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Tesla may launch EV sales in India by April, prices likely to start at $25,000

Tesla has selected locations for two showrooms in the Indian cities of New Delhi and Mumbai, moving closer to its long-delayed plans to sell its electric cars in the country, sources familiar with the matter said. Showroom locations have been identified in Mumbais BKC business district and...

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...

Tesla starts hiring in India following Musk-Modi meeting

Billionaire Elon Musks electric vehicle (EV) company, Tesla Inc., is hiring in India, signaling its plans to enter the market, according to a Bloomberg report. This follows a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Musk, and former President Donald Trump last week in the US. Tesla is...

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 praises Russian delegation ahead of US-Russia talks

Elon Musk has welcomed the arrival of a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia ahead of direct negotiations between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine conflict. The billionaire reposted a Russian news segment on X showing Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landing in Riyadh. This is what competent...

Musk-led DOGE's latest move: halt $21mn grant for voter turnout in India

DOGE, led by Elon Musk, cancels $21 million funding aimed at increasing voter turnout in India as part of budget cuts to international aid. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, announced on Saturday the cancellation of a $22 million funding intended to increase voter...

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...

Nearly 10,000 fired as Trump, Musk step up assault on US agencies

The campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the US bureaucracy spread on Friday, firing more than 9,500 workers who handled everything from managing federal lands to caring for military veterans. Workers at the departments of Interior, Energy, Veterans...

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...

Anger, chaos take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs

Workers across the U.S. responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administrations aggressive effort to shrink the federal workforce. Agencies were ordered to lay off probationary employees who had yet to qualify for civil service protections. While much of the...

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 aide got payment system access by mistake'

An Elon Musk aide, who gained access to the Treasury Departments highly sensitive payments system with the option of modifying data received the access by mistake, a department official said Tuesday. The admission came in a sworn statement to a federal judge amid heated criticism that the...

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...

Musk opposes 'Bengali' signboard at London station

Rupert Lowe, the member of parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth, shared an image on his official X account of a bilingual sign at Whitechapel Station, which has sparked debate. The sign, written in both English and Bengali, has been criticized by some, including Lowe, who believes that signs at...

Musk risks putting EU buyers off Tesla: Analysts

Elon Musks rapprochement with US President Donald Trump, his backing of European far-right parties and attacks on diversity policies could drive European buyers away from Tesla, analysts say. In both Germany and France, sales of the electric pioneers cars were halved year-on-year in January...

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...

US Treasury says Musk team has 'read-only access' to payment data

The U.S. Treasury said on Tuesday that Elon Musks government-efficiency team has been granted read-only access to its payment system codes but denied that this cut off any government payments including for Social Security or Medicare. The confirmation of a Musk associates access to the system...

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...

Elon Musk’s DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems

The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trumps billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data, including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation. The move by...

$1mn election giveaway wasn't an illegal lottery: Musk

Elon Musk asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action by voters who said the worlds richest person defrauded them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway. In a late Friday filing in the Austin, Texas federal court,...

Musk doubts $500 bn AI project Trump announced

Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, First Buddy Elon Musk tried to tear it down. They dont actually have the money, Musk wrote on his social media platform X. SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good...

Elon Musk or Larry Ellison, who will buy TikTok?

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk or Oracle Corporation chairman Larry Ellison purchasing half of the social media platform TikTok, in a partnership with the government, reported Bloomberg. During an event with Ellison at the White House, Trump said, I...

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...

Oligarchy of ultra-rich taking shape in US: Biden

Outgoing US President Joe Biden warned of a dangerous oligarchy taking shape in America, as he delivered his farewell address and brought a decades-long career in politics to an end. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our...

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...