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Elon Musk and Grimes are calling it quits ... they've broken up after 3 years of dating.

The SpaceX and Tesla honcho says he's "semi-separated" from Grimes ... though he says they are still on good terms and are co-parenting their 1-year-old son, the famously named, X A-Xii Musk.

Elon reportedly told Page Six he and the Canadian singer still love each other and they are all living under the same roof, albeit in different rooms.

The former couple made a public appearance together at the Met Gala earlier this month, as well as back in 2018. It's unclear what exactly led to the split.

It's possible their careers are getting in the way -- Elon's busy running tech empire, which requires lots of travel to Texas and Europe, and Grimes is working in L.A. as a judge on the new FOX show, "Alter Ego."

As we reported ... Grimes gave birth to their baby boy in May 2020.

Elon's adding to a list of famous exes ... which include his first wife, author Justine Wilson, 2 marriages to "Westworld" star Talulah Riley and Johnny Depp's ex, Amber Heard.

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Tech mogul Elon Musk and singer Grimes have split after three years and one child together.

Musk told Page Six on Friday that he and Grimes, ne Claire Elise Boucher, are not a couple anymore, but remain on good terms and plan to continue to co-parent their 1-year-old child, the unusually named X A-12 Musk.

We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms, Musk told Page Six, saying that the breakup is largely based on logistics.

Its mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in LA, he said, adding, Shes staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.

The couple started dating in 2018 after they met online. It seems Musk was about to tweet a joke about the complications of artificial intelligence, only to discover Grimes had already made the joke, according to Page Six.

The relationship wasnt always smooth. For instance, the couple disagreed on how to pronounce their childs name.In addition,the Grimes mother criticized the billionairein May 2020 for blaring Mens Rights bullshit on Twitter right after her daughter gave birth.

Although Musk actively tweets on Twitter, neither he nor Grimes have posted anything about the break-up on social media.

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Space billionaire Elon Musk and singer Grimes have split up, Musk has announced, adding that they still love each other, see each other frequently, are on great terms, and will share care of their son. Cue social media meltdown.

The SpaceX tycoon and Tesla founder told entertainment-news website Page Six on Friday that, though the pair are semi-separated, they remain close indeed, he said, she was currently staying with him, and Baby X was in the adjacent room. Baby X would appear to be Daddys moniker for X A-Xii, the awkwardly named child the two welcomed into the world in May 2020.

Musk explained that his work was primarily in Texas or traveling overseas, while Grimes real name Claire Boucher was based in Los Angeles. The singer is reportedly filming a TV show for Fox called Alter Ego.

The end of the couples three-year relationship was a hot topic on social media, having been controversial and epic meme fodder since day one.

Some Grimes fans were pleased to see shed dropped the billionaire.

Musk fans also seemed relieved on his behalf that it was over.

The love between Elon Musk and Grimes burned bright and fast, just like the batteries on an exploding Tesla, one Twitter user mused.

Others suggested the pairing had been a sociological experiment

or the breakup a PR stunt.

More than a few felt bad for the child, who will forever drag around the name X A-Xii.

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Grimess dream of one day dying on Mars just became substantially more difficult to achieve after news that she and Elon Musk have broken up.

The Tesla founder confirmed the split, telling Page Six that he and the pop star are now semi-separated after dating for three years. But he added that despite the breakup, they still get along and will continue to co-parent their one-year-old son, X A-Xii Musk. He told the outlet, We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms. Its mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in LA. Shes staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.

The couples last public appearance together was at the Met Gala earlier this month, the fashion event where they also first confirmed their relationship in 2018. Although Grimes walked the red carpet alone, she was joined by Musk inside the dinner and he also hosted an after-party at the private members only club, Zero Bond. While Musk has been working on his businesses in Texas, the singer has started filming a new competition show for Fox called Alter Ego in which she serves as one of the judges. She also recently opened up about her life as a new mom in a video for Vogue, saying, I think having a baby was a big, kind of like, rebirth for me, like artistically. Like, it just, like, I dont know. Being a mother feels weird to say for some reason. I dont, like, identify with that word. Which is also really weird because X, he says Claire, but he doesnt say mama...maybe he can sense my distaste for the word mother.

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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks to the media next to its Model S.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the ongoing semiconductor crisis will be over by next year.

The tech billionaire said he thinks chip shortage is a "short-term" problem as opposed to a long-term one.

"There's a lot of chip fabrication plants that are being built and I think we will have good capacity by next year," Musk said at an Italian tech event that was streamed online Friday.

Musk did not specify which chip plants he was referring to.

Chip heavyweights Intel and TSMC have announced plans to build new plants in the U.S. but they won't come online for several years yet.

Glenn O'Donnell, a vice president research director at advisory firm Forrester, believes the shortage could last until 2023.

"Because demand will remain high and supply will remain constrained, we expect this shortage to last through 2022 and into 2023," he wrote in ablogpostin April.

The global chip shortage has had a major impact on a wide range of industries, but the automotive sector has been particularly badly hit. Big names in the industry such as Ford, Volkswagen and Daimler have all been forced to suspend production at various points and cut their manufacturing targets as a result of a lack of chips.

During the company's first-quarter earnings, Musk said that Tesla had some supply chain issues, before going on to reference the chip shortage.

"This quarter, and I think we'll continue to see that a little bit in Q2 and Q3, had some of the most difficult supply chain challenges that we've ever experienced in the life of Tesla and same difficulties with supply chain, with parts over the whole range of parts. Obviously, people have heard about the chip shortage. This is a huge problem."

Consulting firm AlixPartners predicted this week that the chip shortage will cost the automotive industry $210 billion in revenue this year alone.

"Of course, everyone had hoped that the chip crisis would have abated more by now, but unfortunate events such as the COVID-19 lockdowns in Malaysia and continued problems elsewhere have exacerbated things," said Mark Wakefield, global co-leader of the automotive and industrial practice at AlixPartners, in a statement.

Carmakers use semiconductors in everything from power steering and brake sensors, to entertainment systems and parking cameras. The smarter cars get, the more chips they use.

In 2019, Tesla started producing cars with custom AI chips that help on-board software make decisions in response to what's happening on the road.

Musk said in July that production of Tesla's Powerwall product, a backup battery for the home, was "lagging" as a result of the chip shortage.

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Add CEO of Unbothered to Elon Musks resume.

The 50-year-old entrepreneur was photographed Friday night sipping a drink after landing at a private airport in Los Angeles, Calif. in photos obtained exclusively by Page Six.

Musk appeared unphased as he and another person exited the building. The Tesla CEO looked casual with a jacket over his t-shirt and one hand in his pocket.

The sighting happened just hours after Musk confirmed exclusively to Page Six that he and Grimes, 33, had separated after three years together.

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We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms, he told us, adding that his work with Space X in Texas keeps him traveling while she is primarily in LA.

Shes staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room, he shared.

Musk and Grimes last appearance together was at the Met Gala in New York earlier this month. Though Grimes walked the red carpet alone, Musk later joined her inside the event.

They were photographed leaving the Big Apple together with their dog two days later.

Ironically, the Met Gala is also where the estranged couple marked their first public appearance together in 2018.

Two years into their relationship, Musk and Grimes welcomed a son together in May 2020. The tech guru originally shared the news on Twitter while responding to questions about EPA testing for the Tesla S model.

The couple baffled fans when they announced they named their son X A-12 Musk.

While Baby X is Grimes first child, Musk shares five sons with this ex-wife, author Justine Wilson: twins Griffin and Xavier and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai.

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A self-proclaimed Elon Musk fanboy has managed to accumulate a Tesla (TSLA) position worth over $4 billion. He has been keeping a relatively low profile, until now.

Despite his incredible wealth, Koguan Leo has managed to stay under the radar. A Google search wont bring up a lot other than that he is a graduate of Columbia University and New York Law School, and he founded SHI International Corp, a large IT company.

The company wrote in his bio:

Koguan Leo started and founded SHI International Corp. in 1989. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board. He graduated from New York Law School in 1985 with a Juris Doctor (JD) and Columbia University in 1982 with a Master of International Affairs (MIA). In his honor, KoGuan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is named after him. He is also a Global Trustee Emeriti of Asia Society.

More recently, he made the news for buying the $54 million Singapore penthouse of James Dyson of fame for his vacuums.

The Chinese American billionaire has become active on Twitter as of late, and he comments a lot on Tesla and Elon Musk. He even described himself as an Elon fanboy.

On his Twitter account, he claimed to be the third-largest individual Tesla shareholder:

No public record could confirm this and Koguan Leo claimed that it is due to him holding the shares in several accounts, but he summoned Teslas head of investor relations, Martin Viecha, who confirmed the fact.

Koguan Leo apparently owns over 6.2 million shares of Tesla, which is currently worth $4.6 billion. That would indeed make him the third largest Tesla shareholder behind Elon Musk and Larry Ellison.

While it would be hard to catch up to those two, Koguan Leo says that he is still a buyer of Tesla shares. He went as far as claiming that he will rise and fall with Tesla:

He added that he is currently raising capital to buy another one-million Tesla shares by early next year.

Ark Invest, another large Tesla shareholder, has recently been selling shares of the electric automaker in a rebalancing of their portfolio despite promoting a $3,000 per share target price for Teslas stock.

Koguan Leo says that he will be buying more shares than Ark can sell.

I think we might have found the biggest Tesla bull on the planet.

Its hard to guarantee since his company is private and therefore, its hard to tell how much he is worth but it sounds like his Tesla investment represents a large part of his net worth.

Of course, thats subjective, and I know many people who have the majority of their net worth in Tesla stocks, but we are not talking about 10-figure net worths like this guy.

Whether you think thats smart or not, you have to respect the guts needed to make such a large investment. Congrats.

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On the day that SpaceXs first space tourists launched, Elon Musk was there at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to see them off, cheering as the private astronauts walked to the Teslas that would take them to suit up. And after they landed safely, having orbited Earth about 45 times, Musk was there again to congratulate them in person.

The Inspiration4 mission marked SpaceXs fourth successful human spaceflight, and a SpaceX official says the company wants to fly paying customers three, four, five, six times a year at least. In this eras space race among private companies, Musks SpaceX pulled ahead on essentially every measure but onegiving the CEO a lift above the atmosphere. Branson did it, Bezos did itso why hasnt Musk himself flown yet?

He is, after all, the only person in the world who could, if he really wanted to, fly his own rocket into orbit. He could spend an entire week on the Dragon capsule, just taking in the views. And he could really show up the other space billionaires.

Musk did put down a deposit for a future trip on Bransons Virgin Galactic, but, like Bezoss Blue Origin, the company offers only suborbital flights. (And Blue Origin has argued that Virgin Galactics trips dont really count, because Blue Origin goes higher.) Flying on SpaceXs Dragon capsule, Musk could call himself an astronaut, no question. Surely his staff could quickly whip up a spacesuit in his size, and Musk isnt known to be risk-averse; in 2015, he stood upright atop a flying plane in a stunt called a wing walk. And yet the summer of space billionaires has come and gone, and Musk has remained firmly on Earth.

Only Musk knows why he hasnt gone to space, and hes a hard person to reach. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment, and Musk has not acknowledged a question I posed on Twitter, where he sometimes responds directly to reporters.

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But Garrett Reisman, a retired NASA astronaut and an engineering professor at the University of Southern California, shared with me an anecdote that offers a hint of an explanation. Reisman is a senior adviser to SpaceX, where he previously worked on the companys program to transport NASA astronauts. Early on, Reisman met with Musk to discuss some specifics about future crewed flights. Boeing, which was developing its own system with NASAs help, had decided that its first test flight would carry one NASA astronaut and one astronaut employed by Boeing. (That flight has yet to happen because of hardware and software issues.) Reisman said that a similar arrangement could be good for morale at SpaceX: The chance to become a company astronaut would surely energize the workforce. And he looked right at me and he said, Why would anyone want to go to low-Earth orbit?

Musk looked completely serious. Reisman, whod spent more than 100 days in space, replied: Well, I kind of enjoyed it.

Im sure he would have a great time, Reisman told me. But what Reisman took from that exchange was that Musk doesnt find it so impressive to reach low-Earth orbit, where hundreds of satellites, the International Space Station, and most astronauts who have been to space have spent their time. Musk certainly understands the stakes, and he wants SpaceX to do spaceflight well. After the first astronauts to test-drive the Dragon came home last yearbeating Boeing to the milestoneMusk said that hes not very religious, but I prayed for this one. But he has always been focused on the moon, and on Mars. In Musks mind, humanity should already have a base on the lunar surface, and he founded SpaceX two decades ago because he was aghast at NASAs lack of progress on a Mars mission. Musks goal remains reaching and building a city on Mars, and, as he says often, making life multiplanetary.

Reisman said that if launching on Dragons next flight would mean moving closer to that future, Musk would do it. Hes not only interested in the thrill of it, Reisman said. Musk has said in the past that he does intend to fly on a Dragon one day. But it might be more his style to choose a journey that signifies a major step in human expansion into space. A few former SpaceX employees I spoke with suggested that Musk might board one of the first crewed flights of Starship, the spacecraft that SpaceX is developing to reach the moon and Mars. That would certainly be a bit more momentous.

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Unlike Bezos and Branson, Musk doesnt have something urgent to prove about the capability of his rockets and capsules. SpaceX is one of the most reliable spaceflight companies in the world, and its Falcon 9 rocket is considered an industry workhorse. Bezos wanted to prove that if Blue Origin was safe for him, it would be safe for his customers, but Musk has already demonstrated SpaceXs safety with the launch of professional astronauts. Nor is Musk the showman that Branson has always been and Bezos has becomehe is likelier than not to go off on jargon-laden tangents about rocket engines.

Plus, Musk still has too much business here on Earth. On Monday, soon after meeting with the Inspiration4 crew in Florida, he hopped back into his private jet and returned to South Texas, where engineers and technicians are working nonstop on Starship. Musk wants to launch a prototype into orbit as soon as the end of this year. At the same time, Musk is pushing electric-car development at his other beloved company, Tesla. Unlike SpaceX, Tesla is a publicly traded company with a board of directors. And while Musk hasnt been the best-behaved CEO, space travel would reach a whole new level of going rogue. Bezos stepped down from his role as Amazon CEO days before his flight this summer, and though he told CNN that he could have done this flight as CEO of Amazon and it would have been fine, there was still some speculation that his suborbital trip was deemed too risky for someone in his position. An orbital spaceflight is a different story, with many more risks. I spoke with several former SpaceX employees for this story, and they suspect that Musk probably wont fly to space until he feels that Tesla and SpaceX can do without his personal contributions. Although SpaceXs crewed missions so far have gone beautifully, the work is still dangerousrockets can explode, after alland Musk may have calculated that the hazards, however small, outweigh any potential benefits.

Even if SpaceX reaches Mars in his lifetime, Musk probably wont be one of the first people on the surface. He has said that hed like to die on Mars, just not on impact, and the first visits will be the riskiest. And its hard to imagine Musk, who is known for his outrageously long workweeks, retiring from his other pursuitsor even taking a week-long vacay in low-Earth orbit. If he stays behind long enough, the person who might profoundly reshape humankinds presence in space might not make it there himself.

But you never know with Musk. He can announce tomorrow that hes going to hop on the next Dragon and go to the space station, Reisman said. Who knows? Ive given up on trying to predict exactly what Elon is going to do a long time ago.

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Grimes and Musk were last seen together in public at the Met Gala on Sept. 13. Grimes walked the red carpet event alone, but Page Six reports that Musk joined her inside for the event.

The former couple welcomed their baby boy in May 2020 after two years together. Grimes -- who is currently on the judging panel of new singing competition Alter Ego -- recently revealed that their son has provided her with more artistic clarity.

"I think having a baby was a big rebirth for me, artistically. Being a mother feels weird for me to say," Grimes told Vogue while getting ready for the Met Gala this year, adding that X addresses her by her first name. "X says 'Claire,' but he doesnt say 'mama.' Maybe he can sense my taste for the word 'mother' -- which, I dont even know why I have a distaste for it, I respect it. I just don't ... I cant identify with it, weirdly."

Muskshares five other sons author Justine Wilson -- twins Griffin and Xavier, 17, and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai, 15.

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Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and current second richest man on earth, seems to be upset that President Joe Biden hasnt personally acknowledged his aerospace accomplishments. The SpaceX CEO deployed a Trump-era insult on Sunday to take issue with the lack of praise coming out of the White House following Saturdays landing of his companys historic private mission, as the first all-civilian flight crew safely returned from orbit. NASA officials and rival Jeff Bezos were among those who acknowledged the feat, though the president has yet to comment personally, CNBC reports. His silence appeared to exacerbate Musks frustration with the White House and resulted in the following exchange with a fan:

The tweet is pretty standard for Musk, who historically delights in Twitter trolling. But it also happens to come as Musks other company, Tesla, is on a collision course with the federal government. Tesla is gearing up to offer more car owners an upgraded version of Full Self-Driving Capability, a premium option they can buy to augment the Autopilot driver-assistance system that comes standard with Tesla vehicles. Teslas automation technology has helped it become both the most valuable automaker worldwide, and the subject of public scrutiny. (Just last week, the top U.S. auto safety regulator sought documents as part of an investigation into a series of crashes involving the companys Autopilot feature.)

The enhancement to the FSD software that Musk last week said would soon be available to more Tesla drivers is expected to add a feature intended to help vehicles navigate cities, according to the Wall Street Journal. But transportation officials are pushing back against offering the urban-driving upgrade just yet. Basic safety issues have to be addressed before theyre then expanding it to other city streets and other areas, National Transportation Safety Board head Jennifer Homendy told the Journal. Musk himself recently acknowledged the features shortcomings, tweeting last month that "FSD Beta 9.2 is actually not great but promising that Tesla was rallying to improve as fast as possible.

Part of the controversy around Teslas advanced driving system is that its not fully autonomous, as the term FSDwhich Homendy called irresponsibleand Teslas own marketing may otherwise suggest. Safety officials and lawmakers alike have questioned the extent to which Teslas public messaging misleads consumers on the capabilities of the Autopilot technology; two Democratic senators asked the head of the Federal Trade Commission to probe the mismatch last month. Were consistently hearing that its definitely a work in progress, so its just how do we make sure the public understands its limitations? Reema Griffith, the executive director of the Washington State Transportation Commission, told the Journal.

The National Transportation Safety Boardwhose five members are nominated by the presidentcan investigate crashes and make safety recommendations, but it doesnt have regulatory power. Homendy called on those who do to act accordingly. You can proactively address potential future crashes and future deaths by taking action, she said. Doing investigations after the fact, thats a tombstone mentality.

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