Tesla shares climb as Musk pledges to be 'super focused' on companies ahead of Starship launch

Elon Musk listens as reporters ask U.S. President Donald Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa questions during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tesla shares gained about 5% on Tuesday after CEO Elon Musk over the weekend reiterated his intent to home in on his businesses ahead of the latest SpaceX rocket launch. The billionaire wrote in a post to his social media platform X that he needs to be "super focused" on X, artificial intelligence company xAI and Tesla as they launch "critical technologies" on the heels of a temporary outage. "As evidenced by the uptime issues this week, major operational improvements need to be made," he wrote, adding that he would return to "spending 24/7" at work. "The failover redundancy should have worked, but did not." An outage over the weekend briefly shuttered the social media platform formerly known as Twitter for thousands of users, according to DownDetector. Earlier in the ... Read full article.