co-president
Senior Advisor to the President for Government Efficiency (2025–2025)
| Born | 1971-06-28 · Pretoria |
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| Citizenship | South Africa (since 1971), Canada (since 1971), United States (since 2002) |
| Party | Independent |
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| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS) |
| Occupation | CEO and product architect of Tesla, Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, Founder and CEO of SpaceXAI, Founder and CTO of X Corp., Co-founder of Neuralink, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Zip2, X.com and PayPal, President of the Musk Foundation |
| Awards | Full list |
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Elon Musk said hiring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would be an “honor.” The post on X comes as reports say Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust Huang.
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Top AI firms, including Anthropic and OpenAI, are proposing different ways to donate money to public causes amid backlash against AI.
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Bloomberg News
Elon Musk said on a SpaceX conference call on Tuesday that Terafab, the chipmaking joint venture between SpaceX and Tesla, aims to begin volume production in the third quarter of 2028.
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As concerns mount over AI’s economic and societal effects, Elon Musk and officials at AI giant Anthropic have pledged to give the public access to coveted shares in their companies.
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Elon Musk said his business empire will build and operate Terafab on its own, dispelling speculation that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. might take over running the ambitious chipmaking venture.
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Over the past week, Musk has found common ground with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while President Trump and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang have pushed back against him.
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Elon Musk called on leading AI labs to peer review one another’s models before releasing them to the public, saying this could help assess their safety. He also urged top labs and Chinese companies to test each other’s models amid calls to slow AI development.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for a slower pace of advanced AI development. He received rare support from SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, fueling debate over AI “doomerism.”
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared a plan to slow the pace of advancing AI capabilities, winning support from Elon Musk and Sam Altman. His essay followed an Anthropic researcher’s social-media announcement that they had quit the company, which sparked a firestorm.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk share an unusual view: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.
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President Trump reportedly sought Grok’s opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro, and the AI chatbot allegedly encouraged the move.
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TechCrunchOriginal★★★★☆2026-10-01 21:08
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s xAI had acquired the domain name “dot.com.” The domain now redirects visitors to the Grok chatbot download page, prompting the internet to view the move as a jab at OpenAI’s launch.
TTechCrunchOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-29 22:20
Trump hosted Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and other technology leaders, signaling that the United States will not cooperate with China in the field of “superintelligence.” The program also covers delayed F-16V deliveries to Taiwan, a new US passport, a congressional bill targeting Chinese optical transceivers and Rubio’s claim that explosives found at UK US military bases involved a “foreign actor.”
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VOA ChineseOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-29 20:26
Donald Trump rejected government guardrails for artificial intelligence during a lunch with Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and other technology leaders. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp, JD Vance and Marco Rubio also attended.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are speaking on an AI panel at the unveiling of America.gov, a new platform designed to use artificial intelligence to help citizens navigate federal government websites.
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The Associated PressOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-29 17:55
The New York City Council subpoenaed Elon Musk, requiring him or another SpaceXAI representative to testify in an investigation into AI safety.
CCNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-28 19:01
Elon Musk said Colossus 2, an AI computing cluster built by his xAI business, could have more than twice its current number of Nvidia chips by the end of the year.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-25 12:00
Over the past week, Musk has found common ground with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while President Trump and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang have pushed back against him.
CCNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-18 19:15
Elon Musk called on leading AI labs to peer review one another’s models before releasing them to the public, saying this could help assess their safety. He also urged top labs and Chinese companies to test each other’s models amid calls to slow AI development.
CCNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 15:03
Elon Musk appears to have stopped attacking Apple over its decision to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone features. He previously alleged the partnership gave OpenAI a monopoly over Apple users’ AI prompts and harmed competition, while also claiming Apple may have blocked his chatbot Grok from reaching the top of the App Store rankings.
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Ars TechnicaOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-14 19:45
