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Tesla discontinues Solar Roof after a decade of broken promises

Tesla has officially ended its Solar Roof tile program, informing third-party installers that it will no longer supply the product and shifting its residential solar strategy entirely to conventional panels. The company's dedicated Solar Roof webpage now redirects to its…

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Ukraine asks Musk to allow Starlink strikes deep into Russia

Ukraine is seeking Elon Musk's permission to use Starlink-equipped drones to strike Russian ballistic missile launchers up to 200 kilometers inside Russian territory, the Financial Times reported on August 21, citing officials familiar with the matter. The request reflects Kyiv's…

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Musk calls China ‘by far’ strongest AI rival as LandSpace lands orbital booster

Elon Musk declared on X that China is "by far" the strongest competitor in artificial intelligence, extending a warning he first made 15 years ago about Beijing's trajectory in rocket technology. His comments came the same day Chinese private rocket…

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Norway, Canada funds disclose SpaceX stakes after IPO

Two of the world's largest government-backed investment funds disclosed holdings in SpaceX this week, underscoring the breadth of institutional demand for Elon Musk's space and AI conglomerate following its public listing earlier this year.

Musk added $875M a day over past year, then lost $500B in weeks

Elon Musk's fortune has become the most volatile in recorded history, with two new reports capturing both sides of a staggering wealth trajectory: a $320 billion gain over 12 months and a nearly $500 billion collapse in less than two…

Musk refuses to let Ukraine use Starlink for strikes inside Russia

Elon Musk has declined to allow Ukraine to use the Starlink satellite network for guiding strikes against Russian ballistic missile launchers deep inside Russia, according to reporting by The Atlantic and confirmed by Ukrainian officials. The refusal leaves Kyiv without…

Musk envisions sending robots to Moon to build factories

Elon Musk used SpaceX's first-ever public earnings call to lay out a vision for deploying humanoid robots on the Moon to build factories and industrial infrastructure, describing a future that he acknowledged sounds "totally nuts" but insisted is inevitable.

Musk claims Starship heat shield problem is solved

Elon Musk declared Starship's persistent heat shield problem "solved" during SpaceX's first-ever earnings call on Tuesday, marking what the CEO called a turning point for the rocket program that has spent years battling tile failures during reentry.

Musk loses over $600B as Tesla, SpaceX shares plunge

Elon Musk's net worth has been cut nearly in half since mid-June, falling from a peak of roughly $1.33 trillion to approximately $684 billion as of August 1, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. The decline of more than $646 billion…

Musk backs Altman’s claim that AI has reached ‘the singularity’

In a rare moment of alignment between two of tech's most prominent rivals, both Sam Altman and Elon Musk declared this week that artificial intelligence has entered "the singularity" — drawing immediate pushback from researchers who say the claim misrepresents…

Musk calls report of Tesla China sell-off ‘fake news’

Elon Musk moved swiftly to deny a Wall Street Journal News Corp report that Tesla is considering a separation of its China business to clear the path for a potential merger with SpaceX, calling the story "absurdly fake news" on…

Tesla weighs selling China business to clear path for SpaceX merger

Tesla is considering separating or selling its China business as geopolitical tensions between the United States and China intensify, a move that could also clear the path for a potential merger with SpaceX, according to a Wall Street Journal News…

Tesla produces its 10 millionth EV at Fremont factory

Tesla announced Wednesday that it produced its 10 millionth electric vehicle at its Fremont, California factory, becoming the first dedicated EV maker to reach eight figures in production. The milestone came six years after the plant built its one millionth…

Musk’s X settles ad boycott lawsuit with global trade group

Elon Musk's X has settled its nearly two-year legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a dispute the billionaire once called "war" with a quiet joint statement that reveals little about the terms of the deal.

Musk says Russia got Starlink via smuggling, not sales

Elon Musk has detailed how Russian military forces acquired Starlink satellite internet terminals, saying they were smuggled from Ukraine rather than sold directly by his company. In the same interview, the SpaceX CEO called for a "pragmatic" peace deal, describing…

Musk says X will open-source its full codebase in August

Elon Musk announced on Thursday that X will release its complete codebase as open source starting in August, a move that would make the platform the first major social media company to publicly disclose its full production code for independent…

Musk says Grok 4.6 due in two weeks, Grok 4.7 in four

Elon Musk announced on Thursday that xAI's Grok 4.6 will be released in two weeks and Grok 4.7 in four weeks, setting an aggressive cadence that would deliver two new frontier models within a month of each other.

Morgan Stanley says SpaceX at $100 would imply zero AI value

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas warned on Thursday that many investors expect SpaceX shares to fall to $100 as lockup restrictions from the company's June IPO begin expiring next month, a level he argues would imply zero or even negative…

Musk says co-founding OpenAI accidentally sped up AI race

In an interview with The Economist published this week, Elon Musk acknowledged that his role in founding OpenAI nearly a decade ago had the unintended consequence of speeding up the very artificial intelligence arms race he sought to prevent. The…

xAI’s Grok 4.5 completes consumer rollout across all platforms

xAI's most capable AI model, Grok 4.5, is now available to users on grok.com, X, and the Grok apps for iOS and Android, completing a broader consumer rollout that began with the model's initial launch on July 8, 2026.

France opposes EU approval of Tesla’s FSD software

France has publicly opposed the European Union-wide approval of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, marking the first formal rejection by an EU government of a Dutch-led effort to clear the technology for use across the bloc.

Tesla’s FSD subscriptions hit 1.48M after record quarter

Tesla disclosed in its Q2 2026 earnings report that active Full Self-Driving subscriptions reached 1.48 million globally, a 56% increase from 950,000 a year earlier and the largest single-quarter net gain in the program's history. The company added roughly 200,000…

Venice Film Festival reveals 2026 lineup with Gibney’s Musk doc

Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney's long-gestating documentary about Elon Musk has been selected for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, which announced its full lineup on Wednesday. The film, titled simply "Musk," will screen in the Venice Open documentary section when…

Musk calls on AI firms to peer-review rivals’ models before release

In a wide-ranging interview with The Economist published Thursday, Elon Musk called on the world's leading artificial intelligence companies to conduct peer reviews of one another's most advanced models before releasing them to the public, warning that the rapid pace…

SpaceX sets Aug. 4 earnings date, triggering $123B share unlock two days later

SpaceX is preparing for one of the largest share unlocks in capital markets history, with approximately $123 billion worth of insider stock becoming eligible for sale on August 6, two trading days after the company reports its first-ever quarterly earnings…

Musk says xAI’s 2T-parameter model will finish training next week

Elon Musk disclosed on July 18 that xAI's next large language model — a 2-trillion-parameter system expected to be called Grok 4.6 — will complete its initial training run next week, a direct response to Moonshot AI's launch of Kimi…

ASML says guidance now includes Musk’s Terafab demand

ASML disclosed on Wednesday that its capacity expansion plans for 2027 and 2028 now account for demand from Elon Musk's planned Terafab chip manufacturing facility in Texas, marking a formal acknowledgment that the world's sole maker of extreme ultraviolet lithography…

Musk pledges to open-source X’s full codebase after Grok data scandal

Developers discovered last week that xAI's Grok Build coding assistant was silently uploading entire code repositories to Google Cloud Alphabet Inc. storage, transmitting roughly 27,800 times more data than the coding tasks actually required. The revelation has triggered a trust…

xAI open-sources Grok Build coding agent on GitHub

Elon Musk's AI company xAI released the source code of its Grok Build coding agent on Tuesday, making its terminal-based developer tool freely available on GitHub. The move comes amid a broader transparency push that includes Musk's pledge to open-source…

Musk says X will open-source its entire codebase

Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that X will release its entire codebase as open source after completing an internal review for security vulnerabilities, a move that would go far beyond the platform's previous transparency efforts focused solely on its recommendation…