Reacting to the incident of an alleged assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk made a controversial statement saying why “no assassination attempts were being made on US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris”.
Trump on Sunday, September 15, faced the second assassination attempt after gunshots were fired outside a golf course in Florida where he was playing.
In a conversation with the billionaire CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk, former US President Donald Trump opened up on the recent ‘assassination attempt’, which he described as a ‘hard hit’, and said that it was a surreal situation.
During the interview, after X owner asked, “How was the shooting like for you?”, Trump responded to it, saying that the shooting was “not pleasant” and it was a very hard hit.
The highly anticipated interview of former President Donald Trump by tech billionaire Elon Musk on X — which the latter owns — was way behind schedule because of technical issues.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X,” Musk posted on the social media site, 18 minutes after the scheduled start time of 8 p.m. ET Monday, August 12.
Just hours after US President Joe Biden declared Sunday that he’s not running for the post of the US President anymore, and endorsed VP Kamala Harris, Indian-American billionaire and prominent venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and tech billionaire Elon Musk had a public spat on X.
The spat started after Khosla, a Democrat supporter, called on the party to have an ‘open convention’ to choose ‘a more moderate’ candidate to take on Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential nominee.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday expressed gratitude towards Indian-origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy, who was the first recruit of Tesla’s Autopilot team, saying that without him, the company wouldn’t be where it is today.
“Thanks Ashok! Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software. Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist,” the Tesla CEO posted on X.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday, May 29, attacked Microsoft-owned professional network LinkedIn, saying that the platform is “so cringe it will make your toenails curl”, as the Tesla CEO aims to bring job search on his X platform.
Confirming his upcoming maiden visit to India, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said he was looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Taking to his official handle on Wednesday, Musk posted, “Looking forward to meeting with Prime Minister @NarendraModi in India!”
After the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government approved a new electric vehicle (EV) policy to attract investments in the EV space by global manufacturers, Tesla is reportedly sending a team this month to search for locations in the country for a $3 billion plant. According to a report in The Financial Times on Wednesday, citing sources, the Elon Musk-run company “would send a team from the US by late April to study sites for the plant”.
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, on Friday, revealed that he started his career on the shop floor of an auto plant, as he responded to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Indian-origin Parag Agrawal, former CEO of Twitter (now called X), and three other senior executives have sued current owner Elon Musk for $128 million in unpaid severance. Agrawal, along with ex-chief financial officer Ned Segal, former Twitter head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde (left) and former Twitter General Counsel, Sean Edgett, have filed the lawsuit against the billionaire.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla got engaged in a public spat on X as the billionaire sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over an alleged breach of original contractual agreements around AI.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday announced plans to shift one million people to Mars. “We are mapping out a game plan to get a million people to Mars,” Musk wrote in a post on X.com. “Civilisation only passes the single-planet Great Filter when Mars can survive even if Earth supply ships stop coming,” he added.
Some board members at Tesla and SpaceX are aware of the “use of illegal drugs” by Elon Musk and regularly do drugs with him, “because they think refraining could upset the billionaire, who has made them a lot of money,” the Wall Street Journal said in a report on Sunday. They “don’t want to risk losing the social capital that comes from being close to Musk, which for some feels akin to having proximity to a king,” reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that his brain-computer interface company Neuralink has successfully achieved its first human implant, and the test subject is recovering well. Musk said that the company’s first product, called Telepathy, would bring control of a phone or computer just by thinking.
The world’s richest person and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted on the revision of United Nations bodies and called India, as not a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, ‘absurd’. The American billionaire highlighted the problem in the revision of the UN bodies on Sunday and said that the countries with excess power don’t want to give it up, adding that the Africa collectively should have a permanent membership in the United Nations.
Elon Musk’s Tesla may finally end its dry run in India and announce to set up an Electric Vehicle (EV) supply system manufacturing plant in Gujarat during the ‘Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit’ next month. The announcement is likely to be made in the presence of Tesla CEO and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the flagship event from January 10-12.
Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal is scheduled to visit the US from November 13-17 to attend the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ministerial meeting and has been invited to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco. On the day of his arrival, the minister is scheduled to meet with Tesla chief Elon Musk.
After warning X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, European Commissioner Thierry Breton has now written to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, telling him to remove pro-Hamas content across his platforms and “be very vigilant” else it could put the company in violation of new EU regulations.
Fresh out of the first Republican primary debate, Indian American candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has suggested that he would want to have billionaire Elon Musk on as an advisor if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Ramaswamy said he wants to bring in people with “a blank fresh impression”, after a voter at a town hall in Iowa asked the 38-year-old entrepreneur last week where he would seek guidance if elected, The Hill reported, citing NBC News.
Billionaire Elon Musk praised Vivek Ramaswamy yet again, calling him “increasingly compelling”, as the Indian American entrepreneur faced his first political debate in Wisconsin to select GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee. “Vivek is increasingly compelling,” Musk said in response to a post and video shared by journalist and tech entrepreneur Brian Krassenstein on X.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday praised Indian American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, calling him a “promising candidate”. Sharing a video of Ramaswamy’s interview with political commentator and talk show host Tucker Carlson on X (formerly Twitter), Musk said: “He is a very promising candidate.”
Following several complaints, Elon Musk’s X sign has been removed from his social media company, formerly known as Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday in the afternoon hours. Citing several media reports, The Hill stated the workers removed the luminous sign after receiving complaints from city residents and officials. It had been put up last week during the company’s rebranding.
Twitter’s bird logo will soon be extinct as ‘X.com’ now redirects users to the micro-blogging platform. “X.com now points to https://twitter.com/. Interim X logo goes live later today,” CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Sunday.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the US on a three-day state visit, and said that he is a fan of Modi and plans to visit the country next year. Musk, who is yet to bring his electric car-maker Tesla to India, said the country is great for solar energy investment.
Under Elon Musk, Twitter approved a staggering 83 per cent of government requests to either restrict or block content globally, including in India and Turkey, a media outlet reported. Since Musk’s takeover in October 2022, the micro-blogging platform received 971 requests from governments (compared to only 338 in the six-month period from October 2021 to April 2022), according to a report in El Pais, a Spanish-language daily newspaper.
