Elon Musk says he has moved the legal home of his rocket company SpaceX from the US state of Delaware to Texas. Two weeks ago, Mr Musk said electric carmaker Tesla’s shareholders will vote on making the same move. His brain-chip implant firm, Neuralink, has also relocated its legal home to Nevada. Last month, a…
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, granted subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the US, according to campaigners. The Tech Transparency Project (TTP) found X had granted blue check marks to accounts tied to Hezbollah members, among others. For $8 (£6.40) a month, a tick allows longer posts and better…
A university student from Florida has made it a habit of getting under the skin of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people. How? By telling the rest of us where their private planes are – and how much carbon they emit. Jack Sweeney would like to clarify a few details. For one…
Actress Gina Carano has sued Disney and Lucasfilm after she was sacked in 2021 over a social media post in which she compared being a Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust. The lawsuit is being funded by Elon Musk, who made an open call on his platform X for others to join the…
Elon Musk is no stranger to bold claims – from his plans to colonise Mars to his dreams of building transport links underneath our biggest cities. This week the world’s richest man said his Neuralink division had successfully implanted its first wireless brain chip into a human. Is he right when he says this technology…
Elon Musk says Tesla will move immediately to hold a shareholder vote on shifting the firm’s legal home from the US state of Delaware to Texas. It comes after a judge in Delaware annulled Mr Musk’s $55.8bn (£44bn) Tesla pay package. After the ruling, he posted on social media: “Never incorporate your company in the…
A judge in the US state of Delaware has annulled a $56bn (£44bn) pay deal awarded to Elon Musk in 2018 by the electric car company Tesla. The lawsuit was filed by a shareholder who argued that it was an overpayment. Judge Kathaleen McCormick ruled that the Tesla board’s approval of the pay package was…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk says his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time. Initial results detected promising neuron spikes or nerve impulses and the patient is recovering well, he said. The company’s goal is to connect human brains to computers and it says it…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has visited the site of the Auschwitz death camp. The visit comes after intense criticism of how X, formerly Twitter, tackles antisemitic posts and just weeks after Mr Musk apologised for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Prominent Jewish leaders called for Mr Musk to see for himself one of the most…
SpaceX has been accused of unlawfully firing eight workers who were critical of its multi-billionaire chief executive Elon Musk. A complaint by a US labour agency says the employees sent an open letter to the firm’s executives in 2022, detailing workplace concerns. The letter called him a “distraction and embarrassment”, according to Reuters news agency….