Elon Musk’s long interview with the editor of the Economist is as good a representation as any of the current clash between two worlds. In one corner, the editor of an 182-year-old news organisation which promotes economic liberalism and freedom. In the other, the world’s first trillionaire, who spreads misinformation to his hundreds of millions…
A judge has approved a $1.5 million penalty levied against Elon Musk that will settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit despite having “significant misgivings” about it. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan noted that her court would accept the settlement, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, which cited her court opinion. Sooknanan’s approval settles a lawsuit filed by…
Europeans seem to have gotten over their antipathy toward Elon Musk. A year ago, Tesla sales in Europe were in free fall after Mr. Musk, the automaker’s chief executive, appeared to turn off car buyers with his vocal support for right-wing politicians in Britain and Europe and his role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar. But…
Suits. Gnomic poetry. Moody, insistent riffs. It used to be that you’d know what to expect from NYC rockers Interpol. The band’s first two albums, in the early 00s, were blockbuster successes, shifting half a million units each thanks to dramatic songs also fit for jerking around at an indie disco. Interpol duly jumped up…
Sales of Tesla electric vehicles in Europe plunged last year after Elon Musk, the automaker’s chief executive, alienated many people with his political views and support for President Trump. But the company’s sales have been rising recently, and we’re trying to figure out why. I cover the auto industry for The New York Times and…
SpaceX may have held the biggest initial public offering of all time, but Wall Street may be expecting something even bigger from Elon Musk, the rocket company’s chief executive. Many of his fans and investors expect him to merge SpaceX with Tesla, the maker of electric cars where he is also chief executive, joining most…
Over the last year, Elon Musk has jumped further into the artificial intelligence boom and refocused his rocket company, SpaceX, on building orbital data centers and manufacturing A.I. computer chips. On Tuesday, just four days after holding the largest initial public offering ever, SpaceX said it was completing a $60 billion deal to buy Cursor,…
In an unusually aggressive move, the Justice Department told a federal court in Mississippi that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has the right to run dozens of polluting gas-burning turbines in the state despite not having permits for them. The Justice Department late on Monday said that the court should throw out a lawsuit…
SpaceX’s share price continued to surge on Monday, the company’s first full day of trading, adding to its sharp move higher on Friday after its record-breaking public listing. Elon Musk’s rocket maker and artificial intelligence company rose 19.6 percent on Monday, surpassing its rise in a frenzied few hours of trading on Friday, when SpaceX…
Wall Street celebrated the arrival of the largest initial public offering in its history with SpaceX on Friday. But after SpaceX’s first day of trading ends, a pair of start-ups in San Francisco will be watching the share price of Elon Musk’s rocket company closely. OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the leaders in artificial intelligence,…
