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Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Rapper Azealia Banks has written a song about an Elon Musk-like character who invents a brain interface — and is then executed via it.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Musk has gathered his best legal team to help him build a defense after calling a Thai rescuer a pedo last July: "pedo guy" isn't a "pedophile guy."
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Musk confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday that the Model S "Plaid powertrain is about a year away from production" and applies to almost all Tesla vehicles.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted that the Tesla Model S set the record for the fastest 4 door ever at Laguna Seca in California challenging Porsche's electric sports car.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

In 2011, Elon Musk and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein both attended an exclusive "Billionaires' Dinner" in Long Beach, Calif.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk Ridicules Porsche for Calling Its Electric Car “Turbo”
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

In a Thursday evening tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed his plans to bring the Model S to one of the world's toughest race car tracks.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Shortly after SpaceX's Starhopper completed its test launch last week, Elon Musk speculated that the next iteration would be twice as wide.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk believes that we will have a hard time communicating with futuristic AI because it will process information far more rapidly than we do.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

On Saturday, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk endorsed Democratic candidate Andrew Yang for the upcoming 2020 presidential election on Twitter.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX will attempt to take photos of its spacefaring Starman dummy in "a few years," according to a new tweet from CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Newt Gingrich proposed a $2 billion contest for private companies to set up a settlement on the Moon. Elon Musk wants in.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted "Nuke Mars!" on Thursday, likely to double down on his ill-advised dream of terraforming the Red Planet through nuclear strikes.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Now-deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein told a New York Times reporter he advised Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk in August 2018.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk estimates the cost of building a self-sustaining city on Mars to be anywhere "between $100 billion and $100 trillion."
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Some Elon Musk followers are suggesting that the CEO's jokey Twitter feed could be his way of foreshadowing the debut of a new Tesla vehicle.
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

CEO Elon Musk has tweeted that SpaceX's Starship prototype should be "almost ready to fly" in time for the company's August 24 update presentation.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, which will now try to develop artificial general intelligence for Microsoft's cloud services.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has big plans for the Starship: a "Super Heavy" variant will feature up to 41 Raptor engines, 35 of which will be used as a booster.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: Starhopper Survived Massive Fireball, Will Fly Again Soon
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told TIME he thinks "we could land on the Moon in less than two years" — but that "we" might not include NASA.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk's Neuralink announced that it's almost ready for human experimentation. People on Twitter want to offer up their brains.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's Neuralink hopes to one day use laser beams, and not a mechanical dril, to bore brain implant holes in the skull.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Neuralink, a company Elon Musk founded to link the human brain to computers, is finally ready to update the world on what it's been doing for two years.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Startup Luminar has announceda production-ready lidar system for autonomous cars that costs just $500 — a huge decrease in price over existing systems.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that it'll take a "massive effort" to create the Autopilot software needed to facilitate safe autonomous driving.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk took to Twitter to compare an Earth-to-Earth trip aboard SpaceX's powerful Starship rocket to a ride on Disney's Space Mountain roller coaster.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

On Monday night, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch 24 experimental satellites into orbit. CEO Elon Musk calls it the company's "most difficult launch."
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk took to Twitter to warn about an impending collapse in global population, arguing that demographics will look like an upside-down pyramid.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk hinted at the announcement by his startup Neuralink, possibly of a brain-machine interface that could one day hook human brains up to computers.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

State-owned media network Russia Today reports that the head of Russian space agency Roscomos Dmitry Rogozin has no interest in hiring SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

In an apparent dig at Elon Musk, scientists from Russia sent a tiny toy car with a cutout of Roscosmos' Dmitry Rogozin in the driver's seat into space.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Speaking to a crowd at E3, Elon Musk said once more that our reality is probably a simulation. But he says the plot could use some improvements.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Retirees living in Boca Chica, the site of a SpaceX launchpad, shared complaints about the noise and secrecy surrounding rocket tests.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

During a shareholder meeting, Elon Musk admitted that Tesla has a design for a submarine car — and it's straight out of James Bond movie.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon CEO and tech-billionaire Jeff Bezos just demonstrated a pair of massive robotic arms and hands at this year's re:MARS conference in Las Vegas.
Jeff Bezos

By Victor Tangermann

In a podcast interview this weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about the electric car company's long-awaited hypercar, the Roadster.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' idea for giant off-world space colonies "makes no sense."
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

At an annual shareholder meeting, a disgruntled Amazon investor brought their package up to Jeff Bezos, complaining about how hard it was to return things.
Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to imply that Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos was building unwarranted hype for a plan that wasn't going anywhere.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Jeff Bezos announced plans to build giant space habitats full of cities and parks. It sounds cool in theory, but many aren't convinced.
Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos' private space company Blue Origin revealed its plans to go to the Moon at a mysterious press event today, including a lunar lander design.
Jeff Bezos

By Victor Tangermann

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

The Boring Company's Loop project connecting Washington, D.C., and Baltimore has moved one step closer to breaking ground.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

In an interview with MIT researchers Lex Fridman, Tesla CEO and visionary Elon Musk reiterated his belief that we're all living inside a simulation.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Musk tweeted that he was "thinking about adding giant stainless steel dragon wings to Starship" that could allow it to keep cool during re-entry.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

"Tesla still seems unwilling to exercise any meaningful control over the conduct of its CEO."
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Don't get us wrong: there's nothing wrong with being a furry. But here are five things Musk could be working on instead of tweeting.
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

In a video, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off the space company's Starship's "heat shield hex tiles" which could keep its spacecraft cool during re-entry.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

In a series of tweets yesterday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the space company is about to start testing its Starship spacecraft.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

During the unveiling of Tesla's highly anticipated Model Y, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company would focus on its Solar Roof and Powerwall in 2019.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk: $47,000 Model Y SUV “Will Ride Like a Sports Car”
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk took to Twitter Tuesday to announce that the Boring Company plans to complete a tunnel in Las Vegas by the end of 2019.
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk's AI research group, OpenAI, just became a for-profit company that will generate revenue for its ongoing non-profit work.
Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

A group of Tesla investors is suing CEO Elon Musk for what they say has been erratic behavior on Twitter that they say could harm the electric car company.
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

The Las Vegas tourism board announced today that it is recommending that the Boring Company builds an underground tunnel system for its convention hall.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Model 3 successor, the Model Y is being revealed at an event on March 14 in Los Angeles — that's just ten days away from today.
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Wants to Build a “Permanently Occupied Human Base” on the Moon
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

SEC Threatens Elon Musk With Legal Action Over New Tweet
Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview newly published by Popular Mechanics, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared his thoughts on colonizing Mars — even how they might grow vegetables.
Elon Musk

By Jon Christian