4 h. ago Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world

The president’s billionaire backer was ever-present at the start of Trump’s term but is now pulling back from politics – and Republicans want to keep it that wayThe Oval Office was crowded, with reporters cautioned not to collide with the Resolute Desk. Standing beside them, dressed in black, was Elon Musk, billionaire ally of Donald Trump and head of his government efficiency drive.“Elon is from South Africa – I don’t want to get Elon involved,” the US president told his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, during a discussion about crime against white farmers. “He actually came here on a different subject: sending rockets to Mars. He likes that better.” Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Kamala Harris takes swipe at Musk and warns world to ‘remember the 1930s’ at Gold Coast real estate conference

Former US vice president tells conference ‘I do worry, frankly, about what’s happening right now in the world’Kamala Harris has criticised Elon Musk, noted “it’s important that we remember the 1930s” and raised concerns about AI when speaking to an audience of 4,500 real estate agents at an industry conference on the Gold Coast.The former US vice-president, who is visiting Australia for the first time, was the guest of honour at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference on Sunday. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Tesla reveals ‘insane’ drop in value of used Cybertrucks as 10,000 go unsold

Value crash comes despite Elon Musk claiming they will be ‘appreciating assets’

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6 d. ago Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames ‘programming error’ for Holocaust denial

Grok said it was sceptical of the figure of six million Jews killed by Nazis

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2 w. ago China has a big red button that hurts Elon Musk. But will they press it?

Tesla’s dependence on its Shanghai ‘gigafactory’ gives Chinese officials enormous leverage over one of Donald Trump’s key backers — which could prove an asset in the trade war, writes Io Dodds

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3 w. ago Elon Musk creates his own Texas city dubbed Starbase as he works to colonise Mars

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonising Mars just got a little more real after he won a vote to create his very own city in Texas dubbed Starbase... yes you heard that right

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3 w. ago Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker

Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real worldIt’s tempting to believe that tech billionaires’ embrace of Donald Trump and the far right is a sudden rupture with the usual political ideology of Silicon Valley. Op-eds in the New York Times and elsewhere have made this case. Even Marc Andreessen, one of the billionaires in question, claims that this is what happened – he said that it was a change in the Democratic arty that pushed him and his fellow oligarchs into the arms of the GOP.Yet this is a serious misunderstanding of the situation. There wasn’t a sudden shift in the politics of tech – it was a homecoming. While it’s true that Silicon Valley has long supported Democratic candidates for political office – and that rank-and-file tech workers still vote overwhelmingly for Democrats – the fundamental ideology underpinning the culture of Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists and CEOs has always had a far-right li...

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3 w. ago Elon Musk plays Diablo 4 but game developers say one key thing 'moves the needle' more

As part of our discussion about Season 8 of Diablo 4, we asked the team if the knowledge that billionaire Elon Musk has been playing and streaming the game has caused any change in its popularity

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3 w. ago Musk ‘finds’ his savings: Dems accuse DOGE cuts of saving tech mogul $2bn in tax liabilities

Musk’s role in DOGE ‘may allow him to evade oversight, derail investigations, and make litigation disappear whenever he so chooses—on his terms and at his command,’ the Democrats wrote

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3 w. ago Cyberstuck: Tesla Cybertruck rescued after Elon Musk says it works ‘as a boat’

Tesla boss claimed electric truck could ‘serve briefly as a boat’ and ‘cross rivers, lakes and even seas’

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3 w. ago Elon Musk lookalike hounded by drunk lads outside chip shop says he's far better looking

EXCLUSIVE: An Elon Musk look alike has been dubbed 'Elon Musk from Temu' due to his shocking resemblance to the tech billionaire – social media users have claimed the man looks like Musk, 'if he was human'

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3 w. ago Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit

Section is responsible for enforcing laws designed to prevent voter discrimination, raised alarm about voting rights enforcementUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active cases, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a broader attack on the department’s civil rights division.The moves come less than a month after Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon was confirmed to lead the civil rights division, created in 1957 and referred to as the “crown jewel” of the justice department. In an unusual move, Dhillon sent out new “mission statements” to the department’s sections that made it clear the civil rights division was shifting its focus from protecting the civil rights of marginalized people to supporting Trump’s priorities. Continue reading...

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