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Elon Musk has begun "cutting big checks" to fund GOP House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms, signaling that his return to influencing political elections. This comes after Tesla has given him a historic paycheck that could potentially make Musk the world’s first trillionaire. 

The European Union has delivered a powerful blow against Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, hitting the company with a landmark fine of €120 million (approximately $140 million). The punishment comes after a lengthy investigation by the European Commission, which concluded that X repeatedly violated key transparency and safety rules under the EU’s sweeping new law, the Digital Services Act (DSA). 

Elon Musk is now attempting to create his own private, corporate-run communities in rural Texas. While the idea of building a modern, efficient town like Snailbrook near Bastrop County may sound like a bold step toward a futuristic "utopia," it represents a dangerous throwback to the 19th-century company town—a place where a single corporation’s interests overshadow public rights and local democracy. 

When a government official talks business with a powerful billionaire, the public has a right to know what was discussed. That is the core idea behind transparency laws. But in Texas, the relationship between Governor Greg Abbott and Elon Musk has been anything but transparent. This leads to concerns about Musk’s influence in state politics, as he moves his business operations in Tesla and SpaceX to Texas, along with his economic influence. 

The Boring Company is facing severe criticism after being hit with a fine of nearly $500,000 for egregious environmental violations in Las Vegas. The penalty was issued after the company repeatedly dumped hazardous drilling fluids and wastewater directly into public storm drains and manholes.

Elon Musk posts have shown that a single tweet can translate into billions of dollars in market movement from the stock market to cryptocurrency. Recently, Musk shared an AI generated video on X depicting his dog wearing business attire and declaring that "Flōki is back on the job as 𝕏 CEO!

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been accused by Nevada state regulators of nearly 800 environmental regulation violations stemming from the construction of its ambitious underground transit system, the Las Vegas Loop.

The study found a massive volume of anti-Jewish hatred being spread freely across the platform. Researchers identified 679,584 posts containing antisemitism that were likely to violate X's policies. Despite X's public promises to reduce the visibility of hateful content, these posts were viewed an alarming 193 million times during the one-year study period.

Elon Musk has promoted Diego Pasini to lead the data annotation team that trains xAI’s chatbot Grok,despite Pasini having only a high school diploma and less than a year of experience at the company. This move by Musk continues a pattern of appointing inexperienced young employees to leadership roles. 

Tesla’s Fremont factory, the company’s largest U.S. production hub, is under fire over a horrific incident where a technician was attacked and seriously injured by a malfunctioning robot. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, raises fresh concerns about safety at the plant, which has long been criticized for dangerous working conditions, regulatory violations, and repeated lawsuits.

Tesla's board of directors has proposed a payment plan that could make Elon Musk the first trillionaire in history. This record-breaking deal is projected to be worth up to $1 trillion. However, in order to receive the full value, Musk must meet a series of highly ambitious goals. These include business targets such as having 1 million self-driving robotaxis on the road and producing 1 million humanoid robots.

The highly anticipated Tesla Diner opened in Hollywood on July 21. However, it quickly became a focal point for complaints and issues, ranging from long wait times to unexpected complications including flying umbrellas and protests against CEO Elon Musk. Initial feedback suggests that the experience did not meet the expectations of many guests who attended the opening.

The establishment of Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis, particularly its controversial use of gas turbines, has sparked intense concern among local residents and environmentalists. With recent reports correlating the facility’s emissions to respiratory health issues, the situation has raised a range of concerns about the increasingly severe air quality in the surrounding areas, particularly in historically marginalized communities like Boxtown.

In the end, Musk left the company in 2018. OpenAI stated that Musk, who had contributed less than $45M to the non-profit, claimed that their "probability of success was 0." He then started his own AI company, xAI, to compete with them.

A federal lawsuit filed by a group of former employees, including the factory's head of security, Ozell Murray, has brought forward serious allegations about the work environment and Musk's management of the Fremont Tesla factory. The lawsuit claims that working conditions have gotten worse, with issues ranging from drug and alcohol use on-site to "widespread" bigotry.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is facing major criticism after a new “spicy” setting on its image generator was found to create explicit and inappropriate deepfake images of women. The new Grok feature, called "Imagine," allows users to create AI-generated video clips with a "spicy mode" that can generate nudity. 

Tesla and Elon Musk are facing a class-action lawsuit from shareholders who allege that they failed to disclose serious risks associated with the company's self-driving technology.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk continues to influence Republican politics, making headlines with substantial donations to prominent GOP super PACs.

In a significant development for Nashville's transportation landscape, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and The Boring Company, founded by Elon Musk, have unveiled plans for a new underground transit project dubbed the "Music City Loop."

Martin Eberhard criticizes Musk for choosing a truck over affordable EVs.