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Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation

How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves
How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?
The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th century, John Reith envisioned the BBC, in a most […]
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation

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Tech giants told UK online safety laws 'not up for negotiation' – The Guardian

Senior cabinet minister promises not to dilute new measures despite Zuckerberg’s attacks on countries ‘censoring’ content
Britain’s new laws to boost safety and tackle hate speech online are “not up for negotiation”, a senior government minister has warned, after Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg vowed to join Donald Trump to pressure countries they regard as “censoring” content.
Musk has also raged at the government for rejecting his calls for another national inquiry into grooming […]
Tech giants told UK online safety laws 'not up for negotiation' – The Guardian

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How Elon Musk has meddled in European affairs – The Guardian

From bashing Keir Starmer to promoting the AfD, the X owner is not shy about intervening
A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself.
Here we take a brief look at some of the occasions on which X owner Elon Musk has used his position as proprietor of one of the world’s largest social media platforms to […]
How Elon Musk has meddled in European affairs – The Guardian

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Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World – The Atlantic

After helping Trump win the election, the world’s richest man is turning his attention to Europe.
Like any good entrepreneur who found early success in one market, Elon Musk is now starting to expand to others. Yesterday, Musk—the entrepreneur turned Donald Trump megadonor—hosted a livestream on X with Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany’s far-right political party, Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD.
“Only the AfD can save Germany, end of story,” Musk said during the 70-minute […]
Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World – The Atlantic

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Elon Musk's man in the European Parliament – POLITICO.eu

Independent MEP Fidias Panayiotou met the billionaire in 2023 and has taken his line on some big political issues, from Ukraine to digital rules.
In December 2024, Elon Musk posted a clip on X of a 24-year-old Cypriot lawmaker in the European Parliament arguing it was time to stop aiding Ukraine in its resistance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
In one of his hallmark close-ups to the camera — that would have been music to Putin’s ears — the […]
Elon Musk's man in the European Parliament – POLITICO.eu

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Collaborative research on AI safety is vital | Artificial intelligence (AI) – The Guardian

If we are to take seriously the risk facing humanity, regulators need the power to ‘recall’ deployed models, as well as assess leading, not lagging, indicators of risk, writes Prof John McDermid
Re Geoffrey Hinton’s concerns about the perils of artificial intelligence (‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years, 27 December), I believe these concerns can best be mitigated through collaborative research on AI safety, with a role for […]
Collaborative research on AI safety is vital | Artificial intelligence (AI) – The Guardian

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Elon Musk says all human data for AI training 'exhausted' – The Guardian

Tech entrepreneur suggests move to self-learning synthetic data created by artificial intelligence models
Artificial intelligence companies have run out of data for training their models and have “exhausted” the sum of human knowledge, Elon Musk has said.
The world’s richest person suggested technology firms would have to turn to “synthetic” data – or material created by AI models – to build and fine-tune new systems, a process already taking place with the fast-developing […]
Elon Musk says all human data for AI training 'exhausted' – The Guardian

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Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Be Elon Musk – The Atlantic

But Mark Zuckerberg sure is trying to be.
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Yesterday morning, donning his new signature fit—gold chain, oversize T-shirt, surfer hair—Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social-media platforms are getting a makeover. His aggrievement was palpable: For years, Zuckerberg said, “governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.” No longer. Meta is abolishing its […]
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Be Elon Musk – The Atlantic