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,

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,

Elon Musk's old pal defended the billionaire against Nazi allegations, claiming Musk “believes he is above everyone else”.

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

It’s hard to fault a CEO who grows a company beyond $1 trillion in value. Elon Musk managed the feat by upending the automotive market with Tesla’s electric vehicles and extended its lead with broader battery power.

The Tesla CEO's net worth fell by around $4 billion yesterday, however, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.