Elon Musk’s America PAC has dropped $100 million to support the GOP in critical races that could control the future of the Senate. It includes TV commercials, digital ads, and a social media blitz across platforms Musk owns and platforms he doesn’t. The eleventh-hour push is a brazen attempt to stoke the anti-trans moral panic and turn equal rights for transgender people into a make-or-break…
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To understand the stakes of the debate over AI regulation, look no further than Minnesota, where tech oligarch Elon Musk is once again generating embarrassing headlines. Last week, a federal judge denied a request from Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to block a Minnesota law banning nude deepfakes used to sexually harass women and girls from taking effect.
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Multibillionaire Elon Musk has authorized his super political action committee (PAC) to spend millions of dollars in this year’s midterm races, continuing a trend of huge investments seen in two recent election cycles. Musk’s America PAC will spend between $100 million to $120 million in the next few months, focusing on Senate and House races across the U.S. The PAC will initially target…
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The world’s top megabillionaires — a list dominated by Big Tech and Wall Street barons — enjoy a gamut of luxuries that are unfathomable for most of us. Jeff Bezos owns a half-billion-dollar superyacht. Mark Zuckerberg’s portfolio of lush properties that stretches from Palo Alto to Miami Beach is worth nearly as much. Elon Musk’s wealth roughly equals the gross domestic product of Ireland or…
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Elon Musk has shared that he got “carried away” during his time heading the supposed “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, in the early months of the second Donald Trump term — with the billionaire seeming to express only mild regret for the sweeping, illegal government cuts that are slated to kill millions of people across the world over the coming years. “I think I got a little…
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A lot of AI technology may not work very well, but providing consumers with reliable information was never its major commercial promise. Investors have poured billions into generative AI because of the promise that it will eliminate jobs on a massive scale. Tech journalist Brian Merchant joins Movement Memos host Kelly Hayes to discuss how the AI boom is being used to displace workers…
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