The judge wrote it was “at best unclear” whether Musk, Marocco, and Lewin qualified as high-ranking officials for this doctrine.

The two billionaires have clashed online, exchanging accusations over Musk's past emails with Epstein and Hoffman's past visit to Epstein's island.

As with SpaceX, then, Mr Musk is gambling Tesla’s future on AI, and his belief that he can harness his existing businesses to dominate the technology. Plenty of doubters have scoffed at his grand ambitions before. But never has Mr Musk put so much on the line. ■

Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year

EXCLUSIVE: An ex-FBI agent sought to open an investigation into Elon Musk’s use of X while leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in 2025, likening his activity to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server,

This latest round of the feud began after court filings in Musk's lawsuits against OpenAI and Apple became public. Jason Kwon, OpenAI's chief strategy officer, wrote that Musk and his AI company, xAI, produced almost no substantive internal documents during discovery, allegedly relying instead on disappearing messages.

Elon Musk’s X faces mounting global scrutiny as governments from France to India investigate its algorithms and AI chatbot Grok over concerns ranging from child safety to obscene and unlawful content.

Elon Musk sparks backlash after claiming Christopher Nolan “lost integrity” over Lupita Nyong’o’s reported casting.