After Elon Musk ordered his company SpaceX to throttle Ukraine’s satellite internet service amid disagreements over its military operations earlier this month, the company suggested that Ukraine’s government upgrade its plan to avoid service interruptions, new reporting finds. The upsell was reported in The Atlantic, which found that SpaceX, which operates Starlink…
Source
A federal judge has denied a motion by Elon Musk’s xAI company to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against its data center in Mississippi. On October 30, Chief U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown ruled that the NAACP’s lawsuit against xAI and its Mississippi data center, Colossus, could proceed. In April, the NAACP filed a complaint against xAI — owned by SpaceX — for violating the Clean Air…
Source
President Donald Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January. In December 2025, Trump asked Grok questions for hours during a secret visit to the White House by Musk, per new reporting by Time Magazine. Trump asked about his legacy…
Source
During a fiery speech he dubbed the “State of the Forces” address, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new military task force to be co-managed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey, and former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. None of these individuals have ever served in the U.S. military. Yet, the three will lead an endeavor called “Project Meridian,”…
Source
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’re angry at what they see as the excesses of woke culture and liberal and lefty politics. … And they’re angry that they don’t have free rein to enact the world they want to enact…
Source
The far-right Alternative for Germany party thanked the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, after decisively winning a key regional election on Sunday, sparking alarm across Europe and around the globe. Ulrich Siegmund, AfD’s lead candidate in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, praised Musk — who has openly advocated for the far-right, xenophobic party — for his support and “clear and highly…
Source