Getty Images A sign outside a SpaceX facility near the proposed new city The area where Elon Musk’s SpaceX company operates on the southern tip of Texas is to officially become a city called Starbase. Residents approved incorporating a patch of land as the new municipality in an election on Saturday. Most of the 283…
Mitchell Labiak Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Tesla has denied reports that it has contacted recruitment firms to launch a search for a replacement for Elon Musk as chief executive. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the electric car firm’s board began looking for a successor to Mr Musk last month. It…
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the media, next to Tesla CEO Elon Musk with his son X Æ A-12, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he doesn’t like high or unpredictable tariffs, but any decision on what happens with…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025. Win McNamee | Getty Images The broad public and investors have something in common these days: They don’t have a lot of love for either Tesla or CEO Elon Musk. Tesla’s stock has…
Graham Fraser Technology reporter Getty Images A Tesla whistleblower who has fought Elon Musk and his company through the courts for years has won the latest round of a long-running legal battle. Engineer Cristina Balan lost her job after she raised a safety concern in 2014 about a design flaw which could affect the cars’…
Elon Musk (L), and Peter Navarro (R). Reuters As Tesla shares plummeted for a fourth straight day, CEO Elon Musk let loose on President Donald Trump’s top trade advisor Peter Navarro. Musk, the world’s richest person, started going after Navarro over the weekend, posting on X that a “PhD in econ from Harvard is a…
Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a “moron” over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla. Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – also said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X. It was…
Kimbal Musk, co-founder of The Kitchen Community, speaks during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk’s younger brother, Kimbal, took to X on Monday to lambaste President Donald Trump’s tariffs, calling them a “structural, permanent tax…
X is bringing in stricter rules around parody accounts. From 10 April, accounts which impersonate another user or person must use key words such as “fake” or “parody” at the start of their account names. The platform will also require parody account holders to use different images to the X accounts belonging to those they…
White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump was returning to the White House after spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida. Samuel Corum |…
