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Meet Dan O’Dowd, Elon Musk’s least favourite billionaire
We interview the safe-coding guru on his crusade for safe autonomous vehicles: they will come, he says, but it won't be Tesla in the driving seat
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SpaceX IPO makes Musk the first trillionaire, thanks to your pension funds
SpaceX’s IPO may have broken records and made Elon Musk a trillionaire (on paper) but there are already fears that the company could be overvalued
View from the Valley: Rise of the robots, job threat from AI, and why it’s time to show us the money
In this month's View from the Valley, San Francisco-based reporter Iain Thomson explains why robots, job losses and financial reports have caught his eye in January 2026
Letter from America: How Trump’s first year has transformed the US technology scene
Donald Trump's first year has brought technology to the forefront, for better or worse. Here's one US resident's tech review of 2025
Breaking up the broligarchy: the three steps we need to take
Break up monopolies, build alternative systems and enforce existing regulations - those are the three steps to yanking back control of technology from the “broligarchy".
Macrohard: AI can’t make software yet, but Musk is ready with a cringe name
Elon Musk has given yet another company a pun-based name, but what can this one actually do? Nicole Kobie investigates
“This is not a sale”: what lies behind OpenAI’s plans to boost its for-profit arm
We unravel the details behind OpenAI for-profit plans and its evolution from a non-profit organisation to a public benefit corporation... at least in part.
Musk vs Altman: the feud behind the $97 billion bid for OpenAI
Or, why two of the richest people in the world very much like arguing over social media
What the UK’s Automated Vehicles Act really means
The UK's Automated Vehicles Act passed in May, but what does the industry think about it? And when will driverless cars hit our roads? Nicole Kobie explains
Meet Grok, the Musk AI with a “sense of humour”
Just days after declaring that AI is so dangerous it might one day chase you up a tree, Elon Musk's company has released its own Grok AI chatbot
X introduces $1 Not A Bot fee to fight spam
X is trying a new way to fight spammers and scammers: by testing a $1 subscription that Elon Musk calls “the only way” to tackle automated bots.
Will X go subscription-only? Even the CEO can’t say
Fresh doubt cast over X's subscription-only plans in a chaotic on-stage interview
The 5 pieces of tech I wish I had at Burning Man
Self-confessed swamp monster Claire Reilly battles through the mud to deliver her survival story from this year's headline-grabbing Burning Man
Oppenheimer delivers an ethics lesson for Silicon Valley
Film fanatic Richard Trenholm got far more from Oppenheimer than three hours of entertainment: he saw it as a valuable lesson for Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
Twitter didn’t remove the blue ticks – it just hid them really badly
Twitter finally banishes the blue ticks from legacy accounts, but benefits remain.
How fast is Starlink in the UK? How much does it cost?
Find out how fast Starlink is in the UK and how it compares to the speeds of regular fixed-line broadband providers
Are Twitter/X reports anonymous?
Want to report someone on Twitter/X? We explain how the process works and how to keep your identity anonymous