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Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to enable […]

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has accused social media platform X of dropping a partnership with his show before it debuted because of a “tense” interview with CEO Elon Musk. Mr. Lemon, who was fired from CNN last April, announced earlier this year that he would host a new show on X three times a […]

Elon Musk raised concerns on Tuesday regarding a proposed bill aimed at banning the Chinese-owned app TikTok, suggesting that provisions within the legislation could intensify censorship and government control of social media platforms. “This law is not just about TikTok, it is about censorship and government control!” Mr. Musk wrote in a post on X. […]

Long-form videos will soon be available on smart televisions, billionaire Elon Musk said, after Fortune magazine reported that social network X planned to launch next week a TV app for Amazon and Samsung users. The platform rolled out an early version of video and audio calling for some users last October, after Musk had said […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that he won’t donate any money to candidates in the 2024 election, including former President Donald Trump or President Joe Biden. It came amid reports that Mr. Musk visited President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and held discussions there. Anonymously sourced reports alleged that he met with […]

A group of former Twitter senior executives have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and X Corp, formerly Twitter, demanding more than $128 million in alleged unpaid severance payments. In the March 4 legal complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, lawyers for Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, chief […]

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders, alleging that they violated the company’s founding agreement by developing artificial intelligence (AI) for profit rather than advancing it for the good of humanity. Mr. Musk, who was an original board member of OpenAI but left in 2018, said in his complaint that the […]

SpaceX has moved its incorporation location from Delaware to Texas, according to a Texas Secretary of State filing. “SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas!” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on X on Feb. 14. “If your company is still incorporated in Delaware, I recommend moving to another state as soon […]

The proposed $61 billion funding for Ukraine in a spending package fails to include corruption prevention and transparency measures, a group of GOP senators said during a discussion with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy ahead of a key procedural Senate vote on Monday night. Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) […]

A federal judge ordered Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) probe of his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, giving the regulator and the billionaire a week to agree on a date and location for the interview. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler’s order, issued on Saturday night, formalized a […]

Actress Gina Carano, former star of “The Mandalorian,” has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Company, alleging discrimination over her political views. The lawsuit is now being financially supported by Elon Musk’s X Corp. “As a sign of X Corp’s commitment to free speech, we’re proud to provide […]

A $56 billion pay package granted by Tesla to Elon Musk in 2018 has been nullified by a Delaware judge who ruled that the company’s board of directors failed to prove “the compensation plan was fair.” Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick voided the payment package to Mr. Musk on Jan. 30 as part of a […]

Elon Musk said on Monday that the first human patient in his Neuralink startup’s clinical trial is recovering well after having a chip implanted in their brain on Sunday. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Mr. Musk added in a post on X (formerly Twitter), referring to the activity of neurons that send signals […]

New York—Influencer MrBeast said on Monday that he had made more than $250,000 from one video posted to X, in a sign of just how much major internet personalities stand to make from the social platform’s new ad revenue sharing program. “MY FIRST X VIDEO MADE OVER $250,000!” MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, […]

Elon Musk said that he believes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies inherently involve discrimination and are “fundamentally anti-Semitic,” amid the growing anti-Semitism in major Western cities and on college campuses. In an interview with commentator Ben Shapiro on Jan. 22 at the European Jewish Association Conference in Poland, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) […]

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is planning to fund new primary and secondary schools and a university in Austin, Texas, according to newly obtained tax filings from one of his charities. The filing from 2022—an application to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seeking tax-exempt status—shows that Mr. Musk plans to donate $100 million to […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has joined a growing list of federal agencies engaging in the “regulatory harassment” of businessman Elon Musk, according to a senior Republican with the agency. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr made the claim in a dissenting statement published on Dec. 12 after the FCC reaffirmed a previous decision not to […]