Elon Musk

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose…

Elon Musk has dropped a potentially big piece of information today, announcing that Tesla Autopilot V14 will launch next month. While most read this as a repeat of the previously announced FSD V14 set to arrive in September, this terminology marks the first time Autopilot’s version number syncs up with…

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The so-called America Party was proposed back when Musk was openly feuding with President Donald Trump Published August 20, 2025 1:06PM (EDT) Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner…

Tekedra Mawakana won’t take the bait, no matter how many times I try. The co-CEO of Waymo, which operates the biggest fleet of driverless cars in the country, is rolling through the streets of downtown San Francisco with me in a modified Jaguar I-Pace. Elon Musk has claimed he’s coming…

Elon Musk attends the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. — Reuters Billionaire Elon Musk has quietly slowed plans to launch his new political party, opting instead to concentrate on his business ventures, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday,…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has quietly shifted his attention away from forming his “America Party,” a political party he proposed creating last month after splitting from the White House. Musk wants to focus on his company and maintain ties to Vice President JD Vance, who could be a top Republican…

Campaign group Best for Britain has urged the public to write to Ofgem, arguing Mr Musk is not a "fit and proper" person to have "a foothold in our essential services". Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk (Image: South China Morning Post, South China Morning Post via Getty Images) More than…

Elon Musk arrives at Donald Trump's inauguration as President in January. Getty Images A federal judge in San Francisco just greenlit a class action lawsuit by Tesla owners to sue the carmaker for exaggerated claims by CEO Elon Musk and the company about the self-driving capability of its electric vehicles…

Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are separately developing systems that would allow rockets to refuel once they've left Earth, a concept sometimes described as a "cosmic truck stop." Engineers first proposed orbital refueling as early as the 1960s, before NASA even sent astronauts to the lunar surface,...Read…