USAID headquarters closed on Monday, Musk says aid agency should be ‘shut down’
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who heads an agency entrusted by US President Donald Trump to increase the efficiency of the federal government, said on Monday that he wants to shut down US Agency for International Development (USAID), an autonomous body of the State Department that is one of the world’s […]
Elon Musk, Sam Altman fight over Stargate on social media
San Francisco, Jan 23 (IANS) The xAI owner Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centres for OpenAI across the US. OpenAI said on Tuesday that it would team up with SoftBank and Oracle to build multiple data centres for artificial intelligence […]
OpenAI announces $500 bn AI project, Musk says ‘they don’t actually have the money’
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) As Sam Altman-run OpenAI announced the Stargate Project which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure in the US — with SoftBank, Oracle and MGX — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said “they don’t actually have the money”. According to […]
Indian global outreach group meets Elon Musk in Texas
Washington, Jan 18 (IANS) An Indian global outreach group was hosted by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, at the SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas on Friday. The delegation of Indian entrepreneurs, authors, and business leaders had an “invigorating” and “meaningful dialogue” with Musk, who owns X, […]
SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test, loses upper stage
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s Starship successfully aced the seventh test flight but lost the upper stage. Starship and Super heavy booster lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas at 5:37 p.m. EST (4.07 am IST). All 33 Raptor engines powered the Super Heavy booster and Starship on a nominal […]
SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers from US, Japan to space
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched two private lunar landers from the US and Japan to space. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Florida’s Space Coast at 1:11 a.m. EST (11:41 am IST). “SpaceX’s […]
