The Tesla executive in charge of the company’s cybertruck supply chain has quit the company to join electric truck rival Rivian, according to a person familiar with the move. Mustapha El Akkari, who...

When SpaceX’s new Starship rocket exploded during a test flight in April, the company largely painted it as a success to have even gotten the 400-foot-tall behemoth off the ground. But inside the...

As Elon Musk builds his xAI artificial intelligence startup, he’s having to compete with big tech giants and a slew of other startups for talent. One place he’s managed to snare several promising...

Yusaku Maezawa had just a few requests for SpaceX. In 2018, the Japanese e-commerce billionaire had agreed to pay SpaceX to fly himself and a crew of eight artists around the moon for a first-of-it...

In 2021, an engineer was programming the software that controls manufacturing robots at Tesla’s Austin, Texas, factory when something went wrong. Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly...

When Elon Musk arrived at Tesla’s Austin, Texas, factory last week to tour an expansion project on the south side of the 10-million-square-foot facility, he was furious. The expansion was part of a...

Tesla is bleeding execs, and it appears to be reaching a crisis point; over at Twitter/X, new reporting shows that Elon uses the platform to cozy up to right-wi

When Morgan Stanley first worked on Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter acquisition in April 2022, bankers estimated fees on the deal could reach $150 million or more, according to two people who saw the...

In 2021, an engineer was programming the software that controls manufacturing robots at Tesla’s Austin, Texas, factory when something went wrong. Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly...

Last fall, executives at payments giant Stripe gave employees an unusual warning: Look out for watermelons. The company had just scuttled a crucial project called Sonic, which was supposed to rewrite...

Elon Musk doesn’t abide by the norms of Silicon Valley, where startups looking to raise money hold formal pitch meetings, during which executives show off fundraising slide decks full of information...

Elon’s Musk xAI is close to having billions of dollars more in its coffers to make its chatbot Grok a more fearsome competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Musk’s year-old startup is raising $6 billion at a...

While Elon Musk may get credit for SpaceX’s ambitious mission to “make life multi-planetary,” SpaceX’s org chart confirms something long understood by insiders at the $180 billion rocket startup—Pr...

Early this year, as the interest costs from the $13 billion in loans Elon Musk took out to buy Twitter began weighing on his pocketbook, the billionaire turned for help to a longtime trusted partner....

Emails circulated inside Nvidia show that Elon Musk was telling the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of GPUs to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies, the most highly valued private tech company in the U.S., has told some investors it expects to bring in about $8 billion in revenue in 2023, roughly...

On Feb. 28, Elon Musk used X, the social media service he owns, to make a bold promise about a product from one of his other companies, Tesla. In a post, he said a new version of the Roadster—a...

Elon Musk doesn’t abide by the norms of Silicon Valley, where startups looking to raise money hold formal pitch meetings, during which executives show off fundraising slide decks full of information...

Last December, in a live event on Twitter, Elon Musk called Sacramento “possibly the worst place to have a data center,” complaining about the hot temperatures of California’s inland capital, where...

Gregory Varallo is a corporate lawyer in Delaware. But in the wake of a landmark Delaware court ruling on Tuesday night, he’s not just any lawyer. Varallo is one of the few people to win a courtroom...

In 2021, an engineer was programming the software that controls manufacturing robots at Tesla’s Austin, Texas, factory when something went wrong. Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly...

In 2021, an engineer was programming the software that controls manufacturing robots at Tesla’s Austin, Texas, factory when something went wrong. Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly...

Last week, Elon Musk told Tesla investors they should think about the electric vehicle maker “almost entirely” in terms of a single goal: figuring out how to make its cars drive themselves, without...

Earlier this week, Elon Musk laid off a 500-person team overseeing Tesla’s Supercharger Network, a move that stunned many employees and industry observers who consider the electrical charging...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is parachuting in to rescue one of its vendors from bankruptcy. The rocket company is acquiring Pioneer Aerospace—which makes parachutes for space vehicles as they return to...

There’s a new order at Tesla: The company said Monday it would eliminate 10% of its workforce, and two key executives who reported directly to CEO Elon Musk have departed. At least 35 people now...

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has sold shares owned by employees and investors at a price over 22% higher than in a funding round for the tunneling startup last year, according to two people...

For years, many investors and employees at Space Exploration Technologies have regarded the company’s No.2 executive, Gwynne Shotwell, as the adult in the room at the boundary-pushing rocket company...

Drivers try Bar Keepers Friend, Windex, Costco baby wipes to battle smudges. ‘You just feel like so many people are looking at the vehicle.’

Once, when top SpaceX executive Mark Juncosa was frustrated by poor cellphone service in a meeting at company headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., he pointed to a SpaceX employee in the meeting and...

For Tesla employees, the sight of Tom Zhu’s face early this year around the electric car maker’s factory in Austin, Texas, was a relief. For months, the absence of key Tesla executives in Austin had...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is following in the footsteps of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in opting for an unusual corporate structure. xAI has been organized in Nevada as a...

At some point during the second half of this year, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, will stuff his feet into a pair of cowboy boots and, if everything goes as planned, watch as a rocket made by his...

Last week, Elon Musk’s X began giving subscribers to its premium, advertising-free version access to a new feature: Grok, a sassy artificial intelligence chatbot created by xAI, a separate AI startup...

The automaker contends that a second shareholder vote should overturn an earlier ruling.

Elon Musk’s 1-year-old artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has been talking to Oracle executives about spending $10 billion to rent cloud servers from the company over a period of years, according...

Rollouts have lagged behind while the company is adding partners and getting more public funding for charging stations.

The moves show how Musk’s legal dispute about X is affecting SpaceX and its Starlink satellite-internet service.

Tesla is shaking up its top leadership in South Korea just one day after CEO Elon Musk met with South Korea’s president to discuss further investment in the country. Yvonne Chan, a regional director...

Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan are accused of masterminding a $4.5 billion bitcoin-laundering scheme. Those who know them are flabbergasted.

SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell will assume oversight of the company’sStarbase facility in Texas that is building Starship, the rocket planned for a trip to Mars,...

Late last year, Stripe gave its employees an enticing new choice: They could either receive their annual bonuses in cash, as they had for years, or they could opt to take some of it as equity in the...

Rollouts have lagged behind while the company is adding partners and getting more public funding for charging stations.

Relativity Space, which last year launched into space the first rocket made with 3D printing, is in talks to raise money in a round that values the company at around $4.2 billion, flat with its last...

For Google employees, the news was a devastatingturn in an already disorienting year. In May, a 31-year-old senior engineer at the company, later identified by police as Kevin Rawlings, died at...