Tesla

Tesla is a leading manufacturer of electric vehicles, energy storage solutions, and solar products. Founded in 2003, the company's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Elon Musk is Tesla's CEO. The company has several divisions, including Automotive, Energy Generation and Storage, and Solar. Tesla's competitors include traditional automakers like Ford and General Motors, as well as other electric vehicle companies like Rivian and Lucid Motors.

Recent Articles about Tesla

A driverless excavator at work near Austin, Texas. Photo: Courtesy Bedrock Robotics

The Electric: These Driverless Construction Vehicles Could Speed the Data Center Boom

By Steve LeVine · Feb 16, 2026 4:30am PST

Trey Taparauskas’ construction company is flooded with new business from a sizzling boom in the aerospace and data center industries in and around Austin, Texas. A stark shortage of skilled equipment operators, though, has made it hard to meet all the demand. Trey Taparauskas’ construction company is flooded with new business from a sizzling boom in the...

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Sunday Insights

SpaceX IPO Could Tap Hordes of Individual Investors

By Valida Pau and Cory Weinberg · Feb 15, 2026 8:20am PST

A potential record-setting SpaceX initial public offering has sent Wall Street into overdrive. Main Street wants a cut of the action. Bankers and institutional investors who talk to SpaceX executives have been debating how much the company should set aside for individual investors to buy at the IPO price—through brokerages including... A potential record-setting SpaceX initial public offering has sent Wall Street into overdrive....

Musk Restructures xAI Team Amid Senior Departures, SpaceX Merger

By Theo Wayt · Feb 11, 2026 12:01pm PST

Elon Musk has overhauled xAI’s leadership structure following its merger with SpaceX and as he pressures the AI firm to accelerate progress on Grok AI models, The Information’s latest org chart for the combined company shows. The changes coincide with an exodus of senior leaders. Just half of xAI’s 12 founding staffers, including Musk,... Elon Musk has overhauled xAI’s leadership structure following its merger with SpaceX and as he...

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How OpenAI Uses ChatGPT to Catch ‘Leakers’

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 11, 2026 7:00am PST

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How OpenAI Uses ChatGPT to Catch ‘Leakers’

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 11, 2026 7:00am PST

Here at The Information, we’re always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world. And recently, I came across a new application of AI that I can’t say I had ever heard of before: using ChatGPT to catch so-called leakers.When a news story about OpenAI’s internal activities is published,... Here at The Information, we’re always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks...

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The Risk of the Muskiverse's Steady Turnover

By Theo Wayt · Feb 10, 2026 5:00pm PST · 1 comment

Working at an Elon Musk company is rarely a stable gig. Musk is known to be an extremely demanding boss, and when he’s focused on a problem, heads will usually roll, either because he fires people or makes their lives so miserable they quit. That seems to have been the case again this week, with major executives at both xAI and Tesla heading for... Working at an Elon Musk company is rarely a stable gig. Musk is known to be an extremely...

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Apollo Nears $3 Billion Chip-Funding Deal Tied to XAI

By Miles Kruppa · Feb 9, 2026 6:00am PST

Apollo Global Management, one of Wall Street’s biggest private credit firms, is nearing a deal to lend about $3.4 billion to an investment vehicle that will purchase Nvidia chips and lease them to Elon Musk’s xAI, which just merged with SpaceX, said a person with knowledge of the deal. The deal would be Apollo’s second big investment in a... Apollo Global Management, one of Wall Street’s biggest private credit firms, is nearing a deal to...

Construction has started at Lithium Americas' Thacker Pass lithium project. Photo: Courtesy Lithium Americas

The Electric: Lithium Makes a Comeback as Trump Moves to Challenge China

By Steve LeVine · Feb 9, 2026 4:30am PST

Mining lithium in the West has been a terrible business recently. From a peak of about $80 a kilo in late 2022, the price of the metal plummeted as low as $8 last year, causing big losses for investors and forcing mines to close in the U.S., Australia and elsewhere. Mining lithium in the West has been a terrible business recently. From a peak of about $80 a kilo...

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After OpenClaw, a Wild, Weird Age of Consumer Agents Lies Ahead

By Rocket Drew · Feb 7, 2026 6:30am PST · 6 comments

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Artificial Intelligence

After OpenClaw, a Wild, Weird Age of Consumer Agents Lies Ahead

By Rocket Drew · Feb 7, 2026 6:30am PST · 6 comments

Until recently, agentic AI, where AIs can take virtual actions and control computers, seemed like an esoteric technology that wasn’t close to going mainstream—at least for use at home on tasks like checking into flights, responding to emails and controlling smart devices. Then OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI assistant, went viral a... Until recently, agentic AI, where AIs can take virtual actions and control computers, seemed like...

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Inside Musk’s SpaceX-xAI Megamerger

By Cory Weinberg, Theo Wayt, Miles Kruppa, Amir Efrati and Katie Roof · Feb 2, 2026 6:13pm PST · 3 comments

Elon Musk rammed through the combination of his space company, SpaceX, with his AI startup, xAI, on Monday, merging the shiniest jewel in his business empire with his most money-losing firm. The deal—which valued xAI at $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, according to people familiar with the situation—comes as xAI battles to... Elon Musk rammed through the combination of his space company, SpaceX, with his AI startup, xAI,...

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What’s Really Driving Musk’s SpaceX-xAI Merger

By Martin Peers · Feb 2, 2026 5:00pm PST · 5 comments

Talk about pie in the sky. On Monday, Elon Musk announced that his SpaceX had acquired his cash-eating xAI, at a price we reported to be $250 billion. SpaceX was already planning to go public, but now xAI will be able to get some of the cash the newly enlarged company will raise. Of course, that’s not how Musk explained the combination. Instead,... Talk about pie in the sky. On Monday, Elon Musk announced that his SpaceX had acquired his...

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Why OpenClaw FKA Clawdbot Matters

By Rocket Drew · Feb 2, 2026 7:30am PST

If you’ve been online in the past few days, you’ve likely been bombarded with words like “Moltbook,” “OpenClaw” and “Clawdbot.” We’re here to break down what it means and how it’s giving us a peek into how AI might evolve.OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent released late last year that can write code, edit files and surf the web to complete... If you’ve been online in the past few days, you’ve likely been bombarded with words like “...

A home battery in Houston, which has been hit hard by power outages in recent years. Photo: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle/Getty

The Electric: Amid the Flurries, Home Battery Installers Are Going After Grid and Data Center Demand

By Steve LeVine · Feb 2, 2026 4:30am PST

A home battery in Houston, which has been hit hard by power outages in recent years. Photo: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle/Getty

The Electric: Amid the Flurries, Home Battery Installers Are Going After Grid and Data Center Demand

By Steve LeVine · Feb 2, 2026 4:30am PST

Heavy snow and Arctic temperatures last week strained the natural gas-powered electric grid across the Northeastern U.S. states and inland as far as Virginia, leaving utilities to ask customers to curtail their use of power and causing thousands of homes to go dark. Heavy snow and Arctic temperatures last week strained the natural gas-powered electric grid...

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What to Expect From Palantir, Google and Amazon Earnings This Week

By Martin Peers · Feb 1, 2026 3:00pm PST · 2 comments

If you like poring over earnings reports (and who doesn’t!), then you’ll be in your happy place this coming week. We’ve got so many tech earnings announcements that we can barely keep track. I’m not kidding—couldn’t these tech executives space things out a little bit? The biggest reports will be on Wednesday, when Google parent Alphabet reports... If you like poring over earnings reports (and who doesn’t!), then you’ll be in your happy place...

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AI’s Dealmaking Frenzy

By Martin Peers · Jan 29, 2026 5:00pm PST

AI’s insatiable need for cash is proving to be a dream for dealmakers. Our scoop from Wednesday night that OpenAI was in talks to raise as much as $60 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon was followed by a Wall Street Journal report today that Amazon alone might put in $50 billion. Meanwhile, Reuters reported on Thursday that Elon Musk was... AI’s insatiable need for cash is proving to be a dream for dealmakers. Our scoop from Wednesday...

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ICE Says It Uses AI From Palantir, OpenAI; Meta’s Humanoid Robot Training Plan

By Erin Woo and Jyoti Mann · Jan 29, 2026 7:00am PST

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday released a new database describing its use of artificial intelligence last year, including how Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS, relied on technology from Palantir and OpenAI.ICE has been a flashpoint around the country after government agents fatally shot two people... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday released a new database describing its use...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a full pivot away from electric vehicles. Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty

The Electric: Musk Talks Up Optimus, But Tesla's 2025 Was Saved By Plain Old Batteries

By Steve LeVine · Jan 29, 2026 4:38am PST · 1 comment

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a full pivot away from electric vehicles. Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty

The Electric: Musk Talks Up Optimus, But Tesla's 2025 Was Saved By Plain Old Batteries

By Steve LeVine · Jan 29, 2026 4:38am PST · 1 comment

Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes much of the shining future of the driverless Cybercab and the Optimus robot. As for revenue today, one of the company’s few bright spots is batteries. Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes much of the shining future of the driverless Cybercab and the Optimus...

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What We Learned From Meta, Microsoft and Tesla

By Martin Peers · Jan 28, 2026 5:00pm PST

If quarterly earnings announcements were a contest, Mark Zuckerberg would have won Wednesday. You might even say investors are coming to terms with Meta Platforms’ you-only-live-once approach to spending on AI. The owner of Facebook and Instagram reported stronger than projected fourth-quarter growth of 24% and projected that revenue growth... If quarterly earnings announcements were a contest, Mark Zuckerberg would have won Wednesday. You...

Yoshi Yokokawa, co-founder and CEO of Alpaca. Photo by Christinne Muschi/Getty Images

A Little-Known Broker Dominates Crypto Stock Tokens

By Yueqi Yang · Jan 28, 2026 10:00am PST · 1 comment

The fast-growing business of trading U.S. stocks as crypto tokens is enabling overseas investors to buy and sell shares of companies such as Tesla and Nvidia. The $1 billion industry relies on one little-known brokerage. Alpaca, a San Mateo, Calif.–based broker-dealer, maintains custody of nearly three-quarters of the market because few... The fast-growing business of trading U.S. stocks as crypto tokens is enabling overseas investors...

U.S. battery startups are finding eager manufacturing capacity in China. Photo: Lin Xin/VCG/Getty

The Electric: Idle Chinese Plants Are Inviting Business With U.S. Battery Startups

By Steve LeVine · Jan 26, 2026 4:30am PST

A free-for-all of factory expansion among China’s battery manufacturers has left more than 40% of the country’s battery plants idle. That has presented a prime opportunity for a nascent wave of Western startups to capitalize on the Chinese battery makers’ misery. A free-for-all of factory expansion among China’s battery manufacturers has left more than 40% of...