Elon Musk

Oracle market value jumps more than $290bn on AI surge after ‘astonishing quarter’

Worldview: The maga Caesar has decreed only classical architecture will be used in federal buildings

Shares are still up by half over the past year, despite multiple major earnings misses and shrinking EV sales

September 7th-12th highlights: including Glúin Z; Task; The Donald Trump Show; and Only Murders in the Building

Heads of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple back AI initiative spearheaded by first lady Melania Trump

Billionaire would need to hit a series of market value and profit goals to earn payout

Corporate makeovers can be very expensive and they frequently misfire

Brand has failed to benefit from bounce in electric vehicle sales this year, losing ground to rival BYD

Trump to withhold funding for 15 programs, including several overseen by State Department and USAid

Today’s newest workers have overcome hurdles that would have seemed preposterous to their older colleagues

Tenth time lucky for Elon Musk’s firm as largely successful mission was likely a relief to both SpaceX and Nasa

In the News podcast: Engineer, journalist and AI expert Karen Hao on the true human and environmental cost of generative AI

At Gamescom in Cologne, the world’s largest computer game fair, Outlier Games drew the crowds

‘Billionaires everywhere are used to just making their own rules – Zuckerberg and Chan are not unique, except that they’re our neighbours’

August has given me time to think about how politicians holiday. Most of them do it badly

Will an extra wad persuade the world’s richest and arguably most distracted man to become, well, less distracted?

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Investors adopt wait-and-see approach on Trump tariffs

Move aims to keep billionaire chief executive at the company’s helm

Judge rejected efforts by Elon Musk’s company to dismiss the case earlier in the summer

Concerns are growing that EU officials regulating Big Tech could face US visa bans

Company formerly known as Twitter alleged media regulator engaged in ‘overreach’ in approach to restrictions on some video content

Labour Court hears former Twitter executive is over €16,000 out of pocket each month since failure to sign Musk’s ‘hard core’ email saw his ousted

Number of State agencies rely on controversial former Trump ally’s firm for internet services

Big-name writers Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Paul Krugman and Tina Brown have flocked to the platform

The US president has issued a $10bn lawsuit against the media mogul’s empire – the very one that eased his path to power

Revenue fell 12%, the sharpest decline in at least a decade

Musk is likely to focus elsewhere than on numbers in earnings call, as investment case keeps shifting

Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform

Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life

Posts praising Hitler show the risks of accelerating the nascent technology with little stress testing and few guardrails

Deputy FBI boss Dan Bongino has clashed with US attorney general and was considering stepping down, reports say

Memo released by AG this week concluded that Department of Justice had found no incriminating ‘client list’

Meticulously detailed profile of OpenAI and its controversial leader Sam Altman may help you pick a side in the debate between ‘doomers’ and ‘boomers’

Former NBCUniversal executive leaves platform after two years

New RZ500 brings aviation-style steering to Irish roads – are we ready?

Workforce reductions planned at departments of agriculture, commerce, health and more

‘America Party’ to focus on House and Senate for the next 12 months

Musk criticises Trump’s tax bill as harmful to US economy

Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?