Safety warning issued over Tesla battery system ‘which presents a risk of fire’
US carmaker has launched a replacement programme for affected units of its Powerwall 2 batteries, which are used mainly in homes
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Starship rocket reaches orbit, with SpaceX saying it will pave way for Mars missions
Most powerful rocket ever built blasted off from Texas launch facility and later splashed down in the Pacific Ocean
Can we escape the algorithm? Mark Little is still optimistic
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My SpaceX moon trip was cancelled when the funder pulled out. How could I return to ordinary life?
After months of being whittled down from a million applicants to eight, I got the call: ‘Will you go to the moon with me?’
Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’
End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance
Trump-Xi dinner guests included Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and more
Tech titans Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook were among those invited to a state dinner for Xi Jinping at the White House
Trump is checking out of his presidency
With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself
End Times Fascism: How the ultra-rich not only benefit from crises but endeavour to trigger them
Practised detachment allows privilege to maintain itself, unchecked, write Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
‘I told you so’ will be too late when it comes to AI
Reducing the speed of innovation is going to be hard, both practically and politically, but it is the right decision
If AI has a ‘10% chance’ of killing us all by 2030, should I invest in a pension?
The odds on humans still existing by 2030 are almost 90 per cent. Make the most of it
Message from the Editor: prophets of AI catastrophe
Fears about the dangers posed by the rapid development of artificial intelligence have moved from the margins to centre stage
Will Anthropic’s $2tn IPO make AI safer or more dangerous?
Investor demands could pull against the safety warnings coming from inside the AI industry
Mark Little: ‘Protests against data centres is the biggest wave of civic activism since the 1960s’
The broadcaster turned entrepreneur on messianic tech billionaires, and his new book tracking his journey from tech-optimism to disillusionment to a new cautious hope
‘A lot of ’em can’t even spell AI’: The technology-extinction debate convulses America
An insider’s warning about the power of AI has triggered a spectacular debate in the US
Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter
Claude maker seeks to ease cash burn concerns before blockbuster IPO amid fears over pace of AI development
‘Gambling with our lives’: How talk in AI companies is increasingly turning to doomsday
Researchers in big tech firms are sounding the alarm about the dangers of artificial intelligence
OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development
Rival technology leaders throw weight behind appeal from founder and chief executive of AI company Anthropic
X faces Irish investigation over concerns children not protected from pornography and violence
Media regulator Coimisiún na Meán raises specific concerns at age assurance protocols and parental controls on platform
Social media’s age of the follower is replaced by tyranny of the recommender machine
It’s easy to rage against the machine. It’s harder to propose a viable alternative
Germany’s far-right earthquake leaves Merz reeling with ‘existential shock’
AfD’s historic victory sets clock ticking on Germany’s postwar constitutional order, chancellor warns
The Magaverse is echoing the language of Ireland’s most pro-data centre party
The pro-data centre language of US politicians sounds strikingly familiar to an Irish audience
‘We just don’t want them’: Hundreds gather in a Kildare town over data centre plans
Noise issues in Clondalkin are a cautionary tale – but it’s not too late for Kildare, town meeting hears
Uber to cut 10% of its employees as focus shifts to robotaxi network
Ride-hailing group to eliminate 3,300 jobs as competition rises in food delivery sector and robotaxi race intensifies
Investors shrug, but Meta’s $17bn payout comes with a reputational cost
Child protection case settlement removes offers certainty on what could have been a vastly larger liability
A wickedly inventive political ad is airing in Texas as midterm elections loom
Success of many democratic socialist candidates primary vote cycle has been down to avowed refusal to accept donations from super PACs
Ireland should give Donald Trump a reality check when he visits
His increasingly chaotic rule is causing long-term damage
Ukraine seeks Musk’s go-ahead to use Starlink-equipped drones inside Russia
Kyiv wants to target missile launchers across border but Zelenskiy fired defence minister with direct line to SpaceX owner
The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor
Its water levels have sunk so low that dozens of wrecked Nazi warships have been exposed. It’s hard not to see this as an extreme metaphor
SpaceX’s wild ride shows how quickly markets can change their minds
Technicals and sentiment tend to get downplayed in media explanations of market movements
Inside Intel: how America’s chip champion came back from the brink
The group’s shares have quadrupled, but it has yet to prove itself a serious manufacturing competitor to Taiwan’s TSMC
Most X accounts posting about Belfast unrest were based outside UK
Analysis shows just 4.5 per cent of tweets about Belfast violence came from Republic of Ireland
If Elon Musk is right and AI makes jobs extinct, what will we do with our free time?
Humans have three things the multibillionaire’s machines will never have
After the hype, SpaceX investors return to the numbers
For all the talk of the future, investors still have to account for the present
An 18m crater on the moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problems
SpaceX incident felt like a parable for the move-fast-and-break-things leadership style espoused by the Tesla founder
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