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Elon Musk is about to find out what $130 million for Donald Trump gets him

"He's a character. He's a special guy. He's a super genius," Trump said of Musk while addressing his supporters overnight. "We have to protect our geniuses. We don't have that many of them."

Game, set, match: Musk after updates show Trump leads presidential race

Tesla CEO had even expressed his willingness to serve after Trump hinted that he would consider Elon Musk for a cabinet role or advisory post if he wins

Voters sue Elon Musk for fraud over $1 million election sweepstakes

A day after surviving a legal challenge in Pennsylvania, Musk's daily sweepstakes was hit Tuesday with fresh claims in federal courts in Texas and Michigan

Judge allows Musk's $1 million voter giveaway to swing state voters

Lawyers for America PAC and its director, Chris Young, said the group doled out the funds based on who would be the best spokespeople for its pro-Trump agenda

Blocked accounts can now see your public posts on X; what you need to know

New X feature ensures public posts are available for everyone to see on the platform, however, blocked accounts cannot interact with the posts or users

After SpaceX's requests, Taiwanese suppliers move manufacturing abroad

A second source who collaborates with Taiwanese satellite component makers on the island said suppliers were directly asked by SpaceX to transfer manufacturing abroad

Musk's $1 mn voter giveaway is illegal lottery, says lawyer at hearing

Since Oct. 19, Tesla CEO Musk has been giving a $1 million check every day to a randomly selected voter who has signed his petition supporting free speech and gun rights

Musk loses bid to dismiss ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's severance lawsuit

Elon Musk has been fighting legal claims for back pay by thousands of Twitter staff he laid off

DoT seeks security compliance from Starlink, Amazon for satcom services

DoT has requested Starlink and Amazon to fulfill key security compliances before moving forward with their applications to offer satellite communication services in India

Elon Musk's X falls behind on updating political advertising disclosures

X isn't legally required to update the database, but it's become an expected practice for the company and its tech peers

Elon Musk tests role of money in US polls with efforts to back Trump

Next week's presidential election isn't just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It's also a measure of the influence the world's richest man wields over American democracy. Elon Musk, the South African-born tech and business titan, has spent at least USD 119 million mobilising Trump's supporters to back the Republican nominee. His social media platform, X, has become a firehose of pro-Trump propaganda. And he's playing a starring role in Trump-style rallies in critical battleground states. All the while, he's coming under growing scrutiny. He skipped a hearing on Thursday in a lawsuit over his effort to dole out millions of dollars to registered voters, a giveaway legal experts liken to vote buying. He's being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. And The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Musk regularly communicates with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a potential national security risk because SpaceX, his aerospace company, holds billions of

Musk's social media posts have a sudden boost since July, new study reveals

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's social media posts have had a sudden boost' since July, new research reveals

Could Elon Musk lose US citizenship over alleged immigration lies?

A report from The Washington Post suggests that Musk may have worked in the US illegally in the 1990s

Challenge of Musk's $ 1mn a day voter sweepstakes moves to federal court

A Pennsylvania prosecutor's effort to shut down Elon Musk's $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes moved to federal court on Thursday after a state judge let both sides debate their grievances in a hearing skipped by the world's richest man. Judge Angelo Foglietta agreed that Musk, as a named defendant in the lawsuit filed by Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner, should have attended the hearing in person, but he declined to immediately sanction the tech mogul. Musk's lawyer, Matthew Haverstick, said he's a busy man who could not simply materialize in the courtroom hours after the hearing was scheduled. Krasner's team challenged the notion that the founder of SpaceX could not make it Philadelphia, prompting a quick retort from the judge. Counsel, he's not going to get in a rocket ship and land on the building, Foglietta replied. The huge giveaways to registered voters come from Musk's political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump's presidential campaign. After his law

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the billions of ways to influence an election

Jeff Bezos, the reigning swashbuckler of the internet age until Musk came along, was playing a cooler game, content to let Musk take the headlines and the risk

Musk's SpaceX moves into spy game: A new era for defense contracting

Pentagon needs what the firm offers to compete with China even as it frets over its potential for dominance, billionaire's global interests

Judge sets hearing on $1 mn a-day sweepstakes from Musk PAC helping Trump

A Philadelphia judge is holding a hearing Thursday morning in the city prosecutor's bid to shut down Elon Musk's USD 1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk's political organisation, which aims to boost Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, filed suit Monday to stop the America PAC sweepstakes, which is set to run through Election Day. Judge Angelo Foglietta will hear motions on the issue in a City Hall courtroom. Matthew Haverstick, one of several lawyers representing the defendants, declined to say late Wednesday if Musk would attend the hearing. The sweepstakes is open to people in battleground states who sign a petition supporting the Constitution. Krasner has said he could still consider criminal charges, saying he is tasked with protecting the public from both illegal lotteries and interference with the integrity of elections. Election law experts have raised questions about .

Elon Musk's $35 mn Texas mansion: A family haven for 11 kids, their mothers

Elon Musk has purchased a $35 million mansion in Texas, designed to accommodate his blended family of 11 children. The estate aims to foster co-parenting and family bonding

Trump's Truth Social beats Musk's X in value; what's behind the surge?

Trump Media & Technology Group now holds a valuation exceeding $10 billion, with its stock more than quadrupling since late September

Musk wins court victory in dispute over 2018 post during labour dispute

A federal agency was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options; a sharply divided federal appeals court has ruled. The case involved a post made on what was then known as Twitter during United Auto Workers organising efforts at a Tesla facility in Fremont, California. The post was made years before Musk bought the platform, now known as X, in 2022. On May 20, 2018, Musk tweeted: Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare. The National Labor Relations Board said it was an illegal threat. After Tesla appealed, three judges on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld that decision, as well as a related NLRB order that Tesla rehire a fired employee, with back pay. But Tesla ..