The top 10 richest people in the world (July 2026)
There’s a new member of the $300 billion club and a second sibling from America’s richest family among the planet’s ten wealthiest people.
Tesla
Tesla’s electric Semi has its first fatal crash
Two people in a Volkswagen Beetle died after the massive battery-powered truck struck them at a highway intersection in Nevada, not far from the factory that builds it.
Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire
A slump in SpaceX’s stock price and new restrictions on $116 billion of Musk’s Tesla shares have dropped him from the four-comma-club.
Elon Musk’s net worth drops $50 billion amid Tesla rout—as Trillionaire status nears
A stock debut for Musk’s aerospace firm should make him the first trillionaire, even as Tesla’s latest slide cut into his fortune.
Could Musk merge SpaceX and Tesla? Here’s what analysts—and betting markets—say
Wall Street has speculated whether the world’s richest person will consider a tie-up for his two most valuable companies.
OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
The hire marks a win for the Claude maker in the high-stakes AI talent wars.
Big tech is on track to spend $1 trillion on AI this year
Tech giants are on pace to double AI spending this year.
Tesla beats first-quarter expectations amid pivot to robotics, AI
The automaker said demand for its vehicles has rebounded from recent declines .
Ex-top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid
Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that move power to the grid more efficiently.
Elon Musk’s net worth hits $788 billion in record-setting surge
Musk is closing in on the $800 billion mark as his net worth sets a new record.