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The first images of Blue Origin's rocket test tank surfaced recently, bearing a close resemblance to SpaceX's Super Heavy. Elon Musk was amused.

Elon Musk Ridicules Jeff Bezos for “Copy Your Homework” Approach to Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

An alleged email leak appears to show the United Launch Alliance plotting to spread damaging conspiracy theories about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Alleged Email Leak Shows ULA Plotting Against Elon Musk and SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

When SpaceX ships rocket hardware or launches a rocket, it has to shut down the local highway. Now The Boring Company wants to dig a new tunnel.

Elon Musk Wants To Dig a New Tunnel Near his Texas Spaceport

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk downplayed how far the company had come with its Full Self-Driving software suite, noting the next beta is better.

Elon Musk Admits That Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Is “Not Great”

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian musician Claire Elise Bouche (aka Grimes) posted a TikTok on Friday defending her partner Elon Musk while brandishing a knife.

Grimes Defends Elon Musk on TikTok While Wielding Knife, Petting Robot Dog

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk Says You’ll “Most Likely” Be Able To Beat His Tesla Bot in a Fight

Elon Musk Says You’ll “Most Likely” Be Able To Beat His Tesla Bot in a Fight

By Dan Robitzski

During this week's AI Day event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the car company is working on a humanoid prototype called Tesla Bot.

Elon Musk Just Announced a Humanoid “Tesla Bot”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to ruthlessly mock Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander, the company's counterpart to the lunar variant of SpaceX's Starship.

Elon Musk Ruthlessly Butchers Jeff Bezos’ Sad Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is officially suing NASA over its decision to work exclusively with SpaceX on a lunar lander for its 2024 mission.

Bitter Jeff Bezos Sues NASA Over SpaceX Contract

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX founder Elon Musk hinted that Starship will likely be ready to land astronauts on the Moon before the projected 2024 launch date.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will “Probably” Land Humans on Moon Before 2024

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk boasted about Starship's reusability via tweet, saying that it’ll help drive more cost-effective missions to the Moon and Mars.

Elon Musk: Each Starship Could Travel to Mars a Dozen Times

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk Casually Roasts Jeff Bezos Once Again

Elon Musk Casually Roasts Jeff Bezos Once Again

By Tony Ho Tran

Synchron CEO and founder Thomas Oxley explains how his neural implant startup beat Neuralink in the race to achieve FDA approval.

How a Small Neurotech Startup Beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Human Studies

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos Is No Longer the World’s Richest Man

By Tony Ho Tran

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it will take about eight Starship and Super Heavy booster launches to fill up one lunar variant for a trip to the Moon.

Elon Musk Says It Could Take Eight Starship Launches to Fuel Up a Single Moon Trip

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered to help design a spacesuit for NASA's upcoming crewed missions to the Moon. But will SpaceX be able to deliver by 2024?

Elon Musk Offers to Make Spacesuits for NASA

By Victor Tangermann

A new render by SpaceX enthusiast Erc X on Twitter shows the two giant stainless-steel Starship spacecraft meeting in space for a refueling session.

Elon Musk-approved Render Shows Two Starships, uh, Exchanging Fluids

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted out a photo of the SpaceX Super Heavy Stack being assembled on Friday that showcases the dizzyingly immense size of the rocket.

New Elon Musk Photo Shows Staggering Scale of Super Heavy Stack

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk Says It’s a “Total Coincidence” That Starship Stack Spells “420”

By Victor Tangermann

Back when Tesla was designing the Model Y, engineers worked behind Elon Musk's back to amke sure the vehicle had a steering wheel.

Elon Musk Reportedly Wanted to Remove Steering Wheel from Model Y

By Dan Robitzski

Remember last week, when a new book claimed that Elon Musk once demanded to be made the CEO of Apple? Now he says it never happened.

Elon Musk Denies Demanding That CEO of Apple Give Up His Job

By Jon Christian

According to explosive allegations in a new book, Elon Musk once demanded to be made CEO of software megacorporation Apple.

Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Be Made CEO of Apple

By Jon Christian

A photo shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows SpaceX employees laying out the pipes for a 29 Raptor rocket engine configuration of its Super Heavy booster.

Elon Musk Shows Off Pic of Monstrous Super Heavy Booster Engine System

By Victor Tangermann

The Boring Company tells drivers in its Las Vegas loop to call Elon Musk "awesome," "inspiring," and a "great leader" if passengers ask.

Elon Musk Employees Are Instructed to Tell People He’s “Awesome” and “Inspiring”

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared a Wall Street Journal report, which showed that US population growth rates are grinding to a halt.

Elon Musk: Population Collapse Is “Potentially the Greatest Risk to the Future of Civilization”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a jab at Apple when asked about Tesla's plans to open up its Supercharging network to third parties during this week's Q2 earnings call.

Elon Musks Criticizes “Some Companies,” Then Fake-Coughs and Mutters “Apple”

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin has an ingenious plan to cut costs for its spaceflight program that's basically to copy whatever SpaceX does.

Advisers Reportedly Begged Jeff Bezos Not to Copy Elon Musk So Much

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk Warns That Each Cybertruck Could Cost “Literally a Million Dollars”

Elon Musk Warns That Each Cybertruck Could Cost “Literally a Million Dollars”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's solar energy subsidiary, Tesla Energy, reportedly asked its team of more than 20 employees to scan social media posts to find customer complaints.

Tesla Is Reportedly Trying to Make People Delete Mean Posts About Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

"I think modern nuclear power plants are safe contrary to what people may think," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during a conference this week.

Elon Musk Says It’s Totally Possible to Build “Extremely Safe” Nuclear Plants

By Victor Tangermann

During a conference on Wednesday, Elon Musk said that Tesla has caused him more suffering than anything else in his life.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Has Caused Him More Suffering Than Anything Else in His Life

By Victor Tangermann

At a blockchain conference today, Elon Musk revealed that "most likely, Tesla would resume accepting Bitcoin," but on one condition.

Oops, Elon Musk Says Tesla Might Start Taking Bitcoin Again

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company Blue Origin completed its first crewed mission. Meanwhile, experts debate why the rocket looks so "anthropomorphic."

Scientists Ponder Why Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Looks like a Giant Dong

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos's great Eureka moment: why don't we take all the bad, emitting stuff and stick it in space out of harm's way?

Jeff Bezos Says Now He’s Gonna Pollute Space, Too

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos Couldn’t Qualify for Normal Astronaut Wings, So Blue Origin Invented Its Own

Jeff Bezos Couldn’t Qualify for Normal Astronaut Wings, So Blue Origin Invented Its Own

By Victor Tangermann

It's debatable whether Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos managed to get to outer space today. Was it all a marketing stunt to appeal to the ultra wealthy?

Jeff Bezos Heads Toward Space, Turns Back Before He Gets There

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

It wouldn't surprise Tesla CEO Elon Musk if his company's latest offering, the Cybertruck, will flop.

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Might Flop But He Doesn’t Care

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's court proceedings ground to a screeching halt when things took an unexpected turn in court today. Somebody threw up in court.

Man Vomits During Elon Musk Court Appearance, Which Is Honestly Understandable

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Denounces “Those Who Attack Space”

Elon Musk Denounces “Those Who Attack Space”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk testified today in a lawsuit over his car company's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity, a publicly traded solar energy company.

Elon Musk Goes to Court, Calls Opposing Attorney a “Bad Human Being”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is rolling out the "Full Self-Driving" v9 beta update. Elon Musk is warning drivers not to put too much faith in it and to "be paranoid."

Elon Musk Warns Drivers Not To Trust New “Full Self-Driving” Update

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musks' Boring Company has been hard at work tunneling away under Hawthorne, California. But they never informed the community that they would do so.

Experts Say Elon Musk’s Florida Tunnel Might Be a Soggy Mess

By Tony Ho Tran

The United Launch Alliance is planning to use two of Blue Origin's BE-4 rocket engines to build its Vulcan rocket. But the engine is years late.

There’s Reportedly Massive Drama Inside Jeff Bezos’ Wannabe Space Company

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.

Elon Musk Slams Bitcoin’s Underlying Technology

By Dan Robitzski

In a Wednesday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that a Starship "itself" could serve as the "structure for a new giant telescope."

Elon Musk Suggests Turning a Starship Into a Giant Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

"Baby Doge, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo," the billionaire wrote in a Thursday tweet, a song presumably about the synonymous alternative cryptocurrency.

Elon Musk Tweets About Dogecoin Knockoff, Sending It Skyrocketing

By Victor Tangermann

After once again delaying the launch of the next Tesla Full Self-Driving beta, Elon Musk said he was surprised by how hard making autonomous cars can be.

Elon Musk Says He’s Surprised to Discover That Self-Driving Cars Are Difficult

By Dan Robitzski

In a Saturday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that Starship might be a potential solution to the growing space junk problem.

Elon Musk Says New Spacecraft Will “Chomp Up” Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is hiring a "customer support specialist" that is meant to "escalate complaints [...] and address social media escalations directed at the CEO."

Elon Musk Joins Call to Free Britney Spears

By Tony Ho Tran

According to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Tesla failed to preapprove CEO Elon Musk's tweets, as it was required to do by a court order.

Elon Musk Suggests That a Brain Parasite Is Forcing Humans to Create Superhuman AI

By Tony Ho Tran

Richard Branson just announced that he's going to travel to space on a Virgin Galactic rocket, beating Jeff Bezos to space by nine days.

Mischievous Richard Branson Slams Accelerator, Will Go to Space 9 Days Before Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski

In a planet-scale swing, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk berated ULA CEO Tony Bruno on Twitter this morning — not even a full 24 hours after joking around with him.

Elon Musk Bitterly Feuds With CEO He Was Joking With Literally Yesterday

By Victor Tangermann

Following Virgin Orbit's successful launch of seven satellites earlier this morning, CEO Richard Branson threw a jab at the competition.

Richard Branson Roasts Jeff Bezos Going to Space: “Jeff Who?”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed to have aa chat with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at a Bitcoin event on July 21, according to a recent Twitter exchange.

Elon Musk Is in Bitcoin Talks With the CEO of Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's new house is a $50,000 prefabricated house that's only about 400 square feet, located at SpaceX's Boca Chica site.

Elon Musk’s New House Is a $50,000 Shack

By Victor Tangermann

In a light-hearted exchange on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered to give rocket competitor, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a leg up.

Elon Musk Offers to Bring a “Few Spare Engines” to Rocket Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup, has been without a president for almost an entire quarter -- and it's unclear what's going on.

Did Elon Musk Quietly Fire the President of Neuralink?

By Simon Spichak

SpaceX head Elon Musk revealed today that he likes to go on social media to check in on the progress his company is making on Starship.

Elon Musk Says He Goes on Twitter to Check on Starship’s Progress

By Victor Tangermann

Stock market company Public.com decided to give Tesla CEO Elon Musk a gift for his 50th birthday on Monday: a terrifying, life-sized bronze statue.

Bronze Statue of Elon Musk Looks Nothing Like Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to express his frustration in not being able to fly spacecraft "from one space station to another."

Elon Musk Criticizes NASA, Says Spaceships Should Fly Between Space Stations

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a recent tweet by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company's first prototype of its Starship booster Super Heavy is "almost done."

Elon Musk: First SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype “Almost Done”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has made big progress towards building its first flightworthy prototype of its Starship booster called Super Heavy.

Elon Musk Shares New Pic of Giant Starship Rocket Booster

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is firing back — and pointing to his time at digital payment company PayPal for credentials in the world of cryptocurrency.

Elon Musk Brags That He Understands Cryptocurrency Because of PayPal

By Jon Christian