Elon Musk

‘Twitter insults don’t count’

Elon Musk is fighting a libel claim from a British rescue diver he called a “pedo” on Twitter, arguing that he was being flippant.

Ben Hoyle

Leadership

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to smoke marijuana during a lengthy interview with comedian Joe Rogan that covered topics ranging from the dangers of artificial intelligence to the CEO's use of Twitter. PHOTO: THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE

Can Aussie chair tame Musk?

Australian Robyn Denholm faces the tough task of reining in Tesla’s outspoken Elon Musk.

Nina Trentmann and Ezequiel Minaya

Business

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 22, 2018 SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company founder Elon Musk attends the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition, in Hawthorne, California on July 22, 2018. - Tesla chief executive Elon Musk disclosed on August 13, 2018, he was in talks with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and other investors to take the electric automaker private. The revelation comes days after Musk's claim in an August 7 Twitter post that financing for a deal to take Tesla private had been "secured." (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)

Tesla soars after Musk deal

Shares in electric car maker Tesla have soared, making their biggest gain in five years on Monday.

Wall Street Journal

SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk speaks after announcing Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, in Hawthorne, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Tesla shares plummet as SEC targets Musk

US securities regulators sought to force Tesla chief executive Elon Musk out of the company he established as tweet comes back to bite.

Dave Michaels

News

FILE- In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, file photo Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk speaks after announcing Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla Inc. has turned over documents to the U.S. Justice Department after statements by Musk about taking the company private, the electric car maker confirmed Tuesday, Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Criminal probe into Musk tweets

Tesla is under investigation by the US Justice Department over tweets by Elon Musk about taking the company private.

Tim Higgins

The World

First space tourist, japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa

First rocket tourist named

The first private tourist to travel on the SpaceX trip around the moon has been named as Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.

The World

Thai cave diver sues Musk

Diver who helped rescue 12 youth soccer players from a Thai cave sues Elon Musk for $104,000 for calling him a ’pedo’ on Twitter.

News

The launch of Telesat's Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is viewed from Minutemen Causeway in Cocoa Beach, early Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Photo is a 145-second time exposure of the launch with life guard station in the foreground. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)

Musk signs up first moon tourist

Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it has booked its first private round-the-moon passenger but provided no countdown to lift-off.

Andy Pasztor

Wall Street Journal

Can CEOs survive smoking pot?

Elon Musk isn’t the first CEO to smoke weed. Whether or not it’s bad for business and reputation depends largely on their company culture.

Vanessa Fuhrmans

Wall Street Journal

Shares tumbled after the interview was broadcast.

Musk ‘smokes weed’, shares fall

Tesla CEO appears to smoke marijuana during rambling live interview as friends ask him: ‘What the hell are you doing?’

Tim Higgins

Markets

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 19, 2017 Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks during the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, DC. Musk will only get paid if the company's stock soars but would receive a stunning sum if it does, according to a plan approved by shareholders on march 21, 2018. A Tesla spokesperson confirmed that shareholders voted to approve the proposal for a multi-billion-dollar, 10-year performance stock award "entirely contingent on achieving market cap and operational milestones that would make Tesla one of the most valuable companies in the world." / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski

‘Textbook case of fraud’

Lawsuit alleges Elon Musk tried to manipulate the price of Tesla shares to hurt the short-sellers he rails against.

The Times

FILE- In this June 24, 2018, file photo Tesla CEO and founder of the Boring Company Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. While Tesla grapples with internal issues like production delays, a sometimes-erratic CEO and a recent about-face on whether to go private, its rivals are moving aggressively into the luxury electric vehicle space. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Musk’s Tesla and Twitter troubles

Belligerence on social media is just one example of the increasingly erratic behaviour of electric car billionaire Elon Musk.

Simon Duke

Wall Street Journal

Tesla workers assembled cars at the company’s factory in Fremont, Calif., last year. Tesla has sold about 140,000 cars since 2008 and is aiming to churn out a million a year by the end of 2020. PHOTO: DAVID BUTOW/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES

Tesla’s problem back in spotlight

It’s back to ‘manufacturing hell’ for Elon Musk.

Tim Higgins

Technology

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 23, 2017 CEO Elon Musk listens to US President Donald Trump speak during a meeting with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC. - Tesla Motors dropped in early trading on August 20, 2018 due to rising doubts about Chief Executive Elon Musk's plans to take the electric carmaker private. Shares fell 2.6 percent to $297.55 about 20 minutes into trading, continuing the company's downward trajectory after Musk surprised markets on August 7 by announcing on Twitter he wanted to take Tesla private. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)

Backflip dents Musk credibility

Tesla shares slipped and analysts pondered the damage to Elon Musk after he dropped plans to take the carmaker private.

Tim Higgins

Technology

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 22, 2018 SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company founder Elon Musk speaks at the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition, in Hawthorne, California. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said August 7, 2018 he would remain CEO of the electric automaker even if it ceases to be publicly traded. Trading in the company's shares were suspended mid-afternoon following Musk's suggestion that it could go private. Before that, they had surged by more than seven percent."No change," Musk replied to a Twitter user who asked whether he would like to stay on in his current position. / AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck

Public bravado, private doubts

What happened after one Elon Musk tweet lit the fuse on an abortive, $US70bn scramble to take Tesla private.

Liz Hoffman and Tim Higgins

Wall Street Journal

In this Friday, July 6, 2018, photograph, prospective customers confer with sales associates as a Model 3 sits on display in a Tesla showroom in the Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in a paper titled â€œReality Check,â€ issued the warning Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, after testing five of the systems from Tesla, Mercedes, BMW and Volvo on a track and public roads. The systems tested, in the Tesla Model 3 and Model S, BMWâ€™s 5-Series, the Volvo S-90 and the Mercedes E-Class, are among the best in the business right now and have been rated â€œsuperiorâ€ in previous IIHS tests. David Zuby, the instituteâ€™s chief research officer, said the systems do increase safety but the tests show they are not 100 percent reliable. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Why Elon Musk changed his mind

As days passed, Elon Musk’s misgivings about taking Tesla private grew.

Liz Hoffman and Tim Higgins

Wall Street Journal

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2017 Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide. Bases on the moon and Mars could help preserve human civilization and hasten its regeneration on earth in the event of a third world war, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, said on March 11, 2018. Musk, the founder of rocket and spacecraft company SpaceX, said the company's interplanetary ship could begin test flights as soon as next year. There is "some probability" that there will be another Dark Ages, "particularly if there is a third world war," Musk said at the SXSW conference. / AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS

It’s Elon Musk who needs help

He swoops into global crises like a real-life Tony Stark, but in the place where it really counts, Elon Musk is spread alarmingly thin.

John D. Stoll

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