By Jonathan Stempel Feb 3 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Elon Musk's bid to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that claimed he waited too long to disclose his purchases of Twitter shares in 2022.

The SEC sued Musk in January 2025, less than a week before President Donald Trump took office. The regulator claimed the billionaire in 2022 amassed shares in Twitter and failed to disclose on time how much his stockpile grew. He later purchased Twitter for US$44 billion, took it private and renamed it X.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his social media and artificial intelligence business xAI in a $1.25tn (£910bn) deal to unite much of his business empire.

Elon Musk has again drawn attention online after sharing AI-generated video that uses Sydney Sweeney’s likeness. The move comes shortly after he faced criticism for earlier remarks about the actor on X (formerly Twitter).

Musk’s lawyers argued that a 55-year old securities law violates the right to free speech.

Reacting to the Hoffman’s exchange with Epstein, Musk jibed on X/Twitter This is how I knew so long ago that Reid Hoffman went to Epstein’s island. Epstein used Reid being there to try to get me to go,

Billionaire Elon Musk has suggested that Monday's series of outages on X, formerly Twitter, may have been caused by a foreign country. Newsweek reached out for comment to X via email on Monday. Musk,

Tesla will “basically stop the production” of its Model S and X electric vehicles next quarter, CEO Elon Musk has announced at the automaker’s earnings call for the 2025 fiscal year. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Elon Musk is trying to take SpaceX public,