeple, explained that the robots are 'continuously taking pictures and ranking those pictures to find the most interesting ones,' then reinterpreting those images in the artistic style of the person whose head they wear.

  • SpaceX to offer insider shares at record-setting $800 billion valuation

    SpaceX is also exploring a possible initial public offering as soon as late next year

  • Elon Musk’s favourite amplifier: How Mario Nawfal turned online attention into power

    A digital entrepreneur turns Musk’s repeated endorsements into unprecedented reach, political influence and a fast-growing media empire.

  • Musk's SpaceX discusses record valuation, IPO as soon as 2026

    The company’s latest tender offer could value SpaceX at as much as $800 billion, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public.

  • EU fines Musk’s X €120m over transparency breaches under digital rules

    The European Union fined Elon Musk’s X €120 million under its Digital Services Act for transparency violations, triggering sharp US criticism and reopening tensions over digital regulation and free speech.

  • Bill Gates says Musk-driven US aid cuts fuel 'tragic' global surge in child mortality

    Bill Gates said global child deaths will rise for the first time this century, blaming severe Western aid cuts. He criticised the US, Europe and Elon Musk’s DOGE for worsening global health outcomes.

  • How executive pay went galactic

    Elon Musk’s $1tn incentive plan supercharges a long history of rewards driving up executive pay

  • Elon Musk predicts AI evolution will force money as concept to disappear, working to be optional in less than 20 years

    Musk agrees that there are dangers associated with artificial Intelligence (AI), and believes that developers should ensure that the technology values truth, beauty, and curiosity.

  • Elon Musk predicts work will be optional in 10-20 years: What that means for India’s future of jobs | Explained

    Only two weeks before the podcast, at the US–Saudi Arabia Investment Forum, Musk repeated the claim that work would become “optional” because AI and robots would take over most forms of production.

  • “AI will make jobs…” Elon Musk once again makes bold prediction about future of work on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast

    Elon Musk said on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast that rapid advances in AI and robotics could make work optional within the next two decades. He predicted that future technology will be able to produce most goods and services with minimal human involvement. Here is what he said about the future of jobs.

  • One of Elon Musk’s sons has an Indian connection, Musk reveals on podcast with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath

    Elon Musk revealed on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast that one of his sons has an Indian connection through partner Shivon Zilis, whose heritage traces back to India. Here’s what he shared about their family and the story behind the name.

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