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Tesla boss reportedly meets Premier Li Qiang in visit aimed at sealing rollout of Autopilot software and transferring data overseasTesla among electric carmakers forced to cut prices as market stallsThe Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, arrived on an unannounced visit to Beijing on Sunday where he is expected to meet senior officials to discuss the rollout of full self-driving software and permission to transfer data...

The opposition leader says Australia ‘can’t be the internet police of the world’ amid dispute between the eSafety commissioner and X over Wakeley stabbing content removalGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has labelled the eSafety commissioner’s demands for the global removal of footage of the alleged Wakeley stabbing as “silly”, a comment that...

Australian federal police have told court there was ‘a real risk’ the video could be used to encourage people to commit terrorist attacksGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe bishop who was allegedly stabbed in his Sydney church last week has written an affidavit for Elon Musk’s X arguing video of the attack should not be censored as...

Anthony Albanese responds to X owner who criticised Australian authorities demanding videos of a Sydney church stabbing be removedAustralia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church.On Monday evening in an...

Government vows to fight legal challenges over content removal orders as assistant treasurer calls platform a ‘factory for trolls and misinformation’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has said he finds it “extraordinary” Elon Musk’s X is planning to fight content removal orders related to the video of a...

Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former presidentThousands of diehard supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro have hit the streets of Rio to champion their embattled leader and celebrate the new hero of their far-right movement: Elon Musk.The tech billionaire has spent recent weeks using his social network X to bash Bolsonaro’s arch-enemy,...

Multibillionaire called for resignation of judge who ordered platform to block far-right usersElon Musk faces a legal investigation in Brazil after becoming embroiled in a public row with a supreme court judge over an order requiring the social network X to take down some far-right accounts.Justice Alexandre de Moraes had issued a court order forcing the site formerly known as Twitter to block several...

Noland Arbaugh, paralyzed after diving accident, received implant in January but experts caution that procedure is in early daysElon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink live-streamed its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess.Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, was playing chess on his laptop and moving the cursor using the Neuralink device. Continue reading...

Dwight D Opperman Foundation had planned to give award named for late supreme court justice to Tesla chief and News Corp mogul A foundation which stirred controversy by planning to give awards named for the late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch said on Monday it had canceled the ceremony.“While we believe each of the honorees is...

Tesla had ditched an order for 4,000 mini pies, but the X owner paid the debt after the incident received attentionElon Musk steps in after bakery jolted by cancelled Tesla orderA California bakery that claimed Tesla did not pay an order worth thousands of dollars said the outstanding bill has been settled, after billionaire Elon Musk promised to “make things good” following press coverage...

Elon Musk and Starlink deny selling to Russia but do not address whether its soldiers might be using terminalsSee all our Ukraine war coverageRussian forces in occupied Ukraine are using Starlink terminals produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for satellite internet in what is beginning to look like a “systemic” problem, Kyiv’s main military intelligence agency has claimed.Starlink terminals were rushed in to help Ukraine...

US regulator sued in October to compel Musk to testify as part of an investigation into his $44bn purchase of what is now known as XElon Musk has been ordered to testify again as part of an investigation by US regulators into his 2022 purchase of the social media platform Twitter, later renamed X.A California federal court ruling released on Saturday gave the Tesla...