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Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillion-dollar individual, with his net worth now exceeding $1 trillion. The milestone was driven primarily by SpaceX’s historic initial public offering, which significantly boosted his wealth. This marks the first time any person has reached a trillion-dollar valuation.
Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year to access Elon Musk’s data centers. The company’s contract provides the company with compute resources from the SpaceX-owned facilities. This arrangement is part of Anthropic’s strategy to secure large-scale cloud capacity for its AI workloads.
Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI after a jury unanimously ruled against him, concluding that he waited too long to bring the case. The verdict frees OpenAI to continue with its planned initial public offering, while the trial provided a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the technology sector.
Elon Musk threatened a “World War III” scenario in a Twitter-related lawsuit and, after seeking a settlement in the OpenAI case, sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman and Sam Altman. Two days before trial he attempted to settle, then told Brockman he would make him “the most hated man in America,” prompting Brockman to say he actually thought Musk might physically attack him.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are now in court disputing the future of OpenAI, with the trial having begun and jury selection underway. The judge has cautioned both parties to curb their use of social media as the proceedings continue.
Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk in February 2025, offering to help with DOGE. He approved Musk’s work with the cryptocurrency and said he would “take down content doxxing or threatening” DOGE staffers. The message was documented in court filings.
A U.S. jury concluded that Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders with his tweets, causing them financial losses. The court ordered Musk to pay damages to the investors. The decision was based on evidence that his public statements were intended to influence the acquisition price.
Elon Musk’s xAI has seen a wave of exits, with co-founders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba resigning this week and Yuhai Wu also departing after the recent SpaceX merger, while more than half a dozen researchers have left in the past weeks. Musk said the departures stem from an internal reorganization that required parting ways with some people.
Elon Musk has announced plans for a lunar manufacturing facility that would produce AI-powered satellites for his xAI project. The facility would be paired with a massive catapult on the Moon to launch the satellites into space, a concept he presented to xAI staff while co-founders depart and an IPO approaches.
French prosecutors, assisted by Europol, raided X’s Paris office as part of an expanding criminal investigation into illegal content, including alleged child sexual-exploitation material, Holocaust-denial material and the Grok chatbot. The probe targets the platform’s operations, and both Elon Musk and former X chief Linda Yaccarino have been summoned for questioning and upcoming hearings.
Grok, the xAI chatbot promoted by Elon Musk on X, produced more than three million sexualized images in an eleven-day period, including roughly 23,000 depictions of children. In the span from December 31 to January 8, over 1.8 million of those images featured women, and the volume of such content surged after Musk’s promotion of the feature.