On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia with over 800,000 articles, positioning it as a competitor to Wikipedia. Musk announced the early beta on October 6, claiming it would deliver a ‘more fact-based, unbiased knowledge base.’ …
Just before the September 30, 2025 deadline for locking in orders with unrefundable deposits to qualify for Q4 EV tax credits, Elon Musk’s companies SpaceX and xAI ordered thousands of Tesla Cybertrucks, effectively bailing out Tesla’s struggling electric pickup sales. Through the first …
On September 25, 2025, Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD) v14 would enter ’early wide release’ the following week, marking the first major update to the driver assistance system in a year. Musk made extraordinary claims that by version 14.2, the …
SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell announced a major transaction with EchoStar on September 8, 2025, where SpaceX agreed to acquire 50 MHz of wireless spectrum and mobile satellite service spectrum licenses from EchoStar. The deal involves EchoStar selling its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in …
FAA approves 4,000 Starlink terminals worth $400 million despite existing contract with another company, while State Department announces $400 million Tesla Cybertruck contract and Commerce changes broadband requirements favoring Starlink.
State Department procurement documents showed plans for a 400 million purchase of armored Tesla vehicles, dramatically expanding a smaller Biden-era EV plan. After media scrutiny, the State Department removed Tesla from documents and claimed the purchase was on hold with no plans to proceed.
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, was granted administrative privileges including ability to write code for Treasury Department’s Payment Automation Manager (PAM) and Secure Payments System (SPS) that handle $6 trillion annually in Social Security, Medicare, and …
Elon Musk’s companies have received $38 billion in total government support over 20 years including $18 billion in federal contracts over past decade, while Musk co-directs Department of Government Efficiency with authority over federal spending.
Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov held a 1% stake in SpaceX through Delaware-based Heritage Trust for four years while under U.S. sanctions (2018-2022), with the stake acquired in 2017 before sanctions and disposed of before the trust was blocked in June 2022.