Elon Musk - report

Business magnate (born 1971)

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner, CTO, and chairman of Twitter; founder of the Boring Company and X Corp.; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes's Real Time Billionaires list as of June 2023, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, with an estimated net worth of around $225 billion according to Bloomberg and $235 billion according to Forbes.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

2021 2022 2023

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The United Auto Workers Union said on Tuesday it has filed federal labour charges against Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The action came after Musk and Trump held a two-hour conversation on social media platform X Monday night. The union accused the duo of trying to "intimate and threaten" workers during an interview on X.
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Elon Musk accused of being an ‘attention seeker’ and ‘PR manager for the far right’ Social media expert Matt Navarra called Mr Musk the ‘world’s biggest attention-seeking billionaire’ Musk escalated his spat with Sir Keir Starmer, calling him ‘Two-tier Keir’ He has been praised by right-wing activist Tommy Robinson.
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Shares of Amazon.com Inc went down by 8.8 per cent on Friday. This dropped Bezos' net worth to $191.5billion. Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms Inc shares fell by 1.9 per cent, causing him to lose more than $3billion in value. Musk's net worth of $252billion also dropped by $6.6billion as his Tesla shares plunged by 4.2 per cent.
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Tesla shareholders will vote on CEO Elon Musk's pay package on Thursday. The plan includes a pay package worth as much as $56 billion to the iconoclastic Musk. Musk could still face a long legal fight to convince a Delaware judge who invalidated the package in January.
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An institutional shareholder accused Elon Musk of selling Tesla stock using insider information. The shareholder asked the court to direct the Tesla CEO to return 'unlawful profits' The lawsuit comes two days before a critical vote by Tesla shareholders on whether to reinstate Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package.
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The fund, which holds a 0.98% stake worth $7.7 billion, has been critical of excessive CEO pay. Musk's pay was approved in 2018, but voided by a judge earlier this year.
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Deal with Baidu brings Mr Musk a step closer to rolling out Tesla's self-driving technology in China. The approval comes one day after Elon Musk unexpectedly visited Beijing and met with Premier Li Qiang.
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Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the blocking of certain social media accounts. The government accuses X of hosting influential accounts that spread fake news and misinformation. Musk says he will reactivate accounts blocked by Brazilian judge.
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Elon Musk lost his position atop the Bloomberg Billionaires Index to Jeff Bezos after shares in Tesla tumbled 7.2 per cent. Musk now has a net worth of $US197.7 billion ($303.8 billion); Bezos’ fortune is $US200.3 billion. Bezos, Musk, and Bernard Arnault have been jostling for the top spot for years.
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Elon Musk says OpenAI has abandoned its original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity not profit. Musk says he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman to keep OpenAI as a non-profit. Musk is asking the court to force OpenAI's leaders to make their research open to the public.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, suffered a stunning rebuke on Tuesday. A Delaware judge voided the pay package that helped make him a billionaire. The ruling threatens to drop Musk to the third-richest person in the world.
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Elon Musk says first human has been implanted with Neuralink brain chip. The entrepreneur said the patient is “recovering well’ Neuralink aims to give those with paralysis the ability to control devices, including their smartphone, using just their thoughts.