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Elon Musk says there is no point saving money, because robots will make everything nearly free
The argument has a long history and one enormous hole: it assumes the gains from automation reach everybody, which is a political question…
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Musk is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX — and SpaceX’s compute business is now bigger than Starlink
The merger talk is the headline. The number buried in the same results is more revealing: selling cloud compute earned SpaceX $7.5bn in a…
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Starship goes for orbit for the first time today — and loses the safety net it has had for 13 flights
Thirteen test flights, nearly half ending in some kind of explosion, all deliberately kept on a trajectory that would bring the vehicle…
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X sues two creators for farming fake likes to milk its revenue-share scheme. If you earn from posts, read the rules that just changed
X says Bibek Kumar Sen and Jamyang Sherpa ran a network of accounts that liked and replied to each other within seconds of posting, to…
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X detected 1.5 million stolen posts in a single cycle, and moved the money to whoever posted first
Payouts to aggregator accounts have fallen about 80% this year and over $1m has been redirected to original creators. The upgraded Grok…
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Musk puts $130 billion on his OpenAI grievance — the legal question underneath is one the whole AI industry has been avoiding
The number is a negotiating position built on a contested assumption. The question that outlives it is who, if anyone, can enforce a…
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A startup says X abandoned the Twitter name. X says a rebrand is not abandonment, and the law is genuinely unsettled on which is right
Operation Bluebird petitioned the USPTO to cancel the TWITTER and TWEET marks as abandoned. X sued for infringement in Delaware. Both…
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X makes parody accounts say so in the name — the design reason a label failed and a prefix works
A fake giveaway collected 428,000 likes. The fix is not better labelling; it is putting the disclosure somewhere that survives a…
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Musk tells his followers to stop donating to Wikipedia over a “29% on DEI” claim — the Wikimedia budget says something different
Replying to a Libs of TikTok post claiming that 29% of Wikimedia’s $177 million budget goes to equity and “safety and inclusion”, Elon Musk…
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Reid Hoffman is said to be weighing leaving the US, and Sam Altman is watching Musk: what Trump’s win means for the tech leaders who backed Harris
The LinkedIn co-founder gave millions to Kamala Harris, funded E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump and made an ill-judged joke…
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X’s new privacy policy says staff may read your direct messages — so what happened to the encrypted DMs Musk promised?
An updated policy says X will manually review certain DMs to enforce its rules and to answer government requests. Kim Dotcom posted the…
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Six weeks after the first deliveries, a Cybertruck owner has posted its first faults: misaligned panels and a turn signal that misbehaves
Tesla handed over the first ten or so Cybertrucks on 30 November 2023. After about 80 km, an owner known as Nan reported panel gaps along…