X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk has probed Australian prime minister on whether his government is attempting to “censor” content worldwide. In response to a post from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Mr. Musk wrote, “Just want to understand clearly. “Are you requiring this platform to censor content globally, even when that content is […]
Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government. Memory chip maker Micron Technology is set to receive $6.1 billion in grants from the U.S. Commerce Department to help pay for domestic chip factory projects, Democratic U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on […]
Boeing’s safety culture and manufacturing quality, both at the center of a corporate crisis following a January mid-air panel blowout on a near-new 737 MAX 9, were scrutinized on Wednesday in two U.S. Senate hearings. Testimony at a Senate subcommittee raised questions about Boeing’s treatment of whistleblowers, records surrounding the blown-out door plug on the […]
Argentina’s President Javier Milei met with tech billionaire Elon Musk in Texas on Friday to discuss free markets and technological development as the Argentine leader seeks to revive his country’s economy. The two met at Mr. Musk’s Tesla factory in Austin, Texas, where they agreed “on the need to free markets and defend the ideas […]
The Biden administration will cancel $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers, the White House said on Friday, the latest in a series of debt cancellations. A slew of bank earnings is out today. JPMorgan Chase’s profit beat estimates in the first quarter, but its shares fell 6% after forecasts for interest income fell short of analysts’ expectations on Friday. Wells Fargo’s […]
Tensions have escalated between Elon Musk and a judge in Brazil, who has opened an investigation into the billionaire owner of social media platform X. Mr. Musk said his employees in Brazil are in danger of arrest.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he will provide Starlink services free of charge for schools in Brazil if the government chooses to follow through and cancel a contract for the service in the country. Many schools in Brazil have reported using the company to provide internet access to their citizens. Starlink terminals connect to […]
The “Great American Solar Eclipse” is currently crossing the country. A solar eclipse is when the moon passes in front of the sun, casting a shadow on the earth. NTD’s Chris Beers is covering this one from Syracuse, New York. The U.S. government seeks to negotiate with the Chinese Communist Party about the issue of […]
Former President Donald Trump said on April 8 that decisions on abortion restrictions should be left to the individual states, as he declined to back a national-level limit. The former president also said he supports fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization. President Trump had promised to disclose his stance on abortion as a law […]
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has said it raised over $50 million at an event this weekend. NTD has more on the private Florida fundraiser—and President Joe Biden’s reaction. The Israel Defense Forces have withdrawn a large portion of their troops from Gaza as the Israel–Hamas war reaches the six-month mark. The fighting, however, is […]
Owner of X Corp. Elon Musk said on the platform Saturday evening that the company had decided to lift all restrictions on Brazilian accounts targeted by an order from the nation’s Supreme Court. “We are lifting all restrictions. This judge has applied massive fines, threatened to arrest our employees and cut off access to 𝕏 […]
Tesla CEO and billionaire investor Elon Musk has denied reports published by Reuters that the electric car company has scrapped plans to develop new low-cost models. Reuters first reported on Friday, citing three unnamed officials “familiar with the matter” and alleged company messages, that Tesla had abandoned a multi-year goal to bring a line of […]
A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk and the X social media platform against a self-styled hate speech watchdog organization called the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). X Corp. had filed a complaint in July last year, alleging the CCDH had illegally scraped data off the social […]
Attorneys representing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have urged the Supreme Court not to hear Elon Musk’s appeal of settlement conditions that Mr. Musk says would require that “Americans who settle their cases with the government to ‘consent’ to be gagged for life.” Elon Musk is challenging the details of a settlement agreement he […]
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is insisting a recent encounter he had with former President Donald Trump was unplanned and that the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee did not ask him for money or a loan. Mr. Musk faced questions about his potential financial support for President Trump during a contentious interview with […]
House Democrats are pressing SpaceX and its CEO, Elon Musk, for answers on allegations coming from Ukrainian intelligence officials that Russian forces are using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service in their ongoing war with Ukraine. On Wednesday, March 6, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter […]
Elon Musk has expressed strong criticism of the Biden administration’s decision to secretly transport hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States. Mr. Musk noted on his X social media platform that importing unvetted migrants on such a scale is putting the nation at risk of a terrorist attack of a magnitude greater than […]
Chinese authorities arrested over 1,000 Tibetans—including monks—as protests broke out in China. Why are people there taking to the streets? The U.S. Coast Guard boarded two Chinese fishing boats near the Pacific island nation of Kiribati just days after reports revealed Chinese police working on the island—a close neighbor to the U.S. state of Hawaii. […]
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down Mr. Musk’s $55.8 billion pay package as CEO of Tesla. Neuralink, which has its physical headquarters in Fremont, California, became a Nevada company on Thursday, according to state records. Delaware records also list […]
Elon Musk said he’s fed up with Delaware after a court there nullified his $56 billion pay package, with the tech entrepreneur saying that Tesla would hold a shareholder vote on moving the carmaker’s state of incorporation to Texas. A Delaware judge voided the payment package to Mr. Musk on Jan. 30 as part of […]
