Tootfinder

FYI - Iron Man cheated investors, a jury says he did.
"Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/elon-musk-determined-to-be-liable-for-misleading-twit…

Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says
Elon Musk was sued in late 2022 after completing his acquisition of Twitter, which he later renamed X.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia--by Elon Musk (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p90#a260220p90

Musk and X launch legal appeal against EU’s record €120 million fine https://therecord.media/musk-x-appeal-europe-fine

A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elon Musk Admits xAI ‘Wasn’t Built Right’ as only 2 Co-Founders Remain and Its Biggest AI Bet Stalls Out https://ground.news/article/elon-musk-says-xai-was-not-properly-built-for-the-first-time

The budget version of a cowpie is still a cowpie. I have NEVER seen one of those monstrosities hauling lumber or sheets of OSB. Ugly AND useless...
Tesla Is Dropping a Budget Version of the Cybertruck - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-affordable-budget-cybetruck-cheap-price-features-2026-2

Fokus Ungarn: Kammergericht zwingt X zur Datenfreigabe für Wahlforscher
Ein Berliner Urteil verpflichtet die Musk-Plattform X zur Herausgabe von Daten an Bürgerrechtler, um Desinformation vor den Wahlen in Ungarn zu untersuchen.

Justice Department Rebuffs French on X Probe, Musk Interview (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/justice-department-rebuffs-french-on-x-probe-musk-interview-2b8eb080
http://www.memeorandum.com/260419/p2#a260419p2

Ierland opent Europees onderzoek naar Musks chatbox Grok vanwege seksueel getinte beelden | de Volkskrant
#Musk #Grok

"Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/16/lawsuit-elon-musk-ai-grok-child-sexual-abuse

Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material
Lawuit details how sexualised AI-generated images were produced and distributed without girls’ knowledge

Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-compute-cursor-…

Elon Musk's xAI plans to supply AI computing power to coding startup Cursor
Elon Musk's xAI is collaborating with Cursor, which is using xAI's GPUs for model training, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk,
the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on Mars within 20 years.
Why bother returning to the orbiting chunk of rock humanity conquered half a century ago, he reasoned,
when the greater prize of the red planet lay tantalizingly in reach for his company’s mighty Starship rockets?
Fast forward to February 2026, and the world’s …

FT: Beijing backs brain implant push to rival Elon Musk's Neuralink #NeuroXess #BCI

The political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia

The political effects of X's feed algorithm - PubMed
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects¹. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. W …

La basura de Musk, de sus cohetes, por puntualizar, llega hasta Madagascar.

The Kremlin begs Musk to return Starlink to Russians #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/12/the-kremlin-begs-musk-to.html

A misanthrope calling Anthropic misanthropic.
https://thefederal.com/category/international/elon-musk-anthropic-claude-ai-bias-criticism-229715

Elon Musk says Anthropic’s Claude AI is ‘misanthropic and evil’, 'hates men'
Elon Musk accuses Anthropic’s Claude AI of bias and criticizes its Constitutional AI framework amid growing tensions between xAI and the rival firm

What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way", OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/

Elon Musk Touts Universal Income As Remedy To AI-Driven Unemployment
Musk’s comments follow rival company OpenAI’s industrial policy proposal released earlier this week that calls for an AI-backed public wealth fund.

Die Grünen sehen rot - Wirbel um SPÖ-Werbung auf Elon Musks Plattform X #News #Nachrichten

«Sexualisierte KI-Bilder bei Grok — Irland leitet Untersuchung ein:
Die irische Datenschutz-Aufsichtsbehörde ermittelt gegen den in Elon Musks Social-Media-Plattform integrierten KI-Chatbot. Mit dem Tool liessen sich sexualisierte Bilder von Frauen und Kindern erstellen.»
Endlich wird dagegen vorgegangen aber hoffentlich gegen jegliche KI-Propaganda und sexualisierungs Maschinen.
🤨

Sexualisierte KI-Bilder bei Grok: Irland leitet Untersuchung ein
Die irische Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörde ermittelt gegen den KI-Chatbot von Elon Musk.

Musk makes another totally unrealistic plan. And let‘s not forget the strategy shift here: originally it was the moon, then it was Mars, now it‘s the moon again. With a rocket which still is in development.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/…

Analysis: global Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter/X has fallen 70% since Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition; Facebook traffic has also declined sharply (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/social-t

Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts
Globally, Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since 2022, when Elon Musk acquired the platform.

Musk over-promises and under-delivers.
Again.
And again.
Everyone laughs at him, but he's still the richest person on Earth and press reports do not continually ridicule him.
WTF is wrong with the world?
https://science.s…

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says - Slashdot
"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X s...

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/02/trump-musk-press-freedom/681777/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3m-0XLxOe2ECYx1itaDCfr4&…

The free-speech phonies
Donald Trump and Elon Musk never believed in anyone’s free speech except their own.

This is "interesting" - In a civil trial in which Elon M. is the defendant they are having difficulty finding enough unbiased jurors to empanel a jury:
Well, that's one way to evade liability: become so hated that there aren't enough people who don't hate your guts to form a jury.
"Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings"

Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings
Nine jurors, claiming they can be fair and impartial to Elon Musk and his controversial purchase of Twitter in 2022, were seated in San Francisco federal court Thursday, whittled down from a pool of 93.

As of a month ago, half of xAI’s founding team of 12 individuals had resigned.
As of today, that number has grown to nine, meaning that a mere three are left, as Bloomberg points out.
In the face of it all, Musk is admitting that the company is in deep trouble
— and in need of a deep overhaul
https://…

Elon Musk Says He’s Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations”
Musk is admitting that his AI company xAI is in deep trouble — and in need of a deep overhaul, a surprising admission.

brb. Gotta go invent a time machine so I can prevent adolescent Elon Musk from getting his hands on anything written by Heinlein.

Kehrtwende von Elon Musk: SpaceX soll jetzt doch erst zum Mond – später zum Mars
Seit über zehn Jahren erzählt Elon Musk bei jeder Gelegenheit, dass er zum Mars will und der Mond ignoriert gehört. Jetzt wechselt er die Marschrichtung.

South Africa reminds Musk that there are other countries in the world where he can peddle Starlink if he doesn't want to comply with their laws.
"There are currently 193 member states in the United Nations. Surely, there's good money to be made out of 192 markets. It's okay to move on!"
https://www.

Musk's X worst social platform for child abuse material: eSafety
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/17/elon-musk-x-twitter-child-sexual-abuse-material-esafety-commission/

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

By Karl Bode
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
Despite the fact Musk has increasingly shown himself to be a conspiratorial white supremacist with a head full of room temperature butterscotch, the U.S. press is demonstratively un…

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
One of my favorite trends in modern U.S. infotainment media is something I affectionately call "CEO said a thing!" journalism. "CEO said a thing!" journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to

839 Milliarden Dollar Vermögen: Elon Musk kratzt an der Billion. Laut Forbes liegt er damit so weit vor der Konkurrenz, dass selbst die nächsten Superreichen eher wie die „zweite Liga“ wirken. #Golem zeigt, wie Tech-Boom und Börse diese Vermögensdimension möglich machen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
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#YayaBey #NESTA
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https://yayabey.bandcamp.com/track/egyptian-musk-feat-nesta
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pWBJcgaNcW5xEVL9RbCgd

OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires such as Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7691a233-953b-450e-aefc-f7678ddca6e1

Frühjahr 2025
‚Bei einer Plenarsitzung verglich er das Weiße Haus mit Neros Palast, von wo aus der […] Kaiser […] Rom in Brand setzte. Dort agiere Elon Musk als „Hofnarr unter Ketamin“, […]. Er warf Trump vor, nicht nur seine Alliierten verraten zu haben, sondern die amerikanische Demokratie […] schwer beschädigt zu haben, „fast so schnell, wie Hitler 1933 die Weimarer Demokratie zerstört hat“. Dies sei eine Tragödie für die freie Welt, aber vor allem für die USA selbst.‘

Claude Malhurets Abrechnung mit Trump und Musk
Der 75-jährige Epidemiologe Dr. Claude Malhuret gehört Frankreichs Senat an. In einer Rede warf der Senator US-Präsident Trump und seinem „Hofnarr“ Musk Zerstörung der Demokratie vor.

Sagenhaft guter Artikel: How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed
https://washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/how-elon-musks-sci-fi-hyperloop-failed/
> Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a …

Teens allege Musk's Grok chatbot made sexual images of them as minors (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/16/teens-sue-musk-xai-grok/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzczNjMzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc1MDE1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzM2MzM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjZjY2M2OTRlLWJhZjQtNDdmNC1hNTk1LTFlNjE2ZmZiNGE0MSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDMvMTYvdGVlbnMtc3VlLW11c2steGFpLWdyb2svIn0.JsYlxeGe4PNv6Dbr60d8WWRRhIe8dFsPcfFq_J3KVoA&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p41#a260317p41

Det är obegripligt för mig att svenska politiker är aktiva på X.

https://omni.se/musk-gjorde-inlagg-om-vita-nastan-varje-dag-i-januari/a/bOGQgl

Das ist ja eine Unterraschung, kurz vor dem Börsengang von SpaceX verspricht Musk in 10 Jahren auf dem Mond eine Stadt zu bauen und Rechenzentren in die Erdumlaufbahn zu schicken. Beides Dinge, die total cool klingen, bis man 10 Minuten über die Details nachdenkt...
https://www.

SpaceX mulls $1.5tn IPO timed to ‘align with Musk’s birthday and the planets’
World’s richest person targeting symbolic date in June for flotation of rocket company

@… #Osnabrück #NeueOsnabrückerZeitung
Lagerhalle 24. Feb 19 Uhr Spitzboden

Debatte nahm Fahrt auf - SPÖ-Werbung bei Musks X als „scheinheiliger“ Akt #News #Nachrichten

La última del “genio”: debemos dejar de hablar y comunicarnos con lenguaje humano (para que el tenga un wireshark ubicuo, claro).
De malo de peli serie B.
https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2022549367161331783?s=20

Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive".
And no one in the media said a thing.
☑️ Musk Endorsed White Nationalism | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism…

Musk Endorsed White Nationalism
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times [sic] more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive. Again, because so many are insistent that “retweet does not equal endorsement,” it’s important to note that Mu…

Mexikos president hotar stämma Musk efter anklagelser om maffiakoppling https://www.dn.se/varlden/president-hotar-stamma-musk-efter-anklagelser-om-maffiakoppling/

President Claudia Sheinbaum hotar stämma Elon Musk
Mexikos president Claudia Sheinbaum hotar stämma Elon Musk efter anklagelser om maffiakopplingar

The most lawless administration, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before...
‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

The most lawless administration, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before...
‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

„Macrohard“: Elon Musk kündigt gemeinsames Projekt von xAI und Tesla an
xAIs Macrohard-Projekt und Teslas KI-Agent „Digital Optimus“ sollen zu einem intelligenten KI-System in Echtzeit verschmelzen, mit Grok als zentralem Navigator.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-2024-election-spending-millions

Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show
Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration.

The right's obsession with American 'heritage' is all about who gets to be seen as 'white' (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-white-immigration-american-heritage
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p81#a260218p81

Elon Musk says xAI "was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up" (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/03/13/elon-musk-admits-xai-built-wrong-rebuild-tesla-spacex-investment/…

Musk admits xAI ‘not built right’ — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion
Elon Musk admitted today that xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, “was not built right first time around” and “is being...

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fokus Ungarn: Kammergericht zwingt X zur Datenfreigabe für Wahlforscher

Elon Musk brauchte 18–24 Monate für ein KI-Rechenzentrum? Viel zu lang. Also kaufte er eine alte Fabrik, stellte 35 Gasturbinen auf — „transportable", also keine Genehmigung nötig — und schuf so den Supercomputer Colossus. Die Anwohner in Südmemphis atmen jetzt Stickoxide, Formaldehyd und Feinstaub. Grok läuft. Alles gut.
Florian Aigner: Manchmal ist die typisch europäische Vorsicht eine gute Sache.
#Musk

This SpaceX Situation: Not Good!
#Musk #SpaceX #Starlink

Let me translate that: Musks boosts the value of xAI by integrating it into SpaceX and claiming that the future of AI is in space, in two years. That’s the same Musk who is flying to Mars „real soon now“.
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/musk-spacex-xai/

Elon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that "required parting ways with some people", after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/musk-announces-xai-re-o…

Musk announces xAI re-org following co-founder departures, SpaceX merger
The reorganization "required parting ways with some people," Elon Musk said Wednesday on X.

Marshals waived training rules for Musk DOGE security, emails say https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-trump-government-doge-security-rcna266088 So, DOGE security was just a name, not real security. Cute.

Marshals waived training rules for Musk DOGE security, emails say
Members of Elon Musk’s private security team were deputized as federal agents even though some lacked the required training, according to newly released emails.

Worldwide satellite networks, autonomous robots & an unsafe, malevolent artificial intelligence.
Where have I seen this before?
☑️ Elon Musk is betting the future of his business empire on AI
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02

Musk kann SEC-Klage zu Twitter-Übernahme nicht abweisen lassen
Elon Musk meldete beim Twitter-Kauf zu spät das Überschreiten einer wichtigen Beteiligungsmarke. Die Börsenaufsicht erringt nun einen juristischen Etappensieg.

State Department officials, Elon Musk to be deposed over DOGE
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/state-department-elon-musk-doge

A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post (Ryan Mac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/elon-musk-tiktok.html

Elon Musk, Who Owns X, Appears to Post on TikTok
A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

„20 years from now we'll be inundated with documentaries more honestly detailing what a gargantuan bullshit artist Elon Musk was. Until then we appear stuck in a press-enabled purgatorial innovation mythology comically detached from anything resembling factual reality.“
https://

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations | Mississippi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-air-pollution-missis…

France summoned billionaire
#Elon #Musk to a
“voluntary interview”
as #cybercrime authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X,
the Paris public prosecutor’s office said.
…

France summons Musk after raids on X offices
France summons Musk after raids on X offices

A group of Tennessee teenagers sue xAI, alleging its AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

Teens allege Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual images of them as minors
Three teenage plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Monday accuse xAI of distributing, possessing and producing with intent to distribute child pornography.

Elon Musk fusioniert SpaceX mit xAI: KI aus dem Weltall mit Sonnenkraft
Elon Musks Raumfahrtfirma SpaceX übernimmt Elon Musks Firma xAI. Dazu gehören Grok und das Soziale Netz X. Die Pläne sind hochtrabend, selbst für Musk.
…

"The letter to the attorneys general of Delaware and California asks for an investigation into Musk."
In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating 'Attacks' Against It
https://gizmodo.com/in-letter-openai-reportedly-says-elon-musk-and-meta-are-coordinating-attacks-against-it-2000743228

Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-premium-accounts-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p24#a260212p24

In a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/app

Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter
In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Elon Musk's X and Grok generating sexualized deepfakes.

Elon Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html…

Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok
Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Razzia bei X in Paris, Vorladungen für Elon Musk und Linda Yaccarino

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elon Musk Wants a Do-Over on Twitter Trial After Jury Pool Couldn't Hide Its Disdain
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wants-a-do-over-twitter-trial-after-jury-pool-couldnt-hide-its-disdain-2000731598

U.S. marshals waived training rules for Musk's armed DOGE security, emails say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-trump-government-doge-security-rcna266088
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p20#a260406p20

xAI: Unternehmensaustritte und Pläne für Satellitenfabrik auf dem Mond
Turbulente Zeiten für Elon Musks KI-Startup xAI: Nachdem die Hälfte der Gründungsriege das Unternehmen verlassen hat, spricht Musk von Umstrukturierungen.

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-share…

Elon Musk takes stand in shareholder trial in San Francisco over Twitter stock
A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter before he finally completed the takeover. The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for $44 billion, or $54.20 pe…

Elon Musk Wants a Do-Over on Twitter Trial After Jury Pool Couldn't Hide Its Disdain
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wants-a-do-over-twitter-trial-after-jury-pool-couldnt-hide-its-disdain-2000731598

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
Internal sources spoke with The Verge about the recent restructuring at xAI and the direction Elon Musk is taking the company.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Razzia bei X in Paris, Vorladungen für Elon Musk und Linda Yaccarino

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Razzia bei X in Paris, Vorladungen für Elon Musk und Linda Yaccarino

Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/elon-musk-xai-permit-for-mississippi-plant-de…

Elon Musk's xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns
Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers.

Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla's Kimbal Musk, emails show (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/jeffrey-epstein-tesla-kimbal-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p155#a260210p155

Razzia bei X in Paris, Vorladungen für Elon Musk und Linda Yaccarino
Seit über einem Jahr ermittelt die Pariser Staatsanwaltschaft gegen X und hat die Bandbreite mehrfach ausgeweitet. Nun folgte eine Durchsuchung in Paris.

Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method
Timecodes

In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody "committed suicide because of Grok" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/musk

Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok' | TechCrunch
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

US-Geschworene: Musk schädigte Twitter-Aktionäre bewusst
Bevor Elon Musk im Jahr 2022 Twitter kaufte, ließ er sich über angebliche Bot-Probleme bei der Plattform aus. Die Aktie gab nach. Das hat jetzt Folgen.
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xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/elon-musk-lunar-factory.html

Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in "fixers" from SpaceX and Tesla (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5

Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Tesla and SpaceX managers sent in to review work as billionaire’s start-up struggles to keep pace with rivals

Teslas Robotaxis fahren in Texas autonom, Musk verspricht weiten US-Ausbau 2026
Vollautonome Tesla-Taxis sind jetzt im texanischen Austin verfügbar. Trotz starker Konkurrenz will Elon Musk Robotaxis bis Ende 2026 in den USA weit ausbauen.

The European Commission says "X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark" in the EU and the commission will "assess" the proposed remedies (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Musk’s X to Alter Verification System in Europe, Commission Says
Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has agreed to change its verification mechanism in the European Union following a fine of €120 million ($138 million).

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Russische Drohnen mit Starlink-Antennen: Gegenwehr laut Musk schon erfolgreich

xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by "the middle of this year" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-hires-two-senior-lea…

XAI Hires Two Senior Leaders From Cursor to Catch Up on Coding
Elon Musk’s xAI is hiring two senior Cursor leaders as part of an effort to catch up with AI rivals in coding, according to a person with direct knowledge of the move. The pair, Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, will both report to Musk, the person said. The move follows a string of high-level ...

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a "legal ambush", calling them "legally improper and factually unsupported" (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn…

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-lea…

And then there were none: Musk's last xAI cofounder, Ross Nordeen, leaves
Elon Musk is shaking up xAI ahead of the SpaceX IPO. All 11 of his cofounders are gone, 8 of them since January.

Newly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (Alison Durkee/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/

New Epstein Files Reveal Even More Powerful Connections: Musk, Trump, Gates, Lutnick, More
The Justice Department’s latest and largest release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein includes new revelations of the late disgraced financier’s ties with the world’s most powerful people, including new information about his relationship to Elon Musk, Richard Branson Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates and more.

Court docs: Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with DOGE in February 2025, offering to "take down content doxxing or threatening" DOGE staffers (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/mark-zuc

Mark Zuckerberg offered to 'help' Elon Musk with DOGE in 2025
According to court documents, Mark Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/openai-asks-california-ag-to-prob…

OpenAI asks California, Delaware to investigate Musk's 'anti-competitive behavior' ahead of April trial
OpenAI sent a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk and his associates.