44 h. ago Elon Musk’s $9B Neuralink told federal government it’s a ‘small, disadvantaged business’

The company hopes to give 20 to 30 people brain implants by the end of the year

Politics

48 h. ago Elon Musk’s $9bn Neuralink told federal government it’s a ‘small, disadvantaged business’

The company hopes to give 20 to 30 people brain implants by the end of the year

Politics

49 h. ago Elon Musk unveils new AI ‘companion’ inspired by 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight

The tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence offshoot xAI debuted the new features, allow users to interact with animated characters, on Monday

Politics

50 h. ago Explosion at LA law enforcement training facility kills three people

Pam Bondi says federal agents at scene of explosion as reports say three killed were sheriff’s deputiesAn explosion at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles has killed at least three people.The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, told reporters that federal agents were at the scene of Friday’s explosion and were working to learn more. She said her information came from US attorney Bill Essayli’s office, whose jurisdiction includes Los Angeles. Continue reading...

Events

59 h. ago Elon Musk leaps to Donald Trump’s defense following WSJ ‘hit piece’

The Wall Street Journal report alleges that the president wrote the cryptic birthday card two decades ago, wishing that every day ‘be another wonderful secret’

Events

62 h. ago Elon Musk backer Vy Capital closes to outside investors after windfall

Secretive tech investment group has racked up gains after backing companies such as SpaceX and xAI

Economics

68 h. ago OpenAI's advisory board calls for continued and strengthened nonprofit oversight

An advisory board convened by OpenAI says it should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing is “too consequential” to be governed by a corporation alone

Politics

3 d. 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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3 d. 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

3 d. 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.

Politics

3 d. 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.

Politics

4 d. 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

Politics

4 d. 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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4 d. 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

4 d. 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

Politics

4 d. 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.

Politics

4 d. 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

Politics

5 d. ago Why Britney Spears really made a wild adoption announcement amid fears over her reunion with son Jayden

The troubled singer, 43, who is mom to sons Sean and Jayden with Kevin Federline, told followers she had 'adopted a beautiful baby girl' named Lennon London Spears in a since deleted post.

Politics

5 d. 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

5 d. 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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