#theguardian.com. × What does Elon Musk believe?. The man given free rein by Trump to crusade against the federal government supported Democrats until 2022. But some of Musk’s longstanding positions lead a straight line to his far-right sympathies
#Feb.08.2025
#theguardian.com. × Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid. Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate
#Feb.06.2025
#theguardian.com. × Trump repeats rightwing claim that USAid subscriptions to Politico were ‘payoffs’. As Elon Musk dismantles the agency, Trump claims subscription fees to the outlet could be ‘biggest scandal of them all’
#Feb.06.2025
#theguardian.com. × Republican support for Elon Musk fell significantly, poll finds. Republicans who want Musk and Doge to have ‘a lot’ of influence dropped from 47% post-election to 26%
#Feb.06.2025
#theguardian.com. × US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations. Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
#Feb.06.2025
#theguardian.com. × ‘I can’t order 100 pieces of junk for $15?’: How Trump’s tariff will hit fast-fashion devotees. The 10% levy on goods imported from China closes a loophole used by Temu and Shein. Experts say it may only tighten their grip on Americans
#Feb.05.2025
#theguardian.com. × Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons. Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could ‘cause or are likely to cause overall harm’
#Feb.05.2025
#theguardian.com. × How the world’s richest man laid waste to the US government. Elon Musk has achieved astonishing power in Trump’s administration – and spent the weekend wielding it
#Feb.04.2025
#theguardian.com. × Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg. The actor, who played the Facebook founder in The Social Network, criticised Meta’s decision to scrap factcheckers
#Feb.04.2025
#theguardian.com. × AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years. Meta’s Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars
#Feb.04.2025
#theguardian.com. × Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid. The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
#Feb.04.2025
#theguardian.com. × First Thing: China announces retaliatory tariffs after Trump’s take effect. China also announced an investigation into Google in an apparent retaliation. Plus, the Senate confirms a fracking executive as energy secretary
#Feb.04.2025
#theguardian.com. × Elon Musk says USAid is ‘beyond repair’ and he is working to shut it down. Billionaire says in social media talk that Donald Trump agrees the world’s largest single donor should be shut down
#Feb.03.2025
#theguardian.com. × Senior USAid officials put on leave after denying access to Musk’s Doge team. After standoff, Doge members gained control over access system, letting them to lock out workers and read emails
#Feb.02.2025
#theguardian.com. × Elon Musk’s Doge team granted ‘full access’ to federal payment system. Trump’s treasury secretary gives the world’s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases
#Feb.02.2025
#theguardian.com. × Source Code by Bill Gates review – growing pains of a computer geek. The first volume of the tech baron turned philanthropist’s memoirs focuses on his parent’s struggles to control him – and a painful early loss
#Feb.02.2025
#theguardian.com. × Leaderless FAA begins investigation of Washington plane crash. Former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, a close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quit
#Jan.30.2025
#theguardian.com. × Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m for suspending accounts over Capitol riots. Settlement originates from lawsuit by president against the platform, one of several filed after 6 January violence
#Jan.30.2025
#theguardian.com. × Tesla sees disappointing fourth-quarter earnings amid declining car deliveries. Despite disappointing sales and delivery figures, the company’s stock price has doubled in the past year
#Jan.30.2025
#theguardian.com. × Mexico to question Google over Gulf name change after Trump order. Claudia Sheinbaum says US government does not have right to change name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America
#Jan.29.2025
#theguardian.com. × What video game ephemera tell us about ourselves. Ahead of a new digital archive of video game history, I got to thinking about how the games, magazines and other material says as much about the player as the games themselves
#Jan.29.2025
#theguardian.com. × ‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley. The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
#Jan.29.2025
#theguardian.com. × What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot?. As the TikTok ban hangs in the air, the US investigates the security implications of another mega-popular Chinese app
#Jan.28.2025
#theguardian.com. × How do you solve a problem like DeepSeek?. The US was widely considered the leader in AI, but a Chinese startup has called that dominance into question
#Jan.28.2025
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