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Who is Elon Musk

Elon Musk

About Elon Musk

Who is Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South African-born American industrial engineer, entrepreneur, who co-founded Paypal and founded aerospace transportation services company SpaceX. He is also one of the early investors in Tesla, an electric car company, and now the Chief Executive Officer of the firm as well. With a $70.5 bn fortune, Musk sits comfortably at the 7th spot in the world's top 10 billionaires list.
Early years
 
Born in 1971, Elon Musk displayed an early talent in computers and video games and at the age of 12 created a video game code that earned him fame, as well as a fortune. He acquired
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Republican governors push DOGE programmes, embrace cost-cutting brand

Governors have long mulled cutting waste and taming bureaucracy, but DOGE has raised the bar, pushing them to prove their strong commitment to cost-cutting and streamlining government operations

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Updated On : 12 Jul 2025 | 1:49 PM IST

Musk's xAI seeeks up to $200 billion valuation in fresh funding talks

If the new financing materializes, it would bring xAI's total new backing to $20 billion - a goal that has been discussed by the company

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Updated On : 12 Jul 2025 | 9:32 AM IST

DigiPub moves Karnataka High Court against Centre's takedown directives

DigiPub News India Foundation challenged the Centre's content takedown directives, telling the Karnataka HC that media houses are vulnerable to subjective decisions made by officers issuing orders

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2025 | 9:03 PM IST

Tesla likely to begin its first car deliveries in India from August

Deliveries are expected to start from late August, a separate person familiar with the development said. Customers will be able to configure and order their Tesla EVs from next week

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2025 | 6:17 PM IST

Elon Musk unveils Grok4 AI after backlash over 'antisemitic' content

Grok 4's release comes just a day after xAI was forced to remove inappropriate Grok posts from X that included antisemitic comments and replies to users

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2025 | 2:02 AM IST

xAI's head of infrastructure engineering resigns, joins Altman's OpenAI

In a post on X on Tuesday, Ruddarraju reflected on his journey at xAI, during which he played a pivotal role in the development of Colossus, a massive supercomputer comprising over 200,000 GPUs

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Updated On : 10 Jul 2025 | 11:01 AM IST

Starlink gets key govt nod, prepares for broadband service rollout: Report

Starlink clears final regulatory hurdle as India's space body IN-SPACe gives nod; firm still needs spectrum allocation, infra setup, and trials before launching satellite internet services

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Updated On : 09 Jul 2025 | 10:56 PM IST

Linda Yaccarino quits as CEO of Elon Musk's X after two-year stint

Yaccarino, a seasoned advertising executive, was brought on board in May 2023, several months after Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022

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Updated On : 09 Jul 2025 | 10:24 PM IST

Turkish court orders ban on Musk's AI chatbot Grok for offensive content

The chatbot, developed by Musk's company xAI, posted vulgarities against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his late mother and personalities, while responding to users' questions

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Updated On : 09 Jul 2025 | 3:03 PM IST

SpaceX eyes share sale deals, valuation likely to hit around $400 billion

This would mark the largest-ever valuation for a privately held US company, surpassing SpaceX's previous record of $350 billion from its share buyback in December

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Updated On : 09 Jul 2025 | 11:07 AM IST

Virgin Atlantic signs deal to use Musk's Starlink for fleet Wi-Fi

The British long-haul carrier will start installing Starlink on its aircraft next year and expects to finish the full retrofit by the end of 2027

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Updated On : 09 Jul 2025 | 10:28 AM IST

Grok AI goes full Nazi-mode, sparks social media outrage with Hitler praise

The controversy over the now-deleted inflammatory posts erupted just days after X CEO Elon Musk claimed major upgrades to Grok, mentioning that the chatbot had improved significantly

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Updated On : 09 Jul 2025 | 10:13 AM IST

Govt officials acting on 'whims and fancies', X tells Karnataka HC

X Corp argues before the Karnataka High Court that arbitrary content blocking under Section 79 of the IT Act by government officers violates constitutional safeguards

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Updated On : 08 Jul 2025 | 10:04 PM IST

Govt denies Reuters takedown order; Elon Musk's X insists it happened

X says blocking done on government request, while the IT ministry claims no such request was made

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Updated On : 08 Jul 2025 | 10:03 PM IST

Centre refutes claims, says X took 21 hours to unblock Reuters accounts

The clarification came after X blocked accounts of several news platforms including Reuters and Reuters World on July 5

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Updated On : 08 Jul 2025 | 8:49 PM IST

Elon Musk confirms xAI's Grok 4 launch for July 9: Where to watch, features

Elon Musk announces that its AI entity xAI will launch the Grok 4 on July 9 at 8PM PT via livestream. The new xAI model will bring enhanced reasoning, coding features, and dual-model capabilities

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Updated On : 08 Jul 2025 | 11:23 AM IST

Jeffrey Epstein 'client list' does not exist, says Justice Department

The acknowledgment that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that Trump admin had helped promote

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Updated On : 08 Jul 2025 | 9:11 AM IST

Wall Street falls as fears over Trump's new tariffs weigh on markets

US stocks are losing ground in afternoon trading Monday as the Trump administration steps up pressure on trading partners to make deals before punishing tariffs imposed by the US take effect

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Updated On : 08 Jul 2025 | 7:33 AM IST

Trump calls Musk's America Party 'ridiculous', says doomed to fail

Trump's remarks came a day after tech billionaire Elon Musk officially launched the America Party, a political platform he said was aimed at challenging what he called a 'one-party system' in the US

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Updated On : 07 Jul 2025 | 11:01 PM IST

Tesla's money man Vaibhav Taneja joins Musk's America Party as treasurer

Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja appointed Treasurer and Custodian of Records for Elon Musk's newly launched America Party, aimed at offering an alternative to the two-party political system

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Updated On : 07 Jul 2025 | 12:55 PM IST