Category Archives: Elon Musk

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribunes daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas transplant Elon Musk is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for one of his charities first reported by Bloomberg News. The charity, called The Foundation, plans to use a $100 million gift from Musk to create and launch a primary and secondary school in Austin focused on teaching science, technology, engineering and math. Continue reading →

Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly truth-seeking artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built by Musks xAI artificial intelligence company, was made available to Premium+ X users last Friday. Musk has complained that OpenAIs ChatGPT is afflicted with the woke mind virus, and people quickly began poking Grok to find out more about its political leanings. Continue reading →

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Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. Continue reading →

Despite Elon Musk's earlier attempts to avoid further testifying for the Twitter-takeover investigation, his luck appears to have run out. Reuters reported that in a San Francisco hearing on Thursday, a federal judge shot down Musk's attorney's challenge on whether the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) officials had the power to issue subpoenas, thus ruling that the exec must therefore comply with the regulator and appear for testimony. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler was quoted saying, "you've got one more four-hour deposition, one more day of depositions to survive and it's over." Failing that, the judge would have to issue an order Continue reading →

This story is part of Bum Steers of the Year, 2024. Read about our Bum Steer of the Year Dan Patrick and runners-up Texas A&M University and Ken Paxton. Also, check out our Best Things in Texaslist for this years uplifting moments. Continue reading →

This story contains spoilers for Elon Musk wants to clear the air about his beloved Teslas. The luxury electric vehicles are featured in Sam Esmails new doomsday drama, Leave the World Behind, which stars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Myhala Herrold, and Mahershala Ali. The film follows two families who are forced to work together during apocalyptic conditions Continue reading →

Elon Musk on Sunday allowed the right-wing provocateur and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to return to the social media platform X, which banned him more than five years ago for posting harassing messages. Continue reading →

"Have you any idea how furious I am?" Mother's Fury Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk's mommy has had enough of pesky regulators coming after her beautiful boy. In a decidedly old-man-yells-at-clouds tweet, Maye Musk lashed out at the media for trying to tarnish the name of her son's EV maker Continue reading →

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty In October 2022, Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter, which he soon rebranded as X. Since then, things havent gone quite as smoothly as they might have. Continue reading →