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MEA denies report of Elon Musk joining Modi-Trump call on West Asia

On Friday, the NYT reported that the Tesla CEO joined the phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump that took place on Tuesday

Elon Musk joined phone call with Trump, PM Modi on West Asia conflict

Billionaire Elon Musk joined the phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump earlier this week, the New York Times reported. Trump had called Modi to discuss the war with Iran on Tuesday, the first interaction between the two leaders since Israel and the US' military strikes on Iran began on February 28. "Elon Musk participated in a phone call on Tuesday with President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, an unusual appearance by a private citizen on a call between two heads of state during a wartime crisis," the New York Times reported quoting unnamed US officials. The report said the inclusion of Musk, confirmed by two US officials, suggests that the world's richest man is back on better terms with the president. Trump and Musk had a falling out last year following the billionaire's departure from the government, where he had been tasked with slashing the work force. The report said it is unclear why Musk was on the call or whether h

Musk takes a swipe at judge after losing Twitter shareholder fraud trial

Targeting judges in cases that don't go his way is not new for Musk; earlier he took aim at the chief judge of the Delaware Chancery Court on X after she voided his Tesla pay package twice in 2024

Modi, Trump had a productive conversation: White House on Tuesday talks

According to a report, billionaire businessman Elon Musk also joined the phone call between Modi and Trump when the two leaders discussed the situation in West Asia

Elon Musk rips Twitter verdict, claims jury's $4.20 'joke' mocked him

The eight-person panel found Musk liable to Twitter investors for misleading them with two tweets he posted in May 2022 stating concerns about the prevalence of fake accounts on the platform

Elon Musk's X loses case alleging advertiser boycott of its platform

The order is the latest rejection of attempts by organisations and politicians to force advertisers and social media platforms to loosen content restrictions

Musk must face lawsuit over alleged unconstitutional role as Trump advisor

It's one of a handful of lawsuits challenging actions taken by the Department of Government Efficiency project last year that have outlasted Musk's tenure in the US government

Jury finds Musk misled investors in Twitter deal, clears some fraud claims

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for USD 44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that he did not "scheme" to mislead investors. The civil trial in San Francisco centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X. Jurors were asked to decide if two tweets and comments Musk made on a podcast in May 2022 amounted to him intentionally defrauding Twitter shareholders, who sold their shares based on Musk's statements. The nine-person jury returned the verdict after 3 days of deliberation, nearly three weeks after the trial began on March 2. They said that while Musk was liable for misleading investors with two tweets -- including one said the Twitter deal was "temporarily on hold," he did not do so with a statement he made on a podcast and that

Teenagers sue Musk's xAI over sexually explicit AI images of them as minors

Three teenagers in Tennessee sued Elon Musk's xAI this week, claiming the company's image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images. The high school students, who are seeking to proceed under pseudonyms, filed the lawsuit in California, where xAI - Musk's artificial intelligence company - has its headquarters. They are seeking class-action status in order to represent what the lawsuit says are thousands of victims like themselves who either are minors or were minors when sexually explicit images of them were created. According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe 1 was alerted anonymously in December that someone was distributing sexually explicit images of her on a social media website. "At least five of these files, one video and four images, depicted her actual face and body in settings with which she was familiar, but morphed into sexually explicit poses," the lawsuit states. It claims the person distributing the images knew Doe and used xAI's ima

Tesla likely to buy solar equipment worth $2.9 billion from Chinese firms

Musk said in January that solar power could meet all of the electricity needs of the United States, including the ever-increasing demand from a growing number of data centres

China approves first brain-computer interface product for commercial use

The firm is among a wave of Chinese startups building technologies that allow people to control computers or other electronic devices using only their minds

Elon Musk's X probes offensive posts by xAI's Grok chatbot: Report

X and its safety teams are urgently investigating the chatbot's role in generating "hate-filled, racist posts" online in response to user prompts

Musk's spam concern was 'confusing': Ex-Twitter executives tell court

Two days of testimony from Agrawal and Segal pushed back on Musk's own recollection that he was always committed to the deal, but believed that Twitter had lied to him about per cent of spam accounts

Judge's 'bias' forced me to pay full price for Twitter, says Elon Musk

The jury is hearing claims by Twitter investors that Musk defrauded them by manipulating the platform's share price so he could acquire it more cheaply

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales sees no threat from Musk's Grokipedia

We would not consider for a second today letting an AI just write Wikipedia articles because we know how bad they can be, Jimmy Wales added

X down for thousands of users in the US and UK, shows Downdetector

The actual number of affected users may differ from what's shown on Downdetector because these reports are user-submitted

Elon Musk's SpaceX outpaces China's 203K 'paper satellite' ambitions

China has several firms chasing reusable rockets, but SpaceX keeps widening the lead; and without a Falcon 9 rival, Beijing's 203,000-satellite plan remains largely on paper

'Misanthropic and evil': Elon Musk takes swipe at Anthropic in AI bias row

Elon Musk criticised Anthropic after its major fundraising announcement, accusing the company's AI systems of bias and intensifying an ongoing rivalry between the two firms

Elon Musk restructures xAI's teams following co-founders' departure

The exits follow xAI's recent merger with SpaceX, a move that valued the combined company at $1.25 trillion

Russia, Iran accuse Elon Musk's Starlink of violating international law

The Starlink service has become a key communication link for Ukrainians fighting against Russia's invasion, as well as Iranian opposition forces that took to the streets last month