"Larry Ellison is very smart," Musk said ... particularly over their dueling space ambitions at Bezos' Blue Origin and Musk's SpaceX. Musk's praise for the tech billionaires comes as the cohort ...

Larry Ellison is the chairman of Oracle (NYSE ... powered self-driving software for its electric vehicles. He also runs SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and a new AI start-up called xAI.

His comments on a podcast come as tech titans are losing billions amid a Nasdaq slide. Musk also said in the interview that the situation in the government was "worse than I expected." Elon Musk ...