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Ryanair Boss Thanks Musk for the Bump in Bookings

Michael O'Leary mocks Musk's bid, cites EU foreign ownership limits

(Newser) - Elon Musk can poll X users all he wants, but Ryanair's chief says the Tesla billionaire won't be buying his airline anytime soon. At a Wednesday press conference, Michael O'Leary dismissed Musk's online musing about acquiring Ryanair, saying a takeover would be blocked by European rules...

DOJ: DOGE Workers May Have Misused Social Security Data

DOJ says pro-Trump group sought SSA data for voter fraud push

(Newser) - Federal officials say a tiny team inside the controversial Elon Musk-linked Department of Government Efficiency may have stepped over the line with Social Security data, NBC News reports. In a new court filing, the Justice Department told a federal judge in Maryland it was alerted that two members of the...

After Spat With CEO, Musk Proposes Buying Ryanair

Airline mocks billionaire with 'Great Idiots' seat sale

(Newser) - Elon Musk, budget airline boss? The Tesla and SpaceX chief is publicly toying with the notion of buying Ryanair after a spat with the Irish airline's combative boss, Michael O'Leary, the Guardian reports. The row started when O'Leary was asked if he'd join European rivals Lufthansa...

Billionaires' Wealth Has Shot Up 81% in 5 Years
Billionaires' Wealth Has
Shot Up 81% in 5 Years
new report
Jan 20, 2026 6:05 AM CST

Billionaires' Wealth Has Shot Up 81% in 5 Years

Fortunes grew 16% last year alone, according to Oxfam charity report

(Newser) - Billionaires are entering 2026 wealthier and more numerous than ever, even as global poverty progress stalls, according to a new Oxfam report timed to the World Economic Forum in Davos. The charity says billionaire wealth hit a record $18.3 trillion last year, climbing 16% or $2.5 trillion, with...

Elon Musk Makes a Big Move in Kentucky Senate Race

Billionaire backs pro-Trump candidate to replace McConnell with $10M donation

(Newser) - Elon Musk is opening his checkbook early for the 2026 midterms, dropping $10 million into a Kentucky Senate race that will determine who replaces Mitch McConnell. Axios was the first to report the billionaire's contribution on behalf of Nate Morris, which it describes as "stunning." Morris, 45,...

Elon Musk's xAI Sued by Mom of One of His Kids

Ashley St. Clair alleges that chatbot allowed sexual alterations to X photos

(Newser) - Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, is taking his artificial intelligence company xAI to federal court, accusing it of enabling sexualized deepfake images of her and then failing to stop them. In a lawsuit now in the Southern District of New York, St. Clair...

Pentagon Embraces Musk's Controversial Grok AI Chatbot

Even as it draws global outcry

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology, the AP...

Our Laws on Curbing Child Pornography Are Flawed
Child Pornography Laws
Have a Major Flaw
OPINION
Jan 12, 2026 8:26 AM CST

Child Pornography Laws Have a Major Flaw

Former tech lawyer writes that online companies need to be able to test without getting arrested

(Newser) - Elon Musk's AI chatbot has been allowing users to undress people —sometimes children—to produce deepfake porn images. Amid the ensuing outrage, a former tech lawyer points out what she sees as a major problem in the fight to keep AI-generated sexual images of children from surfacing online....

Elon Musk: Grok Backlash Is Just 'Censorship'

UK regulator weighs action as deepfake abuse sparks global backlash

(Newser) - Elon Musk is framing the uproar over X's Grok chatbot as a free-speech fight, even as regulators in multiple countries scrutinize the service over sexually explicit "deepfake" images , the BBC reports. Critics say Grok has been used to generate sexualized pictures of people, including women and minors, without...

Pilots Getting Worried About SpaceX Tests
Pilots Getting
Worried About
SpaceX Tests
longform
Jan 11, 2026 4:35 PM CST

Pilots Getting Worried About SpaceX Tests

ProPublica reports that explosions have forced commercial jets to scramble for safety

(Newser) - A Delta flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta had to take an unscheduled detour last January for an unusual reason: to avoid debris from the explosion of a massive SpaceX rocket. As a ProPublica investigation reveals, the Delta pilots were not the only ones to get the warning from air...

After Backlash on 'Disgusting' Images, Grok Hits Pause

Users had been deploying chatbot to 'undress' girls and women, creating sexually explicit deepfakes

(Newser) - Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people. The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk's social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting...

Grok Is Undressing Girls, Women on X

Bot's sexually explicit deepfakes are drawing global scrutiny

(Newser) - The X platform's homegrown chatbot is fueling a new wave of deepfake abuse, and regulators worldwide are taking notice. Users of Grok, the AI image tool available on Elon Musk's X, have been flooding the site with sexualized images of women and girls, including digitally "undressed" versions...

Tesla Is Dethroned as the World's Top EV Seller

BYD of China outsells Elon Musk's company for the first time

(Newser) - Tesla is no longer the world's leading seller of electric vehicles. Numbers reported by Elon Musk's company on Friday came in as expected: Tesla sold 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, reports the AP . Earlier in the day, China's BYD reported selling more than 2.2 million....

How Is Musk Back in Trump's Good Graces? Thank Vance

Washington Post details the VP's efforts to repair the rift

(Newser) - Earlier this month, Politico reported that Elon Musk told current and former members of DOGE that the US was on the brink of a "great 12-year span" encompassing President Trump's second term followed by two terms of JD Vance. That is quite a turnaround from Musk's falling...

Elon Musk Recovers $55B Pay Package
Elon Musk Recovers
$55B Pay Package
Dec 20, 2025 7:15 AM CST

Elon Musk Recovers $55B Pay Package

Delaware's highest court reverses decision that stripped him of it

(Newser) - Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018 as an incentive for its CEO to steer the automaker to new heights, the...

Tesla's Board Raked in Billions, Outpacing Tech Peers

More than $3B in stock-based gains fuels governance, bias concerns

(Newser) - Tesla's outside directors have turned their part-time board seats into more than $3 billion in stock-based gains—far eclipsing what peers at other tech giants have made, a new Equilar analysis for Reuters finds. Since 2004, CEO Elon Musk's brother, Kimbal, has amassed nearly $1 billion from Tesla...

Musk Is Back to Bankrolling GOP Campaigns

So much for the billionaire's 'American Party'

(Newser) - Elon Musk is quietly reemerging as a heavyweight Republican donor, this time with a focus on the 2026 battle for Congress. According to Axios , Musk has begun pouring money into GOP House and Senate campaigns, marking a notable shift from his supposed launch of a third " American Party "...

That Tesla Price Cut? Sales Are Still Flat

Cheaper models fail to revive demand; loss of tax credits didn't help

(Newser) - Tesla's latest price cuts aren't stopping its US sales slide. In November, the company's American deliveries sank nearly 23% from the previous year, to an estimated 39,800 vehicles—its weakest monthly total since January 2022, according to Cox Automotive data shared with Reuters . That drop came...

Musk's $14B Charity Doesn't Have a Very Far Reach

Bulk of Musk Foundation's donations went to charities tied to his businesses

(Newser) - "The biggest challenge I find with my foundation is trying to give money away in a way that is truly beneficial to people," Elon Musk said in a recent podcast interview . "It's very easy to give money away to get the appearance of goodness. It is...

SpaceX Goal Is a Valuation Topping OpenAI's

Company considers an IPO next year

(Newser) - SpaceX is seeking a new $800 billion valuation in a secondary share sale, which would make Elon Musk's enterprise the most valuable private company in the US—overtaking OpenAI. The potential price tag is double what SpaceX was valued at for a share sale in October. Executives said the...

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