Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year

Elon Musk weighed in on Billie Eilish’s controversial Grammy Awards speech, where she denounced ICE and declared “F*** ICE” on stage. The tech billionaire responded publicly, sparking fresh debate over the singer’s political activism and past comments.

As with SpaceX, then, Mr Musk is gambling Tesla’s future on AI, and his belief that he can harness his existing businesses to dominate the technology. Plenty of doubters have scoffed at his grand ambitions before. But never has Mr Musk put so much on the line. ■

Elon Musk has hit back at a police raid on X's French offices and investigation into accusations that his social media platform manipulates its algorithms and data feeds as well as concerns over the content produced by its AI tool Grok.

Musk said he had 'declined repeated invitations' from the financier and pushed for the release of the Epstein files.