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Elon Musk's Mom Says Billionaire Son Has One Towel, 'No Food In The Fridge' And She Sleeps In The Garage — 'Okay With Me'

SpaceX founder Elon Musk might be the richest man in the world, but if someone opens the fridge at his place in Boca Chica, Texas, they should not expect much more than cold air and good intentions. On Tuesday, 77-year-old model, dietitian, and proud mother Maye Musk shared a glimpse of that reality after responding to a photo of Elon's modest home near SpaceX's Starbase launch site. The house is small, functional, and about as far from the billionaire mansion stereotype as it gets. For Maye, th

Ready for the Vol Loop? How Elon Musk's tunnel would work in Knoxville, Gatlinburg

Knoxville and Gatlinburg are both finalists in The Boring Company's Tunnel Vision Challenge to get an underground Loop. But, what does that mean?

Elon Musk’s AI Power Plant Approved in Mississippi, Sparking Community Backlash

Mississippi regulators approved xAI’s Southaven power plant permit, despite resident backlash over pollution, public health, and community input.

Elon Musk has a message for parents on ChatGPT, says: Keep ChatGPT ...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are locked in a heated debate over AI chatbot safety, with Musk citing ChatGPT's alleged links to ...

Maye Musk describes her son Elon's living space: 'The shower only has one towel'

The billionaire's mother previously said she slept in his garage while visiting him in Texas, but she did not mind it.

BBC Orders Elon Musk Doc Sequel, Norma Percy’s Take On Brexit & Anne Frank Series

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is returning to the subject of Elon Musk, with a sequel documentary four years after 72 Films first profiled the tech billionaire. Musk: The Next Chapter (working title) follows on ...

Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has verified account on X, Elon Musk's platform

The newly created account was busy posting on Thursday, its first day being active on the X social media platform.

What is XMoney, Elon Musk's new digital payments platform?

Elon Musk said his long-planned payments platform, dubbed XMoney, is set to launch for select users. Here's what to know.

Texas woman accuses Elon Musk of being ‘negligent’ in lawsuit after Cybertruck crash

A Texas woman is suing Tesla, alleging that the company has been "negligent" in keeping Elon Musk as its CEO, after her Autopilot, attempted to drive straight over the edge of a Houston overpass and ...

Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI

Atlassian laid off 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, as the company looks to funnel more funds to AI.

Lucid Motors shows off robotaxi concept called ‘Lunar’

The concept was a highlight of Lucid's investor day, in which the company detailed its ambitions to push deeper into autonomy while pumping out new, affordable EVs.

Humanoid maker Sunday reaches $1.15 billion valuation to build household robots

Coatue, Tiger Global, Benchmark and Bain are betting big on robotics company Sunday.

Webflow buys AI content generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite

Founded in 2024, Vidoso uses large language models to help organizations generate marketing collateral like images, presentations, video clips, blog posts, and social media content.

Bumble to launch an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’

Bumble's new AI assistant Bee will move the dating app beyond the swipe by matching people based on compatibility and goals.

Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers

An international law enforcement operation shut down a service called SocksEscort, which allegedly helped cybercriminals all over the world launch ransomware and DDoS attacks, as well as distribute child sexual abuse material.

A writer is suing Grammarly for turning her and other authors into ‘AI editors’ without consent

Journalist Julia Angwin is leading a class action lawsuit against Grammarly for violating her privacy and publicity rights.

Tesla becomes a utility in the UK, setting up showdown with Octopus Energy

The new Tesla Energy Ventures division was approved by Ofgem to sell electricity directly to customers.

Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder

As companies race to adopt AI, Benchmark general partner Everett Randle believes the key to success lies in empowering every worker with AI superpowers, and Gumloop’s intuitive agent builder is an example of the kind of tool that will unlock that potential.

Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t get into NSFW content

The new Sassy style can curse and roast you, but the fun ends there.

The team behind continuous batching says your idle GPUs should be running inference, not sitting dark

Every GPU cluster has dead time. Training jobs finish, workloads shift and hardware sits dark while power and cooling costs keep running. For neocloud operators, those empty cycles are lost margin.The obvious workaround is spot GPU markets — renting spare capacity to whoever needs it. But spot instances mean the cloud vendor is still the one doing the renting, and engineers buying that capacity are still paying for raw compute with no inference stack attached. FriendliAI's answer is differe