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Under Elon Musk's ownership, thousands of Twitter employees, including top executives, have been fired.
Analysts say the billionaire will move to slash costs after overpaying in his $44 billion purchase of the social media company.
The number of hate speech-filled tweets increased by 4.7 times an hour immediately following Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, researchers found.
Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, just days after Musk's purchase of Twitter fueled concerns that the social media platform would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech.
A tweet from Musk's verified account posted Saturday said, "The hell with it ... even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free."
Tom Cruise's next mission is looking all the more possible — a studio executive says he's going to be "taking the world to space" in his upcoming film.
Tesla CEO had faced long odds of convincing a court to let him walk away from his $44 billion acquisition.
Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are 'spam bots' or real people.
Accidents point to a potential new hazard on U.S. freeways: Partially automated vehicles may not stop for motorcycles.
Musk claimed in a letter to Twitter's top lawyer that he is ending the deal because Twitter is "in material breach of multiple provisions" of the original agreement.
Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world's richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, reports say.
Tesla faces billions of dollars in losses from its new plants, supply chain problems and COVID-19 lockdowns — enough for CEO Elon Musk to mention the possibility of bankruptcy in a recent interview.
One of Elon Musk's children has petitioned a California court to recognize her new name and gender, saying she no longer wishes to be related to her famous and wealthy father "in any way, shape or form."
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sent an email saying the company had investigated and "terminated a number of employees involved" with the letter.
There are growing concerns over medical research conducted at UC Davis on live animals. The experiments involve a company co-founded by Elon Musk.
Stockton native and NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez is all in for the new era in space flight. After Virgin Galactic's successful first voyage to the edge of space Sunday, Hernandez spoke to CBS13 about the "new normal" in space travel.
Tesla sales and production were hurt by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns. But not as much as some other automakers.
Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's California-based SpaceX company.
Tesla's standoff with California's Alameda County officials has come to an end after the county agreed to let Tesla's factory in Fremont reopen.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter Monday that the company has restarted its California factory in violation of local government orders.
The parking lot was nearly full at Tesla's California electric car factory Monday, a likely indication the company was resuming production in defiance of an order from county health authorities.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened Saturday to pull the company's factory and headquarters out of California in an escalating spat with local officials who have stopped the company from reopening its electric vehicle factory.
The Cybertruck has arrived and it looks nothing like any pickup truck you've ever seen.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had prepped Wall Street for a first-quarter loss but analysts were still stunned by its size: $702.1 million, among the company's worst quarters in the past two years.
