/
Navigation
Chronicles
Browse all articles
Explore
Semantic exploration
Research
Entity momentum
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
Story Arc
Topic evolution
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
Posts
Analysis & commentary
Pulse API
Tech news intelligence API
Browse
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
Person

Elon Musk

Filtered to controversy pattern ×
1370 articles decelerating

Elon Musk has appeared in 1,370 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 114 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Twitter, Elon, Musk, Elon Musk's.

Articles
1,370
mentions
Velocity
-81.6%
growth rate
Acceleration
-3.887
velocity change
Sources
147
publications
Incumbents Bid Last
Before SpaceX announced it had secured the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Microsoft — the company that owns GitHub, Copilot, and VS Code — considered ...
The Dissolution
Half of xAI's founding team has now left. The biggest corporate merger in US history didn't retain the people who built the company—it accelerated their departu...
The $250 Billion Lifeline
SpaceX acquired xAI for $250 billion on February 2. Twenty months earlier, xAI was valued at $18 billion. In between: losses that grew every quarter, a safety t...
The Unification
SpaceX and xAI are in advanced merger talks ahead of a planned IPO. Bloomberg reports Tesla may be absorbed too — creating a single Musk-controlled entity spann...
The Plaintiff
On January 17, Musk sued OpenAI for $134 billion over abandoned principles. The same day, the EPA ruled xAI broke federal law with unpermitted gas turbines in M...

Coverage Timeline

2026-04-23
Bloomberg 2 related

How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted

The 2023 murder of a tech executive seemed to fit neatly into narratives about street crime in liberal cities, until it didn't.

2026-02-28
TechCrunch 5 related

In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody “committed suicide because of Grok”

2026-02-19
Bloomberg 6 related

Russian forces in Ukraine are facing communications issues as SpaceX restricts Starlink access and Telegram faces a crackdown, per pro-Russian military channels

Russian forces fighting in Ukraine are facing communications problems from the dual blow of restricted access to Elon Musk's Starlink …

2026-02-04
Bloomberg 11 related

Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use autodeleting “ephemeral messaging tools”

OpenAI accused Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company of “systematic and intentional destruction” …

2026-02-03
The Verge 13 related

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests

Elon Musk insists xAI's chatbot doesn't break the law, but it's still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men.

2026-02-02
Washington Post 15 related

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025

Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

2026-01-22
New York Times 12 related

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X

Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

2026-01-21
The Information 21 related

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT

Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on X this week over media reports of deaths linked to OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI-related safety issues.

2026-01-20
The Information 7 related

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT

Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on X this week over media reports of deaths linked to OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI-related safety issues.

Bloomberg 1 related

xAI faces a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok generating nonconsensual explicit photos, but has faced little legal or regulatory action in the US

Despite global uproar over the generation of non-consensual explicit photos, Elon Musk has continued to downplay the issue.

Loading articles...

Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

Elon Musk has appeared in 1,246 Techmeme articles since January 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he... and Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag.... Frequently covered alongside Twitter, Musk, Tesla, Elon, and Trump. Coverage has increasingly focused on safety themes.

Key Moments

2024Q2consumer +10pts
2024Q3consumer -18pts; funding -6pts; competition +11pts
2024Q4enterprise -9pts; consumer +11pts

Relationships

Loading graph...