On his social media platform X on Tuesday, the billionaire posted "Shut up, Dan," just hours after the analyst and Tesla fan recommended that the electric car maker's board of directors curb the CEO's political activity.

Donald Trump has assigned Transport Secretary Sean Duffy a second job as interim caretaker of NASA after the president dumped his original choice to lead the space agency.

President Trump announced Wednesday that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will temporarily lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, weeks after Mr. Trump withdrew an Elon Musk-linked entrepreneur as his pick to lead the space agency.

Tesla, the jewel of Musk’s public holdings, has paid the price. The electric vehicle company has shed over $350 billion in market cap since the start of the year. X, formerly known as Twitter, hasn’t fared much better: its AI chatbot Grok has been caught spewing antisemitic content, and CEO Linda Yaccarino just announced her resignation on July 9.

Tesla will expand its robotaxi service to the San Francisco Bay Area "in a month or two", depending on regulatory approvals, CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday.

As the Tesla boss has ramped up threats to form a new third party after Republicans passed Trump’s mega-spending bill, Musk also purged his X account of House Speaker Mike Johnson, the White House’s Rapid Response account, Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, Energy Secretary Chris White, and MAGA activist Scott Presler.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company took action against its Grok chatbot on Wednesday, removing a post it had made praising Adolf Hitler in response to a question related to the deadly Texas Hill Country flood.

The two men spoke about Mr. Musk’s push to create the America Party before the midterm elections. Mr. Yarvin has expressed support for a monarchy, along with provocative ideas about race.

Yaccarino was hired by Musk as the first permanent CEO after the Tesla billionaire bought the platform in 2022. She faced several challenges in forming partnerships with the advertising world. For starters, her boss struggled to remain civil with advertisers, and even told them “go f--- yourself” in late 2023 after their boycott.