Elon Musk

Tolkien: the original Greta Thunberg-style eco‑warrior or a proto‑Elon Musk?

Those who love what the writer really stood for despair at the misuse and misunderstanding of his works

‘I only ever heard Jeremy speak in Mark Zuckerberg’s voice until his last day of shooting’

Aaron Sorkin’s new film, The Social Reckoning, dramatises Frances Haugen’s whistle-blowing on Facebook and Meta’s approach to business

Elon Musk’s ‘X’ loses High Court challenge over Irish regulator’s handling of complaints

X argued that Coimisiún na Meán was acting beyond its powers

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

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

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

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

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