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’…
Pedestrian crossings in several areas of northern California have been hacked with fake greetings mocking the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the crossings which usually plays instructions to “walk” or “wait”. The surprise message were noticed over the weekend in…
A drone view shows shipping containers from China, at the China Shipping (North America) Holding Company Ltd. facility at the Port of Los Angeles in Wilmington, California, Feb. 4, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters Trump tariffs have officially kicked in — and they include a ghastly 104% duty on Chinese imports. Despite growing consternation and…
Shipping containers and gantry cranes beyond a fishing boat near the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. China’s trade figures are scheduled for release on Dec 7. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images In just a few hours, Trump tariffs will kick in — which includes a ghastly 104% duty…
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…
Only three days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a 20 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, Elon Musk said on Saturday that he hoped that Europe and the United States moved “to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free-trade zone.” Mr. Musk made the remarks during a videoconference appearance with Italy’s…
As President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs announcement sent shockwaves across Wall Street, the world’s richest people lost billions of dollars in net worth almost overnight. On Wednesday, Trump announced a baseline 10% tariff for imported goods from all countries set to take effect on April 5, and “individualized” tariffs as high as 50% on a…
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 |…
