Elon Musk

Elon Musk leaving cost-cutting role in Donald Trump’s administration

Billionaire’s work in Department of Government Efficiency upended federal agencies but failed to deliver huge savings he had sought

Trump says he will negotiate tax Bill amid Elon Musk’s criticism

Billionaire businessman says he is disappointed to see ‘massive spending Bill’ that will increase US budget deficit

SpaceX Starship rocket breaks apart in third straight test failure

Elon Musk’s company confirms spacecraft experienced a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ after liftoff

From crypto to private jets: How Donald Trump and his family have profited from the US presidency

US president and his family have monetised the White House more than any other occupants, normalising activities that once would have provoked heavy criticism and official investigations

Why is Trump attacking South Africa over an imaginary genocide?

The intention could hardly be more transparent; the motivation could hardly be more abject

Combative Musk talks stock price over sales, insults over answers

Stock driven more by belief in Musk than fundamentals

How to stop your posts, photographs and other data from being sucked into AI machines

There are ways to ensure your data is not used by social media and search platforms to train their artificial intelligence models

Trump unveils plans for ‘Golden Dome’ missile-defence system headed by US Space Force general

Funding for the project remains uncertain

Trump announces multibillion-dollar ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system

Trump says Golden Dome will protect US from foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons

What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?

Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings

Want to understand what money does to your brain? Look at this photo

Almost everything shaping US politics in 2025 has been about the pursuit of money

OpenAI chief Sam Altman: ‘This is genius-level intelligence’

The tech entrepreneur on the risks and opportunities of AI, his dispute with Elon Musk and why he has the ‘most important job maybe in history’

Elon Musk has damaged himself and shows no signs of stopping

Standing with Trump fell when his money failed to tip an election for conservative supreme court candidate

What do WhatsApp and Signal tell us about the future of media?

Individualised experiences are supplanting the traditional mass media approach

The new White House influencer briefings are a terrible look

These propaganda dissemination sessions are more suited to Pyongyang

Let’s halt this creeping evil that is attention-harvesting: a pedestrian could be naked, or on fire, and the zombies on their phones wouldn’t blink

You wouldn’t send your child out on the M50 to play, so how does it seem appropriate to hand anyone under 16 a smartphone?

Radio review: ‘It sounded like a big mosquito’ - anger over drones fills the airwaves

Radio: RTÉ presenter is a likable substitute for Joe Duffy, while Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy launches an unusual free-speech crusade

‘Great progress’ in the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech

Californian researchers and groups such as Precision Neuroscience are using implants and AI to make advances in ‘voice prosthesis’

Elon Musk turns Tesla’s brutal quarter into a sermon on belief

Tesla boss promises his investors jam tomorrow

Have you got a shouty, negative boss? You’re not the only one

Shouty leadership is in vogue but smart executives do something far more effective

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