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Tesla discontinues Model X and S vehicles as Elon Musk pivots to robotics

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High hopes for Optimus robot help company beat forecasts despite yearly revenue decline and flailing car businessIn the clearest sign yet that Tesla is pivoting away from its electric car business, CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday’s investor call that the company would discontinue production of its Model X SUV and Model S full-size sedan.“It’s […]

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SpaceX mulls $1.5tn IPO timed to ‘align with Musk’s birthday and the planets’

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World’s richest person targeting symbolic date in June for flotation of rocket companyElon Musk’s SpaceX is considering a flotation valuing the rocket company at $1.5tn (£1.1tn) that will reportedly be timed for early summer to coincide with a planetary alignment and the multibillionaire’s birthday.The world’s richest person is targeting a symbolic date of mid-June for

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EU launches inquiry into X over sexually explicit images made by Grok AI

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Investigation comes after Elon Musk’s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to ‘strip’ photos of women and childrenEurope live – latest updatesThe European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible child sexual abuse material by the platform’s AI chatbot feature, Grok.The

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Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter’s death – and why a social media ban won’t work

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Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father explains why he backs a different approachIan Russell describes his life as being split into

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AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed | Heather Stewart

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Tech could lose its social acceptance unless it makes people’s lives better – and trade unions want an urgent conversation “Who wouldn’t want a robot to watch over your kids?” Elon Musk asked Davos delegates last week, as he looked forward with enthusiasm to a world with “more robots than people”.Not me, thanks: children need

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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

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Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniersThe latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia

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SpaceX lines up Wall Street banks as Musk eyes blockbuster IPO

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US aerospace tech company reportedly held talks last year over private share sale that values business at $800bnElon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly lining up four Wall Street banks to help the company list on the stock market as investors prepare for an expected rush of US tech listings.SpaceX is considering Bank of America, JP Morgan,

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Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk’s chosen court

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Journalists and advocates have been trying to grasp how many victims in total were harmed by Grok’s nudifying scandal after xAI delayed restricting outputs and app stores refused to cut off access for days. The latest estimates show that perhaps millions were harmed in the days immediately after Elon Musk promoted Grok’s undressing feature on

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Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images this month, research says

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Estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk’s AI image generation tool sparked international outrageGrok AI generated about 3m sexualised images earlier this month, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, according to researchers who said it “became an industrial scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material”.The estimate has been

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Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO ‘an idiot’

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Tesla boss clashed with Michael O’Leary when airline boss rejected installing Starlink technology on aircraftBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk has floated the idea of buying the budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier’s boss, Michael O’Leary.The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week, when O’Leary was asked whether

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