Tesla Wins Final Court Fight Over Elon Musk’s Pay Package
Delaware’s Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision to cancel the CEO’s 2018 pay package.
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Court restores Elon Musk’s disputed $56 billion Tesla payday
The Delaware Supreme Court ruled to restore Elon Musk’s disputed $56 billion pay package on Friday, reversing another court’s ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recovers $55 billion pay package in Delaware court ruling
Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a ...
Elon Musk’s 2018 Tesla Pay Deal Is Restored by Delaware Supreme Court
A lower-court judge had invalidated the package, saying shareholders had not been properly informed about the plan. Friday’s ...
Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $700 Billion After Delaware Supreme Court Restored His Voided Tesla Stock Options
The Delaware Court of Chancery had previously ruled in January 2024 that the process underlying the award of the options now ...
Elon Musk gets his $139 billion pay package from 2018 restored after a yearslong battle with a Delaware judge
The Delaware Supreme Court has restored a massive pay package awarded to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 2018 that had twice been ...
Elon Musk wins appeal to restore his 2018 Tesla pay deal worth $56 billion
The ruling overturns a previous court decision that prompted a furious backlash from Musk and damaged Delaware's ...
Elon Musk gets a win in the long-running legal battle over his Tesla pay
A Delaware judge previously rejected the 2018 package, but Friday’s ruling said it would have been unfair for Musk to have ...
Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package must be restored, Delaware Supreme Court rules
The Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package on Friday. The judges said a lower court's ...
Ex-Splunk execs’ startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.
Rocket Lab wins another defense-related space contract
The $816 million contract follows a separate $515 million — both awarded by the U.S. Space Development Agency.
Building venture-backable companies in heavily regulated spaces
This week on Build Mode, Startup Battlefield editor Isabelle Johannessen spoke to two founders who are working to make progress in industries ripe for disruption, despite the regulatory headaches that might have deterred many other people.
Former Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario resigns from Rivian’s board
Marcario joined the board in 2021, and will maintain her position as chair overseeing the Rivian Foundation, which made its first grants last year.
Where are investors placing their bets next year? AI, AI, AI.
Investors at TechCrunch Disrupt explained their focus on artificial intelligence and offered advice to founders on how to stand out in a crowded AI field.
Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal
Graphite is an AI code review assistant that was last valued at $290 million.
Elon Musk’s $56B Tesla pay package restored by Delaware Supreme Court
The decision brings to a close a years-long court battle that irked Musk so much he moved Tesla's incorporation from Delaware to Texas.
Anonymous messaging app NGL was acquired by ‘EarnPhone’ startup Mode Mobile
Given NGL's track record of dubious growth hacking, this partnership with Mode Mobile seems like a good match.
Hundreds of Cisco customers are vulnerable to new Chinese hacking campaign, researchers say
Cisco warned that Chinese government hackers are exploiting a zero-day in some of its products. Researchers now say there are hundreds of vulnerable Cisco customers.
Google releases FunctionGemma: a tiny edge model that can control mobile devices with natural language
While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter AI model designed to solve one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern application development: reliability at the edge. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, FunctionGemma is engineered for a single, critical utility—translating natural language user commands into structured code that apps and devi
Yann LeCun confirms his new ‘world model’ startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation
Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday the worst-kept secret in the tech world: that he had indeed launched a new startup. Although he did say he will not be running the new company as its CEO.