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Elon Musk recently claimed that Neuralink tech would be able to "cure" autism, along with schizophrenia. But autism isn't a brain disease that needs a cure.

Elon Musk Claims Neuralink Can “Solve” Autism, Schizophrenia

By Dan Robitzski

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser seemed to slam Elon Musk in a tweet, but then went on to deny that he was referring to the SpaceX CEO.

Siemens CEO Denies Slamming “Pot Smoking” Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk donated a million dollars to a campaign to plant trees. The next day, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke pledged a million and one.

Rival CEO Literally One-Ups Elon Musk’s Million-Tree Donation

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk elaborated on his extremely ambitious plans to establish a sustainable settlement on Mars by sending 1,000 Starship rockets.

Elon Musk: I Can Build a Martian City With 1,000 Starships

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk says he's "looking into" making a Tesla feature that turns off proximity sensors while people wait in drive-through lanes.

Elon Musk Alarmed That Teslas Beep Constantly in Drive-Thru Lanes

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the electric company's long-awaited pickup truck, or "cybertruck," will be unveiled on November 21.

Elon Musk Confirms Tesla “Cybertruck” Debut Date

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that his company's Starship rocket will only require $900,000 of fuel per launch and cost $2 million per mission overall.

Elon Musk: SpaceX Launches Will Cost 1% of Current NASA Launches

By Victor Tangermann

In a Monday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explained that Starship spaceports will need to be 20 miles offshore because of noise.

Elon Musk: Noisy Starship Spaceports Will Be 20 Miles Offshore

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk announced Tuesday that he's donating $1 million worth of trees to a campaign by YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as "MrBeast."

Elon Musk Donates a Million Dollars to Plant a Million Trees

By Victor Tangermann

An LA judge ruled that a jury and trial will decide on the fake of Elon Musk after the billionaire made off-color comments about a British cave diver.

It’s Official: Elon Musk Will Go to Trial Over “Pedo” Comments

By Victor Tangermann

Mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the upcoming vehicle will be "closer to an armored personnel carrier from the future."

Elon Musk: Tesla Is Making An “Armored Personnel Carrier”

By Jon Christian

According to a Wednesday tweet by CEO Elon Musk, the cameras mounted above rear view mirrors of Model 3s are "meant for robotaxi."

Elon Musk: Camera Inside Teslas is “Meant for Robotaxi” Mode

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just sent a tweet out using satellite internet provided by a network of Starlink satellites launched by the space company.

Elon Musk Just Tweeted Using SpaceX Satellite Internet

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is well aware of a potentially fatal flaw in the company's plan to use a Moon base as a refueling station.

Here’s What Worries Elon Musk About a SpaceX Moon Base

By Kristin Houser

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe says that Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars are more of a "moral catastrophe" than a noble aspiration.

Astrobiologist: Elon Musk’s Starship Is a “Moral Catastrophe”

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk regrets calling Vernon Unsworth a "child rapist" in an email to BuzzFeed, according to court documents filed by British diver.

Court Documents: Elon Musk Called Himself a “Fucking Idiot”

By Victor Tangermann

Musk revealed that the Tesla will soon be getting "customized horn and movement sounds,"— including "goats" and "farts" according to a Sunday tweet.

Elon Musk: Teslas Will Soon Make “Fart” and “Goat” Noises

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk paid a convicted felon $52,000 to investigate Vernon Unsworth, the man that Musk called a "pedo guy."

Elon Musk Paid Convict to Investigate Man He Called “Pedo Guy”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement last week about how he's disappointed with SpaceX's efforts to return Americans to space.

Here’s Why Elon Musk is Feuding With the Head of NASA

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uploaded a video on Tuesday showing the cavernous and unfinished inside of the space company's gargantuan Starship prototype.

Elon Musk Releases Video Showing Interior of Starship Prototype

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Tesla and Elon Musk violated labor laws in their efforts to discourage employees from forming a union.

Judge Forces Elon Musk to Hire Back Fired Tesla Union Organizer

By Dan Robitzski

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: “Advanced AI” Will Manipulate Social Media

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.

Azealia Banks Reveals Song About Publicly Executing 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’s Legal Defense: “Pedo Guy” Doesn’t Mean “Pedophile”

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 Announces “Spaceballs”-Themed Super-Fast Tesla Mode

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: Tesla Model S Set a New Track Record in California

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 Got a Posh “Billionaires’ Dinner” With Jeffrey Epstein

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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 Escalates Beef With Porsche’s Electric Car

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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: “Next Gen” Craft Could Be Twice the Size of Starship

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: We Communicate Too Slowly for Future AI to Understand

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 Endorses Andrew Yang for President

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: “Thousands of Solar Reflector Satellites” Could Warm Up Mars

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: SpaceX Will Launch a Spacecraft to Check on Starman

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 Wants Newt Gingrich’s $2 Billion Moon Payout

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 Really, Really Wants to Nuke Mars

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.

NYT Writer: Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Advised Tesla, 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: Mars City Could Cost Up to $10 Trillion

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 Fans Think His Meme Tweets Are Teasing a New Tesla

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: Starship Prototypes Could Be Ready to Fly This Month

By Kristin Houser

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

Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in Elon Musk-Founded OpenAI

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: Starship Super Heavy Will Have 41 Raptor Engines

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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: We Could Land on the Moon In “Less Than Two Years”

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.

People Are Begging Elon Musk to Drill Holes in Their Skulls

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’s Neuralink Will Use Lasers to Drill Holes In Your Skull

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’s Brain-Computer Startup Neuralink Breaks Silence

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.

This $500 Lidar System Could Prove Elon Musk Wrong

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: It’ll Take “Massive Effort” to Create Safe Autopilot

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 Compares Rocket Rides to Disney Roller Coaster

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: This Is SpaceX’s “Most Difficult Launch” Ever

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: Civilization Could Collapse in 30 Years

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: Brain-Computer Interface Update “Coming Soon”

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.

Russian Space Chief: We Would Never Hire 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.

To Mock Elon Musk, Russia Just Launched a Toy Car Into Space

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: If Reality Is a Simulation, “The Plot Is Terrible”

By Dan Robitzski

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

Local Retirees Furious About Elon Musk’s New SpaceX Launch Site

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: Tesla Is Working on a James Bond-Style Submarine Car

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.

Behold: Jeff Bezos Just Showed off a Pair of Huge Mecha-Hands

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: Tesla Will Sell Roadster With SpaceX Thrusters in 2020

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 Ridicules Jeff Bezos’ Plan For Space Colonies

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.

We Asked an AI to Finish Real Elon Musk Tweets

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.

Someone Tried to Return an Amazon Package Directly to Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski