Former SpaceX propulsion CTO Thomas Mueller’s space startup reached unicorn status this year thanks to $525 million in funding since 2021. It’s just one of 141 other startups founded by SpaceX alumni.

Billionaire Elon Musk gave a strong response to a perceived threat on his life by a Somali TikToker after she said on a livestream, “He [is] about to die."

Elon Musk’s xAI has closed a massive $20 billion Series E funding round, blowing past its original $15 billion target and signalling renewed investor confidence in a compute-heavy approach to artificial intelligence.

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AI chatbot is under fire for generating sexualized images of women, children and public figures without consent

Ashley St. Clair, known for her fiery commentary online, says X has been slow to respond to the issue. The chatbot has recently been scrutinized for creating sexualized images of minors.

“Under Trump, the federal government has gone all in on protecting pedophiles, including taking investigators away from tracking down child predators. Now his crony Elon Musk is running a chatbot producing horrific sexualized images of children,” Wyden told Gizmodo in an email.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is off to a roaring start in 2026, growing his fortune by around 4% to $644 billion after only two trading days.