Elon Musk
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Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI has taken a new turn, with reports suggesting the billionaire is leading a consortium aiming to buy the ChatGPT maker for $97.4 billion. -
The province of Ontario will cancel Starlink’s licence to operate in a tit-for-tat if US President Trump introduces 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada.
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Elon Musk is looking to double up the computing power of xAI with X (formerly Twitter), expanding the social media site’s Atlanta data centre as an extra training base as the startup continues to build out Grok.
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Elon Musk has taken a swipe at OpenAI over its involvement in Project Stargate, claiming the ChatGPT maker “don’t actually have the money”.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will offer free Starlink terminals to areas of Los Angeles affected by raging wildfires.
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Indonesian officials are reportedly looking to try and convince Elon Musk to bring his xAI startup to South East Asia, including building new data centres in the country.
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Elon Musk has announced that his AI company, xAI, will release its first-ever language model as open-source software.
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OpenAI has publicly hit back at a lawsuit launched by Elon Musk last week, saying it will move to dismiss claims brought forward by the billionaire that the company had abandoned its founding mission.
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On Friday, it emerged that Elon Musk had filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman of a breach of contract.
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The European Union (EU) has launched an investigation into Elon Musk-owned X (formerly known as Twitter) to target areas around illegal content and disinformation.
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A Ukrainian official has slammed Elon Musk after claims emerged that the SpaceX owner ordered engineers to switch off Starlink satellites near Crimea to prevent a Ukrainian offensive on Russia.
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With the “euphoria” surrounding social media platforms, now is the opportune”time to launch a rival to Twitter according to Paolo Pescatore, TMT analyst at PP Foresight.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX might be worth US$137 billion, three times as much as he paid for Twitter in October 2022.
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Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Mobile US is to use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network to expand coverage across rural parts of the US – and SpaceX wants to attract other mobile operators around the world.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink’s application for US$885 million in federal subsidies that would see it provide satellite internet to rural areas.
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Nigerian customers of SpaceX’s Starlink service will pay only US$99 for their starter kit, only a sixth of the $599 that US customers have to pay.
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Twitter plans to sue Elon Musk after he pulled out of a deal to buy Twitter for US44 billion on Friday.
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The Philippines will be the first country in south-east Asia to be served by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, the government has announced.
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