50 h. ago What is Nato? Ukraine's bid to join as Elon Musk calls for US withdrawal

Elon Musk's call for US Nato withdrawal echoes Trump supporters, raising questions about global security dynamics and the future of the alliance

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52 h. ago Vodafone bids to take on Elon Musk’s Starlink after ‘world’s first’ space video call

Margherita Della Valle is close to her second anniversary as chief executive

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52 h. ago Royal Society makes major Elon Musk decision after scientists call to expel him

Elon Musk was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 2018 but has caused anger among its members for 'malicious' behaviour that allegedly contravened the society's code of conduct

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52 h. ago Elon Musk survives as fellow of UK’s Royal Society despite calls to oust tech billionaire

Fellows at the society met on Monday night after 2,400 members signed an open letter alleging the tech-billionaire of spreading misinformation

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53 h. ago Elon Musk survives as fellow of the Royal Society despite calls for him to be stripped of the honour

There has been a widespread call for Elon Musk's removal among the scientific community - which would make him the first person thrown out of the body for over 150 years.

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54 h. ago Elon Musk called out by Jon Stewart over ‘propagandist’ Daily Show claim

‘Quite frankly, that’s bulls***,’ the ‘Daily Show’ host said

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3 d. ago Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts

Howard Lutnick’s remarks echo Elon Musk, who says government spending doesn’t create value for US economyUS politics live – latest updatesHoward Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, said on Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed by billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) could possibly cause an economic downturn.“You know that governments historically have messed with GDP,” Lutnick said on Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures. “They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going to separate those two and make it transparent.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago US may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts

Howard Lutnick’s remarks echo Elon Musk, who says government spending doesn’t create value for US economyUS politics live – latest updatesHoward Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, said on Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed by the billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) could possibly cause an economic downturn.“You know that governments historically have messed with GDP,” Lutnick said on Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures. “They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going to separate those two and make it transparent.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Clash brewing at Royal Society over calls to expel Elon Musk

The entrepreneur has come under fire for posts on his social media site

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3 d. ago US senator joins Elon Musk in calling for withdrawal from NATO

Utah Sen. Mike Lee posted ‘get us out of NATO’ on X on Saturday

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5 d. ago AI predicts FA cup results as Manchester United's 'relegation form' strikes again

EXCLUSIVE: We turned to Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence powered large language model called Grok for predictions for the FA Fifth Round after its Premier League predictions fared well

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5 d. ago Supercomputer predicts FA cup results as Ruben Amorim's Man Utd have chance to bounce back

EXCLUSIVE: We turned to Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence powered large language model called Grok for predictions for the FA Fifth Round after its Premier League predictions fared well

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7 d. ago AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like waysTechno-optimists are evangelizing a vision of “superhuman” artificial intelligence. Dario Amodei, CEO of the AI company Anthropic, predicts within a few years, AI will be “better than almost all humans at almost everything”. Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) is proposing replacing government workers with chatbots in the name of efficiency. And some scientists are claiming that AI can already outperform humans even in domains previously thought to be exclusively human, like empathy, creativity and conflict resolution.It’s true that in several prominent studies, researchers have staged “competitions” in which AI technology appears to outperform humans in these very human areas. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged against us humans. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that t...

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7 d. ago Republicans wrestle with Elon Musk while Democrats call him a ‘d***’ — and worse

Republicans want some restraint while Democrats, Eric Garcia reports, are making Musk their new boogeyman

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7 d. ago TikToker who called for Elon Musk to be assassinated probed by Trump loyalist US attorney

Influencer Sarah C Roberts made the alleged threat earlier this week on her TikTok account, which has been deactivated

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7 d. ago Elon Musk admits his DOGE team 'accidentally cancelled' plan to prevent deadly disease

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been causing chaos in the US by cancelling Treasury payments to contractors without any warnings

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7 d. ago Elon Musk called Trump a ‘f***ing moron’ when the pair met at the White House during his first term: report

Trump has tasked Musk with finding ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ within federal government and agencies despite not being an official member of the administration

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8 d. ago Call to review West Lothian Council's use of Elon Musk's social media platform X

SNP group leader Janet Campbell asked senior managers whether their use of the platform should also be reviewed.

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8 d. ago Succession star Brian Cox calls for wealth tax on real life billionaires like Elon Musk

The Dundonian actor, who played a fictional billionaire media mogul on TV, warned the likes of Elon Musk had too much power over ordinary people's lives.

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9 d. ago ‘We’re being treated as grifters or terrorists’: US federal workers on the fear and chaos of their firings

An educator, archaeologist and scientist were among the thousands of government workers culled by Musk’s agencyThe Trump administration has fired at least 20,000 government employees in its first month, as Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) dramatically overhauls work at federal agencies. Some economists have speculated that these terminations, which could affect nearly 300,000 workers, will be the biggest job cuts in US history.Most of the workers cut were in probationary periods and lacked job protections that come with longer terms of employment. In social media spaces, especially the r/fednews subreddit, these workers described scenes of confusion and feelings of anger directed at Musk, an unelected billionaire dubbed a “special government employee” by the White House. Last week, unions for federal workers sued the Trump administration for unlawfully using probationary periods to cut staff. Continue reading...

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