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Louisiana incentivizing aerospace companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX

Louisiana lawmakers are incentivizing aerospace companies to set up operations in the state. Is Elon Musk planning to build a SpaceX center? What we know.

Elon Musk hit with $1.5M fine in Twitter disclosures settlement

Elon Musk will pay the massive fine to settle a long-running Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over his 2022 acquisition of Twitter. The deal resolves allegations that Musk delayed disclosing his initial stake in the company.

Shivon Zilis, mother of Elon Musk’s kids and former OpenAI board member, testifies in explosive case

Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk’s romantic partner and the mother of four of his children, testified Wednesday in his explosive lawsuit against OpenAI – fielding questions about whether she “funneled” information to Musk while she was sitting on OpenAI’s board.

Elon Musk considers site not far from Houston for new chipmaking facility

Elon Musk appears to have identified a site for his massive Terafab chipmaking facility — and it's right outside of Aggieland ...

Where to listen to the Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman court case

Elon Musk and Sam Altman, both co-founders of OpenAI, are currently in court as Musk is accusing Altman of abandoning an ...

Factbox - Elon Musk lays out Terafab AI chip project plan

May 6 (Reuters) - SpaceX has proposed an initial $55 billion investment to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility in ...

Elon Musk Teams Up With Anthropic, a Company He’s Called ‘Evil’

According to Anthropic, the deal will allow it to crank back up some of the rate limits it has been throttling in recent weeks. In a press release, the company said it will double Claude Code’s ...

Elon Musk Wanted Tesla to Take Over OpenAI, Romantic Partner Testifies in Court

Shivon Zilis took the stand in court for questioning on whether she “funneled” information to Musk while sitting on the board ...

Elon Musk proposes $55 billion Terafab facility near College Station

Grimes County commissioners are expected to consider a property tax abatement agreement for a $55 billion facility proposed ...

Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donations

"I still really wanted to be a mum and Elon made the offer around that time and I accepted," she said, explaining Musk in ...

Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.

Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura before they go public.

How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases

U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.