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Chance Townsend is the General Assignments Editor at Mashable, covering tech, video games, dating apps, digital culture, and whatever else comes his way. He has a Master’s in Journalism from the University of North Texas and is a proud orange cat father. His writing has also appeared in PC Mag
Elon to reduce DOGE involvement after dismal Tesla earnings report
Tesla’s quarterly results are in, and it seems the panic alarm finally went off. Analyst expectations for Tesla’s first quarter of 2025 were already pretty grim, but Tesla handily beat them with a 71 percent drop in profit and a 20 percent drop in car sales, with the only thing
Meet All the Women Elon Musk Has Children With
Exa Dark Sideræl & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown.
Elon Musk’s Ex Ashley St. Clair Reveals Baby Name
Exa Dark Sideræl & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown.
xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, just purchased X, Elon Musk's social media company
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has purchased X, according to a post shared by Musk. Besides their similar names and owner, the companies are already connected through xAI’s chatbot Grok, which is integrated into X. X was acquired by xAI through an all-stock transaction. “The combination values xAI at $80
Elon Musk makes request to Reddit CEO to take down posts he didn’t like
Elon Musk is no fan of content moderation. When Musk acquired Twitter back in 2022, one of the driving forces behind his decision to buy the social media platform was content moderation, especially involving bans on right-wing accounts that he liked. Now, Musk appears to be trying to exert control
Battery Teardown Pits Tesla Against Its Biggest Rival (And Elon Musk Should Be Worried)
Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock At the start of 2025, Chinese carmaker BYD was crowned as the world’s top seller of electric cars, surpassing Elon Musk-led Tesla in the last quarter of 2024. The success of BYD is not surprising, as the brand offers a
Dell expected to sign lucrative $5 billion deal wtih Elon Musk’s xAI, just weeks after HPE’s Colossus win
Dell is close to securing a $5 billion AI server deal with Elon Musk’s xAI The servers, featuring Nvidia GB200 chips, may support xAI’s supercomputer Analysts predict Dell’s AI server revenue could hit $14 billion by 2026 We recently reported HPE had beaten Supermicro and Dell Technologies to win a
Elon Musk says Grok 2 is going open source as he rolls out Grok 3 for Premium+ X subscribers only
xAI’s debut of the Grok 3 AI model allowed CEO Elon Musk and his team to show off the power of the latest iteration of Grok. Slightly lost in the benchmarking fireworks is what happens to the Grok 2 model, though. While Grok 3 is exclusive to Premium+ subscribers on
Elon Musk wants to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
Elon Musk has launched a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI. The Wall Street Journal reports a group of investors led by Musk’s xAI submitted an unsolicited offer to the company’s board of directors on Monday. The group wants to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI’s for-profit arm. When
