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Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Elon Musk’s 2-year-old son was present as Twitter’s new owner held tense meetings in the company’s offices,The Washington Postreported.According to the newspaper, Musk brought sonX Æ A-Xii, his first child with singer Grimes, to Twitter’s offices while meeting with Trust and Safety Office Yoel Roth in October.The child was reportedly running around the headquarters as Musk attempted to continue discussions about Twitter’s future. Moreover, Musk’s son had seemingly taken over the conference room, whichthe Postreported “was strewn with toys” during the boy’s visit....

Elon Musk.Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Elon Muskhas reached a deal to buy Twitter. The news was announced onMonday following Musk’soffer to take over the social platform. For more on Elon Musk buying Twitter, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day. In a statement, Bret Taylor, Twitter’s Independent Board Chair, said that the company’s board “conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon’s proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing....

Photo: MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty; Maja Hitij/Getty Sen.Elizabeth WarrenandElon Muskare feuding on Twitter. “Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else,“Warren tweeted Monday. The head of Tesla Inc., a companyvalued at $1 trillion, and SpaceX, which iscontracted to give NASA astronauts a ride to the moon, added in apair of follow-up tweets. “You remind me of when I was a kid and my friend’s angry Mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason,” he wrote....

Elon Musk.Photo: Kiichiro Sato/AP/REX/Shutterstock The charges stem from a tweet the 47-year-old billionaire wrote in August, which detailed plans to take Tesla private. “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,” Musk wrote. According to the SEC’s complaint, Musk’s tweet stirred up significant confusion among investors and “caused Tesla’s stock price to jump over six percent,” the SECrevealed in a press release. The complaint also claims Musk’s plans were not discussed “with any potential financing partners, and he allegedly knew that the potential transaction was uncertain and subject to numerous contingencies....

An uncrewed SpaceX rocket exploded just minutes after launch on Thursday, and CEOElon Musksays it’s been a learning opportunity.SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built,blasted offin Texas just after 8:30 a.m. local time. Although though the rocket made it off the launchpad, it failed to reach orbit and exploded a few minutes later over the Gulf of Mexico, according toThe New York Times.Still, that didn’t stop Musk from congratulating the team “on anexciting test launch....

Elon Muskmay start charging users of X – the social media platform formally known as Twitter – a fee to use its services. The SpaceX founder, 52, brought up the idea of making the platform a subscription-based service during a conversation on artificial intelligence (AI) that was streamed on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’sX accounton Monday. “We’re moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system,” he said, perBloomberg’s Dave Lee....

Elon Musk.Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty IsElon Muskplanning a hostile takeover of Twitter? After the Tesla and SpaceX founder, 50,became the social media platform’s largest shareholderwith a 9.2% stake in the company, CEO Parag Agrawal announced Sunday that Musk declined an invitation to join their board. “Here’s what I can share about what happened,” Agrawal, 37,wrotein an email to Twitter employees, which he also shared in a tweet. “The Board and I had many discussions about Elon joining the board, and with Elon directly....

Elon Musk.Photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage Tesla CEOElon Muskhas long been open about his passion for music, and now, he’s officially made it part of his title at the electric car company. On Monday, the company submitted a new regulatory filing to name Musk “Technoking of Tesla.” It also announced chief financial officer, Zach Kirkhorn, will be given the title of “Master of Coin.” “Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin, respectively,” the filing with theSecurities and Exchange Commissionreads....

Grimes and Elon Musk.Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Elon Muskremains committed to personally traveling to Mars within his lifetime — and says he’s been open about that withGrimesfor some time now. In the musician’s new cover story withVanity Fair— where she revealed that in December the pair welcomed theirsecond child, daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, via surrogate — Musk and Grimes briefly discussed living on Mars in the perhaps not-so-distant future. During the chat, Grimes recalled Musk —the world’s richest man— mentioning that he wanted to leave for Mars in 10 years....

Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Elon Muskis reportedly building his own town in Texas. The Space X billionaire, 51, is aiming to create a “Texas utopia” for his employees, including those who work for Tesla and his tunnel construction services company called The Boring Co., according a report in theWall Street Journal. The newspaper cites land deeds and other records, as well as people who are familiar with the project, as saying that Boring employees have already begun to explore incorporating the Bastrop County town, which would be named “Snailbrook” — a nod to Boring Co....

Elon Musk.Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Elon Muskhas jokes after buying Twitter this week. Just days after the billionaire purchased the social network for $44 billion, he wrote in a post on the platform that he plans on buying Coca-Cola to “put the cocaine back in.” The tweet quickly gained more than 3.8 million likes and hundreds of thousands of retweets since it was posted on Wednesday. At the time, the DEA explained, cocaine was legal and a typical ingredient included in medicines....

Elon Musk.Photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImage Elon Musk is already theworld’s richest person, but he could also become the first member of the four-comma club. According toThe Guardian, analysts at Morgan Stanley have predicted that Musk, 50, could become the world’s first trillionaire — largely thanks to his aerospace companySpaceX. “More than one client has told us if Elon Musk were to become the first trillionaire …it won’t be because of Tesla,” analyst Adam Jones told the newspaper, referring to the electric car company behind the majority of his wealth to date....

Elon Musk.Photo: Jeff Vespa/WireImageElon Muskhas bid the Bay Area adieu and is now living in Texas, months after sparring with local officials in California over lockdown orders.Musk, whorecently became the second-richest person in the world, has taken up residence in the Lone Star State, he toldWall Street Journaleditor-in-chief Matt Murray during the newspaper’s CEO Council annual summit on Tuesday.It remains unclear if girlfriend Grimes, with whom hewelcomed son X Æ A-Xii in May, has also made the move with him....