The SpaceX CEO just put a number on his ambitions that most people will struggle to take seriously. The math behind it is harder to dismiss.

The SpaceX CEO has spent roughly $366 million in the 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle so far, $276 million of it since July.

On top of donating tens of millions of dollars to his own America PAC, Musk gave $158mn to the Senate Leadership Fund and $20mn to the Congressional Leadership Fund over the summer, the main Super Pacs supporting Republican Senate and House candidates, according to people familiar with the matter.

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

Elon Musk called designing a human hand for robots "shockingly difficult" and said it's problem Tesla is working on for Optimus.

Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Elon Musk —simply titled “Musk”—has a lot of ground to cover. Musk, after all, has had a busy few years, from his Twitter acquisition to his work at DOGE to his day-to-day leadership at many different tech ventures, including Tesla, Neuralink and the newly-public SpaceX.

Micron stock was facing more pressure after Elon Musk gave his opinion on China-produced memory chips.

The billionaire has a history of elevating false claims like the one about the Democratic Senate nominee, but his control of X gives him outsize influence ahead of the midterms.