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Yes, Elon Musk's first wife, Justine Musk (née Wilson), demanded equity stakes in his companies during their contentious 2008–2010 divorce proceedings, including 10% of his Tesla shares and 5% of his SpaceX shares.⁠Reuters Contemporary reporting from 2010 confirms this. A Reuters article from May 2010 stated that Justine wanted "10 percent of her husband's stake in the carmaker [Tesla]" along with "5 percent of his stake in space exploration company, SpaceX," plus alimony/child support, $6 million, and a Tesla Roadster. Similar details appeared in other outlets at the time, noting her push to rescind a post-nuptial agreement that limited her...

public offering prospectus with regulators later this week ​or next week, ​The Information reported on Tuesday. Advisers involved in the preparation predict the company could ​try to raise more ​than $75 billion in the IPO, ‌the ⁠report said, citing a person ​with direct knowledge of the ​plans. The individual investor portion might exceed 20%, but the percentage has ​yet ​to ⁠be finalized, as per the report. In February, Bloomberg reported that SpaceX was considering a dual listing to give CEO Elon Musk greater control. A dual listing would enable Musk to

California Gov. Gavin Newsom praised Elon Musk as this generation's Thomas Edison — then accused the Tesla CEO of surrendering the electric vehicle market to China. "It breaks my heart," Newsom said on a new episode of "The Axios Show," describing Musk as "one of the great disappointments" of our time. Why it matters: China already holds 70% of the global EV market. Newsom argues Musk — the man who pioneered America's EV industry — is now accelerating that dominance by pivoting Tesla toward robotics. "I think this is Trump, not just Elon Musk," Newsom added, referring to the administration's...

Elon Musk is demanding a Delaware judge step aside from a high-stakes Tesla case after she allegedly “supported” a LinkedIn post mocking a $2 billion verdict against him in a separate California case. Lawyers for Musk and Tesla filed a motion in Delaware’s Court of Chancery seeking the recusal of Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick from overseeing consolidated shareholder lawsuits, arguing her conduct “create[s] a perception of bias” that taints the proceedings. The explosive filing centers on activity tied to McCormick’s LinkedIn account following a federal jury verdict in California that found Musk liable over tweets he posted in 2022...

So Elon Musk and crew found truly epic amounts of and fraud. Finally an opportunity to shrink government and reduce corruption and the deficit. Then congress shot it right down. Even the Republicans mostly voted against it What the hell was that? Was there ever a coherent explanation? No further attempts, just dead forever? What was the plan to fix this sort of thing now, just everyone moved on? No further discussion, no second try, just a giant finger to the voters and country. Help me understand

It's a ~24-minute video that primarily consists of a transcript/narration of a major speech by Elon Musk. In it, Musk announces a massive collaborative project between SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to build what's called a "Terafab" — an unprecedented advanced chip fabrication facility (described as "the most epic chip building exercise in history"). Key points from the announcement: The goal is to produce 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) of compute capacity per year, combined with terawatt-scale solar power — much of it deployed in space. This is framed as essential to advance humanity on the Kardashev scale (toward Type 1 civilization...

Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history. My friends on the left of the political spectrum have been fuming about this story as the ultimate example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting crumbs. When I appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" not long ago, Bill questioned me about the prospect of Musk becoming a trillionaire. "Isn't that excessive?" he asked. Similar questions about the super wealthy have been asked throughout American history. The first multimillionaire, John Jacob Astor, amassed his fortune in the fur trade and in...

BREAKING - Democrats are furious after Elon Musk offered to personally pay the salaries of TSA agents nationwide during the DHS funding standoff, stripping what they see as their main leverage over immigration policy and accusing him of undermining their authority.

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport...

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a two-word retort after Anthropic leader Dario Amodei claimed in an interview that he isn’t sure if his company’s AI models have gained consciousness. "Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety," read a post on X by cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, to which Musk replied, "He’s projecting." The comment from Musk, who is also the founder of xAI, comes as Anthropic is at odds with the Pentagon over its use in a separate matter. In an interview with The New...

ransomnote: 3 min video at linkSecretary Kristi Noem@Sec_NoemPerforming my role as Secretary of Homeland Security has shown me just how real and dangerous the deep state really is.@elonmusk helped us find that a few DHS staff had installed spying software on the phones and computers of myself and other political hires. We found secret, secure rooms with hidden files that we turned over to attorneys.Under the leadership of @POTUS Trump, @DHSgov is returning to the standard of excellence and behavior we expect our government agencies to function at. We will root out actors who do not have the interests of...

Elon Musk knows something Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Each has had turns as the world’s richest man, and both are media overlords. But whereas Musk’s purchase of Twitter arguably won a presidential election and briefly put the fate of the United States federal government in Musk’s hands, Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post has bought him nothing but grief. No election victories, no sway in Washington, just the hatred of the journalists he subsidizes to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Media power in the 21st century is about platforms, not publications. Bezos shouldn’t have needed Musk to teach...

Elon didn’t reverse that through inspiration. He reversed it by building companies that required understanding manufacturing or failing completely. SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade through systems, how physical iteration costs months and millions per failure. No debugging. No patches. Just physics that doesn’t negotiate. Boyle: “Training two generations of engineers.” The product isn’t the cars. It’s the people. Look at who’s founding America’s critical hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn’t Stanford or MIT. It’s time on factory floors at SpaceX or Tesla. They learned welding. They learned that “impossible” just means...

Elon Musk revealed the future of quantum computing will be on the Moon's permanently shadowed craters Quantum computing need extreme cold and near-perfect isolation to work The Moon’s permanently shadowed craters offer exactly that - Temperatures stay below −200°C, keeping qubits stable without massive Earth-based cooling systems - No atmosphere, no weather, no day–night cycles. Hardware stays in a steady, undisturbed state - No air, no vibrations, no human electromagnetic noise - meaning quantum information survives longer with fewer errors The Moon is not just for exploration It is actually a perfect home for the future of computing

All. Elon Musk retweeted a chart showing the percentage of mass shooters who were transgenders. this is the URL: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2021674796078248300 I reposted it got slammed that it was false info. People claiming that less than .1% are trans involved in mass shootings. (Most were from AI chats which i've found to lean left since not much 'right' data is available) Anyway.. does anyone have any source that show more data to show that trans are truly more involved in mass shootings? TYIA

Elon Musk on Sunday offered to pay the legal fees of any Epstein survivor sued for speaking the “truth” in regards to naming who was responsible for their abuse. “I will pay for the defense of anyone who speaks the truth about this and is sued for doing so,” Musk wrote in a post on the social platform X, which he owns.

Key Points On Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said the company is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles. “It’s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an end with an honorable discharge,” Musk said. Tesla beat estimates for the quarter but still wrapped up its first annual sales decline on record. SNIP Tesla is developing Optimus with the aim of someday selling it as a bipedal, intelligent robot capable of everything from factory work to babysitting. The company said in the release that it plans to unveil the third generation of...

Florian Philippot characterized the situation with the search and investigation concerning the social network as a "disgrace for France"PARIS, February 4. /TASS/. Elon Musk will be arrested the second he steps foot in France, Leader of France’s Patriots party Florian Philippot wrote on his page on X, commenting on the April 20 summons issued for the billionaire by the French prosecutor’s office. "It is obvious that Elon Musk should throw the French court summons for questioning on April 20 in the trash. He absolutely should not go there. France under ‘Euromacronist’ occupation is no longer a country governed by the...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced sweeping plans at the World Government Summit in Dubai to hold social media executives criminally liable and curb platform algorithms, prompting a sharp and profane response from X owner Elon Musk. Sánchez laid out five measures in a speech, with implementation set to begin next week. "Dirty Sánchez is a tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain," Musk wrote on X, using an explicit insult and a poop emoji. Sánchez framed the proposals by describing social media as a lawless digital ecosystem, arguing that platforms have become a "failed state" where disinformation, hate...

As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions under the rug like an embarrassing teenage phase, he’s now shifting focus to the Moon — with no less eye-brow raising ideas. According to new reporting from the New York Times, Musk told employees at xAI — his AI company recently acquired by SpaceX — that it needs to construct a factory on the Moon to churn out AI satellites. And to launch the satellites into space, he says, it needs to build an enormous electromagnetic catapult. Sci-fi readers already know where this is going: Musk is thinking about building a...