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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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DOGE cancels $21 mn intended for 'voter turnout in India', BJP reacts

The ruling BJP claimed that the USAID funding was proof of 'external interference in India's electoral process'

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Updated On : 16 Feb 2025 | 12:33 PM IST

Musk-led-DOGE scraps 'strengthening political landscape in B'desh' project

In a bid to cut government spending, the DOGE, led by Tesla CEO said it is cancelling a $29 million funding

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Updated On : 16 Feb 2025 | 11:07 AM IST

Trump, Musk discuss media efforts to separate them in joint interview

In a sneak preview of interview airing on FOX News on February 18 at 9:00 pm ET, and released by FOX News on Friday, Trump discusses how the media's efforts to separate him from Musk are ineffective

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Updated On : 15 Feb 2025 | 3:55 PM IST

Muhammad Yunus, Musk hold talks to bring Starlink internet to Bangladesh

Yunus stated that integrating Starlink's connectivity into Bangladesh's infrastructure would create new opportunities for millions and integrate the country more closely into the global economy

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Updated On : 15 Feb 2025 | 2:36 PM IST

Trump, Musk slash federal workforce as 9,500 govt employees laid off

Trump and Musk have cut 9,500 federal jobs as part of their effort to reduce bureaucracy. Led by Musk's DOGE, the move has sparked political backlash, legal challenges

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Updated On : 15 Feb 2025 | 12:27 PM IST

OpenAI board unanimously rejects Musk's $97.4 bn proposal to buy company

Regardless of the outcome, Musk's bid is expected to complicate the company's restructuring process at a time when OpenAI is in talks with SoftBank Group Corp. to raise a massive new funding round

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Updated On : 15 Feb 2025 | 7:45 AM IST

Elon Musk's The Boring Co signs preliminary deal on Dubai Loop project

The Boring Company said the memorandum of understanding covers an initial pilot phase of 11 stations, transporting passengers at speeds up to 160km per hour

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 2:44 PM IST

'I assume he wants to do business in India': Trump on Modi-Musk meeting

PM Modi US visit: Following his discussion with Elon Musk, PM Modi shared a post on social media platform X, describing the meeting as 'very good'

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 2:04 PM IST

Trump admin halts $400 mn armoured Tesla purchase by US State Department

US President Donald Trump had signed executive orders to roll back EV incentives and regulations, reversing the previous administration's climate policies

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 1:15 PM IST

US consumer watchdog CFPB broadens layoffs beyond probationary staff

Some staff discovered they had lost access to the agency's IT systems before receiving their termination letters, two of the sources said

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 9:42 AM IST

Thousands fired in US govt as Donald Trump, Musk purge federal employees

Trump and Tesla CEO Musk's overhaul of the federal government appeared to be widening as Musk aides arrived for the first time at the federal tax-collecting agency

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 9:32 AM IST

Elon Musk faces legal challenge over role in Donald Trump's government

A pair of lawsuits filed in federal courts in Washington and Maryland accuse the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive of exercising authority to reshape and dismantle federal agencies

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 7:39 AM IST

Judge extends stay of Trump order to pull many USAID staffers off their job

US District Judge Carl Nichols ordered the extension after a nearly three-hour hearing Thursday, much of it focused on how employees were affected by abrupt orders by the Trump administration

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Updated On : 14 Feb 2025 | 6:58 AM IST

PM Modi meets Elon Musk and his children ahead of discussions with Trump

Indian operators have opposed the administrative allocation of spectrum, saying it will be against the '"level playing field" as they have acquired spectrum through bidding at a much higher cost

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 11:35 PM IST

Musk shares' Welcome to Mars' video; netizens clap back: 'Fix Earth first!'

SpaceX founder shared a one-minute, 12-second AI-generated video on X. Internet users pointed out the lack of greenery. Musk's vision includes interplanetary travel and establishing a Martian colony

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 3:50 PM IST

Musk will pull OpenAI bid if ChatGPT maker remains non-profit, say lawyers

Musk sued Altman and others in August and has asked a US district judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition to a for-profit entity

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 1:58 PM IST

'Remove roots of the weed': Elon Musk wants US govt to cut entire agencies

Elon Musk's DOGE aims to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, largely by eliminating agencies deemed inefficient or unnecessary

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 1:45 PM IST

Grok 3 in final stages of development, to outperform all chatbots: Musk

Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, so in the tests that we've done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that's been released, Musk said

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 12:57 PM IST

Musk, DOGE see their powers expand while federal staff, remit stay shrouded

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Tuesday that makes DOGE even more powerful

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 9:22 AM IST

Morgan Stanley set to sell $3 billion of X debt without any discount

It is the third transaction in a frenetic period of less than a month, during which Morgan Stanley led a group of seven Wall Street banks to sell a total of $6.5 billion in X debt

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Updated On : 13 Feb 2025 | 9:06 AM IST