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Trump indicated he might shield Musk and close aides with pardons should Democrats gain control of Congress following the midterms.
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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. Huang is reportedly at risk of being ousted after reports of multiple extramarital affairs, including one with a woman reportedly suspected of spying for China.
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Tesla will refund deposits to a considerable number of Cybertruck customers because it has more orders than it can process before production ends next year, CEO Elon Musk said.
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Elon Musk expects the future cost of delivering one kilogram of cargo to orbit to fall below $100, attributing the prospect to Starship’s full reusability. He also forecast that SpaceX could eventually launch its Super Heavy booster every hour.
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Elon Musk said Starlink’s bandwidth will be 100 times its current level in two to three years as new-version satellites are launched. He said V3 satellites have more than 10 times V2’s capability and will be launched at 10 times the current rate; V4 will be 10 times more powerful than V3.
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Elon Musk said SpaceX’s reliance on US government-funded contracts will keep declining, with the government accounting for less than 10% of the company’s revenue. The shift points away from what had been its most important partnership.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the company will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027. Sales of the futuristic model, once promoted as a rival to traditional pickup trucks, have remained weak.
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Musk said Tesla will scale back Cybertruck production next year to make room for increased output of its Cybercab robotaxi. The move follows years of weaker-than-expected sales for the futuristic electric pickup.
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Musk said Tesla made the decision to free up capacity for increased production of its Cybercab robotaxi. The move follows years of Cybertruck sales falling short of expectations.
Eeuronews

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says production of the Cybertruck at the company’s Texas facility will wind down around the middle of next year, making room for more Cybercab production. Sales fell well short of his earlier target, dropping from about 38,965 in 2024 to 20,237 in 2025.
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Musk says Tesla plans to phase out Cybertruck production in Texas next year as it increases Cybercab output. The Cybertruck’s divisive design attracted a niche following, but sales did not reach the mass market, and Tesla has issued several voluntary recalls.
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Trump indicated he might shield Musk and close aides with pardons should Democrats gain control of Congress following the midterms.
Risk appetite steadied after last week’s slump in technology shares. Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson said he sees several potential “clearing events” ahead that could temporarily push the stock market lower.

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said he has no plans to make peace with Elon Musk. The two had a public dispute earlier this year over the economics of fitting SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi on Ryanair aircraft.
Jason Haley is a plaintiff in a class-action suit alleging excessive noise pollution from a plant that powers data centres training Grok, the large language model. The company is now sending realtors door-to-door with offers to buy homes if residents agree not to join the lawsuit.
CZ linked a claimed holding worth more than $1 billion to Binance’s investment in Twitter. Yi He said annual revenue was enough to cover the losses.

Elon Musk’s pledge to give a share of SpaceX to every child in the US drew skepticism. Whatever his motive and whether the promise is fulfilled, giving current and future workers stakes in American businesses could improve their fortunes, reduce inequality and strengthen support for free-market capitalism.
Elon Musk has spent nearly half a billion dollars on elections in the 2026 cycle, making him the largest disclosed donor in modern US politics and one of the Republican Party’s biggest benefactors ever.
Author Walter Isaacson discusses Musk’s $446 million in campaign spending, Starlink’s satellite operations in Ukraine and Russia’s ambition to launch a competing service of its own.

Elon Musk has long favored the letter X: Tesla’s early lineup included the Model X, Space Exploration Technologies is known as SpaceX, and Twitter became X after Musk bought it in 2022. He also named his son X Æ A-Xii and often calls him “lil X” online.
Russia is trying to develop its own satellite constellation, Rassvet, as an alternative to Starlink. Putin praised Elon Musk as a “real genius.”
