Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on July 22 that he was “tricked” into giving consent for his son to be given puberty-suppressing hormones, which ultimately led to his son identifying as transgender. In an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, Mr. Musk said that he lost his son Xavier, who now goes by the […]
Elon Musk has announced that he is moving the headquarters for two of his businesses from California. Aerospace company SpaceX and social media company X will be relocating to Texas. The founder said a new law in California spurred the decision. NTD spoke with site selection expert John Boyd about the move. He takes a […]
Elon Musk said on Tuesday he is moving the headquarters of two of his companies—social media platform X and rocket company SpaceX—to Texas from California, citing a new gender-identity law there as the “last straw.” With these moves, Mr. Musk will have relocated most of the businesses he controls to Texas. He transferred SpaceX’s incorporation […]
A California judge handed Elon Musk a win in a lawsuit filed over the mass firing of staff at Twitter after he took over the social media platform in October 2022. Mr. Musk and X Corp. (Twitter was rebranded as X in July 2023) were accused of violating provisions of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has decided to withdraw his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman following months of legal battle. His lawyers filed a motion in a Superior Court of California on Tuesday seeking to dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice, though they did not provide any reasons for the decision, […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Monday that he would ban Apple devices from his companies if the iPhone maker proceeds with integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the operating system (OS) level. “If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation,” Mr. Musk […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has agreed to testify in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) investigation into his $44 billion acquisition of social media platform Twitter, now renamed X, according to a May 30 court filing. Mr. Musk has waived his right to appeal a court order requiring him to comply with the SEC’s subpoena […]
Businessman Elon Musk has warned parents of the risks posed by their children spending too much time on social media, stating that artificial intelligence (AI) is effectively being used to ensure dopamine maximization. Mr. Musk, who owns the social media platform X, issued the warning while speaking at the VivaTech 2024 tech conference in Paris […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is involved with business deals in China, raising concerns of whether the communist regime in Beijing would use its hefty market as leverage over Mr. Musk to influence the operations of SpaceX’s Starshield that provides military services to the U.S. federal government. In light of the apparent national security risks, Gordon […]
SYDNEY—Elon Musk’s social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as “part of public discussion,” rejecting a regulator’s order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X’s “global government affairs” account said the video taken by an […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner Elon Musk. The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee late Wednesday published a staff report disclosing dozens of […]
Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has received an inquiry from the U.S. House of Representatives regarding alleged illegal actions it took in Brazil, Elon Musk said on Wednesday. In a post on the social network, the owner of X said the platform had “just received an inquiry from the House of Representatives […]
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened a probe into Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, for obstruction of justice after he challenged a court order requiring the removal of certain X accounts. In his decision on Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that Mr. Musk will be probed for […]
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 […]
