Elon Musk says the Securities and Exchange Commission wants him to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed — or failed to disclose — about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bo

Austin-based tech billionaire and soon-to-be DOGE co-chair Elon Musk is taking jabs at outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler after he said the agency demanded he pay up to settle charges related to his purchases of shares of what was then known as Twitter in 2022.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week has reopened an investigation into Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink, according to a letter shared by Musk on Thursday on social media platform X.

Elon Musk renewed his longstanding feud with the Securities and Exchange Commission by posting a letter that said the agency is investigating his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink Corp.

The Dec. 12 letter from Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro and addressed to outgoing SEC Chair Gary Gensler also noted that the commission had issued a settlement demand and that Musk had been given 48 hours to accept a a monetary payment or face charges on multiple counts.