US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was withdrawing his nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Elon Musk, to lead space agency NASA. Trump said last December, before returning to office, that he wanted the online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk to serve as the…
WASHINGTON â President Donald Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday, providing a cordial conclusion to a tumultuous tenure for the billionaire entrepreneur. Musk is leaving his position spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, and he’ll be rededicating himself to running his businesses, including electric automaker Tesla, rocket company SpaceX…
Itâs hard to find a pair of tech billionaires more alike than Elon Musk and Pavel Durov. Both are staunch libertarians who run large social media platforms with minimal content moderation, and both champion themselves as defenders of free speech. Both are also pro-natalists, with Durov claiming to have fathered more than 100 biological children…
Elon Musk reportedly attempted to obstruct a landmark artificial intelligence partnership between OpenAI and the United Arab Emirates unless his own startup, xAI, was brought into the fold, according to people familiar with the matter cited byThe Wall Street Journal. The deal, announced on 22 May, involves a consortium of major American tech companies led…
Tesla CEO Elon Muskâs artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has secured a major partnership with messaging platform Telegram, agreeing to invest $300 million to integrate its chatbot Grok into the appâs ecosystem. The move is expected to enhance xAIâs competitive positioning in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed the collaboration in a…
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is believed to be gearing up to launch its digital payments service,X Money, with a limited beta rollout expected soon. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who owns X, confirmed this development in response to user speculation on the platform earlier this week. The new financial…
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of rocket company SpaceX, has claimed that his Starships can travel to Mars within six months, instead of the projected 10 years. How? By travelling when the planets align, âevery 26 monthsâ (or 2.2 years), which would shorten the physical distance between the Earth and Mars, and theoritically means that…
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he is returning to a 24/7 work schedule to fix issues at X, and will be âsleeping in conference/server/factory rooms.â The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has faced frequent outages since Musk’s takeover, which included cutting almost 80% of its staff and making a slew of other changes. However,…
X down: Billionaire CEO Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced a global outage on Saturday, 24 May 2025, as users from around the world reported issues with not being able to access the application or the website. According to the industry outage tracking website, Downdetector data, the global outages reported for the social media…
Social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, experienced a widespread outage in the early hours of Friday, 23 May, affecting users across several countries. The disruption, which began around 1 A.M. IST, left many users unable to access the app or navigate the website. Reports of issues surged on DownDetector, with complaints continuing well…
