Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, gave out $1 million checks to gin up support for Donald Trump. California lawmakers want to ban big cash payments to registered voters.

The permit lays the groundwork toward a driverless taxi service. Tesla has said it will launch such a service in Austin, Texas in June.

The state’s attorney general asked the company how it plans to transfer assets out of its charitable nonprofit.

Google, Meta, ChatGPT and other Silicon Valley firms have been lobbying heavily against the bill, warning it will hurt new tech growth.

Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and other tech billionaires, many of whom are part of the “PayPal Mafia,” are openly brawling with one another over politics as tensions rise in the presidential campaign.

Tesla admitted it illegally disposed of hazardous waste at its service centers in Bay Area cities including San Jose, Gilroy, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Dublin, Fremont, Burlingame, San Francisco and San Rafael, its energy centers, and its Fremont factory.

The move capped a chaotic five days at the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company.

Beginning Sunday, the tech billionaire started removing the bird logo that has been part of Twitter’s identity since 2006.

Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. In less than a day, Threads appeared to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever, easily outstripping ChatGPT. The newly released companion to Instagram aims at offering users an alternative to Twitter. 

Truck manufacturers won’t file legal challenges over California’s controversial mandate, and in return, the state air board will relax some smog-fighting requirements.

The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to identify the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.

Tesla's new global engineering and AI headquarters will take over Hewlett Packard's original headquarters on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto.

The district attorney also is asking all elected district attorneys throughout the U.S. to take their offices off Twitter.

The Justice Department said Twitter obtained data from more than 140 million users for security purposes but then used data to target users with ads, the company's primary source of revenue.

Meanwhile, San Jose Inside Power Poll respondents worry about Elon Musk taking over Twitter.

Twitter agreed to sell itself to Musk for $54.20 a share, a 38 percent premium over the company’s share price. It would be the largest deal to take a company private in at least two decades.