Elon Musk, the world's richest person, is set to be richer

世界首富埃隆·马斯克将变得更富

Global News Podcast

2025-11-07

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Tesla shareholders have approved a record-breaking pay package that could make the electric car company's founder Elon Musk a trillionaire if he can deliver a future filled with self-driving taxis and humanoid robots. More than three quarters of shareholders backed the plan which requires Mr Musk to substantially raise Tesla's market value over a period of years. Also: Typhoon Kalmaegi is weakening but the devastation and lives lost in the Philippines and Vietnam has been overwhelming; Artificial Intelligence and the chatbot which has been encouraging a young woman to kill herself; the Kashmir cricket scandal; and Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the speaker of the US House of Representatives, bows out of politics at 85.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Alex Ritzen, and at 4.30 GMT on November 7, 2025, these are our main stories.

  • Tesla shareholders vote to give Elon Musk what could be the world's first trillion-dollar pay packet.

  • Typhoon Kalmage weakens as it crosses Cambodia, but it's left a trail of destruction in its wake.

  • Donald Trump becomes the big talking point at the UN climate talks in Brazil without even turning up.

  • Also in this podcast.

  • I believe that a chatbot must encourage people to seek professional help and not behave as a friend.

  • A BBC investigation finds an artificial intelligence chatbot advised a young woman on how to kill herself.

  • The world's richest man is set to become even richer.

  • Tesla shareholders have approved an astonishing pay package that could make the electric car company's founder and CEO Elon Musk a trillionaire

  • if he can deliver a future filled with self-driving taxes and humanoid robots.

  • It could be the largest corporate payout in history.

  • And while critics have said it's an absurd figure, eclipsing entire country's GDPs,

  • Mr Musk's backers say it demonstrates Tesla's confidence that he can raise the firm's market value.

  • value significantly over a period of years and be a leader in the new era of artificial intelligence.

  • Our US business correspondent Michelle Flurry told me more.

  • This is someone who was already very rich and now he's just been handed the chance to become history's first trillionaire.

  • He won a shareholder vote that approves a future pay package,

  • which doesn't actually include any salary, but it does include stock.

  • potentially worth $1 trillion if he hit certain performance targets over the next decade.