Elon Musk postpones CNBC interview
Musk “has to postpone” his interview with CNBC, Julia Boorstin said she was told after her interview with the CEO was set to begin at noon ET.
Musk was expected to discuss Tesla, the historic SpaceX initial public offering and the launch of the company’s latest Grok artificial intelligence model.
“We hope he will give us a new time for this interview. But we’ve just heard that he is postponing,” Boorstin said on air.
— Kevin Breuninger and Ari Levy
Tesla’s latest vehicle deliveries and production levels
Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles (EV) on a vehicle transport truck at the company’s store in Colma, California, US, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026.
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Earlier this month, Tesla disclosed its vehicle deliveries and production levels for the second quarter.
The automaker reported 480,126 total vehicle deliveries for the period, up from the 406,600 deliveries expected by analysts. Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla but are not precisely defined in its shareholder communications.
Tesla reported vehicle production of 451,758 during the second quarter.
Despite the strong numbers, Tesla shares sank on the report. The company has been trying to recover from consecutive annual declines in car sales.
—Ashley Capoot
Musk’s strained relationship with Altman
A combination photo shows CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman (L) on April 28, 2026 and Elon Musk on April 29, 2026 during the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, U.S.
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Musk co-founded OpenAI alongside Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, and other researchers in 2015. The pair were close collaborators in the company’s early days, but their relationship deteriorated dramatically over the next decade.
Musk left OpenAI’s board in 2018 after months of tense negotiations about the company’s structure and path forward, including a failed bid to combine it with his automaker Tesla. He went on to start a competing AI company, xAI, in 2023, which merged with SpaceX earlier this year.
In 2024, Musk sued OpenAI, Altman, and Greg Brockman, the company’s president, alleging that they went back on their vow to keep the startup a nonprofit. After three weeks of testimony in federal court in Oakland, California, this year, Musk lost that case.
—Ashley Capoot
Musk says he was ‘clearly wrong about Anthropic’ in post praising the company
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Anthropic’s headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
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Musk praised Anthropic as “obviously currently the leader in AI,” in a post on X on Thursday.
In May, Anthropic forged a deal with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at the company’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the deal, Anthropic will pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, according to a regulatory filing.
The deal marked a notable change in tone from Musk, who had openly criticized Anthropic because of its clash with the U.S. Department of Defense.
“I was clearly wrong about Anthropic,” Musk wrote Thursday.
—Ashley Capoot
