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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OpenAI said Friday it plans to stop supplying AI models to Cursor, a coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The move further escalates the bitter rivalry between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk.
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A complaint alleges that xAI trained Grok using child sexual abuse material. The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, says images made when she was preschool-age and sexually abused were later identified in AI-generated CSAM linked to xAI, causing renewed trauma.
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Ars TechnicaOriginal★★★☆☆2026-08-27 20:52
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive, and former White House AI czar David Sacks are scheduled to speak next week at a technology-focused G20 ministerial meeting in North Carolina. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are also expected to take part, according to people familiar with the matter.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-08-27 19:30
Russian-speaking hackers from the new ransomware group Aur0ra used Cursor’s AI coding assistant to conduct hundreds of malicious operations against seven companies worldwide, including stealing login credentials. They repeatedly persuaded the agent that the intrusions were simulations, bypassing its refusals. Gambit Security estimated Cursor may have sped up the breaches by 30%, 40%, or 50%.
MMeduzaOriginal★★★★☆2026-08-27 19:05
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s first AI satellites, powered by Nvidia chips, are initially scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of next year and reach “significant scale” in 2028.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-08-24 23:30
Grokipedia, xAI’s online encyclopedia built around AI-generated articles, apparently has not been updated since April 24th, according to Lawfare. The project was once presented by Elon Musk as a major improvement over Wikipedia. Lawfare said it could not find any entry that had changed in more than three months. Grokipedia launched with a 0.1 version.
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