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Elon Musk

  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa faces backlash over plan to change law for Musk’s Starlink

    Opposition accuses Pretoria of ‘backroom deal’ over proposal to water down rules on Black ownership

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Musk ‘not really leaving’ the US government, says Trump

    President praises his billionaire backer as he steps down from heading the Doge cost-cutting initiative

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump in the Oval Office
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Musk counts the cost of his ‘government efficiency’ blitz

    The billionaire achieved a fraction of the savings he promised while damaging his business brands

    Elon Musk wields a chainsaw at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Elon Musk’s RTO Premium content

    Plus, Evercore signs up for SaaS analysts and on the ground at the Maga-filled crypto conference in Las Vegas

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    LexTesla Inc
    Tesla board considers something new — overseeing Musk Premium content

    The electric-car maker is an anomaly, and for many investors that is the point

    Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    News in-depthX Corp
    How Wall Street offloaded $13bn of debt tied to Musk’s Twitter deal

    Trump’s election helped revive loans that once threatened to hit banks with big losses

    Elon Musk, Twitter logo, US dollars and Morgan Stanley logo
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Musk steps down from Trump administration

    World’s richest man says he is leaving role at so-called Department of Government Efficiency

    Protesters hold signs saying "DELETE DOGE" and "S.O.S. SAVE OUR SERVICES"
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Telegram
    Musk’s xAI agrees Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ blooms

    Messaging app’s 1bn users will gain access to Grok chatbot after Tesla chief met founder Pavel Durov

    A montage of Pavel Durov with the Telegram logo and US dollars in the background
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Tesla Inc
    Pension fund investors demand Musk work 40-hour week at Tesla

    Shareholders say EV maker is in ‘crisis’ and call for succession planning

    Elon Musk is seated at a table in the Cabinet Room at the White House, wearing a red cap with the text "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" He has his hands clasped in front of him.
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Musk criticises Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill

    Billionaire’s comments are strongest rebuke of US president’s agenda yet

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    SpaceX Starship rocket fails to deploy satellites and explodes on re-entry

    Elon Musk says leaks caused loss of pressure as craft’s upper stage shatters over Indian Ocean

    SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is launched on its ninth test at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas on May 27 2025
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa moves to change empowerment law for Musk’s Starlink

    Potential loosening of Black ownership rules came after billionaire said his satellite internet group would not comply

    The logo of the Starlink satellite-internet communication system
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Musk says he will spend a ‘lot less’ on politics

    Donald Trump’s biggest donor has already pulled back from White House role

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Musk’s AI chatbot shared ‘white genocide’ tropes on X

    Grok answered users’ queries on completely unrelated matters with responses about South African race relations

    The xAI and Grok logos
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?

    Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings

    A montage with Elon Musk in the foreground, with the US Capitol and dollar bills in the background
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla board explores new pay deal for Elon Musk

    Billionaire’s record 2018 package stuck in seven-year legal battle

    Model Y cars on the production line
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    InterviewGates Foundation
    Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts

    Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045

    Bill Gates
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Edward Luce
    Elon Musk’s painful departure

    The Tesla CEO’s much-heralded war on government waste has had uncertain results

    Elon Musk
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Telecoms
    Spanish electricity blackout drives use of Musk’s Starlink

    Widespread outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms

    The logo of internet provider Starlink
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    OpenAI
    Judge allows Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI to move forward

    Tesla chief and Sam Altman on track for legal showdown as they compete for primacy over artificial intelligence

    Montage of Sam Altman and Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    LexTesla Inc
    Half an Elon Musk is still better than none Premium content

    Tesla has flouted some of directors’ most sacred tenets, and shareholders who vote have mostly approved

    Elon Musk boards Air Force One
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla board denies launching search for Musk’s successor

    Chair Robyn Denholm says carmaker’s board remains ‘highly confident’ in chief executive’s leadership

    An activist holds a paper figure symbolising Elon Musk on a rocket heading to Mars during a protest in front of a Tesla store in Berlin, Germany. Police officers stand nearby
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Business InsightSujeet Indap
    Musk faces new court battle with unhappy shareholders

    Billionaire faces class action over tweets during Twitter acquisition that raised doubts on deal

    Elon Musk
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Musk needs to become a more normal CEO

    And Tesla should become a more normal company

    Elon Musk
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    Isabel Berwick
    Lashing out at staff is bad for business

    Shouty leadership is in vogue but smart executives do something far more effective

    Illustration of a worker shouting ‘Now!’ at another worker
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