Social media giant and Tesla CEO discussing details including timeline if deal falls through, NYT reports; Musk claims to have $46.5 billion in financing to make purchase

Announcement comes after weekend of tweets by billionaire suggesting possible changes to the site, including making it ad-free; nearly 90% of Twitter's 2021 revenue came from ads

Though Tesla CEO's investment is passive, he has been vocal about free speech on the platform, even pondering starting up a rival network

Eccentric billionaire says he is 'absolutely serious' about fighting 69-year-old Russian leader: 'If Putin could so easily humiliate the west, then he would accept the challenge'

Post comparing prime minister to Nazi leader over COVID rules deleted after outcry; tycoon also raises hackles with claim regulators ordering 'unfounded' probes into company

Combined wealth jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion; charity slams inequality as 'economic violence,' noting it was accompanied by soaring poverty in rest of world

World Inequality Report says 2020 saw steepest increase in global billionaires' share of wealth on record, while 100 million more people fall into extreme poverty

World's richest man says he'll abide by results of poll asking if he should offload shares in his electric-vehicle company as the 'only way for me to pay taxes personally'

The billionaire entrepreneur says android is aimed at making physical work a 'choice,' jokes it will be 'friendly' and built so that 'you can run away from it'

Rocketship remains standing after six-minute flight that follows four test flights that ended in fiery explosions before, during or soon after landing