Analysts wonder what Elon Musk has in mind after the latest $2.6 billion spectrum purchase.

(Reuters) -EV maker Rivian on Friday said it was giving its CEO a revised pay package worth as much as $4.6 billion over the next decade, a deal modeled on larger rival Tesla's plan for paying CEO Elon Musk, and linked to new profit targets and reduced share price milestones

While he has a penchant for cars and jets, the world's richest person reportedly lives a relatively modest life.

Elon Musk said Tesla may need to build its own massive TeraFab chip plant to secure enough AI processors, a move that would make Tesla one of the worlds largest chipmakers, but experts like Nvidias Jensen Huang warn that creating a modern semiconductor process and fab is vastly more complex than Musk imagines

Behold the one trillion dollar man Tesla is awarding its CEO Elon Musk a package worth a possible $1 trillion, however, it relies in part on a dramatic increase in the value of the electric vehicle manufacturer.

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The tech billionaire believes Optimus could play a big role in the lives of people around the world.

Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk's incredibly hefty pay package.

Elon Musk has announced that the Tesla Roadster is expected to be unveiled on 1 April 2026 (yes, on April Fools Day) at the automakers 2025 Annual Meeting

He is practically their template. Squint a bit, and you can see Frankensteins recklessness in Mark Zuckerberg ignoring Facebooks role in promoting the genocide in Myanmar , with Elon Musk lying about Teslas real self-driving capabilities (potentially leading to several crashes), or Sam Altmans OpenAI building a hallucinating AI search engine trained on stolen content

Tesla CEO Elon Musk he needs a "gigantic" semiconductor fabrication plant to meet the company's chip needs as it expands its AI and robotics ventures.

Elon Musk went on stage on Thursday night during Teslas annual shareholders meeting and made some big claims and promises

The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the company may need to build its own massive semiconductor manufacturing plant to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips

For most tech workers and investors, Thursday was another reminder of volatility's sting. For Elon Musk, it was another day on the road to the stratosphere.

He was out for less than a week before being reinstated after hundreds of employees threatened to resign. But observers wondered: What hadn't Altman been candid about? And what led Sutskever to turn against him? Now, new details have come to light in a legal deposition involving Sutskever, part of Musk's ongoing lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI

(Reuters) -Elon Musk's Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, secured its largest direct-to-cell deal yet with telecoms group Veon, granting access to over 150 million potential customers, both companies said on Thursday, as competition in satellite-to-smartphone connectivity intensifies

Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk's historic pay package at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas

Teslas shareholders have voted in favor of a compensation plan that could see CEO Elon Musk become the world's first trillionaire

Tesla investors back Musk pay despite his busy schedule running other companies.

75% of shareholders voted to approve the pay plan.

After Tesla 's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, the company is expected to disclose results of the vote on CEO Elon Musk's pay plan

SpaceX is acquiring more spectrum licenses from EchoStar in exchange for about $2.6 billion worth of shares in Elon Musk's aerospace company

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Social engineering strikes again.

Elon Musk's EV maker began selling a new, lower-cost version of its Model Y SUV in Germany during October.

SNP MP Pete Wishart says he is seeking legal advice over the "disturbing" AI-generated social media post.

Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.

The car-maker is lobbying fiercely for the pay package, which is being voted on ahead of its AGM on Thursday.

President Trump has renominated Jared Isaacman torun NASA after pulling his prior nomination in May

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.

The new D.C.-based startup is hoping to use the vacuum of space as its clean room for chip fabrication

Elon Musk told Joe Rogan on his podcast he hopes to unveil a flying car before the end of the year

OSLO / BOSTON (Reuters) -Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Tesla's sixth-largest outside investor, said on Tuesday it would vote against ratifying a proposed pay deal for CEO Elon Musk potentially worth $1 trillion

NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York asked a judge on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk's X to void a state law requiring social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, foreign political interference and disinformation

The CEO of the largest satellite company in the world just proposed a boldand totally misguidedsolution to the climate crisis.

Elon Musk's automaker faces a widening probe concerning alleged safety defects with the company's flush-mounted, electronic door handles.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are beefing online again.

Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast, Musk reiterated that Teslas next-gen roadster will hopefully be demoed before the end of 2025

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently posted his Tesla Roadster order being mishandled on X both of those latter companies are owned by Elon Musk, who replied with a casual "you stole a non-profit" statement

Rendezvous Robotics' autonomous tile-based modules, built using Project TESSERAE tech, will potentially power Starcloud's plans to build massive data centers in space

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the Roadster demo is coming before the end of the year.

Elon Musk has told Joe Rogan that he hopes to unveil a flying car "before the end of the year." As Gizmodo has reported, Rogan asked Musk about about the long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster in his show , when the Tesla CEO suddenly started talking about wanting the vehicle to fly

The Independent reports: The planned "air moving target indicator" system in question could ultimately feature as many as 600 satellites once it is fully operational, The Wall Street Journal reports. Musk's company has also been linked to two more satellite ventures, which are concerned with relaying sensitive communications and tracing vehicles, respectively

Tesla's Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that his company is aiming to develop a redesigned version of the Roadster before the end of the year

"If you took all the James Bond cars and combined them, it's crazier than that," said Musk.

After a cat was reported run over by a Waymo this week, Musk decided to share his thoughts on pet safety and driverless cars.

"We could see another transformation of whats done in space."

Musk has recently used Tolkien references to push anti-immigration messaging, as has the Department of Homeland security

(Reuters) -Globalstar is exploring a potential sale and has held early discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX among other prospective buyers, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter Read full story

During Teslas Q3 2025 earnings call, the firms CEO, Elon Musk, proposed that the cars take part in 'a giant distributed inference fleet' to tap into their incredible compute power "if they are bored."

Virgin Media O2 has partnered with Elon Musk firm Starlink to offer the service.

Samsung and Starlink collaborate on an AI modem designed to power direct 6G satellite connections

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia and what he says is 'woke' bias, but founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried, and says LLMs can't even write a wiki.

Elon Musk wanted to create a non-woke Wikipedia

OpenAI is working on something big, developing its own brain-computer interface

An anonymous reader shares a report: After last week's major AWS outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app's reliance on big tech

Elon Musk's statement that Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab is more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona reflects the newer 3nm-era tools being installed there

Scratch Grokipedia and Wikipedia bleeds What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest

As spotted by The Verge , Xs Safety account notified users of the deadline in a post last week. The Elon Musk-owned company eventually intends to retire the twitter.com domain, which hardware keys such as YubiKeys remain tied to until theyre re-enrolled

Elon Musk has launched an early version of a new AI-powered encyclopedia called 'Grokipedia,' which he posing as a competitor to the popular Wikipedia

The billionaire launched his AI-powered version, Grokipedia, on Oct 27

While this is usually because its articles are not peer-reviewed, some think that it’s because of political bias. Among those is Elon Musk, who declared last month that xAI will be building a counterpart called […] The post Grokipedia Launches In v0.1, Reportedly Crashes Soon After appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

Grokipedia exists

At the time of this writing, the website appears to be working, and contains more than 885,000 articles, according to a counter on its homepage . Musk, who has previously railed against Wikipedia, has described the project as a "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." Musk and his allies have long claimed that Wikipedia is biased

X, the everything but Twitter app.

Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm said Elon Musk is key to the future of the EV maker as it focuses more on Full Self Driving and Optimus.

The company revived Mad Max this month and it didnt take long before there were reports of Tesla vehicles that were using the mode rolling stop signs and driving above speed limits. Earlier this year, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk was at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Trump administration initiative reportedly culled NHTSA staff

(Reuters) -Elon Musk could leave Tesla as CEO if his proposed $1 trillion pay package was not approved, Chair Robyn Denholm warned in a letter to shareholders on Monday

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is pushing ahead with the monetisation of the social media platform previously known as Twitter, launching a marketplace on X for redistributing unused profile names, initially available only to paying subscribers

lon Musk has delayed the launch of Grokipedia, his AI-powered Wikipedia rival, to purge propaganda and refine its knowledge system before rollout

Leading conservatives in the second Trump administration are now amplifying his critique. Elon Musk announced plans to launch an AI-powered alternative called Grokipedia this week, calling Wikipedia "hopelessly biased." Senator Ted Cruz sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation demanding answers about what he termed "ideological bias." House Republicans opened an investigation into possible platform manipulation

The former head of DOGE says he wants to "create a world where there is no poverty."

Elon Musk's EV car company was buoyed by tax credits and regulatory carbon credits it can't rely on either going forward.

Tesla's next-gen AI5 chips is going to be manufactured by both TSMC and, now, Samsung in America. Musk claims that it's 40x faster than the outgoing AI4 silicon, mostly because of a radical design approach that ditches legacy hardware blocks to focus on what's needed right now

Samsung is developing an AI-boosted modem chip to enable Earthbound devices to connect directly with Elon Musks Starlink service, according to Korean insider sources

Taneja added that he expects research and development spending to continue to grow. During the call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he expects the company to deploy its first robotaxis with no drivers behind the wheel by the end of this year, starting with some parts of Austin