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Everyone knows that Elon Musk broke Twitter when he bought it, but fewer were aware that Twitter seems to have broken him right back.

Twitter Staff Almost Called the Cops During One of Elon Musk’s Tantrums, Fearing He’d Hurt Himself

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's AI chatbot dubbed "Grok" will be a far more crass and dad joke-prone chatbot compared to other AI models.

Elon Musk’s New Chatbot Is Astoundingly Vulgar

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is set to release its first AI model to a select group of users as soon as Saturday.

Elon Musk Is About to Release His First AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk predicted last year that due to Bankman-Fried's donations to the Democratic party, there would be "no investigation." Wrong.

Elon Musk Was Staggeringly Wrong About Sam Bankman-Fried

By Victor Tangermann

As part of his vision for turning Twitter into an "everything app," billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to launch dating features.

Elon Musk Wants to Turn Twitter Into a Dating App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ruffled some feathers on his own social media platform by implying that "Bladerunner" would have driven a Cybertruck.

Elon Musk Gets Torn Apart for Saying “Bladerunner” Would Drive a Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet, Musk promised that the Cybertruck will be "what Bladerunner would have driven." But there is no "Bladerunner" character.

Elon Musk Thinks the Main Character in “Blade Runner” Was Named “Bladerunner”

By Victor Tangermann

It's been a bit more than a year since Elon Musk bought Twitter, and in that time, the company's value has plummeted more than 50 percent.

Twitter Admits Elon Musk Has Destroyed More Than Half Its Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

X CEO Elon Musk said that any posts that are corrected by CommunityNotes become ineligible for revenue share.

Elon Musk Promises to Stop Paying People to Post Misinformation on Twitter

By Sharon Adarlo

Blue Origin just unveiled the latest prototype for its NASA moon lander — and it's way jankier looking than the concept art made it seem.

Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lander Design Just Got a Big Downgrade

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk’s Promise to Bring Starlink to Gaza May Be Dead on Arrival

Elon Musk’s Promise to Bring Starlink to Gaza May Be Dead on Arrival

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is finally getting the "everything app" of his dreams — or is at least ordering Twitter employees to build out his vision for one.

Elon Musk Desperately Wants Control Over Your Personal Finances

By Noor Al-Sibai

In his gambit to take over Twitter, Elon Musk seems to have played himself, his users, and his lenders to the tune of $44 billion.

Twitter Use Has Absolutely Plummeted Since Elon Musk Took Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

The mercurial CEO had to borrow a whopping $13 billion from seven banks to buy Twitter. They're now facing billions of losses.

Banks That Lent Elon Musk Money to Buy Twitter Are Totally Screwed Now

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla investor Kevin Pafrath called a recent Tesla earnings call "terrible" and accused Elon Musk of "turning into a little baby."

Tesla Investor Calls Elon Musk a “Little Baby” Who Was “Almost in Tears”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk, a 52-year-old centibillionaire, offered this weekend to pay Wikipedia one billion dollars to change its name to Dickipedia.

Elon Musk Is Now Bullying Wikipedia

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Cybertruck apparently held up admirably after being riddled with dozens of bullets, according to Musk.

Elon Musks Says He Unloaded a Tommy Gun Into a Cybertruck “Al Capone Style”

By Frank Landymore

Amid rumors, Elon Musk insists that he is not, as reports suggest, going to pull out of the European Union.

Elon Musk Says He Has No Intention of Pulling Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

A year since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, since renamed X, traffic at the social media platform has been down significantly.

Twitter’s Traffic Is Falling Off Under Elon Musk’s Disastrous Leadership

By Sharon Adarlo

There's fewer than six weeks until Tesla's Cybertrucks start being delivered, and already, CEO Elon Musk is trying to set the bar low.

Elon Musk Admits Tesla “Dug Our Own Grave” With Cybertruck

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk, madman that he is, is actually going to start charging to use the social network formerly known as Twitter.

Elon Musk Planning to Charge Users $1 to Tweet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has once again signaled his love for novelist George Orwell – without acknowledging the writer's well-known political stance.

Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a letter to Elon Musk, an EU lawmaker accused X of allowing "illegal content and disinformation" about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Elon Musk Is in Big Trouble Over the Israel-Palestine Violence

By Victor Tangermann

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is on pause for the foreseeable future following her disastrous Code interview.

Twitter CEO Says That Due to Reasons, She Has to Cancel Appearance Defending Elon Musk’s Deranged Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk hopes that SpaceX's Starship won't explode again next time it attempts to launch into orbit — but he's tempering his expectations.

Elon Musk Expresses Hope Starship Won’t Explode Next Time He Launches It

By Noor Al-Sibai

X owner Elon Musk is confused about why users aren't enthusiastic about not being able to see headlines anymore.

Elon Musk Baffled About Why People Would Want to See Headline Before Clicking Article

By Frank Landymore

Meta has started rolling out AI-generated stickers on its Messenger platform, but its half-baked safeguards leave plenty to be desired.

Facebook’s New AI Stickers Let You Generate Pics of Elon Musk With Boobs

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is suing Elon Musk in an attempt to "establish parental relationship" of the children they have together.

Grimes Just Sued Elon Musk Over Their Kids

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tried to give his father, Errol Musk, a free Tesla vehicle in January 2020, but Errol Musk turned him down.

Elon Musk’s Dad Says He Turned Down a Free Tesla

By Sharon Adarlo

The same lawyer who took down Alex Jones of InfoWars is now suing Elon Musk for promoting an unfounded Internet rumor on X.

Lawyer Who Successfully Sued Alex Jones Says His Next Target Is Elon Musk

By Sharon Adarlo

Learning you're fired via tweet is one thing — but learning that you're about to take over as Twitter CEO from an Elon Musk post is another entirely.

Elon Musk Didn’t Bother Telling Twitter’s New CEO She Was Hired Before Announcing It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is, as anecdotes from Walter Isaacson's bombastic new biography illustrate, apparently a huge crybaby.

Elon Musk Apparently Bursts Into Tears With Surprising Frequency

By Noor Al-Sibai

For an emerald mine that Elon Musk says doesn't exist, his father, Errol Musk, sure seems to have some gruesome mine memories to share.

Elon Musk’s Dad Says Someone at His Emerald Mine Got Eaten by a Crocodile

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If killing X-formerly-Twitter was always Elon Musk's plan, he might soon be successful if he starts charging everyone to use it.

Elon Musk May Actually Kill Twitter For Real This Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Walter Isaacson's new biography, Elon Musk mass-fired Twitter employees who were caught saying mean things about him on Slack.

Free Speech Fundamentalist Elon Musk Mass Fired Staff for Saying Mean Things About Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Walter Isaacson's new biography on Elon Musk also reveals that the CEO left his engineers who wanted to use LiDAR exasperated.

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk says that no monkey "has died as a result of a Neuralink implant" and that Neuralink only tests on terminally ill animals.

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Tests Only on Terminally Ill Monkeys

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russian President Vladimir Putin has weighed in on Elon Musk — and unsurprisingly, he's got some bullish words of praise for the billionaire.

Vladimir Putin Declares His Love for Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk and a motley crew of people hastily moved more than 700 servers despite the objections of experts, leading to tech glitches at X.

Elon Musk Frantically Moved Twitter Servers Himself, Eventually Realized His Mistake

By Sharon Adarlo

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is seemingly limiting access to The New York Times on his platform, and engagement is tanking.

Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Seems to Be Throttling Exposure to Sites He Doesn’t Like on Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new biography, Bill Gates became disillusioned with Elon Musk's efforts to colonize Mars and leave a doomed Earth behind.

Bill Gates Says Elon Musk’s Reasoning on Mars and Electric Cars Is Flawed

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk apparently has a third child with musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher, this one with the fictional-sounding name Techno Mechanicus.

Elon Musk Has a Secret Child Named Techno Mechanicus

By Jon Christian

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted to thwarting a Ukrainian attack on Russia's fleet near the Crimean coast by cutting off Starlink internet.

Elon Musk Admits to Sabotaging Ukraine’s Military

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher has seemingly claimed that her billionaire baby daddy is not allowing her to see their son.

Grimes Claims Elon Musk Isn’t Letting Her See Their Son

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk intentionally hamstrung SpaceX's Starlink network to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russia's naval fleet near the Crimean coast.

Elon Musk Secretly Manipulated Starlink to Hamstring Ukrainian Attack Against Russia

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is on a quest to prove that he is not anti-Semitic — and is threatening to sue a well-known Jewish advocacy groups to do so.

Elon Musk Says He Has to Sue Jewish Anti-Hate Group to Prove He’s Not Antisemitic

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man has been sentenced to death for tweets critical of his government — and self-professed free speech absolutist Elon Musk is silent.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Has Nothing to Say About Man Sentenced to Death for Tweeting

By Noor Al-Sibai

X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing more than 2,200 arbitration cases and could be on the hook for more than $3.5 million in legal fees.

Elon Musk Refusing to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees May Be Backfiring Spectacularly

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly building a glass house in Austin, Texas, using funds he might be siphoning from his carmaker.

Elon Musk, Renowned for Throwing Stones, Accused of Building Glass House With Company Funds

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of flagrantly breaking state law, Elon Musk won't be fined by local police for his live-streamed self-driving stunt.

Cops Say They Won’t Ticket Elon Musk for Driving While on the Phone

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk most certainly has his fanboys — but it appears that the adherents of one first-person-shooter roleplaying game are not among them.

Huge Crowd of Gamers Boos Elon Musk for Ruining Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a livestream, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had to intervene while his Tesla on Full Self-Driving tried to run a red light.

Elon Musk Shows Off FSD, Forced to Intervene When It Tries to Drive Through Red Light

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk reminded workers that defects on the Cybertruck "shows up like a sore thumb" and demanded tolerances in the "single digit microns."

Elon Musk Sounds Mad About the Cybertruck Looking Sloppy in Leaked Email

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's increasingly erratic behavior and decision-making may, according to people close with him, be due to alleged ketamine use.

Elon Musk Associates Say His Strange Behavior May Be Related to Ketamine Habit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Plumes of methane were spotted over Blue Origin's facility in West Texas by an instrument on board the International Space Station.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Tests Spew Enough Methane to be Spotted From Space

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX's handing out of Starlink terminals to Ukrainian soldiers has thrown Elon Musk into the middle of a crisis. The Pentagon is worried.

Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter owner Elon Musk has admitted what we all suspect: that under his leadership, the site may not thrive after all.

Elon Musk Admits Twitter May Be Failing Under His Leadership

By Noor Al-Sibai

An NYU professor is locked out of his Twitter social media account after criticizing Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

Professor Says Elon Musk Locked Him Out of His Twitter Account

By Sharon Adarlo

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is making it more difficult to access content via external links by literally slowing them down.

Twitter Now Throttling Traffic to Sites Elon Musk Doesn’t Like

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's on-off partner Grimes seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community.

Grimes Says She Asked Elon Musk Why He’s So Obsessed With Trans People

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nobody has ever accused Elon Musk of being a regular guy, but a new excerpt from an upcoming biography casts him as a genuinely tedious nerd.

Elon Musk Put Tesla on Autopilot During Date With Grimes, Then Closed His Eyes and Took His Hands Off the Wheel

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has already come up with plenty of excuses to wriggle out of sparring with Mark Zuckerberg. Now he wants to have a "noble" debate.

Terrified Elon Musk Suggests “Debate” With Zuckerberg Instead of Cage Fight

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Will Pay Your Legal Bill If Your Tweets Got You Fired

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chesnot via Getty / Futurism

Elon Musk Already Making Excuses Ahead of Fight With Zuckerberg

By Frank Landymore