Elon Musk flies to Teterboro the week of a key federal AI safety hearing

Elon Musk flew from Hawthorne, California to Teterboro, New Jersey on June 2, landing at 5:09 p.m. Eastern in his Gulfstream G650ER, N628TS, after a 4-hour-33-minute trip. The flight comes at the end of a week in which Musk's own jet made at least eight trips between Texas, California, and Washington state, suggesting a period of intense cross-country activity.

The arrival in the New York metro area coincides with the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee's latest hearing on artificial intelligence liability, scheduled for June 3 in Washington, D.C. The hearing, covered by Reuters this week, examines whether companies like xAI, OpenAI, and Google should face legal responsibility for harms caused by their AI models. Teterboro is a convenient gateway for a subsequent hop to the capital or meetings in Manhattan with investors and regulators.

The trip fits a familiar pattern: Musk's xAI has been ramping up its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis and lobbying federal policymakers on AI regulation. With the G650ER's range, a quick shuttling between Hawthorne, Teterboro, and perhaps Dulles is routine business for the world's richest person as his companies navigate overlapping legal and political fronts.