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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’s Grok video on ‘love’ sparks mockery and a literary takedown

    Elon Musk’s AI-generated “love” video using Grok Imagine drew ridicule online, with critics mocking its tone and questioning Musk’s personality. Author Joyce Carol Oates delivered the harshest critique, calling him “uncultured,” to which Musk shot back with a curt insult.

  • 'It’s insanely suicidal for Microsoft...', says Elon Musk as Sam Altman claims Slack breeds fake work

    'It’s insanely suicidal for Microsoft...', says Elon Musk as Sam Altman claims Slack breeds fake work

    The comment didn’t go unnoticed by Elon Musk, who responded on X with a thinly veiled warning to Microsoft — a major OpenAI investor and infrastructure partner.

  • Elon Musk says AI will eventually rule the world but only under one condition

    Elon Musk says AI will eventually rule the world but only under one condition

    His latest comments also come amid rising anxiety over automation and job displacement. Just days ago, Musk responded to a post on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that Amazon plans to replace over 160,000 jobs with robots by 2027. Musk wrote, “AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional — like growing your own vegetables instead of buying them from the store.”

  • Watch | Elon Musk dances with humanoid robot Optimus as Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay deal

    Watch | Elon Musk dances with humanoid robot Optimus as Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay deal

    Moments after the vote at Tesla’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk appeared on stage to roaring cheers and began dancing alongside Optimus, the company’s humanoid robot.

  • Tesla shareholders approve massive $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk

    Tesla shareholders approve massive $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk

    His ownership would increase from about 13% to 25%, adding more than 423 million shares to his holdings over the next 10 years.

  • Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package to face Tesla shareholder vote

    Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package to face Tesla shareholder vote

    Tesla Chair Robin Denholm has appeared on CNBC and other broadcasts in recent weeks to sell the plan in a sign of the board's continued enthusiastic backing for Musk, despite criticism that the billionaire's embrace of far-right political figures has weighed on sales

  • 'Bear in mind...': Elon Musk backs Andrew Cuomo in New York mayor race, advises voters against Mamdani

    'Bear in mind...': Elon Musk backs Andrew Cuomo in New York mayor race, advises voters against Mamdani

    Mjusk also said that a vote for Curtis Sliwa, the GOP candidate in the race, amounted to a vote for Mamdani.

  • Sam Altman hits back at Elon Musk over OpenAI feud: “Can’t we all just move on?”

    Sam Altman hits back at Elon Musk over OpenAI feud: “Can’t we all just move on?”

    Sam Altman’s message comes in response to Musk’s recent tweet claiming that Altman and OpenAI “stole a non-profit” — a reference to the company’s shift to a capped-profit model in 2019.

  • Elon Musk warns he could quit Tesla if investors don’t approve his massive $1 trillion pay deal

    Elon Musk warns he could quit Tesla if investors don’t approve his massive $1 trillion pay deal

    Elon Musk has warned he could leave Tesla if shareholders don’t approve his record $1 trillion pay package. With a crucial vote on November 6, Tesla’s board says Musk’s leadership is vital as the company pushes into AI and self-driving technology.

  • Elon Musk reveals how a single tweet led to Tesla AI hire Ashok Elluswamy

    Elon Musk reveals how a single tweet led to Tesla AI hire Ashok Elluswamy

    A single 2015 tweet from Elon Musk helped Tesla recruit Ashok Elluswamy, who later became head of the company’s Autopilot and AI division. The post exemplifies Musk’s unconventional hiring approach and highlights Tesla’s largely organic growth in AI capabilities, with Elluswamy now playing a central role in developing the company’s autonomous driving systems.

  • Starlink starts security tests ahead of India retail kickoff

    Starlink starts security tests ahead of India retail kickoff

    The series of tests is part of India’s security clearance process for foreign and domestic telecom operators

  • Elon Musk hijacks Tesla earnings call to vouch for $1 trillion pay plan

    Elon Musk hijacks Tesla earnings call to vouch for $1 trillion pay plan

    Musk emphasized, as he has in the past, that sufficient voting control matters more to him than monetary compensation from Tesla.

  • Elon Musk really deserves that $1 trillion bonus package

    Elon Musk really deserves that $1 trillion bonus package

    The billionaire must reach multiple challenging operational targets, so it is by no means money for nothing 

  • “AI will replace all…” Elon Musk warns that working may soon become optional

    “AI will replace all…” Elon Musk warns that working may soon become optional

    Elon Musk predicts AI and robots will replace all jobs, making work optional. His comments follow reports that Amazon plans to automate over 500,000 roles in the coming years, raising questions about the future of work and human employment.

  • Elon Musk uses AWS outage to criticize competitors like Signal and promote X Chat messaging platform

    Elon Musk uses AWS outage to criticize competitors like Signal and promote X Chat messaging platform

    AWS outage takes Signal, Zoom, and Snapchat offline as Elon Musk promotes X Chat and criticizes competitors’ reliance on cloud services.

  • Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are crashing into Earth, worry scientists

    Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are crashing into Earth, worry scientists

    SpaceX’s Starlink programme operates over 6,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, the largest satellite constellation ever built.

  • Elon Musk’s xAI to launch AI-powered video games, hires Nvidia experts to build these models

    Elon Musk’s xAI to launch AI-powered video games, hires Nvidia experts to build these models

    Elon Musk-owned xAI is venturing into video games based on world models, with help from former Nvidia experts. This innovation could revolutionise gaming, robotics, and applications for real-world usage, with the aim of releasing it by 2026.

  • Jensen Huang hand-delivers world’s smallest supercomputer to Elon Musk at SpaceX Starbase

    Jensen Huang hand-delivers world’s smallest supercomputer to Elon Musk at SpaceX Starbase

    “Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket,” Jensen Huang joked, as he shared pizza and stories with Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers.

  • Elon Musk’s xAI staff reportedly handled adult content for Grok AI under ‘Project Rabbit’

    Elon Musk’s xAI staff reportedly handled adult content for Grok AI under ‘Project Rabbit’

    A recent report by Business Insider claims that Elon Musk’s xAI tasked employees with managing sexually explicit content for the Grok AI chatbot under an initiative internally called ‘Project Rabbit’. The project reportedly involved transcribing adult conversations and responding to NSFW prompts, raising ethical and safety concerns.

  • 'OpenAI is built on a lie. They stole a...', Elon Musk slams ChatGPT creator yet again

    'OpenAI is built on a lie. They stole a...', Elon Musk slams ChatGPT creator yet again

    The Tesla and X chief’s comments come just days after OpenAI celebrated the first anniversary of its viral text-to-video app, Sora. Musk has repeatedly accused the company of abandoning its original non-profit purpose

  • 3 years after firing them, Elon Musk agrees to pay severance to ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and other executives

    3 years after firing them, Elon Musk agrees to pay severance to ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and other executives

    This comes after Musk’s X also agreed to settle a separate lawsuit in August involving $500 million in unpaid severance to rank-and-file employees laid off during the company’s massive downsizing.

  • Starlink readies India rollout, says India capacity will go waste without rural users

    Starlink readies India rollout, says India capacity will go waste without rural users

    Starlink is putting in place the infrastructure required to begin its satcom services in India, entering a field that already includes rivals Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio Satellite

  • Tesla debuts 'affordable' Model Y and 3 that strike some as too expensive

    Tesla debuts 'affordable' Model Y and 3 that strike some as too expensive

    CEO Elon Musk has touted the car as a way to tap a wider swath of buyers, saying last year that a price below $30,000, after incentives, was the key

  • Starship Flight 11: SpaceX targets October 13 for next megarocket launch

    Starship Flight 11: SpaceX targets October 13 for next megarocket launch

    The upcoming flight will test several upgrades designed for future missions. Super Heavy will attempt a new landing sequence, firing five of its 33 Raptor engines to control its descent.

  • Why Elon Musk is building giant AI data centres in Memphis, and what it means for the city

    Why Elon Musk is building giant AI data centres in Memphis, and what it means for the city

    His Colossus supercomputers promise to fuel the AI race, but locals fear the costs in water, power, and pollution.

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