64 minutes ago 'Blade Runner 2049' producers sue Elon Musk and Tesla over AI image at robotaxi event

A film production company that helped make “Blade Runner 2049” has sued Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for using an AI-generated image resembling a scene from the science fiction movie to market Tesla’s new robotaxis

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1 hour ago Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one | Marina Hyde

The great and good of US media and politics can’t decide if the lavish giveaway is unethical or illegal. I’m no expert, but it seems off to meFor a guy who has spent his entire life making “I am very rich” the keystone of his personal brand, there is something quite poignant about watching Donald Trump get financially cucked by Elon Musk on stage every night. Musk is much younger, much richer, and has had a much more successful series of hair transplants. But needs must, it seems.As you might be aware, Musk has recently decided to update the tired dystopian fiction trope in which impoverished citizens are forced to compete in deadly gameshows where the winner gets a life-changingly glittering prize, and the losers are killed for sport. In Elon’s rebooted version, the richest man in the ...

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2 hours ago Moment Cybertruck owner puts Elon Musk's 'bulletproof' claims to the test

The Tesla Cybertruck owner ends up making a very costly mistake after shooting his own car to test out Elon Musk's claims that the £77,000 vehicle is bulletproof

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4 hours ago Yellen says isolationism 'made America and the world worse off' in speech to global finance leaders

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election

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16 hours ago Is Elon Musk breaking the law with his $1 million giveaways? Experts weigh in

It’s unclear whether the billionaire is promoting a ‘clearly illegal’ scheme, but the stunt has revealed the scope of wealthy special interests distorting elections

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17 hours ago Trump’s policies could drain Social Security in just six years, report warns

Retirement program might be forced to cut checks as early as 2031 under Trump’s proposed agenda

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18 hours ago Smug Cybertruck owner gets instant karma when he sets out to prove it's bulletproof

Elon Musk has long boasted that his Cybertrucks are bulletproof, but one man saw disastrous results when he decided to test this claim on his own vehicle.

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18 hours ago Harris and Cheney talk economy, women’s health and Trump in Michigan campaign event – US elections live

VP and former Republican congresswoman meet voters in swing state; Trump holds rally in North CarolinaDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is taking a major step to ...

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20 hours ago Trump takes his biggest lead yet in Daily Mail election model beating Harris by 30 points

A slew of polls showing Donald Trump gaining ground or extending his lead over Kamala Harris has had a dramatic impact on his overall chances of winning November's presidential election .

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