New twist in the Musk-Twitter file.
According to the Bloomberg agency, the billionaire would have sent the board of directors of the social network a takeover offer.
Elon Musk had been seeking to cancel his acquisition of Twitter, signed in April, since July.
The two parties must face each other in court in a trial organized from October 17 in the state of Delaware.
Another surprise, the new offer from Elon Musk would be at an identical price to the offer initially accepted in April.
It is 54.20 dollars per share, which valued the American company at 44 billion dollars.
Bloomberg's article sent Twitter stock soaring, suddenly rising 18% on Wall Street.
Its course was immediately suspended "
pending further information
".