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Elon Musk takes down glowing X logo at Twitter HQ
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Elon Musk’s X briefly crashes, affecting thousands of users

Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced a brief outage on Saturday morning, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the site. According to analytics site Downdetector, which tracks service disruptions using user reports, approximately 25,000 users were affected. Reports spiked to about 21,000 shortly after 8:30 a.m. ET. The issues were mostly […]

Elon Musk’s home sparks dispute with Texas neighbours
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Elon Musk’s home sparks dispute with Texas neighbours

Elon Musk’s Texas residents are locked in a growing dispute over Musk’s $6 million property, which has been transformed into what some locals call a high-security compound, The New York Times reported. The conflict began after Musk’s team allegedly erected a 16-foot chain-link fence, installed a metal gate, and mounted surveillance cameras — all without […]

Grieving widow sues Tesla over defective car model
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Elon Musk still CEO, Tesla board denies seeking replacement

Tesla Inc. shares held steady in premarket trading Thursday after the electric vehicle giant refuted a Wall Street Journal report claiming its board was actively seeking a replacement for CEO Elon Musk. The report, which cited sources familiar with the matter, alleged that Tesla’s board had engaged multiple executive search firms to initiate a formal […]

Banks offload final $1.2bn debt From Musk’s Twitter buyout
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Banks offload final $1.2bn debt from Musk’s Twitter buyout

A group of major banks, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, and Mitsubishi UFJ, has sold the final portion of the debt tied to Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, now known as X, Reuters reported on Monday. The $1.2 billion in loans were sold at 98 cents on the dollar with a […]

Musk's DOGE team allegedly spying on US govt workers
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Musk’s wealth Jumps $18.2b after Tesla’s strongest gain in months

Elon Musk’s personal fortune jumped by $18.2 billion on Thursday, after Tesla Inc. shares recorded their strongest daily gain in months. Tesla stock rose 9.8%, closing at $284.95. Musk’s net worth now stands at approximately $335 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The surge in Tesla’s stock came amid renewed investor optimism following stronger-than-expected […]

xAI blames “unauthorized modification” for Grok’s repeated 'white genocide' responses
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Grok adds memory feature to rival ChatGPT, Gemini

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is taking a significant step forward in the chatbot race with the rollout of a new “memory” feature for its Grok assistant. This feature brings xAI closer to competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Announced Wednesday evening, the update allows Grok to retain information from previous conversations, enabling […]

Telegram partners Elon Musk’s xAI to distribute Grok
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Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot adds Workspace, Google Drive integration

Elon Musk’s AI venture, xAI, has rolled out a major new feature for its chatbot, Grok, introducing a collaborative workspace called Grok Studio that allows users to create and edit documents, code, and even browser-based games. Announced late Tuesday on Musk’s social media platform X, Grok Studio is now live on Grok.com for both free […]

Elon Musk’s xAI projects $13bn in annual earnings by 2029
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Musk’s xAI launches Grok 3 API despite legal battle with OpenAI

Even as OpenAI intensifies its legal battle with Elon Musk, the billionaire’s artificial intelligence firm, xAI, is pressing forward with the rollout of its flagship language model, Grok 3. On Wednesday, xAI officially made Grok 3 and a smaller variant, Grok 3 Mini, available to developers through an application programming interface (API), marking the company’s […]

Starlink withdraws from South African regulatory hearings
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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk for harassment, sabotage

OpenAI filed a countersuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday, accusing the billionaire entrepreneur of a sustained campaign of harassment and interference aimed at derailing the company’s transition to a for-profit structure. The legal move comes as tensions escalate between the two former co-founders over the future direction of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence […]

Musk's DOGE team allegedly spying on US govt workers
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Musk’s DOGE team allegedly spying on US govt workers

Officials within the Trump administration have reportedly informed federal employees that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is using artificial intelligence to monitor internal communications for signs of hostility toward President Donald Trump and his policies. Although the inner workings of DOGE remain secretive, Reuters claims the program represents an unprecedented use of AI to […]

Elon Musk announces upcoming release of AI chatbot Grok 3
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Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI starts in 2026

A federal judge has scheduled billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI for a jury trial in spring 2026, marking a significant development in the ongoing legal battle between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The case, which centers on Musk’s allegations that OpenAI abandoned its original nonprofit mission in favor of profit, will be heard […]

X poised for first ad revenue growth since Musk takeover
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X poised for first ad revenue growth since Musk takeover

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is on track to record its first year of advertising revenue growth since the billionaire acquired the company in 2022, according to data released Wednesday by research firm Emarketer. In 2025, X’s U.S. ad revenue is projected to grow by 17.5% to $1.31 billion, while global ad sales are […]