Media: Elon Musk again richest man in US

Elon Musk has once again topped the list of the 400 richest US citizens, Report informs referring to Forbes.

Elon Musk again tops the list, worth an estimated $251 billion—the exact same as last year, despite a wild 12 months that included him being forced to buy Twitter for far more than it was worth, watching Tesla stock crater, getting into internet spats with the likes of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the foreign minister of Taiwan, challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight—then adding tens of billions to his fortune as Tesla stock came roaring back. Musk is $90 billion wealthier than No. 2 Jeff Bezos and $93 billion ahead of No. 3 Larry Ellison, who added more dollars to his net worth than anyone in America over the past year, some $57 billion, largely thanks to the generative artificial intelligence craze helping push up shares of his software firm, Oracle.

The fourth and fifth positions were taken by the head of the Berkshire Hathaway holding Warren Buffett ($121 billion) and one of the founders of Google Corporation Larry Page ($114 billion).

Microsoft founder Bill Gates took sixth place on the list with $111 billion.

As a group, the richest people in America are $500 billion richer than a year ago, aided by rebounding stock markets and an AI-driven tech boom. They now hold $4.5 trillion in wealth, tying a record set in 2021.