Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts. Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts. Elon Musk's Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than da Vinci Thu 20 Nov 2025 23.25 ESTLast modified on Thu 20 Nov 2025 23.27 EST Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts that have called into question the bot's objectivity. Users on X using the artificial intelligence chatbot in the past week have noted that whatever the comparison - from questions of athleticism to intelligence and even divinity - Musk would frequently come out on top. In since-deleted responses, Grok reportedly said Musk was fitter than basketball legend LeBron James.

Musk becomes world's first half-trillionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk has become the first person ever to achieve a net worth of more than $500bn (£370.9bn), The tech magnate's net worth briefly reached $500.1bn on Wednesday afternoon New York time, before dipping slightly to just over $499bn later in the day, the Forbes billionaires index reported. Alongside Tesla, valuations of his other ventures, including the artificial intelligence start-up xAI and rocket company SpaceX, have also reportedly climbed in recent months. According to Forbes' billionaires index, Oracle founder Larry Ellison is the world's second richest person, with a fortune of about $350.7bn. Mr Ellison briefly overtook Musk last month after shares in Oracle soared by more than 40%, boosted by the firm's surprisingly rosy outlook for its cloud infrastructure business and artificial intelligence (AI) deals.

Larry Ellison, the co-founder of software company Oracle, is having a good year. His friend Donald Trump is in the White House, his son David Ellison has taken over the storied media company CBS, and on Wednesday he surpassed his buddy Elon Musk to win the title of the "world's richest man". Oracle's stock went wild with the news, pushing his fortune even higher. Ellison's net worth shot up to $393bn, surpassing Musk's $384bn - although, by the time markets closed on Wednesday, Musk was back ahead. Ellison is not as much of a household name as Musk, but he's largely influential in Silicon Valley and more recently, politics.

Larry Ellison briefly tops Elon Musk as world's richest person Elon Musk briefly lost his title as the world's richest person to Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle and an ally of US President Donald Trump. Ellison's wealth surged to $393bn (£290bn) on Wednesday morning, surpassing Musk's $385bn (£284bn), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The jump came after shares in Oracle, which make up a significant part of Ellison's fortune, soared more than 40%, boosted by the database software company's surprisingly rosy outlook for its cloud infrastructure business and artificial intelligence (AI) deals. But the firm's share price had shed some of those gains by the end of the day, putting Musk back on top. Before briefly losing it to Ellison, Musk had held the title of world's richest person for nearly one year.

Larry Ellison, the chair and chief technology officer of Oracle, is a supporter of Donald Trump and has regularly appeared at the White House. Larry Ellison, the chair and chief technology officer of Oracle, is a supporter of Donald Trump and has regularly appeared at the White House. Oracle co-founder's shares rose by 40% in early trading, valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk's $384bn US tech billionaire Larry Ellison is neck-and-neck with Elon Musk in the contest to be the world's richest person after briefly overtaking the Tesla chief executive on Wednesday Ellison's wealth surged after Oracle, the business software company in which he owns a stake of 41%, reported better than expected financial results. Oracle shares rose by more than 40% in early trading, at one point valuing the business software company at approximately $960bn (£707bn) and Ellison's stake at $393bn, just ahead of Musk's fortune of $384bn, according to Bloomberg's billionaires index. However, Ellison's lead was short-lived as the stock closed at $328, a rise of 36% valuing Ellison's shareholding at $378bn and putting Musk back ahead.

This week in tech news, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are back at it, warring over the passage of the president's sweeping tax bill and the Tesla CEO's threat to create a third political party. Whether the richest person in the world is successful in those efforts will largely depend on the recruitment of another star politician. In other news, we want to know if you use generative artificial intelligence to write your personal messages – in what circumstances, and how often? Email tech.editorial@theguardian.com to let us know. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have reignited their feud after the passage of the president's sweeping tax bill on 3 July.

In autumn 2021, a man made of blood and bone made friends with a child made of "a billion lines of code". Google engineer Blake Lemoine had been tasked with testing the company's artificially intelligent chatbot LaMDA for bias. A month in, he came to the conclusion that it was sentient. "I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person," LaMDA – short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications – told Lemoine in a conversation he then released to the public in early June. That it knew how it felt to be sad, content and angry.

Bill Gates stopped working full-time at Microsoft in 2008 and stepped down as chairman in 2014. Over the course of nearly two decades, Gates has shifted his focus from personal computers to philanthropy. Yet despite easing his workload at Microsoft and his dedication to giving away money, Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. As of Nov. 16, Gates has a net worth of $110 billion, according to Bloomberg. Gates narrowly unseated Amazon head Jeff Bezos, who's worth approx.

Amazon is launching a new conference focused on robotics, space and artificial intelligence. The re:MARS conference, which stands for machine learning, automation, robotics and space, is slated to take place at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas on June 4th through the 7th. It will be open to the public and is set to include'visionary talks, interactive workshops, technical deep dives, roundtables, hands-on demos, and more,' an Amazon statement said. Amazon's re:MARS conference, which stands for machine learning, automation, robotics and space, is slated to take place in Las Vegas on June 4th through the 7th The conference grew out of a private, invite-only event, called Mars, hosted by Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos in recent years. 'We're at the beginning of a golden age of AI,' Bezos said in the statement.

The CEO and founder of Amazon.com is listed as the world's richest person with a net worth of $105billion. Thanks to a surge in Amazon's share price, the 53-year-old added $34.2 billion to his wealth in 2017 to round out a standout year for the tech and retail giant. The Seattle-based company has grown from its online retail roots to cloud computing, streaming video, artificial intelligence and more. Amazon's shares have recently been boosted by its acquisition of grocery chain Whole Foods. The firm has also expanded its line-up of devices tapping into its digital assistant Alexa.