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Home Elon Musk

Elon Musk


Musk flies a drone fleet over Surrey – but luckily, it’s not Elon

Musk flies a drone fleet over Surrey – but luckily, it’s not Elon

Kimbal Musk’s drone light show may be an alarming sight, but it’s nothing to fear

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Musk’s $30bn stock option proves tech CEO pay is ‘bonkers’

Musk’s $30bn stock option proves tech CEO pay is ‘bonkers’

US tech companies are betting big on charismatic leaders – and the UK is starting to follow suit


Tesla could end up like Ford: losing its pole position to dull rivals

Tesla could end up like Ford: losing its pole position to dull rivals

The firm is vulnerable not because of Musk’s involvement with Trump, but because lots of good, rival electric cars mean it has no market power


Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler then says ‘sorry, my bad, I fell for a hoax’

Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler then says ‘sorry, my bad, I fell for a hoax’

Grok AI had been instructed not to ‘shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect’


The Chris Riddell cartoon: draining the swamp

The Chris Riddell cartoon: draining the swamp


The Chris Riddell cartoon: Taco and Big Mac

The Chris Riddell cartoon: Taco and Big Mac


Elon Musk's term was a bad drug dream

Elon Musk's term was a bad drug dream


Trump’s tech bro who slashed, crashed and then finally fell to Earth

Trump’s tech bro who slashed, crashed and then finally fell to Earth

Elon Musk thought he could shrink America’s mighty federal bureaucracy. The signs are that he simply wasn’t thinking straight


The networker: Elon Musk has gone full blitzkrieg

The networker: Elon Musk has gone full blitzkrieg

Elon Musk has gone full blitzkrieg in his mission to ‘eliminate’ waste in the US federal government


Do panic: Elon Musk’s obsession with The Hitchhiker’s Guide

Do panic: Elon Musk’s obsession with The Hitchhiker’s Guide

Douglas Adams’s sci-fi satire on bureaucracy is inspiring Musk’s assault on government. He should have read it more carefully


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