President Trump Holds Press Conference With Elon Musk in White House's Oval Office

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside US President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Tesla officially recovers from the Musk-Trump feud

The stock is up on Musk’s apology and news on the robotaxi launch.

Rani Molla

6/11/25 8:33AM

The girls, it seems, are no longer fighting.

It’s been less than a week since Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent the fateful, expensive tweet that obliterated $152 billion in market cap from the electric vehicle company in a single day because of his falling out with the president.

But as of market opening Wednesday, the stock has erased all of the losses caused by the messy breakup.

To recap: after calling President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination” a couple of days earlier, Musk directly attacked the president on June 5, saying that without the space billionaire, the real estate billionaire would have lost the election.

Such ingratitude
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025

Things went downhill from there, with Musk suggesting on his social media platform, X, that there’s a deeper connection between Trump and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Musk also said Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession this year and threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, potentially stranding NASA astronauts at the space station.

Trump, for his part, took to TV and his own social media platform, Truth Social, to rake Musk over the coals and threaten his valuable government contracts.

The stock ate it, closing down 14% that day from its previous close of $332.05.

Since then, however, Musk has blinked. He’s deleted some of his most incendiary tweets and has issued an apology, saying he regretted “some of my posts” about the president and that “they went too far.” The mea culpa was on the heels of Musk teasing a June 22 date for the company’s long-awaited robotaxi launch.

In concert, those actions seem to have done the trick for the stock, which opened above the price it was before Musk started his Twitter war with Trump.

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OpenAI reportedly poaching key Apple designers, using Apple manufacturing partners for AI gadgets

New details are emerging about the mysterious AI gadgets being designed by former Apple design chief Jony Ive since OpenAI purchased his startup “io” in May.

According to a report by The Information, Ive’s team has recruited several key Apple design and hardware employees to work on the gadgets. The Information reported some details of the devices:

“One of the products OpenAI has talked to suppliers about making resembles a smart speaker without a display, the people said. OpenAI has also considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder and a wearable pin, and is targeting late 2026 or early 2027 for the release of its first devices, one of the people said.”

OpenAI is also turning to Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partners to build the products, having signed contracts with Luxshare, and has been in talks with Goertek, per the report.

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners

“One of the products OpenAI has talked to suppliers about making resembles a smart speaker without a display, the people said. OpenAI has also considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder and a wearable pin, and is targeting late 2026 or early 2027 for the release of its first devices, one of the people said.”

OpenAI is also turning to Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partners to build the products, having signed contracts with Luxshare, and has been in talks with Goertek, per the report.

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Zuckerberg: AI might be a bubble but “misspending a couple of hundred billion” is worth it to achieve superintelligence

“It’s quite possible” that AI is a bubble, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told tech journalist Alex Heath, formerly of The Verge, on his new podcast, “Access,” and for his newsletter, Sources. That isn’t stopping Zuckerberg’s social media company from going all in on AI in hopes of achieving superintelligence, aka AI that’s smarter than humans.

“If we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously,” said Zuckerberg, who’s shelling out $600 billion on US data centers and infrastructure through 2028. “But what I’d say is I actually think the risk is higher on the other side.”

“The risk, at least for a company like Meta, is probably in not being aggressive enough rather than being somewhat too aggressive,” he added.

I saw Meta's new AI lab

“The risk, at least for a company like Meta, is probably in not being aggressive enough rather than being somewhat too aggressive,” he added.

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9/19/25

People are rushing to buy Apple’s iPhone 17, but it’s probably not because of the iPhone 17

More people went to Apple’s website when preorders for the new iPhone began than have since 2022.

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Grok has 64 million monthly users while ChatGPT has 700 million weekly users

Daddy, it seems, is very much not home.

CEO Elon Musk spent the majority of his time at xAI this summer rather than at Tesla, where he recently claimed to have shifted his focus, The New York Times reports. The piece is full of other great details on his AI startup — read it all — but here are some notable tidbits from the story and from one of its reporters, Kate Conger, who shared extras on social media:

xAI’s Grok has 64 million monthly users, compared with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has about 700 million weekly users. Musk is currently suing OpenAI and Apple over what he says is unfavorable positioning on the iOS App Store.
Musk wanted Grok to be less woke and more popular, a command that led it to post antisemitic remarks and call itself “MechaHitler.”
Musk plans on building a Microsoft competitor called “Macrohard,” something he said he’s painting on the roof of xAI’s new Memphis data center.
xAI’s execs said after Grok 4, the next model will be called Grok 420.

UPDATE (September 19): Corrected headline of piece to reflect ChatGPT has 700 million weekly users, not daily.

Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington

xAI’s Grok has 64 million monthly users, compared with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has about 700 million weekly users. Musk is currently suing OpenAI and Apple over what he says is unfavorable positioning on the iOS App Store.
Musk wanted Grok to be less woke and more popular, a command that led it to post antisemitic remarks and call itself “MechaHitler.”
Musk plans on building a Microsoft competitor called “Macrohard,” something he said he’s painting on the roof of xAI’s new Memphis data center.
xAI’s execs said after Grok 4, the next model will be called Grok 420.