2 h. ago Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship

Exclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on researchThe Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he should consider resigning his fellowship if he felt unable to help mitigate the Trump administration’s attacks on research, the Guardian has learned.The owner of X, who is also CEO of Tesla and Space X, was elected a fellow of the UK’s national academy of sciences in 2018 for his contribution to the space and electric vehicle industries. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters

Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victimThe north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched by the gods. Bisected by the Tropic of Cancer latitude line, it is deep in the Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles from Honolulu. The island’s steep rocky cliffs give way to indigo blue waters dotted with monk seals and stony coral. No humans have lived on Mokumanamana, but it has the world’s highest density of ancient Hawaiian religious sites.“It sits as a boundary between what Native Hawaiians refer to as ‘pō’, the darkness, and ‘au’, the light,” said William Aila, the former chair of Hawaii’s department of land and natural resources. “When a Hawaiian passes, their soul makes its way from wherever it is in the main Hawaiian Islands, up to the North-western Hawaiian Islands. And at that juncture, at pō, they’re met by their ancestors.” As Aila tells it, if a person has been good, they ca...

Technology

11 h. ago Elon Musk demolishes Trump's latest claim that Democrats created the Epstein files 'hoax'

Elon Musk eviscerated Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president attempted to redefine Jeffrey Epstein 's notorious sex trafficking scandal as just a 'hoax' created by the Democrats.

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17 h. ago Elon Musk launches an AI chatbot that can be a cartoon girlfriend who engages in sexual chat

A sexy AI chatbot named Ani and launched by Elon Musk is available to anyone over the age of 12, prompting fears it could be used to 'manipulate and groom children', warn internet safety experts.

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26 h. ago Elon Musk changed his phone number after nasty split with Trump, Mike Johnson says

Elon Musk was once considered the ‘First Buddy’ before he fell out with President Donald Trump

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26 h. ago Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? | Samuel Earle

The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voterA popular maxim on the American right is that politics is downstream from culture. In the UK, it increasingly feels like politics is simply downstream from the US. With Reform UK ascendant in the polls, Nigel Farage – officially MP for Clacton, unofficially Donald Trump’s emissary to the UK – is setting the terms of the national conversation, and he is importing them directly from across the pond.Over the past few months, Reform has sought to launch “Doge” initiatives (referencing Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency), waged war on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) employment schemes, and called for the UK government to embrace crypto and create a bitcoin digital reserve at the Bank of England, following Trump’s lead. It seems the Brexiteers were right: Britain doesn’t make anything any more – not even its own bogeymen.Samuel Earle ...

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27 h. ago Stephen Colbert on Pentagon deal with Musk’s Grok AI: ‘Such a bad idea’

Late-night hosts discuss AI at the defense department, new Trump tariffs and the Maga schism over the Epstein filesLate-night hosts mocked the Department of Defense’s contract with Elon Musk’s Grok AI, Donald Trump’s White House decor and Maga infighting over the Epstein files. Continue reading...

Economics

27 h. ago Elon Musk changed his phone number after nasty split with Trump, says Mike Johnson

Elon Musk was once considered the ‘First Buddy’ before he fell out with President Donald Trump

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32 h. ago Donald Trump and Elon Musk reunite to win 2025 Castle Douglas Soap Box Derby

The US president and his former DOGE leader – AKA Davie and Alastair Grant from Kirkcudbright – saw off all-comers to retain their crown.

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41 h. ago Top executives depart Tesla after months of turmoil and sales slump

Troy Jones, vice president of sales, service and delivery in Tesla’s North American market, left the firm after 15 years, a new report says

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51 h. ago Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot melts down – and then wins a military contract

It was a week of lows and highs for the tech billionaire after the CEO of X resigned and its AI chatbot declared itself a super-Nazi – followed by scoring a contract of up to $200mHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, saw its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok go Nazi. Then its CEO resigned. In the past three years of Musk’s ownership of the social network, it feels like X has weathered at least one public crisis per week, more often multiple. Continue reading...

Events

52 h. ago Texas Governor Greg Abbott will not release ‘intimate’ Elon Musk emails

‘The release of the deliberations would have a chilling effect on the frank and open discussion necessary for the decision-making process,’ said Gov. Abbott’s public information coordinator

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54 h. ago Elon Musk's Tesla on trial after car on autopilot kills woman as she's stargazing

Lawyers for the plaintiff argue the autopilot should have warned the driver and braked when his Model S blew through flashing red lights, a stop sign, and a T-intersection at nearly 70 miles an hour

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57 h. ago Elon Musk's Tesla on trial after autopilot car kills stargazing woman at 70mph

Elon Musk's Tesla are in court after the death of a student in Florida as a car set in autopilot reportedly hit her at 70mph - the electric car company say the crash had nothing to do with their Autopilot technology

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57 h. ago Nextdoor social site, looking for a revival, pins hopes on partnership with local news providers

The neighborhood social site Nextdoor is hoping for a revival by turning to local news providers

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58 h. ago Ministers unveil subsidies of up to £3,750 in desperate bid to boost EV sales

Taxpayers are pumping around £650million into cutting the prices of EVs until 2028-29 so they are more attractive to drivers.

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59 h. ago Tesla debuts in India with upscale showroom launch in Mumbai

Tesla has opened its first showroom in India, marking the electric vehicle maker’s long-anticipated debut in the world’s third-biggest automotive market

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63 h. ago Four astronauts depart international space station in return flight home

Crew Dragon capsule will parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on TuesdayNasa retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson and three crew mates from India, Poland and Hungary departed the International Space Station early on Monday and embarked on their return flight to Earth.A Crew Dragon capsule carrying the quartet undocked from the orbital laboratory at 7.15am ET, ending the latest ISS visit organized by Texas-based startup Axiom Space in partnership with Elon Musk’s California-headquartered rocket venture SpaceX. Continue reading...

Society

68 h. ago Tesla's Autopilot system is in the spotlight at a Miami trial over a student killed while stargazing

A federal court in Miami began considering Monday whether Elon Musk's car company should share blame for the death of a stargazing university student after a runaway Tesla sent her flying 75 feet through the air and severely injured her boyfriend

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3 d. ago Musk’s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany

Politics of carmaker’s owner has soured sentiments in Grünheide, south-west of Berlin, where the factory promised jobs and revitalisationWhen Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer – who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built Tesla’s European production hub – wrote to the state premier to complain.“How can you do business with someone who supports rightwing extremism?” she asked Dietmar Woidke, the Social Democrat leader of the eastern state of Brandenburg, who had backed the setting up of the Tesla Giga factory in Grünheide. Continue reading...

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