
The Guardian - 6 hours 57 min ago
The company has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit but has state backing and is already reportedly negotiating with dozens of countries Elon Musk's Starlink has long dominated the satellite internet industry, but a Chinese government-backed project is aiming to challenge its position. SpaceSail has just a few hundred satellites in low Earth orbit compared with Starlink's 10,000-plus. But the company says it now has enough satellites to begin its first commercial application...

Huffington Post - 9 hours 14 min ago
The actor said it was "upside down" to think this way.

The Guardian - 11 hours 57 min ago
Falling shares push tech mogul back down to billionaire ranks after SpaceX IPO made him world's first trillionaire Elon Musk was no longer a trillionaire by the time markets closed on Wednesday. Plunging shares in Tesla and SpaceX dragged the tech magnate down to billionaire status. As of 4pm ET, Forbes listed Musk's net worth as $970.2bn. Musk reached trillionaire status on 12 June after SpaceX's historic initial public offering. The rocket, satellite and AI company's debut on the...

Fortune - 12 hours 21 min ago
The run ended due to falling SpaceX stock and a Forbes accounting change.

Attack of the Fanboy - 13 hours 4 sec ago
Elon Musk has fired back at Representative Ro Khanna following intense public criticism regarding the impact of the Department of Government Efficiency,...

BBC - 14 hours 14 min ago
Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status on Tuesday after a brutal global tech rout erased billions from his wealth.

Ars Technica - 15 hours 19 min ago
Tesla, accused of failing to fix design flaws, blames driver pressing accelerator.

The Independent - 16 hours 5 min ago
The guest spent multiple nights in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House...

The Hill - 17 hours 2 min ago
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pushing back on allegations the company's full self-driving software was involved in a recent crash that killed a Texas woman. Martha Avila, 76, died after a Tesla drove through the front of her home in Katy, Texas, last Friday. Both police and the driver have indicated that Tesla's automated driving...

Sky News - 20 hours 44 min ago
The family of a woman killed when a Tesla crashed into her home, allegedly while in self-driving mode, is suing Elon Musk's company and the driver.

New York Times - 21 hours 8 min ago
President Trump and Elon Musk in the Oval Office last year.

The Guardian - 21 hours 21 min ago
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as drops in SpaceX and Tesla's shares eat into Musk's wealth Segro have confirmed they have "unequivocally" rejected a takeover proposal from US rival Prologis , saying the 12.6bn bid falls "a long way short" of its true value. In a statement to the City, Segro say: The Board of SEGRO considered the Proposal together with its advisers and believed that the Proposal was opportunistically timed and sought to take advantage...

Vox - 21 hours 33 min ago
This story was originally published in The Highlight . To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today . "Elon Musk, Ryan Seacrest, and Chris Anderson of TED, consider yourself challenged," Bill Gates bellowed from his garden. Beaming, he tugged on a candy cane-colored rope that dumped a barrel of icy cold water over his head. "You have 24 hours. Good luck." It was the scorching hot summer of 2014, and the ice bucket challenge a viral social...

The Independent - 22 hours 28 sec ago
Continued weakness in SpaceX shares could threaten Musk's wealth...

The Guardian - 22 hours 59 min ago
The writer who coined the word enshittification' tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises and why it still appeals so much to those in power A "centaur", in automation theory, is a person assisted by a machine, and a "reverse centaur", hero of Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI , is a "human who is conscripted into acting as an assistant to a machine". Every warehouse worker who ever had to urinate in a water bottle...

Fortune - 23 hours 4 sec ago
The LinkedIn co-founder and investor in both Anthropic and OpenAI offers his most pointed public assessment yet of Elon Musk's AI ambitions.

Newser - 23 hours 35 min ago
Elon Musk's brief stint as trillionaire is over, at least for the moment. A sharp slide in SpaceX and Tesla shares during Tuesday's tech sell-off knocked his estimated fortune down to about $957 billion, per Business Insider , citing the Bloomberg Billionaires Index . Musk crossed the trillion mark earlier this month,...