Two weeks ago, Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech at the WSJ Innovator Awards to call out billionaires for hoarding their wealth when “people need empathy and help more than, kind of, ever, especially in our country.” In the short period of time since the event, Elon Musk has made an ambitious stride towards becoming…
Topline The five richest people in the world are worth nearly a combined $46 billion less Thursday afternoon due to a market sell-off spurred by dumping of artificial intelligence stocks, mixed fourth quarter results from Disney and general economic uncertainty as the longest government shutdown in American history comes to an end. Elon Musk, the…
Visitors check out an Optimus humanoid exhibited by Tesla at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China Monday, July 28, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s bid to become the world’s first trillionaire increasingly rests on a single proposition: that Tesla can evolve from an electric-vehicle company into a…
Firefighters performing a safety drill at one of The Boring Company’s construction sites in Las Vegas received burns from chemicals used in the tunnel excavation process, according to a new report from Fortune. Those Clark County firefighters weren’t previously made aware of the potential hazard, but were permanently scarred, the report states. Employees working on…
(Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $15 billion in a series E funding round, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing sources. The Tesla chief in September said the company was not raising any capital after CNBC reported that xAI was raising $10 billion at a post-money valuation of $200 billion. XAI, in what seemed like…
By Euronews Published on 13/11/2025 – 11:12 GMT+1 Ireland’s media watchdog says it will investigate whether people can challenge content moderation decisions made by Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Coimisiún na Meán said it will test whether people can appeal X’s decisions to not remove content that seemingly breaches the platform’s terms of service, whether…
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Elon Musk is worth close to half a trillion dollars. But long before Tesla shareholders approved a historic pay package that could make him the world’s first trillionaire, the billionaire tech CEO was actively shedding his real estate—and…
We’re seeing reports across social media that users of Elon Musk’s X are getting stuck in endless loops and, in some cases, getting locked out of their X account, following a mandatory two-factor security change that seems to have gone wrong. On October 24, X said in a post that it was asking users who…
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t seem to be pleased with the ballooning CEO salaries — running into billions and even trillions (in one case only for now). In his last and final annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet called out this trend that he called driven by greed and selfishness. This is…
Musk was reacting to von der Leyen’s unveiling of the European Democracy Shield, a new strategy to step up the fight against foreign interference online, including in elections. “Democracy is the foundation of our freedom. Democracy is the foundation of our prosperity. Democracy is the foundation of our security,” von der Leyen wrote on social…