The global AI Race has begun, and its off to a red-hot start. Companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) among countless others are all pouring billions of dollars into this groundbreaking tech. Continue reading →

Elon Musk picks his speech battle Though Elon Musk often insists his goal with X is to promote free speech, his actions have rarely been those of the free-speech absolutist he once claimed to be. Yes, he has rolled back the social platforms policies on hate speech, cut back on content moderation and reinstated banned extremists under the free-speech banner. But he has also made up rules to ban accounts he doesnt like, suspended journalists and sued nonprofit advocacy groups in what one judge ruled was a bid to silence critics Continue reading →

Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images | Bloomberg Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift from Twitter to X caused a potentially big problem this week when the social network started automatically changing "twitter.com" to "x.com" in links. The automatic text replacement reportedly applied to any URL ending in "twitter.com" even if it wasn't actually a twitter.com link. Continue reading →

Elon Musk is pushing back on his reputation as a micromanager. Continue reading →

Its hard to have guessed that Santanders Ana Botn, a trailblazer in global finance, was considering being a journalist or a spy before becoming a banker. Or that UBSs boomerang CEO, Sergio Ermotti, was once a talented soccer player, while Ryanairs Michael OLeary hated accountancy. Those are just some of the candid tidbits the worlds most important leaders divulge in their interviews with the Norwegian sovereign wealth funds chief, Nicolai Tangen, on his podcast, In Good Company Continue reading →

Elon Musk is getting even more bullish on artificial intelligence. Continue reading →

A Brazilian court has announced that it will be opening an investigation into X owner Elon Musk for obstruction of justice, after Musk reactivated far-right accounts that the Brazilian government had flagged for removal. Continue reading →

Elon Musk said he is guilty of many self-inflicted wounds while being questioned in a lawsuit accusing him of promoting a conspiracy theory falsely identifying a California man as a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi street brawler. But the billionaire also said he didnt think he had meaningfully harmed the Jewish 22-year-old who sued him for defamation. Continue reading →

When billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitternow Xin 2022, some feared that the self-avowed free-speech absolutist would turn the platform into a free-for-all for disinformation. Now, as a Brazilian judge seeks to crack down on fake news on social media, he and Musk have found each other at odds in a growing spat that could have significant consequences for Musk, Brazil, and X. Continue reading →

Lately, it is hard to say why Elon Musk does what he does. You can pick out themes like right-wing populism or a libertarian founder cult, but they dont explain things like the extended harassment of former Twitter executives or the obvious production blunders of the Cybertruck. Continue reading →