In January 2025, a post about tech billionaire Elon Musk, purportedly written by someone who knew him for years, was shared widely online. Philip Low, a scientist and founder of NeuroVigil, a company that developed a portable brain activity monitor,

A tech entrepreneur claiming to be Elon Musk’s former friend blasted the “First Buddy” as a “narcissist” whose sole aim is “acquiring and consolidating power.” In a scathing LinkedIn update posted over the weekend,

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

One of Elon Musk's old pals is calling out the billionaire for taking his power-hungriness all the way to the White House. In a lengthy essay cross-posted on Facebook and LinkedIn, Philip Low, the founder of the brain-computer interface company NeuroVigil,

A former friend and colleague of Elon Musk has shared a brilliant takedown of the billionaire, perfectly breaking down his character.

Elon Musk asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.

"I genuinely respect your accomplishments and think you are the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time," Altman wrote in an X post to Musk.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.

Elon Musk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian libertarian MP Marius Nilsen, who tossed the Tesla founder’s name into the mix for consideration, cited Musk’s “adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and [enabling] the possibility to express one’s views’ in a continuously more polarized world.”

There are real opportunities to make revolutionary progress with AI right now. And they don’t require spending hundreds of billions of dollars.

Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two to teach fellow tech titans, in particular his friend Elon Musk, about staying power.