On August 24, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested after his private jet landed at an airport outside Paris.

Erstmals ist auf einigen TV-Systemen Elon Musks Videoplattform X TV erhältlich.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands  —  In the battle between Elon Musk and Brazil, there are no heroes — only two sides engaged in an epic display of hypocrisy and overreach.

Millions of users shut out and 500,000 switch to rival platform Bluesky as providers enact supreme court banCarole Cadwalladr: Don’t rejoice yet,Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truthOne of the world’s most popular social networks, X, has gone offline in Brazil – the country with the fifth largest digital population – after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws meant it was blocked by the supreme court.Millions of Brazilian X users found themselves unable to access the network on Saturday morning as internet providers and mobile phone companies began to enforce the ban.

Brazil just gave Elon Musk's X the boot.On Friday, Brazil's top court ordered that Musk's social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, be banned in the country.

Elon Musk rechnet mit einer Schließung von X in Brasilien - Hintergrund ist ein Streit um Sperren bei X.

Wall Street Journal:Analysis: Elon Musk posted ~13,000 times on X in 2024 to July, or 61 posts per day, almost as much as in all of 2023, as he shifts to posting about politics  —  The billionaire's posts show his metamorphosis from a businessman who largely avoided politics to a vocal Trump supporter

Illustration by Laura Normand / The VergeElon Musk, who famously owns an electric vehicle company and has said he wants to move humanity to “a sustainable energy civilization,” told former President Donald Trump during an interview on X that “we shouldn’t vilify the oil and gas industry.”Musk interviewed Trump on his social media platform, where the livestream was delayed over 40 minutes due to technical difficulties.

Musk blames cyber-attack as conversation is delayed, resembling glitchy launch of Ron DeSantis’s campaignAs a high-profile conversation between Donald Trump and Elon Musk was about to begin, users of X, formerly Twitter, were confronted with the message: “This Space is not available.”Spaces, X’s livestreaming audio feature, was the chosen forum for the dialogue, but it wasn’t working.

Elon Musk accused Twitter’s leadership of tipping the scales politically.

Elon Musk's X is being taken to court in Ireland for using Europeans' data to train AI models without asking for their consent.

X’s Grok AI chatbot falsely told users ‘ballot deadline has passed for several states’Five secretaries of state plan to send a letter to Elon Musk calling on the billionaire owner of X to make changes to the social media platform’s Grok AI chatbot after it gave users misinformation about Kamala Harris appearing on the 2024 White House ballot in certain states.Grok told users that the ballots were “locked and loaded” and that “the ballot deadline has passed for several states”.

Elon Musk revives lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, filing shows  Reuters

Dojo is Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer that’s designed to train its “Full Self-Driving” neural networks.

No Free RideTesla sales have dipped dramatically, and in the self-driving industry at large, the future remains uncertain.

Attorneys for former CNN journalist Don Lemon sued Elon Musk and X (formerly known as Twitter), accusing the tech mogul and his social media company of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, misappropriation of Lemon’s name and likeness, and breach of express contract.

Doctored campaign video featuring US vice-president reposted by Tesla chief executive watched 128m timesKamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.Musk reposted a manipulated Harris campaign video on Friday evening in which a fake Harris voiceover says “I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire” and that anyone who criticises her is “both sexist and racist”.

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter owned by mega-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, has turned on a setting indicating it intends to use its millions of users’ posts and interactions to train Grok, the AI assistant developed by another one of Musk’s companies.

Loud SilenceA longtime Democratic presidential advisor is calling for a Tesla boycott after Elon Musk's endorsement of Donald Trump for president.

Elon Musk legt die Pläne für die Fünf-Milliarden-Dollar-Investition in ein neues Tesla-Werk im Norden Mexikos auf Eis – zumindest bis nach den US-Wahlen.