Topline Tesla shares declined more than 3% on Friday, cutting CEO Elon Musk’s fortune by $10 billion after the automaker voted to approve a compensation plan that could award the world’s richest person $1 trillion over the next decade—a move…
In his sharpest rebuke of the world’s richest man, a distinction he once held, Bill Gates accused Elon Musk at least twice in the past week of “killing” children in the world’s poorest countries by cutting foreign aid under the…
Elon Musk announced yesterday that he was stepping back from his work at the Department of Government Efficiency to focus more on his companies, particularly Tesla. Given that his intense focus on Washington appears to be abating, if not concluding,…
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said on Tuesday that he would spend less time in Washington working for President Trump after the automaker reported a profit drop of 71 percent in the first three months of the year. Mr. Musk…
Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, in an unusual arrangement that shows the financial maneuvering inside the business empire of the world’s richest man. The all-stock…
Elon Musk tried a charm offensive in an interview that aired Thursday on Fox News. Mr. Musk and several top aides at the Department of Government Efficiency sat with Bret Baier, portraying themselves as public servants who just want to…
Versha Sharma, the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, said she had started to pay close attention to Vivian Jenna Wilson, the 20-year-old daughter of Elon and Justine Musk, around the time of last fall’s presidential election. “The more that…
President Trump escalated his threats against people who vandalize Tesla cars, musing in a social media post on Friday that those convicted of damaging or destroying the vehicles — including U.S. citizens — could be sent to notorious prison complexes…
Tesla stock is barreling toward a ninth-straight weekly drop, falling another 5% on Tuesday. Shares have now plummeted 53% from record highs reached in mid-December. There are two new factors behind the Tesla sell-off, and two evergreen issues weighing on…
At the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, faint shadows above the entrance are all that remain of the letters that once spelled the agency’s name. In the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of the federal government, the consumer bureau…