The Elon Effect

<p>Tesla is buying $4.3 billion worth of battery cells from LG Energy Solution to power its growing energy storage business. The deal highlights Tesla’s increasing focus on energy as demand rises from AI and data...

<p>SpaceX has reached a major milestone with over 10,000 Starlink satellites now operating in orbit. The company continues to dominate the satellite internet market while preparing for its next phase with Starship and...

<p>Elon Musk is taking OpenAI to court in a massive lawsuit seeking up to $134 billion in damages. He claims the company abandoned its nonprofit mission and shifted toward profit, benefiting investors like...

<p>Elon Musk says Tesla’s “Terafab” project to manufacture artificial intelligence chips could launch soon. The massive semiconductor facility would help Tesla meet the growing demand for AI processors used in...

<p>Elon Musk is carrying out a major shake-up at his artificial intelligence startup xAI after its Grok coding tools fell behind competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic.</p><p>Multiple cofounders have left the company as...

<p>Elon Musk has revealed a new artificial intelligence project called Macrohard, also known as Digital Optimus, developed jointly by Tesla and xAI. The system combines xAI’s Grok AI model with a Tesla-developed AI...

<p>Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak recently sparked headlines after suggesting that brain-computer interfaces could usher in a technological “takeoff era,” and even raised the possibility that the first humans who might...

<p>The Elon Effect is a daily weekday podcast about Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, X, and the Boring Company.</p><p><br></p><p>SpaceX may be getting ready for the next major step in the Starship program. In this episode of...

<p>Tesla may have just dropped one of the biggest clues yet that the long-awaited next-generation Roadster is finally approaching reality. In this episode of The Elon Effect, we break down a newly published patent from...

<p>Paradromics has received FDA approval to begin a first-in-human trial of its Connexus implant, a high-bandwidth brain-computer interface designed to restore speech from thought alone. With throughput claims far...

<p>xAI has rolled out Grok 4.1, its most advanced model yet—now topping multiple industry benchmarks and beating ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in emotional intelligence and text-based tasks. With dramatically reduced...

<p>Elon Musk has issued a final warning to Bill Gates over his massive short position against Tesla—a rivalry fueled by years of tension, new shareholder confidence, and a trillion-dollar compensation package. With...

<p>A federal judge has ruled that Apple and OpenAI must face Elon Musk’s xAI in court, allowing a major antitrust lawsuit over Siri’s ChatGPT integration to move forward. xAI claims Apple is favoring OpenAI to maintain...

<p>Blue Origin has successfully landed its New Glenn booster for the first time, becoming the only company besides SpaceX to recover an orbital-class rocket. The milestone could reshape the commercial launch market...

<p>Tesla has launched a new long-range Model Y+ in China with an eye-catching 821-km CLTC range—about 510 miles. Powered by LG’s latest 78.4-kWh battery pack, the new variant gives Tesla a temporary edge in the...