Musk is blowing up plans and taking names as he and the GOP-controlled House start to learn about working with each other, while the billionaire dangles his wealth and influence as an enforcer in the new administration.
With an early morning social-media post on Wednesday, Elon Musk declared that a must-do spending bill ‘should not pass’. By early evening, the bill was dead. Those who doubt his ability to shake up Washington are having second thoughts.
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The tech titan’s Starlink service has blitzed the NBN’s ageing satellite system in internet speed stakes, heaping more pressure on the $620m taxpayer-funded venture.
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Tesla’s board had argued that a shareholder vote earlier this year addressed the court’s previous criticisms
Musk’s scorched-earth tactics send waves of concern through his lengthy list of business rivals, with OpenAI’s Sam Altman ranking high on the billionaire’s enemy roll, as car companies and tech giants scramble for allies in the incoming Trump administration.
Robyn Denholm’s appointment to lead a once-in-a-generation innovation review came just hours after Anthony Albanese said Elon Musk had an agenda against his social media laws.
The Prime Minister dashed Elon Musk’s furious criticism of Australia’s world-first social media age ban, which is set to come into effect in the next 12 months.
It’s rare for a speech in Canberra to make news in North America. But it happened when Kim Williams raised the ire of US podcaster Joe Rogan … as well as Elon Musk.
Bryson DeChambeau’s round with president elect Donald Trump sent the online world into raptures, but the two-time US Open champion has now gone one next level.
Podcast king Joe Rogan has hit back after ABC boss Kim Williams described him as ‘deeply repulsive’, while Elon Musk has described the national broadcaster as Australia’s ‘Pravda’.
Elon Musk has lashed the ABC after the national broadcaster’s head made scathing remarks about podcaster Joe Rogan.
The notion of an Elon Musk-style regulation buster with authority to drive changes would be welcome relief here.
Australia’s eSafety commissioner says she will enforce rules on social media “without fear or favour”.
Billionaire unelected Trump adviser promises ‘mass headcount reductions’ for US public servants as unions plan resistance amid deepening fears over government restructuring.
The billionaire owner of X Elon Musk has called out the Albanese government’s new social media to stop young teenagers accessing social media.
Despite the successful lift-off, SpaceX aborted an attempt to catch the first stage booster in the ‘chopstick’ arms of its launch tower, opting instead for an ocean splashdown due to unmet technical criteria, dampening the triumph of the event | WATCH
Can the bromance between the world’s wealthiest man and the next US president survive some major policy differences and their own combustible personalities?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched a secret communications satellite for the Australian Defence Force just weeks after the Albanese government cancelled a $7bn military space program.
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