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Elon Musk

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit

    Though the Amazon founder has ground to make up, he is unlikely to be short of customers for his space project

    Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch system
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates

    Tech billionaire claims PM failed to tackle grooming scandal when he was head of prosecution service

    Elon Musk
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    White House Watch
    Elon Musk’s unexpected new allies in Washington

    Also in today’s newsletter, Trump backs Mike Johnson for Speaker and what foreign allies are saying about Marco Rubio

    Elon Musk walks through the Capitol  with coffee cup in hand
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Top Democrats warm to Musk’s US government cost-cutting mission

    Donald Trump has tasked billionaire Tesla boss with slashing $2tn from annual federal budget

    Elon Musk gestures while speaking during an event, wearing a hat with the phrase "Make America Great Again."
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    German politics
    Merz attacks Musk article praising Germany’s far-right AfD

    CDU leader and other politicians criticise media group Axel Springer over publication of opinion piece

    Elon Musk
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Musk’s fight with Maga reveals split on immigration within Trump’s circle

    President-elect’s new allies in Silicon Valley suffer backlash over foreign workers from his core supporters

    Elon Musk
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Kemi Badenoch
    Donation by Musk to Reform UK would be ‘counterproductive’, says Tory leader

    British people ‘don’t necessarily like to see politics being bought’, warns Kemi Badenoch

    Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Katie Martin
    Year in a word: Memecoin

    The crypto craze celebrates the silliness of digital assets linked to the ephemera of social media

    A selection of crypto coins
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    UK politics
    Limit foreign political donations, says UK government’s ethical adviser

    Call comes after reports that Elon Musk could make large gift to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

    Elon Musk met Nigel Farage, right, and new Reform UK party treasurer Nick Candy, left, at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida this week
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Alternative for Germany
    Elon Musk backs Germany’s far-right AfD

    Billionaire entrepreneur wades into election campaign by reposting criticisms of frontrunner Friedrich Merz

    Elon Musk, wearing a cap that reads "Make America Great Again," gestures with his fist raised while holding a microphone
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    UK politics
    Senior Tory urges Elon Musk not to back Reform UK

    Andrew Griffith showers praise on Tesla billionaire before asking him to also consider the Conservatives

    The three men stand below a portrait of a young Donald Trump wearing cricket gear
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Explainer
    Can Elon Musk become a major backer of Farage’s Reform UK?

    Tech billionaire is giving ‘serious thought’ to donating to populist party

    Elon Musk
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Reform party UK
    Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to donating to Reform UK, says Farage

    Party leader meets tech billionaire at Mar-a-Lago as he seeks to boost ties with incoming US administration

    Reform treasurer Nick Candy, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Monday
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Edward Luce
    Trump’s bonanza of the century

    Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation

    Elon Musk speaks with US president-elect Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Musk’s attack on F-35s fuels debate over expensive fighter jets

    Defence groups and military face questions over piloted aircraft at a time when drones are playing a bigger role in aerial combat

    US Air Force F-35 fighter jet performs during the 2024 Airpower international Europesís airshow in Austria
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Tesla’s tax nightmare Premium content

    Plus, Bluebell shuts down its activist hedge fund and an exodus plagues the London Stock Exchange

    Elon Musk
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Technology sector
    Race is on to beat Musk to develop thought-controlled devices

    Precision Neuroscience, maker of a ‘brain-computer interface’, has raised more than $100mn in latest investment round

    The Layer 7 Cortical Interface is a scalable brain-computer interface that uses a cranial micro-slit technique
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    News in-depthTesla Inc
    Tesla fights to avoid the steep cost of scrapping Elon Musk’s pay package

    Over $100bn in accounting and tax charges may await electric-car maker and CEO if they are forced to abandon 2018 deal

    Montage of Elon Musk, Tesla and US dollars
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk

    Tesla chief’s influence over Donald Trump encourages ChatGPT-maker into patriotic pitch to incoming administration

    A montage of Sam Altman and Elon Musk with the OpenAI logo in the background
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Bluesky
    Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue Premium content

    The social network offers a near facsimile of Elon Musk’s X that’s friendlier to users, if not necessarily investors

    Bluesky app logo
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Person in the News
    Gwynne Shotwell, the woman making SpaceX’s moonshot a reality

    As president, she has guided Elon Musk’s rocket company to become the most valuable private start-up in the world

    Illustration of a smiling Gwynne Shotwell with long blonde hair, pearl necklace and hoop earrings, sitting in an armchair against a background of the Starship rocket booster being caught by SpaceX mechanical arms
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Sheila Bair
    Elon Musk should keep his hands off the CFPB

    The agency has a tiny budget but has helped the American consumer

    Ann Kiernan illustration of fruit tree with the symbol X on some of the fruits on the lower branches.
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Business InsightSujeet Indap
    Elon Musk vs Delaware: why the Tesla CEO might win his pay battle

    Approval of remuneration package twice by shareholders could sway courts

    Elon Musk
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthTesla Inc
    The ‘Anti-Elon Tesla Club’: Musk’s politics gives some owners second thoughts

    Some customers are cooling on the best-known electric vehicle brand as the billionaire CEO cultivates close ties to Trump

    Loren Repollo and her Tesla in Florida
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Technology sector
    EU tech chief strikes conciliatory tone with Elon Musk

    Henna Virkkunen seeks to repair relations after her predecessor sparked US billionaire’s ire

    Henna Virkkunen
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