Elon Musk

Music

Grimes says she is ‘proud of white culture’

‘What if humans just loved each other?’

Music

Jan 02, 2024

Halima Jibril

Life & Culture

Grimes, Grok, and slaughterbots: the highs and lows of AI in 2023

Not been keeping up with 2023’s favourite existential threat? Here’s what you need to know

Life & Culture

Dec 29, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

The heroes and villains of 2023

From Gwyneth Paltrow to Elon Musk, here’s our very serious list of this year’s ultimate goodies and baddies

Life & Culture

Dec 19, 2023

James Greig

Life & Culture

Succession but IRL: how we all became spectators of corporate collapse

From Elon and Zuck’s wrestling match to a shock schism at OpenAI, this year has turned big business into a bizarre new form of entertainment, aired live and direct to our news feeds

Life & Culture

Dec 18, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

Elon Musk’s new Optimus robots are coming for your eggs

Tesla has unveiled a new version of its AI-powered humanoid that aims to make ‘physical work a choice’

Life & Culture

Dec 13, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

Is Elon Musk turning Twitter into a neo-Nazi chatroom?

Musk is suing Media Matters, after the nonprofit accused X – formerly Twitter – of placing adverts alongside holocaust denial and Hitler quotes. Is it any wonder that companies are abandoning the platform?

Life & Culture

Nov 21, 2023

James Greig

Life & Culture

Can the world’s first AI safety summit help avert the apocalypse?

Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and more have gathered in the UK to strike an historic AI safety agreement – here’s what you need to know

Life & Culture

Nov 02, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

Grimes is suing Elon Musk over parental rights to their children

The singer implored the Tesla CEO to let her see her son in a now-deleted post on X

Life & Culture

Oct 03, 2023

Serena Smith

Life & Culture

So you want to start microdosing ketamine?

Ket is supposedly good for treating depression and addiction, with many hailing the benefits of smaller doses – here’s how you can try them safely

Life & Culture

Aug 04, 2023

Ella Glover

Life & Culture

‘Burn it to the fucking ground’: how Dazed names would rebrand Twitter

Featuring Doja Cat, Dril, Jaboukie, Joshua Citarella and more

Life & Culture

Jul 25, 2023

Sofia Mahirova

Life & Culture

Elon Musk is very desperate to make ‘X’ happen

Twitter is rebranding to X, the app that does everything, despite the fact that it’s currently struggling to do anything

Life & Culture

Jul 24, 2023

James Greig

Life & Culture

Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023)

How to kill Moloch, the demon driving humanity to the brink of extinction

From Oppenheimer’s atom bomb to the AI arms race, the future of humanity might depend on overcoming the influence of an ancient, malevolent god

Life & Culture

Jul 21, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

xAI: Elon Musk’s ‘based’ AI company has officially launched

The billionaire’s new venture aims to teach AI ‘the true nature of the universe’ and convince it not to wipe out humanity

Life & Culture

Jul 13, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

Digital immortality: would you upload your mind to a computer?

We may soon be able to create our own, Black Mirror-style digital afterlives, and leave ‘meat space’ behind. But what would that mean for the future of the human race?

Life & Culture

Jul 13, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture