Kumail Nanjiani, the 47-year-old star of HBO’s acclaimed comedy Silicon Valley, which ran from 2014 to 2019, recently revealed he has met many people from the real-world Silicon Valley, and not everyone was a fan of the show’s depiction of startup culture. Chief among those people, he said, was Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and…
A group of activists criticizing Elon Musk and Tesla’s policies hold a protest outside a Tesla dealership in London’s Park Royal district, on April 12, 2025 in United Kingdom. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla has sharply cut its monthly lease fee for British motorists to boost weakening demand, The…
Tesla’s Senior Vice President, Xiaotong Zhu (also known as Tom Zhu), has sold more than 82% of his Tesla holdings. The stock sales occurred between 2023 and 2024 at prices ranging from $174 to $323 per share, according to securities filings. This major sale by a top executive has raised questions about insider confidence in…
The OpenAI CEO is challenging his former friend, one company at a time. Twitter, Tesla and even Neuralink are in his sights. Over the last year, the feud between Silicon Valley heavyweights Sam Altman and Elon Musk has devolved into personal attacks, social media swipes, and lawsuits. Musk calls his foe Scam Altman and Swindly…
Elon Musk recently claimed that many top engineers from Meta are now joining his AI company, xAI, asserting that his startup is winning the talent war not with ‘insanely high’ salaries but with a “hyper merit-based” culture. This claim appears to be backed by a recent report which indicates a significant talent migration from major…
SpaceX officials have privately boasted to investors that a tax benefit signed into law by President Donald Trump means it may never have to pay federal income taxes, The New York Times reports. Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, allowing corporations to roll over their heavy losses, known as a carryback,…
Apple on Thursday rejected Elon Musk’s claim that its digital App Store favors OpenAI’s ChatGPT over his company’s Grok and other rival AI assistants. Musk has accused Apple of giving unfair preference to ChatGPT on its App Store and threatened legal action, triggering a fiery exchange with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week. “The App…
Humanoid robots are a hot investment theme, but don’t pre-order one just yet When Elon Musk says Tesla will one day be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco combined, he’s not talking about electric cars. He’s talking about robots. At Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, Musk doubled down on his bet that Optimus — the…
xAI is losing one of its cofounders. Igor Babuschkin, who founded xAI alongside Elon Musk in 2023, said he’s leaving the artificial intelligence startup. In a farewell post on X on Wednesday, Babuschkin wrote that he’s leaving xAI to start Babuschkin Ventures. It will focus on AI safety research and startups developing AI and agentic…
Tesla opened its first showroom in India last month with little of its usual pomp, but the entry of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company still made a splash – and is further driving expectations for the South Asian nation’s EV market. Indians have been quietly buying EVs. While still a niche segment in the world’s…