Texts, screen grabs, recordings and other records recovered from a search of Rinderknecht’s cellphones and presented in court portrayed a man who was by turns lonely and livid, angry at billionaires and ex-romantic partners while seemingly scared about his own declining mental health.
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Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
The autocrat delights in humiliating so many people, not least tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who once opposed him.
Despite that, the blockbuster IPO has made Musk the world's first trillionaire, minted thousands of new millionaires and saw some shareholders' stakes surpass the billion-dollar mark.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
22 June 2026
Both Anthropic and rival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are set to go public in the coming year, minting thousands of new multi-millionaires.
Tech executives, venture capitalists and business leaders have donated roughly $118 million to a nonprofit called Building a Better California, according to data on the secretary of state’s website.
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Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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