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| May 18, 2026 | How Elon Musk and Sam Altman went from besties to bitter rivals | Elon Musk and Sam Altman helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit lab in 2015, a time when they were close friends.
Over the next decade their relationship deteriorated, ending up in a legal battle that’s currently playing out in court in Oakland... |
| May 12, 2026 | OpenAI trial updates: Altman says Musk’s exit was a ‘morale boost’ for some employees | This is CNBC’s live coverage of the trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman in Oakland, California.
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Altman says joining Tesla would’ve destroyed the company’s ability to follow its mission, and a merger would have also... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Tesla sues California DMV to reverse ruling that company engaged in false advertising on FSD | Tesla is suing the California DMV to try to shed the label of “false advertiser.”
The California DMV previously ruled that Elon Musk’s automaker falsely promoted its cars’ self-driving capabilities.
Tesla’s continued success hinges on its a... |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Tesla loses bid to toss $243 million verdict in fatal Autopilot crash suit | A federal judge in Miami denied Tesla’s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict in a lawsuit over a fatal Autopilot crash.
The suit focused on a 2019 collision that killed a 22-year-old woman, Naibel Benavides, and severely injured her ... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot | An administrative law judge in California has decided that Tesla’s licenses to sell and manufacture cars in the state should each be suspended for 30 days.
The judge determined the automaker had engaged in deceptive marketing around its Aut... |
| May 15, 2025 | Elon Musk’s America PAC Faces Legal Storm Over Unpaid Petition Signers | Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur known for his ventures in electric cars and space travel, now finds himself embroiled in a legal quagmire. His political action committee, America PAC, is facing a proposed national class action lawsu... |
| May 14, 2025 | Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC failed to pay swing state petition signers, new suit alleges | Elon Musk’s America PAC didn’t pay swing state voters as promised for signing a pro-Trump petition ahead of the 2024 election, a lawsuit alleges.
The case, filed in a federal court in Pennsylvania’s as a proposed national class action suit,... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Tesla's Tumultuous Ride: A Year of Losses and Lessons | Tesla, the electric vehicle titan, is navigating through stormy waters. The company's stock has taken a nosedive, dropping 44% this year alone. This steep decline has not only shaken investor confidence but has also turned short seller... |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Tesla short sellers have made $11.5 billion from this year’s selloff | The 44% drop in Tesla’s stock this year, as of Monday’s close, has wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap, and generated $11.5 billion in mark-to-market profits for short sellers.
It’s been the most lucrative bet for shorts... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Federal Texas Judge Grants Small Tech Firm Trial by Jury Against Multi-Billion Dollar Design Firm and Political Donor | Steve Granson(HNTB), Bridget Mickins(HNTB), Dr. Carlos Vital(JTI), David Leard(HNTB), Rob Slimp(HNTB) TX, UNITED STATES, January 22, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Web Apps Agency (WAA), a software development company, confirmed that their case... |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Elon Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit over hate-adjacent ads on X… actually confirms them | Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging defamation by a news organization over claims that major companies had ads appear next to antisemitic content. But the suit appears to confirm the very thing it claims is defamat... |
| Nov 16, 2023 | Yet another former Silicon Valley darling is convicted of investor fraud | This year will be remembered for a lot of things. Among them could be the growing number of stars in the startup world who were later convicted for defrauding investors.
Roughly six months after Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes headed to j... |
| May 31, 2023 | Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid | Enlarge
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Twitter's value has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, slightly more than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022. The $15 billion valu... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Can Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s ailing kingmaker, win the presidency? | Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire & Lagos, Nigeria – Even before independence in 1960, Nigeria’s deeply embedded culture of political patronage was apparent. To date, kingmakers often jockey to become kings and kings morph into kingmakers, but no ... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Elon Musk's lawyers subpoena head of Saudi Arabia's $620 billion wealth fund for Tesla 'funding secured' tweets case | Investors are suing Elon Musk over an August 2018 tweet where he claimed he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private.
Musk's lawyers have subpoenaed Saudi Arabia's top wealth manager to be a defense witness in the upc... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | The Twitter-Musk legal battle offers a clue about who manages the fortune of the world's richest person | Patrick Pleul/AP This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Feb 18, 2022 | The family of a 20-year-old killed in a Tesla crash last year is suing the company, alleging suspension failure | The family of a 20-year-old killed in a Model 3 crash in September is suing Tesla for $30,000, alleging suspension failure.
The driver and a 19-year-old passenger died after the car veered off the road, crashed into two trees, and caught fi... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | Early data shows Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Loop not yet up to speed | When Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill unveiled The Boring Company’s plan for a subterranean shuttle that would whisk visitors to different parts of the city’s vast Convention Center campus, he predicted it would ta... |
| Oct 9, 2021 | Tesla Delays Roll Out of Full-Self Driving Software Update Due to Last Minute Concerns | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 09 October 2021, 03:10 pm
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Tesla has delayed the release of its software rollout for the self-driving feature called the Full Self-Driving Beta 10.2 or FSD. This i... |
| May 8, 2021 | A leaked memo from Tesla reportedly shows that its fully self-driving car is still far from being a reality | Tesla vehicles are far from reaching a level of autonomy often described by Elon Musk on social media, according to a leaked memo.
A fully self-driving car, also called Level 5 (L5) Autonomy, may include navigate on autopilot, auto lane cha... |
| May 7, 2021 | Tesla refutes Elon Musk’s timeline on ‘full self-driving’ | What Tesla CEO Elon Musk says publicly about the company’s progress on a fully autonomous driving system doesn’t match up with “engineering reality,” according to a memo that summarizes a meeting between California regulators and employees ... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Tesla explica que “Full Self-Driving” não é condução autônoma de verdade | Há quase dois anos, Elon Musk, CEO da Tesla, disse que os carros da empresa seriam totalmente autônomos até o final de 2020. Avancemos para 2021: o bilionário ainda não conseguiu cumprir essa promessa. Pior: a Tesla agora diz que o programa... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | Facebook Ads’ Potential Reach Overstated, Lawsuit Claims | A new lawsuit is claiming that Facebook inflated its estimates for potential advertising reach to increase revenues.
According to the suit, Facebook executives, including its Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were aware that ‘Potentia... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Unscrupulous Businessman Payam Banazadeh. How Capella Space Steals Patents and Bankrupts Partners | Eric Hamilton, Tech Times 17 April 2020, 12:04 pm
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The US legal system is considered one of the most effective in the world in the fi... |
| Aug 22, 2019 | Walmart is suing Tesla over faulty solar panels that started fires at seven stores | Wallmart, the American company that operates a chain of department stores in various companies, has recently filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s electric SUV manufacturing company Tesla’s SolarCity Corp. The lawsuit alleges that several of ... |
| Aug 7, 2019 | US regulators take aim at Tesla over Model 3 safety claims | Tesla’s claims about the safety of its Model 3 electric vehicle prompted U.S. regulators to send a cease-and-desist letter and escalate the matter by asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, according to documents released by the... |
| Aug 7, 2019 | NHTSA says Tesla’s Model 3 safety claims are ‘misleading’ | Tesla has for years boasted about the perfect 5-star safety ratings its cars have received from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Now, in an odd turn of events that will perhaps not surprise longtime Tesla detracto... |
| Apr 22, 2019 | Tesla Autonomy Investor Day is here; here’s how to watch | It’s a big week for Tesla, and it’s kicking off with “Autonomy Investor Day” on April 22.
What is Autonomy Investor Day, you ask? The details are vague, but it’s supposed to be a demonstration that explains and showcases Tesla’s autonomous ... |
| Dec 10, 2018 | Uniblue closes its doors for good | There are some firms you look at with a kind of wary admiration primarily because they were a marketing pioneer of their time. Or that’s what we thought.
Uniblue is one of these companies and, you should believe this is no understatement, i... |
| Sep 21, 2018 | GDPR Being Used To Try To Disappear Public US Court Docket | Way back when the GDPR was still under consideration, we were among those who warned that, in the name of “protecting privacy,” Europe was about to create a tool for massive censorship by encapsulating a massive “right to be forgotten.” As ... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | The Quest to Make a Better Video Game Controller | Next time you play a video game, look down at the controller in your hand. Is it comfortable? Does it work well with the game you’re playing? Are your fingers all being used efficiently? If you could change one thing, what would it be?
Abou... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | The Quest to Make a Better Video Game Controller | Next time you play a video game, look down at the controller in your hand. Is it comfortable? Does it work well with the game you're playing? Are your fingers all being used efficiently? If you could change one thing, what would it be?... |
| May 16, 2017 | Makers Of Payday 2 Donating DLC Profits To Help 2 YouTubers Fight Copyright Lawsuit | The landscape of YouTubers who do reviews or takes on video games, including Let’s Plays, and their interactions with the game makers themselves is one that lacks any sort of norm or uniformity. Some game developers understand the value the... |
| Dec 28, 2016 | 2016 in Headlines: The Year's 13 Biggest Blockchain Stories | In this CoinDesk 2016 in Review special feature, CoinDesk's editorial team looks back on the stories and narratives that shaped the industry over the last 12 months and that cast a shadow on the year ahead.
2016 will go down as one of ... |
| Nov 1, 2016 | Photo app Ever removed its spammy SMS feature after Apple banned it | Score one for the consumer against the indefatigable force of growth hacking. Ever, the photo storage app that we called out in September for spamming SMS contact lists (it rebranded from Everalbum shortly after), has found its way back int... |
| Aug 27, 2014 | PACER Officials Give Weak, Nonsensical Excuse For Why PACER Deleted Tons Of Public Court Records With No Notice | We were among the first to report that the federal court system’s PACER electronic database of court records had deleted a ton of old cases, and once our story went live, we saw a ton of lawyers, law professors and journalists flip out over... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time To Fix PACER | For years, we’ve talked about the many problems with PACER, the horribly designed and managed electronic court records system that the federal court system uses here in the US. Beyond being clunky, buggy, horribly designed and slow — it’s a... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Trademark Holder Sends Cease-And-Desist To Zazzle Over Products Using 3,000-Year-Old Greek Letter | Over the past few days, an IP battle has erupted at print-on-demand service Zazzle over a 3,000-year-old Greek letter. New York artist Paul Ingrisano was granted a trademark for the following symbol, apparently in reference to his initials.... |
| May 20, 2014 | Exclusive: Medtronic to acquire Corventis for at least $150M | Medical device giant Medtronic is in the final stages of acquiring peel-and-stick medical sensor company Corventis for north of $150 million, MobiHealthNews has learned. While neither company has publicly commented on the deal, it is expect... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | Intellectual Ventures' Evil Knows No Bounds: Buys Patent AmEx Donated For Public Good… And Starts Suing | Intellectual Ventures may be running out of cash, but that doesn’t mean it’s slowed down the pace of evildoing. If you look over its recent lawsuits, you’ll notice that over the summer, Intellectual Ventures was busy suing a bunch of banks,... |
| Mar 25, 2013 | 6 Reasons the Legal Industry is Ripe for Startup Invasion | Most people want to avoid lawyers. They are in the same class as cops; you do not want one until you need one. In the startup world, there are plenty of articles written about how lawyers ruin startups or stall innovation and deals. But the... |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Can Crowdsourcing Complete The Job Aaron Swartz Started In Freeing PACER? | We’ve talked about the importance of carrying on the work that Aaron Swartz began, and the global efforts at hackathons to do just that. However, a few have started working on very specific proposals to try to carry on some of Aaron’s work.... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | Intellectual Ventures: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal | Back in 2010, we wrote about a report suggesting that Intellectual Ventures was using somewhere around 1000 shell companies to hide many of its patent shakedown attempts. For years, IV itself liked to say that it wasn’t involved in any pate... |
| Tesla hires SEC lawyer, former fed prosecutor as managing counsel | Tesla has hired David Misler, a former attorney for the SEC and DOJ, according to Misler’s LinkedIn feed.
Tesla has repeatedly clashed with the SEC over tweets by CEO Elon Musk, among other things.
According to Tesla’s most recent quarterly... |
| Elon Musk and Tesla face trial over CEO’s multibillion-dollar pay package from 2018 | Tesla and CEO Elon Musk are facing a trial over the company’s 2018 CEO pay package.
Shareholder Richard J. Tornetta sued Tesla alleging that Musk’s pay was excessive and that its authorization by the board amounted to a breach of its fiduci... |
| Tesla’s communications with DMV over Full Self-Driving are released and they bring some confusion | Tesla’s communications with DMV over the release of its Full Self-Driving Beta have been released through a freedom of information request.
Some of the comments made by Tesla to the DMV are bringing some confusion to people, as they could b... |
| Billionaire Tom Siebel faces tumult at C3.ai as investor lawsuit, short sellers question metrics | An investor lawsuit against C3.ai says CEO Tom Siebel and other executives misrepresented a partnership with Baker Hughes ahead of the company’s 2020 IPO.
In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Siebel denied the allegations and touted his com... |
| Elon Musk faces a trial over the roughly $2.5 billion pay package Tesla gave him in 2018 | Elon Musk is worth around $226 billion, putting him as the world's wealthiest person. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME
Elon Musk is going to trial as part of a lawsuit over his reported 10-figure pay package from 2018.
Musk got around ... |
| Elon Musk’s X loses lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping | A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against Israel’s Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of data.
X had claimed that Bright Data scrapes its data, “using elaborate technical measures to eva... |
| Elon Musk reveals SEC sent him ‘settlement demand’ after Twitter buyout probe | The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a “settlement demand” to Elon Musk, according to a Thursday social media post by the tech billionaire.
The federal financial regulator is asking Musk to agree to terms including a fine, or “... |
| Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over contract breach | Elon Musk is suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, among others, alleging they abandoned the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity broadly.”
OpenAI and Microsoft were not... |
| Tesla can’t promise driverless cars in 2021, engineer tells California DMV | According to California Department of Motor Vehicles documents, Tesla employees told regulators that the company may not be able to develop a truly autonomous vehicle by the end of 2021.
The employees’ comments contradict promises by CEO El... |
| Elon Musk’s funniest moments from his deposition over Tesla’s SolarCity acquisition | Tesla and Elon Musk are currently being sued by shareholders over the SolarCity acquisition and Musk was deposed, which created some very funny moments.
In 2016, Tesla’s board and shareholders ended up approving a $2.6 billion acquisition o... |
| NHTSA says Tesla’s Model 3 safety claims are ‘misleading’ | Tesla has for years boasted about the perfect 5-star safety ratings its cars have received from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Now, in an odd turn of events that will perhaps not surprise longtime Tesla detracto... |
| Elon Musk must testify in SEC probe of his Twitter takeover | Elon Musk has to testify in a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning his 2022 acquisition of Twitter, a U.S. judge ordered in a court filing out Saturday.
The federal regulator is investigating whether Musk, or anyo... |
| Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan | Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk.
The move runs counter to promises of free speech by Musk and new Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino... |
| Elon Musk attorneys aim to move trial from California to Texas, citing ‘local negativity’ | Elon Musk and Tesla are set to face a jury in a shareholder class action that claims the CEO manipulated Tesla’s stock in 2018.
In a new court filing, Musk attorneys seek to move the trial out of San Francisco citing “local negativity,” fro... |
| Twitter tells worried employees their vested shares will be paid in coming days | Since Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, employees worried they would be fired or laid off before their stock options vested in early November.
However, according to internal communications viewed by CNBC, managers told Tw... |
| Elon Musk’s Twitter files data-scraping lawsuit against unknown defendants | X Corp. seeks more than $1 million in damages over “unlawfully scraping data associated with Texas residents,” according to the filing.
It’s worth noting that data scraping, by and large, is legal, especially when it involves scraping publi... |
| Tesla shorts threaten to cause car collision to discredit Tesla; restraining order granted | Earlier this week a Model 3 was spotted filming a self-driving demo ahead of Tesla’s autonomy investor event on Monday. Curiously, we heard about this through a TSLA short-seller on twitter. As it turns out, discussion following this tweet ... |
| SEC sues Elon Musk, alleging failure to properly disclose Twitter ownership | The SEC on Tuesday filed a suit against Elon Musk, alleging the billionaire violated securities law by acquiring Twitter shares at “artificially low prices.”
In his purchases, Musk underpaid for Twitter shares by at least $150 million, the ... |
| At UCLA, You Can Take a Class on ‘The Law of Elon Musk’ | Elon Musk’s bizarre behavior has sparked a lot of lawsuits over the years, from complaints about his Tweets to allegations that he’s part of Dogecoin scheme. One local professor thinks there’s a lesson to be learned from that long legal his... |
| Biden says Elon Musk was an ‘illegal worker’ when he began U.S. career | President Joe Biden said Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor, launched his long career in the U.S. as an “illegal worker.”
Biden’s comments about Musk followed a Washington Post report that cites correspondence, legal... |