Elon Musk

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions

AI + ML09 Jan 2026 | 116

Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer

With no hardware for sale and no local service agreement, SpaceX’s move looks more like politics than philanthropy

Off-Prem05 Jan 2026 | 73

California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims

Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law'

AI + ML17 Dec 2025 | 25

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill

Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many

Legal17 Dec 2025 | 55

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency

Legal05 Dec 2025 | 105

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Opinion Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares

Personal Tech14 Nov 2025 | 107

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew

Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft

Science10 Nov 2025 | 65

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached

Behold the one trillion dollar man

AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 67

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

Scratch Grokipedia and Wikipedia bleeds

AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 98

SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb

Comment Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing

Science16 Oct 2025 | 121

UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X

Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation

Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 67

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42

Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors

Public Sector25 Sep 2025 | 19

xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups

Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors

Public Sector29 Aug 2025 | 26

Foxconn says EV sales are so slow it's converting a factory to build AI servers instead

Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons

AI + ML05 Aug 2025 | 16

Tesla starts sort-of Robotaxi service in San Francisco by invite only

There's a driver at the wheel

AI + ML31 Jul 2025 | 17

Trump promises he won't put his boot on Musk's neck

We're all businesspeople here, right?

Public Sector24 Jul 2025 | 27

Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…

Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 22

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 98

Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator

Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?

Science10 Jul 2025 | 62

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant

No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button

Personal Tech09 Jul 2025 | 29

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

Comment Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales

On-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 144

Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends

They're fighting like cats and DOGEs

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 144

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

No matter who wins, the US EV industry is likely to lose, expert tells us

Public Sector05 Jun 2025 | 154

X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it

Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads

Security03 Jun 2025 | 89

Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights group

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws

AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9

Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing

18F says the whole thing was political

Public Sector29 May 2025 | 40

Trump tariffs ruled illegal within minutes of Musk announcing end of government role

World War Fee Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged

Public Sector29 May 2025 | 153

Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok

Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too

AI + ML28 May 2025 | 6

SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again

Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either

Science28 May 2025 | 79

Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'

Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?

AI + ML16 May 2025 | 123

Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened

Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involved

Public Sector16 May 2025 | 17

Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus

Updated Newly completed substation will help bear the load

AI Infrastructure Month08 May 2025 | 40

India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity

Networks07 May 2025 | 12

Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning

Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US

Databases06 May 2025 | 32

Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted

House Oversight probes missing Musk disclosures, background checks, data mess at NLRB

Public Sector01 May 2025 | 101

X marks the drop for European users

Xitter sheds EU users. Musk's Grok suggests 'misinformation, hate speech, and a perceived decline in content moderation' to blame

Personal Tech01 May 2025 | 47

DOGE may help Elon Musk's biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe

Dem Sens demand action to stop SpaceX oligarch from turning watchdogs into corporate yes-men

Public Sector28 Apr 2025 | 71

Elon Musk's X revenues in the UK crashed in 2023, down 66%

Latest profit and loss accounts carry scars of ad spending exodus, but things improving. Maybe not everywhere though

Personal Tech28 Apr 2025 | 93

AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI's profit pivot

Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab

AI + ML23 Apr 2025 | 4

Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet

Officials seek assurances that bot won't be used for military applications

Offbeat23 Apr 2025 | 76

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe

Public Sector22 Apr 2025 | 110

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

Opinion I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous

AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 71

Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern

Comment On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts

Public Sector20 Apr 2025 | 303

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Updated Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes

Public Sector18 Apr 2025 | 67

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly

Bootnotes17 Apr 2025 | 115

All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge

Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez

Public Sector15 Apr 2025 | 18

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 34

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 67

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

Comment Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for

AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 142

Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales

Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government

Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 49

Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line

Science19 Mar 2025 | 75

CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay

DOGE efficiency in action

Public Sector18 Mar 2025 | 50

Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit

CSO17 Mar 2025 | 126

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts

Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 337

Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly

Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail

AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 33