What business leaders are saying — and doing — about California's proposed billionaire tax

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Palmer Luckey, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and more have commented on California's billionaire tax proposal.

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Elon Musk agrees with Tim Cook: The memory shortage is unprecedented

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L) and Apple CEO Tim Cook are both worried about the same thing.

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Michael Dell is absolutely crushing it this year

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Michael Dell has become the world's fifth-richest person.

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SpaceX employees got rich off stock options. Ex-Blue Origin workers say theirs are worthless.

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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have cosmic ambitions for Blue Origin and SpaceX.

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Trump's DOT proposes new rules for driverless vehicles

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SoftBank CEO questions Elon Musk's vision of AI data centers in space: 'What's the point?'

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SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son.
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son answered questions this week at a shareholders' meeting.

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Elon Musk has broken the rich list

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Elon Musk's net worth exceeds $1 trillion.
Elon Musk's net worth exceeds $1 trillion.

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Elon Musk told Trump he was freaking out over the US's chip vulnerability in Taiwan: new book

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House.
Musk was a close advisor to President Trump in the first few months of 2025.

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John C. Reilly rejects Elon Musk's warning about empathy: 'Empathy is a superpower'

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John C. Reilly called empathy one of the "building blocks of civilization."

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See how Elon Musk's fortune compares with the richest Americans in history

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Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller has long been considered the wealthiest man in America's history, but Elon Musk is now wealthier — and his fortune continues to grow.

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