Deadline Hollywood - 1 hour 49 min ago
Dana Carvey isn’t done with his return to Saturday Night Live, although he’s probably packing in the Elon Musk impression for now. While sharing an anecdote about recent host John Mulaney, the SNL alum revealed he’s returning to the NBC sketch comedy show next month amid his guest appearances as Joe Biden and Musk. “When […]...
Newser - 3 hours 18 min ago
This week, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, co-chiefs of President-elect Trump's incoming Department of Government Efficiency, laid out their "DOGE Plan" this week to tackle spending cuts when the new administration takes effect and among the groups in their sights is Planned Parenthood, one of multiple "progressive" groups they say...
The Hill - 3 hours 18 min ago
Bluesky, an alternative social media platform to X, has experienced a large surge in users as Democrats, including a number of prominent figures on the left, announce their departure from the social media network owned by Elon Musk in the wake of the presidential election. Nearly 1 million users have signed up for Bluesky each...
Babylon Bee - 3 hours 39 min ago
U.S. In a dramatic move that could shake up the media industry, Elon Musk has announced his intent to purchase MSNBC and turn the channel into a news network.
Tech Meme - 4 hours 13 min ago
Wall Street Journal : Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration — Popular video app and Chinese parent ByteDance view rival social-media owner as conduit to the president-elect...
The Guardian - 4 hours 18 min ago
Darryl Cunningham blames fear of legal consequences' for reluctance to take on book, now only available in French A biography by a British graphic novelist of Elon Musk is struggling to find an English-language publisher due to feared "legal consequences". Elon Musk: Investigation into a New Master of the World is the latest graphic novel by Darryl Cunningham, from West Yorkshire. Cunningham, 64, has written and illustrated seven nonfiction books on topics ranging from the 2008 global...
Geek Wire - 4 hours 42 min ago
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI, which now includes Microsoft, and assess the complexities of the OpenAI-Microsoft partnership, as illustrated by early email exchanges revealed in the suit. We also consider the latest update to the GeekWire 200, our ranked index of Pacific Northwest technology startups, including the rise of Highspot to the top spot, and other trends in the Seattle region’s startup ecosystem. And we share highlights from...
The Hill - 5 hours 51 min ago
Donald Trump Jr. and tech billionaire Elon Musk joked on Friday about purchasing MSNBC. It started with Trump Jr., President-elect Trump's oldest son, sharing a meme about MSNBC being up for sale. Trump Jr. quote-tweeted the meme Friday on X and said "Hey @elonmusk I have the funniest idea ever!!!" "How much does it cost,"...
The Guardian - 6 hours 17 min ago
The next time you see dystopian thirst traps, we should be thinking about how these robots are going to be used by the self-proclaimed warrior class' On a scale of one to 10, just how desperate do you think Kim Kardashian is for attention? Judging by the billionaire's weirdly sexual photoshoot with a robot, the answer may be an 11. The entrepreneur and influencer, who is a big Tesla fan, recently posed with the company's Optimus bot in a Tesla Cybercab (a self-driving taxi ) for a series...
Quartz - 6 hours 18 min ago
The founder of an AI startup once featured on Forbes' "30 Under 30" list was charged Tuesday with defrauding investors. Read more...
The Guardian - 7 hours 17 min ago
The US media pundit on the dangers of overregulation online, why he's more frightened of the tech bros than AI itself, and how to reclaim the web by getting rid of the geeks Jeff Jarvis was born in 1954 and studied journalism at Illinois's Northwestern University. He worked as a TV critic and created the magazine Entertainment Weekly , later leading the online arm of US media company Advance Publications. Since 2001, he has been blogging at Buzzmachine.com and in 2005 he became an associate...
Financial Times - 7 hours 18 min ago
Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges...
Forbes - 8 hours 2 min ago
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has predicted the U.S. could collapse into bankruptcy "super fast" joking he will "fix" it with a "department named after a meme coin."...
The Hill - 9 hours 18 min ago
A social media spat between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos this week underscored a sharpening rivalry between two of the world's richest men at a time when both are trying to grow their sprawling businesses empires in President-elect Trump's second term. "Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would...
Fortune - 9 hours 18 min ago
Unlike at Twitter, huge waves of government employee dismissals won't save much money.
The Hill - 9 hours 18 min ago
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are leaning on the conservative Supreme Court to support their ambitious plans to slash federal regulations and increase government efficiency. Tapped by President-elect Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy will head the newly minted "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE, a nongovernmental commission to dismantle government bureaucracy and cut costs. "With...
The Independent - 10 hours 29 min ago
DeGeneres and her wife bought a house in the UK well before Election Day...
Fortune - 10 hours 44 min ago
The price tag for shedding its nonprofit shell could run into the tens of billions of dollars.
The Guardian - 15 hours 17 min ago
Marina Hyde asks us to spare a sob for Don Jr, replaced in Daddy's affections by Elon Musk. The Bank of Mum and Dad the unspoken dynamic behind society's growing inequality of inheritocracy'. I've been called worse than a Nazi': Simon Hattenstone meets Jacob Rees-Mogg. And psychologist Lucy Foulkes on why we should take teenage love more seriously Continue reading...
The Independent - 18 hours 32 min ago
The Canadian musician, real name Claire Elise Boucher, said she had spent a year locked in battle' with the tech billionaire...
Tech Meme - 18 hours 53 min ago
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg : A US judge declines to sanction Musk for skipping an SEC meeting for a probe into his Twitter takeover, as he reimbursed the SEC and met its lawyers in October — A judge declined to sanction Elon Musk for skipping a meeting with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to watch one of his rockets launch.
The Verge - 19 hours 56 min ago
Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the government's bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X. Earlier this week, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal , the X user "datahazard"...
Tech Meme - 22 hours 13 min ago
Wall Street Journal : Elon Musk, as Trump's efficiency czar, is singling out ordinary federal staffers, including some with climate-related jobs, on X and unleashing his fans on them — As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback — Unlimited access across all platforms and devices.
Newsweek - 22 hours 13 min ago
Comcast will move cable news channels CNBC and MSNBC, along with other TV brands, into a new company tentatively named SpinCo.