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Musk is not DOGE employee, has no authority to make decisions: White House

Billionaire Elon Musks role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday. According to...

Musk’s xAI launches Grok 3 AI model

Elon Musks AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, late Monday night, along with new capabilities in the Grok apps for iOS and the web. Grok, xAIs answer to models like OpenAIs GPT-4o and Googles Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of...

Musk responds after woman alleges she is mother of his 13th Child

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has broken his silence following conservative influencer Ashley St Clairs claim that he is the father of her five-month-old baby, reports NDTV. The billionaire reacted with a Whoa on X while responding to a post suggesting the 26-year-old had been planning for five years to...

OpenAI rejects Musk-led buyout offer

OpenAIs board chairman on Friday said it has unanimously rejected an Elon Musk-led offer to buy the hot artificial intelligence company for $97.4 billion, reports BSS. OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr. Musks latest attempt to disrupt his competition, chairman of...

Dr Yunus, Musk hold talks to bring Starlink to Bangladesh

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Thursday held an extensive video discussion with Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, and owner of Tesla and X, to explore future collaboration and to make further progress to introduce Starlink satellite internet service in Bangladesh, reports UNB. Dr Khalilur...

Musk will help uncover ‘hundreds of billions’ in US govt fraud: Trump

US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk, who is presiding over a purge of government jobs, will help find hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud in federal agencies, reports AFP. Speaking in a Fox News interview aired before the Super Bowl football championship, Trump said the American people...

Elon Musk declines interest in purchasing TikTok

Billionaire Elon Musk said that he was not interested in purchasing TikTok, the popular short-video app that the United States has been trying to ban over national security concerns with its Chinese owner ByteDance, reports Reuters. Musks comments, opens new tab, made in late January, were...

Hundreds of US government websites go offline amid controversial cuts

Hundreds of US government websites went offline on Monday, with more than 350 sites unavailable, according to an AFP review of federal sites. The outage affected key departments, including Defense, Commerce, Energy, Transportation, Labor, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency and the Supreme...

Musk brands USAID as ‘criminal organization’

US billionaire Elon Musk claimed that the US Agency for International Development, a criminal organization on Sunday after President Donald Trump moved to freeze the bulk of Washingtons foreign assistance for three months, reports Arab News. USAID, an independent agency established by an act of...

Musk accused of giving Nazi salute

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire after making hand gestures resembling the Nazi salute during a speech celebrating the US presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, reports Al Jazeera. Addressing Trump supporters hours after the Republican was inaugurated as the 47th US president...

SpaceX Starship test ends in failure after successful booster catch at launch pad

SpaceXs latest Starship test flight ended in failure Thursday after the spacecraft was destroyed following a successful booster catch on the launch pad. The company reported that the Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly, with its six engines shutting down one by one during ascent,...

Elon Musk reacts to Tulip Siddiq’s resignation

The Tech Tycoon Elon Musk has tweeted on Tulip Siddiq who resigned as the UKs anti-corruption minister amid a controversy over links to her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Labour minister for child welfare shields the predators and their anti-corruption minister is...

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration

Tech giants Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg are set to attend U.S. President-elect Donald Trumps inauguration on Monday, according to sources familiar with the event planning. The high-profile CEOs of Tesla, Amazon, and Meta will be prominently featured, sitting alongside Cabinet...

US SEC sues Musk, saying he didn’t disclose Twitter ownership on time

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued billionaire Elon Musk, saying he failed to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock in a timely manner in early 2022, before buying the social media site. As a result, the SEC alleges, Musk was able to underpay by at least $150 million for...

China mulls potential sale of TikTok US to Musk: Bloomberg

Chinese officials are in preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikToks operations in the United States to billionaire Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Beijing officials prefer that TikTok remains under the...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink completes third human brain-chip implant

Billionaire Elon Musk revealed that his neural interface company, Neuralink, has successfully completed the third brain-chip implant in a human patient. Neuralink Corp., which carried out its first human brain chip implant in January 2024, plans to perform 20 to 30 more implants in 2025. Musk...

Musk is deeply unwell: Biographer makes big claims

Seth Abramson, a biographer of billionaire Elon Musk, has made some big claims about the mental health and decision-making of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, warning that his influence and actions could have dangerous implications for the United States, reports NDTV. In a series of posts on X, the...

Scholz expresses concerned over Musk's support for far-right AfD

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed concern overElon Musks support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)party, weeks before the nationssnap election next month. Scholz, in an interview withSternmagazine published on Saturday, said while he was not fazed by the US tech...

Picked Wrong Vehicle: Musk on Cybertruck explosion

Worlds richest businessman and owner of Tesla, Elon Musk labeled the Cybertruck explosion incident outside Trump hotel as act of terrorism. He claimed that the knuckleheads chased the wrong vehicle for explosion, saying: The electric vehicles design minimised the blasts impact, sparing the hotel...

Musk insults German President Steinmeier

The DW reported billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday extended his record of personal insults against European politicians with a new post taking a swipe at the countrys President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The comments from Musk, an ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, referred to Steinmeier...

Musk's new X avatar ‘Kekius Maximus’ causes memecoin to soar 900%

Elon Musk adopted the moniker Kekius Maximus on X Tuesday, sparking speculation among his 210 million followers about his mysterious new handle that is a mash-up of an alt-right symbol, a memecoin, and the lead character of the movie Gladiator. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and a confidant...

Musk wants weak Europe: German Vice Chancellor

U.S. billionaire Elon Musks support for Germanys far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a logical and systematic play for a weak Europe that will not be able to regulate as strongly, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said in his New Years address, reports NDTV. The calls by Musk are not made out...

Elon Musk envisions ‘direct democracy’ for future ‘Mars Colony’

Elon Musk, the tech mogul and CEO of SpaceX, has once again shared his ambitious vision for the future of humanity on Mars, offering a glimpse into the potential governance structure for a Martian colony, reports UNB. In response to a user query on X (formerly Twitter), Musk suggested that...

How 2024 made Elon Musk the world’s most powerful unelected man

In 2024, Elon Musk managed to become the worlds most influential unelected man. He has the ear of the president of the United States and influence over the very agencies that would rein his companies. Those companies have become vital to the digital infrastructure of many nations. His purse makes...

China's satellite megaprojects vie with Elon Musk's Starlink

China will face a big challenge in trying to catch up with Elon Musks Starlink service, which already has almost 7,000 working satellites and about 5 million customers in more than 100 countries. The satellite service is meant to provide high-speed internet access in remote and underserved...

Trump rejects taunts that Musk is real power behind US president-elect

The United States President-elect Donald Trump has pushed back on the notion that he has ceded the presidency to billionaire Elon Musk, who has taken an outsized role in the president-elects transition into the White House, reports Al Jazeera. Trump made the comments during a speech in Arizona...

Elon Musk pushes to turn SpaceX's Starbase into a Texas City

SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has formally requested to turn its South Texas facility, known as Starbase, into an incorporated city. The company sent a letter to local officials on Thursday, asking for an election to move forward with the plan. Residents of the area, located at Boca Chica...

Musk becomes first person to reach $400 bn net worth mark

Elon Musks net worth has reached $400 billion, making him first person ever to cross that mark, reports CNN. According to Bloombergs Tuesday report, behind his nearly $20 billion jump in wealth was a deal that shot up Musks rocket company SpaceXs valuation to roughly $350 billion. SpaceX and its...