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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CNBC
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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Reuters
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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NBC News
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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CoinDesk
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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.”
RReutersOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-14 19:35
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.
CCNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-12 20:55
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.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-12 18:43
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies Saturday to slow development of the powerful technology as concerns grow over the risks posed by “superintelligent” computer systems. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed with the call.
FFrance 24Original★★☆☆☆2026-09-12 15:29
Data centers in space face four major obstacles, while Elon Musk has set out an ambitious timeline for their development.
CCNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-07 00:06
OpenAI recently estimated that its partnership with Cursor would generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue, WIRED has learned. The company nevertheless walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
WWIREDOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-03 16:42
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla’s Elon Musk are urging global powers to curb artificial-intelligence regulations as the United States and China compete in an intensifying technology arms race. They warn that overly strict guard rails could suffocate innovation. At a G20 meeting, Huang called for rules focused on “actual and pragmatic harm”.
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South China Morning PostOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-03 08:00
Anthony Armstrong has joined Coinbase’s board. He is not related to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and most recently served as CFO of xAI, X.AI Corp. and X Corp.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-02 21:03
Elon Musk criticized the European Union’s technology regulations, saying its policies “inhibit progress” for companies. He also called on leaders outside China to develop new energy sources to power data centers.
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OpenAI plans to stop providing model access through Cursor on Nov. 12, citing concerns following SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup.
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