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A made-up story about Musk helping a Starbucks barista's daughter originated on YouTube, then took on new life thanks to ...

Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates ...

Colbert got to that first by describing Musk, who holds no government position but has been illegally given access to dozens ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa needed to call Elon Musk on Monday evening. So his adviser, Bejani Chauke, called ...

Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving ...

People are definitely going to die even if we turned everything back on today, which isn’t going to happen.” The only reason ...

The dramatic power play began Friday, continued through the weekend -- and poses extraordinary and unprecedented threats to US security, lawmakers say ...

Elon Musk has questioned the microchip claims made by DeepSeek AI, a fast-emerging player in the artificial intelligence pool ...

Trump on Sunday accused South Africa of confiscating land and badly treating "certain classes of people". Ramaphosa responded on Monday that the government had not confiscated any land and the policy ...

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, ...

WIth one foot out the White House door, the Biden administration issued 2 documents Musk is now using in his battle to break ...