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SpaceX could soon raise $50 billion to $75 billion in fresh capital.
Iran deal doubts hit stocks Thursday, but Nvidia, Tesla were strong. CoreWeave, Rocket Lab, Cloudflare were earnings movers late. The jobs report is on deck.
Elon Musk is dissolving his artificial-intelligence company, xAI. Now, SpaceX is the entity that will vie for AI supremacy with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet The company is getting its ducks in a row ahead of an IPO that is expected to be the biggest ever, raising as much as $75 billion and valuing the company at up to $2 trillion. Wednesday afternoon, Musk tweeted “xAI will be dissolved as a separate company, so it will just be SpaceXAI, the AI products from SpaceX.”
Shivon Zilis was an under-the-radar executive at Elon Musk’s companies and an OpenAI board member back in 2022. But she was hiding a major secret – Musk was the father of her twins born the year before.
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Musk reportedly sought deeper control of OpenAI
A chip-manufacturing complex, AI satellites, and space facilities add to a pricey project list at Elon Musk’s company.
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Tesla has built its brand on the idea that software is a strength, not a vulnerability. A recall confirmed May 6 is a reminder that the gap between those two things can close quickly. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed that 218,868 Tesla vehicles are being recalled ...
Former OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis, who has four children with Musk, discussed their relationship and her view of the warring billionaires’ investing conflicts.
Software update aims to fix delayed image display problem
Tesla stock rose early Wednesday as the electric-vehicle maker recalled 218,868 cars to correct a rearview camera issue. Tesla shares were up 0.2% at $390.26, while and futures were up 0.7% and 0.9%, respectively. Benchmark oil prices were down 8% at just over $101 per barrel in early trading.
Tesla stock rose early Wednesday as the electric-vehicle maker recalled 218,868 cars to correct a rearview camera issue. Tesla shares were up 0.4% at $390.80, while and futures were up 0.8% and 0.9%, respectively. Benchmark oil prices were down 8% at just over $101 per barrel in early trading.
Investing.com -- SpaceX is proposing to invest $55 billion to build a semiconductor production facility in Texas, according to a Bloomberg report that cites a public notice posted on the Grimes County website Wednesday.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has proposed an initial investment of $55 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing facility, called Terafab, in Texas, according to a filing made public on Wednesday. SpaceX is also targeting a June IPO that could value the company at around $1.75 trillion. Musk has been tightening integration of AI efforts across his companies, with SpaceX acquiring his startup xAI earlier this year in a deal focused on building space-based data centers for artificial intelligence processing.
Last month, Tesla took the first step towards getting Full Self-Driving (Supervised) approved across the European Union, following the Netherlands' approval of its use on its streets. Getting a foot in the door was supposed to be the hardest part of the process, because once one of the economic ...
Rivian Automotive is considering making its own lidar sensors and could do so in partnership with a Chinese firm, CEO RJ Scaringe said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday. Rivian said that a version of its R2 vehicles coming later this year would include lidar sensors, which help self-driving vehicles gain a three-dimensional view of the road. Rivian did not disclose who would supply it with lidar sensors, which on demonstration vehicles were much smaller than the large, spinning units found on the streets of San Francisco and other cities in robotaxis designed by Alphabet's Waymo.
Conditions are not right for Bitcoin to mount a recovery above $100,000, according to Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:GLXY) CEO Mike Novogratz. "It’s not my prediction that we break [$100,000] this year," Novogratz said on Galaxy Digital’s Q1 earnings call on...
Tesla's aim to roll out its supervised "full self-driving" software in Europe got a boost from Belgium on Tuesday, where the Flanders region said it was looking into whether it can quickly adopt it following approval in the Netherlands. The Netherlands' regulator provisionally approved the use of the software on Dutch roads last month, making it the first country in the EU to allow the software, which can control a car but requires drivers to pay attention. Annick De Ridder, the transport minister for Flanders, the mainly Dutch-speaking half of Belgium which borders the Netherlands, said in a post on X that she had asked Tesla to provide documents so as to possibly follow suit in her region.
Last week’s tech earnings put investors’ attention back on AI spending and whether it’s actually paying off. One megacap stands out, surging nearly 10% over the past five trading days, the best five-day performance among the Magnificent 7 stocks. That’s Alphabet. The stock is up 22% year to date as ...
Elon Musk settles over Twitter stock disclosures, Palantir beats expectations, Trump’s tariff risks persist, and more news to start your day.

<body><p>STORY: Elon Musk has settled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against him for a $1.5 million fine.</p><p>The suit accuses the world's richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of shares in Twitter, now known as X.</p><p>Under the settlement disclosed Monday, a trust in Musk's name will pay the fine.</p><p>The Tesla chief did not admit wrongdoing, and won't have to give up any of the $150 million he allegedly saved from the delay.</p><p>Now the settlement requires approval by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who in February rejected Musk's bid to dismiss the case.</p><p>The SEC declined to comment.</p><p>In its lawsuit, the regulator said Musk's 11-day delay in revealing his initial 5% Twitter stake let him buy more than $500 million of shares at artificially low prices, before he finally revealed a 9.2% stake.</p><p>Musk called the delay inadvertent, and accused the SEC of violating his free speech rights by targeting him.</p><p>The case is separate from a civil suit where a San Francisco jury in March held Musk liable for having defrauded Twitter shareholders after announcing the buyout.</p></body>
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has projected confidence that the European Union will soon green-light the carmaker's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) system, but emails from some European regulators show marked skepticism toward the technology and its stated safety benefits. Tesla's "FSD (Supervised)" technology got the nod from Dutch road regulator RDW in April. RDW is now seeking EU approval for FSD, with a key committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
The automaker brought together Silicon Valley techies and industry misfits in a quest to beat China at EVs.
The billionaire is on the hook for $1.5 million for failing to disclose his 5% stake in Twitter in a timely fashion.
ON Semiconductor narrowly tops first-quarter earnings expectations and shares fall amid heightened investor expectations.