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Elon Musk

Businessman and entrepreneur (born 1971)

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Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of February 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be around US$852 billion. Born into a wealthy family in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk emigrated in 1989 to Canada; he has Canadian citizenship since his mother was born there. He received bachelor's degrees in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania before moving to California to pursue business ventures.

📰 Related News (13)

🇺🇸 Sorry, SpaceX: It’s Getting Too Crowded Up There (2026-02-26)
Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk ling...
🇺🇸 Elon Musk's makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi (2026-02-26)
The jet-engine roar has been almost nonstop in a Mississippi town, residents say, since 27 turbines arrived on trailers to power Elon Musk’s AI ambiti...
🇺🇸 Bench Presses, Pull Ups … Kid Rock? The White House Had a Very Manly Week. (2026-02-20)
President Trump’s top cabinet officials are pumping iron in public....
🇺🇸 DOGE defeat: Congress has rejected most of Trump's spending cuts (2026-02-19)
President Trump and his DOGE swung for the fences last year in calling for big spending cuts, but with Congress now done with most of the 2026 budget ...
🇺🇸 Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull (2026-02-11)
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising quest...
🇺🇸 xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands (2026-02-11)
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available....
🇺🇸 The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing (2026-01-16)
The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing....
🇺🇸 California builds AI oversight unit and presses on xAI investigation (2026-02-18)
🇺🇸 Elon Musk’s xAI Gets $3 Billion Investment From Saudi-Backed A.I. Firm (2026-02-18)
Humain, which was created by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last year, said it made the investment just before xAI was acquired by SpaceX, Mr. Musk’...
🇺🇸 Tesla robotaxis involved in 14 crashes since launching in Austin, Texas (2026-02-17)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the electric vehicle maker plans this year to greatly expand its self-driving taxi business....
🇺🇸 Musk's Grok chatbot faces EU privacy investigation over sexualized deepfake images (2026-02-17)
X faces a new EU privacy investigation after its Grok chatbot generated nonconsensual deepfake images on the platform....
🇺🇸 Factbox-Elon Musk’s Grok faces global scrutiny for sexualised AI deepfakes (2026-02-17)
🇺🇸 Ireland opens probe into Musk’s Grok AI over sexualised images (2026-02-17)