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Elon Musk at a gala at Mar-a-Lago in November after the election.

Elon Musk wants to raid his empire as one of his babies burns through billions

One of Elon Musk’s companies is burning through cash at an alarming rate. He wants Tesla to help fix the problem.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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SpaceX is already among the industry’s preeminent rocket launch providers.

SpaceX’s latest $600b value rockets Elon Musk’s wealth

SpaceX is discussing plans to raise money and sell insider shares in a deal that means the rocket and satellite company would be worth around $600 billion.

  • Ed Ludlow, Eric Johnson, Katie Roof and Loren Grush
Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

‘Train wreck’: Trump slams Musk’s ‘ridiculous’ new political party

After the tech billionaire escalated his feud with the US president and announced the formation of his “America Party”, Trump posted on social media that Musk had gone “completely off the rails”.

  • James Oliphant and Daniel Trotta
Elon Musk and Donald Trump

‘Utterly insane’: Musk wades back into debate over Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX had been relatively quiet since his blow-up with the US president this month.

  • Ashley Ahn
SpaceX rocket explodes whilst preparing for flight test.

‘A major anomaly’: SpaceX rocket explodes on platform in Texas

It was the fourth consecutive failure of a Starship rocket, which is designed to realise founder Elon Musk’s dream of humanity colonising Mars.

  • Chris Zappone
Katy Perry in space.

Surge in satellite launches and space tourism thins ozone layer

Rocket launches have connected the world, revolutionised earth and space sciences, and filled pop star Katy Perry with love. Now they risk wrecking the ozone layer.

  • Nick O'Malley
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It would be catastrophic for America if Trump doesn’t forgive Musk

Donald Trump and Elon Musk need each other and America needs them to get along.

  • Philip Pilkington
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Trump v Musk is the final battle before a catastrophe

The sight of two of the world’s richest and most powerful men breaking up and exchanging insults has been entertaining but, beneath it all, lies a rather more serious matter.

  • Jeremy Warner
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Build-up to a blow-up: Inside the Trump-Musk meltdown

How a moment of irritation signalled simmering tensions between the two men that would explode into the open days later, and end one of the most extraordinary alliances in American politics.

  • Tyler Pager, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Theodore Schleifer and Ryan Mac
Elon Musk in the Oval Office last week.

The staggering amount of money Elon Musk lost in one day as Trump feud boils over

Minute by minute, post by post, Elon Musk’s very public, extremely online feud with President Donald Trump sliced into his vaunted status as the world’s richest person.

  • Dylan Sloan and Tom Maloney

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