Elon Musk
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A routine hearing to evaluate Arielle Roth, Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, turned into yet another debate over Elon Musk’s ties to the US government, with lawmakers pressing Roth to ensure BEAD funds wouldn't benefit the billionaire. -
Elon Musk’s Starlink has reportedly been installed at the White House, raising questions about security and necessity.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured agreements with India’s largest telecom companies, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, to bring Starlink’s satellite internet service to the country.
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Elon Musk’s xAI is believed to have purchased a one-million-square-foot site for a new data centre to expand its presence in Memphis, Tennessee.
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President Trump’s row with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky has spiralled beyond the Oval Office as a war of words between Elon Musk and European officials could upend the war-torn country’s internet connectivity.
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The AI race between OpenAI and xAI took another turn after the Elon Musk-owned startup released Grok 3, its latest model which the billionaire claimed was “magnitude more capable than Grok 2”.
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Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI has taken a new turn, with reports suggesting the billionaire is leading a consortium aiming to buy the ChatGPT maker for $97.4 billion.
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The province of Ontario will cancel Starlink’s licence to operate in a tit-for-tat if US President Trump introduces 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada.
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Elon Musk is looking to double up the computing power of xAI with X (formerly Twitter), expanding the social media site’s Atlanta data centre as an extra training base as the startup continues to build out Grok.
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Elon Musk has taken a swipe at OpenAI over its involvement in Project Stargate, claiming the ChatGPT maker “don’t actually have the money”.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will offer free Starlink terminals to areas of Los Angeles affected by raging wildfires.
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Indonesian officials are reportedly looking to try and convince Elon Musk to bring his xAI startup to South East Asia, including building new data centres in the country.
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The EU has signed off on IRIS², a multi-orbital constellation of 290 satellites aimed at taking on Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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In the latest twist in Elon Musk’s existential legal battle with OpenAI, lawyers for the Tesla billionaire have filed an injunction aimed at preventing OpenAI and backer Microsoft from engaging in “anticompetitive conduct.”
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The latest court filings in Elon Musk’s existential AI lawsuit against OpenAI revealed more fascinating insights, including a discussion about potentially acquiring sizable semiconductor firm Cerebras and Musk’s desperation to be CEO.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
