The case is the first suit related to fatal crashes involving the electric vehicle company’s Autopilot system to go to trial.

The case stems from a fatal accident in 2019 involving a Tesla Model S sedan. Previous cases involving Autopilot had been settled or dismissed.

The Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth has been fixated on buzzwords like “warfighting” and “warfighters,” and adopting new AI tools is part of that mission, according to leaders at the agency. And Monday’s press release was filled to the brim with similarly grandiose language.

The Department of Defense is set to begin using Elon Musk's controversial chatbot Grok, according to a Monday announcement by the tech billionaire's startup xAI.

The Texas Newsroom, which is investigating Musk’s influence over the Texas government, asked the governor’s office in April to share emails with the billionaire dating back to last fall. Though the governor’s office accepted a fee of $244 to gather the records, The Texas Newsroom reports that it later refused to follow through on the request

The Texas governor's office cited legal language that it could withhold "intimate and embarrassing" information — in this case, financial information.

Greg Abbott's office won't turn over emails between Abbott and Elon Musk or representatives of Musk-run entities, citing content within that is private, not of interest to the public and potentially "embarrassing" or "intimate.