Elon Musk has previously criticized NASA's Artemis moon exploration program as being "extremely inefficient."
Tesla rivals BYD, Geely, and Great Wall have all said they will integrate Deepseek's AI model into their in-car software in recent weeks.
BYD unveiled a massive expansion of its "Gods Eye" intelligent driving system on Monday as the car giant looks to win the brutal EV battle.
Ford and GM have given up on robotaxis over cost and profitability concerns, the CEO of autonomous driving company May Mobility told BI.
Officials are "immediately suspending" approvals for a $5 billion EV charger program, according to a memo released on Thursday.
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WeRide CFO Jennifer Li told Business Insider that China's high-tech EV industry was giving its robotaxi firms a major advantage.
The Volvo Cars boss Jim Rowan echoed Elon Musk, telling Business Insider he disagreed with the idea that governments should subsidize the EV industry.
The automaker's sales tumbled in Germany and France, down 59% and 63% last month according to industry data.
Uber's fourth-quarter operating profit rose 18% to $770 million but fell well short of the $1.2 billion forecast by analysts, hitting shares.
The Japanese automaker announced on Wednesday that it would build a new EV and battery factory in Shanghai, after Tesla did the same in 2019.
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Elon Musk called South Africa's Black empowerment laws "openly racist," potentially threatening SpaceX's drive to win approval for Starlink services there.
President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico and a 10% levy on China on Saturday.
Share prices for car makers including Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Volkswagen fell after Donald Trump announced tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China.
Tesla has made billions off electric cars its rivals aren't selling, but President Donald Trump's anti-EV policies put that revenue stream at risk.
In an online forum for shareholders ahead of Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings, investors clamored for details about Elon Musk's robotaxi rollout.
DeepSeek threatens to disrupt the AI sector in a similar way to how Chinese companies have already upended industries such as EVs and mining.
Sam Altman hailed the Chinese firm's low-cost AI model as "impressive" and said OpenAI would accelerate the release of "better models" in response.
DeepSeek is technically better than ChatGPT if you look at some obscure AI benchmarks. But most users won't care; the models can do the same things.
"We actually no longer call it EV. We call it EIV. 'I' stands for intelligent," Pan Jian, a cochair of CATL, told a WEF panel in Davos, Switzerland.
The "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of Elon Musk's Starship sparked chaos as some airspace throughout the Caribbean was closed for an hour and a half.