Letters: Elon Musk has a people problem November 15, 2022 [Re: Musk sends remaining Twitter staff back to office, Nov 10] We often see Elon Musk front and centre of the news for being a brilliant businessman. But if the past two weeks have shown us anything, it’s that being a brilliant businessman doesn’t automatically make you a brilliant leader of people. A full U-turn [...]
How Elon Musk scared the world’s biggest advertisers away from X, according to their consultant December 22, 2023 Media analysis giant Ebiquity advises the biggest global advertisers, including whether they should stay or leave Musk's social media platform, X.
Elon Musk bids adieu to the Twitter bird as social media giant rebrands to ‘X’ July 24, 2023 Twitter owner Elon Musk revealed the social media giant will bid farewell to its famous blue bird, as a new “X” logo was unveiled this week, in a bid to transform it into an “everything app”. The billionaire Tesla boss announced the revamp, tweeting his desire to “bid adieu” to the Twitter brand and, gradually, [...]
Explainer-in-brief: The infamous Twitter poll on Elon Musk December 21, 2022 This week started with Elon Musk creating a Twitter poll on whether he should step down as Twitter chief, following all the controversy of the past months. The poll closed with 57.5 per cent of users saying “yes”, and 42.5 per cent saying “no”. As one could have expected, Musk subsequently brought the poll into [...]
Elon Musk ‘not off the hook’: EU official warns X is the biggest source of fake news September 26, 2023 A top European Union official has said that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation. Ahead of upcoming elections, Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta also have more to do to tackle disinformation, [...]
Elon Musk files lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman amid regulator scrutiny over Microsoft March 1, 2024 Elon Musk has taken legal action against OpenAI and its chief executive, seeking to force it to return to its founding principles over profit.
Elon Musk and Worldcoin only prove that marketing seems more powerful than education July 28, 2023 A bleary-eyed Jason Deane takes a couple of paracetamol and dons his shades to ponder one very crazy week in crypto.
MultiversX launches new features for xPortal ‘super app’ to rival Elon Musk’s ambitions for X October 20, 2023 MultiversX has unveiled a series of ground-breaking new features to the 'xPortal' crypto wallet it launched in February.
X owner Elon Musk tells PM Rishi Sunak AI will eventually mean ‘no job is needed’ November 2, 2023 Elon Musk has told Rishi Sunak he believes artificial intelligence (AI) is “the most disruptive force in history” and that eventually “there will come a point where no job is needed”.
It’s been an odd week for Bitcoin, but not as odd as it’s been for Twitter and Elon Musk July 7, 2023 As a 'Bitcoiner' Jason Deane details why he's uncomfortable with the prospect of one person being in control of the global chatter.