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Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla's Full Self-Driving would be coming "next year" forever — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn't.

Elon Musk Apparently Made a Stupid Engineering Decision That’s Kneecapped Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises

By Noor Al-Sibai

Claire "Grimes" Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink's apparent competitors was happy to comply.

Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor

By Noor Al-Sibai

The White House is more irked with Elon Musk than ever after a selfie of him with a Russian propagandist ended up online.

White House Freaked Out Over Elon Musk’s Selfie With Top Russian Propagandist

By Noor Al-Sibai

Oh, Great, Elon Musk Has Entered the Trans Kids “Debate” Chat

Oh, Great, Elon Musk Has Entered the Trans Kids “Debate” Chat

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's satellite-powered Starlink internet has become the preferred internet provider of illegal Brazilian mining operations in the Amazon.

Brazilian Criminals’ Favorite New Weapon: Elon Musk’s Starlink

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI, hasn't shied away from expressing his disdain (or horror) over the company's newfound direction and success.

Elon Musk Is Super Pissed OpenAI Became Successful After He Left

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is planning to build his own town, called "Snailbrook," in Texas, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Report: Elon Musk is Building His Own Town in Texas

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former Twitter executive is sounding off on Elon Musk after the CEO bashed a disabled ex-employee on the platform and had to apologize later.

Ex-Twitter VP Says Elon Musk Is Behaving “Like the Local Drunk”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The director behind "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," is making a movie about Elon Musk, which the latter has already denounced.

Elon Musk Calls Movie About Him That Isn’t Even Out Yet a “Hit Piece”

By Frank Landymore

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

By Frank Landymore

After dragging an ex-Twitter employee, Elon Musk has apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson after disparaging him so publicly.

Elon Musk Finally Relents and Apologizes for Mocking Disabled Twitter Ex-Employee

By Noor Al-Sibai

"He's the worst," Musk wrote in a tweet, which he promptly deleted, after roasting former Twitter director Haraldur Thorleifsson.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Roasting Disabled Twitter Employee

By Victor Tangermann

Musk publicly shamed former Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson in front of his well over 100 million followers, telling him his contributions to Twitter amounted to nothing.

Elon Musk Publicly Mocks His Employee for Daring to Have Muscular Dystrophy

By Victor Tangermann

All's not well at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, where a space tourism capsule has been grounded for six months amid safety concerns.

Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Craft Has Been Grounded for Six Months Over Escape Malfunction

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is being accompanied by at least two bodyguards, who will go as far as to follow him to the bathroom, an engineer told the BBC.

Elon Musk’s Bodyguards Reportedly Accompanying Him to the Bathroom at Twitter HQ

By Victor Tangermann

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.

Elon Musk Roasts Dudes Pivoting From Crypto to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

As private companies like SpaceX pour thousands of satellites into the sky, even the veteran Hubble is having trouble getting a clear look at the cosmos.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Satellites Are Messing Up the Hubble Space Telescope

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.

Elon Musk, Who Hates Regulation, Calls for Regulation of Tech That Threatens Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.

Regulators Reportedly Rejected Elon Musk’s Application to Test Brain Chips in Humans

By Victor Tangermann

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

By Frank Landymore

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.

China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging

By Victor Tangermann

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

By Victor Tangermann

As one might imagine, the Tesla cofounder that Elon Musk ousted all the way back in 2007 has some choice words for the, uh, eccentric billionaire.

Tesla Cofounder Rails Against Elon Musk’s “Crap” Autopilot Feature

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is becoming increasingly irritated with the latest crop of AI chatbots that are wreaking absolute havoc right now.

Elon Musk Horrified by What OpenAI Has Become

By Victor Tangermann

"Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire and kills everyone," Elon Musk wrote about Microsoft's Bing Chat AI.

Elon Musk Says Microsoft Bing Chat Sounds Like AI That “Goes Haywire and Kills Everyone”

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Takes Aim at Microsoft as Bing AI Goes Off the Rails

By Victor Tangermann

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.

Busted! Fame-Obsessed Elon Musk Ordered Twitter to Make His Tweets Show Up Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.

Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, for some reason, told a famous ex-astronaut that SpaceX's technology could be used to "escalate" the Russian invasion into a world war.

Elon Musk Tells Ex-NASA Astronaut SpaceX Could Cause World War 3

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is complaining about how few people are interacting with his tweets, Platformer reports. "This is ridiculous."

Elon Musk Furious at Twitter Engineers Because People Aren’t Faving His Tweets

By Victor Tangermann

If you were on Elon Musk-owned Twitter at all yesterday evening, you may have noticed: it was broken. Unsurprisingly, things apparently weren't chill at HQ.

Panicked Elon Musk Asked Twitter Employees to Stop Building New Features as Site’s Infrastructure Crumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's many self-inflicted wounds are really starting to catch up with him. He's still suvering from "severe back pain" and a lack of sleep.

Elon Musk Responds to Health Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

After declaring that "removing child exploitation is priority #1" back in November, Twitter's CEO Elon Musk is yet again not living up to his many promises.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Reportedly Failing Miserably to Contain Horrific Child Abuse Content

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is, per insiders, really trying build a Twitter payments platform, and plans on having it take cryptocurrency to boot.

It Looks Like Elon Musk Is Actually Building a Twitter Payment Platform

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted that SpaceX "may or may not" use "expendable" upper stages to carry even more cargo into Earth's orbit.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX May Build Starship That Dies on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

"Something is wrong," Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening, in response to Twitter influencers' complaints about their virality numbers.

Elon Musk Sets His Twitter Account to Private

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dave Rubin says that Twitter's "whole situation" is "'a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'" Miraculously, we agree — but for different reasons.

Elon Musk Apparently Thinks Twitter Is a “Flaming Dumpster Rolling Down the Street”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a scathing new report, Twitter's new Head of Trust and Safety has been breaking Twitter's rules on the whims of Elon Musk and his many feuds.

Leaked Messages Seem to Show Elon Musk Using Twitter to Punish His Enemies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Like death and taxes, the slippage of an Elon Musk timeline is an inevitability, and it has happened again with Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck.

Of Course Elon Musk Is Pushing The Cybertruck Back Again, What Did You Expect?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter has already had to re-suspend at least two reprehensible right-wingers whose accounts were reinstated by Elon Musk.

Twitter Is Quietly Re-Suspending the Lunatics Elon Musk Let Back On

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold almost $3.6 billion of his Tesla shares — just before the company revealed disappointing fourth-quarter results to investors.

Elon Musk Ditched Tesla Stock Right Before Bad News Dropped

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's lawyers are trying to get an impending securities fraud trial moved from San Francisco to Texas since most prospective jurors hate his guts.

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Says San Francisco Hates Him Too Much for a Fair Trial

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has been accused of intentionally shadowbanning a journalist — just after they reported on a pileup caused by a self-driving Tesla.

Journalist Critical of Elon Musk Allegedly Shadowbanned on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Given SpaceX's recent progress, CEO Elon Musk's latest promise that Starship will attempt to go orbital "soon" might actually signal an imminent attempt.

Elon Musk Promises Starship Will Attempt Orbital Launch “Soon”

By Victor Tangermann

A bot account has informed the world that new Twitter czar Elon Musk has unfollowed both his own brother and one of the mothers of his children.

Elon Musk Unfollows the Mother of His Children, and His Own Brother, on Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk can now be proud of the fact that he's officially the record holder for the "largest loss of personal fortune in history."

Elon Musk Sets Guinness World Record for Losing the Most Money

By Frank Landymore

Richard Branson says that Elon Musk surprised him in his kitchen at 2am, hours before Branson's first trip to Almost Space with Virgin Galactic.

Richard Branson Says Elon Musk Showed Up at His House at 2am

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is once again denying claims that his family owned an emerald mine — a claim that he himself perpetuated back in 2014.

Elon Musk Now Denies That His Family’s Emerald Mine Existed, In Spite of Previously Bragging About It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Toilet paper is a pretty baseline office ask. But apparently, those remaining at Elon Musk-owned Twitter's New York HQ are privy to no such luxury.

Twitter Employees Beg Elon Musk for Toilet Paper as Horrid Stench Seeps From Bathroom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Elon superfan was moved by Musk's claims that the Cybertruck could be a boat, so he decided to file a trademark for boats and planes on Tesla's behalf.

Elon Musk Fan Files Trademark for Tesla Boats and Planes Without Telling Tesla

By Frank Landymore

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler was able to impersonate US senator Edward Markey with a verified Twitter account — and it's not the first time.

It’s Still Easy to Impersonate a Senator on Twitter After Elon Musk Promised Verification Was Fixed

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter's offices in San Francisco are quickly turning into a smelly, body odor-infested rat's nest, The New York Times reported last week.

Twitter HQ Marinates in Stench After Elon Musk Fires Janitors, Forces Engineers Back to Office

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla customers are becoming wary of being in any way associated with the company's CEO Elon Musk, after weeks of antics and problematic behavior.

People Are Canceling Tesla Orders Because They’re So Disgusted With Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk's latest poll asking his millions of followers whether he should step down is seriously flawed for a number of reasons.

Elon Musk Seems to Be Trying to Weasel Out of Vote to Resign

By Victor Tangermann

Despite what Elon Musk claims, police reportedly can't seem to find a link between ElonJet and an alleged stalking incident that occurred last week.

It Turns Out Elon Musk’s Stalking Incident Had Nothing to Do With ElonJet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The second richest man in the world polled his millions of followers Sunday evening if he should step down as CEO. Milllions of people said yes.

Elon Musk Polled Twitter to Ask If He Should Resign, and the Results Were RESOUNDING

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's third largest investor and self-professed Elon Musk "fanboy" KoGuan Leo is calling for the company's embattled CEO to step down.

One of Tesla’s Largest Shareholders Calls to Ditch Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Things seem to be going really well for Elon Musk, who reportedly brought his former supermodel mother to a recent client meeting.

Elon Musk Brought His Mommy to a Big Business Meeting For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a fit of rage, Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk suspended the accounts of over a dozen journalists from publications including CNN and The New York Times.

Elon Musk Conducts Poll, Doesn’t Like Results, Conducts New Poll, Still Doesn’t Like Results

By Victor Tangermann

Newly-minted Twitter owner Elon Musk is mass suspending the accounts of journalists who have written critically about him. Here's why.

Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Is Mass Suspending Twitter Accounts of Journalists Who Criticized Him

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk has once again sold an insanely large amount of Tesla stock post-Twitter purchase — even as the EV maker's stock value continues to go down.

Elon Musk Quietly Unloads Billions in Tesla Shares as Price Plummets

By Noor Al-Sibai