Latest Elon Musk News

Musk and Trump are viewed roughly the same by Americans, an AP-NORC poll finds

Dec. 18, 2024 12:09 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, clad in tuxedo and black tie, took the stage at President-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort shortly after the election with all the swagger of the winning candidate himself. “The public has given us a mandate that could not be more clear, the...

Italy's premier defends her friendship with Musk and asserts her independence

Dec. 18, 2024 07:44 AM EST

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday defended her friendship with U.S. tech billionaire and Trump confidant Elon Musk, telling Italian lawmakers that she would not be influenced in areas where he has economic interests. “I can be a friend of Elon Musk and at...

What does Big Tech hope to gain from warming up to Trump?

Dec. 17, 2024 18:55 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs — including Apple's Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — have joined a parade of business and world...

SpaceX wants to make Starbase a new Texas city. Here's how it could happen

Dec. 13, 2024 19:18 PM EST

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — In the decade since SpaceX arrived on the Texas coast, billionaire Elon Musk's company has created thousands of jobs near the Mexico border, launched rockets and sprung up new homes — all around an area dubbed Starbase. Now SpaceX wants to make Starbase a...

OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'

Dec. 13, 2024 18:44 PM EST

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early...

OpenAI's Altman will donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund

Dec. 13, 2024 14:02 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration. A...

Musk says US is demanding he pay penalty over disclosures of his Twitter stock purchases

Dec. 13, 2024 12:04 PM EST

DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk says the Securities and Exchange Commission wants him to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed — or failed to disclose — about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bought the social media platform in 2022. In a letter posted by...

Elon Musk wants to turn SpaceX's Starbase site into a Texas city

Dec. 12, 2024 20:10 PM EST

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city. Billionaire Elon Musk 's company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase — the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and...

Highlights from Trump's interview with Time magazine

Dec. 12, 2024 15:18 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was on the verge of backing a 16-week federal abortion ban earlier this year when aides staged an intervention. According to Time magazine's cover story on his selection as its 2024 Person of the Year, Trump's aides first raised concerns in mid-March...

Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor

Dec. 12, 2024 14:44 PM EST

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, who has led a tougher enforcement policy against Boeing since a panel blew off a jetliner in January, said Thursday that he will step down next month, clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to name his choice to lead the agency. ...