Meanwhile, Musk and Thiel have been close for well over a decade. Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa, the same country where Thiel went to school in the '70s. Thiel co-founded PayPal and served as its CEO, while Musk was chief product architect. Thiel was also an early investor in SpaceX and Tesla.

Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world's richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.

If you follow the lore of Musk, he was born in South Africa and is a Canadian citizen through his mother, Maye Musk, who was born in Regina, according to official biographies. Musk moved to Saskatchewan and then Vancouver as a teen, and attended college in Canada.

The group’s letter argues that Tesla shareholders likely “did not believe they were voting on an equity plan that would cover compensation to Mr. Musk” all the way back in 2019.

As Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk banks the future of his company on autonomous robotaxis, several lawsuits raise concerns over the safety of the technology.

Whenever a user hit “share” on a Grok conversation, the URL it generated was also searchable on Google, Forbes reported. And xAI isn’t the only company to have reckoned with this — OpenAI recently said it would discontinue its own such feature.

Investors suing Elon Musk are crying foul in a class action over the billionaire's delayed disclosure of his Twitter stake in early 2022, arguing that he wants to escape liability by citing legal advice he received from two prominent law firms without providing details about it.

The Georgia-raised Silicon Valley tech exec, whom one venture capitalist calls “the un-Elon,” is gearing her car company up for a cross-country drive.