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The rift with SpaceX is the latest symptom of the disarray engulfing the US agency and its ambitions

Far-right agitators, retweeted by prominent international figures including billionaire Elon Musk, used social media networks to foment anger

Elon Musk’s carmaker hit by US tariffs, loss of emissions credit revenue and big investments in AI

Function was launched in the US in July

Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire’s activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs

‘An Armageddon is coming. Artificial intelligence will turn on us, inadvertently or nonchalantly’

Trump ally Steve Bannon and billionaire Peter Thiel had meetings scheduled with Epstein, calendar shows

Ireland has chance to benefit from workers who otherwise may have transferred to the US

The White House is putting purity over prosperity - and Ireland will suffer

Chinese car maker’s overseas sales more than doubled in the first half of 2025, overtaking Tesla in Europe for the first time

Sceptics note Tesla boss bought company shares after he had been briefly supplanted by Oracle’s Larry Ellison as world’s richest man

Radio: Fabled phone-in show is drifting despite talents of guest host, while Brendan O’Connor underlines his interview skills

Fiscal systems designed around income and consumption struggle to capture wealth, and billionaires are highly mobile

At 81, Oracle’s co-founder has reinvented himself as a power in AI to become (briefly) the richest person in the world

White Irish in the UK understand they are not the type of immigrants targeted by the far-right figure

NHTSA evaluation follows complaints from parents whose children were trapped inside locked car

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Despite bizarre behaviour that has tarnished car maker’s brand, investors still believe in him

Analyst claims he is losing up to $20,000 dollars monthly due to suspension

Oracle market value jumps more than $290bn on AI surge after ‘astonishing quarter’

Worldview: The maga Caesar has decreed only classical architecture will be used in federal buildings

Shares are still up by half over the past year, despite multiple major earnings misses and shrinking EV sales

September 7th-12th highlights: including Glúin Z; Task; The Donald Trump Show; and Only Murders in the Building

Heads of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple back AI initiative spearheaded by first lady Melania Trump

Billionaire would need to hit a series of market value and profit goals to earn payout

Corporate makeovers can be very expensive and they frequently misfire

Brand has failed to benefit from bounce in electric vehicle sales this year, losing ground to rival BYD

Trump to withhold funding for 15 programs, including several overseen by State Department and USAid

Today’s newest workers have overcome hurdles that would have seemed preposterous to their older colleagues

Tenth time lucky for Elon Musk’s firm as largely successful mission was likely a relief to both SpaceX and Nasa

In the News podcast: Engineer, journalist and AI expert Karen Hao on the true human and environmental cost of generative AI

At Gamescom in Cologne, the world’s largest computer game fair, Outlier Games drew the crowds

‘Billionaires everywhere are used to just making their own rules – Zuckerberg and Chan are not unique, except that they’re our neighbours’

August has given me time to think about how politicians holiday. Most of them do it badly

Will an extra wad persuade the world’s richest and arguably most distracted man to become, well, less distracted?

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Investors adopt wait-and-see approach on Trump tariffs

Move aims to keep billionaire chief executive at the company’s helm

Judge rejected efforts by Elon Musk’s company to dismiss the case earlier in the summer

Concerns are growing that EU officials regulating Big Tech could face US visa bans