Oct 31, 2026
Forbes: $868.5B
SpaceX closed under its $135 IPO price on Oct 30 (−6.4%), taking roughly $48B off the fortune in a day.
Source: Forbes Real-TimeUpdated Nov 1, 2026
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Oct 30, 2026
Shotwell's 2M-share gift moves to escrow
SpaceX's president is giving shares to children's Trump Accounts; Musk's own one-share-per-child pledge is for 2027.
Source: ReutersOct 27, 2026
Oct 23, 2026
Midterm giving nears $450M
Another $77M to America PAC makes him the cycle's largest donor.
Source: ForbesOct 22, 2026
Oct 20–23, 2026
“I got carried away” — Musk on DOGE
On Walter Isaacson's new podcast: money “will not matter,” AI must fix the deficit, “I'm okay with being disliked.”
Source: AxiosOct 20, 2026
SpaceX and Tesla form merger committees
Musk recused; calls a merger “a good idea” with “quite a high hurdle.”
Source: TechCrunchOct 19, 2026
A SpaceX share for every American child
Pledged for 2027 via Trump Accounts — roughly 60 million children.
Source: AxiosOct 15, 2026
The Roadster flies
Revealed at SpaceX McGregor with cold-gas thrusters; production 2028.
Source: TechCrunchOct 13, 2026
Below $1T again
Forbes: ~$977B as SpaceX slides; he had regained trillionaire status on Oct 9.
Source: ForbesOct 9, 2026
Gibney's “Musk” opens in US theaters
Musk called the 235-minute documentary “a hit piece that misses.”
Source: Film overviewOct 5, 2026
Trillionaire again: +$65B in a day
Bloomberg: $1.04T as SpaceX rallies 58% from its August low.
Source: BloombergOct 2, 2026
Shivon Zilis announces their split
“It's hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning.”
Source: Washington PostSept 24, 2026
At the White House state dinner for Xi Jinping
Attended alone; Zilis's later post referenced the evening.
Source: Daily BeastSept 8, 2026
“Musk” premieres at Venice
Alex Gibney's documentary; Ashley St. Clair reportedly turned down a $40M NDA to appear.
Source: Hollywood ReporterAug 26, 2026
Ukraine's Order of Liberty
Awarded by President Zelensky for Starlink's wartime role.
Source: Kyiv IndependentJuly 27, 2026
The largest wealth loss in history
Forbes: $695.7B, about $750B and 52% below the June peak; X bio changed to “(Former) trillionaire.”
Source: Forbes via YahooJune 15, 2026
June 12, 2026
From the wider Musk universe
Oct 31, 2026
Judge lets Clean Air Act suit over Colossus turbines proceed
A federal judge in Mississippi denied xAI's motion to dismiss the NAACP and SELC lawsuit over unpermitted gas turbines.
Source: TechCrunchOct 30, 2026
Shotwell moves 2M+ SpaceX shares into escrow for children
Distribution to Trump Accounts of kids 11–17 in lower-income ZIP codes begins in December; a second gift is coming.
Source: ReutersOct 29, 2026
Musk: Blindsight is “ready,” waiting on regulators
Neuralink's vision implant is engineering-complete per Musk; a speech participant hit 75 words per minute.
Source: TeslaNorthOct 27, 2026
Peter Sellis named head of product at X
The ex-Snap and Discord product leader takes over from the trio that followed Nikita Bier.
Source: Business TodayOct 23, 2026
Grok Imagine releases first 7 minutes of its AI “Odyssey”
Episode 1 of Musk's promised feature-length AI film, made with Wonder Studios; reviews were cool.
Source: TechCrunchOct 20, 2026
SpaceX and Tesla boards form merger committees
Independent directors will study combining the two companies; Musk recused himself.
Source: TechCrunchOct 19, 2026
Musk pledges a SpaceX share to every American child in 2027
Roughly 60 million children would receive stock through Trump Accounts; mechanism not yet announced.
Source: AxiosOct 12, 2026
The X Subscription bundles Grok, Cursor and X Premium
Tiers from $8 to a reported $200 a month, rolled out globally.
Source: PYMNTS