@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-21 12:00:05
Elon Musk will Texas untertunneln
Die Straßen zwischen Austin und San Antonio sind chronisch verstopft. Elon Musk will den Stau umgehen – unterirdisch.
https://www.heise.de/news/Elon-Musk-will-T
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-21 12:00:05
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 11:30:37
Sources: Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-is-expected-to-point-his-money-mac…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-17 23:01:32
Universal says it remains committed to releasing Alex Gibney's Musk documentary internationally, after a report said it was reconsidering; US debut is October 9 (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-docum
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2026-09-21 06:51:21
Lesenswert
Technokratie statt Demokratie - Wie die Tech-Milliardäre an ihrer unheimlichen Weltordnung arbeiten
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/musk-thiel-bezos-wie-broligarchen-die-welt-stuerzen-wollen-537842964494
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 15:24:27
I ask Laura Grego now, what is it that we should all know?
Well, she says, the average person’s experience of space is about to change.
If, so far, that has been “looking at the stars and being full of wonder, full of connection with the universe”,
perhaps noticing the occasional streaking object that was not a shooting star,
now “there are plans for tens of thousands more satellites, which would really change your relationship with what you see in the sky”.
Sp…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-06-22 08:44:38
[OT] FT: #SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI - Triple C score puts Elon Musk's company on par with Russia after 2022 invasion of Ukraine https://www.ft.com/content/a0dd4ea7-ef3d-4
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 07:44:39
El mecha-hitler diciendo que va a hacer una película de "La Odisea" mšs fiel al libro de Homero.... donde los barcos avanzan con viento de proa y las velas apuntando hacia popa. Lo de que el prota vaya vestido como en una carroza del orgullo debe ser un guiño woke.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 02:21:04
Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-07-17 04:42:22
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-08-17 06:23:04
158 Milliarden Dollar Vergütung für Elon Musk — ausgezahlt nur bei Zielerreichung, aber die Zahl steht im Raum. Oliver Nickel rechnet bei Golem vor: Das ist mehr, als Tesla 2025 an Umsatz gemacht hat. Und mehr, als 2,5 Millionen Beschäftigte zusammen verdienen. Wer da noch von Leistungsgerechtigkeit spricht, meint etwas anderes.
#Musk
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-07-18 06:35:05
«Trump und seine Milliardäre:
Den Weg zurück ins Weiße Haus schaffte Donald Trump auch mithilfe einiger Milliardäre aus dem Silicon Valley. Was versprechen sich Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos und andere von diesem Präsidenten?»
Trump ist die gehorchige Zappelfigur für die Web, KI & Bitcoin Milliardäre die Gewinn nur egoistisch betrachten.
📺
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-15 15:24:02
Elon Musk says top US AI labs and "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" should let rivals run a "test harness" on their models to evaluate safety (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/elon-musk-ai-safety-testing.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 18:39:38
Elon Musk threatens to sue over a new doc about him.
But the film festival crowd loves it
Alex Gibney’s documentary “Musk” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday and received a five-minute standing ovation.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to sue over what he says is a hit piece.
A separate film about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes rocked the Telluride Film Festival.
Holmes, now in prison, is reportedly planning her comebac…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-07 04:53:00
KI-Firma von Elon Musk: Aus xAI wird SpaceXAI
Im Frühjahr hat SpaceX von Elon Musk dessen KI-Firma xAI übernommen, jetzt folgt die Umbenennung. Der Name SpaceXAI soll die Zugehörigkeit verdeutlichen.
https://www.
@jake4480@c.im2026-09-18 01:18:01
If AI kills all humans that still includes like, Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, all these guys, so I'm cool with it
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social2026-07-31 19:19:47
@Simone21@mastodon.social2026-08-15 12:06:38
Wenn wir die Dummen sind,
welche die Freiheit der krankhaft Reichen einschränken,
wieso müssen dann Thiel und Musk alles von uns klauen für ihre KI?
Interessante Idee: Europa muss seinen religiösen Analphabetismus bekämpfen, um der kranken Vorstellung dieser "politischen Religion" von Thiel, Musk, Vance, Spahn, Putin und Co etwas entgegensetzen zu können.
#Hörempfehlung
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-08-18 19:57:26
For Elon Musk, Neuralink Blindsight likely merely temporarily serves his current PR needs ("Jesus-level" technology) and as a stepping stone to treating other conditions that are not for a niche market like blindness, or as a stepping stone to mass-market consumer BCI with AI. Musk is unlikely to do anything mature and sustainable for blindness.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-02 04:52:40
U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/usaid-elon-musk-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.01vj.NUMM4XXF8GAx&smid=nytcore-android-share…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-08-19 22:59:17
Musk: George Floyd's Killer Was "Unjustly Convicted" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/musk-george-floyds-killer-was-unjustly-convicted/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-20 11:25:47
Elon Musk Is Expected to Point His Money Machine at Texas Politics (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-is-expected-to-point-his-money-machine-at-texas/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p16#a260820p16
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 16:02:46
Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-09-16 13:51:12
Who would have guessed that Elon Musk's grandfather emigrated to South Africa because he thought #Apartheid was such a good idea?
The Bunker – News without the nonsense: Depraved new world – How billionaires’ sci-fi dreams are wrecking the future
Starting from: 00:13:22
Episode webpage:
@davej@dice.camp2026-09-07 13:58:52
You mean *this* Elon Musk? Must be another Elon Musk. Can't be the same guy, surely? 😒 https://mastodon.social/@leavex/117229474967372485
@seav@en.osm.town2026-07-06 14:34:43
Hmmm. This is a pretty decent take on the current state of #Wikipedia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-14 15:10:59
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-08-16 07:49:04
Ein Konzern, ein Chef, ein Versprechen: Wer bei SpaceX für KI arbeitet, darf laut Musk irgendwann zum Mond oder Mars fliegen. Vorher soll aber erstmal die KI-Sparte 500 Milliarden Dollar einspielen. Größenwahn oder Businessplan? Bei Musk oft schwer zu trennen. 🔗 https://www.go…
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza2026-07-17 07:15:00
I was scanning the headlines this morning for pictures of the Musk Starship's latest big bang and disassembly, but there wasn't anything. Seemingly launch was cancelled at the last possible moment and no new launch date set.
What's happened to "move fast and break things"?
https://www.…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-09 08:29:03
@Speckdaene@nrw.social2026-09-16 10:14:15
@… #Cleantech Warum #Abschalten hier mehr als #Anschalten kostet. Und
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-09-21 21:37:35
Taylor Lorenz is going Elon Musk shill? Shocked, I am SHOCKED. I mean just because she did a interview with Libs of TikTok who would have thoug…wait a minute, I think I’m less shocked now
https://bsky.app/profile/rachelgilmore.bsky.social/post/3mvykugk3s22e
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-08-18 20:27:12
For Elon Musk, Neuralink Blindsight likely merely temporarily serves his current PR needs ("Jesus-level" technology) and as a stepping stone to treating other conditions that are not for a niche market like blindness, or as a stepping stone to mass-market consumer BCIs with AI. Musk is unlikely to do anything mature and sustainable for blindness.
The vOICe vision BCI, on the other hand, has the singular goal of bringing a lasting equivalent of (low) vision to the world
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-08-10 13:04:25
Skulptur af Elon Musk på Skt Hans torv i KŸbenhavn. #DKKunst #elonMusk #københavn
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-09-09 17:51:23
Thank you for signing the pro-human AI declaration!
So far the loudest people on AI have been the billionaires. What's been missing has been a huge people-power movement fighting back and making sure WE the people write the rules -- not Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg!
We are urgently trying to reach one million people before September when the declaration will be delivered at a major AI conference.
Could you share this on every social and messaging network that you are …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-15 05:52:53
"Why do we tolerate Elon Musk’s racist commentary?” asked New York Times writer Jamelle Bouie a few weeks ago:
Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading the same hateful ideology that motivated some of the deadliest shootings and attacks ever to happen on American soil.
It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-07-23 14:42:32
Sounds fake, isn’t: Musk & Bezos are trying to be super villains who are considering killing us all.
“…scientists fear…pollution [caused by Musk & Bezos’ space based data centers] could destroy ozone layer…”
Killing all human life. Can’t human without an ozone layer helping protect from solar radiation.
Could be comparable to Permian-Triassic Extinction: killing 96% of marine species & 70% of terrestrial vertebrates would be bad.
@mlncn@social.coop2026-07-05 19:49:23
It is a terrible icon of capitalism's self-corruption that Elon Musk was the first trillionaire.
It is a fitting coda to capitalism's gross failures that Elon Musk will be the last trillionaire.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-06-25 07:20:57
Die Linke: Es sollte keine Billionäre geben!
Elon Musk: ok :/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-15 20:33:03
Amazons Leo kommt noch vor Starlink nach Südafrika
Elon Musk bietet Starlink in seinem Heimatland nicht an. Amazon.com setzt für Leo auf örtliche Partner. So geht Business in Südafrika.
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-01 23:36:00
Q&A with Economist EIC Zanny Minton Beddoes on her Elon Musk interview, the move away from de-platforming, the growing visibility of Economist journalists, more (Michael Calderone/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/articl
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-04 20:39:24
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to be “unmasked” in a forthcoming documentary
simply titled “Musk,”
and the billionaire Trump ally was said Thursday to be “freaking out” over its impending release.
Musk took an outsized role in the 2024 presidential election,
having contributed more than $259 million to support Donald Trump’s campaign.
Musk also had access to an unprecedented amount of data on American citizens during his time leading the short-lived Department of G…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-07-16 09:55:14
«xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub:
xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat massive Kritik ausgelöst, weil es beim Ausführen in einem Verzeichnis sämtliche Dateien auf xAIs Google-Cloud-Server hochlud.»
So viel zum Thema Suverenität von xAI. Klar ist, dass Open-Source ist schon länger auch Marketing der IT-Konzernen auf die meisten basieren.
🤖
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 12:50:41
Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-09-22 13:30:39
The lie dominating Musk's 2026 political ads (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/the-lie-dominating-musks-2026-political
http://www.memeorandum.com/260922/p32#a260922p32
@davej@dice.camp2026-07-10 10:29:18
Content warning: CW: auspol, Elon Musk, antisemitism royal commission.
You mean this guy? What are the chances?
#auspol #ElonMusk #antisemitism
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-14 07:04:23
Dass sich Anthropic, OpenAI und Elon Musk mal einig sind, kommt selten vor. Jetzt ist es passiert. 😮
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11451543?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 18:06:56
This article is more than 1 year old
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between the billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
“If people like Musk get Trump re-elected, they’ll expect all kinds of regulatory gifts in their favour,”
said Fiona Hill,
who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the chancellor of Durham University and a defence adviser to the UK governm…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-16 16:31:49
A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/elon-musk-antitrust-apple-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-14 09:29:04
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-08-17 09:19:03
„Move fast and break democracy" – Gil Duršn erzählt in „The Nerd Reich", wie aus Sonntagsreden über Freiheit und Innovation ein handfester Plan für digitalen Feudalismus wurde. Thiel, Andreessen, Musk als selbsternannte Erlöser, die zufällig auch gleich die Weltherrschaft mitliefern. Unterhaltsam erzählt, aber zum Fürchten ernst gemeint – lesen!
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-08-03 06:56:10
What's consistently wrong with news media? "No one will be blind ever again: Elon Musk's Neuralink is set to bring vision to humankind" https://www.republicworld.com/tech/no-one-will-be…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-09-07 17:28:37
Während Musk persönliche Lobbotschaften zur AfD sendet und Trump jubelt sagen Deutsche „Russland hat die Wahl gewonnen.” Ja, auch, aber die wahre Gefahr liegt im Westen.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-10 02:15:03
At the start of 2025,
Elon Musk looked as if he was going to become a permanent fixture in American politics.
Strutting across the stage,
giving the Sieg heil!,
the far-right mogul set up shop in the Trump administration’s DOGE dojo
and started chaotically pulling the load-bearing beams out of the civil service
and heisting the private data of an untold number of taxpayers.
In June of this year, however, Musk expressed regret over getting so caught…
@mlncn@social.coop2026-08-12 22:15:39
Other than that major search engines have been trash for a long time, is there a reason that the Elon Musk's fascist copy of Wikipedia shows up in search results near and sometimes even above the original Wikipedia page in DuckDuckGo (which is mostly Bing under the hood)?
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-05 15:55:59
Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to "build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture" (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-will-only-buy-from-nvidia-20…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 21:23:10
Elon Musk has quietly dropped a
$5 million check into Ohio politics,
cutting the mega-donation to V-PAC: the super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy’s bid for governor.
The contribution, dated May 8, 2026, is the first public record of Musk directly supporting Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial run
and adds to a war chest that has already turned the contest into one of the most cash-heavy races in the country.
Ohio political insiders say Musk’s $5 million infusion will invite…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-05 01:30:52
SpaceX reports Starlink subscribers up 100% YoY to 12M, vs. 12.19M est., and monthly ARPU of $66, down from $85 a year earlier (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/elon-musk-says-starlink-could-deliver-most-of-t…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-07-31 09:19:00
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-08-07 14:02:41
Can a brain implant restore vision? Elon Musk says yes https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/tech/416707/can-a-brain-implant-restore-vision-elon-musk-says This is actually a decent news article by not just regurgitating Musk's unsubs…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-27 21:50:34
On Holding Elon Musk Accountable (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/on-holding-elon-musk-accountable
http://www.memeorandum.com/260627/p44#a260627p44
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 23:26:16
Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-08-06 12:17:21
Elon Musk and Russel Vought are mass murderers.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/aid-cuts-avoidable-deaths-study-children-uk-us-donor-countries
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 00:40:58
Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election,
a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office,
the commission's spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel r…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-04 21:10:50
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/spacex-earnings-elon-musk
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-08 04:30:15
Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney has spent his career investigating powerful institutions and controversial figures,
from Enron and Elizabeth Holmes to Scientology and abuses at Bagram and Abu Ghraib.
But he says none compares with the power wielded by his latest subject: Elon Musk.
Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary, "Musk," premieres at the Venice Film Festival this week ahead of an October theatrical release from Bleecker Street.
The filmmaker s…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-17 03:11:28
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/inside-the-whi
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-26 03:40:50
Elon Musk ordered to give deposition in alleged 'vote buying' election scheme (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5941842-musk-america-pac-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p140#a260625p140
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-14 23:17:20
After reading Jill Lepore’s
"The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one.
I’d set the dial to some night in the late 1970s or ’80s and visit the boyhood rooms of the Silicon Valley titans Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman.
Then I’d confiscate all of their science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein—all of it.
As young people, the future billionaire…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-08-16 19:38:28
I'd like to set the bar for Elon Musk's upcoming Neuralink Blindsight brain implant ahead of time. What benchmarking videos of a blind user of The vOICe vision BCI would challenge Neuralink Blindsight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewuFviiSs
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-24 20:30:44
At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-officially-enters-musk-era
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-07-28 09:19:01
Elon Musk hält sich für Han Solo, ist aber eher ein Sith – und liest "Neuromancer" als Bedienungsanleitung statt als Warnschild. Christian Stöcker bringt es in seiner Kolumne herrlich auf den Punkt: Aus der Dystopie wird der Businessplan. Pflichtlektüre für alle, die die KI-Fürsten verstehen wollen. #Neuromancer
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-07 14:23:14
A far-right leader who has won an important state election in Germany has
thanked Elon Musk for his support,
as voices in Europe warn the result is a serious moment for the continent.
No far-right party has led or formed a government in Germany since the defeat of nazism at the end of the second world war.
Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative für Deutschland’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X
after the tech billionaire said “Well done!” in German to the AfD co-fou…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-17 22:00:57
It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X (Ned Resnikoff/Public Comment)
https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit-elon-musk-s-x
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p111#a260817p111
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-11 02:15:52
How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/see-how-a-tesla…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-04 20:54:51
Geoffrey Hinton,
the Nobel prize-winning godfather of AI,
offers a specific use case: leveraging the data into an unfair campaign advantage.
“It’s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,”
he says onscreen.
“If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections
and you wanted to use AI,
all you needed to do was get detailed information on U.S. citizens.
And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do.”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-30 23:25:47
Sources: Zelenskyy asked Trump to secure Elon Musk's permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia, but Trump was noncommittal (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/07/zele…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-31 00:34:02
Elon Musk is ready to really throw his weight around for the midterm elections in November.
Musk has authorized his super PAC to spend as much as $120 million helping Republicans, according to a new report from the New York Times.
In May, it was reported Musk had already spent $85 million on this cycle, making him the third-largest donor for the midterms to that point.
Musk’s PAC, known as America PAC, will focus on the so-called ground game -- knocking on doors and helping …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-28 13:46:04
USA: SpaceX darf neue Starlink-Router nun doch verkaufen
Die US-Regierung hat dem Unternehmen von Elon Musk erlaubt, seine nicht in den USA produzierten Router nun doch zu verkaufen.
https://www.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-06-29 15:08:31
Elon Musk's bandwidth argument for Neuralink has a problem: the brain itself https://glitchwire.com/news/elon-musks-bandwidth-argument-for-neuralink-has-a-problem-the-brain-itself/ The 10 bits per second problem (for decision m…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-13 00:33:54
Elon Musk’s America PAC has dropped $100 million to support the GOP
in critical races that could control the future of the Senate.
It includes TV commercials, digital ads, and a social media blitz across platforms Musk owns and platforms he doesn’t.
The eleventh-hour push is a brazen attempt to stoke the anti-trans moral panic and turn equal rights for transgender people into a make-or-break campaign issue.
“The PAC’s emphasis on trans issues is striking because that’…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-29 14:16:05
Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be "neutral"; Musk says he "couldn't care less" (Amir Efrati/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-01 02:58:25
Elon Musk plans to spend $100 million to $120 million to help Susan Collins, as well as other Republican candidates in close Senate races.
Collins, who recently got a new Democratic challenger in former state Senator Troy Jackson, has an uphill battle to keep her seat in the blue state of Maine.
In addition to Maine, Musk’s super PAC, America PAC, plans to spend money in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, and Michigan,
all states with Senate contests where Democrats are polling well.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-26 06:49:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-01 19:51:28
US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning "nudify" apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/judge-denies…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 06:26:35
SpaceX aborted the thirteenth mission of its heavy-lift Starship rocket on Thursday, moments before ignition on the launchpad.
The company stated it is currently unaware why its automated systems halted the launch sequence at zero countdown at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility on the eastern coast of Texas.
CEO Elon Musk noted in a post on X that
«Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort,»
though he did not specify the cause of the failure…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-07 08:42:28
Was ist eigentlich aus Elon Musks großem Wikipedia-Konkurrenzprojekt geworden? Die Antwort ist ernüchternd: praktisch nichts mehr. 😅
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11402428?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitra…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-07 00:40:40
A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/0…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-14 20:10:49
Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-ai-altman-openai-dario-amodei-anthropic-regulations…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-16 02:24:29
In his new book,
"The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy",
journalist Gil Duršn warns that Silicon Valley’s richest and most powerful technologists are working to replace American democracy with a corporate-run authoritarian order.
Marisa Lagos speaks with Duršn about Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, the rise of “tech fascism,” and how we can fight back.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-12 17:21:04
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying "Dario is right" (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/12/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-seeks-immediate-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-15 16:27:06
Let’s talk about the billionaires
— the folks cutting the line while the rest of us pay the bill.
They don’t need another champion in Congress.
I’m not going to the Senate to fight for guys like Elon Musk,
and I don’t believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest people on the planet.
That might not be a popular opinion in Washington, but here in Maine, the vast majority of folks would agree.
Except Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has hardly met a billionaire…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-11 01:05:51
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacex
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-31 00:48:07
Elon Musk has reposted versions of the far-right slogan
"first the traitors, then the invaders,"
which anti-immigrant extremists use to argue that people who support immigration should be targeted before immigrants themselves
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-10 09:05:58
Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/hist
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-08 18:05:57
Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-grok-new-model
