Elon Musk

Elon Musk is asking people to believe that his company is going to dominate the AI market of the future, which will be worth the entire value of today’s US economy. Sound likely to you?

The Gemini 7 mission was a reminder that for all the glamour of space flight, it’s important to get the small things right – and that includes the plumbing.

Decisions taken by the department he led to reduce aid to Africa have made the current Ebola outbreak worse. The total effect of what he did will be catastrophic

The car salesman was on social media complaining about a casting decision in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. What Musk showed was that he doesn’t really know anything about classical civilisation

He’s about to list his rocket company on the US stock market, which will make him even richer. With that money in hand, Musk will launch his most audacious plan yet

The penny has dropped for the Reform leader that the social media platform is “becoming a very unpleasant and dangerous place”

Elon Musk's Hitler-praising AI chatbot insisted that the president's 'Open the Fuckin’ Strait' Truth Social post wasn't real

Former Channel 4 boss Sir Ian Cheshire beats Margaret Hodge to role as clamour grows to properly regulate right wing channel

The idea emerged at a time very different to our own, and now the Silicon Valley tech bros have revealed what was true all along – that the notion of ‘progress’ is riddled with contradictions

Documents just released by the US Department of Justice showed relations between the pair were more extensive than previously thought

The CEO of Nvidia has announced a breakthrough in AI systems for self-driving vehicles. Is this a cause for excitement or should we regard it as a warning?

First Musk embraced the global hard right and now, by failing to limit images of child sexual abuse on X, he has added child abusers to his list of fellow travellers

The British public are overwhelmingly in favour of stopping Grok from creating explicit pictures. Meanwhile, do nearly 11 million families really rely on X as their main source of news?

X has been terminally polluted by Elon Musk to the point of making us nauseous

Ministers have defended continuing to use the nudifying app, despite it appearing to have no benefits for them whatsoever

Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale – some of teenage girls – and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will

The billionaire's Hitler-praising AI chatbot is allowing users to remove clothes from people's photos without their consent

2025 has been a wild ride, and in these ten articles, writers here at The New World confronted some of the most important questions of the year

The X owner compared the European Union to the Nazis - just a week after calling for anyone using the label to be treated as inciters to murder

A lot of those ranting MAGA Twitter accounts aren’t based in the US - but the reason for that isn’t what you think

The billionaire has boasted that his much-derided AI tool can now be used to mock your friends for their looks

The X owner's Grokipedia cites the Stormfront website 42 times, along with numerous other unreliable or hate-filled sites

Joyce Carol Oates’s brutal dismissal of the world’s richest man has enraged him – and reminded us of her own brilliance

Luck has played a part in how the world’s billionaires gathered their wealth. The issue arises when they don’t quite see it this way

What Musk calls free speech, I call the promotion of fascism. The Tesla CEO needs to leave our politics alone

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The far right tech guru is supposed to be a genius - so why does he misunderstand the books he loves?

The X founder continues to foment unrest on Britain's streets, yet the UK government appears happy to post on his platform

One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

Tesla’s owner wants a “fight back” to create regime change in the UK. The government must stop indulging him and using his platform

Trump’s reaction to the murder of the conservative activist was to stoke division and threaten his enemies. He has the means to take political revenge – how far will it go?

The far right entrepreneur's social media platform is making less revenue and paying less tax - all while interfering in British politics