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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 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.

  • Elon Musk reveals partner Shivon Zilis is half-Indian, son named after Nobel laureate Chandrasekhar

    Speaking on the podcast People by WTF hosted by Kamath, Musk said, “One of my sons with her has the middle name Sekhar, after Chandrasekhar.”

  • Elon Musk eyes Starlink expansion in India, tells Nikhil Kamath 'we’d love to be operating'

    Elon Musk says SpaceX aims to bring Starlink’s low-cost, reliable internet to India, highlighting its benefits for rural areas, disaster zones, and connectivity, while noting limitations in densely populated cities.

  • ‘US has benefitted immensely from talented Indians’: Elon Musk on H-1B visas on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast

    Elon Musk says the US has benefitted immensely from talented Indians, discusses shifting immigration politics, criticises lax borders under Biden, defends H-1B visas, and argues skilled migrants fill talent shortages.

  • Video | Elon Musk quips his way through Nikhil Kamath's punchy second podcast teaser: 'I wonder what's wrong...'

    In the earlier 39-second clip, also posted on X, Musk and Kamath is seen drinking coffee, smiling at one another, and exchanging silent laughs.

  • The truth behind Elon Musk and Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s viral podcast teaser is finally out

    A mysterious teaser featuring Elon Musk and Zerodha co founder Nikhil Kamath has sparked debate online after Grok, X’s in house chatbot, suggested the clip might be AI generated. Here is what happened and why the internet cannot stop talking about it.

  • Bengaluru gets first look at Kamath x Musk podcast — early screening sparks buzz

    Amid the social media frenzy, a pre-release screening is being organised for limited members in Bengaluru.

  • 'Caption this’: Nikhil Kamath drops Elon Musk teaser, internet doubts if clip is real

    Posting the teaser with a playful caption — "Caption this" — and tagging Musk, Nikhil Kamath hinted at Musk’s appearance on his podcast “WTF is?”, leaving audiences eagerly waiting for the full episode.

  • Pro-Trump influencers unmasked as foreign actors on social media: Here's how X exposed them

    The revelations raise serious questions about foreign influence and disinformation campaigns in American politics, echoing concerns from the 2016 election and other recent digital operations.

  • AI image of Musk smoking with other tech giants as the “$1 trillion squad” goes viral

    A series of AI-generated images of Elon Musk smoking a cigar alongside tech titans like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella has taken social media by storm. The fictional "$1 trillion squad" is the internet's new meme, inspiring laughter, debate and even a more serious reflection on AI's capacity for emulating power.

  • ‘$1 trillion squad’: AI images of Musk, Altman, Huang, Cook with other billionaires spark frenzy

    The exaggerated realism, combined with the uncanny nature of the images created using Grok and Nano Banana, among other AI tools, blurred lines between fact and fiction, prompting many to initially wonder if the photos were genuine. Even after confirmations that they were AI-generated, the debate only amplified the meme storm.

  • Elon Musk says 'I am a...' as Grok goes viral for picking him over athletes, artists and supermodels

    Grok 4.1 is going viral for its strange devotion to Elon Musk, repeatedly choosing him over world class athletes, supermodels and even legendary painters

  • Musk’s AI in fresh scandal as Grok accused of pushing Holocaust-denial narratives

    French prosecutors are investigating Grok after the chatbot generated Holocaust-denial content, echoing debunked claims about Auschwitz gas chambers.

  • Elon Musk works 7 days a week with 2 am naps, late night meetings, former employee reveals

    A former X employee reveals Elon Musk’s intense daily routine. He works seven days a week, attends late-night meetings, manages multiple companies, and even takes 2 AM naps at the office. Musk’s extreme schedule highlights his legendary work ethic and nonstop commitment to his ventures.

  • Poverty is an engineering problem: AI and humanoid robots will eliminate it, says Elon Musk

    Elon Musk stated that as AI systems advance and humanoid robots undertake complex physical tasks, the cost of goods and services will decrease significantly, rendering basic needs affordable and widely accessible.

  • Elon Musk says tech CEOs must be engineers: ‘A cavalry captain must ride a horse’ | Watch

    If somebody is going to lead something in technology, they must themselves be good at technology,' Elon Musk says in the clip

  • Elon Musk attends Trump's dinner with Saudi crown prince

    Musk's attendance could be a sign of reconciliation in a turbulent relationship between the Tesla CEO and the US president

  • Elon Musk, Jensen Huang to talk AI at US-Saudi investment forum

    The event is planned for the day after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, widely known by his initials MBS, met with President Donald Trump at the White House

  • Elon Musk now wants to help Apple fix Siri by powering it with xAI’s Grok AI

    Elon Musk has said he’s open to helping Apple upgrade Siri by using xAI’s Grok 4.1 AI model. His response to a viral post has sparked huge online buzz, with users imagining a smarter, faster, and funnier Siri powered by Grok.

  • Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a 'copycat' as Amazon founder announces new $6.2B AI startup

    With Bezos targeting the industrial side of AI and Musk racing ahead with Grok and xAI’s research ambitions, both appear ready to battle for the next frontier of artificial intelligence.

  • Elon Musk's X rolls out Chat with disappearing messages, encryption and calls

    The rollout is live on iOS and the web now, with Android following shortly, so users can start testing the platform’s most privacy-focused messaging push yet.

  • Elon Musk’s xAI raises $15 billion, valuation hits $200 billion amid AI investment boom

    Founded by Musk in 2023, xAI is seen as a challenger to OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build general-purpose AI systems. Its rapid growth mirrors the current frenzy in the sector, with valuations soaring for companies working on foundational models.

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