Elon Musk

Social media site is notably different in tone to X

Unthinkable: Regulating generative AI is important in its own right, but it’s also a dummy run for the existential threat of artificial general intelligence. This will go beyond mimicking human intelligence to conquering it

It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person

As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible

The pronatalist movement has roots in creepy tradwife visions, but does that matter if it leads to financial supports for families?

Europe’s bloated governments need the tech entrepreneur’s efficiency revolution much more than Washington does

EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’

Global stocks rise as hedge fund manager picked for top economic position

Another week, another new social media app. Could this one be a keeper or will it degenerate like its once-enjoyable forerunners?

Xerotech’s Dr Barry Flannery on Musk, Trump and the challenges of building a high-tech manufacturing business in Ireland

Incoming US president will not be all the tech industry is hoping for once he is in power

Howard Lutnick has said it is ‘nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense’

Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads

Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m

Melania won’t be spending much time in the White House, but someone else seems eager to fill the role of the president-elect’s helpmeet

Musk has been a near constant presence around the president-elect, including sitting in Trump on a call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Tesla’s rocketing share price indicates investors expect incoming president to return the favour

‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’

Planet Business: Mattel’s red face, Donald Trump’s wild appointments and the concept of a Minister for Loneliness

Elon Musk’s participation in Donald Trump’s post-election telephone call to Volodymyr Zelenskiy from Mar-a-Lago was chilling, because two years ago Musk tweeted a 'peace plan' for Ukraine that espoused Vladimir Putin’s demands